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Thy age, great Caesar, has restored
To squalid fields the plenteous grain,
Given back to Rome's almighty Lord
Our standards, torn from Parthian fane,
Has closed Quirinian Janus' gate,
Wild passion's erring walk controll'd,
Heal'd the foul plague-spot of the state,
And brought again the life of old,
Life, by whose
healthful
power increased
The glorious name of Latium spread
To where the sun illumes the east
From where he seeks his western bed.
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Amorous Prince, the
greatest
lover,
I want no evil that's of your doing,
But, by God, all noble hearts must offer
To succour a poor man, without crushing.
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Villon |
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Thou shalt not speed in
undertakings
more,
Nor be the warder of thine own no more.
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Lucretius |
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Whence, for some
universal
good,
The priest shall cut the sacred bud.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Now, Christ be
thanked!
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Can she the
bodiless
dead espy?
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Explain the suffix in
_marchen_
in l.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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his children thus to
plunder!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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The players were all standing up now, with their backs to the boards,
shrinking from the hounds, and nearly
deafened
with the noise of their
yelping, but as quick as the hounds were they could not overtake the
hare, but it went round, till at the last it seemed as if a blast of
wind burst open the barn door, and the hare doubled and made a leap
over the boards where the men had been playing, and went out of the
door and away through the night, and the hounds over the boards and
through the door after it.
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Yeats |
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O're all his Brethren he shall Reign as King,
Yet every one shall make him underling,
And those that cannot live from him asunder
Ungratefully shall strive to keep him under,
In worth and
excellence
he shall out-go them,
Yet being above them, he shall be below them; 80
From others he shall stand in need of nothing,
Yet on his Brothers shall depend for Cloathing.
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Milton |
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Imagists |
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Der Bose,
Mit
furchtbarem
Grimme,
Macht ein Getose!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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(Alcools: Le Pont Mirabeau)
Under the Mirabeau flows the Seine
And our amours
Shall I
remember
it again
Joy always followed after Pain
Comes the night sounds the hour
The days go by I endure
Hand in hand rest face to face
While underneath
The bridge of our arms there races
So weary a wave of eternal gazes
Comes the night sounds the hour
The days go by I endure
Love vanishes like the water's flow
Love vanishes
How life is slow
And how Hope lives blow by blow
Comes the night sounds the hour
The days go by I endure
Let the hour pass the day the same
Time past returns
Nor love again
Under the Mirabeau flows the Seine
Comes the night sounds the hour
The days go by I endure
Twilight
(Alcools: Crepuscule)
Brushed by the shadows of the dead
On the grass where day expires
Columbine strips bare admires
her body in the pond instead
A charlatan of twilight formed
Boasts of the tricks to be performed
The sky without a stain unmarred
Is studded with the milk-white stars
From the boards pale Harlequin
First salutes the spectators
Sorcerers from Bohemia
Fairies sundry enchanters
Having unhooked a star
He proffers it with outstretched hand
While with his feet a hanging man
Sounds the cymbals bar by bar
The blind man rocks a pretty child
The doe with all her fauns slips by
The dwarf observes with saddened pose
How Harlequin magically grows
Clotilde
(Alcools: Clotilde)
The anemone and flower that weeps
have grown in the garden plain
where Melancholy sleeps
between Amor and Disdain
There our shadows linger too
that the midnight will disperse
the sun that makes them dark to view
will with them in dark immerse
The deities of living dew
Let their hair flow down entire
It must be that you pursue
That lovely shadow you desire
The White Snow
(Alcools: La blanche neige)
The angels the angels in the sky
One's dressed as an officer
One's dressed as a chef today
And the others sing
Fine sky-coloured officer
Sweet Spring when Christmas is long gone
Will deck you with a lovely sun
A lovely sun
The chef plucks geese
Ah!
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Appoloinaire |
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Pierce the woods, the earth,
Somewhere
listening to catch you must be the one I want.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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_Remoraes_; Browne doubts 'whether the story of the remora be
not
unreasonably
amplified'.
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John Donne |
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You heard the evidence
Produced before us
yesterday
at the trial
Of Bridget Bishop.
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Longfellow |
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Not on his lofty brow, nor in his looks
May one peruse his secret thoughts; always
The same aspect; lowly at once, and lofty--
Like some state
Minister
grown grey in office,
Calmly alike he contemplates the just
And guilty, with indifference he hears
Evil and good, and knows not wrath nor pity.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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1, 1862]
_These verses were written in memory of General Philip Kearny,
killed at
Chantilly
after he had ridden out in advance of his men
to reconnoitre.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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"My dreams became the
substance of my life," he writes, just after the composition of that
terrible poem on "The Pains of Sleep," which is at once an outcry of agony,
and a yet more disturbing vision of the sufferer with his fingers on his
own pulse, his eyes fixed on his own hardly
awakened
eyes in the mirror.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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He was
desperate
and
grandmother took pity on him.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Hymen O Hymenaee, Hymen ades O
Hymenaee!
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Latin - Catullus |
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Is it no dream that nothing else remains
Of all my torments but this
answered
cry,
And have I had, O God, amid my chains,
The happiness to die?
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Besides, this Duncane
Hath borne his
Faculties
so meeke; hath bin
So cleere in his great Office, that his Vertues
Will pleade like Angels, Trumpet-tongu'd against
The deepe damnation of his taking off:
And Pitty, like a naked New-borne-Babe,
Striding the blast, or Heauens Cherubin, hors'd
Vpon the sightlesse Curriors of the Ayre,
Shall blow the horrid deed in euery eye,
That teares shall drowne the winde.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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XXX
Love shakes my soul, like a
mountain
wind
Falling upon the trees,
When they are swayed and whitened and bowed
As the great gusts will.
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Sappho |
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But by "Nature" was meant not at all the natural
impulses
of the
individual, but those rules founded upon the natural and common reason
of mankind which the ancient critics had extracted and codified from the
practice of the ancient poets.
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Alexander Pope |
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Wilde - Poems |
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deathless flame Gave thee thine aureole, what Lord thy
strength?
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Protestant England is
delivered
from Popish tyranny by the honor and
courage of the English people.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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e
wikkednesse
of men departi?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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By this arrived there
Dame Una, wearie Dame, and
entrance
did requere.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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And
perchance
amid
these groves might arise at last a new school of philosophy or poetry.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Quintilius dies;
By none than you, my Virgil, trulier wept:
Devout in vain, you chide the
faithless
skies,
Asking your loan ill-kept.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Many a
sacrifice
shall fall by our hand before
thine altars.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Dirge for Two Veterans
The last sunbeam
Lightly falls from the finish'd Sabbath,
On the
pavement
here, and there beyond it is looking,
Down a new-made double grave.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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O vendetta di Dio, quanto tu dei
esser temuta da ciascun che legge
cio che fu
manifesto
a li occhi mei!
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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It should also be noted that the fact of Wordsworth's having
dictated
to
Miss Fenwick (so late as 1843) a stanza from 'The Convict' in his note
to 'The Lament of Mary Queen of Scots' (1817), justifies the inclusion
of the whole of that (suppressed) poem in such an edition as this.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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'Tis a most beautiful, a most
magnificent
work of art.
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Aristophanes |
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"Why was I not
contented?
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Keats |
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Li Po |
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We'll
properly
equip you as a belle,
And I will certainly reward you well.
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La Fontaine |
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Juvenal says this is what the
spendthrifts
come to: and also that they would do it for
money, without any Nero to compel them.
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Tacitus |
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And
wherefore
bow ye not, says Lady Anne,
To him within there who made Heaven and Earth?
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Tennyson |
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Can we not force from
widdowed
Poetry, 378
*Chast Love, let mee embrace thee in mine armes 445
*Come, Fates; I feare you not.
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John Donne |
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OSWALD (coming forward)
Are we Men,
Or own we baby
Spirits?
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Great Excellence, in human art as in human character,
has from the beginning of things been even more uniform than Mediocrity,
by virtue of the closeness of its approach to Nature:--and so far as the
standard of Excellence kept in view has been attained in this volume, a
comparative absence of extreme or
temporary
phases in style, a
similarity of tone and manner, will be found throughout:--something
neither modern nor ancient but true in all ages, and like the works of
Creation perfect as on the first day.
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Golden Treasury |
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ne gesacu ōhwǣr,
ecghete ēoweð,
_nowhere
shows itself strife, sword-hate_, 1739.
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Beowulf |
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And, for the town even now fearfully aches
In
scalding
thirst, not five days had I granted,
Had it not been for somewhat I must say
Secretly to thee.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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The son referred to is,
according
to Ettmüller, the one that
reigns after Hrōðgār.
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Beowulf |
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In the
afternoon
I read Chaucer aloud.
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William Wordsworth |
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Of the interminable sisters,
Of the ceaseless cotillons of sisters,
Of the centripetal and centrifugal sisters, the elder and younger sisters,
The
beautiful
sister we know dances on with the rest.
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Whitman |
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That flower, whose sweets outlive the fragile rest
Which
quickens
man when he in earth is laid,
Would have been plucked or severed in the blade.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Posthumius turned
round to the multitude, and held up the gown, as if
appealing
to
the universal law of nations.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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"
It is, indeed, one of the loveliest
seclusions
in the world.
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Petrarch |
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"Not you," sighed I, "but my own
inconstancy!
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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" Saadi was born in
1189 at Shiraz and was a reputed
descendant
from Ali, Mahomet's
son-in-law.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Equal signs before and after a word or phrase
indicate
=bold=
in the original text.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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'
`Uncle,' quod she, `your
maistresse
is not here!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Generals
and statesmen
played whist; young men lounged on sofas, eating ices or smoking.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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No long discourse
together
may we have;
Full well I know, Charles waits not our attack,
I take the glove from you, in spite of that.
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| Question: |
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Chanson de Roland |
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" Beyond the bridge's head
Therewith he pass'd, and
reaching
the sixth pier,
Behov'd him then a forehead terror-proof.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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"
Contented
wi' little, &c.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Was God so
economical?
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Now all is done, save what shall have no end:
Mine
appetite
I never more will grind
On newer proof, to try an older friend,
A god in love, to whom I am confin'd.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Thy voice is as the hill-wind over me,
And all my
changing
heart gives heed, my lover.
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Sappho |
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Alas when sighs are traders' lies,
And heart's-ease eyes and violet eyes
Are
merchandise!
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Sidney Lanier |
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With my
business
accomplished, ah, then shall only one temple,
AMOR's temple alone, take the initiate in.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Arise out of our dust, O unnamed avenger, to pursue the
Dardanian settlement with
firebrand
and steel.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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During the summer of 1867 I had the opportunity (which I had often wished
for) of expressing in print my
estimate
and admiration of the works of the
American poet Walt Whitman.
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Whitman |
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Villon
presumably
means that they were 'near cousins' in spirit.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
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[406] A quarter of Athens where the Lampadephoria was held in honour of
Athene, Hephaestus, and Prometheus, because the first had given the
mortals oil, the second had
invented
the lamp, and the third had stolen
fire from heaven.
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Aristophanes |
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To some extent this is no doubt explained by a fact to which
he often refers in his letters, and which, in his own opinion,
hindered
him
not only from writing about himself in verse, but from writing verse at
all.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Further, when all the earth
Is by the cold compressed, and thus contracts
And, so to say, concretes, it happens, lo,
That by
contracting
it expresses then
Into the wells what heat it bears itself.
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Lucretius |
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That knowing no cause of quarrel or of feud
Between the Earl
Politian
and himself.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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in scattering compliments,
tendering
visits,
gathering and venting news, following feasts and plays, making a little
winter-love in a dark corner.
| Guess: |
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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The bard whom pilfered 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;
He, who still wanting, though 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,
It is not poetry, but prose run mad:
All these, my modest satire bade translate,
And owned that nine such poets made a Tate.
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Thou wert not to share the search for Italian borders
and destined fields, nor the dim
Ausonian
Tiber.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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The
stranger
vanished .
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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XXVIII
His life was nigh unto deaths doore yplast,
And thred-bare cote, and cobled shoes he ware, 245
Ne scarse good morsell all his life did tast,
But both from backe and belly still did spare,
To fill his bags, and richesse to compare;
Yet chylde ne kinsman living had he none
To leave them to; but
thorough
daily care 250
To get, and nightly feare to lose his owne,
He led a wretched life unto him selfe unknowne.
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I say it again, and, even though I sigh
Yet to my last sigh, I'll repeat that I
Have offended you, and yet I had to,
To wipe out my shame, and merit you;
But,
satisfying
honour and my father,
It is for your satisfaction I am here:
I am here to offer my life to you.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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The
unfortunate
thing is that there have been none
since.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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she is so
constant
and so kind.
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Keats |
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" [4]
Or this or
something
like to this he spoke.
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Tennyson |
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_Laurence Binyon_
BELGIUM
_La Belgique ne regrette rien_
Not with her ruined silver spires,
Not with her cities shamed and rent,
Perish the imperishable fires
That shape the
homestead
from the tent.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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The
regent and his attendants are struck with the warlike
grandeur
and power
of the strangers, and to accept of their friendship, or to prevent the
forerunners of so martial a nation from carrying home the tidings of the
discovery of India, becomes the great object of their consideration.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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This, and the two
following
Stanzas would have been withdrawn, as
somewhat de trop, from the Text, but for advice which I least like to
disregard.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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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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(Of many debts incalculable,
Haply our New World's
chieftest
debt is to old poems.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Shuddering
the body stood
One instant in an agony of blood,
And gasped and fell.
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Euripides - Electra |
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_ Notice that Keats only
says 'perhaps', but it gives a
trembling
unreality at once to the magic
palace.
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Keats |
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What say you, all here
present?
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Aristophanes |
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Criseyde aroos, no lenger she ne stente,
But
straught
in-to hir closet wente anoon,
And sette here doun as stille as any stoon, 600
And every word gan up and doun to winde,
That he hadde seyd, as it com hir to minde;
And wex somdel astonied in hir thought,
Right for the newe cas; but whan that she
Was ful avysed, tho fond she right nought 605
Of peril, why she oughte afered be.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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209, ii
Ite, uerecundo coniungite foedera lecto 360
Iucundum, mea uita, mihi proponis amorem 87, a
Iuli iugera pauca Martialis 273
Iuppiter hic risit tempestatesque serenae 21, ix
Iusserat haec rapidis aboleri carmina flammis 299
Iusta precor: quae me nuper praedata puellast 211
Iustum et tenacem propositi uirum 139
Iuuenis Sereni triste cernitis marmor 289
Laetus sum laudari me abs te, pater, a laudato uiro 9, i
Lais anus Veneri speculum dico: dignum habeat se 338
Lalla, lalla, lalla 4
Libertus Melioris ille notus 271, ii
Lilium uaga candido 64, i
Lucani proprium diem frequentet 256
Lucentes, mea uita, nec smaragdos 108, i
Ludi magister, parce simplici turbae 276
Lugete, o Veneres Cupidinesque 85, b
Luna decus mundi, magni pars maxima caeli 309
Lux mea
puniceum
misit mihi Lesbia malum 323
Maeonio uati qui par aut proximus esset 322, ii
Magna sapientia multasque uirtutes 5, iv
Magnum iter ad doctas proficisci cogor Athenas 175
Malest, Cornifici, tuo Catullo 103
Marmoreo Licinus tumulo iacet, at Cato nullo 105
Martia progenies, Hector, tellure sub ima 224
Martiis caelebs quid agam kalendis 131
Mater Lacaena clipeo obarmans filium 331
Mater optuma, tu multo mulier melior mulierum 24
Maximus Iliacae gentis certamina uates 198
Mea mater grauida parere se ardentem facem 25
Mea puer quid uerbi ex tuo ore audio?
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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