However, _he did_ return
to take possession of his
canonicate
at Lombes, and to lose possession
of his peace of mind.
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Petrarch |
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On desperate seas long wont to roam,
Thy
hyacinth
hair, thy classic face,
Thy Naiad airs have brought me home
To the glory that was Greece,
And the grandeur that was Rome.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Donations are accepted in a number of other
ways including including checks, online
payments
and credit card
donations.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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I am old and weak, I can bear little, and can scarce
hope to see better days; nor is it any adequate
compensation
to know
that Nature is young and strong and can bear much.
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James Russell Lowell |
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{32c} Usual
euphemism
for death.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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What sighs aspire
To rise from my loving heart,
If it must
endlessly
grieve and suffer
Not quench its love, nor accept its lover!
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Who wishes to receive
visitations
often,
Mustn't load with too many flowers the stone
My finger raises with a dead power's boredom.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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[Illustration]
There was an old person of Brigg,
Who
purchased
no end of a wig;
So that only his nose, and the end of his toes,
Could be seen when he walked about Brigg.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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But lures the pirate, and
corrupts
the friend.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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A ladder I have filched and thro' the streets
Borne it, on
shoulders
little used to weight.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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He'd slept and fed
And sung and smoked in it, while shrapnel screamed
And shells went whining
harmless
overhead--
Harmless, at least, as far as he.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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"
She answer'd: "In the
dreadful
day of fight
Know, I am with thee, strong in all my might.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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I have seen eyes in the street
Trying to peer through lighted shutters,
And a crab one afternoon in a pool,
An old crab with
barnacles
on his back,
Gripped the end of a stick which I held him.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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You surely come back at last,
In things best known to you finding the best, or as good as the best,
In folks nearest to you finding the sweetest, strongest, lovingest;
Happiness, knowledge, not in another place, but this place--not for another
hour, but this hour;
Man in the first you see or touch--always in friend, brother, nighest
neighbour--Woman in mother, sister, wife;
The popular tastes and
employments
taking precedence in poems or anywhere,
You workwomen and workmen of these States having your own divine and strong
life,
And all else giving place to men and women like you.
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Whitman |
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As Mailie, an' her lambs thegither,
Were ae day
nibbling
on the tether,
Upon her cloot she coost a hitch,
An' owre she warsl'd in the ditch:
There, groaning, dying, she did lie,
When Hughoc[2] he cam doytin by.
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Robert Burns |
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D oubtless, as my heart's lady you'll have being,
E ntirely now, till death
consumes
my age.
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Villon |
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quin potius
laudandus
hic est quem prole parata
occupat in parua pigra senecta casa!
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Thus, by these subtle trains,
Do several passions invade the mind,
And strike our reason blind:
Of which
usurping
rank, some have thought love
The first: as prone to move
Most frequent tumults, horrors, and unrests,
In our inflamed breasts:
But this doth from the cloud of error grow,
Which thus we over-blow.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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these flames nought can subdue--
The
Aqueduct
of Sylla gleams, a bridge o'er hellish brew.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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The
darkness
of deep woods made me afraid.
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Li Po |
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In dem
Dampfe, der davon in die Hohe steigt, zeigen sich
verschiedene
Gestalten.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Smoothed
by long fingers,
Asleep .
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T.S. Eliot |
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A pause and council: then, where near the head
Due east a bay makes inward to the land
Between two rocky arms, we climb the bank,
And in the
twilight
of the forest noon
Wield the first axe these echoes ever heard.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Like you, all his consolation was his muse: she
taught him in rustic
measures
to complain.
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Robert Forst |
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Triumphal arches, domes at heaven's doors,
That an
astonished
heaven sees full plain,
Alas, by degrees, turned to dust again.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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IN THE GOLD ROOM
A HARMONY
HER ivory hands on the ivory keys
Strayed in a fitful fantasy,
Like the silver gleam when the poplar trees
Rustle their pale-leaves listlessly,
Or the drifting foam of a
restless
sea
When the waves show their teeth in the flying breeze.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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XXIX
All that the
Egyptians
once devised,
All that Greece, with its Corinthian,
Ionic, Attic, and its Dorian
Ornament, in its temples apprised,
All that the art of Lysippus comprised,
The hand of Apelles, or the Phidian,
That used to adorn this city, and this land,
Grandeur that even Heaven once surprised,
All that Athens in its wisdom showed,
All that from richest Asia ever flowed,
All that from Africa strange and new was sent,
Was here on view.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Unless you have removed all
references
to Project Gutenberg:
1.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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O, that sweet
tormenting
play,
That too fair face, that blinds when look'd upon!
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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The joke of the green hair has been
disposed
of by Crepet.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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"A
glorious
devil, large in heart
and brain, that did love beauty only.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Rising from East and West,
There echoes afar or near--
From the cool, sad North and the burning South--
A sound long since grown dear,
When brave ranks faced the cannon's mouth
And died for a faith austere:
The tread of marching men,
A steady tramp of feet
That never flinched nor
faltered
when
The drums of duty beat.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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But the old wounds I bear,
Stamp'd on my
tortured
heart, such power refuse;
Then grow I weak and pale,
And my blood hides itself I know not where;
Nor as I was remain I: hence I know
Love dooms my death and this the fatal blow.
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Petrarch |
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Herman
received
it and at once left
the table.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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[_The transfiguration is
complete
in sadness.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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]
XLVII
But where Melpomene doth rave
With lengthened howl and accent loud,
And her bespangled robe doth wave
Before a cold indifferent crowd,
And where Thalia softly dreams
And heedless of approval seems,
Terpsichore alone among
Her sisterhood delights the young
(So 'twas with us in former years,
In your young days and also mine),
Never upon my heroine
The jealous dame her lorgnette veers,
The
connoisseur
his glances throws
From boxes or from stalls in rows.
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Oenone
Think: a
barbarian
formed him in her womb.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Living Rome, the
ornament
of the world,
Now dead, remains the world's monument.
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Continued
use of this site implies consent to that usage.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Worthiest
man!
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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The dark departs;
The chains now rust that crushed men's flesh and bones,
Feet tread no more the
mildewed
prison stones,
And slavery is lifted from your hearts.
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Politian
Of Britain, Earl of
Leicester?
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Poe - 5 |
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If their
friend consent not to their vices, though he do not contradict them, he
is
nevertheless
an enemy.
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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You
incongruous
Old Woman of Smyrna!
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Lear - Nonsense |
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in lieu of a refund.
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Hugo - Poems |
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"But not the praise,"
Phoebus replied, and touch'd my trembling ears;
"Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil,
Nor in the glistering foil
Set off to the world, nor in broad rumour lies:
But lives and spreads aloft by those pure eyes
And perfect witness of all-judging Jove;
As he
pronounces
lastly on each deed,
Of so much fame in heaven expect thy meed.
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Golden Treasury |
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Gawayne readily abides the blow
without
flinching
with any member, and stood still as a stone or a tree
fixed in rocky ground with a hundred roots.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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XXVII
Guenes the count goes to his hostelry,
Finds for the road his
garments
and his gear,
All of the best he takes that may appear:
Spurs of fine gold he fastens on his feet,
And to his side Murgles his sword of steel.
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Chanson de Roland |
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I am coming, Valkyr, I am coming, where the channel fog-banks lie;
I can see your signals blinking through the mist of their changing smoke; When I rush with the speed of a whirlwind I feel you are riding nigh;
I am
counting
the days, beloved, the days that I live to die.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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--
Caliope, thy vois be now present, 45
For now is nede; sestow not my destresse,
How I mot telle anon-right the gladnesse
Of Troilus, to Venus
heryinge?
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Account of his
Highland
tour
LXXX.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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But such
manuscripts
have
comparatively little value and no authority for the textual critic,
though they are not without importance for the student of the canon
of Donne's poetry.
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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But out of earth's trammels your soul would have flown
Where glitters Eternity's stream,
And you shall have waked 'midst pure glories unknown,
As sunshine
disperses
a dream.
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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So they began to sing, voice
answering
voice
In strains alternate- for alternate strains
The Muses then were minded to recall-
First Corydon, then Thyrsis in reply.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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The Loir is a
tributary
of the larger Loire, in the Vendomois.
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Ronsard |
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For
additional
contact information:
Dr.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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In
jealousy
of a Hebe's fate
Rising over this cup at your lips' kisses,
I spend my fires with the slender rank of prelate
And won't even figure naked on Sevres dishes.
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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But as we walked, we saw a man sitting on a grey rock taking pinches
of salt from a bag and
throwing
them into the sea.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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So our foe is here--
Like, as I deem, to ply no stinted trade
In blood and broil, but
traffick
as is meet
In fierce exchange for his long wayfaring!
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Aeschylus |
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Keats - Lamia |
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Stephen Crane |
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A strange land, drowned in our northern
fogs, that one might call the East of the West, the China of Europe; a
land
patiently
and luxuriously decorated with the wise, delicate
vegetations of a warm and capricious phantasy.
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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The cloud was around me,
I knew not why
Such
sweetness
crowned me.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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No more for him life's stormy conflicts,
Nor victory, nor defeat--no more time's dark events,
Charging like
ceaseless
clouds across the sky.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Much of Emily Dickinson's prose was rhythmic,
--even rhymed, though
frequently
not set apart in lines.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Not two strong men the enormous weight could raise,
Such men as live in these degenerate days:(147)
He swung it round; and, gathering strength to throw,
Discharged
the ponderous ruin at the foe.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Flowed up the hill and down King William Street,
To where Saint Mary
Woolnoth
kept the hours
With a dead sound on the final stroke of nine.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Then I will sleep awhile yet, for I see that these States sleep, for
reasons;
(With gathering murk, with
muttering
thunder and lambent shoots we
all duly awake,
South, North, East, West, inland and seaboard, we will surely awake.
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
|
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Dante
Alighieri
put this man in hell for that he was a stirrer-up of strife.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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They would not have me wed the Prince of Spain:
That was their pretext--so they spake at first--
But we sent divers of our Council to them,
And by their answers to the question ask'd,
It doth appear this
marriage
is the least
Of all their quarrel.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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Despite being fragments the pieces
communicate
some part of the loss suffered, and the thoughts engendered, by the child's death, and therefore any child's death, any such tragedy.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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)
And
straight
was caught (who lately swore I would
Defend me from a man at arms), nor could
Resist the wounds of words with motion graced:
The image yet is in my fancy placed.
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Petrarch - Poems |
|
XIII
Watching
the iris,
The faint and fragile petals--
How am I worthy?
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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But
wherefore
all this labour, all this strife?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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She
touches these themes sometimes lightly, sometimes almost
humorously, more often with weird and
peculiar
power; but she is
never by any chance frivolous or trivial.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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My bliss, my wealth, my worship, and my law,
My
Universe!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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A washed-out smallpox cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone With all the old
nocturnal
smells
That cross and cross across her brain.
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Hee falleth; nowe bie heavenne thie woundes doe smethe[91];
I feere mee, I have
wroughte
thee myckle woe[92].
| Guess: |
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Easy
Easy and beautiful under
your eyelids
As the meeting of pleasure
Dance and the rest
I spoke the fever
The best reason for fire
That you might be pale and luminous
A thousand fruitful poses
A thousand ravaged embraces
Repeated move to erase themselves
You grow dark you unveil yourself
A mask you
control it
It deeply resembles you
And you seem nothing but lovelier naked
Naked in shadow and
dazzlingly
naked
Like a sky shivering with flashes of lightning
You reveal yourself to you
To reveal yourself to others
Talking of Power and Love
Between all my torments between death and self
Between my despair and the reason for living
There is injustice and this evil of men
That I cannot accept there is my anger
There are the blood-coloured fighters of Spain
There are the sky-coloured fighters of Greece
The bread the blood the sky and the right to hope
For all the innocents who hate evil
The light is always close to dying
Life always ready to become earth
But spring is reborn that is never done with
A bud lifts from dark and the warmth settles
And the warmth will have the right of the selfish
Their atrophied senses will not resist
I hear the fire talk lightly of coolness
I hear a man speak what he has not known
You who were my flesh's sensitive conscience
You I love forever you who made me
You will not tolerate oppression or injury
You'll sing in dream of earthly happiness
You'll dream of freedom and I'll continue you
The Beloved
She is standing on my eyelids
And her hair is wound in mine,
She has the form of my hands,
She has the colour of my eyes,
She is swallowed by my shadow
Like a stone against the sky.
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Thy chief, who now in error's
circling
maze,
For India's shore through shelves and tempests strays;
That chief shalt thou behold, with lordly pride,
O'er Neptune's trembling realm triumphant ride.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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O rustle not, ye verdant oaken
branches!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Yeats' free
adaptation
is the well-known poem 'When you are old and grey and full of sleep' (In 'The Rose').
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Ronsard |
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Li, per fuggire ogne
consorzio
umano,
ristette con suoi servi a far sue arti,
e visse, e vi lascio suo corpo vano.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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" Our poets imagine
themselves
very much as Art has portrayed
them--bare-headed and wild-eyed, with shirts unbuttoned at the neck as
though they feared that a seizure of emotion might at any minute
suffocate them.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he
has agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the
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Literary Archive Foundation.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Is it possible
to discover in 'The Rape of the Lock' any
substitute
for Belinda's
fancies and the Baron's freaks?
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Alexander Pope |
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3
And you
Libertad
of the world!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Bulwer Lytton published in 1845 his
satirical poem 'New Timon: a Romance of London,' in which he bitterly
attacked
Tennyson
for the civil list pension granted the previous
year, particularly referring to the poem 'O Darling Room' in the 1833
volume.
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Tennyson |
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Soe wylle wee beere the Dacyanne armie downe,
And throughe a storme of blodde wyll reache the
champyon
crowne.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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[End of the Second Night]
Ahania heard the Lamentation & a swift
Vibration
Spread thro her Golden frame.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Farewell; but ere you go look forth and see
How night hath hushed the clamor and the stir
Of the
tumultuous
streets.
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Longfellow |
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The idea of the last
quatrain
is also very effective.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Shelley
and
Sophocles
are of his company.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Than this nothing has better served, it has served all,
Served the fluent-tongued and subtle-sensed Greek, and long ere the Greek,
Served in building the buildings that last longer than any,
Served the Hebrew, the Persian, the most ancient Hindustanee,
Served the mound-raiser on the Mississippi, served those whose
relics remain in Central America,
Served Albic temples in woods or on plains, with unhewn pillars and
the druids,
Served the artificial clefts, vast, high, silent, on the
snow-cover'd hills of Scandinavia,
Served those who time out of mind made on the granite walls rough
sketches of the sun, moon, stars, ships, ocean waves,
Served the paths of the irruptions of the Goths, served the pastoral
tribes and nomads,
Served the long distant Kelt, served the hardy pirates of the Baltic,
Served before any of those the venerable and harmless men of Ethiopia,
Served the making of helms for the galleys of
pleasure
and the
making of those for war,
Served all great works on land and all great works on the sea,
For the mediaeval ages and before the mediaeval ages,
Served not the living only then as now, but served the dead.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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--we leave thee to Heaven's
peaceful
care,
Thee, and the Cottage which thou dost surround.
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William Wordsworth |
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The feast of Apollo is
celebrated
by the people,
and the suitors banquet in the palace.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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And, anyway, its
standing
in the yard
Under a ruinous live apple tree
Has nothing any more to do with me,
Except that I remember how of old,
One summer day, all day I drove it hard,
And some one mounted on it rode it hard,
And he and I between us ground a blade.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Halesus and
his Auruncan troops hasten thither;
Messapus
too, seed of Neptune, comes
up charioted.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Buckskin, Virginian: the
buckskin
kye, negroes.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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