He chooses his text in the Book Divine,
Tenth verse of the Preacher in chapter nine:
'"Whatsoever thy hand shall find thee to do,
That do with thy whole might, or thou shalt rue;
For no man is wealthy, or wise, or brave,
In that
quencher
of might-be's and would-be's, the grave.
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"
"Rough are the steps, slow-hewn in flintiest rock,
States climb to power by;
slippery
those with gold
Down which they stumble to eternal mock:
No chafferer's hand shall long the sceptre hold,
Who, given a Fate to shape, would sell the block.
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Yea, stubborn, they stood, that hero band,
Where no soul hoped to live;
For five, 'gainst eighty thousand men,
Were
hopeless
odds to give.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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REPLACEMENT
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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There is however no
apparent
congruity
between the lines quoted (167, 8 Ed.
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Golden Treasury |
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O
spectres
busy in a cold, cold gloom!
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Keats |
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Talis, in humano si possit fiore Tideri,
£xul obi longas mens agit nsqae moras ;
Use quoque natalis meditans
cooviTia
coeli,
ETertit calices, purpureoeqoe tonn ;
Fontis stilla sacri, lucis sciutilla perennis,
Non capitar Tyria veste, yapore Sabs ;
Tola sed in proprii secedens luminis arcem,
Colligit in gyros se sinoosa breves ;
Magnonunqoe sequens animo convexa deorum,
Sidereum parvo fingit in orbe globuin.
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Marvell - Poems |
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_God's deathless
plaything
rolls an eye
Five hundred thousand cubits high.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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O how charmingly Nature hath array'd thee
With the soft green grass and juicy clover,
And with corn-flowers
blooming
and luxuriant.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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IN THOSE OLD DAYS
In those old days you were called beautiful,
But I have worn the beauty from your face;
The flowerlike bloom has
withered
on your cheek
With the harsh years, and the fire in your eyes
Burns darker now and deeper, feeding on
Beauty and the remembrance of things gone.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Light will still rise from it; millions of bright
Facets of brilliance, shaming the white
Glass of the moon,
inflaming
the night.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Sundays and
Tuesdays
he fasts and sighs,
His teeth are as sharp as the rats' below,
After dry bread, and no gateaux,
Water for soup that floats his guts along.
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Villon |
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She Who Was the Helmet-Maker's
Beautiful
Wife
'She Who Was the Helmet-Maker's Beautiful Wife'
Auguste Rodin (France, 1840 - 1917)
LACMA Collections
That's how the bon temps we regret
Among us, poor old idiots,
Squatting on our haunches, set
All in a heap like woollen lots
Round a hemp fire men forgot,
Soon kindled, and soon dust,
Once so lovely, that cocotte.
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Villon |
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Non fur piu tosto dentro a me venute
queste parole brievi, ch'io compresi
me
sormontar
di sopr' a mia virtute;
e di novella vista mi raccesi
tale, che nulla luce e tanto mera,
che li occhi miei non si fosser difesi;
e vidi lume in forma di rivera
fulvido di fulgore, intra due rive
dipinte di mirabil primavera.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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_And follow headlong, wild
uncertain
thee?
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John Donne |
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Heeding ancient advice, I leaf through the works of the Ancients
With an
assiduous
hand.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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the lark starts up from his bed in the meadow there,
Breaking the
gossamer
threads and the nets of dew,
And flashing adown the river, a flame of blue!
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Wilde - Poems |
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Can you see it still—as in an ocean Every sea-drop
sparkles
of the sea,
"Foams, and perishes—, so for a moment From each living face the dauntless, dear
Eyes of life look out at us to greet us, Shine —and hurry by into the night!
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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The most
affluent man is he that confronts all the shows he sees by equivalents out
of the
stronger
wealth of himself.
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Whitman |
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him beo, 465
he fel in
swounyng
on ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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To fade away like morning beauty from her mortal day:
Down by the river of Adona her soft voice is heard;
And thus her gentle
lamentation
falls like morning dew.
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blake-poems |
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I said to my heart, my feeble heart;
Haven't we had enough of
sadness?
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19th Century French Poetry |
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1610
Ades me plot a demorer
A la fontaine, et remirer
Les deus
cristaus
qui me monstroient
Mil choses qui ilec estoient.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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As I have often
told you, I do not in a single instance wish you, out of compliment to
me, to insert
anything
of mine.
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Robert Burns |
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The soul should always stand ajar,
That if the heaven inquire,
He will not be obliged to wait,
Or shy of
troubling
her.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Anna, I will confess it; since
Sychaeus
mine
husband met his piteous doom, and our household was shattered by a
brother's murder, he only hath [22-55]touched mine heart and stirred
the balance of my soul.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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His
enthusiasm
is too general and too vivid not
to be false.
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Poe - 5 |
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See plastic Nature working to this end,
The single atoms each to other tend,
Attract, attracted to, the next in place
Formed and impelled its
neighbour
to embrace.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Copyright
laws in most countries are in
a constant state of change.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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The Bard whom pilfer'd Pastorals renown,
Who turns a Persian tale for half a Crown,
Just writes to make his
barrenness
appear,
And strains, from hard-bound brains, eight lines a year; 180
He, who still wanting, tho' he lives on theft,
Steals much, spends little, yet has nothing left:
And He, who now to sense, now nonsense leaning,
Means not, but blunders round about a meaning:
And He, whose fustian's so sublimely bad, 185
It is not Poetry, but prose run mad:
All these, my modest Satire bade _translate_,
And own'd that nine such Poets made a _Tate_.
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Alexander Pope |
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All at once I
thought I saw a great gate, and we entered the
courtyard
of our house.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Torn is each virtue from its earthly throne
By sloth, intemperance, and voluptuous ease;
E'en nature
deviates
from her wonted ways,
Too much the slave of vicious custom grown.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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But now so many candidates for fame
In countless crowds and gay
confusion
came,
That Memory seem'd her province to resign,
Perplex'd and lost amid the lengthen'd line.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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I feel the tremblings of all passions known
To ships before the breeze;
Cradled by gentle winds, or tempest-blown
I pass the abysmal seas
That are, when calm, the mirror level and fair
Of my
despair!
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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The sharp sides of the peaks are finger'd white
With flame, lit by the fires of God beyond;
The rest is night; the whole people of dark hills
A front of high
impenetrable
doom.
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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XLII
"The ladies share one common bed that night,
Their bed the same, but
different
their repose.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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What if I file this mortal off,
See where it hurt me, -- that 's enough, --
And wade in
liberty?
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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A friend to lift the curtain up
That hides from man the mortal goal,
And with glad
thoughts
of faith and hope
Surprise the exulting soul.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Fortunate
they
Who, though once only and then but far away,
Have heard her massive sandal set on stone.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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SAS}
First he beheld the body of Man pale, cold, the horrors of death
Beneath his feet shot thro' him as he stood in the Human Brain
And all its golden porches grew pale with his sickening light
No more Exulting for he saw Eternal Death beneath
Pale he beheld futurity; pale he beheld the Abyss
Where Enion blind & age bent wept in direful hunger craving
All rav'ning like the hungry worm, & like the silent grave
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Mighty was the draught of Voidness to draw
Existence
in
Terrific Urizen strode above, in fear & pale dismay
He saw the indefinite space beneath & his soul shrunk with horror
His feet upon the verge of Non Existence; his voice went forth {According to Erdman, this line was at one time followed by a line that has been erased.
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Blake - Zoas |
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[Illustration]
There was an Old Person of Rhodes,
Who
strongly
objected to toads;
He paid several cousins to catch them by dozens,
That futile Old Person of Rhodes.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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The Good God and the Evil God
The Good God and the Evil God met on the
mountain
top.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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I love and fear naught more than her,
I would receive the bitterest dart,
If only it gave my lady pleasure;
For it seems like Christmas Day
If her sweet
spiritual
eyes should stray
Towards me: yet so infrequently,
That each day's like a hundred to me!
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Troubador Verse |
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VIII*
Till, by
vicinity
so long,
A nearer way they sought,
And, grown magnetically strong.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Now, the seven
families
who lived on the borders of the great Lake
Pipple-Popple were as follows in the next chapter.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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It is also in keeping that the contest should
have a half-grotesque and half-ghastly touch, the grapple amid the graves
and the
cracking
ribs.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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be your sighs the gale,
The smiting of your brows the plash of oars,
Wafting the boat, to Acheron's dim shores
That passeth ever, with its darkened sail,
On its uncharted voyage and sunless way,
Far from thy beams, Apollo, god of day--
The
melancholy
bark
Bound for the common bourn, the harbour of the dark!
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Aeschylus |
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my
heedless
feet from under
Slip the crumbling banks for ever:
Like echoes to a distant thunder,
They plunge into the gentle river.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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And Betty, half an hour ago,
On Johnny vile
reflections
cast;
"A little idle sauntering thing!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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I saw the same,
Fluttering, and
uttering
fearful moan,
Among the green herbs in the forest alone.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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so deeply that
purity emerges from
the
corruption!
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Third Self: And what of me, the love-ridden self, the flaming brand
of wild passion and
fantastic
desires?
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Canst, and unurged, forsake that larded fare,
Which art, not nature, makes so rare;
To taste boil'd nettles, coleworts, beets, and eat
These, and sour herbs, as dainty meat:--
While soft opinion makes thy Genius say,
'Content makes all ambrosia;'
Nor is it that thou keep'st this stricter size
So much for want, as exercise;
To numb the sense of dearth, which, should sin haste it,
Thou might'st but only see't, not taste it;
Yet can thy humble roof maintain a quire
Of singing
crickets
by thy fire;
And the brisk mouse may feast herself with crumbs,
Till that the green-eyed kitling comes;
Then to her cabin, blest she can escape
The sudden danger of a rape.
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Robert Herrick |
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A public domain book is one that was never subject to
copyright
or whose legal copyright term has expired.
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Meredith - Poems |
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One gallant steed is
stretched
a mangled corse;
Another, hideous sight!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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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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Among the seven or eight hundred thousand who
have had Irish from the cradle, there is, perhaps, nobody who has not
enough of the
unwritten
tradition to know good verses from bad ones, if
he have enough mother-wit.
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Yeats |
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Unto the hero whose
countenance
was turned away,
unto Gilgamish like a god
he became for him a fellow.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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--Justice,
Admitting
no resistance, bends alike
The feeble and the strong.
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William Wordsworth |
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and leap'st my gate,
And, long ere Love could follow, thou hadst passed
Within and snatched away, how fast, how fast,
My bird -- wit, songs, and all -- thy richest freight
Since that fell time when in some wink of fate
Thy yellow claws
unsheathed
and stretched, and cast
Sharp hold on Keats, and dragged him slow away,
And harried him with hope and horrid play --
Ay, him, the world's best wood-bird, wise with song --
Till thou hadst wrought thine own last mortal wrong.
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Sidney Lanier |
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That you would see every object with and through your lost brother,
and that that would at last become a real and everlasting source of
comfort to you, I felt, and well knew, from my own experience in
sorrow; but till you yourself began to feel this, I did not dare to
tell you so; but I send you some poor lines, which I wrote under this
conviction
of mind, and before I heard Coleridge was returning home.
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| Question: |
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William Wordsworth |
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Strong
thoughts
fill you, and confidence--you smile!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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Horace did so highly esteem Terence's comedies,
as he
ascribes
the art in comedy to him alone among the Latins, and joins
him with Menander.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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- You provide, in
accordance
with paragraph 1.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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What
sickness
shall I say has lighted on thee,
So that thou canst not come?
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| Question: |
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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- You provide, in accordance with
paragraph
1.
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| Question: |
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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His passion, cruel grown, took on a hue
Fierce and
sanguineous
as 'twas possible
In one whose brow had no dark veins to swell.
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Keats - Lamia |
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As, in your field, I plant I lose no grain,
For the harvest
resembles
me, and ever
God orders me to plough, and sow again:
Even for this end are we come together.
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Villon |
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Unless it came as a woman at whose beauty
His lust hath never sipt; for into his flesh
To drink unknown desirable limbs as wine
Torments him still, like a thirst when fever pours
A man's life out in
drenching
sweats.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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But it's to Bacchus, the sensuous dreamer, Cythera sends glances
Bathed in
sweetest
desire--even in marble they're damp.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Continued
use of this site implies consent to that usage.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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_ B)
_capiti_
?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
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The Loir is a
tributary
of the larger Loire, in the Vendomois.
| Guess: |
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Ronsard |
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Wachusett, a view of, 138;
range, the, 139;
ascent of, 142;
birds or
vegetation
on summit of, 143;
night on, 145, 146;
an observatory, 147.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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"
Then slow raise Marjory o' the Lochs,
And
wrinkled
was her brow,
Her ancient weed was russet gray,
Her auld Scots bluid was true;
"There's some great folk set light by me,
I set as light by them;
But I will send to London town
Wham I like best at hame.
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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216 [E] & al
bigrauen
with grene, in gracios[1] werkes;
A lace lapped aboute, ?
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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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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As whanne a tempeste vexethe soare the coaste,
The
dyngeynge
ounde the sandeie stronde doe tare,
So dyd I inne the warre the javlynne toste,
Full meynte a champyonnes breaste received mie spear.
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Begin the
mournful
stave,
Melpomene, to whom the Sire of all
Sweet voice with music gave.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Ye distant spires, ye antique towers
That crown the wat'ry glade,
Where
grateful
Science still adores
Her Henry's holy shade;
And ye, that from the stately brow
Of Windsor's heights th' expanse below
Of grove, of lawn, of mead survey,
Whose turf, whose shade, whose flowers among
Wanders the hoary Thames along
His silver-winding way:
Ah happy hills!
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Golden Treasury |
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Meredith - Poems |
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On our return,
sheltered
under the hollies during
a hail shower.
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Now know I how the mind itself doth part
(Now making peace, now war, now truce)--what art
Poor lovers use to hide their stinging woe:
And how their blood now comes, and now doth go
Betwixt their heart and cheeks, by shame or fear:
How they be eloquent, yet speechless are;
And how they both ways lean, they watch and sleep,
Languish
to death, yet life and vigour keep:
I trod the paths made happy by her feet,
And search the foe I am afraid to meet.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Relations
between the two peoples
have been strained before.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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He sees the churchyard slabs beyond,
Where country neighbours lie,
Their brief renown set lowly down;
_His_ name
assaults
the sky.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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NEATH
trembling
tree tops to and fro we wander
Along the beech-grove, nearly to the bower,
And see within the silent meadow yonder,
The almond tree a second time in flower.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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- To the Azure that October stirred, pale, pure,
That in the vast pools mirrors
infinite
languor,
And over dead water where the leaves wander
The wind, in russet throes dig their cold furrow,
Allows a long ray of yellow light to flow.
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In this incident Spenser
imitates
Ariosto, _Orlando
Furioso_, vi, 26, in which Ruggiero addresses a myrtle which bleeds and
cries out with pain.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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That King fears God, and would do His service,
On water then Bishops their
blessing
speak,
And pagans bring into the baptistry.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Great streets of silence led away
To
neighborhoods
of pause;
Here was no notice, no dissent,
No universe, no laws.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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"Do
"You know
nothing?
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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The azure vault in silver
shimmers
soft,
A dewy breeze with fragrance soars aloft.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Note: The ballade was written for Robert to present to his wife Ambroise de Lore, as though
composed
by him.
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Villon |
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The naked Hulk
alongside
came
And the Twain were playing dice;
"The Game is done!
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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But
stronger
again
Than brass
Sovereign lines remain.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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