Famed in close fight, and dreadful face to face:
Now call to mind your ancient
trophies
won,
Your great forefathers' virtues, and your own.
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How superior it
is in these respects to the pear, whose blossoms are neither colored
nor
fragrant!
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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I saw thee sit there in
disconsolate
sighs,
Where the hall of thy fathers a ruined heap lies.
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You've stolen away that great power
My beauty
ordained
for me
Over priests and clerks, my hour,
When never a man I'd see
Would fail to offer his all in fee,
Whatever remorse he'd later show,
But what was abandoned readily,
Beggars now scorn to know.
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Villon |
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Some hopes they gave, but it could not be soon;
In short a year he lay upon the floor:
Just food for life received, and nothing more,
Each day on bread and water he was fed,
And o'er his back the cat-o'nine-tails spread:
Full twenty lashes were the number set,
Unless the friar should from Heav'n first get
Permission
to remit at times a part,
For charity was glowing in his heart.
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La Fontaine |
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If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this
agreement
violates the
law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be
interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by
the applicable state law.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Cheetah
I
remember
a slice of lemon, and a bitten macaroon.
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T.S. Eliot |
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'
Pandare gan him thonke, and to him seyde, 1415
`Lo, sire, I have a lady in this toun,
That is my nece, and called is Criseyde,
Which some men wolden doon oppressioun,
And
wrongfully
have hir possessioun:
Wherfor I of your lordship yow biseche 1420
To been our freend, with-oute more speche.
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It's The Sweet Law Of Men
It's the sweet law of men
They make wine from grapes
They make fire from coal
They make men from kisses
It's the true law of men
Kept intact despite
the misery and war
despite danger of death
It's the warm law of men
To change water to light
Dream to reality
Enemies to friends
A law old and new
That
perfects
itself
From the child's heart's depths
To reason's heights.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Newby
Chief
Executive
and Director
gbnewby@pglaf.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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At Midnight
Now at last I have come to see what life is,
Nothing is ever ended, everything only begun,
And the brave
victories
that seem so splendid
Are never really won.
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Sara Teasdale |
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and all
For our sake, for the lives she hath in scorn,
This horrible
Assyrian
risk she ventures.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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--
Rips up your
toughest
sail
And tears your anchor-hold.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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LV
Softly he stroked the child, who lay outstretched
With face to earth; and, as the boy turned round
His battered head, a groan the Sailor fetched
As if he saw--there and upon that ground-- 490
Strange
repetition
of the deadly wound
He had himself inflicted.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Aye, let her scatter far and wide
Her terror, where the land-lock'd waves
Europe from Afric's shore divide,
Where
swelling
Nile the corn-field laves--
Of strength more potent to disdain
Hid gold, best buried in the mine,
Than gather it with hand profane,
That for man's greed would rob a shrine.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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_ I have
followed
the MSS.
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John Donne |
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Return O
Wanderer
when the Day of Clouds is oer
So saying he sunk down into the sea a pale white corse*
{this and the following 2 lines appear written over an erased strata LFS} So saying In torment he sunk down & flowd among her filmy Wooft
His Spectre issuing from his feet in flames of fire
In dismal gnawing pain drawn out by her lovd fingers every nerve t
She counted.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Oh, with what
patience
I have tried to win
The favour of the hostess of the Inn!
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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"
Then with his sable brow he gave the nod
That seals his word; the
sanction
of the god.
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Iliad - Pope |
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You'd only hear my voice and see my eyes And the remembrance of old ecstasies Awakening within you solemn-grand
Would flood my words; you would forget my hand Lay tremulous on yours, you would arise
And go from me as night when silence dies
And dawn and
shouting
harrow all the land.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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The Project Gutenberg eBook,
Nonsense
Books, by Edward Lear
This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
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Lear - Nonsense |
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He warmed waters to bathe our feet, 32 and cut paper
streamers
to call back our souls.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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PERSONAE.
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Byron |
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Imagists |
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KAU}
Of God clothed in Luvahs garments little knowest thou
Of death Eternal that we all go to Eternal Death
To our Primeval Chaos in fortuitous concourse of incoherent
Discordant principles of Love & Hate I suffer
affliction
Because I love for I am I was love & but hatred awakes in me
And Urizen who was Faith & Certainty is changd to Doubt
The hand of Urizen is upon me because I blotted out
That Human terror delusion to deliver all the sons of God
From bondage of the Human form, O first born Son of Light
O Urizen my enemy I weep for thy stern ambition
But weep in vain O when will you return Vala the Wanderer
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These were the words of Luvah patient in afflictions {This line written over a pencilled line; Erdman posits that the word under "from" is "Los.
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Blake - Zoas |
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June Night
Oh Earth, you are too dear to-night,
How can I sleep while all around
Floats rainy
fragrance
and the far
Deep voice of the ocean that talks to the ground?
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Sara Teasdale |
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It slopes gently,
either
directly
from the shore or from the edge of an interval, till,
at the distance of about a mile, it attains the height of four or five
hundred feet.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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HIS RETURN TO LONDON
From the dull confines of the drooping west,
To see the day spring from the
pregnant
east,
Ravish'd in spirit, I come, nay more, I fly
To thee, blest place of my nativity!
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Robert Herrick |
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Another young man, who was in love with the girl, grew jealous
of the monk, who was allowed to converse so familiarly with her, whilst
he, her lay admirer, could only have stolen
glimpses
of her as she
passed to church or to public spectacles.
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Petrarch |
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We have few moments in the longest life
Of such delight and wonder as there grew,--
Nor yet unsuited to that solitude:
A burst of joy, as if we told the fact
To ears intelligent; as if gray rock
And cedar grove and cliff and lake should know
This feat of wit, this triumph of mankind;
As if we men were talking in a vein
Of
sympathy
so large, that ours was theirs,
And a prime end of the most subtle element
Were fairly reached at last.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Oh, gentle face, radiant with happy smile,
And eager
prattling
tongue that knows no guile,
Quick changing tears and bliss;
Thy soul expands to catch this new world's light,
Thy mazed eyes to drink each wondrous sight,
Thy lips to taste the kiss.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Till
Darkness
and silence of the hill
Received her in their restful care
And stars came dropping through the air.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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(fourth century)
Green rushes with red shoots,
Long leaves bending to the wind--
You and I in the same boat
Plucking
rushes at the Five Lakes.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Half-past two,
The street-lamp said,
"Remark the cat which
flattens
itself in the gutter,
Slips out its tongue
And devours a morsel of rancid butter.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Nor am I
So ill to look on: lately on the beach
I saw myself, when winds had stilled the sea,
And, if that mirror lie not, would not fear
Daphnis to challenge, though
yourself
were judge.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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With difficulty they gain entrance to the cottage of Corceca and her
daughter Abessa, the
paramour
of Kirkrapine.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Many men
schullen
turne; to yuel, men may drede, 285
ffor on er?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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who has lighted up reason in my breast, and
blessed me with
immortality!
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Robert Burns |
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The
reminiscence
comes
Of sunless dry geraniums
And dust in crevices,
Smells of chestnuts in the streets
And female smells in shuttered rooms
And cigarettes in corridors
And cocktail smells in bars.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Botte doe reste mee uponne mie AElla's breaste;
I wylle to thee bewryen the
woefulle
gare.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Shall it be offensively or
defensively?
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Now rest in peace, our patriot band;
Though far from Nature's limits thrown,
We trust they find a happier land,
A brighter
sunshine
of their own.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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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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Not falsely to
constrain!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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"
I thus inquiring; he forthwith replied:
"If I have power to show one truth, soon that
Shall face thee, which thy
questioning
declares
Behind thee now conceal'd.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Lucilius was the
earliest
satirist whose works
were held in esteem under the Caesars.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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let me not perish now,
In the budding of my
Paradisal
Hope!
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Poe - 5 |
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Yet force of wind must not be rashly deemed
As altogether and
entirely
cold--
That force which is discharged from on high
With such stupendous power; but if 'tis not
Upon its course already kindled with fire,
It yet arriveth warmed and mixed with heat.
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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LXIII
I Hoed and
trenched
and weeded,
And took the flowers to fair:
I brought them home unheeded;
The hue was not the wear.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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was not successful in
composition
in the evening.
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William Wordsworth |
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for whensoe'er the sire
Breathed forth rebellious fire--
What time his household overflowed the measure
Of bliss and health and treasure--
His children's children read the
reckoning
plain,
At last, in tears and pain.
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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A similar
criticism
might be made of their liberty in neglecting Goethe's
method of alternating different measures with each other.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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[91] You
dare to compare
yourself
to Themistocles, who found our city half empty
and left it full to overflowing, who one day gave us the Piraeus for
dinner,[92] and added fresh fish to all our usual meals.
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Aristophanes |
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Then we said,
"Our feast, too, shall soon be spread,
Of good
Thanksgiving
turkey.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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ergo postque
magisque
uiri nunc gloria claret.
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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- You provide, in accordance with
paragraph
1.
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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--The
clepsydra
was a kind of
water-clock; the other vessel is compared to it, because of the liquid in
it.
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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I shunned his eyes, that
faithful
man's,
I shunned the toiling Hassan's glance.
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Emerson - Poems |
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'
The much-moved pathos of her voice,
Her almost tearful eyes, her cheek
Grown pale,
confessed
the strength of love
Which only made her speak: 160
For mild she was, of few soft words,
Most gentle, easy to be led,
Content to listen when I spoke
And reverence what I said;
I elder sister by six years;
Not half so glad, or wise, or good:
Her words rebuked my secret self
And shamed me where I stood.
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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5
LIBATION
By
Marjorie
Allen Seiffert .
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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And then and then came Spring, and Rose-in-hand
My thread-bare
Penitence
apieces tore.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Nick, Nick, iron
nightcap!
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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At noonday tumbled
Leaflets,
changing
with delight upon your lips,
And as you slept there played with you, bunches,
bushes,
Billows of roses.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Love now is paramount my heart to bind,
And, save that with desire
increases
hope,
Dead should I lie alive where I would dwell.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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" This granted (and to
Coleridge
it is essential that it should be
granted, for in less than the infinite he cannot find space in which to use
his wings freely) he has only to choose and define, to discover and to
illuminate.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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" men shall ask,
When the world is old, and time
Has
accomplished
without haste
The strange destiny of men.
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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"
So the hand of the child, automatic,
Slipped out and
pocketed
a toy that was running along
the quay.
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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The warlike Angel mov'd,
Disdainfully
half smiling thus repli'd.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
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Then was my error when the old way quite
Of liberty was bann'd and barr'd to me:
He follows ill who pleases but his sight:
To its own harm my soul ran wild and free,
Now doom'd at others' will to wait and wend;
Because that once it
ventured
to offend.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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_ You rightly anticipate me; for it is a good sign,
as
physicians
well know, when Nature exerts herself and resists
the malady.
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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It is there a
beautiful
river, with its green
banks and flat holms scattered over with trees.
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| Question: |
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William Wordsworth |
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Hope, hallie suster,
sweepeynge
thro' the skie,
In crowne of goulde, and robe of lillie whyte, 390
Whyche farre abrode ynne gentle ayre doe flie,
Meetynge from dystaunce the enjoyous fyghte,
Albeytte efte thou takest thie hie flyghte
Hecket[65] ynne a myste, and wyth thyne eyne yblente,
Nowe commest thou to mee wythe starrie lyghte; 395
Ontoe thie veste the rodde sonne ys adente[66];
The Sommer tyde, the month of Maie appere,
Depycte wythe skylledd honde upponn thie wyde aumere.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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O my
Ulysses!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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XXX
As the sown field its fresh greenness shows,
From that greenness the green shoot is born,
From the shoot there flowers an ear of corn,
From the ear, yellow grain, sun-ripened glows:
And as, in due season, the farmer mows
The waving locks, from the gold furrow shorn
Lays them in lines, and to the light of dawn
On the bare field, a thousand sheaves he shows:
So the Roman Empire grew by degrees,
Till barbarous power brought it to its knees,
Leaving only these ancient ruins behind,
That all and sundry pillage: as those who glean,
Following step by step, the
leavings
find,
That after the farmer's passage may be seen.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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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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| Source: |
Villon |
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O could a girl not nestle snug and happy
Against a neck, with such hair
covering
her!
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Mine arms enfold
That, which
unswayed
by me grew up and bloomed
To other worlds:
Mine own, and yet so infinitely far.
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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(C)
Copyright
2000-2016 A.
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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I omit quoting any
of the dull epigrams
ascribed
to Homer for, as Mr.
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Iliad - Pope |
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We must know the circumstances
that shaped these, and the motives that
inspired
them.
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Alexander Pope |
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Doctor
Ponnonner
thrust his
hands into his breeches' pockets, looked hard at the Mummy, and grew
excessively red in the face.
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Poe - 5 |
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Rome, of cities first and best,
Deigns by her sons'
according
voice to hail me
Fellow-bard of poets blest,
And faint and fainter envy's growls assail me.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Along the reaches of the street
Held in a lunar synthesis,
Whispering lunar incantations
Disolve the floors of memory
And all its clear relations,
Its divisions and precisions,
Every street lamp that I pass
Beats like a
fatalistic
drum,
And through the spaces of the dark
Midnight shakes the memory
As a madman shakes a dead geranium.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Helas, Lui, comme
Mille anges blancs qui se separent sur la route,
S'eloigne par dela la
montagne!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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The winners ate with relish; the losers, on the
contrary, pushed back their plates and sat
brooding
gloomily.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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"
MENALCAS
"As moisture to the corn, to ewes with young
Lithe willow, as arbute to the
yeanling
kids,
So sweet Amyntas, and none else, to me.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
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Tennyson |
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"
Spirits in wing, and angels to the view,
A thousand seraphs burst th' Empyrean thro',
Young dreams still
hovering
on their drowsy flight--
Seraphs in all but "Knowledge," the keen light
That fell, refracted, thro' thy bounds, afar
O Death!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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'At Dawn I Love You'
At dawn I love you I've the whole night in my veins
All night I have gazed at you
I've all to divine I am certain of shadows
They give me the power
To envelop you
To stir your desire to live
At my
motionless
core
The power to reveal you
To free you to lose you
Invisible flame in the day.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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VI
Heaven, you say, will be a field in April,
A
friendly
field, a long green wave of earth,
With one domed cloud above it.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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7 and any
additional terms imposed by the
copyright
holder.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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e;
Warloker
to haf wro3t had more wyt bene,
& haf dy3t 3onder dere a duk to haue wor?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Thus to the chiefest city all were led,
Entering the temple which Sulpicia made
Sacred; it drives all madness from the mind;
And chastity's pure temple next we find,
Which in brave souls doth modest
thoughts
beget,
Not by plebeians enter'd, but the great
Patrician dames; there were the spoils display'd
Of the fair victress; there her palms she laid,
And did commit them to the Tuscan youth,
Whose marring scars bear witness of his truth:
With others more, whose names I fully knew,
(My guide instructed me,) that overthrew
The power of Love: 'mongst whom, of all the rest,
Hippolytus and Joseph were the best.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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This music is
successful
with a "dying fall"
Now that we talk of dying--
And should I have the right to smile?
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T.S. Eliot |
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And I said, "I will seek that city and the
blessedness
thereof.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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And, what's more, when sorrow's beating
Down on me, through Fate's
incessant
rage,
Your sweet glance its malice is assuaging,
Nor more or less than wind blows smoke away.
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Villon |
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'Tis the merry Nightingale
That crowds, and hurries, and precipitates
With fast thick warble his
delicious
notes,
As he were fearful that an April night
Would be too short for him to utter forth
His love-chant, and disburthen his full soul
Of all its music!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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