In the first place, let me read to you a schoolboy
account of the genus Sphinx, of the family
Crepuscularia
of the order
Lepidoptera, of the class of Insecta--or insects.
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Poe - 5 |
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And I felt such a precious tear
Pall on my
withered
cheek,
And darn it!
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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I'll ---- you twain and ----
Pathic
Aurelius!
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Catullus - Carmina |
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CHORUS
Ah, but I fled to the shrines, I called to our helpers on high,
When the stone-shower roared at the
portals!
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Aeschylus |
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You've not surprised my secret yet
Already the cortege moves on
But left to us is the regret
of there being no connivance none
The rose floats at the water's edge
The maskers have passed by in crowds
It
trembles
in me like a bell
This heavy secret you ask now
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Appoloinaire |
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But of these five
centuries
only two count.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Then all my aids
Around me gather'd, and the Gods infused
Heroic
fortitude
into our hearts.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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He
wishes that the love of his country, and not zeal for the memory of
his brother, had
inspired
his actions.
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Tacitus |
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Duessa
descends
to Erebus and obtains the aid of Night, who
conveys the wounded Saracen in her chariot to AEsculapius to be healed of
his wounds.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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As turns, as flies, the woodman
In the
Calabrian
brake,
When through the reeds gleams the round eye
Of that fell speckled snake;
So turned, so fled, false Sextus,
And hid him in the rear,
Behind the dark Lavinian ranks,
Bristling with crest and spear.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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These are a prince's virtues: and they
that give him other
counsels
are but the hangman's factors.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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for so as euery
iugement
is ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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I am always
displeased by
circumstances
for which I cannot account.
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Poe - 5 |
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I called not thee to burial of my dead,
Nor count thy
presence
here a welcome thing.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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The old dog barked and
followed
the pursuit.
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John Clare |
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One morn, disputing with my tired soul,
And like a hero
stiffening
all my nerves,
I trod a suburb shaken by the jar
Of rolling wheels, where the fog magnified
The houses either side of that sad street,
So they seemed like two wharves the ebbing flood
Leaves desolate by the river-side.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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The Woman remains
in the
background
while_ HERACLES _comes forward.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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The flight of Cranes is most
famously
mentioned in Homer's Iliad.
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Ronsard |
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Despite the anguish of this sad affair,
When Chimene
Rodrigue
has secured
All my hopes are dead, my spirit cured.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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XX
Beloved, my Beloved, when I think
That thou wast in the world a year ago,
What time I sat alone here in the snow
And saw no footprint, heard the silence sink
No moment at thy voice, but, link by link,
Went
counting
all my chains as if that so
They never could fall off at any blow
Struck by thy possible hand,--why, thus I drink
Of life's great cup of wonder!
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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The compressed and punctuated translation is offered as an aid to
grasping
the poem as a whole, in a swift reading.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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129, 130;
He lifts the tube, and levels with his eye:
Straight
a short thunder breaks the frozen sky:
Ed.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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_Katharine Tynan_
THE JOURNEY
I went upon a journey
To
countries
far away,
From province unto province
To pass my holiday.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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The first Satan, by his face, was a creature of
doubtful
sex.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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It exists
because of the efforts of hundreds of
volunteers
and donations from
people in all walks of life.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Of fret, of dark, of thorn, of chill,
Complain
no more; for these, O heart,
Direct the random of the will
As rhymes direct the rage of art.
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Sidney Lanier |
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'Twas virtue only (or in arts or arms,
Diffusing blessings, or
averting
harms)
The same which in a sire the sons obeyed,
A prince the father of a people made.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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I lived on dread; to those who know
The
stimulus
there is
In danger, other impetus
Is numb and vital-less.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Franz said it shows
Power of religion, and it does, perhaps--
Religion
or morphine or poultices--God knows.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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'
She spoke; but the other sped lightly down the aery sky, girt about with
dark
whirlwind
on her echoing way.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Les tout petits enfants ont le coeur si
sensible!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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If you
received
the work electronically, the person or entity
providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to
receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund.
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Tennyson |
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In the wandering transparency
of your noble face
these
floating
animals are wonderful
I envy their candour their inexperience
Your inexperience on the bed of waters
Finds the road of love without bowing
By the road of ways
and without the talisman that reveals
your laughter at the crowd of women
and your tears no one wants.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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What conscience
dictates
to be done,
Or warns me not to do,
This, teach me more than Hell to shun,
That, more than Heaven pursue.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Do you mean those of the
beggar
Philoctetes?
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Aristophanes |
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Looking
continual
o'er the barren Deep.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Prima convien che tanto il ciel m'aggiri
di fuor da essa, quanto fece in vita,
per ch'io 'ndugiai al fine i buon sospiri,
se
orazione
in prima non m'aita
che surga su di cuor che in grazia viva;
l'altra che val, che 'n ciel non e udita?
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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nam, mihi quam dederit duplex Amathusia curam,
scitis, et in quo me torruerit genere,
cum tantum arderem quantum
Trinacria
rupes
lymphaque in Oetaeis Malia Thermopylis,
maesta neque assiduo tabescere pupula fletu
cessaret tristique imbre madere genae.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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"
"An
engineer?
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Would you deny the debt on that
account?
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Aristophanes |
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After having vied with
returned
favours squandered treasure
More than a red lip with a red tip
And more than a white leg with a white foot
Where then do we think we are?
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Wee, sleekit, cow'rin', tim'rous beastie,
O what a panic's in thy
breastie!
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Golden Treasury |
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_
[186] The Balkan Mountains separating Greece and Macedonia from the
basin of the Danube, and extending from the
Adriatic
to the Black
Sea.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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It was the hour of dawn, when in the cot
Kindling fresh fire, Ulysses and his friend
Noble Eumaeus dress'd their morning fare,
And sent the
herdsmen
with the swine abroad.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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But, to remedy this abuse,
penitentiaries
were established at
Rome, in which the confessors understood foreign languages.
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Petrarch |
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There is none like him, none of all
That e'er were laid in Persian
sepulchres!
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Aeschylus |
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Who is the
landlord?
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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In flooded trench, half numb to cold or pain,
Or
marching
through the desert sand
To some dread place that they may never gain.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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There is
tantalising
topsy-turvyism
in this, so that an editor who adopts it is almost compelled to select
Wordsworth's latest grouping, which was not always his best.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Thus issuing radiant with
majestic
pace,
Forth from the dome the imperial goddess moves,
And calls the mother of the smiles and loves.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Keats - Lamia |
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"
My words made such an
impression
on Saveliitch that he clasped his hands
and remained dumb and motionless.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Hatim Tai, a
well-known type of
Oriental
Generosity.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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How gayly murmur and how sweetly taste 670
The [Cc]
fountains
rear'd for you amid the waste!
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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I never hear of prisons broad
By soldiers battered down,
But I tug
childish
at my bars, --
Only to fail again!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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And then his
alchemy!
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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All human virtue, to its latest breath,
Finds envy never
conquered
but by death.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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as I listen'd with a heart forlorn,
The pulses of my being beat anew:
And even as life retains upon the drowned,
Life's joy rekindling roused a throng of pains--
Keen pangs of Love, awakening as a babe
Turbulent, with an outcry in the heart;
And fears self-willed, that shunned the eye of hope;
And hope that scarce would know itself from fear;
Sense of past youth, and manhood come in vain,
And genius given, and
knowledge
won in vain;
And all which I had culled in wood-walks wild,
And all which patient toil had reared, and all,
Commune with _thee_ had opened out--but flowers
Strewed on my corse, and borne upon my bier,
In the same coffin, for the self-same grave!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Through charity will no one take the lead,
And, by example, get her to
proceed?
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La Fontaine |
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17) to life, 156-65; going to Horeb, 166-73; his choosing Elisha, 174-7; burning up king Ahaziah's
messengers
(2 Kings i.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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There is a peculiar majesty about the
atmosphere of the little great--if I may be
permitted
so equivocal an
expression--which mere physical bulk alone will be found at all times
inefficient in creating.
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Poe - 5 |
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Some to the sun their insect-wings unfold,
Waft on the breeze, or sink in clouds of gold; 60
Transparent forms, too fine for mortal sight,
Their fluid bodies half dissolv'd in light,
Loose to the wind their airy garments flew,
Thin glitt'ring textures of the filmy dew,
Dipt in the richest
tincture
of the skies, 65
Where light disports in ever-mingling dyes,
While ev'ry beam new transient colours flings,
Colours that change whene'er they wave their wings.
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Alexander Pope |
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The happy winds their
timbrels
took;
The birds, in docile rows,
Arranged themselves around their prince
(The wind is prince of those).
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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The Hare
River Landscape with Hare
'River Landscape with Hare'
Abraham Genoels, Adam Frans van der Meulen,
Lodewijk
XIV, 1650 - 1690, The Rijksmuseun
Don't be fearful and lascivious
Like the hare and the amorous.
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Appoloinaire |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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But mark my prophecy, for it is true,
At famed Ulysses' house should he arrive,
His sides shall shatter many a footstool hurl'd
Against them by the
offended
princes there.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Bienheureux, j'allongeai les jambes sous la table
Verte: je
contemplai
les sujets tres naifs
De la tapisserie.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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"
Which
distracted
that virulent Bull.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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His father was ruined by
religious
persecution
in the reign of Mary, became a preacher in Elizabeth's reign, and died a
month before the poet's birth in 1573.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Haste was hers; she would hie afar
and save her life when the
liegemen
saw her.
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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For in a people pledged to idleness,
Like swollen tumour in diseased flesh,
Ambition is
engendered
readily.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Imprisoned
is the song,
It lingers and longs in the reeds where it lies;
Your young life is strong, but how much more strong
Is the longing that through your music sighs.
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Rilke - Poems |
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e
prophecie
ylome; 148
After hym ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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_vii_
Sin illos
deserant
fortissimos uiros,
magnum stuprum populo fieri per gentis.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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You've not
surprised
my secret yet
Already the cortege moves on
But left to us is the regret
of there being no connivance none
The rose floats at the water's edge
The maskers have passed by in crowds
It trembles in me like a bell
This heavy secret you ask now
?
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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CCLXI
In the admiral is much great virtue found;
He strikes Carlun on his steel helm so brown,
Has broken it and rent, above his brow,
Through his thick hair the sword goes
glancing
round,
A great palm's breadth and more of flesh cuts out,
So that all bare the bone is, in that wound.
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Chanson de Roland |
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His smile was luminously kind
Like glint of ivory enshrined,
Like a home longing undivined,
Like Christmas snows where dark ways wind,
Like sea-pearls about
turquoise
twined,
Like moonlight silver when combined
With a loved book's rare gold.
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Rilke - Poems |
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"I am telling you as
straight
as I can, but my head isn't as good as it
might be.
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Kipling - Poems |
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_ In 1608 there was
issued a proclamation containing "Orders
conceived
by the Lords of his
Maiestie's Privie Counsell and by his Highnesse speciall direction,
commanded to be put in execution for the restraint of killing and eating
of flesh the next Lent".
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Robert Herrick |
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How cordial is the
mystery!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Geschrieben
steht: Im Anfang war der Sinn.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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50 net
"Sleep on, 1 lie at heaven's high oriels Over the start that mumur as thye go
Lighting
your lattice window far below:
And every star some of the glory spells Whereof 1 know.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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--
though thou wast the bane {9a} of thy
brethren
dear,
thy closest kin, whence curse of hell
awaits thee, well as thy wit may serve!
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Better by far their heads be shorn away,
Than that
ourselves
lose this clear land of Spain,
Than that ourselves do suffer grief and pain.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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This translation or rather
adaptation
contains many of the two hundred or so fragments, in some cases fragments of the fragments, excluding things I found too partial or obscure to resonate.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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To this
perfection
of
nature in our poet we require exercise of those parts, and frequent.
| Guess: |
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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"
Now I could not answer him, most
strangely
Touched me those old words I knew so well.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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"
He found other teachers--of a
tenderer
nature and softer influence.
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The shadows, maimed and antic,
Gesture and shape distort,
Like mockery of a demon dumb
Out of the hell-din whence they come
That dogs them for his sport:
But as if dead men were risen
And stood before me there
With a terrible fame about them blown
In beams of
spectral
air,
I see them, men transfigured
As in a dream, dilate
Fabulous with the Titan-throb
Of battling Europe's fate;
For history's hushed before them,
And legend flames afresh,--
Verdun, the name of thunder,
Is written on their flesh.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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By all the
conscious
villain fears below!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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You've stolen away that great power
My beauty
ordained
for me
Over priests and clerks, my hour,
When never a man I'd see
Would fail to offer his all in fee,
Whatever remorse he'd later show,
But what was abandoned readily,
Beggars now scorn to know.
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Villon |
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HAVE YOU NOTHING TO SAY FOR
YOURSELF?
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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And what, if cheerful shouts at noon,
Come, from the village sent,
Or songs of maids, beneath the moon,
With fairy
laughter
blent?
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Updated editions will replace the
previous
one--the old editions
will be renamed.
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Robert Burns |
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Through green bamboos a deep road ran
Where dark
creepers
brushed our coats as we passed.
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Li Po |
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For ever sacred to the hero's fame,
These foaming straits shall bear his
deathless
name.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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The specious panorama of a year
But multiplies the image of a day,--
A belt of mirrors round a taper's flame;
And
universal
Nature, through her vast
And crowded whole, an infinite paroquet,
Repeats one note.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Mother of all,
indulgent
as she's great!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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--Thy lake, mid smoking woods, that blue and grey
Gleams,
streaked
or dappled, hid from morning's ray 1815.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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