And though thy matchless impudence may frame
Some mask of seeming courage--spite thy sneer,
And thou
assurest
sloth and skunk: "It does not smart!
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Holding fast upon his shell,
"Lady Jingly Jones,
farewell!
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Rumour told me
something
of a son of yours, who was returned from the
East or West Indies.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Orlando seeing him thus agitated,
Said quickly, "Abbot, be thou of good cheer;
He Christ believes, as
Christian
must be rated,
And hath renounced his Macon false;" which here
Morgante with the hands corroborated,
A proof of both the giants' fate quite clear:
Thence, with due thanks, the Abbot God adored,
Saying, "Thou hast contented me, O Lord!
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Byron |
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--
Sighing an elephant appear'd and bow'd 540
Before the fierce witch, speaking thus aloud
In human accent: "Potent
goddess!
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Rich clouds, for canopies, about her curled--
Fit emblems of the model of her world--
Seen but in beauty--not
impeding
sight
Of other beauty glittering thro' the light--
A wreath that twined each starry form around,
And all the opal'd air in color bound.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Before the mountains heav'd their heads
Beneath Thy forming hand,
Before this ponderous globe itself
Arose at Thy command;
That Pow'r which rais'd and still upholds
This
universal
frame,
From countless, unbeginning time
Was ever still the same.
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"
"An
engineer?
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Meet me by the sweet briar,
By the mole hill
swelling
there;
When the West glows like a fire
God's crimson bed is there.
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John Clare |
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As strange a question as
this was, I
hesitated
not a moment to tell him 'Stepney'; the parish in
which I live when in London.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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e emperour 289
went in to
euffamyans
hous;
They axyd hym of syche a man;
he sayde he knwe there of noone.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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He was not, however, quite desolate; he had for a
year or more been appointed on the excise, and had
superintended
a
district extending to ten large parishes, with applause; indeed, it
has been assigned as the chief reason for failure in his farm, that
when the plough or the sickle summoned him to the field, he was to be
found, either pursuing the defaulters of the revenue, among the
valleys of Dumfrieshire, or measuring out pastoral verse to the
beauties of the land.
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Robert Forst |
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KAPELLMEISTER:
Frosch im Laub und Grill im Gras,
Verfluchte
Dilettanten!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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In torment dire to sleep he lay;
Then, as a tempest echoing rolls,
Another genius whirled away,
Another
sovereign
of our souls.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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With a delicious sound the brook rushed by, and the branches
Swayed and sighed overhead in
scarcely
audible whispers.
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Longfellow |
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nurse, nurse, you don't
understand!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Nous
marchions
au soleil, front haut; comme cela,
Dans Paris!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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spes magis adridet: certe ne fraga rubosque
colligerem
uiridique
famem solarer hibisco,
tu facis et tua nos alit indulgentia farre;
tu nostras miseratus opes docilemque iuuentam
hiberna prohibes ieiunia soluere fago.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Strike, strike the villain, who has spread confusion amongst the
ranks of the Knights, this public robber, this yawning gulf of plunder,
this devouring Charybdis,[31] this villain, this villain, this
villain!
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Aristophanes |
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e beaute be
agreable
1240
to loken vpon.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Lear - Nonsense |
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That ev'ry guest might learn to suit his taste,
Behind had Conscience, real or mock'ry, placed;
Conscience
a guide who every evil spies,
But royal nurses early pluck out both his eyes!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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THE FLAMING CIRCLE
Though for fifteen years you have chaffed me across the table,
Slept in my arms and
fingered
my plunging heart,
I scarcely know you; we have not known each other.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Alfred
translates
Juti by Gēatas, but _Jutland_ by _Gotland_.
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Beowulf |
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Imagists |
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When the dynasty was falling, tumult and
disorder
arose,
Thieves and robbers roamed like wild beasts.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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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?
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Struggling in my father's hands,
Striving
against my swaddling-bands,
Bound and weary, I thought best
To sulk upon my mother's breast.
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blake-poems |
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See how the starry banner floats,
And sparkles in the morning ray:
While sweetly swell the fife's gay notes
In echoes o'er the
gleaming
bay:
Flash follows flash, as through yon fleet
Columbia's cannons loudly roar,
And valiant tars the battle greet,
That storms on Erie's echoing shore.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Ainsi dans la foret ou mon esprit s'exile
Un vieux
Souvenir
sonne a plein souffle du cor!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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LXII
This gallops on a horse without a bit;
This backs the
sluggish
ass, or bullock slow;
These mounted on the croup of centaur sit:
Those perched on eagle, crane, or estridge, go.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Nativity, once in the main of light,
Crawls to maturity, wherewith being crown'd,
Crooked
eclipses
'gainst his glory fight,
And Time that gave doth now his gift confound.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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And this child, so dowered, he had
intrusted
to the
keeping of his vicar, the State.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Thorough a thousand voices
Spoke the
universal
dame;
"Who telleth one of my meanings
Is master of all I am.
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Emerson - Poems |
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After all the friends had taken their last look at the dead
face, the young man
approached
the bier.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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And how can he be counselled that cannot see to read the
best
counsellors
(which are books), for they neither flatter us nor hide
from us?
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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After having vied with
returned
favours squandered treasure
More than a red lip with a red tip
And more than a white leg with a white foot
Where then do we think we are?
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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`If other cause aught doth yow for to dwelle,
That with your lettre ye me recomforte; 1395
For though to me your absence is an helle,
With
pacience
I wol my wo comporte,
And with your lettre of hope I wol desporte.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Word over all,
beautiful
as the sky!
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Whitman |
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e mounte3,
[E] Vch hille hade a hatte, a myst-hakel huge;
Broke3 byled, & breke, bi bonkke3 aboute,
Schyre
schaterande
on schore3, ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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RECUEILLEMENT
Sois sage, o ma Douleur, et tiens-toi plus tranquille,
Tu reclamais le Soir; il descend; le voici:
Une
atmosphere
obscure enveloppe la ville,
Aux uns portant la paix, aux autres le souci.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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That a
passionate
intense
Love be sired,
One by my body well-desired,
Yet I'd rather of you demand
A kiss than any other woman,
So why does my love refuse me
When she knows I need her truly?
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Troubador Verse |
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Nor is it merely that we can discern in Christ that close union of
personality with perfection which forms the real distinction between the
classical and
romantic
movement in life, but the very basis of his nature
was the same as that of the nature of the artist--an intense and
flamelike imagination.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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And were you saved,
And I
condemned
to be
Where you were not,
That self were hell to me.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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And how should I
presume?
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T.S. Eliot |
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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{4b} Beowulf's helmet has several boar-images on it; he is the "man
of war"; and the boar-helmet guards him as typical representative of
the
marching
party as a whole.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Pretty
friendship
'tis to rhyme
Your friends to death before their time
Moping melancholy mad:
Come, pipe a tune to dance to, lad.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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The
principal
confederates of Pugatchef surrounded him.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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This
unexpected
blow nearly killed my father.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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He confessed to having no talent for
industry, and that his forte was 'loafing and writing poems:' he was poor,
but had
discovered
that he could, on the whole, live magnificently on bread
and water.
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Whitman |
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Yeats |
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Lovely in the
distance
its blue colours, against the brown of the
streets.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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You and I must keep from shame
In London streets the
Shropshire
name;
On banks of Thames they must not say
Severn breeds worse men than they;
And friends abroad must bear in mind
Friends at home they leave behind.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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I am come; and
straight
will bear her to the tomb.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Now let me crunch you
With full weight of
affrighted
love.
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Stephen Crane |
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O cruel is the conquer-lust in Hohenzollern brains:
The paths they plot to gain their goal are dark with
shameful
stains:
No faith they keep, no law revere, no god but naked Might;--
They are the foemen of mankind.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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To Beowulf then the bale was told
quickly and truly: the king's own home,
of
buildings
the best, in brand-waves melted,
that gift-throne of Geats.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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How I adore you, you happy things, you dears
Riding the air and carrying all the time
Your little lanterns behind you: it cheers
My heart to see you
settling
and trying to climb
The cornstalks, tipping with fire their spears.
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Imagists |
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The diuell himselfe could not pronounce a Title
More
hatefull
to mine eare
Macb.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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3760
Thar no man aske if I was blythe,
Whan the savour soft and lythe
Strook to myn herte
withoute
more,
And me alegged of my sore,
So was I ful of Ioye and blisse.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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As bold Sir Plume had drawn
Clarissa
down,
Chloe stepped in, and killed him with a frown;
She smiled to see the doughty hero slain,
But at her smile the beau revived again.
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Alexander Pope |
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Young men are aroused in their passions by obstacles and by excitement;
I prefer to go slow, savoring
pleasures
secure.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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But near the casement wide to the north,
A gold is dying, in accord with the decor
Perhaps, those
unicorns
dashing fire at a nixie,
She who, naked and dead in the mirror, yet
In the oblivion enclosed by the frame, is fixed
As soon by scintillations as the septet.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Meredith - Poems |
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Then,
starting
with the very first verse, each character
played his part; all spoke, both woman and slave and master, young girl
and old hag.
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Aristophanes |
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Joie
Des chantiers
riverains
a l'abandon, en proie
Aux soirs d'aout qui faisaient germer ces pourritures!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Hephaistus, orders must have thy attention,
Which the Father has enjoined on thee, this bold one
To the high-hanging rocks to bind
In indissoluble fetters of
adamantine
bonds.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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_45
For once amid the assembled Deities,
The laughter-loving Venus from her eyes
Shot forth the light of a soft starlight smile,
And boasting said, that she, secure the while,
Could bring at Will to the assembled Gods _50
The mortal tenants of earth's dark abodes,
And mortal offspring from a
deathless
stem
She could produce in scorn and spite of them.
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Shelley |
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Song breathed from all the forest,
The total air was fame;
It seemed the world was all torches
That
suddenly
caught the flame.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Sweet roses do not so;
Of their sweet deaths, are sweetest odours made:
And so of you, beauteous and lovely youth,
When that shall vade, by verse
distills
your truth.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Now
vndirstonde
{and} gadir it to gidir ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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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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Imagists |
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Keats - Lamia |
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The
rhetoric
of Vergil is soft and devious.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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What sighs aspire
To rise from my loving heart,
If it must
endlessly
grieve and suffer
Not quench its love, nor accept its lover!
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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But all I hear is silence,
And
something
that may be leaves or may be sea.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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(He
unbridles
and unsaddles the horse.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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"
Two early night-winged butterflies together
Be-chase
themselves
from halm to halm in jest,
The balk prepares from out the shrubs and weather,
The balm of evening for the soul distressed.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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It contains
also a masterly compliment to the expedition of GAMA, which is all along
represented as the harbinger and diffuser of the
blessings
of
civilization.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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You promis'd, when you parted with the King,
To lay aside life-harming heaviness
And
entertain
a cheerful disposition.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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Now if he woote that joie is transitorie,
As every joie of worldly thynge mot fle,
Thanne every tyme he that hath in memorie,
The drede of lesyng maketh hym that he
May in no parfyte
selynesse
be:
And if to lese his joie, he sette not a myte,
Than semeth it, that joie is worth ful lite.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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--Il n'est donc point de mere a ces petits enfants,
De mere au frais sourire, aux regards
triomphants?
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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It is unnecessary to point out the obvious
imitations
of the
Iliad, which have been purposely introduced.
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Thou clears the head o' doited Lear;
Thou cheers the heart o' drooping Care;
Thou strings the nerves o' Labour sair,
At's weary toil;
Thou even
brightens
dark Despair
Wi' gloomy smile.
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Robert Forst |
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When I speak of her also
You'll quickly judge I care
Seeing my
laughter
grow.
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Troubador Verse |
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"Les saules trempes, et des
bourgeons
sur les ronces--
C'est la, dans une averse, qu'on s'abrite.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Half a piece of red silk and a single yard of damask,
The
Courtiers
have tied to the oxen's collar, as the price
of a wagon of coal!
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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) Our
lecturer
tells us,
however, that he knows certain Chinese poets.
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Li Po |
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Si com' io fui, com' io dovea, seco,
dissemi: <
a
domandarmi
omai venendo meco?
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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CLXXXVI
And, after that, another vision came:
Himseemed
in France, at Aix, on a terrace,
And that he held a bruin by two chains;
Out of Ardenne saw thirty bears that came,
And each of them words, as a man might, spake
Said to him: "Sire, give him to us again!
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Chanson de Roland |
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TO TERZAH
Whate'er is born of mortal birth
Must be
consumed
with the earth,
To rise from generation free:
Then what have I to do with thee?
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blake-poems |
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"Fill thy hand with sands, ray
blossom!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Arthur, whose giddy son
neglects
the laws,
Imputes to me and my damned works the cause:
Poor Cornus sees his frantic wife elope,
And curses wit, and poetry, and Pope.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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