Quo tibi tum casu, pulcherrima Laudamia, 105
Ereptumst vita dulcius atque anima
Coniugium: tanto te absorbens vertice amoris
Aestus in abruptum detulerat barathrum,
Quale ferunt Grai Pheneum prope Cylleneum
Siccare emulsa pingue palude solum, 110
Quod quondam caesis montis fodisse medullis
Audit falsiparens Amphitryoniades,
Tempore quo certa Stymphalia monstra sagitta
Perculit imperio deterioris eri,
Pluribus
ut caeli tereretur ianua divis, 115
Hebe nec longa virginitate foret.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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No sleep that night the old man cheereth,
No prayer
throughout
next day he pray'd
Still, still, against his wish, appeareth
Before him that mysterious maid.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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I have seen eyes in the street
Trying to peer through lighted shutters,
And a crab one afternoon in a pool,
An old crab with
barnacles
on his back,
Gripped the end of a stick which I held him.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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The
smallest
scale upon his tail
Could hide six dolphins and a whale.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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"
"Never," says Guene, "so long as lives Rollanz,
From hence to the East there is no such vassal;
And proof also, Oliver his comrade;
The dozen peers he
cherishes
at hand,
These are his guard, with twenty thousand Franks.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Have years of care for thine and thee
Alike been all
employed
in vain?
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Byron |
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The nest was full of eggs and round--
I met a
shepherd
in the vales,
And stood to tell him what I found.
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John Clare |
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Now know we Spirit,
And Who, for ease of joy,
contriveth
Spirit.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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She reads to them at eventide
Of One who came to save;
To cast the captive's chains aside
And
liberate
the slave.
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Longfellow |
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"Nine prosperous days we plied the labouring oar;
The tenth
presents
our welcome native shore:
The hills display the beacon's friendly light,
And rising mountains gain upon our sight.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Behold, how
sorrowful
he turns away!
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Longfellow |
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TUTRSIS*
Then let us give
Corellia
charge o*the sheep.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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TO A BUDDHA SEATED ON A LOTUS
Lord Buddha, on thy Lotus-throne,
With praying eyes and hands elate,
What mystic rapture dost thou own,
Immutable
and ultimate?
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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"
"While I've a loaf they're welcome to my
blessing
and the chaff.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Whither fled Lamia, now a lady bright,
A full-born beauty new and
exquisite?
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Keats - Lamia |
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There's
something
wrong with your head.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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And whan he sawe how that I
Had chosen so ententifly 1720
The botoun, more unto my pay
Than any other that I say,
He took an arowe ful sharply whet,
And in his bowe whan it was set,
He
streight
up to his ere drough 1725
The stronge bowe, that was so tough,
And shet at me so wonder smerte,
That through myn eye unto myn herte
The takel smoot, and depe it wente.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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230
He, the young man carbuncular, arrives,
A small house agent's clerk, with one bold stare,
One of the low on whom
assurance
sits
As a silk hat on a Bradford millionaire.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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'Er petticoat was yaller an' 'er little cap was green,
An' 'er name was Supi-yaw-lat--jes' the same as Theebaw's Queen,
An' I seed her first a-smokin' of a whackin' white cheroot,
An' a-wastin'
Christian
kisses on an 'eathen idol's foot:
Bloomin' idol made o'mud--
Wot they called the Great Gawd Budd--
Plucky lot she cared for idols when I kissed 'er where she stud!
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Kipling - Poems |
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Grand are the forms of this body and nobly
positioned
each member.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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When I gaze on her hair's golden glow
And her body's fresh
delicate
fires,
I love her more than all else beside.
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Troubador Verse |
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You Thibet trader on the wide inland, or
bargaining
in the shops of Lassa!
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Whitman |
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Did you not hear it
whisper?
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Longfellow |
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Listen not to that
seductive
murmur,
That only swells my pain.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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And where suns peep, in every sheltered place,
The little early buttercups unfold
A
glittering
star or two--till many trace
The edges of the blackthorn clumps in gold.
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John Clare |
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A distant cliff
looks like a
phosphorescent
space on a hillside.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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"
VIII
Aphrodite of the foam,
Who hast given all good gifts,
And made Sappho at thy will
Love so greatly and so much,
Ah, how comes it my frail heart 5
Is so fond of all things fair,
I can never choose between
Gorgo and
Andromeda?
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Sappho |
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Thou wast no true
begetter
of my blood,
Nor she my mother who dares call me child.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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as they turned to depart, they saw the form of an Indian,
Watching them from the hill; but while they spake with each other,
Pointing with
outstretched
hands, and saying, "Look!
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Longfellow |
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Fear thou no
commands
of thy mother, nor refuse to obey her
counsels.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Boulte's sobs
overcame her, and she
addressed
herself to the man.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Heav'n
descended
Chief!
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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33 Buy him a
Captaines
place.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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what a
wretched
mother I!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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)
3
Have you thought there could be but a single
supreme?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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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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PREFACE
IT is thought that a selection from Oscar Wilde's early verses may be of
interest to a large public at present
familiar
only with the always
popular _Ballad of Reading Gaol_, also included in this volume.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Lindsay, begging him and family to breakfast if convenient, but at all
events to send Miss Lindsay;
accordingly
Miss Lindsay only comes.
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Robert Burns |
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Where is that wise girl Eloise,
For whom was gelded, to his great shame,
Peter Abelard, at Saint Denis,
For love of her enduring pain,
And where now is that queen again,
Who
commanded
them to throw
Buridan in a sack, in the Seine?
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Villon |
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The harmless rabbit gambols with its young
Across the
trampled
towing-path, where late
A troop of laughing boys in jostling throng
Cheered with their noisy cries the racing eight;
The gossamer, with ravelled silver threads,
Works at its little loom, and from the dusky red-eaved sheds
Of the lone Farm a flickering light shines out
Where the swinked shepherd drives his bleating flock
Back to their wattled sheep-cotes, a faint shout
Comes from some Oxford boat at Sandford lock,
And starts the moor-hen from the sedgy rill,
And the dim lengthening shadows flit like swallows up the hill.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Not only many in our towns have never witnessed it, but it is
scarcely remembered by the
majority
from year to year.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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]
Palace and ruin, bless thee
evermore!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Soon, soon shall Conquest's fiery foot intrude,
Blackening
her lovely domes with traces rude.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Elvire, my father's dead; and the first blade
With which
Rodrigue
fought, made him a shade.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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knowes best the termes established;
And he, that points the
Centonell
his roome,
Doth license him depart at sound of morning droome.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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She is not fair to outward view
As many maidens be;
Her
loveliness
I never knew
Until she smiled on me.
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Golden Treasury |
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The keepers of fat lambkins chant their loves
To silvan reeds, all in the grassy lea,
And
pleasure
Him who tends the flocks and groves
Of dark-leaved Arcady.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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On two days it steads not to run from thy grave,
The appointed, and the
unappointed
day;
On the first, neither balm nor physician can save,
Nor thee, on the second, the Universe slay.
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Emerson - Poems |
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This poem is peculiarly characteristic
of his tastes--wildly fanciful, full of brilliant imagery, and
discarding human interest and passion, to revel in the
fantastic
ideas
that his imagination suggested.
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Shelley |
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Bear me in mind, whom no one else will know;
Thou Whom Thy friends forsook, take Thou my part,
Of all forsaken in mine overthrow;
Carry me in Thy bosom, in Thy heart,
Carry me out of
darkness
into light,
To-morrow make me see Thee as Thou art.
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Christina Rossetti |
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1630
She has
punished
herself, and escaped my anger,
By seeking in the waves a far gentler torture.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Genius does the work; but the folk
is the
condition
in which genius does it.
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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A stalking oracle of awful phrase,
The
approving
_"Good!
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| Source: |
Byron |
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The tapers slowly fade
Thou
speedest
from these halls,
Now that thy love is dead--
And sound of weeping falls.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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uictor adest, magni magnum decus ecce triumphi,
uictor, qua terrae quaque patent maria,
horrida
barbaricae
portans insignia pugnae,
magnus ut Oenides utque superbus Eryx,
nec minus idcirco uestros expromere cantus
maximus et sanctos dignus inire choros.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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This group of erased lines, which appeared in pencil under lines 2-4 and, partially obscured by a note by Ellis, in the right margin, are written here with Erdman's suppositions and unrecoverable sections so marked EJC}
To plant divisions in the Soul of Urizen & Ahania
To conduct the Voice of Enion to Ahanias midnight pillow
Urizen saw & envied & his imagination was filled
Repining he contemplated the past in his bright sphere
Terrified with his heart & spirit at the visions of futurity
That his dread fancy formd before him in the unformd void
For Now Los &
Enitharmon
walkd forth on the dewy Earth
Contracting or expanding their all flexible senses
At will to murmur in the flowers small as the honey bee
At will to stretch across the heavens & step from star to star
Or standing on the Earth erect, or on the stormy waves
Driving the storms before them or delighting in sunny beams
While round their heads the Elemental Gods kept harmony
Thus livd Los driving Enion far into the deathful infinite {According to Erdman, there is some partially recoverable erased material written above this line and in the margin: '?
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Blake - Zoas |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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He wrote: "Manet has never seen Goya,
never El Greco; he was never in the
Pourtales
Gallery.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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his little floating bed
Swims on the mighty river's fickle flow,
A white dove's nest; and there at hazard led
By the faint winds, and
wandering
to and fro,
The cot comes down; beneath his quiet head
The gulfs are moving, and each threatening wave
Appears to rock the child upon a grave.
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Hugo - Poems |
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See, the ox comes home
With plough up-tilted, and the shadows grow
To twice their length with the
departing
sun,
Yet me love burns, for who can limit love?
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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For while they all were
travelling
home,
Cried Betty, "Tell us Johnny, do,
"Where all this long night you have been,
"What you have heard, what you have seen,
"And Johnny, mind you tell us true.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Bid him from fight to his own deeps repair,
Or breathe from
slaughter
in the fields of air.
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Iliad - Pope |
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"
—The
Rochester
Herald, Rochester, New York
— The Literary Digest, New York Rates, $1.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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She reads to them at eventide
Of One who came to save;
To cast the captive's chains aside
And
liberate
the slave.
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| Question: |
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Longfellow |
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"
'Twas dark
Thyestes
spoke.
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Euripides - Electra |
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Philocleon is a bigoted devotee of the malady of
litigiousness so typical of his
countrymen
and an enthusiastic attendant
at the Courts in his capacity of 'dicast' or juryman.
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Aristophanes |
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For _Ninsun_ as
mother of
Gilgamish
see SBP.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Me wouldst thou move to base,
inglorious
flight?
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Iliad - Pope |
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Here, as of old, your neighbour's
bordering
hedge,
That feasts with willow-flower the Hybla bees,
Shall oft with gentle murmur lull to sleep,
While the leaf-dresser beneath some tall rock
Uplifts his song, nor cease their cooings hoarse
The wood-pigeons that are your heart's delight,
Nor doves their moaning in the elm-tree top.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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While now I sojourn with sorrow, 5
Having remorse for my comrade,
What town is blessed with thy beauty,
Gladdened
and prospered?
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Sappho |
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Would
you submit to the caprices of fortune a glory
acquired
for so long a
time, and at so great a cost?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Petrarch |
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Meanwhile the wind falls with sundown; and weary and
ignorant
of the way
we glide on to the Cyclopes' coast.
| Guess: |
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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lest they say a lesser light
distraught
thee.
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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'tis a gala night
Within the
lonesome
latter years!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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That's all that's left already of our true play,
Where the pure poet's gesture, humble, vast
Must deny the dream, the enemy of his trust:
So that on the morning of his exalted stay,
When ancient death is for him as for Gautier,
The un-opening of sacred eyes, the being-still,
The solid tomb may rise, ornament this hill,
The
sepulchre
where lies the power to blight,
And miserly silence and the massive night.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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every vein & lacteal
threading
them among
Her woof of terror.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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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.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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is not HIS death-knell
knolled?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
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The only good
of these
inspectors
is to worry passers-by and rob us poor
folk.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Far be from me any
intention
of describing the siege of Orenburg, which
belongs to history, and not to a family memoir.
| 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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FAUST:
Wenn aus dem
schrecklichen
Gewuhle
Ein suss bekannter Ton mich zog,
Den Rest von kindlichem Gefuhle
Mit Anklang froher Zeit betrog,
So fluch ich allem, was die Seele
Mit Lock- und Gaukelwerk umspannt,
Und sie in diese Trauerhohle
Mit Blend- und Schmeichelkraften bannt!
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"'Fools that ye are (the savage thus replies,
His inward fury blazing at his eyes),
Or strangers, distant far from our abodes,
To bid me
reverence
or regard the gods.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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And
therefore
as a stranger give it welcome.
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Shakespeare |
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And he upon whom it was
conferred
honoured it evermore after.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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[The Whitefoords of Whitefoord,
interested
themselves in all matters
connected with literature: the power of the family, unluckily for
Burns, was not equal to their taste.
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Robert Burns |
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How few of the others,
Are men
equipped
with common sense.
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Villon |
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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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blake-poems |
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Even so, gentle, strong and wise and happy, 5
Through the soul and
substance
of my being,
Comes the breath of thy great love to me-ward,
O thou dear mortal.
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Sappho |
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Oh, gentle face, radiant with happy smile,
And eager
prattling
tongue that knows no guile,
Quick changing tears and bliss;
Thy soul expands to catch this new world's light,
Thy mazed eyes to drink each wondrous sight,
Thy lips to taste the kiss.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Daughter
of the lands did you wait for your poet?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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What fate
For
charming
dwarfs who never meant
To anger Hercules!
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Hugo - Poems |
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" he cried,
"Is the old lady of the
_Dammthor_
still alive?
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Your
treatment
of guests allows a certain laxness, our offices allow us to have contact.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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[Sidenote: But human rule has its limits, therefore
wherever
power
ceases there impotence enters, bringing misery along with it.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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He
returned
home and threw himself down on his bed without
undressing.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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