THE STAR TO ITS LIGHT
"Go," said the star to its light:
"Follow your
fathomless
flight!
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How else may man make
straight
his plan
And cleanse his soul from Sin?
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But Arno wins us to the fair white walls,
Where the
Etrurian
Athens claims and keeps
A softer feeling for her fairy halls.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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We never know we go, -- when we are going
We jest and shut the door;
Fate
following
behind us bolts it,
And we accost no more.
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3, this work is
provided
to you 'AS-IS', WITH NO
OTHER WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT
LIMITED TO WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE.
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Wilde - Poems |
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where neither change nor fate,
Nor care, nor sorrow, can our joys abate;
Nor finds the light of thought resistance here,
More than the
sunbeams
in a crystal sphere.
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Petrarch |
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"Not to this end was Christ's spouse with my blood,
With that of Linus, and of Cletus fed:
That she might serve for purchase of base gold:
But for the purchase of this happy life
Did Sextus, Pius, and
Callixtus
bleed,
And Urban, they, whose doom was not without
Much weeping seal'd.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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"
repeated
he, while his eyes still
Relented not, nor mov'd; "from every ill
Of life have I preserv'd thee to this day,
And shall I see thee made a serpent's prey?
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Keats - Lamia |
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Come, read to me some poem,
Some simple and heartfelt lay,
That shall soothe this
restless
feeling,
And banish the thoughts of day.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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My long thread
trembles
almost at the knife;
The breeze, that takes you, lifts me up alive,
And I'll follow those I loved, I the exile.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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_ Do you not perceive that everything which exists
is permanent so long as it preserves its unity--but as soon as it
loses this, it is dissolved and
annihilated?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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{136a} "AEneas
dedicates
these arms concerning the conquering
Greeks.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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let it then as well beseem thy heart
To mourn for me since
mourning
doth thee grace,
And suit thy pity like in every part.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Only the Bishop walks serene,
Pleased with his church, pleased with his house,
Pleased with the sound of the
hammered
bell,
Beating his doom.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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"Phur," spoke the Cup, "O king, dwelt as Day's god,
Ruled
Alexandria
with sword and rod.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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A swan from time past remembers it's he
Magnificent yet
struggling
hopelessly
Through not having sung a liveable country
From the radiant boredom of winter's sterility.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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But your old
friends!
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Longfellow |
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Our
whistles
all are wet.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Has it
feathers
like a bird?
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Some states do not allow
disclaimers
of certain implied
warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Take courage, my
darling!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Hic futuit multas et se facit esse venustum,
Et non
pistrino
traditur atque asino?
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Catullus - Carmina |
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O my abandoned youth is dead
Like a garland faded
Here the season comes again
Of suspicion and disdain
The landscape's formed of canvasses
A false stream of blood flows down
And under the tree the stars glow fresh
The only passer by's a clown
The glass in the frame has cracked
An air defined uncertainly
Hovers between sound and thought
Between 'to be' and memory
O my abandoned youth is dead
Like a garland faded
Here the season comes again
Of suspicion and disdain
The Bestiary: or Orpheus's Procession
(Le Bestiaire ou Cortege d'Orphee)
Orpheus
Orpheus, Making Music for the Animals
'Orpheus, Making Music for the Animals'
Adriaen Collaert, 1570 - 1618, The Rijksmuseun
Admire the vital power
And nobility of line:
It's the voice that the light made us
understand
here
That Hermes Trismegistus writes of in Pimander.
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Appoloinaire |
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BY THE WEIR
A scent of Esparto grass--and again I recall
That hour we spent by the weir of the paper-mill
Watching together the curving thunderous fall
Of
frothing
amber, bemused by the roar until
My mind was as blank as the speckless sheets that wound
On the hot steel ironing-rollers perpetually turning
In the humming dark rooms of the mill: all sense and discerning
By the stunning and dazzling oblivion of hill-waters drowned.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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When the dynasty was falling, tumult and
disorder
arose,
Thieves and robbers roamed like wild beasts.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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And everything his eyes surveyed,
The insects in the brake,
Were creatures God
Almighty
made,
He loved them for His sake--
A silent man in life's affairs,
A thinker from a boy,
A peasant in his daily cares,
A poet in his joy.
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John Clare |
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Redistribution
is
subject to the trademark license, especially commercial
redistribution.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Queen of the vales the Lily answered, ask the tender cloud,
And it shall tell thee why it
glitters
in the morning sky.
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blake-poems |
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(and you!
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Thou art
standing
in the room,
In a molten glory shrined
That rays off into the gloom!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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'Tis a sight to engage me, if
anything
can,
To muse on the perishing pleasures of man;
Short-lived as we are, our enjoyments, I see,
Have a still shorter date, and die sooner than we.
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Golden Treasury |
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Long ago
Zeus in his power this
privilege
bestowed,
That with a guiding sceptre one sole man
Should rule this Asian land of flock and herd.
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Aeschylus |
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My frivolous muse has now opened
--Cupid, the scamp--opens lips
hitherto
sealed so well.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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I'll follow thee
Like an
avenging
spirit I'll follow thee
Even unto death.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Love, hast thou forgotten
The red spears of the dawn, The
pennants
of the morning?
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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"
So again I saw,
And leaped, unhesitant,
And
struggled
and fumed
With outspread clutching fingers.
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Stephen Crane |
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(A Russian
prisoner
enters.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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I think she would dismay you, and unhitch
The sinews from their
purchase
on your bones,
And have you spelled as a wizard spells his ghosts.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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But since the terms be such--
No wage, or labour stained with the disgrace
Of wrecking what our age cannot replace
To save its
tasteless
soul--
I'll do without your dole.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Protect me always from like excess,
Virgin, who bore, without a cry,
Christ whom we
celebrate
at Mass.
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Villon |
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Love, now an
universal
birth.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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My memory
Is still
obscured
by seeing your coming
And going.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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CONTENTS
SONGS OF INNOCENCE
Page
Introduction 1
The Shepherd 3
The Echoing Green 4
The Lamb 6
The Little Black Boy 7
The Blossom 9
The Chimney-Sweeper 10
The Little Boy Lost 12
The Little Boy Pound 13
Laughing Song 14
A Cradle Song 15
The Divine Image 17
Holy Thursday 19
Night 20
Spring 23
Nurse's Song 25
Infant Joy 26
A Dream 27
On Another's Sorrow 29
SONGS OF EXPERIENCE
Introduction 33
Earth's Answer 35
The Clod and the Pebble 37
Holy Thursday 38
The Little Girl Lost 39
The Little Girl Found 42
The Chimney-Sweeper 45
Nurse's Song 46
The Sick Rose 47
The Fly 48
The Angel 50
The Tiger 51
My Pretty Rose-Tree 53
Ah, Sunflower 54
The Lily 55
The Garden of Love 56
The Little
Vagabond
57
London 58
The Human Abstract 59
Infant Sorrow 61
A Poison Tree 62
A Little Boy Lost 63
A Little Girl Lost 65
A Divine Image 67
A Cradle Song 68
The Schoolboy 69
To Tirzah 71
The Voice of the Ancient Bard 72
SONGS OF INNOCENCE
INTRODUCTION
Piping down the valleys wild,
Piping songs of pleasant glee,
On a cloud I saw a child,
And he laughing said to me:
'Pipe a song about a Lamb!
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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The Tortoise
Feeling
'Feeling'
Raphael Sadeler (I), 1581, The Rijksmuseun
From magic Thrace, O
delerium!
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Appoloinaire |
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WARRANTIES OF
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Li Po |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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His kindly lord
he first had greeted in
gracious
form,
with manly words.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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So Margaret sang her sisters home 210
In their marriage mirth;
Sang free birds out of the sky,
Beasts along the earth,
Sang up fishes of the deep--
All breathing things that move
Sang from far and sang from near
To her lovely love;
Sang
together
friend and foe;
Sang a golden-bearded king
Straightway to her feet, 220
Sang him silent where he knelt
In eager anguish sweet.
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Christina Rossetti |
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But now with other mind I stand alone
Upon the summit of this naked cone,
And watch the fearless chamois-hunter chase 305
His prey, through tracts abrupt of desolate space, [82]
[T] Through vacant worlds where Nature never gave
A brook to murmur or a bough to wave,
Which unsubstantial Phantoms sacred keep;
Thro' worlds where Life, and Voice, and Motion sleep; 310
Where silent Hours their death-like sway extend,
Save when the
avalanche
breaks loose, to rend
Its way with uproar, till the ruin, drowned
In some dense wood or gulf of snow profound,
Mocks the dull ear of Time with deaf abortive sound.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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XXXVI
When I pass thy door at night
I a
benediction
breathe:
"Ye who have the sleeping world
In your care,
"Guard the linen sweet and cool, 5
Where a lovely golden head
With its dreams of mortal bliss
Slumbers now!
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Sappho |
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Ungrateful
Florence!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Theophile Gautier's study prefixed to the definitive edition of Les
Fleurs du Mal is not only the most
sympathetic
exposition of Baudelaire
as man and genius, but it is also the high-water mark of Gautier's gifts
as a critical essayist.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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But I am not the sea, nor the red sun;
I am not the wind, with girlish laughter;
Not the immense wind which strengthens--not the wind which lashes;
Not the spirit that ever lashes its own body to terror and death:
But I am of that which unseen comes and sings, sings, sings,
Which babbles in brooks and scoots in showers on the land;
Which the birds know in the woods,
mornings
and evenings,
And the shore-sands know, and the hissing wave, and that banner and
pennant,
Aloft there flapping and flapping.
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Whitman |
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Pushkin, however, was no plagiarist, though
undoubtedly his mind was greatly
influenced
by the genius of Byron--
more especially in the earliest part of his career.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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XXII
The forlorne mayd did with loves longing burne 190
And could not lacke her lovers company,
But to the wood she goes, to serve her turne,
And seeke her spouse that from her still does fly,
And
followes
other game and venery:
A Satyre chaunst her wandring for to finde, 195
* * * * *
And made her person thrall unto his beastly kind.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Is it a gallows [53] there
portrayed?
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William Wordsworth |
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shame they embracd not
{This line
penciled
in above the ink line.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Years he
numbered
scarce thirteen
When fates turned cruel;
Yet three filled zodiacs had he been
The stage's jewel;
And did act, what now we moan,
Old men so duly;
As, sooth, the Parcae thought him one
He played so truly.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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This roused such an enthusiasm,
that they insisted on bumpering the punch round in it; and by and by,
never did your great ancestor lay a _Suthron_ more
completely
to rest,
than for a time did your cup my two friends.
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Robert Forst |
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The dust replaced in hoisted roads,
The birds jocoser sung;
The sunshine threw his hat away,
The
orchards
spangles hung.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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" He died at an early age from
constant
exposure to noxious
exhalations during his researches.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Half-past one,
The street lamp sputtered,
The street lamp muttered,
The street lamp said,
"Regard that woman
Who
hesitates
toward you in the light of the door
Which opens on her like a grin.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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[677]
Enough, my muse, thy wearied wing no more
Must to the seat of Jove
triumphant
soar.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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it shall not gall my
shoulder
any more.
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Aristophanes |
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The argument of Leibnitz's
Theodicee
was widely used; and although Pope
said that he had never read the Theodicee, his "Essay on Man" has a like
argument.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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The revolution indeed
was not
effected
without a struggle.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Elvire
One way or the other, you're satisfied,
You are avenged, or Rodrigue has not died;
And
whatever
destiny ordains for you
You've honour, glory and a husband too.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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You know, my Friends, with what a brave Carouse
I made a Second Marriage in my house;
Divorced
old barren Reason from my Bed,
And took the Daughter of the Vine to Spouse.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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_
Spring up--sway forward--
follow the
quickest
one,
aye, though you leave the trail
and drop exhausted at our feet.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Shelley had hymned the dawn of liberty in Spain and Naples, in two
odes dictated by the warmest enthusiasm; he felt himself naturally
impelled to decorate with poetry the uprise of the descendants of that
people whose works he regarded with deep admiration, and to adopt the
vaticinatory character in
prophesying
their success.
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Shelley |
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Did they achieve nothing for good, for
themselves?
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Whitman |
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"Warbling along
In the sunny weather,
Float, my notes,
Through the sunny motes,
Falling light as a
feather!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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--
To eat
Thanksgiving
turkey.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Ma certo poco pria, se ben discerno,
che venisse colui che la gran preda
levo a Dite del cerchio superno,
da tutte parti l'alta valle feda
tremo si, ch'i' pensai che l'universo
sentisse
amor, per lo qual e chi creda
piu volte il mondo in caosso converso;
e in quel punto questa vecchia roccia,
qui e altrove, tal fece riverso.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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(C)
Copyright
2000-2016 A.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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--A wide stretch of fallow ground
recently
sown with wheat, and
frozen to iron hardness.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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I moved my fingers off
As
cautiously
as glass,
And held my ears, and like a thief
Fled gasping from the house.
| Guess: |
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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And now she's high upon the down,
Alone amid a
prospect
wide;
There's neither Johnny nor his horse,
Among the fern or in the gorse;
There's neither doctor nor his guide.
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Elle endort les plus cruels maux
Et
contient
toutes les extases;
Pour dire les plus longues phrases,
Elle n'a pas besoin de mots.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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This I forgot last night:
you must not be blamed,
it is not your fault;
as a child, a flower--any flower
tore my breast--
meadow-chicory, a common grass-tip,
a leaf shadow, a flower tint
unexpected
on a winter-branch.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Jules Laforgue (1860-1887)
Jules Laforgue
'Jules Laforgue'
1885, Wikimedia Commons
Pierrots
Emerges, on a taut neck,
From a
starched
ruff idem
A beardless face, cold-creamed,
A beanpole: hydrocephalic.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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But though my vigil constantly I keep
My God is dark--like woven texture flowing,
A hundred
drinking
roots, all intertwined;
I only know that from His warmth I'm growing.
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Rilke - Poems |
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God knows, I praise a
courtier
where I can.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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My heart that
sometimes
at night tries to know itself,
Or with which last word to name you the most tender
Exults in that which merely whispered sister
Were it not, such short tresses so great a treasure,
That you teach me quite another sweetness,
Soft through the kiss murmured only in your hair.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Half-past two,
The street-lamp said,
"Remark the cat which
flattens
itself in the gutter,
Slips out its tongue
And devours a morsel of rancid butter.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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denique sub pedibus tellus cum tota uacillat
concussaeque cadunt urbes dubiaeque minantur,
quid mirum si se temnunt mortalia saecla
atque
potestates
magnas mirasque relinquunt
in rebus uiris diuum, quae cuncta gubernent?
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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A homeless dog behind the
boulders
lay
And watched us both with angry eyes forlorn,
Waiting a chance to come and take away
The morsel she had torn.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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--Yes, a
stranger
verily!
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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THE murmur of a bee
A
witchcraft
yieldeth me.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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"You're
cracking
my ribs.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Le Directeur
Malheur a la malheureuse Tamise!
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T.S. Eliot |
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Pan first with wax taught reed with reed to join;
For sheep alike and
shepherd
Pan hath care.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Pugatchef saw in the crowd
Akoulina
Pamphilovna, and amicably threatened
her with his finger, with a meaning wink.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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THE MAD MAID'S SONG
Good morrow to the day so fair;
Good morning, sir, to you;
Good morrow to mine own torn hair,
Bedabbled
with the dew.
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Robert Herrick |
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Is there
anything
of this destiny left, or no?
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Fasse mich nicht so
morderisch
an!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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