the only sound,
The
dripping
of the oar suspended!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Why was
Hippolytus
here with you as well?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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You watch me
I cannot tell you
the truth yet
I dare not, too little one,
What has
happened
to you
-
One day I will tell it
to you
- for as a man
I'd not wish you
not to know
your fate
-
or man
dead child
28.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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For the
slightest
force
Would loose the weft of things wherein no part
Were of imperishable stock.
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Lucretius |
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Line after line; ay, whole platoons,
Struck dead in their saddles, of brave dragoons
By the maddened horses were onward borne
And into the vortex flung,
trampled
and torn;
As Keenan fought with his men, side by side.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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" Sudden that sound
Forth issu'd from a vault, whereat in fear
I
somewhat
closer to my leader's side
Approaching, he thus spake: "What dost thou?
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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The
Parliament
that broke the Right Divine
Shall see her realm of reason swept away,
And lesser nations shall the sword obey--
The sword o'er all carve the great world's design!
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Note: Dante Gabriel Rossetti took
Archipiades
to be Hipparchia (see Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Philosophers, Book VI 96-98) who loved Crates the Theban Cynic philosopher (368/5-288/5BC) and of whom various tales are told suggesting her beauty, and independence of mind.
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Villon |
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On his head a crown,
On his
shoulders
down
Flowed his golden hair.
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blake-poems |
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MASON AND SLIDELL: A YANKEE IDYLL
JONATHAN
TO JOHN
NO.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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False art is not
expressive, but mimetic, not from
experience
but from observation, and
is the mother of all evil, persuading us to save our bodies alive at no
matter what cost of rapine and fraud.
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Yeats |
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There is again a silence, and in the
sinister and momentary radiance of the lightning
the figure of_ BLANCHE _is seen
approaching
the inn.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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at may
naturely
vsen resou{n}.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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With shaded eyes your vision follows
The gentle swans'
receding
train.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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" The lady's cheek
Trembled; she nothing said, but, pale and meek,
Arose and knelt before him, wept a rain
Of sorrows at his words; at last with pain
Beseeching
him, the while his hand she wrung,
To change his purpose.
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Keats - Lamia |
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Donations are accepted in a number of other
ways
including
including checks, online payments and credit card
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Sara Teasdale |
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(Lo, where arise three
peerless
stars,
To be thy natal stars my country, Ensemble, Evolution, Freedom,
Set in the sky of Law.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Yet, something more than human warms my breast,
And sudden whispers,[428] In our
fortunes
blest,
Nor envious chance, nor rocks, nor whelmy tide,
Shall our glad meeting at the list divide.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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In the Gates of Death
rejoice!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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-
Hatt ich nur einen
Totenschein!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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I suppose, Pierre Bon-Bon, you
very well know to what divine moral truth I am
alluding?
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Poe - 5 |
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Africa, Spain, neither are you disgraced,
Nor that race that holds the English firth,
Nor, by the French Rhine,
soldiers
of worth,
Nor Germany with other warriors graced.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Break forth this morn
In roses, thou but
yesterday
a Thorn.
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Christina Rossetti |
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The judge accurst, incontinent,
And
stranger
dame have dragg'd thee down.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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"
Towns and countries woo together,
Forelands beacon,
belfries
call;
Never lad that trod on leather
Lived to feast his heart with all.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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It is the crowded home of ghosts,--
Wise and foolish
shoulder
to shoulder.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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He was hunted with dogs in the mountains of Cabaret, and wore a
wolfskin
to give the scent to the dogs and masters.
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Troubador Verse |
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XXII
Soone as she parted thence, the
fearfull
twaine, 190
That blind old woman and her daughter deare,?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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He does not know that
sickening
thirst
That sands one's throat, before
The hangman with his gardener's gloves
Slips through the padded door,
And binds one with three leathern thongs,
That the throat may thirst no more.
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Wilde - Poems |
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and when the morning ray
Sheds her bright beam, pursue the
destined
way.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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A
worshipper
raised his arm.
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Stephen Crane |
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How stars and
constellations
drop to earth,
Seest not?
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Lucretius |
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Digitized by VjOOQIC
212 THE POEMS
Stripped to her skin, see how she stooping
stands,
Nor scorns to rub him down with those fair
hands,
And washing (lest the scent her crime
disclose)
His sweaty hoofs, tickles him betwixt the toes.
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Marvell - Poems |
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ere,
he
brougthe
him In ful sone; 213
And [seyde]: 'sire, ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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(Your
highness
knows our homely word,)
Millions for self-government,
But for tribute never a cent.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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_omnibus
una Exspersa unguentis_
h.
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Latin - Catullus |
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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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I burned
Hot and cold, in a lasting fever, well-earned
By the mortal wound of your glance's
piercing
flight.
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Ronsard |
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Si come i peregrin pensosi fanno,
giugnendo
per cammin gente non nota,
che si volgono ad essa e non restanno,
cosi di retro a noi, piu tosto mota,
venendo e trapassando ci ammirava
d'anime turba tacita e devota.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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To
Introduce
Myself.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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O cruel hands that hold me
powerless!
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Whitman |
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I never
flinched
nor fled when thou didst aim
at me in King Arthur's house.
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Max
Beerbohm
wrote once
that a play cannot have style because the people must talk as they
talk in daily life.
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Yeats |
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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[136] Part of
Dauphiné
and Provence, with a capital town at
Vaison.
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Tacitus |
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1 Datong Palace was a hall in the Tang palace
compound
of Chang?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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'Oh, can't you take your answer then,
And won't you
understand?
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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The
bulkhead
double-doors were double-locked
And swollen tight and buried under snow.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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One thing at any rate is certain,
that Chatterton on the 14th of April 1770 left on his desk a number of
pieces of paper filled with a jumble of satiric verse, mocking prose,
and
directions
for the construction of a mediaeval tomb to cover the
remains of his father and himself.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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XXVI
Who would demonstrate Rome's true grandeur,
In all her vast dimensions, all her might,
Her length and breadth, and all her depth and height
Needs no line or lead, compass or measure:
He only need draw a circle, at his leisure,
Round all that Ocean in his arms holds tight,
Be it where Sirius scorches with his light,
Or where the
northerlies
blow cold forever.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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"You gave me hyacinths first a year ago;
"They called me the
hyacinth
girl.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Sonnets Pour Helene Book II: XLII
In these long winter nights when the idle Moon
Steers her chariot so slowly on its way,
When the
cockerel
so tardily calls the day,
When night to the troubled soul seems years through:
I would have died of misery if not for you,
In shadowy form, coming to ease my fate,
Utterly naked in my arms, to lie and wait,
Sweetly deceiving me with a specious view.
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Ronsard |
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non feret usque suum te propter flere clientem:
illius uerbis, sis mihi lenta ueto:
ne tibi neglecti mittant mala somnia manes,
maestaque sopitae stet soror ante torum,
qualis ab excelsa praeceps delapsa fenestra
uenit ad infernos
sanguinolenta
lacus.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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(For a
correspondence
on the subject, see _Literature_, August 12, 19,
26, September 9, 1899.
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Byron |
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Hwæðere
hē his folme forlēt
"tō līf-wraðe lāst weardian,
"earm and eaxle; nō þǣr ǣnige swā þēah
"fēa-sceaft guma frōfre gebohte:
975 "nō þȳ leng leofað lāð-getēona
"synnum geswenced, ac hyne sār hafað
"in nȳd-gripe nearwe befongen,
"balwon bendum: þǣr ābīdan sceal
"maga māne fāh miclan dōmes,
980 "hū him scīr metod scrīfan wille.
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Beowulf |
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Said one among them--"Surely not in vain
My
substance
of the common Earth was ta'en
And to this Figure molded, to be broke,
Or trampled back to shapeless Earth again.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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begirt with bowers
And
shouting
with a thousand rills.
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Poe - 5 |
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why fearing of Time's tyranny,
Might I not then say, 'Now I love you best,'
When I was certain o'er incertainty,
Crowning the present,
doubting
of the rest?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Italy stands the other side,
While, like a guard between,
The solemn Alps,
The siren Alps,
Forever
intervene!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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They passed the gates; they stood upon a hill
Enclosed, but in that strong
enclosure
free!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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It shall a long space hold aloof
Its forehead, keeping under heavy weight
The other oppress'd,
indignant
at the load,
And grieving sore.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Is thy land peeled, thy realm
marauded?
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Emerson - Poems |
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LXXXIII
I never saw that you did
painting
need,
And therefore to your fair no painting set;
I found, or thought I found, you did exceed
That barren tender of a poet's debt:
And therefore have I slept in your report,
That you yourself, being extant, well might show
How far a modern quill doth come too short,
Speaking of worth, what worth in you doth grow.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Rodrigue
Alive, he brought me shame;
Honour
demanded
that expense of breath.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth
in
paragraph
1.
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Wilde - Poems |
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But deeper than that abyss was thy deep
love which taught [thy husband] to bear his lady's
forceful
yoke.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Our dead lay cold and stark,
But our dying, down in the dark,
Answered
as best they might--
Lifting their poor lost arms,
And cheering for God and Right!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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The Marquis' mortar beams near Ducal wreath,
And on the helm and
gleaming
shield beneath
Alternate triple pearls with leaves displayed
Of parsley, and the royal robes are made
So large that with the knightly harness they
Seem to o'ermaster palfreys every way.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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They are
detained
by the management of
Ulysses, who chastises the insolence of Thersites.
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Iliad - Pope |
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LXIX
Like a tall forest were their spears,
Their banners like a silken sea,
When the great host in
splendour
passed
Across the crimson sinking sun.
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Sappho |
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I turned my head back to
Fengxiang
County,1 late in the day its banners appeared and faded from view.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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O
passionate
and pure!
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Orem ridiculam, Cato, et iocosam
Dignamque
auribus et tuo cachinno.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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HERALD OF AEGYPTUS
Say thou wherein my deeds
transgress
my right.
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Aeschylus |
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Still as gloom
followed
after glare,
While bated breath the pine-trees drew,
Tiny Salmoneus of the air,
His mimic bolts the firefly threw.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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Dost thou desire my
slumbers
should be broken,
While shadows like to thee do mock my sight?
| Guess: |
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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160
'T was this, the morning omens seem'd to tell,
Thrice from my
trembling
hand the patch-box fell;
The tott'ring China shook without a wind.
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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According
to the
confinement or extent of intercourse, barbarity or civilization
proportionately prevail.
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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Ride you this
afternoone?
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
|
' The full line is: [Greek:
h_e gl_ott' om_omok', h_e de phr_en an_omotos,] "my tongue has taken an
oath, but my mind is unsworn," a bit of
casuistry
which the critics were
never tired of bringing up against the author.
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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His
dwindled
body half awry,
Rests upon ancles swoln and thick;
His legs are thin and dry.
| Guess: |
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Wordsworth - 1 |
|
22, 23, 1847]
_This poem was written to commemorate the bringing home of the
bodies of the Kentucky soldiers who fell at Buena Vista, and their
burial at
Frankfort
at the cost of the State.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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In every cry of every man,
In every infant's cry of fear,
In every voice, in every ban,
The mind-forged manacles I hear:
How the chimney-sweeper's cry
Every
blackening
church appals,
And the hapless soldier's sigh
Runs in blood down palace-walls.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
or if those women you note
Reflect your
fabulous
senses' desire!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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The taint of which I speak is clearly perceptible even in a poem so full
of
brilliancy
and spirit as "The Health" of Edward Coate Pinckney:--
I fill this cup to one made up
Of loveliness alone,
A woman, of her gentle sex
The seeming paragon;
To whom the better elements
And kindly stars have given
A form so fair that, like the air,
'Tis less of earth than heaven.
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And
yesterday
I met him
near the gates of the temple; and while we were talking together
he said, "I have always known you would become a great musician.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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_Crowdie time_,
breakfast
time.
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Robert Burns |
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You stars and suns, Canopus, Deneb, Rigel,
Let me, as I lie down, here in this dust,
Hear, far off, your
whispered
salutation!
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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"
III
Whilst
homeward
by the nearest route
Our heroes at full gallop sped,
Can we not stealthily make out
What they in conversation said?
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Forbear, ye sons of
insolence!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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As he rose and fell
He passed the stages of his age and youth
Entering
the whirlpool.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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aut qui
odit amatrices
Hermaphroditus
aquas?
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Contact the
Foundation
as set forth in Section 3 below.
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Yeats |
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s face, 80 and the
innocent
girls combed their own hair.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Ever the words of the gods resound;
But the porches of man's ear
Seldom in this low life's round
Are
unsealed
that he may hear.
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Emerson - Poems |
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