And in a valour
lessening
Arthur^s deeds,
For holiness the Confessor exceeds.
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Better than all measures
Of
delightful
sound,
Better than all treasures
That in books are found,
Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground!
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Shelley |
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_Asiatic
Journal_
LES ORIENTALES.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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He not a word was told of things designed,
And just as our gallant to sleep inclined,
As oft's the case at length with lovers true,
Quite open bright Aurora's portals flew,
And with a smile the aged dame arrived;
The apparatus properly contrived,
Was in her hand, she
hastened
to the bed,
And took the side that to the stripling led.
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La Fontaine |
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for whan he was
accused by Gayus Cesar
Germeins
son ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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As a Persian
nobleman
was one day walking in his garden, a
wretch in the utmost terror prostrated himself before him, and implored
to be protected from the rage of a multitude who were in pursuit of him,
to take his life.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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But why are they still
waiting?
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Yeats |
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Do you have hopes the lyre can soar
So high as to win
immortality?
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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But, O beloved
Earthbloom
soft a-shine
Upon the universal Jessamine,
Prithee, abuse me not,
Prithee, refuse me not,
Yield, yield the heartsome honey love to me
Hid in thy nectary!
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Sidney Lanier |
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When the living leave us, moved, I gaze,
For to enter death, is
entering
the temple;
And when a man dies, and goes his way,
I see my own ascent, clear, like crystal.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Sire, come am I to yow for causes tweye; 75
First, yow to thonke, and of your
lordshipe
eke
Continuance I wolde yow biseke.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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They read of politics and not of grain,
And
speechify
and comment and explain,
And know so much of Parliament and state
You'd think they're members when you heard them prate;
And know so little of their farms the while
They can but urge a wiser man to smile.
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John Clare |
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" It was a
collection of the work of various young poets,
presented
together as a
school.
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Imagists |
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enne
worschupeden
heo Alle with o steuene,
Iesu, godus sone of heuene,
and his Modur Marie.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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This Auarice
stickes deeper: growes with more
pernicious
roote
Then Summer-seeming Lust: and it hath bin
The Sword of our slaine Kings: yet do not feare,
Scotland hath Foysons, to fill vp your will
Of your meere Owne.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Where'er thy wildered crowd of brethren jostles,
Where'er there lingers but a shadow of wrong,
There still is need of martyrs and apostles,
There still are texts for never-dying song: 100
From age to age man's still aspiring spirit
Finds wider scope and sees with clearer eyes,
And thou in larger measure dost inherit
What made thy great
forerunners
free and wise.
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James Russell Lowell |
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E dal settimo grado in giu, si come
infino ad esso, succedono Ebree,
dirimendo
del fior tutte le chiome;
perche, secondo lo sguardo che fee
la fede in Cristo, queste sono il muro
a che si parton le sacre scalee.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Once in a whimsey mood he sat
And talked of life, in
proverbs
pat,
To Eve in Eden, -- "Death, on Life" --
As if he knew!
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Sidney Lanier |
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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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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Now with pallor 41
Blossoms of summer, rich is your
fragrance
still 42
Can such a pain be branded?
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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The rhyme-scheme follows Du Bellay, unlike Edmund Spenser's fine
Elizabethan
translation which offers a simpler scheme, more suited to the lack of rhymes in English!
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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King
Marsilies
and his great host draw round.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Oft have I heard our dame in furtive murmurs o'er telling,
When with her
handmaids
alone, these her flagitious deeds,
Citing fore-cited names for that she never could fancy
Ever a Door was endow'd either with earlet or tongue.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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If you
do not charge
anything
for copies of this eBook, complying with the
rules is very easy.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Some mighty gulph of separation past,
I seemed
transported
to another world:--
A thought resigned with pain, when from the mast
The impatient mariner the sail unfurl'd,
And whistling, called the wind that hardly curled
The silent sea.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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And suddenly I surrender the garrison,
Feigning
treason!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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'
"That's the right way to cure a Sprite
Of such like goings-on--
But
gracious
me!
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Lewis Carroll |
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Springs such a wood from one fair laurel tree,
That my old foe, with admirable skill,
Amid its boughs
misleads
me at his will.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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He knows of nothing but the
football
match,
And where hens lay, and when the duck will hatch.
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John Clare |
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THIS ETEXT IS OTHERWISE
PROVIDED
TO YOU "AS-IS".
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Poi, con dottrina e con volere insieme,
con l'officio
appostolico
si mosse
quasi torrente ch'alta vena preme;
e ne li sterpi eretici percosse
l'impeto suo, piu vivamente quivi
dove le resistenze eran piu grosse.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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While quite himself in his
treatment
of the theme of this kind of
poem, Donne comes in it nearer to Spenser than in any other kind.
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John Donne |
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O
faithful
unto death,
Thou goest?
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Euripides - Electra |
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This habit it was that brought about perhaps the gravest charge
that has ever been made against Pope, that of
accepting
?
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Alexander Pope |
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You
see what a lamp I have hung up to lighten your paths, when you are
idle enough to explore the
combinations
and relations of my ideas.
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Robert Forst |
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Ne tra l'ultima notte e 'l primo die
si alto o si magnifico processo,
o per l'una o per l'altra, fu o fie:
che piu largo fu Dio a dar se stesso
per far l'uom sufficiente a rilevarsi,
che s'elli avesse sol da se dimesso;
e tutti li altri modi erano scarsi
a la giustizia, se 'l
Figliuol
di Dio
non fosse umiliato ad incarnarsi.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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So, well: make a place for his corse in thy bed,
With the purples thou
sleepest
in, under and over
He's fair though a corse--a fair corse, like a sleeper.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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ce sont la les plats
Que tu nous sers bourgeois, quand nous sommes feroces
Quand nous brisons deja les
sceptres
et les crosses!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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--
And yet, why am I
sorrowful?
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Toi qui sais tout, grand roi des choses souterraines,
Guerisseur
familier des angoisses humaines,
O Satan, prends pitie de ma longue misere!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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But, since
produced
from fixed seeds are all,
Each birth goes forth upon the shores of light
From its own stuff, from its own primal bodies.
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Lucretius |
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You respect no hoary wrong
More for having
triumphed
long;
Its past victims, haggard throng,
From the mould
You unbury: swords and spears
Weaker are than poor men's tears,
Weaker than your silent years,
Hunger and Cold!
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James Russell Lowell |
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of Klencke's
_Alexander
von Humboldt_, _vi.
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Byron |
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What had that flower to do with being white,
The wayside blue and
innocent
heal-all?
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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The robin is the one
That
speechless
from her nest
Submits that home and certainty
And sanctity are best.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Sara Teasdale |
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IV
If my praise her grace effaces,
Then 't is not my heart that showeth, But the
skilless
tongue that soweth Words unworthy of her graces.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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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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We gallop along
Alert and penetrating,
Roads open about us,
Housetops
keep at a distance.
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Imagists |
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Soon, up aloft, 30
The silver, snarling
trumpets
'gan to chide:
The level chambers, ready with their pride,
Were glowing to receive a thousand guests:
The carved angels, ever eager-eyed,
Star'd, where upon their heads the cornice rests,
With hair blown back, and wings put cross-wise on their breasts.
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Keats |
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_oracle_, a sacred place where the god was supposed to
answer
questions
of vital import asked him by his worshippers.
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Keats |
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"Well met," I thought the look would say,
"We both were
fashioned
far away;
We neither knew, when we were young,
These Londoners we live among.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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"
At this the father, with a father's fears
(His
venerable
eyes bedimm'd with tears):
"This is the land; but ah!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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They remind me, too,
Of
martyred
Dorothea,
Who from Celestial gardens sent
Flowers as her witnesses
To him who scoffed and doubted.
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Longfellow |
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And thus his will and hardy wisdom won;
And forward thus he fared afar, beyond
The flaming ramparts of the world, until
He wandered the
unmeasurable
All.
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Lucretius |
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De la male Sapho, l'amante et le poete,
Plus belle que Venus par ses mornes
paleurs!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Amang thae wild
mountains
shall still be my path,
Ilk stream foaming down its ain green, narrow strath;
For there, wi' my lassie, the day lang I rove,
While o'er us unheeded flee the swift hours o' love.
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Robert Forst |
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Chimene
If he disobeys, the
increase
to my pain!
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Because I gave
Honour to mortals, I have yoked my soul
To this
compelling
fate.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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The impiety of
putting himself in the place of God, and judging of the fitness or
unfitness, perfection or imperfection, justice or
injustice
of His
dispensations, v.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Thoughts, whither have he led me, with what sweet
Compulsion thus transported to forget
What hither brought us, hate, not love, nor hope
Of
Paradise
for Hell, hope here to taste
Of pleasure, but all pleasure to destroy,
Save what is in destroying, other joy
To me is lost.
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Milton |
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Each friend you seek in yon enclosure lies,
All lost their form, and
habitants
of sties.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Peter's consecrated shade,
And Hadrian's tomb where Tiber strays;
The ruins on the Palatine
With all their
memories
of dead days.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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For, verily, I've taught thee even now
How
cavernous
clouds hold seeds innumerable
Of fiery exhalations, and they must
From off the sunbeams and the heat of these
Take many still.
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Lucretius |
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Upon the summer wave a gay ship danced,
Her cordage was of silk, of gold her sails,
Her sides with ivory and ebon glanced,
The sea was tranquil,
favouring
were the gales,
And heaven as when no cloud its azure veils.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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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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Oh tarnish late on Wenlock Edge,
Gold that I never see;
Lie long, high
snowdrifts
in the hedge
That will not shower on me.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Under the penitential gates
Sustained by staring Seraphim
Where the souls of the devout
Burn
invisible
and dim.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Wherefore, an he be wise, he'll devour the way,
although
a milk-white
maid doth thousand times retard his going, and flinging both arms around
his neck doth supplicate delay--a damsel who now, if truth be brought me,
is undone with immoderate love of him.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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THE PROBLEM
I like a church; I like a cowl;
I love a prophet of the soul;
And on my heart
monastic
aisles
Fall like sweet strains, or pensive smiles
Yet not for all his faith can see
Would I that cowled churchman be.
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Emerson - Poems |
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This too: if they suppose a void in things,
Then fires can be
condensed
and still left rare;
But since they see such opposites of thought
Rising against them, and are loath to leave
An unmixed void in things, they fear the steep
And lose the road of truth.
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Lucretius |
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We encourage the use of public domain
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Meredith - Poems |
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e ordre of
moeueable
destine to ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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The
fighting
man shall from the sun
Take warmth, and life from the glowing earth;
Speed with the light-foot winds to run,
And with the trees to newer birth;
And find, when fighting shall be done,
Great rest, and fullness after dearth.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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The knight expresses himself well
pleased, and calls it a most noble and
princely
feast.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Their frames
Forspent
lay prone.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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'
Then quickly from the foughten field he sent
Ulfius, and Brastias, and Bedivere,
His new-made knights, to King Leodogran,
Saying, 'If I in aught have served thee well,
Give me thy daughter
Guinevere
to wife.
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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_ Nay, gaze not
backward
through the gate!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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Plucking the lute they sent forth
lingering
sounds,
The new melodies in beauty reached the divine.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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And so, when Arbaces, who
was one of the generals under him, a Mede by birth,
endeavoured
to
manage by the assistance of one of the eunuchs, whose name was
Sparamizus, to see Sardanapalus: and when .
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
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On this account these seasons of the year
Are
nominated
"cross-seas.
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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With yawning mouth the yellow hole
Gaped for a living thing;
The very mud cried out for blood
To the thirsty
asphalte
ring:
And we knew that ere one dawn grew fair
Some prisoner had to swing.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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'
Woe him that cunning trades in hearts
contrives!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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Let those whom nature hath not made for store,
Harsh, featureless, and rude, barrenly perish:
Look, whom she best endow'd, she gave thee more;
Which
bounteous
gift thou shouldst in bounty cherish:
She carv'd thee for her seal, and meant thereby,
Thou shouldst print more, not let that copy die.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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" he repeated to the crowd;
But from all the people round him came no word of a reply,
Save the black-eyed rebel,
answering
from the corner of her eye.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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The flight of Cranes is most famously
mentioned
in Homer's Iliad.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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), and will be induced
to inquire by what species of
courtesy
these attempts have been
permitted to assume that title.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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On the other hand,
Rilke achieves at times a perfect surety of rapid stroke as in the poem
_The Spanish Dancer_, who rises luminously on the horizon of our inner
vision like a
circling
element of fire, flaming and blinding in the
momentum of her movements.
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Rilke - Poems |
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From the wood a sound is gliding,
Vapours dense the plain are hiding,
Cries the Dame in anxious measure:
"Stay, I'll wash thy head, my
treasure!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Pales,
bring gifts,
bring your
Phoenician
stuffs,
and do you, fleet-footed nymphs,
bring offerings,
Illyrian iris,
and a branch of shrub,
and frail-headed poppies.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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"You're overtask'd, good Simon Lee,
Give me your tool," to him I said;
And at the word right gladly he
Received
my proffer'd aid.
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Golden Treasury |
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As if thy
heritage
were joy,
And pleasure were thy trade.
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William Wordsworth |
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"
Says Clarien: "To death he's
stricken
down.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Most of his
childhood
was
spent at Jung-yang in Honan.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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`I mene thus; whan I him hider bringe,
Sin ye ben wyse, and bothe of oon assent,
So shapeth how
distourbe
your goinge,
Or come ayen, sone after ye be went.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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To be loved by the
children
of other suns
And send a message to find them,
This is the fate of the happiest ones
Tho' the mortar of life may grind them.
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Tennyson |
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Virgil is the most scrupulous in this respect;
and towards the inevitable change, which Milton
completed
and perfected
from Camoens and Tasso, Virgil took a great step in making Jupiter
professedly almighty.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Pity the tuneful Muses' hapless train,
Weak, timid
landsmen
on life's stormy main!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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260
And now he thither came for like intent;
Where he unwares the fairest Una found,
Straunge Lady, in so straunge habiliment,
Teaching
the Satyres, which her sat around,
Trew sacred lore, which from her sweet lips did redound.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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