Thereat Pyrrhus: "Thou then shalt tell this,
and go with the message to my sire the son of Peleus:
remember
to tell
him of my baleful deeds, and the degeneracy of Neoptolemus.
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Darkling I listen; and, for many a time
I have been half in love with easeful Death,
Call'd him soft names in many a mused rhyme,
To take into the air my quiet breath;
Now more than ever seems it rich to die,
To cease upon the midnight with no pain,
While thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad
In such an
ecstasy!
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Keats |
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Strange the story: he said it all, --
the Waelsing's wanderings wide, his struggles,
which never were told to tribes of men,
the feuds and the frauds, save to Fitela only,
when of these doings he deigned to speak,
uncle to nephew; as ever the twain
stood side by side in stress of war,
and
multitude
of the monster kind
they had felled with their swords.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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625
An ydole of fals portraiture
Is she, for she wil sone wryen;
She is the monstres heed y-wryen,
As filth over y-strawed with floures;
Hir moste worship and hir [flour is] 630
To lyen, for that is hir nature;
Withoute
feyth, lawe, or mesure
She is fals; and ever laughinge
With oon eye, and that other wepinge.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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This, cumbered in the earthen kind of man,
Which
ceaseless
waters would be wearing down,
Alone giveth him stubborn substance, holds him
Upright and hard against impious fate.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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ensuring the transport of tax
revenues
to the throne.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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No infidel
children
to impale on spears?
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Shelley |
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This would make her an exact or close contemporary of Thais, beautiful Athenian
courtesan
and mistress of Alexander the Great (356-323BC).
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Villon |
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Exulting
mid the winter of the skies, 325
Shy as the jealous chamois, Freedom flies,
And often grasps her sword, and often eyes,
Her crest a bough of Winter's bleakest pine,
Strange "weeds" and alpine plants her helm entwine,
And wildly-pausing oft she hangs aghast, 330
While thrills the "Spartan fife" between the blast.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Long as the wild boar
Shall love the mountain-heights, and fish the streams,
While bees on thyme and
crickets
feed on dew,
Thy name, thy praise, thine honour, shall endure.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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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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Donations by check or money order may be sent to:
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Gutenberg
Literary Archive Foundation
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Mopso Nysa datur: quid non
speremus
amantes?
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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" It is to this fair friend that he is supposed to
have addressed his
nineteenth
sonnet.
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Petrarch |
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Sad case for such a brain to hold
Communion
with a stirring child!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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iam uero uariae nocturno tempore uisae
terribilis formae bellum motusque monebant,
multaque per terras uates oracla furenti
pectore fundebant tristis minitantia casus:
quidue ea quae lapsu ceciderunt aera
uetusto?
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Let us suppose that
some
dramatist
had made even him the centre of a play in which the
moderation of common life was carefully preserved, how very little he
could give us of that headlong intrepid man, as we know him, whether
through long personal knowledge or through his many books.
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Yeats |
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Snowfalls hiss
Fall and how I miss
My beloved in my arms
The Farewell
(Alcools: L'Adieu)
I've gathered this sprig of heather
Autumn is dead you will remember
On earth we'll see no more of each other
Fragrance of time sprig of heather
Remember I wait for you forever
Acrobats
(Alcools:Saltimbanques)
The strollers in the plain
walk the length of gardens
before the doors of grey inns
through villages without churches
And the children gone before
The others follow dreaming
Each fruit tree resigns itself
When they signal from afar
They have burdens round or square
drums and golden tambourines
Apes and bears wise animals
gather coins as they progress
The Bells
(Alcools: Les Cloches)
My gipsy beau my lover
Hear the bells above us
We loved passionately
Thinking none could see us
But we so badly hidden
All the bells in their song
Saw from heights of heaven
And told it everyone
Tomorrow Cyprien Henry
Marie Ursule Catherine
The baker's wife her husband
and Gertrude that's my cousin
Will smile when I go by them
I won't know where to hide
You far and I'll be crying
Perhaps I shall be dying
The Gypsy
(Alcools: La tzigane)
The gypsy knew in advance
Our two lives star-crossed by night
We said
farewell
to her and then
from that deep well Hope began
Love heavy a performing bear
Danced upright when we wanted
And the blue bird lost his plumes
And the beggars lost their Ave
We knew quite well that we were damned
But hope of love in the street
Made us think hand in hand
Of what the Gypsy did foresee
The Sign
(Alcools: Signe)
I am bound to the King of the Sign of Autumn
Parting I love the fruits I detest the flowers
I regret every one of the kisses that I've given
Such a bitter walnut tells his grief to the showers
My Autumn eternal O my spiritual season
The hands of lost lovers juggle with your sun
A spouse follows me it's my fatal shadow
The doves take flight this evening their last one
One Evening
(Alcools: Un soir)
An eagle descends from this sky white with archangels
And you sustain me
Let them tremble a long while all these lamps
Pray pray for me
The city's metallic and it's the only star
Drowned in your blue eyes
When the tramways run spurting pale fire
Over the twittering birds
And all that trembles in your eyes of my dreams
That a lonely man drinks
Under flames of gas red like a false dawn
O clothed your arm is lifted
See the speaker stick his tongue out at the listeners
A phantom has committed suicide
The apostle of the fig-tree hangs and slowly rots
Let us play this love out then to the end
Bells with clear chimes announce your birth
See
The streets are garlanded and the palms advance
Towards thee
Moonlight
(Alcools: Clair de Lune)
Mellifluent moon on the lips of the maddened
The orchards and towns are greedy tonight
The stars appear like the image of bees
Of this luminous honey that offends the vines
For now all sweet in their fall from the sky
Each ray of moonlight's a ray of honey
Now hid I conceive the sweetest adventure
I fear stings of fire from this Polar bee
that sets these deceptive rays in my hands
And takes its moon-honey to the rose of the winds
Autumn Ill
(Alcools: Automne malade)
Autumn ill and adored
You die when the hurricane blows in the roseries
When it has snowed
In the orchard trees
Poor autumn
Dead in whiteness and riches
Of snow and ripe fruits
Deep in the sky
The sparrow hawks cry
Over the sprites with green hair the dwarfs
Who've never been loved
In the far tree-lines
the stags are groaning
And how I love O season how I love your rumbling
The falling fruits that no one gathers
The wind the forest that are tumbling
All their tears in autumn leaf by leaf
The leaves
You press
A crowd
That flows
The life
That goes
Hotels
(Alcools: Hotels)
The room is free
Each for himself
A new arrival
Pays by the month
The boss is doubtful
Whether you'll pay
Like a top
I spin on the way
The traffic noise
My neighbour gross
Who puffs an acrid
English smoke
O La Valliere
Who limps and smiles
In my prayers
The bedside table
And all the company
in this hotel
know the languages
of Babel
Let's shut our doors
With a double lock
And each adore
his lonely love
Hunting Horns
(Alcools: Cors de chasse)
Our story's noble as its tragic
like the grimace of a tyrant
no drama's chance or magic
no detail that's indifferent
makes our great love pathetic
And Thomas de Quincey drinking
Opiate poison sweet and chaste
Of his poor Anne went dreaming
We pass we pass since all must pass
Often I'll be returning
Memories are hunting horns alas
whose note along the wind is dying
Vitam Impendere Amori
(Vitam Impendere Amori: To Threaten Life for Love)
Love is dead within your arms
Do you remember his encounter
He's dead you restore the charms
He returns at your encounter
Another spring of springs gone past
I think of all its tenderness
Farewell season done at last
You'll return as tenderly
?
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Appoloinaire |
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And when this shape
Hath dropped upon the lands and burst apart,
It belches forth immeasurable might
Of
whirlwind
and of blast.
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Lucretius |
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It is
difficult
to conceive of a language in which rhyme, stress-accent,
and tone-accent would not to some extent occur.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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"
Thus sung they, in the English boat,
A holy and a
cheerful
note.
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Marvell - Poems |
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The titles
contemplated
were Limbes, or Lesbiennes.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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THE FAUN SEES SNOW FOR THE FIRST TIME
Zeus,
Brazen-thunder-hurler,
Cloud-whirler, son-of-Kronos,
Send
vengeance
on these Oreads
Who strew
White frozen flecks of mist and cloud
Over the brown trees and the tufted grass
Of the meadows, where the stream
Runs black through shining banks
Of bluish white.
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Imagists |
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The Elephant
Two Elephants
'Two Elephants'
Nicolaes de Bruyn, 1594, The Rijksmuseun
I carry treasure in my mouth,
As an
elephant
his ivory.
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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TITYRUS
Sooner shall light stags, therefore, feed in air,
The seas their fish leave naked on the strand,
Germans and
Parthians
shift their natural bounds,
And these the Arar, those the Tigris drink,
Than from my heart his face and memory fade.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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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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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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O old pagodas of my soul, how you
glittered
across green trees!
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Imagists |
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It
pervades
all.
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Poe - 5 |
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7
(Lo, high toward heaven, this day,
Libertad, from the conqueress' field return'd,
I mark the new aureola around your head,
No more of soft astral, but dazzling and fierce,
With war's flames and the lambent lightnings playing,
And your port immovable where you stand,
With still the inextinguishable glance and the clinch'd and lifted fist,
And your foot on the neck of the menacing one, the scorner utterly
crush'd beneath you,
The menacing arrogant one that strode and advanced with his
senseless
scorn, bearing the murderous knife,
The wide-swelling one, the braggart that would yesterday do so much,
To-day a carrion dead and damn'd, the despised of all the earth,
An offal rank, to the dunghill maggots spurn'd.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Nationality is excellent in its
place; and the
instinct
of self-love is the root of a man, which will
develop into sacrificial virtues.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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--She ceased, and weeping turned away,
As if because her tale was at an end
She wept;--because she had no more to say
Of that
perpetual
weight which on her spirit lay.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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I left him only two hours since
Homeward
returning
down the river,
As strong and well as if God, the Giver,
Had given him back his youth again.
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Longfellow |
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Now on yon ranks impel your foaming steeds;
And, sure of glory, dare
immortal
deeds.
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Iliad - Pope |
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"
O that
languishing
yawn!
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Lewis Carroll |
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]
Of all Wordsworth's poems this is the one most
distinctively
associated
with the Orchard, at Town-end, Grasmere.
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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Up from my pillow I
suddenly
sprang out of bed,
And threw you my clothes, all topsy-turvy.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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The moon is a flower without a stem,
The sky is luminous;
Eternity
was made for them,
To-night for us.
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Sara Teasdale |
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And the earth-born inhabitant of the Cilician
Caves seeing, I pitied, the savage monster
With a hundred heads, by force o'ercome,
Typhon impetuous, who stood 'gainst all the gods,
With frightful jaws hissing out slaughter;
And from his eyes flashed a Gorgonian light,
Utterly to destroy by force the
sovereignty
of Zeus;
But there came to him Zeus' sleepless bolt,
Descending thunder, breathing flame,
Which struck him out from lofty
Boastings.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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What Beast was't then
That made you breake this
enterprize
to me?
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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Fool, to stand here cursing
When I might be
running!
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Imagists |
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_Robert Bridges_
_April 30, 1917_
ABRAHAM LINCOLN WALKS AT MIDNIGHT
(IN SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS)
It is portentous, and a thing of state
That here at midnight, in our little town,
A
mourning
figure walks, and will not rest,
Near the old court-house pacing up and down,
Or by his homestead, or in shadowed yards
He lingers where his children used to play;
Or through the market, on the well-worn stones
He stalks until the dawn-stars burn away.
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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[L] Let Germany say what
she will, Italy is
veritably
your country * * * * * Come with haste to
restore peace to Italy.
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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Some of Petrarch's biographers date his
commencement
of
the study of Greek from the period of Barlaamo's first visit to Avignon;
but I am inclined to postpone it to 1342, when Barlaamo returned to the
west and settled at Avignon.
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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Form and face
Of womanhood
complete!
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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--
though thou wast the bane {9a} of thy
brethren
dear,
thy closest kin, whence curse of hell
awaits thee, well as thy wit may serve!
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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fruitful
in caresses and treacheries.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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[5] Also Meissner's early
Babylonian
duplicate of Book X has invariably
the same writing, see Dhorme, _Choix de Textes Religieux_, 298-303.
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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An angel had not
startled
him,
Alighted from heaven's burning rim
To breathe from glory in the Dim;
Much less a lady riding slow
Upon a palfrey white as snow,
And smooth as a snow-cloud could go.
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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[A]
"Before she was eleven she
composed
an epic on 'Marathon.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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`But tel me how, thou that woost al this matere,
How I might best
avaylen?
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Oh, I will find some artist
wondrous
wise
Shall mould for me thy shape, thine hair, thine eyes,
And lay it in thy bed; and I will lie
Close, and reach out mine arms to thee, and cry
Thy name into the night, and wait and hear
My own heart breathe: "Thy love, thy love is near.
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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* * * * *
In the above
criticisms
I feel that I may have done what critics are so
apt to do.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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The wasps
flourish
greenly
Dawn goes by round her neck
A necklace of windows
You are all the solar joys
All the sun of this earth
On the roads of your beauty.
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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How warm they were on such a day:
You almost feel the date,
So short way off it seems; and now,
They 're
centuries
from that.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Walpole, for example, who cared nothing for poetry, spent large
sums in retaining writers to defend him in the
journals
and pamphlets of
the day.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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My heart more love than your
forgetfulness!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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A suckling creature, newly ta'en
From mother's teat, still fully fain
Of nursing care; and oft caressed,
Within the arms, upon the breast,
Even as an infant, has it lain;
Or fawns and licks, by hunger pressed,
The hand that will assuage its pain;
In life's young dawn, a well-loved guest,
A
fondling
for the children's play,
A joy unto the old and gray.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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But the
_Taylor_
co?
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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He has left the village and mounted the steep,
And beneath him,
tranquil
and broad and deep,
Is the Mystic, meeting the ocean tides;
And under the alders, that skirt its edge,
Now soft on the sand, now loud on the ledge,
Is heard the tramp of his steed as he rides.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Taken from men this morning,
Carried by men to-day,
Met by the gods with banners
Who
marshalled
her away.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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In the
wandering
transparency
of your noble face
these floating animals are wonderful
I envy their candour their inexperience
Your inexperience on the bed of waters
Finds the road of love without bowing
By the road of ways
and without the talisman that reveals
your laughter at the crowd of women
and your tears no one wants.
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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t ordeyne house
of so mochel a fader {and} an
ordenour
of meyne.
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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how all this hums,
In wakeful ears, like uproar past and gone--
Like thunder clouds that spake to Babylon, 20
And set those old
Chaldeans
to their tasks.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
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We do not solicit donations in locations
where we have not
received
written confirmation of compliance.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
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Why does your tender palm
dissolve
in dew?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
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It may be expected perhaps, that the Editor should give an opinion
upon this important question; but he rather chooses, for many reasons,
to leave it to the determination of the
unprejudiced
and intelligent
Reader.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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I have no more to give, all that was mine
Is laid, a wrested tribute, at thy shrine;
Let me depart, for my whole soul is wrung,
And all my
cheerless
orisons are sung;
Let me depart, with faint limbs let me creep
To some dim shade and sink me down to sleep.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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(_The bridesmaid
whispers
in
his ear.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Aristophanes |
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It is a question whether we have ever seen the full
expression
of a
personality, except on the imaginative plane of art.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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LV
Soul of sorrow, why this
weeping?
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Sappho |
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And dost thou ask what secret woe
I bear,
corroding
Joy and Youth?
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Byron |
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I'm also pleased to view some lord
Who leads the vanguard in attack,
On armoured horse, a fearless sword,
Who can inspire his men to hack
Away and bravely fight,
And when the conflict's joined aright,
Each must in
readiness
delight,
And follow where he might,
For none attains to honour's height
Till blows have landed left and right.
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Troubador Verse |
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rura cano
rurisque
deos: his uita magistris
desueuit querna pellere glande famem:
illi compositis primum docuere tigillis
exiguam uiridi fronde operire domum:
illi etiam tauros primi docuisse feruntur
seruitium et plaustro supposuisse rotam.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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After hunger is driven away and the desire of food stayed, King Evander
speaks: 'No idle superstition that knows not the gods of old hath
ordered these our solemn rites, this
customary
feast, this altar of
august sanctity; saved from bitter perils, O Trojan guest, do we
worship, and [189-225]most due are the rites we inaugurate.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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XV _AD
AVRELIVM_
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Latin - Catullus |
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How pleased they were at what you said;
You try to touch the smile,
And dip your fingers in the frost:
When was it, can you tell,
You asked the company to tea,
Acquaintance, just a few,
And chatted close with this grand thing
That don't
remember
you?
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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WASTED HOURS
How many buds in this warm light
Have burst out
laughing
into leaves!
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Orpheus
Orpheus
'Orpheus'
Pierre -Cecile Puvis de Chavannes, French, 1824 - 1898, Yale
University
Art Gallery
His heart was the bait: the heavens were the pond!
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Appoloinaire |
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Ist es das
erstemal
in eurem Leben,
Dass Ihr falsch Zeugnis abgelegt?
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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if it
wasn't mesilf thin that was mad as a
Kilkenny
cat I shud like to be
tould who it was!
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Poe - 5 |
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All your furious forces, meeting,
Torn, entangled, and
shifting
place,
Blend like wings of eagles beating
Airy abysses, in angry embrace.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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We're dead: the souls let no man harry,
But pray that God
absolves
us all.
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Villon |
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rather why 500
Obtruded
on us thus?
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Milton |
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Wherever
sorrow is, relief would be.
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Shakespeare |
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XXVI
Nor would the damsel quit the lowly pile
(So she esteemed the youth) till he was sound;
Such pity first she felt, when him erewhile
She saw
outstretched
and bleeding on the ground.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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LIII
I
Blustering god,
Stamping
across the sky
With loud swagger,
I fear you not.
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Stephen Crane |
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But the wind without was eager and sharp,
Of Sir Launfal's gray hair it makes a harp,
And rattles and wrings
The icy strings,
Singing, in dreary monotone,
A
Christmas
carol of its own, 230
Whose burden still, as he might guess,
Was 'Shelterless, shelterless, shelterless!
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James Russell Lowell |
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I sue not for my happy crown again;
I sue not for my phalanx on the plain;
I sue not for my lone, my widow'd wife;
I sue not for my ruddy drops of life,
My
children
fair, my lovely girls and boys!
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Keats |
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The
question
is not at what door of fortune's palace
shall we enter in; but what doors does she open to us?
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Robert Forst |
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Think of that lovely and
exquisitely
mischievous
passage in the _Iliad_ called _The Cheating of
Zeus_.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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O GOODLY GOLDEN CHAINE, chivalry or
knightly
honor, the bond that unites
all the virtues.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Donations
are accepted in a number of other
ways including checks, online payments and credit card donations.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Thou liest beneath the
greenwood
tree,
I dare not die and come to thee, Oriana.
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Tennyson |
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truly 'tis a brilliant
thought!
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Aristophanes |
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She mentioned, and forgot;
Then lightly as a reed
Bent to the water,
shivered
scarce,
Consented, and was dead.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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While my
pleasure
is yet at the full, I whisper, _So long_!
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Whitman |
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Yet even they are but a making ready
For what I
perfectly
intend: in them
Joy of self-bound desire hath burnt itself
To extreme purity; I am free thereby
To work my meaning through them, my divinity.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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For a smirk of the face, or a favor,
Still
shelters
the cheat where he crawls;
And the truth we began with needs braver
Upholders, and loftier walls.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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