Its prickly knobs the dews of morn
Doth bead with
dressing
rich to see,
When threads doth hang from thorn to thorn
Like the small spinner's tapestry;
And from the flowers a sultry smell
Comes that agrees with summer well.
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If it be true that poetry is bred out
of joy and sorrow, one feels as if more
enjoyment
and less suffering had
gone to the making of the _Alcestis_ than to that of the later plays.
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On his return to India he founded
the Nizam College at Hyderabad, and has since laboured incessantly,
and at great
personal
sacrifice, in the cause of education.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Sawcy, and ouer-bold, how did you dare
To Trade, and Trafficke with Macbeth,
In Riddles, and Affaires of death;
And I the Mistris of your Charmes,
The close
contriuer
of all harmes,
Was neuer call'd to beare my part,
Or shew the glory of our Art?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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I to the muses have been bound,
These
fourteen
years, by strong indentures;
Oh gentle muses!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Let the hoarse torrent
In the blue canyon,
Murmuring
mightily
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Out of the grey mist
Of primal chaos,
Cease not proclaiming
How I adore thee.
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Sappho |
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They go, eating the azure,
Sometimes
vegetables
too,
Hard-boiled eggs, and mandarins,
And rice as white as their costume.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Pharmaceutria_
PASTORVM Musam Damonis et Alphesiboei,
immemor herbarum quos est mirata iuuenca
certantis, quorum stupefactae carmine lynces,
et mutata suos
requierunt
flumina cursus,
Damonis Musam dicemus et Alphesiboei.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Burbank with a Baedeker:
Bleistein
with a Cigar
Tra-la-la-la-la-la-laire--nil nisi divinum stabile
est; caetera fumus--the gondola stopped, the old
palace was there, how charming its grey and pink--
goats and monkeys, with such hair too!
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T.S. Eliot |
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The subject,
and some lines of the
original
version, having been suggested by the
poet's friend, Mrs.
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Poe - 5 |
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Illusions, dream, where, where your
sweetness?
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Ich,
Ebenbild
der Gottheit, das sich schon
Ganz nah gedunkt dem Spiegel ew'ger Wahrheit,
Sein selbst genoss in Himmelsglanz und Klarheit,
Und abgestreift den Erdensohn;
Ich, mehr als Cherub, dessen freie Kraft
Schon durch die Adern der Natur zu fliessen
Und, schaffend, Gotterleben zu geniessen
Sich ahnungsvoll vermass, wie muss ich's bussen!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Nothing is sure for me but what's uncertain:
Obscure, whatever is plainly clear to see:
I've no doubt, except of
everything
certain:
Science is what happens accidentally:
I win it all, yet a loser I'm bound to be:
Saying: 'God give you good even!
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Villon |
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O lullaby, with your daughter, and the innocence
Of your cold feet, greet a terrible new being:
A voice where harpsichords and viols linger,
Will you press that breast, with your withered finger,
From which Woman flows in
Sibylline
whiteness to
Those lips starved by the air's virgin blue?
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Thou ance was i' the
foremost
rank,
A filly buirdly, steeve, an' swank;
An' set weel down a shapely shank,
As e'er tread yird;
An' could hae flown out-owre a stank,
Like ony bird.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling,
By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore,
"Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou," I said, "art sure no craven,
Ghastly grim and ancient raven wandering from the Nightly shore--
Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's
Plutonian
shore!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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It has survived long enough for the
copyright
to expire and the book to enter the public domain.
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Meredith - Poems |
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While, Memory at my side, I wander here,
Starts at the simplest sight th'
unbidden
tear,
A form discover'd at the well-known seat,
A spot, that angles at the riv'let's feet,
The ray the cot of morning trav'ling nigh,
And sail that glides the well-known alders by.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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for a more
complete
list of our various sites.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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If there come truth from them,
As vpon thee Macbeth, their
Speeches
shine,
Why by the verities on thee made good,
May they not be my Oracles as well,
And set me vp in hope.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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by Dykes
Campbell
in his edition.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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"
IV
--"Come hither, Son," I heard Death say;
"I did not will a grave
Should end thy
pilgrimage
to-day,
But I, too, am a slave!
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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IV _DE
PHASELLO_
(_-ELO_ VenR) ?
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Latin - Catullus |
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Rilke - Poems |
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THE CHIMNEY-SWEEPER
When my mother died I was very young,
And my father sold me while yet my tongue
Could
scarcely
cry "Weep!
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blake-poems |
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For hast thou not observed
How eyes, essaying to
perceive
the fine,
Will strain in preparation, otherwise
Unable sharply to perceive at all?
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Lucretius |
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He was, indeed, honest, and
of an open and free nature, had an
excellent
phantasy, brave notions, and
gentle expressions, wherein he flowed with that facility that sometimes
it was necessary he should be stopped.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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ise four
passiou{n}s
ouer come ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Hand aliter mensis
exundans
manna beatis
Deserto jacuit stilla gelata solo ;
Stilla gelata solo, sed solibus bausta'benignis,
Ad sua, quk cecidit, purior astra redit.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Not God omnipotent, nor Fate, yet so
Perhaps thou shalt not Die, perhaps the Fact
Is not so hainous now, foretasted Fruit,
Profan'd first by the Serpent, by him first 930
Made common and unhallowd: ere our taste
Nor yet on him found deadly; he yet lives,
Lives, as thou saidst, and gaines to live as Man
Higher degree of Life, inducement strong
To us, as likely tasting to attaine
Proportional
ascent, which cannot be
But to be Gods, or Angels Demi-gods.
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Milton |
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Then cling to her;
And say if thou hast found a guest of grace
In God's son,
Heracles!
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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This was my solace for the
wretched
ruin of sunken
Troy, doom balanced against doom.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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If you want to see
generations
in charge of lovely silken lines,2 8 to this day on the pool there is phoenix down.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Five score
thousand
Franks swooned on the earth and fell.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Along the reaches of the street
Held in a lunar synthesis,
Whispering lunar incantations
Disolve the floors of memory
And all its clear relations,
Its divisions and precisions,
Every street lamp that I pass
Beats like a
fatalistic
drum,
And through the spaces of the dark
Midnight shakes the memory
As a madman shakes a dead geranium.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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The
curiosity
of Penelope being excited by
the account which Eumaeus gives her of Ulysses, she orders him immediately
into her presence, but Ulysses postpones the interview till evening, when
the suitors having left the palace, there shall be no danger of
interruption.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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er kny3t, "3e cach much sele,
In
cheuisaunce
of ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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I thought to find the patriots
In whom the stock of freedom roots;
To myself I oft recount
Tales of many a famous mount,--
Wales, Scotland, Uri, Hungary's dells:
Bards, Roys, Scanderbegs and Tells;
And think how Nature in these towers
Uplifted shall condense her powers,
And lifting man to the blue deep
Where stars their perfect courses keep,
Like wise preceptor, lure his eye
To sound the science of the sky,
And carry learning to its height
Of untried power and sane delight:
The Indian cheer, the frosty skies,
Rear purer wits,
inventive
eyes,--
Eyes that frame cities where none be,
And hands that stablish what these see:
And by the moral of his place
Hint summits of heroic grace;
Man in these crags a fastness find
To fight pollution of the mind;
In the wide thaw and ooze of wrong,
Adhere like this foundation strong,
The insanity of towns to stem
With simpleness for stratagem.
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Emerson - Poems |
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These at the foemen scaled, upon all hands,
Form cruel
garlands
for the paynim bands.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Donations are
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Copyright
2000-2016 A.
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Ronsard |
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In fact the
satyr stands between
Gilgamish
and Ishara(?
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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230
But most of all, his Mother dear,
She who had fainted with her fear,
Rejoiced
when waking she espies
The Child; when she can trust her eyes,
And touches the blind Boy.
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William Wordsworth |
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How can you
understand
that this my heart
Is but a sparrow in an eagle's nest?
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Begluckt, wer Treue rein im Busen tragt,
Kein Opfer wird ihn je
gereuen!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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31
I know you step within mine house 32
'Tis not wise until the latest hour 32
The hill where o'er we wander lies in shadow 33
Needs must thou be upon the
wastelands
yearning .
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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XCVI
But the wise king, Sobrino, who was by,
Him from the quest endeavoured to dissuade,
And that with his exalted majesty
Such enterprize were ill
assorted
said:
Although firm hope, nay full security,
He had to overcome that martial maid,
If he with pain subdued a woman, shame,
Rather than honour, would pursue his name.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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"
He could not answer yea or nay:
He
faltered
"Gifts may pass away.
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Lewis Carroll |
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The eyes are drowned in opium
In
universal
licence
The clownish mouth bewitched
A singular geranium.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Would you learn at full
How passion rose thro'
circumstantial
grades
Beyond all grades develop'd?
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Tennyson |
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Nor went Eumaeus from his home unmark'd
By Pallas, who in semblance of a fair
Damsel, accomplish'd in
domestic
arts, 190
Approaching to the cottage' entrance, stood
Opposite, by Ulysses plain discern'd,
But to his son invisible; for the Gods
Appear not manifest alike to all.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Stephen Crane |
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, _Notices
Genealogiques
sur les Familles Genevoises_, iv.
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Byron |
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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The civilized nations--Greece, Rome, England--have been
sustained
by
the primitive forests which anciently rotted where they stand.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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_ A telling
expression
for the dread of loss
which haunts so many wealthy people.
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Keats |
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--
But I am now another's bride--
For ever
faithful
will abide.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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The rest of them are
mounted on old Acestes'
Sicilian
horses.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Instead of going out
therefore
to spend the evening as I had proposed,
it occurred to me that I could not do a wiser thing than just eat a
mouthful of supper and go immediately to bed.
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Poe - 5 |
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Grass was not likely to grow there so long
as it
remained
the fashionable place to drive.
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Alexander Pope |
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CHORUS
Gods of our city, see me not
enslaved!
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Aeschylus |
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And I, the unknown son of a famous father, 945
Lag far behind even the
footsteps
of my mother.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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There's never a moment's rest allowed:
Now here, now there, the
changing
breeze
Swings us, as it wishes, ceaselessly,
Beaks pricking us more than a cobbler's awl.
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Villon |
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Gainst four
assaults
easily did they fare,
But then the fifth brought heavy griefs to bear.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Imagists |
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Therein the Patient
Must
minister
to himselfe
Macb.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Thus, like an eel, outstretch'd at length he steer'd,
Gath'ring the air up with
retractile
claws.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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'Here indeed the battle is fiercest, as if all the rest of the fighting
were nowhere, and no
slaughter
but here throughout the city, so do we
descry the war in full fury, the Grecians rushing on the building, and
their shielded column driving up against the beleaguered threshold.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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+ Keep it legal Whatever your use, remember that you are responsible for
ensuring
that what you are doing is legal.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Man's life is like a sojourning,
His
longevity
lacks the firmness of stone and metal.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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230
He, the young man carbuncular, arrives,
A small house agent's clerk, with one bold stare,
One of the low on whom
assurance
sits
As a silk hat on a Bradford millionaire.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Miss
Thompson
lets her say her say:
'So chilly for the time of year.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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All summarised, the soul,
When slowly we breathe it out
In several rings of smoke
By other rings wiped out
Bears witness to some cigar
Burning skilfully while
The ash is
separated
far
From its bright kiss of fire
Should the choir of romantic art
Fly so towards your lips
Exclude from it if you start
The real because it's cheap
Meaning too precise is sure
To void your dreamy literature.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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If I be clear from thought,
Why do you then
complain?
| Guess: |
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Petrarch - Poems |
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hoc ne ipsi accideret, patrui perdepsuit ipsam
uxorem et patruum
reddidit
Harpocratem.
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| Question: |
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Latin - Catullus |
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I see it plain, Telemachus intends
Our slaughter; either he will aids procure
From sandy Pylus, or will bring them arm'd 430
From Sparta; such is his
tremendous
drift.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Thus, too, in other things,
Whilst many germs common to many things
There are, yet they,
combined
among themselves,
Can form new wholes to others quite unlike.
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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The pow'rs above could
PRUDENCE
ne'er design;
For those who fondly court the SISTERS NINE.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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This is, of course, no
argument
against the poems
now-we mean it only as against the poets _thew.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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And now a gusty shower wraps
The grimy scraps
Of
withered
leaves about your feet
And newspapers from vacant lots;
The showers beat
On broken blinds and chimney-pots,
And at the corner of the street
A lonely cab-horse steams and stamps.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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(The poem has been wrongly
attributed
to Han W?
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Fetch a log, then; coax the ember;
Fill your hearts with old-time cheer;
Heaven be thanked for one more year,
And our
Thanksgiving
turkey!
| Guess: |
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But we neo-pagans may not after all be
abandoned
entirely:
Yet there is speeding a god mercifully over the earth,
Quick and assiduous.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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luniuersalite
de Raison.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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There is no room to think that Cicero used it in a
worse sense, since we find him in a letter to Atticus declaring, that
the oratorical style of Brutus was, in
language
as well as sentiment,
elegant to a degree that nothing could surpass.
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Tacitus |
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And
A boy
Blew west
And with prayers and incantations,
And with "Yankee Doodle Dandy,"
Crossed the Appalachians,
And was "young John Chapman,"
Then
"Johnny Appleseed, Johnny Appleseed,"
Chief of the fastnesses, dappled and vast,
In a pack on his back,
In a deer-hide sack,
The
beautiful
orchards of the past,
The ghosts of all the forests and the groves--
In that pack on his back,
In that talisman sack,
To-morrow's peaches, pears and cherries,
To-morrow's grapes and red raspberries,
Seeds and tree souls, precious things,
Feathered with microscopic wings,
All the outdoors the child heart knows,
And the apple, green, red, and white,
Sun of his day and his night--
The apple allied to the thorn,
Child of the rose.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Beowulf |
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And then the
lighting
of the lamps.
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T.S. Eliot |
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We bring thee our songs and our
garlands
for tribute,
The gold of our fields and the gold of our fruit;
O giver of mellowing radiance, we hail thee,
We praise thee, O Surya, with cymbal and flute.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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for the air rustles
With the soft
rippling
of wings.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Tapestries
were hung on
the walls, and willing hands prepared the banquet.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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But when thy glance rests on me then my whole
Being
quickens
and blooms like trees in May.
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Rilke - Poems |
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WATERS OF BABYLON
What presses about us here in the evening
As you open a window and stare at a stone-gray sky,
And the streets give back the jangle of
meaningless
movement
That is tired of life and almost too tired to die.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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There they routed the Vitellian
auxiliaries
and killed all who
offered resistance, the rest taking flight to Cremona.
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Tacitus |
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I have tiding,
Glad tiding, behold how in duty
From far
Lehistan
the wind, gliding.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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DOTH still before thee rise the beauteous image
Of him who high the cliff for roses scales,
Who nigh forgets the day amidst the scrimmage,
Who fullest honey from the bunch
inhales?
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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The unappeasable loveliness
is calling to me out of the wind,
And because your name
is written upon the ivory doors,
The wave in my heart is as a green wave, unconfined, Tossing the white foam toward you;
And the lotus that pours
Her
fragrance
into the purple cup
Is more to be gained with the foam Than are you with these words of mine.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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