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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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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LFS}
Sometimes I think thou art fruit breaking from its bud
In dreadful dolor & pain & I am like an atom
A Nothing left in
darkness
yet I am an identity
I wish & feel & weep & groan Ah terrible terrible
PAGE 5 In Beulah Eden,Females sleep the winter in soft silken veils*
{First 8 lines inserted over a deleted strata LFS} Woven by their own hands to hide them in the darksom grave
But Males immortal live renewd by female deaths.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Send me far into Thy barren land
Where the snow clouds the wild wind drives,
Where
monasteries
like gray shrouds stand--
August symbols of unlived lives.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Richard the old, lead them in th'field he shall,
He'll strike hard there with his good
trenchant
lance.
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Chanson de Roland |
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G
[522] 17 you to go 1716, W
[523] 35 _Provedore_ 1716
provedore
W provedore G
[524] 43 Usher 1716 usher W, G
[525] 47 Sometime 1692, 1716, W
[526] 55 EV.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Now it passed into power of the people's king,
best of all that the oceans bound
who have
scattered
their gold o'er Scandia's isle.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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with such various
faculties
endued
To think, write, speak, to read, to see, to hear;
My doting eyes!
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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You brought me even here, where I
Live on a hill against the sky
And look on
mountains
and the sea
And a thin white moon in the pepper tree.
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Tennyson |
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The sabbath bells, and their delightful chime;
The gambols and wild freaks at
shearing
time;
My hen's rich nest through long grass scarce espied;
The cowslip-gathering at May's dewy prime;
The swans, that, when I sought the water-side,
From far to meet me came, spreading their snowy pride.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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I will not be
pursued!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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WHOis she coming, that the roses bend
Their
shameless
heads to do her honour ?
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Poe - 5 |
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From imperfection's
murkiest
cloud,
Darts always forth one ray of perfect light,
One flash of heaven's glory.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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"
Far and faint, yet each moment clearer,
Straight
as an arrow down the sound,
An old-time freighter is drawing nearer, "City of Taunton" westward bound.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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)
Bestows one final
patronising
kiss,
And gropes his way, finding the stairs unlit .
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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At the violet hour, when the eyes and back
Turn upward from the desk, when the human engine waits
Like a taxi throbbing waiting,
I Tiresias, though blind, throbbing between two lives,
Old man with
wrinkled
female breasts, can see
At the violet hour, the evening hour that strives 220
Homeward, and brings the sailor home from sea,
The typist home at teatime, clears her breakfast, lights
Her stove, and lays out food in tins.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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A tiny box of nard shall bring to light
The cask that in
Sulpician
cellar lies:
O, it can give new hopes, so fresh and bright,
And gladden gloomy eyes.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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How few of the others,
Are men
equipped
with common sense.
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Villon |
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On
these despicable Sybarites{*} the North poured her brave and hardy sons,
who, though
ignorant
of polite literature, were possessed of all the
manly virtues in a high degree.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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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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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Or, if a
merchant
in pursuit of gain,
What port received thy vessel from the main?
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Odyssey - Pope |
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[31] What bands
Could I devise for thee among the Gods,
Should Mars,
emancipated
once, escape,
Leaving both debt and durance, far behind?
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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According to Donne's medical science the scorpion (probably its flesh)
was an antidote to its own poison: 'I have as many Antidotes as the
Devill hath poisons, I have as much mercy as the Devill hath malice;
There must be scorpions in the world; _but the
Scorpion
shall cure the
Scorpion_; there must be tentations; but tentations shall adde to mine
and to thy glory, and _Eripiam_, I will deliver thee.
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John Donne |
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BRANDER:
Aber wie war es mit den
Trauben?
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Praying or
parleying?
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Did you show such
harshness
to my father
That conquered you might know your conqueror?
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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But there were those amongst us all
Who walked with
downcast
head,
And knew that, had each got his due,
They should have died instead:
He had but killed a thing that lived,
Whilst they had killed the dead.
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Wilde - Poems |
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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.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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I
remained at an inn, while
Saveliitch
went out to get what he wanted.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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One of high lineage,
In whom is every beauty,
I love, am loved by her deeply;
And she grants me courage,
So I'll not
superseded
be
By some other, presumptuously.
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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SAMSON: Can they think me so broken, so debased
With corporal servitude, that my mind ever
Will condescend to such absurd
commands?
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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þurh
wæteres
wylm,
1694; acc.
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Beowulf |
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")
My morning coat, my collar
mounting
firmly to the chin,
My necktie rich and modest, but asserted by a simple pin--
(They will say: "But how his arms and legs are thin!
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T.S. Eliot |
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When I speak of her also
You'll quickly judge I care
Seeing my
laughter
grow.
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Troubador Verse |
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And I have known the eyes already, known them all--
The eyes that fix you in a formulated phrase,
And when I am formulated,
sprawling
on a pin,
When I am pinned and wriggling on the wall,
Then how should I begin
To spit out all the butt-ends of my days and ways?
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T.S. Eliot |
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The underwritten Lines were composed by JOHN LADGATE, a Priest in
London, and sent to ROWLIE, as an Answer to the
preceding
_Songe of
AElla_.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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These in the flame with
ceaseless
groans deplore
The ambush of the horse, that open'd wide
A portal for that goodly seed to pass,
Which sow'd imperial Rome; nor less the guile
Lament they, whence of her Achilles 'reft
Deidamia yet in death complains.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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How would, I say, mine eyes be blessed made
By looking on thee in the living day,
When in dead night thy fair
imperfect
shade
Through heavy sleep on sightless eyes doth stay!
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Alexander Pope |
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I leaned to catch the words he said
That were light as a
snowflake
falling;
Ah well that he never leaned to hear
The words my heart was calling.
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Sara Teasdale |
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'Twas my delight to watch your will,
And mark you point with finger-tips
To help your spelling out a word;
To see the pearls between your lips
When I your joyous
laughter
heard;
Your honest brows that looked so true,
And said "Oh, yes!
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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One thought thus parleys with my
troubled
mind--
"What still do you desire, whence succour wait?
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Petrarch |
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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One
has now to search for the very names of most of the popular
authors of Pushkin's day and rummage
biographical
dictionaries
for the dates of their births and deaths.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Our Life
We'll not reach the goal one by one but in pairs
We know in pairs we will know all about us
We'll love everything our children will smile
At the dark history or mourn alone
Uninterrupted Poetry
From the sea to the source
From mountain to plain
Runs the phantom of life
The foul shadow of death
But between us
A dawn of ardent flesh is born
And exact good
that sets the earth in order
We advance with calm step
And nature salutes us
The day
embodies
our colours
Fire our eyes the sea our union
And all living resemble us
All the living we love
Imaginary the others
Wrong and defined by their birth
But we must struggle against them
They live by dagger blows
They speak like a broken chair
Their lips tremble with joy
At the echo of leaden bells
At the muteness of dark gold
A lone heart not a heart
A lone heart all the hearts
And the bodies every star
In a sky filled with stars
In a career in movement
Of light and of glances
Our weight shines on the earth
Glaze of desire
To sing of human shores
For you the living I love
And for all those that we love
That have no desire but to love
I'll end truly by barring the road
Afloat with enforced dreams
I'll end truly by finding myself
We'll take possession of earth
Index of First Lines
I speak to you over cities
Easy and beautiful under
Between all my torments between death and self
She is standing on my eyelids
In one corner agile incest
For the splendour of the day of happinesses in the air
After years of wisdom
Run and run towards deliverance
Life is truly kind
What's become of you why this white hair and pink
A face at the end of the day
By the road of ways
All the trees all their branches all of their leaves
Adieu Tristesse
Woman I've lived with
Fertile Eyes
I said it to you for the clouds
It's the sweet law of men
The curve of your eyes embraces my heart
On my notebooks from school
I have passed the doors of coldness
I am in front of this feminine land
We'll not reach the goal one by one but in pairs
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Thus, Woman, Principle of Life, Speaker of the Ideal
'You Rise the Water Unfolds'
I Only Wish to Love You
The World is Blue As an Orange
We Have Created the Night
Even When We Sleep
To Marc Chagall
Air Vif
Certitude
We two
'At Dawn I Love You'
'She Looks Into Me.
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The
stillness
spreads of Death abroad--down come the temple posts,
Their molten bronze is coursing fast and joins with silver waves
To leap with hiss of thousand snakes where Tiber writhes and raves.
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Thou shall not streyne me a del,
Ne enforce me, ne [yit] me trouble,
To make my
confessioun
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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"THE SUNSHINE OF THINE EYES"
The
sunshine
of thine eyes,
(O still, celestial beam!
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Down plumbed the shuttled ledger, and the quill
On the
quicksilver
water lay dead still.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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IV
No War, or
Battails
sound
Was heard the World around,
The idle spear and shield were high up hung;
The hooked Chariot stood
Unstain'd with hostile blood,
The Trumpet spake not to the armed throng,
And Kings sate still with awfull eye,
As if they surely knew their sovran Lord was by.
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Milton |
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The clock is on the stroke of one;
But neither Doctor nor his guide
Appear along the
moonlight
road,
There's neither horse nor man abroad,
And Betty's still at Susan's side.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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"Begin, my flute, with me
Maenalian
lays.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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CXVI
Of these, some will the crowded rabble's band
(Too late repentant of the feat) befriend:
Those,
favouring
not the natives of the land
More than the foreigners, to part them wend.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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LA MALINE
Dans la salle a manger brune, que parfumait
Une odeur de vernis et de fruits, a mon aise
Je
ramassais
un plat de je ne sais quel met
Belge, et je m'epatais dans mon immense chaise.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Our task be now thy treasured stores to save,
Deep in the close
recesses
of the cave;
Then future means consult.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Bestows one final
patronising
kiss,
And gropes his way, finding the stairs unlit .
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Like mighty
footlights
burned the red
At bases of the trees, --
The far theatricals of day
Exhibiting to these.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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e iles of
Anglesay
on lyft half he halde3,
& fare3 ouer ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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The Serpent
The Fall
'The Fall'
Anonymous,
Hieronymus
Cock, c.
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Appoloinaire |
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Some prepare warm water in cauldrons bubbling over the
flames, and wash and anoint the chill body, and make their moan; then,
their weeping done, lay his limbs on the pillow, and spread over it
crimson raiment, the
accustomed
pall.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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["I am at this moment," says Burns to Thomson, when he sent him this
song, "holding high
converse
with the Muses, and have not a word to
throw away on a prosaic dog, such as you are.
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Robert Forst |
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Then spake the elder Consul,
And ancient man and wise:
"Now harken,
Conscript
Fathers,
To that which I advise.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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In every quarter fierce Tydides raged;
Amid the Greek, amid the Trojan train,
Rapt through the ranks he thunders o'er the plain;
Now here, now there, he darts from place to place,
Pours on the rear, or
lightens
in their face.
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Iliad - Pope |
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His
grandeur
we will try for,
His name we 'll live and die for--
The name of Washington!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Slowly descending, with
majestic
tread,
Three flights of steps, nor looking left nor right,
Down the long street he walked, as one who said,
"A town that boasts inhabitants like me
Can have no lack of good society!
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Longfellow |
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the old
Virginia
gentry gather to the baying!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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"We call it," replied the cripple, "the Eight Chained Ourang-Outangs,
and it really is
excellent
sport if well enacted.
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Poe - 5 |
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Stephen Crane |
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WINDOWS where I gazed with you
At eve upon the
landscape
once
Are now illumed with other lights.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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XXXIII
Yet on a frosty winter day
The journey in a sledge doth please,
No
senseless
fashionable lay
Glides with a more luxurious ease;
For our Automedons are fire
And our swift troikas never tire;
The verst posts catch the vacant eye
And like a palisade flit by.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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and this anguish stings me worst,
That round my royal son's
dishonoured
form
Hang rags and tatters, degradation deep!
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Aeschylus |
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FAUST:
O war ich nie
geboren!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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draw {and}
restreyne
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Go,
perjured
man; and if thou e'er return, I.
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Robert Herrick |
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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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1075
Upon a stone the Woman sits
In agony of silent grief--
From his own
thoughts
did Peter start;
He longs to press her to his heart,
From love that cannot find relief.
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William Wordsworth |
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A man
may be an excellent writer and translator, and not be a poet, but to
translate foreign poetry into English
considerable
literary gifts are
required.
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Li Po |
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