Saddled, with bridle hanging at the sell,
Their steeds were feeding, ready for the field,
Within a chamber, near the palace door,
With straw and barley heaped in
plenteous
store.
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XXIII
"To
Sarraguce
I must repair, 'tis plain;
Whence who goes there returns no more again.
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Chanson de Roland |
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IV
If I had been a boy,
I would have worshiped your grace,
I would have flung my worship
before your feet,
I would have
followed
apart,
glad, rent with an ecstasy
to watch you turn
your great head, set on the throat,
thick, dark with its sinews,
burned and wrought
like the olive stalk,
and the noble chin
and the throat.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Our eyes dried up and
withered?
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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So to the bull Europa gave
Her beauteous form, and when she saw
The
monstrous
deep, the yawning grave,
Grew pale with awe.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Virtues
Are forced upon us by our
impudent
crimes.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Now, of my
threescore
years and ten,
Twenty will not come again,
And take from seventy springs a score,
It only leaves me fifty more.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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"I fear thee, ancient
Mariner!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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They have rights who dare
maintain
them; we are traitors to our sires,
Smothering in their holy ashes Freedom's new-lit altar-fires;
Shall we make their creed our jailer?
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THE BITTER FIT, the
bitterness
of death.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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He needes not our mistrust, since he deliuers
Our Offices, and what we haue to doe,
To the
direction
iust
1.
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Cynthia is stolen from him_
ERIPITVR nobis iam pridem cara puella:
et tu me
lacrimas
fundere, amice, uetas?
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Summoning
spirits isn't "Button, button,
Who's got the button?
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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MEPHISTOPHELES:
Und mir ist's wie dem Katzlein schmachtig,
Das an den Feuerleitern schleicht,
Sich leis dann um die Mauern streicht;
Mir ist's ganz
tugendlich
dabei,
Ein bisschen Diebsgelust, ein bisschen Rammelei.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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The gods themselves and the almightier fates
Cannot avail to harm
With outward and misfortunate chance 5
The radiant
unshaken
mind of him
Who at his being's centre will abide,
Secure from doubt and fear.
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Sappho |
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Clayfield and Rudhall
believed
Chatterton incapable of
composing Rowley's poems.
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Pray for us, now beyond violence,
To the Son of the Virgin Mary,
So of grace to us she's not chary,
Shields us from Hell's
lightning
fall.
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Villon |
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Fate slew him, but he did not drop;
She felled -- he did not fall --
Impaled him on her
fiercest
stakes --
He neutralized them all.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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I'd
Be
satisfied
if he'd be satisfied.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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on thy
voiceless
shore
The heroic lay is tuneless now--
The heroic bosom beats no more.
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Byron |
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"
Then he riz and walked to his little bull-cart,
And made like he neither had seen nor heerd
Nor knowed that I knowed of his
raskilly
part,
And he tried to look as if HE wa'nt feared,
And gathered his lines like he never keered,
And he driv down the road 'bout a quarter or so,
And then looked around, and I hollered "Hello,
Look here, Mister Ellick Garry!
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Sidney Lanier |
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14)
suggests
hwǣr hēo.
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Beowulf |
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Chimene
To let you live then is the best for me;
I would that the
blackest
voice of envy
Might praise me to the skies and pity too,
Knowing I love and must denounce you.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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And every human heart that breaks,
In prison-cell or yard,
Is as that broken box that gave
Its
treasure
to the Lord,
And filled the unclean leper's house
With the scent of costliest nard.
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Wilde - Poems |
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But something whispered "It will soon be done:
Bands cannot always play, nor ladies smile:
Endure with
patience
the distasteful fun
For just a little while!
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Lewis Carroll |
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) is in this
springald!
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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A washed-out
smallpox
cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone With all the old nocturnal smells
That cross and cross across her brain.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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No
footstep
stirred: the hated world an slept,
Save only thee and me.
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Poe - 5 |
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Is there no way
left, then, I thought, of being natural, of being _naif_, which means
nothing more than native, of
belonging
to the age and country in which
you are born?
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James Russell Lowell |
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The invalidity or unenforceability of any
provision of this
agreement
shall not void the remaining provisions.
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Stephen Crane |
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They were at once ascribed to Poe, and in order to satisfy
questioners, an editorial
paragraph
subsequently appeared saying
they were by "A.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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And we have
staunched
the damned wound and deep,
The cavern-carven wound.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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'140' Louis XIV of France,
the great enemy of England at this time
'--Rome:'
here used to denote the Roman
Catholic
Church.
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Alexander Pope |
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The polemics of historical schools were a cross for
him to bear, and he wore his
prejudices
lightly.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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A good and vertuous Nature may recoyle
In an
Imperiall
charge.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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So please your Majesty, I would I could
Quit all offences with as clear excuse
As well as I am
doubtless
I can purge
Myself of many I am charged withal.
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Shakespeare |
|
'
There are also
ministers
of ugliness and all evil, like those that came
to Prometheus--
'As from the rose which the pale priestess kneels
To gather for her festal crown of flowers,
The aerial crimson falls, flushing her cheek,
So from our victim's destined agony
The shade which is our form invests us round;
Else we are shapeless as our mother Night.
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Yeats |
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Then this insult touches me, the honour
Of one whom I have made my son's tutor;
To contest my choice, is to
challenge
me,
Make an assault upon the power supreme.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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We have
lingered
in the chambers of the sea
By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown
Till human voices wake us, and we drown.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Still ever that slip and slide
Of the feet that shuffle or glide,
And linger or haste through the
populous
waste
Of the shadowy, dim-lit square!
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Þā ymbe hlǣw riodan hilde-dēore,
æðelinga bearn ealra twelfa,
woldon ceare cwīðan, kyning mǣnan,
word-gyd wrecan and ymb wer sprecan,
3175 eahtodan eorl-scipe and his ellen-weorc
duguðum dēmdon, swā hit ge-dēfe bið,
þæt mon his wine-dryhten wordum herge,
ferhðum
frēoge, þonne hē forð scile
of līc-haman lǣne weorðan.
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Beowulf |
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Like
warbling
water clucks the talk.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
|
V
Our fathers found her in the woods
Where Nature meditates and broods,
The seeds of unexampled things
Which Time to
consummation
brings
Through life and death and man's unstable moods;
They met her here, not recognized, 80
A sylvan huntress clothed in furs,
To whose chaste wants her bow sufficed,
Nor dreamed what destinies were hers:
She taught them bee-like to create
Their simpler forms of Church and State;
She taught them to endue
The past with other functions than it knew,
And turn in channels strange the uncertain stream of Fate;
Better than all, she fenced them in their need
With iron-handed Duty's sternest creed, 90
'Gainst Self's lean wolf that ravens word and deed.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Le
degagement
reve le brisement de la grace croisee de
violence nouvelle!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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He saide; the loieaul broders lefte the place,
Success and
cheerfulness
depicted on ech face.
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'the Muse's steed:'
Pegasus, the winged horse of Greek mythology, was supposed to be the
horse of the Muses and came to be
considered
a symbol of poetic genius.
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Alexander Pope |
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The Commandant's house
became
unbearable
to me; little by little I accustomed myself to stay
alone in my quarters.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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The
Riverside
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CAMBRIDGE .
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Imagists |
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Public domain books are our
gateways
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Meredith - Poems |
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At length we rose up from this ease
Of tranquil happy mind,
And
searched
the garden's little length
Some new pleasaunce to find;
And there some yellow daffodils, and jasmine hanging high,
Did rest the tired eye.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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von (Robert), p39 1887, Internet Book Archive Images
Medusas,
miserable
heads
With hairs of violet
You enjoy the hurricane
And I enjoy the very same.
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Appoloinaire |
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[Illustration]
CHISWICK PRESS: CHARLES
WHITTINGHAM
AND CO.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Know thou that whether for Aegyptus' race
Thou dost their wish fulfil,
Or for the gods and for each holy place--
Be thy choice good or ill,
Blow is with blow requited, grace with grace
Such is Zeus'
righteous
will.
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Aeschylus |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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L'Apres-midi d'un Faune
Eclogue
The Faun
These nymphs, I would
perpetuate
them.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Thou hast not learnt thy
quarters
here.
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Tennyson |
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|| _seni
recocto_
Calp.
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Latin - Catullus |
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Stronger
and sweeter
New gods shall seek it.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Keats - Lamia |
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They are used and
accustomed
to things and men.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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He
departed
for Paris at the end of August 1557.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Sara Teasdale |
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Lamia beheld him coming, near, more near--
Close to her passing, in
indifference
drear,
His silent sandals swept the mossy green;
So neighbour'd to him, and yet so unseen
She stood: he pass'd, shut up in mysteries,
His mind wrapp'd like his mantle, while her eyes
Follow'd his steps, and her neck regal white
Turn'd--syllabling thus, "Ah, Lycius bright,
And will you leave me on the hills alone?
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Chimene
Such men are
valorous
in their first outing.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Drapings
of satin are absent; the mattress is quite unembroidered.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Upon his hay the Tramp awoke,
The golden
fountain
never broke,
The lovely sobbing strain.
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Tennyson |
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I saw him, drunk with knowledge, take
From aching brows the aureole crown,--
His locks writhed like a cloven snake,--
He left his throne to grovel down
And lick the dust of Seraphs' feet:
For what is
knowledge
duly weighed?
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Christina Rossetti |
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[154] He had
succeeded
Bassus (iii.
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Tacitus |
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Flowed up the hill and down King William Street,
To where Saint Mary
Woolnoth
kept the hours
With a dead sound on the final stroke of nine.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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"
Fired by his words, the troops dismiss their fears,
They join, they thicken, they protend their spears;
Full on the Greeks they drive in firm array,
And each from Ajax hopes the
glorious
prey:
Vain hope!
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Iliad - Pope |
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Illustrious
Agamemnon, King of men!
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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giale_
daughter
of Adrastus.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Meantime let all in
Thessaly
who dread
My sceptre join in mourning for the dead
With temples sorrow-shorn and sable weed.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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SIEBEL:
Zur Tur hinaus, er sich
entzweit!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth
in
paragraph
1.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Into the sky,
the red
earthenware
and the galvanised iron chimneys
thrust their cowls.
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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It spouts
like yellow wheat from the gargoyles, coils round the head of Saint John,
and
aureoles
him in light.
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Imagists |
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17
These are really the
thoughts
of all men in all ages and lands, they
are not original with me,
If they are not yours as much as mine they are nothing, or next to nothing,
If they are not the riddle and the untying of the riddle they are nothing,
If they are not just as close as they are distant they are nothing.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Condensed
mythological references abound.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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VAGRANCY
When the slow year creeps hay-ward, and the skies
Are warming in the summer's mild surprise,
And the still breeze disturbs each leafy frond
Like hungry fishes dimpling in a pond,
It is a
pleasant
thing to dream at ease
On sun-warmed thyme, not far from beechen trees.
| Guess: |
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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SEA VIOLET
The white violet
is scented on its stalk,
the sea-violet
fragile as agate,
lies
fronting
all the wind
among the torn shells
on the sand-bank.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Eliot's comparison of the sky to a
"patient
etherized
on a table.
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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'709'
The
allusion
is to the sack of Rome by the Constable Bourbon's army in
1527.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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+ Keep it legal Whatever your use, remember that you are responsible for
ensuring
that what you are doing is legal.
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
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My song take flight,
present
yourself
to her sweetly,
but for her might
Arnaut might strive more lightly.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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I will
discharge
it in either your straw-colour beard, your
orange-tawny beard, your purple-in-grain beard, or your
French-crown-colour beard, your perfect yellow.
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Shakespeare |
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O
laughter
if only to royally invest
My absent tomb purple, down there, is spread.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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'
So while I lay
entranced
a curtain seemed
To shrivel with crackling from before my face;
Across mine eyes a waxing radiance beamed
And showed a certain place.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Each Greecian gave,
And each a gift
dissimilar
from all.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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So when she was gone I said
In rather a dreary voice
To him of the opposite bed:
"Ah, friend, how you must
rejoice!
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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What shall we do
tomorrow?
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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whom three realms obey,
Dost
sometimes
counsel take--and sometimes tea.
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Alexander Pope |
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Yea, I shall haunt until the dusk of time
The heavy eyelids filled with
fleeting
dreams.
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Sara Teasdale |
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--"Thou
speakest
rightly," I broke in,
"Thou art not she I love.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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My wife and child
clutched
at my coat and wept:
"Some people want to be rich and grand:
I only want to share my porridge with you.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Sure I have heard those
vestments
sweeping o'er
The fallen leaves, when I have sat alone
In cool mid-forest.
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Keats |
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