A century of blue and stilly light
Bowed down before me, the dew came again,
The moon my sibyl worshipped through the night,
The sun returned and long abode; but then
Hoarse drooping darkness hung me with a shroud
And switched at me with
shrivelled
leaves in scorn.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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The
Prefatory
Note
is by W.
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Byron |
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Milton is not so
close to his fighting angels as Homer is to his fighting men; but the
war in heaven is an incident in Milton's figurative expression of
something that has become altogether himself--the mystery of individual
existence in universal existence, and the
accompanying
mystery of sin,
of individual will inexplicably allowed to tamper with the divinely
universal will.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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]: and the oddness of their notions as to the line of his images' life that pleasd the God and Father of men, is always in|structive, specially when set beside many of the popular ideas on this and like
subjects
now.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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The day
was excessively hot, the
thermometer
at nearly 100?
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Whitman |
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I own with reason: for, if men but knew
Some fixed end to ills, they would be strong
By some device
unconquered
to withstand
Religions and the menacings of seers.
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Lucretius |
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He marvels at the paradox,
drums his head with the tattoo:
how can a thing as small as he
shape and maintain an art
out of himself
universal
enough
to carry her daily vigil
to crystalled immortality?
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Thus saying, he drew his brazen faulchion keen
Of double edge, and with a
dreadful
cry 90
Sprang on him; but Ulysses with a shaft
In that same moment through his bosom driv'n
Transfix'd his liver, and down dropp'd his sword.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Unnatural
vices
Are fathered by our heroism.
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T.S. Eliot |
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It may only be
used on or associated in any way with an
electronic
work by people who
agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Could I weed
Thy soul of care, by heavens, I would offer
All the bright riches of my crystal coffer
To Amphitrite; all my clear-eyed fish, 110
Golden, or rainbow-sided, or purplish,
Vermilion-tail'd, or finn'd with silvery gauze;
Yea, or my veined pebble-floor, that draws
A virgin light to the deep; my grotto-sands
Tawny and gold, ooz'd slowly from far lands
By my diligent springs; my level lilies, shells,
My
charming
rod, my potent river spells;
Yes, every thing, even to the pearly cup
Meander gave me,--for I bubbled up
To fainting creatures in a desert wild.
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Keats |
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-
Loosed on the flowers Siroces to my bane,
And the wild boar upon my crystal
springs!
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Like the leaves of the forest when Summer is green,
That host with their banners at sunset were seen:
Like the leaves of the forest when Autumn hath blown,[304]
That host on the morrow lay
withered
and strown.
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Byron |
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No it is bought with the price
Of all that a man hath his house his wife his children
Wisdom is sold in the desolate market where none come to buy
And in the witherd field where the farmer plows for bread in vain
It is an easy thing to triumph in the summers sun
And in the vintage & to sing on the waggon loaded with corn
It is an easy thing to talk of patience to the afflicted
To speak the laws of prudence to the houseless wanderer
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To listen to the hungry ravens cry in wintry season
When the red blood is filld with wine & with the marrow of lambs
It is an easy thing to laugh at wrathful elements
To hear the dog howl at the wintry door, the ox in the slaughter house moan
To see a god on every wind & a blessing on every blast
To hear sounds of love in the thunder storm that
destroys
our enemies house
To rejoice in the blight that covers his field, & the sickness that cuts off his children
While our olive & vine sing & laugh round our door & our children bring fruits & flowers
Then the groan & the dolor are quite forgotten & the slave grinding at the mill
And the captive in chains & the poor in the prison, & the soldier in the field
When the shatterd bone hath laid him groaning among the happier dead
It is an easy thing to rejoice in the tents of prosperity
Thus could I sing & thus rejoice, but it is not so with me!
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Blake - Zoas |
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Othello, leave some officer behind,
And he shall our
commission
bring to you,
With such things else of quality and respect
As doth import you.
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Shakespeare |
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Meanwhile
The fire runs deeper,
consuming
these selves in its growth.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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brende
Of other
passioun
than that they wende, 705
So that she felte almost hir herte deye
For wo, and wery of that companye.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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The slow sweet hours that bring us all things good, [3]
The slow sad hours that bring us all things ill,
And all good things from evil, brought the night
In which we sat together and alone,
And to the want, that hollow'd all the heart,
Gave
utterance
by the yearning of an eye,
That burn'd upon its object thro' such tears
As flow but once a life.
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Tennyson |
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223
_querellas_
ORBa
224 _infulso_ O: _infu?
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Latin - Catullus |
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," compare Praed's _The Belle of
the Ball-Room_--
"If those bright lips had quoted Locke,
I might have thought they
murmured
Little.
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Byron |
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Aghorenath Chattopadhyay, is descended
from the ancient family of Chattorajes of Bhramangram, who were
noted
throughout
Eastern Bengal as patrons of Sanskrit learning,
and for their practice of Yoga.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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"But (for the vision
hasteneth
so an end)
Here break we off, as the good workman doth,
That shapes the cloak according to the cloth:
And to the primal love our ken shall rise;
That thou mayst penetrate the brightness, far
As sight can bear thee.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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There is a
patent office at the seat of government of the universe, whose
managers are as much interested in the dispersion of seeds as anybody
at
Washington
can be, and their operations are infinitely more
extensive and regular.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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As o'er the cold
sepulchral
stone
Some _name_ arrests the passer-by;
Thus, when thou view'st this page alone,
May _mine_ attract thy pensive eye!
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Byron |
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Under the firelight, under the brush, her hair
Spread out in fiery points
Glowed into words, then would be
savagely
still.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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e westrene wawes
retorni?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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For me, for years, here,
Forever, your
dazzling
smile prolongs
The one rose with its perfect summer gone
Into times past, yet then on into the future.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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A DREAM
Once a dream did weave a shade
O'er my angel-guarded bed,
That an emmet lost its way
Where on grass
methought
I lay.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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O they had all been sav'd but crazed eld
Annull'd my
vigorous
cravings: and thus quell'd
And curb'd, think on't, O Latmian!
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Keats |
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Keats - Lamia |
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Her word is steadfast, and I know
That
plighted
firm are we:
But she has caught new love-calls since
She smiled as maid on me!
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Touch it not; let it stand
Ragged, forlorn, still looking at the land;
The dry blue chaos of mountains in the distance,
The slender blades of grass it
shelters
are
Its own dark thoughts of what is near and far.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no
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Keats |
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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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Because I gave
Honour to mortals, I have yoked my soul
To this
compelling
fate.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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" And she writes again, with deeper
significance: "I too have learnt the subtle
philosophy
of living from
moment to moment.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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"
The swain returns: "A tale of sorrows hear:
In
spacious
Crete he drew his natal air;
Long doom'd to wander o'er the land and main,
For Heaven has wove his thread of life with pain.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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--
So shines my Lewti's
forehead
fair,
Gleaming through her sable hair,
Image of Lewti!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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O Son of God,
Redeemer
of the world!
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Tennyson |
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_ so
_before_
wel;
_which_ Th.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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"
And when
yourself
you come my way
My vision does not cleave, but turns
Without a shiver or salute.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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XIX
TO AN ATHLETE DYING YOUNG
The time you won your town the race
We chaired you through the market-place;
Man and boy stood
cheering
by,
And home we brought you shoulder-high.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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The yellow leopards, strained and lean,
The treacherous Russian knows so well,
With gaping blackened jaws are seen
Leap through the hail of
screaming
shell.
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Wilde - Poems |
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"
In all the madness of superfluous health,
The trim of pride, the
impudence
of wealth,
Let this great truth be present night and day;
But most be present, if we preach or pray.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Rejoice: forever you'll be
The
Princess
of Founts to me,
Singing your issuing
From broken stone, a force,
That, as a gurgling spring,
Bring water from your source,
An endless dancing thing.
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Ronsard |
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"It seems to me, thank heaven,"
murmured
he, "the child was washed,
combed, and fed.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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O, so unnatural Nature,
You whose
ephemeral
flower
Lasts only from dawn to dusk!
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Ronsard |
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Who cares to chatter or sing
With
delightful
breakfast coming?
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Christina Rossetti |
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Oft Scyld the Scefing from
squadroned
foes,
from many a tribe, the mead-bench tore,
awing the earls.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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_ Published agreeably to an
Order of the Legislature, by the Commissioners on the
Zoological
and
Botanical Survey of the State.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Yet all is well; he has but passed
To Life's
appointed
bourne:
And alien tears will fill for him
Pity's long-broken urn,
For his mourners will be outcast men,
And outcasts always mourn.
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Wilde - Poems |
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I have seen Him in the watch-fires of a hundred circling camps;
They have builded Him an altar in the evening dews and damps;
I can read His
righteous
sentence by the dim and flaring lamps.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Half-past three,
The lamp sputtered,
The lamp
muttered
in the dark.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Once on a Lord Mayor's Day, in Cheapside, when
Skulls could not well pass through that scum of men,
For quick despatch Skulls made no longer stay
Than but to breathe, and
everyone
gave way;
For, as he breathed, the people swore from thence
A fart flew out, or a sir-reverence.
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Robert Herrick |
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Theban mage, druid by the dark menhir,
Flamen by Tiber, Brahmin by the Ganges,
Fitting angelic arrow to godlike bow,
Viewing the haunts of Roland, Achilles,
Powerful mysterious smith, you'd know
How to twine sun-rays to a single flame;
In your soul the sunset met the day;
Yesterday tomorrow in your fertile brain;
You crowned the old art father of the new;
You understood that when an unknown soul
Speaks to a nation, lightning in the clouds,
We must open our hearts, accept, love aloud;
Calm you scorned the vile attempts of those
Who dribbled Shakespeare, drooled Aeschylus;
You knew this age had its own air to breathe,
That art
progresses
by self-transformation,
Beauty's adorned by melding with greatness.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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A light is shining but the distant star
From which it still comes to me has been dead
A
thousand
years .
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Rilke - Poems |
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Yea, swords and fire
Can do no more destruction on this folk:
A fierce untimely mowing now befits
This corn incapable of sacred bread,
This field
unprofitable
but to flame!
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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SGANARELLE: I hold that this
impediment
in the
action of her tongue is caused by certain humours,
which among us learned men are called peccant humours.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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O quick to prize me Love, how
suddenly
From out the tumult truth hath ta'en his own, And in this vision is our past unrolled.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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XIII
Not the raging fire's furious reign,
Nor the cutting edge of conquering blade,
Nor the havoc ruthless
soldiers
made,
In sacking you, Rome, ever and again,
Nor the tricks that fickle fortune played,
Nor envious centuries corrosive rain,
Nor the spite of men, nor gods' disdain,
Nor your own power in civil strife displayed,
Nor the impetuous storms that you withstood,
Nor the river-god's winding course in flood,
That has so often drowned you in its thunder,
Not all combined have so abased your pride,
As that this nothing left you, by Time's tide,
Still makes the world halt here, and gaze in wonder.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form,
including
any
word processing or hypertext form.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Ile Charme the Ayre to giue a sound,
While you
performe
your Antique round:
That this great King may kindly say,
Our duties, did his welcome pay.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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_Sed meliore (in omne) ingenio
animoque
quam fortuna_, _sum usus_.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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How cordial is the
mystery!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Which, oh, which
Your
dreadful
fault?
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Hugo - Poems |
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Camden transcribes his epitaph:
An ill yeare of a
Goodyere
us bereft,
Who gon to God much lacke of him here left;
Full of good gifts, of body and of minde,
Wise, comely, learned, eloquent and kinde.
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John Donne |
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HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY
r
CONTEMPORARY VERSE
offers a
particularly
remarkable series of the year 1917.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures
Whilst the
landscape
round it measures;
Russet lawns, and fallows gray,
Where the nibbling flocks do stray;
Mountains, on whose barren breast
The labouring clouds do often rest;
Meadows trim with daisies pied;
Shallow brooks, and rivers wide;
Towers and battlements it sees
Bosom'd high in tufted trees,
Where perhaps some Beauty lies,
The Cynosure of neighbouring eyes.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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The children of whose
turbaned
seas,
Or what Circassian land?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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XI
Since Eugene in that solitude
Gifts such as these alone could prize,
A scant attendance Lenski showed
At
neighbouring
hospitalities.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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LIV
How soon will all my lovely days be over,
And I no more be found beneath the sun,--
Neither beside the many-murmuring sea,
Nor where the plain-winds whisper to the reeds,
Nor in the tall beech-woods among the hills 5
Where roam the bright-lipped Oreads, nor along
The pasture-sides where berry-pickers stray
And harmless
shepherds
pipe their sheep to fold!
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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SIXTH, In addition to a new Bibliography, and a Chronological Table of
the Poems, and the Prose Works, a
Bibliography
of Wordsworth Criticism
is appended.
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William Wordsworth |
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David's, by
Professor
Malde,
and by the lamented Arnold.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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50
Here is the man with three staves, and here the Wheel,
And here is the one-eyed merchant, and this card,
Which is blank, is
something
he carries on his back,
Which I am forbidden to see.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Then fierce and free
Surged full above my head
The moaning tide of
helpless
misery.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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Woe, woe, and woe again,
AEgisthus
gone!
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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Prom
leaflets
that bedeck the ground
Renewed and goodly scents arise,
The coloured volume I expound,
While you repeat the words I prize.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Wander aloof do I,
Lean over gates and sigh,
Making friends with the bee and the
butterfly?
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THAT MIGHTY MONARCH,
Alexander
the Great (B.
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"Say why are
Beauties
prais'd and honour'd most,
The wise man's passion, and the vain man's toast?
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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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It was not
all
approval
of Mr.
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Yeats |
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But
cowardice
is
unscientific; for there cannot be a science of ignorance.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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By
Richmond
I raised my knees
Supine on the floor of a narrow canoe.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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He sprinkles healing balms, to anguish kind,
And adds discourse, the
medicine
of the mind.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Between each act the
trembling
salvers ring,
From soup to sweet-wine, and God bless the King.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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I
mightier
than he?
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Aristophanes |
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now I call
To my pretty witchcrafts all;
Old I am, and cannot do
That I was
accustomed
to.
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Robert Herrick |
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XCV
How sweet and lovely dost thou make the shame
Which, like a canker in the
fragrant
rose,
Doth spot the beauty of thy budding name!
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Further, there is an obscene allusion which the actor indicates by
gesture, pointing to the girl's privates,
signifying
there is the lodging
where he would fain find a delightful abode.
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Aristophanes |
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Lo sommo er' alto che vincea la vista,
e la costa superba piu assai
che da mezzo
quadrante
a centro lista.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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There sunk the greatest, nor the worst of men,
Whose spirit
anithetically
mixed
One moment of the mightiest, and again
On little objects with like firmness fixed;
Extreme in all things!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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The gem in Eastern mine which slumbers,
Or ruddy gold 'twill not bestow;
'Twill not subdue the turban'd numbers,
Before the Prophet's shrine which bow;
Nor high through air on friendly pinions
Can bear thee swift to home and clan,
From
mournful
climes and strange dominions--
From South to North--my Talisman.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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CHORUS
Let me not fall, O nevermore,
A prey into the young men's hand;
Rather than wed whom I abhor,
By pilot-stars I flee this land;
O king, take justice to thy side,
And with the
righteous
powers decide!
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Aeschylus |
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Creating the works from public domain print
editions
means that no
one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation
(and you!
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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old men leaning on young men's
shoulders!
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Whitman |
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Seguendo
lui, portava la mia fronte
come colui che l'ha di pensier carca,
che fa di se un mezzo arco di ponte;
quand' io udi' <>
parlare in modo soave e benigno,
qual non si sente in questa mortal marca.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Then let us hurry out with high steps
And be the first to reach the
highways
and fords:
Rather than stay at home wretched and poor
For long years plunged in sordid grief.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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But
speedily
now
shall I prove him the prowess and pride of the Geats,
shall bid him battle.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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