" KAU}
His billows roll where monsters wander in the foamy paths
On clouds the Sons of Urizen beheld Heaven walled round
{Irretrievable
word following "beheld.
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Blake - Zoas |
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"I never saw anything like this funeral dirge," says Charles Lamb,
"except the ditty which reminds
Ferdinand
of his drowned father in the
Tempest.
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Golden Treasury |
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Pugatchef looked sharply at me, winking from time to time his left eye
with an
indefinable
expression of slyness and mockery.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Donations
are accepted in a number of other
ways including including checks, online payments and credit card
donations.
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The poem has always
affected
me in a remarkable manner.
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Poe - 5 |
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A
wretched
life and worse death they'll win,
A grievous time, whether far or near;
And Saracen, Turk, Persian, Paynim,
Who, more than all, found you to dread,
Will grow in pride and power instead.
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Troubador Verse |
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_
SIR,
Degenerate as human nature is said to be, and in many instances,
worthless and unprincipled it is, still there are bright
examples
to
the contrary; examples that even in the eyes of superior beings, must
shed a lustre on the name of man.
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Robert Forst |
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"
Then, as my tears could never bring
The
friendly
Phantom back,
It seemed to me the proper thing
To mix another glass, and sing
The following Coronach.
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Lewis Carroll |
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The hours slid fast, as hours will,
Clutched tight by greedy hands;
So faces on two decks look back,
Bound to
opposing
lands.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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No rays from the holy heaven come down
On the long night-time of that town;
But light from out the lurid sea
Streams up the turrets silently--
Gleams up the pinnacles far and free--
Up domes--up spires--up kingly halls--
Up fanes--up Babylon-like walls--
Up shadowy long-forgotten bowers
Of
scultured
ivy and stone flowers--
Up many and many a marvellous shrine
Whose wreathed friezes intertwine
The viol, the violet, and the vine.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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change thy lords, thy state is still the same;
Thy
glorious
day is o'er, but not thy years of shame.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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--
But it was out of that dread August night
From which all Europe woke to war, that we,
This
beautiful
Dawn-Youth, and I, had come,
He from afar.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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"
WIVES IN THE SERE
I
NEVER a careworn wife but shows,
If a joy suffuse her,
Something beautiful to those
Patient to peruse her,
Some one charm the world unknows
Precious
to a muser,
Haply what, ere years were foes,
Moved her mate to choose her.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Does my joy
sometimes
erupt?
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Appoloinaire |
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'Twere no hard task, perchance, to win
The popular laurel for my song;
'Twere only to comply with sin,
And own the crown, though
snatched
by wrong:
Rather Truth's chaplet let me wear,
Though sharp as death its thorns may sting:
Loyal to Loyalty, I bear
No badge but of my rightful king.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Sam: Go baffl'd coward, lest I run upon thee,
Though in these chains, bulk without spirit vast,
And with one buffet lay thy
structure
low,
Or swing thee in the Air, then dash thee down 1240
To the hazard of thy brains and shatter'd sides.
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Milton |
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That this be sooth, hath preved and doth yet;
For this trowe I ye knowen, alle or some, 240
Men reden not that folk han gretter wit
Than they that han be most with love y-nome;
And strengest folk ben therwith overcome,
The
worthiest
and grettest of degree:
This was, and is, and yet men shal it see.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Wilamowitz
in _Hermes_, xviii.
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Euripides - Electra |
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How long I stayed alone
With the corpse I never knew,
For I fainted dead as stone:
When I came to life once more
I was down upon the floor,
With
neighbors
making ado
To bring me back to life.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Amorous Prince, the
greatest
lover,
I want no evil that's of your doing,
But, by God, all noble hearts must offer
To succour a poor man, without crushing.
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Villon |
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'
tu tamen amisso non numquam flebis amico:
fas est
praeteritos
semper amare uiros.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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"
It being remembered that there were six of us with Master Villon, when that
expecting
presently to be hanged he writ a ballad whereof ye know :
"
Frtres humftins qui aprls nous vivez" NK ye a skoal for the gallows tree !
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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For these are actors too, as well as those:
Wants reach all states; they beg but better drest,
And all is
splended
poverty at best.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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No squirrel went abroad;
A dog's belated feet
Like
intermittent
plush were heard
Adown the empty street.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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183
He bare hym
curteislich
& tsllie,
To fulfille his faders wille,
Glad as he had ybe.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Ouseley has written a note to something of the same
effect on the fly-leaf of the
Bodleian
MS.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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While thus he spake, th' Angelic Squadron bright
Turnd fierie red, sharpning in mooned hornes
Thir Phalanx, and began to hemm him round
With ported Spears, as thick as when a field 980
Of Ceres ripe for harvest waving bends
Her bearded Grove of ears, which way the wind
Swayes them; the careful Plowman doubting stands
Least on the
threshing
floore his hopeful sheaves
Prove chaff.
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Milton |
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" He ended there,
And bade
Melanthius
a vast pile prepare;
He gives it instant flame, then fast beside
Spreads o'er an ample board a bullock's hide.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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As
children
bid the guest good-night,
And then reluctant turn,
My flowers raise their pretty lips,
Then put their nightgowns on.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Reporters
gin'lly git a hint
To make dull orjunces seem 'live in print,
An', ez I hev t' report myself, I vum,
I'll put th' applauses where they'd _ough' to_ come!
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James Russell Lowell |
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Byron |
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at whan men don hem ne han non
necessite
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Lemozis, francha terra cortesa,
Ah,
Limousin!
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Troubador Verse |
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What are these,
So wither'd, and so wilde in their attyre,
That looke not like th'
Inhabitants
o'th' Earth,
And yet are on't?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Unauthenticated Download Date | 10/1/17 7:36 AM From the Capital Secretly Making My Way to
Fengxiang
285 We linger on, dancing in the spring night, 12 shedding tears, we try to keep staying on.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Like Chaos you the
tottering
globe invade,
Religion cheat, and war ye make a trade.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Revivd her Soul with lives of beasts & birds
Slain on the Altar up
ascending
into her cloudy bosom
Of terrible workmanship the Altar labour of ten thousand Slaves
One thousand Men of wondrous power spent their lives in its formation
It stood on twelve steps namd after the names of her twelve sons
And was Erected at the chief entrance of Urizens hall
When Urizen descended returnd from his immense labours & travels
Descending She reposd beside him folding him around
In her bright skirts.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Old age had come almost
suddenly
upon him.
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Yeats |
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I offered Being for it;
The mighty
merchant
smiled.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Does he still think his error
pardonable?
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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"And now beside thee,
bleating
lamb,
I can lie down and sleep,
Or think on Him who bore thy name,
Graze after thee, and weep.
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blake-poems |
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During the summer of 1867 I had the opportunity (which I had often wished
for) of expressing in print my
estimate
and admiration of the works of the
American poet Walt Whitman.
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Whitman |
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If you do not charge
anything
for copies of this
eBook, complying with the rules is very easy.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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We find him in Strype's
_Annals_
collaborating
with the notorious Topcliffe.
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John Donne |
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These people honor wealth; 248 for which reason they are subject to monarchical government, without any limitations, 249 or
precarious
conditions of allegiance.
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Tacitus |
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I reason that in heaven
Somehow, it will be even,
Some new
equation
given;
But what of that?
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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The old man, full up with wine and excited by
the sound of the flute, is so delighted, so enraptured, that he spends
the night
executing
the old dances that Thespis first produced on the
stage,[163] and just now he offered to prove to the modern tragedians, by
disputing with them for the dancing prize, that they are nothing but a
lot of old dotards.
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Aristophanes |
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It was as though we saw the Secret Will,
It was as though we floated and were free;
In the south-west a planet shone serenely,
And the high moon, most reticent and queenly,
Seeing the earth had
darkened
and grown still,
Misted with light the meadows of the sea.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Abundance
of berries for all who will eat,
But an aching meat.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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"Begin, my flute, with me
Maenalian
lays.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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"
So the hand of the child, automatic,
Slipped out and
pocketed
a toy that was running along
the quay.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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IF cuckoldom, my friends, such
torments
give;
'Tis better far 'mong savages to live!
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La Fontaine |
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At last divine Cecilia came,
Inventress of the vocal frame;
The sweet enthusiast from her sacred store
Enlarged
the former narrow bounds,
And added length to solemn sounds,
With Nature's mother-wit, and arts unknown before.
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Golden Treasury |
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Why do they think unfit
That Gentry should joyne
families
with it?
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John Donne |
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Next, where the crest of Eryx is
neighbour to the stars, a dwelling is founded to Venus the Idalian;
[761-793]and a priest and breadth of holy wood is
attached
to Anchises'
grave.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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But light
Faded at last, and as the
darkness
fell
He rose, and crawled away into the night.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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e
semblable
resou{n}
wha{n} ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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And, thou gone, the proof's disproved,
And the cry rings answerless--
Dost thou love me, my
Beloved?
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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For by that same secret kept,
I 'scape this chain's
dishonour
and its woe.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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On the other hand there are a few
cases where the 1645 edition
exhibits
the spelling which has succeeded
in fixing itself, as travail (1673, travel) in the sense of labour; and
rob'd, profane, human, flood and bloody, forest, triple, alas, huddling,
are found where the 1673 edition has roab'd, prophane, humane, floud and
bloudy, forrest, tripple, alass and hudling.
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| Source: |
Milton |
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Stand forth, oh guest, thou also; prove thy skill
(If any such thou hast) in games like ours,
Which, likeliest, thou hast learn'd; for greater praise
Hath no man, while he lives, than that he know 180
His feet to
exercise
and hands aright.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Housman's
poems, the singularly Grecian Quality of a clean and
fragrant
mental and
emotional temper, vibrating equally whether the theme dealt with is
ruin or defeat, or some great tragic crisis of spirit, or with moods and
ardours of pure enjoyment and simplicities of feeling.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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And joy I knew and sorrow at thy voice,
And the superb
magnificence
of love,--
The loneliness that saddens solitude, 10
And the sweet speech that makes it durable,--
The bitter longing and the keen desire,
The sweet companionship through quiet days
In the slow ample beauty of the world,
And the unutterable glad release 15
Within the temple of the holy night.
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Sappho |
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Keats - Lamia |
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Behold where stands
Th'
Vsurpers
cursed head: the time is free:
I see thee compast with thy Kingdomes Pearle,
That speake my salutation in their minds:
Whose voyces I desire alowd with mine.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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[Illustration]
There was an old person of Shields,
Who frequented the vallies and fields;
All the mice and the cats, and the snakes and the rats,
Followed
after that person of Shields.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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"
But the face of the older hermit grew
exceedingly
dark, and he
cried, "O thou cursed coward, thou wouldst not fight.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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O the cursed
tormentors!
| Guess: |
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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= This was an
occasion
of considerable
extravagance.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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see what sweetness showers upon that face,
Heaven's
brightness
to this earth those eyes unfold!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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I am settled, and bend vp
Each
corporall
Agent to this terrible Feat.
| Guess: |
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Sous des jupons troues et sous de froids tissus
Ils rampent, flagelles par les bises iniques,
Fremissant
au fracas roulant des omnibus,
Et serrant sur leur flanc, ainsi que des reliques,
Un petit sac brode de fleurs ou de rebus;
Ils trottent, tout pareils a des marionnettes;
Se trainent, comme font les animaux blesses,
Ou dansent, sans vouloir danser, pauvres sonnettes
Ou se pend un Demon sans pitie!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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NEW POEMS
EARLY APOLLO
As when at times there breaks through
branches
bare
A morning vibrant with the breath of spring,
About this poet-head a splendour rare
Transforms it almost to a mortal thing.
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Rilke - Poems |
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]
AN ENIGMA
"Seldom we find," says Solomon Don Dunce,
"Half an idea in the
profoundest
sonnet.
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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There, when hueless is the west
And the darkness hushes wide,
Where the lad lies down to rest
Stands the
troubled
dream beside.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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I, old Morgan,
Am that Belarius whom you
sometime
banish'd.
| Guess: |
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Shakespeare |
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Eternal Nymph, you're the grace
Of my
ancestral
place:
So, in this fresh, green view,
See your Poet, who brings
An un-weaned kid to you,
Whose horns, in offering,
Bud from its brow in youth.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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VI
Heaven, you say, will be a field in April,
A
friendly
field, a long green wave of earth,
With one domed cloud above it.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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Pray wait till by and by; you're much to blame;
Besides, the nights are long enough you'll find;
Heav'n genial joys for privacy design'd;
And why this place, when you've nice
chambers
got?
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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(which did not you prolong,
The world had wanted many an idle song)
What _Drop_ or
_Nostrum_
can this plague remove?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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'
Thereon Allecto, steeped in
Gorgonian
venom, first seeks Latium and the
high house of the Laurentine monarch, and silently sits down before
Amata's doors, whom a woman's distress and anger heated to frenzy over
the Teucrians' coming and the marriage of Turnus.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Rilke - Poems |
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Is thy Master
stirring?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Nay then, farewell, my duckling roast,
Farewell, farewell, my tea and toast,
My
meerschaum
and cigars!
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Lewis Carroll |
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ignoble age must come,
Disease, and death's
inexorable
doom
The life, which others pay, let us bestow,
And give to fame what we to nature owe;
Brave though we fall, and honour'd if we live,
Or let us glory gain, or glory give!
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Iliad - Pope |
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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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The
magistrates
and senators
had fled in terror from the city, or were still in hiding at
dependants' houses: it was therefore impossible to call a meeting of
the senate.
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Tacitus |
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But Iphitus, employed on other cares,
Search'd the wide country for his
wandering
mares,
And mules, the strongest of the labouring kind;
Hapless to search; more hapless still to find!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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The male is not less the soul nor more, he too is in his place,
He too is all qualities, he is action and power,
The flush of the known universe is in him,
Scorn becomes him well, and appetite and defiance become him well,
The wildest largest passions, bliss that is utmost, sorrow that is
utmost become him well, pride is for him,
The full-spread pride of man is calming and excellent to the soul,
Knowledge becomes him, he likes it always, he brings every thing to
the test of himself,
Whatever the survey, whatever the sea and the sail he strikes
soundings
at last only here,
(Where else does he strike soundings except here?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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que vous etes bien dans le beau cimetiere
Vous mendiants morts saouls de biere
Vous les
aveugles
comme le destin
Et vous petits enfants morts en priere
Ah!
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Noi divenimmo intanto a pie del monte;
quivi
trovammo
la roccia si erta,
che 'ndarno vi sarien le gambe pronte.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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' Thus much he spoke; and
meanwhile
the broad light of
returning day now began to pour in, and chased away the night.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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ein hym
schullen
speke,
fforto holden vp cristendom; ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Without sharing
Pliny's faith that the
millennium
had dawned, he admits that Nerva and
Trajan have inaugurated 'happier times' and combined monarchy with
some degree of personal freedom.
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Tacitus |
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There shalt thou stand
arraigned
of this blood;
And of those judges half shall lay on thee
Death, and half pardon; so shalt thou go free.
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Euripides - Electra |
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Naked the Nymphs and Graces in the meads
The dance essay:
"No 'scaping death"
proclaims
the year, that speeds
This sweet spring day.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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She that has dealt with such a pride of spirit
In all her ways of life, so that she seemed
To feel like shadow, falling on the light
Her own mind made, the common
thoughts
of men;
Ay, she that to-day came down into our woe
And stood among the griefs that buzz upon us,
Like one who is forced aside from a bright journey
To stoop in a small-room'd cottage, where loud flies
Pester the inmates and the windows darken;
This she, this Judith, out of her quiet pride,
And out of her guarded purity, to walk
Where God himself from violent whoredom could
Scarcely preserve her shuddering flesh!
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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" he cried,
"Is the old lady of the
_Dammthor_
still alive?
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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