Fame is
profitless
as pelf,
A good in Nature not allowed
They love me, as I love a cloud
Sailing falsely in the sphere,
Hated mist if it come near.
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Emerson - Poems |
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If you do not charge
anything
for copies of this
eBook, complying with the rules is very easy.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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are my Emanations Enion [Come Forth,] O Enion
We are become a Victim to the Living We hide in secret*
I have hidden thee Enion, in Jealous Despair Jerusalem in Silent Contrition O Pity Me
I will build thee a Labyrinth also O pity me O
Enionwhere
we may remain for ever alone
Why hast thou taken sweet Jerusalem from my inmost Soul
Let her Lay secret in the Soft recess of darkness & silence
It is not Love I bear to Enitharmon [Jerusalem?
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Blake - Zoas |
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Our God shall be
In all the future left, no kingly doll
Decked out with
dreadful
sceptre, steel, and stole,
But walk the earth--a man, in Charity.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Spoken by Miss Fontenelle on her benefit night,
November
26, 1792.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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He laid him down on the sun-burned earth
And
ravelled
a flower and looked away--
Play?
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Robert Forst |
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I will take them away with me,
I
insistently
rob them of their essence,
I must have it all before night,
To sing amid my green.
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Imagists |
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I was just coming to myself enough
To wonder where the cold was coming from,
When I heard Toffile
upstairs
in the bedroom
And thought I heard him downstairs in the cellar.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Constable
& Co.
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Imagists |
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In 1829, Emerson was called by the Second or Old North Church in Boston
to become the
associate
pastor with Rev.
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Emerson - Poems |
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" he shouted, long and loud;
And "Who wants my
potatoes?
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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And I am the only thing he could not endure:
And is it him I should
undertake
to defend?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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God is all fore-part; for, we never see
Any part
backward
in the Deity.
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Robert Herrick |
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Ships of the line, each one,
Ye to the
westward
run,
Always before the gale,
Under a press of sail,
With weight of metal all untold.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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The inanimate object and the
living creature in nature are not seen in the sharp contours of their
isolation; they are viewed and interpreted in the atmosphere that
surrounds them, in which they are enwrapped and so densely veiled that
the outlines are only dimly visible, be that atmosphere the mystic grey
of northern
twilight
or the dark velvety blue of southern summer nights.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Except for the limited right of
replacement
or refund set forth
in paragraph 1.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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There are seven pillars of Gothic mould,[6]
In Chillon's dungeons deep and old,
There are seven columns, massy and grey,
Dim with a dull imprisoned ray, 30
A sunbeam which hath lost its way,
And through the crevice and the cleft
Of the thick wall is fallen and left;
Creeping o'er the floor so damp,
Like a marsh's meteor lamp:[7]
And in each pillar there is a ring,[8]
And in each ring there is a chain;
That iron is a
cankering
thing,
For in these limbs its teeth remain,
With marks that will not wear away, 40
Till I have done with this new day,
Which now is painful to these eyes,
Which have not seen the sun so rise
For years--I cannot count them o'er,
I lost their long and heavy score
When my last brother drooped and died,
And I lay living by his side.
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Byron |
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zip *****
This and all
associated
files of various formats will be found in:
http://www.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Then a scream, shrill and high, rent the
shuddering
sky,
And they knew that some danger was near:
The Beaver turned pale to the tip of its tail,
And even the Butcher felt queer.
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Lewis Carroll |
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VI
See see the Chariot, and those rushing wheels,
That whirl'd the Prophet up at Chebar flood,
My spirit som transporting Cherub feels,
To bear me where the Towers of Salem stood,
Once glorious Towers, now sunk in guiltles blood; 40
There doth my soul in holy vision sit
In pensive trance, and anguish, and
ecstatick
fit.
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Milton |
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Why, how now, uncle
Gloucester!
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Shakespeare |
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Yea, spirit ails with loathing secretly
The irremediable force of being;
Unless, with free expatiate desire,
He shape into the endless burning flux
Of starry world blindly adventuring
Some steady
righteous
destiny for Spirit:
Even as dreaming brain fashions the fume
Of life asleep to marshall'd imagery.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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And fear not lest
Existence
closing your
Account, and mine, should know the like no more;
The Eternal Saki from that Bowl has pour'd
Millions of Bubbles like us, and will pour.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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She won without a single woman's wile,
Illumining
the earth with peerless smile.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Jove fix'd it certain, that
whatever
day
Makes man a slave, takes half his worth away.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Equitone,
Tell her I bring the
horoscope
myself:
One must be so careful these days.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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--The third
requisite
in our poet or maker is imitation, to
be able to convert the substance or riches of another poet to his own
use.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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BRANDER:
Marktschreier
sind's gewiss, ich wette!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Bring cypress, rosemary and rue
For him who kept his rudder true;
Who went at dawn to that high star
Where
Washington
and Lincoln are.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Where fierce the surge with awful bellow
Doth ever lash the rocky wall;
And where the moon most brightly mellow
Dost beam when mists of evening fall;
Where midst his harem's
countless
blisses
The Moslem spends his vital span,
A Sorceress there with gentle kisses
Presented me a Talisman.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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from what power hast thou this powerful might,
With
insufficiency
my heart to sway?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Well, I didn't quiver an eye,
And he
chattered
and there she sat;
And I fancied I heard her sigh--
But I wouldn't just swear to that.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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shall we never more
That sweet militia restore,
When gardens only had their towers,
And all the
garrisons
were flowers.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Count
Living
examples
offer greater powers;
A prince learns badly from bookish hours.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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At once, from 206
Westmoreland
MS.
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John Donne |
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840
Ynne honnoure, & a greater love, be dreste;
Botte I wylle call the mynstrelles roundelaie;
Perchaunce
the swotie sounde maie chafe your wiere[99] awaie.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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--
But, lying on thy breast one notable day,
Sudden
exceeding
agony of love
Made my mind a trance of infinite knowledge.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Garten
Margarete an
Faustens
Arm, Marthe mit Mephistopheles auf und ab spazierend.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Fabius
says that, in his time, his
countrymen
were still in the habit of
singing ballads about the Twins.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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The noble
craftsman
we promote,
Disown the knave and fool;
Each honest man shall have his vote,
Each child shall have his school.
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Emerson - Poems |
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A
practical
scheme is either a scheme that is already
in existence, or a scheme that could be carried out under existing
conditions.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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O lover, in this radiant world
Whence is the race of mortal men, 10
So frail, so mighty, and so fond,
That fleets into the vast
unknown?
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Sappho |
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Better, indeed, to die, and fairly give
Nature her debt, than
disappointed
live,
With each new sun to some new hope a prey,
Yet still to-morrow falser than to-day.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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)
So the Prince was tended with care:
One wrung foul ooze from his
clustered
hair;
Two chafed his hands, and did not spare;
But one propped his head that drooped awry
Till his eyes oped, and at unaware
They met eye to eye.
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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When
I was a child I was always thinking out
contrivances
for galvanizing
a corpse into life.
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Yeats |
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O poplar, you are great
among the hill-stones,
while I perish on the path
among the
crevices
of the rocks.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Does my joy
sometimes
erupt?
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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Some are
little and dwarfs; so of speech, it is humble and low, the words poor and
flat, the members and periods thin and weak, without
knitting
or number.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Let your Highnesse
Command vpon me, to the which my duties
Are with a most
indissoluble
tye
For euer knit
Macb.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Compliance
requirements
are not uniform and it takes a
considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up
with these requirements.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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I know how disagreeable it is to make use of hard words before a Lady;
but't is so much the concern of a Poet to have his works understood, and
particularly by your Sex, that you must give me leave to explain two or
three
difficult
terms.
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Alexander Pope |
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Wishes o'erjoyed with humble things,
A rank adjudged by toil-won merit,
Content that from
employment
springs,
A heart that in his labor sings;
A heritage, it seems to me,
A king might wish to hold in fee.
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James Russell Lowell |
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673, and the
examples
quoted there, e.
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John Donne |
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To me thou seem'st clothed in a holy halo,
My soul beholds thy soul through thy fair body;
E'en when my eyes are shut, I see thee still;
Thou art my daylight, and
sometimes
I wish
That Heaven had made me blind that thou might'st be
The sun that lighted up the world for me.
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Hugo - Poems |
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A grave, on which to rest from
singing?
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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I see they lay
helpless
& naked: weeping
And none to answer, none to cherish thee with mothers smiles.
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blake-poems |
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unless a
copyright
notice is included.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Public domain books are our gateways to the past, representing a wealth of history, culture and knowledge that's often
difficult
to discover.
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Meredith - Poems |
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L
Amongst these mightie men were wemen mixt,
Proud wemen, vaine,
forgetfull
of their yoke:
The bold Semiramis,?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Oh, starry heavens looking on the shame,
No brow but reddens with
resentful
flame--
And yet the silent people do not stir!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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He was for
Hrothgar
of heroes the dearest,
of trusty vassals betwixt the seas,
whom she killed on his couch, a clansman famous,
in battle brave.
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Nulla ignoranza mai con tanta guerra
mi fe
desideroso
di sapere,
se la memoria mia in cio non erra,
quanta pareami allor, pensando, avere;
ne per la fretta dimandare er' oso,
ne per me li potea cosa vedere:
cosi m'andava timido e pensoso.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Nor smile, nor tear, nor
haughtiest
lord's command,
Avails t' unclasp the cold and closed hand.
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Hugo - Poems |
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" the Bellman cried,
As he landed his crew with care;
Supporting each man on the top of the tide
By a finger
entwined
in his hair.
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Lewis Carroll |
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- You comply with all other terms of this
agreement
for free
distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm works.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Let me hurl off the
damnable
hound in the sea!
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Sidney Lanier |
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I drive the
chickens
up into the trees, 4 and then hear a knock at my ramshackle gate.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Neither
academic
nor
spouting the jargon of the usual critic, the Salons of Baudelaire are
the production of a humanist.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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In 804 on the death of his father, and again in 811 on the death of his
mother, he spent periods of
retirement
on the Wei river near Ch'ang-an.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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A sound breaks the misty stillness,
And quickly he glances around;
Through the mist, forms like
towering
giants
Seem rising out of the ground;
A challenge, the firelock flashes,
A sword cleaves the quivering air,
And the sentry lies dead by the postern,
Blood staining his bright yellow hair.
| Guess: |
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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--A wise tongue should not be
licentious and wandering; but moved and, as it were, governed with
certain reins from the heart and bottom of the breast: and it was
excellently said of that philosopher, that there was a wall or parapet of
teeth set in our mouth, to restrain the petulancy of our words; that the
rashness of talking should not only be retarded by the guard and watch of
our heart, but be fenced in and
defended
by certain strengths placed in
the mouth itself, and within the lips.
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Virgilio
inverso me queste cotali
parole uso; e mai non furo strenne
che fosser di piacere a queste iguali.
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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The first line of the
new tablet
corresponds
to Tablet I, Col.
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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At night if he
suddenly
screams and wakes,
Do they bring him only a few small cakes, or a LOT,
For the Akond of Swat?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
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She found a secret joy
In horror for itself alone,
Thus Nature doth our souls alloy,
Thus her
perversity
hath shown.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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you proud, friendly, free
Manhattanese!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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Qu'on
patiente
et qu'on s'ennuie,
C'est si simple!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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He needs something
which everyone knows about, something which indisputably, and
admittedly, _has been_ a human experience; and even Grendel, the fiend
of the marshes, was, we can clearly see, for the poet of _Beowulf_ a
figure profoundly and generally accepted as not only true but real;
what, indeed, can be more real for poetry than a
devouring
fiend which
lives in pestilent fens?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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SAILING SHIPS
Lying on Downs above the wrinkling bay
I with the kestrels shared the cleanly day,
The candid day; wind-shaven, brindled turf;
Tall cliffs; and long sea-line of marbled surf
From Cornish Lizard to the Kentish Nore
Lipping the bulwarks of the English shore,
While many a lovely ship below sailed by
On unknown errand, kempt and leisurely;
And after each, oh, after each, my heart
Fled forth, as, watching from the Downs apart,
I shared with ships good joys and fortunes wide
That might befall their beauty and their pride;
Shared first with them the blessèd void repose
Of oily days at sea, when only rose
The porpoise's slow wheel to break the sheen
Of satin water indolently green,
When for'ard the crew, caps tilted over eyes,
Lay heaped on deck; slept; mumbled; smoked; threw dice;
The sleepy summer days; the summer nights
(The coast pricked out with rings of harbour-lights),
The
motionless
nights, the vaulted nights of June
When high in the cordage drifts the entangled moon,
And blocks go knocking, and the sheets go slapping,
And lazy swells against the sides come lapping;
And summer mornings off red Devon rocks,
Faint inland bells at dawn and crowing cocks;
Shared swifter days, when headlands into ken
Trod grandly; threatened; and were lost again,
Old fangs along the battlemented coast;
And followed still my ship, when winds were most
Night-purified, and, lying steeply over,
She fled the wind as flees a girl her lover,
Quickened by that pursuit for which she fretted,
Her temper by the contest proved and whetted.
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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"
When the painted birds laugh in the shade,
Where our table with
cherries
and nuts is spread:
Come live, and be merry, and join with me,
To sing the sweet chorus of "Ha, ha, he!
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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Lilamani, aetat 1
Limpid jewel of delight
Severed from the tender night
Of your
sheltering
mother-mine,
Leap and sparkle, dance and shine,
Blithely and securely set
In love's magic coronet.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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From--" Days"
As on the
languorous
settle
Slumber evaded me long,
Then bring me no wondrous saga,
Nor sooth me with slumbrous song
From maidens of mythical regions
That favoured my fancy erewhile,
But snare me into your bondage
Flute-players from the Nile.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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E'en as thou played'st, from thee
snatched
I (O honied Juventius!
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Catullus - Carmina |
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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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T.S. Eliot |
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A peaceful
rumbling
there,
The town's at our feet.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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So that not fainting, but refresht and astonisht
And strangely spirited and
divinely
angry
My body may arise out of its passion,
Out of being enjoyed by this fiend's flesh.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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'
hoc ut dixit, Amor,
sinistra
ut ante,
dextram sternuit approbationem.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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All talk like this, but as soon as they secure my favours and
grow rich, their
wickedness
knows no bounds.
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Aristophanes |
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Forthwith
his bow he bent,
And wedded string and arrow,
And struck me, that it went
Quite through my heart and marrow
Then laughing loud, he flew
Away, and thus said flying,
Adieu, mine host, adieu,
I'll leave thy heart a-dying.
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Robert Herrick |
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I wolde han caught hit, and anoon 395
Hit fledde, and was fro me goon;
And I him folwed, and hit forth wente
Doun by a floury grene wente
Ful thikke of gras, ful softe and swete,
With floures fele, faire under fete, 400
And litel used, hit seemed thus;
For bothe Flora and Zephirus,
They two that make floures growe,
Had mad hir
dwelling
ther, I trowe;
For hit was, on to beholde, 405
As thogh the erthe envye wolde
To be gayer than the heven,
To have mo floures, swiche seven
As in the welken sterres be.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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But none the less the world
believed
that they
Unto the powers of hell their souls had sold.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Patience and Labor and solemn-souled Trial,
Foiled, still beginning,
Soiled, but not sinning,
Toil through the
stertorous
death of the Night,
Toil when wild brother-wars new-dark the Light,
Toil, and forgive, and kiss o'er, and replight.
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Sidney Lanier |
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He married his 'step-daughter' Anor, to his son, later Guilhem X, and in turn their daughter Alianor (Eleanor), Duchess of
Aquitaine
and Countess of Poitou, became Queen of France, and by her second marriage to Henry, Duke of Normandy, later Henry II, became Queen of England also.
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Troubador Verse |
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In 2001, the Project
Gutenberg
Literary
Archive Foundation was created to provide a secure
and permanent future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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"_
God now
commands
the multi-colored bands
Of angels to intrude and slay the beast
That His good sons may have a feast of food.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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XLI
In my own shire, if I was sad
Homely comforters I had:
The earth, because my heart was sore,
Sorrowed for the son she bore;
And
standing
hills, long to remain,
Shared their short-lived comrade's pain.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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_Ninth Edition_,
_December
1909_.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Each
character
on which my eye reposes
Nature in act before my soul discloses.
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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[20]
_Carousal
of Jolly Companions_.
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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