Rigaut de
Berbezilh
(fl.
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Troubador Verse |
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Ah, the wind has
shifted!
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Longfellow |
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" This remark of 'Old Charley's,' too, had
great effect upon the crowd; and one of the party was heard to ask,
very impressively, "how it
happened
that young Mr.
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Poe - 5 |
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How shall we fill a library with wit,
When Merlin's cave is half
unfurnished
yet?
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Where's he that
craftily
hath said,
The day of chivalry is dead?
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Sidney Lanier |
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And thou, who never yet of human wrong
Left the
unbalanced
scale, great Nemesis!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Suche
fantasyes
ben in myn hede
So I not what is best to do.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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But you, my chosen, who of you makes ready to breach
their
palisade
at the sword's point, and join my attack on their
fluttered camp?
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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LXXVIII
Once in the shining street,
In the heart of a
seaboard
town,
As I waited, behold, there came
The woman I loved.
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Sappho |
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'
The Priest sat by and heard the child;
In
trembling
zeal he seized his hair,
He led him by his little coat,
And all admired his priestly care.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Then fierce Tydides stoops; and from the fields
Heaved with vast force, a rocky
fragment
wields.
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Iliad - Pope |
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25
The
Macmillan
Co.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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And court the flower that
cheapens
his array.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Vt tibi tum toto pectore sollicitae
Sensibus
ereptis mens excidit!
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Earning his foemen-kinsmen's pay,
His king, forsooth, a Mede, his sire
A
Marsian?
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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aut Nomas arcanas tollat uersuta saliuas:
dicet
damnatas
ignea testa manus.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Your soul to the mercy of God
surrender!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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As years advanced, the boy with care he taught;
What suited best his age before him brought;
At five he showed him animals and flow'rs,
The birds of air, the beasts, their sev'ral pow'rs;
And now and then of hell he gave a hint,
Old Satan's wrath, and what might awe imprint,
How formed, and doomed to infamy below;
In
childhood
FEAR 's the lesson first we know!
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La Fontaine |
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Lost is the theme on which my fancy fed,
And turn'd to
mourning
my once tuneful lyre.
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Petrarch |
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Twalpennie
worth, a penny worth (English money).
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Hypsipyle
comes next, mournful, despised,
Wounded to see a stranger's love prevail
More than her own, a Greek.
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Petrarch |
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A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Nor less was my alarm,
When next my frame white down was seen to shroud,
While, 'neath the deadly leven, shatter'd lay
My first green hope that soar'd, too proud, in air,
Because, in sooth, I knew not when nor where
I left my latter state; but, night and day,
Where it was struck, alone, in tears, I went,
Still seeking it alwhere, and in the wave;
And, for its fatal fall, while able, gave
My tongue no respite from its one lament,
For the sad snowy swan both form and
language
lent.
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Petrarch |
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She well-nigh ruined me; but I'm resolved;
At
daybreak
I will put my troops in motion.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Risest from forth thy silent sea of pines,
How
silently!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Continued
use of this site implies consent to that usage.
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Ronsard |
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Marya arrived safely at Sofia, and,
learning
that the court at this time
was at the summer palace of Tzarskoe-Selo, she resolved to stop there.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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FOREWORD
IN the
opinions
of some of the deepest literary
thinkers of Germany, Stefan George finds a place as
the greatest poet of the day.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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The sun had sunk behind vast Tomerit,
The Laos wide and fierce came roaring by;
The shades of wonted night were gathering yet,
When, down the steep banks winding wearily
Childe Harold saw, like meteors in the sky,
The glittering
minarets
of Tepalen,
Whose walls o'erlook the stream; and drawing nigh,
He heard the busy hum of warrior-men
Swelling the breeze that sighed along the lengthening glen.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Why with the time do I not glance aside
To new-found methods, and to compounds
strange?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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surely not in singleness of heart
Should I have seen the light of evening fade
From smooth Cam's silent waters: had we met,
Even at that early time, needs must I trust
In the belief, that my maturer age, 310
My calmer habits, and more steady voice,
Would with an influence benign have soothed,
Or chased away, the airy wretchedness
That
battened
on thy youth.
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William Wordsworth |
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"
Dick had turned
northward
across the Park, but he was walking in the
spirit on the mud-flats with Maisie.
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Kipling - Poems |
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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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next year,
Unless I love thee
fondlier
than before,
And with each twelve month love thee more and more,
As much as lover's life can slay with yearning, 5
Alone in Lybia, or Hind's clime a-burning,
Be mine to encounter Lion grisly-eyed!
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Catullus - Carmina |
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,
_consume
with fire_: inf.
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Beowulf |
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The Foundation is committed to
complying
with the laws regulating
charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United
States.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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nemo me
lacrimis
decoret nec funera fletu
faxit.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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"_The play was first
performed
when Glaukinos was Archon, in the 2nd
year of the 85th Olympiad_ (438 B.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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"
Mine is a secret more pleasant, but even more
difficult
keeping:
Out of abundance of heart eagerly speaketh my mouth.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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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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ensuring the transport of tax
revenues
to the throne.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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]
[Footnote o:
Probably
in 1788.
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William Wordsworth |
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It dawns in Asia, tombstones show
And
Shropshire
names are read;
And the Nile spills his overflow
Beside the Severn's dead.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Still an
attentive
ear he lent
But could not fathom what she meant:
She was not deep, nor eloquent.
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Lewis Carroll |
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Farewell my shackles, though of pearl they be;
Such
precious
thraldom ne'er shall fetter me.
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Robert Herrick |
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" Thus alone
Yet forward on the' extremity I pac'd
Of that seventh circle, where the
mournful
tribe
Were seated.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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[43] Text has
erroneous
form.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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34
Seek not to know which song or saying yields 37
As long as tinted haze the
mountain
covered 38
Ye speak of raptures that are void and friendless 39
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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He (ere to Troy the
Grecians
cross'd the main)
Fed his large oxen on Percote's plain;
But when oppress'd, his country claim'd his care,
Return'd to Ilion, and excell'd in war;
For this, in Priam's court, he held his place,
Beloved no less than Priam's royal race.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Of women
everywhere
of pleasing face
A hundred and a thousand may be won;
But none beside me, or few others, live
Who can bestow the boon which I can give.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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To tell a tale of army, and of France,
Whilst proud
prerogative
in scornful guise.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Or an Eye of gifts & graces
showring
fruits & coined gold!
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blake-poems |
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Nature, the
gentlest
mother,
Impatient of no child,
The feeblest or the waywardest, --
Her admonition mild
In forest and the hill
By traveller is heard,
Restraining rampant squirrel
Or too impetuous bird.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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The legions who have bled
Had
elsewise
died in vain for our release.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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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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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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M uch better
elsewhere
to search for
A id: it would have been more to my honour:
R etreat I must, and fly with dishonour,
T hough none else then would have cast a lure.
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Villon |
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Yet--do he what
extremes
he may--
He cannot crush my life away!
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Aeschylus |
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The
Cathedral
is a torch, and the houses next to it begin to scorch.
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Imagists |
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1921
Fir-Flower Tablets
Houghton
Mifflin Co.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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We were
fighting
two foes--Time and Prussia--the moments were worth more
than troops.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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III
YOUTH TO THE POET
(TO OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES)
Strange spell of youth for age, and age for youth,
Affinity
between two forms of truth!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Pope disliked him because of his
criticism of the poet's
translation
of the 'Iliad', "good verses, but
not Homer.
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Alexander Pope |
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Of course I had money in my purse 76 to save you from
shivering
in the cold.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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I sometimes think that never blows so red
The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled;
That every
Hyacinth
the Garden wears
Dropt in its Lap from some once lovely Head.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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And though awhile against Time they make war,
These
buildings
still, yet it must be that Time
In the end, both works and names, will flaw.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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They seem to light up that funereal gloom,
And
mingling
in the folds of that white sheet,
Made it a cloud of blood.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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XIII
Not the raging fire's furious reign,
Nor the cutting edge of conquering blade,
Nor the havoc ruthless soldiers made,
In sacking you, Rome, ever and again,
Nor the tricks that fickle fortune played,
Nor envious centuries corrosive rain,
Nor the spite of men, nor gods' disdain,
Nor your own power in civil strife displayed,
Nor the impetuous storms that you withstood,
Nor the river-god's winding course in flood,
That has so often drowned you in its thunder,
Not all
combined
have so abased your pride,
As that this nothing left you, by Time's tide,
Still makes the world halt here, and gaze in wonder.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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(I'm
thinking
chiefly of the wheelbarrow.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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though the greenest woods be thy domain,
Alone they can drink up the morning rain:
Though a
descended
Pleiad, will not one
Of thine harmonious sisters keep in tune
Thy spheres, and as thy silver proxy shine?
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| Source: |
Keats |
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"
Gently, but firmly, I replied:
"Henry of Hoheneck I
discard!
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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Fast it sinketh, as a thing
Which its own nature does precipitate,
While thine doth close above it, mediating
Betwixt the stars and the
unaccomplished
fate.
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Thou, O my Grief, be wise and
tranquil
still,
The eve is thine which even now drops down,
To carry peace or care to human will,
And in a misty veil enfolds the town.
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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THE
HEADSMAN
(_grimly_): The time has come
To put you both to bed.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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The
unsuspecting
trees
Brought out their burrs and mosses
His fantasy to please.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Pine in the distance,
Patient through sun or rain,
Meeting with
graceful
persistence,
With yielding but rooted resistance,
The northwind's wrench and strain,
No memory of past existence
Brings thee pain;
Right for the zenith heading,
Friendly with heat or cold,
Thine arms to the influence spreading
Of the heavens, just from of old,
Thou only aspirest the more,
Unregretful the old leaves shedding
That fringed thee with music before,
And deeper thy roots embedding
In the grace and the beauty of yore;
Thou sigh'st not, 'Alas, I am older,
The green of last summer is sear!
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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Sydneian
showers
Of sweet discourse, whose powers
Can crown old Winter's head with flowers.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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, but its volunteers and
employees
are scattered
throughout numerous locations.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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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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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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What man, what hero, Clio sweet,
On harp or flute wilt thou
proclaim?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Therefore
put you in your best array, bid your
friends; for if you will be married to-morrow, you shall; and to
Rosalind, if you will.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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The poems of The Ruins of Rome belong to the beginning of his four and a half year
residence
in Italy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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It was the limit of my dream,
The focus of my prayer, --
A perfect, paralyzing bliss
Contented
as despair.
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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160
What hast thou spoken, Shaker of the shores,
Wide-ruling
Neptune?
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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"Some dialects are objected to--
For one, the _Irish_ brogue is:
And then, for all you have to do,
One pound a week they offer you,
And find
yourself
in Bogies!
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
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I was
splintered
and torn:
the hill-path mounted
swifter than my feet.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Well then, I pray, your price o' th'
consulship?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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VIII
With arms and vassals Rome the world subdued,
So that one might judge this single city
Had found her
grandeur
held in check solely
By earth and ocean's depth and latitude.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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_
HE
CONGRATULATES
BOCCACCIO ON HIS RETURN TO THE RIGHT PATH.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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Would it not be
wonderful?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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1200
I have botte lyttel tym to dragge thys lyfe;
Mie lethal tale, alyche a
lethalle
belle,
Dynne yn the eares of her I wyschd mie wyfe!
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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XLII
My future will not copy fair my past--
I wrote that once; and thinking at my side
My
ministering
life-angel justified
The word by his appealing look upcast
To the white throne of God, I turned at last,
And there, instead, saw thee, not unallied
To angels in thy soul!
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Every one eyed him
curiously, and
Tchekalinsky
greeted him cordially.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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What groves or lawns
Held you, ye Dryad-maidens, when for love-
Love all
unworthy
of a loss so dear-
Gallus lay dying?
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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There you'll lie
In noon's delight, with bees to flash above you,
Drown amid buttercups that blaze in the wind,
Forgetting
all save beauty.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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She looks into me
The unknowing heart
To see if I love
She has
confidence
she forgets
Under the clouds of her eyelids
Her head falls asleep in my hands
Where are we
Together inseparable
Alive alive
He alive she alive
And my head rolls through her dreams.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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44
This Poem is reprinted from the copy printed at London in 1772, with
a few
corrections
from a copy made by Mr.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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By
Richmond
I raised my knees
Supine on the floor of a narrow canoe.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Then indeed proof is clear, and the
treachery
of the
Grecians opens out.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Fell the corpse of the king into keeping of Franks,
gear of the breast, and that
gorgeous
ring;
weaker warriors won the spoil,
after gripe of battle, from Geatland's lord,
and held the death-field.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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The
bulkhead
double-doors were double-locked
And swollen tight and buried under snow.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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