If Literature is but praise of life, if our writers are not to plead
the
National
Cause, nor insist upon the Ten Commandments, nor upon the
glory of their country, what part remains for it, in the common life
of the country?
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I know, I cherish, and detect the cheat
Of every hour; but still, with eager feet
And fervent hope, pursue the flying fair,
And still for
promised
rapture meet despair.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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IV
Into the darkness fared the outcast Queen;
Fearless her face, and
searching
with proud gaze
The impenetrable hour.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Dark grow the windows,
And quenched is the fire;
Sound fades into silence,--
All
footsteps
retire.
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Longfellow |
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Beyond the seas we know stretch seas unknown,
Blue and bright-colored for our dim and green;
Beyond the lands we see, stretch lands unseen
With many-tinted tangle overgrown;
And icebound seas there are like seas of stone,
Serenely
stormless
as death lies serene;
And lifeless tracks of sand, which intervene
Betwixt the lands where living flowers are blown.
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Christina Rossetti |
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But pass we on, nor waste
Our words; for so each language is to him,
As his to others,
understood
by none.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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I forget what part of
Scotland
had the honour of giving him birth; but
he was the son of obscurity and misfortune.
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Robert Burns |
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All is hot and fierce and passionate, ardent and
unashamed in its exulting and
importunate
desire for life and
love.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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After a vigorous
outburst
against the degrading scramble among
impoverished clients for doles from their patrons, and a mordant
onslaught upon the gluttony of the niggardly rich, Juvenal sees in his
age the high-water mark of iniquity.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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And why on
horseback
have you set 10
Him whom you love, your Idiot Boy?
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William Wordsworth |
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Note: Selene, the Moon, loved
Endymion
on Mount Latmos, while he slept.
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Ronsard |
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Would you that spangle of
Existence
spend
About THE SECRET--quick about it, Friend!
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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What use in
darkness
mirror to uphold?
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Hugo - Poems |
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And when it showed this relic, damp,
To that father
attempting
an inimical smile,
The solitude shuddered, azure, sterile.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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But high upon the palace Ida stood
With Psyche's babe in arm: there on the roofs
Like that great dame of
Lapidoth
she sang.
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Tennyson |
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EARTH'S ANSWER
Earth raised up her head
From the
darkness
dread and drear,
Her light fled,
Stony, dread,
And her locks covered with grey despair.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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There saw the King
marvellous
give and take;
But he knew not which fell, nor which o'ercame.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Will you let me go, you
accursed
animal?
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Aristophanes |
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Glories of long-held desire, Ideas
Were all exalted in me, to see
The Iris family appear
Rising to this new duty,
But the sister sensible and fond
Carried her look no further
Than a smile, and as if to understand
I
continue
my ancient labour.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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And if I gain, -- oh, gun at sea,
Oh, bells that in the
steeples
be,
At first repeat it slow!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Yet she is not by
any means a mere blameless ideal heroine; and the
character
which
Euripides gives her makes an admirable foil to that of Admetus.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Where flight avails not, though 'tis death to stay;
But, if a dread more great
Restrain'd me not, despair would find a way,
Speedy and short, my
lingering
pains to close,
--Hers then the crime who still no mercy shows.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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_
UN FANTOME
I
LES TENEBRES
Dans les caveaux d'insondable tristesse
Ou le Destin m'a deja relegue;
Ou jamais n'entre un rayon rose et gai;
Ou, seul avec la Nuit, maussade hotesse,
Je suis comme un peintre qu'un Dieu moqueur
Condamne
a peindre, helas!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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_
DEAR MADAM,
Will you take the effusions, the
miserable
effusions of low spirits,
just as they flow from their bitter spring?
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Robert Burns |
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The tired flocks come in
Whose bleating ceases to repeat,
Whose
wandering
is done.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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All grating discords melt,
No
dissonant
note is dealt,
And though thy voice be shrill
Like rasping file on steel,
Such is the temper of the air,
Echo waits with art and care,
And will the faults of song repair.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Smoothed
by long fingers,
Asleep .
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T.S. Eliot |
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I am
resolved
to die.
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Longfellow |
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Where'er the radiance of thy coming fall,
Shall dawn for thee her saffron
footcloths
spread,
Sunset her purple canopies and red,
In serried splendour, and the night unfold
Her velvet darkness wrought with starry gold
For kingly raiment, soft as cygnet-down.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Being of a
perverse
nature, his Derves ruined by abuse of
drink and drugs, the landscapes of his imagination were more beautiful
than Nature herself.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Seven of these he
restored
in printing his
second edition, as noted on p.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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in thy bright, clear flow
Of crystal, wandering water,
Thou art an emblem of the glow
Of beauty--the unhidden heart--
The playful
maziness
of art
In old Alberto's daughter;
But when within thy wave she looks--
Which glistens then, and trembles--
Why, then, the prettiest of brooks
Her worshipper resembles;
For in my heart, as in thy stream,
Her image deeply lies--
His heart which trembles at the beam
Of her soul-searching eyes.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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That's splendid; tired of warfare, they seat
themselves
at
table; sing, sing to us how they still go on eating after they are
satiated.
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Aristophanes |
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_ I should think that I had made
progress
if you did
not repine so at your fate.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Return O Wanderer when the Day of Clouds is oer
So saying he sunk down into the sea a pale white corse*
{this and the
following
2 lines appear written over an erased strata LFS} So saying In torment he sunk down & flowd among her filmy Wooft
His Spectre issuing from his feet in flames of fire
In dismal gnawing pain drawn out by her lovd fingers every nerve t
She counted.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Spoils of a front none need restore,
Replacing frieze and architrave;--
Where flowers each stone rosette and metope brave;
Still is the haughty pile erect
Of the old
building
Intellect.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Without
parchment
brief, I bestow
On Filhol the verses I sing now,
In the plain Romance tongue, that he
May take them to Uc le Brun, anew.
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Troubador Verse |
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Wild I am now with heat:
O
Bacchus!
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Robert Herrick |
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Who stirs the waves by the women's
seraglio?
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19th Century French Poetry |
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"
I saw the battle, sair and teugh,
And reekin-red ran mony a sheugh;
My heart, for fear, gaed sough for sough,
To hear the thuds, and see the cluds
O' clans frae woods, in tartan duds,
Wha glaum'd at
kingdoms
three, man.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Your hearts are just a
standing
pool,
Your lives, a dyke!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Sound be your sleep, and
delectable
your dreams!
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Robert Forst |
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The King caresses him, and, it is said,
Has
promised
help.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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The whole Court
applauded wildly, like
soldiers
at a theatre, and the Judge began to say
what he thought.
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Kipling - Poems |
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where the Giant on the mountain stands,
His blood-red tresses deepening in the sun,
With death-shot glowing in his fiery hands,
And eye that scorcheth all it glares upon;
Restless it rolls, now fixed, and now anon
Flashing
afar,--and at his iron feet
Destruction cowers, to mark what deeds are done;
For on this morn three potent nations meet,
To shed before his shrine the blood he deems most sweet.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Else wherefore this, a thing to break the mind
With labouring in the wonder of it, that here
Being--the world and we--is
suffered
to be!
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Spring up--sway forward--
follow the
quickest
one,
aye, though you leave the trail
and drop exhausted at our feet.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Sythence
you wylle notte lette mie suyte avele,
Mie love wylle have yttes joie, altho wythe guylte;
Youre lymbes shall bende, albeytte strynge as stele;
The merkye seesonne wylle your bloshes hylte[115].
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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You'd have a
powerful
supporter, a capable understudy, if
you'd agree to introduce your humble servant.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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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.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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What's the
Businesse?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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O cities
memories
of cities
cities draped with our desires
cities early and late
cities strong cities intimate
stripped of all their makers
their thinkers their phantoms
Landscape ruled by emerald
live living ever-living
the wheat of the sky on our earth
nourishes my voice I dream and cry
I laugh and dream between the flames
between the clusters of sunlight
And over my body your body extends
the layer of its clear mirror.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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e on
Emperoure
his honde vp took,
And wolde haue taken out ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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_ He will make such a
marriage
as one day he'll repent.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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He
remained
in prison for
at least a year, but it is not known what became of him.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Zephyr returns; and in his jocund train
Brings verdure, flowers, and days serenely clear;
Brings Progne's twitter, Philomel's lorn strain,
With every bloom that paints the vernal year;
Cloudless the skies, and smiling every plain;
With joyance flush'd, Jove views his daughter dear;
Love's genial power
pervades
earth, air, and main;
All beings join'd in fond accord appear.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Et vous les ecoutez cognant leurs tetes chauves
Aux murs sombres,
plaquant
et plaquant leurs pieds tors
Et leurs boutons d'habit sont des prunelles fauves
Qui vous accrochent l'oeil du fond des corridors.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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e Emperoure
ysent, to be Man of valoure
And lernen chiualrie, 987
Of huntyng, & of Ryuere,
Of chesse
pleieyng
& of tablere:
Al nas wor?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Blows have more energy than airy words;
These arguments I'll use: nor
conscious
shame,
Nor threats, thy bold intrusion will reclaim.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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It
requires
more unselfishness.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Hugo - Poems |
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Men, when their death is on them, seem to stand
On a
precipitous
crag that overhangs
The abyss of doom, and in that depth to see,
As in a glass, the features dim and vast
Of things to come, the shadows, as it seems,
Of what have been.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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He was
animated
to greater zeal by compassion for his fellow-creatures.
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Shelley |
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Amidst them next,
A light of so clear
amplitude
emerg'd,
That winter's month were but a single day,
Were such a crystal in the Cancer's sign.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Imagists |
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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A map had
been procured for me from Moscow, which hung against the wall without
ever being used, and which had been tempting me for a long time from the
size and
strength
of its paper.
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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A lion camped beside a spring, where came the Bird
Of Jove to drink:
When, haply, sought two kings, without their courtier herd,
The moistened brink,
Beneath the palm--_they_ always tempt
pugnacious
hands--
Both travel-sore;
But quickly, on the recognition, out flew brands
Straight to each core;
As dying breaths commingle, o'er them rose the call
Of Eagle shrill:
"Yon crowned couple, who supposed the world too small,
Now one grave fill!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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I bedewed his grave with my tears, worked
a bar
sinister
on his family escutcheon, and, for the general expenses
of his funeral, sent in my very moderate bill to the transcendentalists.
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Poe - 5 |
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Land-dwellers here {20b} and liegemen mine,
who house by those parts, I have heard relate
that such a pair they have
sometimes
seen,
march-stalkers mighty the moorland haunting,
wandering spirits: one of them seemed,
so far as my folk could fairly judge,
of womankind; and one, accursed,
in man's guise trod the misery-track
of exile, though huger than human bulk.
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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'
'The
downhill
path is easy, come with me an' it please ye,
We shall escape the uphill by never turning back.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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For we've nothing in the house,
Save a tiny slice of lemon and a
teaspoonful
of honey,
And what to do for dinner--since we haven't any money?
| Guess: |
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Lear - Nonsense |
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A wretched life and worse death they'll win,
A
grievous
time, whether far or near;
And Saracen, Turk, Persian, Paynim,
Who, more than all, found you to dread,
Will grow in pride and power instead.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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--Ah, but I took his wit
Further than he e'er did; in women I found
The same
amazement
for my wakened eyes
As in the hills and waters.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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There, in my eye is our friend
Smellie; a man positively of the first
abilities
and greatest strength
of mind, as well as one of the best hearts and keenest wits that I
have ever met with; when you see him, as, alas!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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"
Among the
windings
of the violins
And the ariettes
Of cracked cornets
Inside my brain a dull tom-tom begins
Absurdly hammering a prelude of its own,
Capricious monotone
That is at least one definite "false note.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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O fairer even than Peace is when she comes
Hushing War's tumult, and
retreating
drums
Fade to a murmur like the sough of bees
Hidden among the noon-stilled linden-trees, 30
Bringer of quiet, thou that canst allay
The dust and din and travail of the day,
Strewer of Silence, Giver of the dew
That doth our pastures and our souls renew,
Still dwell remote, still on thy shoreless sea
Float unattained in silent empery,
Still light my thoughts, nor listen to a prayer
Would make thee less imperishably fair!
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James Russell Lowell |
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Tu contiens dans ton oeil le
couchant
et l'aurore;
Tu repands des parfums comme un soir orageux;
Tes baisers sont un filtre et ta bouche une amphore
Qui font le heros lache et l'enfant courageux.
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Chatterton
then wrote twice to have his MS.
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When my eyes are closed
Faces fragile, pale, yet flushed a little, like petals of roses :
If these things have confused my memories of her So that I could not draw her face
Even if I had skill and the colours,
Yet because her face is so like these things
They but draw me nearer unto her in my thought
And
thoughts
of her come upon my mind gently, As dew upon the petals of roses.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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[Sidenote E: She
approaches
the bed.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
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In an old corner
cupboard
by the wall
His books are laid, though good, in number small,
His Bible first in place; from worth and age
Whose grandsire's name adorns the title page,
And blank leaves once, now filled with kindred claims,
Display a world's epitome of names.
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John Clare |
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"
According
to Pope, it is only fools who are lost in wonder at the
beauties of a poem; wise men "approve," 'i.
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Alexander Pope |
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Under the penitential gates
Sustained
by staring Seraphim
Where the souls of the devout
Burn invisible and dim.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Back alive, I face these
children
and almost forget my hunger and thirst.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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[6] Sign whose
gunufied
form is read _aga_.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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A caste-mark on the azure brows of Heaven,
The golden moon burns sacred, solemn, bright
The winds are dancing in the forest-temple,
And
swooning
at the holy feet of Night.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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but yet thou mightst my seat forbear,
And chide thy beauty and thy
straying
youth,
Who lead thee in their riot even there
Where thou art forced to break a twofold truth:--
Hers by thy beauty tempting her to thee,
Thine by thy beauty being false to me.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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" their leader cried,
"Your fame already these our regions own,
How your bold prows from worlds to us unknown
Have brav'd the horrors of the southern main,
Where storms and
darkness
hold their endless reign,
Whose whelmy waves our westward prows have barr'd
From oldest times, and ne'er before were dar'd
By boldest leader: earnest to behold
The wondrous hero of a toil so bold,
To you the sov'reign of these islands sends
The holy vows of peace, and hails you friends.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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They have sent us five
thousand
troops, and driven along ten thousand horses.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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"Literary" epic is as close to its subject as "authentic"; but, as a
general rule, "authentic" epic, in response to its surrounding needs,
has a simple and concrete subject, and the closeness of the poet to this
is
therefore
more obvious than in "literary" epic, which (again in
response to surrounding needs) has been driven to take for subject some
great abstract idea and display this in a concrete but only ostensible
subject.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted
with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution
must comply with both
paragraphs
1.
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Hugo - Poems |
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I have seen Him in the watch-fires of a hundred
circling
camps;
They have builded Him an altar in the evening dews and damps;
I can read His righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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The old owls might have hallooed if they durst,
But joy just then was up and whistled bye
A merry tune which I had known full long,
But could not to my memory wake it back,
Until the
ploughman
changed it to the song.
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John Clare |
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The Lobster
Lobster on the Beach
'Lobster on the Beach'
Albert Flamen, 1664, The Rijksmuseun
Uncertainty, O my delights
You and I we go
As
lobsters
travel onwards, quite
Backwards, Backwards, O.
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Appoloinaire |
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