Lear's works to
have been the
prevalent
characteristics of the inhabitants of
Gretna, Prague, Thermopylae, Wick, and Hong Kong?
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LONDON
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_This Volume was First _August 17th_, _1911_
Published_
_Second Edition_ _August_ _1911_
_Third Edition_
_September_
_1911_
* * * * *
'_The Ballad of Reading Goal_' _was first published by Leonard Smithers_,
_February 13th_, _1898_.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Then, like a new fledg'd bird that first doth shew 390
His spreaded
feathers
to the morrow chill,
I tried in fear the pinions of my will.
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The
withered
leaves danced with the hailstones.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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[Illustration]
But this upsetting was of no consequence, because all the party knew how to
swim very well: and, in fact, they
preferred
swimming about till after the
moon rose; when, the water growing chilly, they sponge-taneously entered
the boat.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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" It was after
Chollet that the Vendeans made the memorable
crossing
of the Loire at
St.
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But here's the happiest light can lie on ground,
Grass sloping under trees
Alive with yellow shine of
daffodils!
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Once she appeared to me, too: a dark-skinned girl, tumbling
Over her
forehead
the hair down in waves heavy and dark.
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charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United
States.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Then, why may yonder stars in ether there
Along their mighty orbits not be borne
By
currents
opposite the one to other?
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Lucretius |
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Thou
shouldst
have called me
to share thy doom; in the self-same hour, the self-same pang of steel
had been our portion.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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[Illustration]
There was an old person of Barnes,
Whose
garments
were covered with darns;
But they said, "Without doubt, you will soon wear them out,
You luminous person of Barnes!
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Lear - Nonsense |
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XXIX
Do you have hopes that posterity
Will read you, my Verse, for
evermore?
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Botoli trova poi, venendo giuso,
ringhiosi
piu che non chiede lor possa,
e da lor disdegnosa torce il muso.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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There was no need for them
to be "long
choosing
and beginning late.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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"
"He," answer'd I, "who
standeth
mute beside me.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Is this mine own
countree?
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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2) In "The Hard Times in Elfland", the last line of the 50th stanza
read in the
original
as:
"Thus we become the sport of Fate.
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Sidney Lanier |
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" echoed he; no sooner said,
Than with a
frightful
scream she vanished:
And Lycius' arms were empty of delight,
As were his limbs of life, from that same night.
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Keats - Lamia |
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[Sidenote: Another is conspicuous for nobility of descent, but is
surrounded
by indigence.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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at doost me
destresse!
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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By Vitellius
and Veranius, the cause of that prince was mourned and pleaded: by the
Emperor and his mother,
Plancina
was defended and protected.
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Tacitus |
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And gentle Ellen
welcomed
her
With courteous looks and mild:
Thought she, "What if her heart should melt,
And all be reconciled!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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The
harlot
commands
him to eat and drink also:
"It is the conformity of life,
Of the conditions and fate of the Land.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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It is sufficient, also, to warrant our
regarding the picturesque but scarcely dignified story of her vain pursuit
of Phaon and her frenzied leap from the Cliff of Leucas as nothing more
than a poetic myth, reminiscent, perhaps, of the myth of
Aphrodite
and
Adonis--who is, indeed, called Phaon in some versions.
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Sappho |
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Lay this laurel on the one
Too
intrinsic
for renown.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Make the gales you waft around her
Soft and
peaceful
as her breast;
Breathing in the breeze that fans her,
Soothe her bosom into rest:
Guardian angels!
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Robert Burns |
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There is a
singular
and impressive intuition or revelation of Swedenborg's:
that the whole of heaven is in the form of one man, and the separate
societies of heaven in the forms of the several parts of man.
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Whitman |
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_
_District
of Schirke and Elend.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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- You provide, in accordance with
paragraph
1.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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linquantur Phrygii, Catulle, campi
Nicaeaeque
ager uber aestuosae: 5
ad claras Asiae uolemus urbes.
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Latin - Catullus |
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455
`Thow biddest me I sholde love an-other
Al freshly newe, and lat
Criseyde
go!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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With what dull pain
Compass'd, how eagerly I sought to strike
Into that
wondrous
track of dreams again!
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Tennyson |
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While thither they pursued
Their way, the Woman thus her
mournful
tale renewed.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Lucretius |
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Should not the dove so white
Follow the sea-mew's flight,
Why did they leave that night
Her nest
unguarded?
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Longfellow |
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quod ita
retinebat
Blaydes ut post
_quoque_ interpungendum censeret, non post _gratum_: _nobisque
hoc_ Statius: _nobisque est_ Haupt: _Lido quoque_ ego ed.
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Latin - Catullus |
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Track the gazing of mine eyes,
Naming God within thine heart
That its
weakness
may depart
And the vision rise!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Does my joy
sometimes
erupt?
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Appoloinaire |
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Do not think me unaware,
I who have
snatched
at you
as the street-child clutched
at the seed-pearls you spilt
that hot day
when your necklace snapped.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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'T is not in the high stars alone,
Nor in the cup of budding flowers,
Nor in the redbreast's mellow tone,
Nor in the bow that smiles in showers,
But in the mud and scum of things
There alway, alway
something
sings.
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Emerson - Poems |
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what a
stricken
look was hers!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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"The
workmanship
of the transla tions is excellent.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Unauthenticated
Download Date | 10/1/17 7:36 AM 326 ?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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and two more: a helpful harper thou,
That harpest
downward!
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Tennyson |
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And the
Archbishop
lays on there with his spear.
| Guess: |
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Chanson de Roland |
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CHORUS
Alas, nor
tridents
nor the sanctity
Of shrines will drive them, O my sire, from us!
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Aeschylus |
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The joy falters a moment, with closed wings
Wearying in its upward journey, ere
Again it goes on high, bearing its song,
Its delight
breathing
and its vigour beating
The highest height of the air above the world.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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der Herr ist gar zu gut:
Schmuck und
Geschmeide
sind nicht mein.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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For now he haunts his native land
As an
immortal
youth; his hand
Guides every plough;
He sits beside each ingle-nook,
His voice is in each rushing brook,
Each rustling bough.
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Longfellow |
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diliuere
vp ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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In 1817 he quitted the Lyceum and obtained an
appointment
in the
Foreign Office at St.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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All hurriedly she knelt upon a bed
Of flowers: of lilies such as rear'd the head
*On the fair Capo Deucato, and sprang
So eagerly around about to hang
Upon the flying
footsteps
of--deep pride--
?
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Men that watch for it;
and, had they not had this hint, are so unjust valuers of letters as they
think no
learning
good but what brings in gain.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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FINIS
Joachim du Bellay
'Joachim du Bellay'
Science and
literature
in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance - P.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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"O WHOLESOME DEATH"
O
wholesome
Death, thy sombre funeral-car
Looms ever dimly on the lengthening way
Of life; while, lengthening still, in sad array,
My deeds in long procession go, that are
As mourners of the man they helped to mar.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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And who hath said
There should be
likeness
in a brother's tread
And sister's?
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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Nothing
constant
and certain but God and Nature,
v.
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| Question: |
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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A fine is incurred by
retaining
it beyond the specified time.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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For example, few persons
will doubt that the form in which the second stanza of the poem 'To the
Cuckoo' (written in 1802)
appeared
in 1845, is an improvement on all its
predecessors.
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Yes, as Sparrowes, Eagles;
Or the Hare, the Lyon:
If I say sooth, I must report they were
As Cannons ouer-charg'd with double Cracks,
So they doubly redoubled stroakes vpon the Foe:
Except they meant to bathe in reeking Wounds,
Or
memorize
another Golgotha,
I cannot tell: but I am faint,
My Gashes cry for helpe
King.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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But in this view even the "metaphysical verse" of Cowley
is but evidence of the
simplicity
and single-heartedness of the man.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Donations
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Struggling in my father's hands,
Striving
against my swaddling-bands,
Bound and weary, I thought best
To sulk upon my mother's breast.
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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I wish to send my
thoughts
to her
As quick as thoughts can fly,
But as the winds the waters stir
The mirrors change and fly.
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John Clare |
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He
honoureth
not the hand that gave the bride.
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Euripides - Electra |
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The peril of the ruling house is something like banner tassels
attached?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Lear - Nonsense |
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960
Cinq
floiches
i ot d'autre guise,
Qui furent ledes a devise:
Li fust estoient et li fer
Plus noirs que deables d'enfer.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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And Harold stands upon this place of skulls,
The grave of France, the deadly
Waterloo!
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Byron |
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--I do hear them say often some men are not witty,
because they are not
everywhere
witty; than which nothing is more
foolish.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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[44] Text _PA-it-tam_
clearly!
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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]
This will be
delivered
by Mr.
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Robert Burns |
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Our foe was no skulk in his ship I tell you, (said he,)
His was the surly English pluck, and there is no tougher or truer,
and never was, and never will be;
Along the lower'd eve he came
horribly
raking us.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Not on the field o'ercome by manly force,
Peaceful
he slept; and now, a murder'd corse,
By treason slain, he lay.
| Guess: |
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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+ Keep it legal Whatever your use,
remember
that you are responsible for ensuring that what you are doing is legal.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
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Let my
thoughts
rest on your form!
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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O longings
irrepressible!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Hence, thou suborned
informer!
| Guess: |
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Singers, singing in lawless freedom,
Jokers,
pleasant
in word and deed,
Run free of false gold, alloy, come,
Men of wit - somewhat deaf indeed -
Hurry, be quick now, he's dying poor man.
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Villon |
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The Conquest of Summer
THE blue-toned campions and the blood-red poppies
Escape the murmuring and
fleeting
grain!
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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The greatest
poet has less a marked style, and is more the channel of
thoughts
and
things without increase or diminution, and is the free channel of himself.
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Whitman |
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]
[Sidenote F: They
afterwards
rip the four limbs and rend off the hide.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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196
_miserae_
D: _misera_ ?
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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An ut
pervenias
in ora vulgi?
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Sometimes a
dropping
from the sky
I heard the Lavrock sing;
Sometimes all little birds that are
How they seem'd to fill the sea and air
With their sweet jargoning,
And now 'twas like all instruments,
Now like a lonely flute;
And now it is an angel's song
That makes the heavens be mute.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Alfred de Musset, 1904-7
The New York Public Library: Digital Collections
Song
I said to my heart, my feeble heart:
It's enough surely to love one's
mistress?
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19th Century French Poetry |
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"This music crept by me upon the waters"
And along the Strand, up Queen
Victoria
Street.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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You ask, in either
language
skill'd!
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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LIII
I
Blustering
god,
Stamping across the sky
With loud swagger,
I fear you not.
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Stephen Crane |
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adnue: sic tibi sint intonsi, Phoebe, capilli,
sic tua
perpetuo
sit tibi casta soror.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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In his
Chronological
Table, Mr.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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You have hands to square and hew
Vast marble-blocks, hard on your day of doom,
Ever building mansions new,
Nor
thinking
of the mansion of the tomb.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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