There is no wind but soweth seeds
Of a more true and open life,
Which burst,
unlooked
for, into high-souled deeds,
With wayside beauty rife.
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840
I'll see the witness to my
adulterous
amour
Noting the manner in which I greet his father,
My heart full of the sighs he would not embrace,
My eyes wet with the tears scorned by that ingrate.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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[Illustration: PARSNIP PIE]
The
Perpendicular
Purple Polly,
who read the Newspaper and ate Parsnip Pie
with his Spectacles.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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They, in that last look, surveyed
The love they lost in losing heaven,
And passionately flee
With a desolate cry that cleaves
The natural storms--though _they_ are lifting
God's strong cedar-roots like leaves,
And the earthquake and the thunder,
Neither keeping either under,
Roar and hurtle through the glooms--
And a few pale stars are drifting
Past the dark, to disappear,
What time, from the splitting tombs
Gleamingly
the dead arise,
Viewing with their death-calmed eyes
The elemental strategies,
To witness, victory is the Lord's.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Go, so all is
prepared
now for us to leave.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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ah, ne'er again
Shall they return unto our eyes,
Car-borne, 'neath silken
canopies!
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Aeschylus |
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One thing there is alone, that doth deform thee;
In the midst of thee, O field, so fair and
verdant!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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The Lilly of the valley breathing in the humble grass
Answerd the lovely maid and said: I am a watry weed,
And I am very small and love to dwell in lowly vales:
So weak the gilded
butterfly
scarce perches on my head
Yet I am visited from heaven and he that smiles on all
Walks in the valley, and each morn over me spreads his hand
Saying, rejoice thou humble grass, thou new-born lily flower.
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blake-poems |
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Not that I'd lop the
beauties
from his book,
Like slashing Bentley with his desperate hook,
Or damn all Shakespeare, like the affected fool
At court, who hates whate'er he read at school.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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the moon was shining bright
And showed with an uncertain light
Tattiana's beauty, pale with care,
Her tears and her dishevelled hair;
And on the footstool sitting down
Beside our youthful heroine fair,
A kerchief round her silver hair
The aged nurse in ample gown,(37)
Whilst all
creation
seemed to dream
Enchanted by the moon's pale beam.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Yeats' free
adaptation
is the well-known poem 'When you are old and grey and full of sleep' (In 'The Rose').
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Ronsard |
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Now even the cattle court the cooling shade
And the green lizard hides him in the thorn:
Now for tired mowers, with the fierce heat spent,
Pounds
Thestilis
her mess of savoury herbs,
Wild thyme and garlic.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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I have tiding,
Glad tiding, behold how in duty
From far
Lehistan
the wind, gliding.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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A power of
butterfly
must be
The aptitude to fly,
Meadows of majesty concedes
And easy sweeps of sky.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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For I don't know when I may
See her, the
distance
is so far.
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Troubador Verse |
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Woe is me, oh, lost one,
For that love is now to me
A
supernal
dream,
White, white, white with many suns.
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Stephen Crane |
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And, what's more, when sorrow's beating
Down on me, through Fate's
incessant
rage,
Your sweet glance its malice is assuaging,
Nor more or less than wind blows smoke away.
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Villon |
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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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The vengeance exacted by the spouse of Attila for the
murder of
Siegfried
was celebrated in rhymes, of which Germany is
still justly proud.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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; but I never
expressly
said I loved
her.
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Robert Burns |
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The purple pride
Which on thy soft cheek for
complexion
dwells
In my love's veins thou hast too grossly dy'd.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Royalty payments
must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you
prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your
periodic
tax
returns.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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They
were followed by six
citizens
of Rome, clothed in green, and bearing
crowns wreathed with different flowers.
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Petrarch |
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The poet acted on this, and
sent the song,
enclosed
in this characteristic letter.
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Robert Forst |
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How can I say
If there were poets in the paths of
Atlantis?
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Near the dying of the day
There will be a cudgel-play,
Where a coxcomb will be broke
Ere a good word can be spoke:
But the anger ends all here,
Drenched
in ale, or drown'd in beer.
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Robert Herrick |
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It is
possible
that I may have met one, and
that he concealed his poetic gifts.
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Li Po |
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Milton |
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, but its
volunteers
and employees are scattered
throughout numerous locations.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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In
the
principal
salon stood a long table, at which about twenty men sat
playing faro, the host of the establishment being the banker.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Mistakes
cited which are derived from modern dictionaries
(Tyrwhitt).
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Maeonia, or Lydia, was a district in Asia which was said to have
been the
birthplace
of Homer.
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Alexander Pope |
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Copyright laws in most countries are in
a
constant
state of change.
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| Question: |
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Well, shall I take a toper's part
Of fierce
Falernian?
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Allow your
trembling
Hippolyte to vanish 925
Forever from the place your wife inhabits.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Friendship, that sacred virtue, long does daim
The first
foundation
of his house and name :
But within one its narrow limits fall,
His tenderness extended unto all,
And that deep soul through every channel flows,
Where kindly Nature loves itself to lose.
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Marvell - Poems |
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--No; 'tis a life to have thine oil
Without extortion from thy soil;
Thy
faithful
fields to yield thee grain,
Although with some, yet little pain;
To have thy mind, and nuptial bed,
With fears and cares uncumbered
A pleasing wife, that by thy side
Lies softly panting like a bride;
--This is to live, and to endear
Those minutes Time has lent us here.
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Robert Herrick |
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Be thou me,
impetuous
one!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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For sothe, y-liche they suffred tho
Oo blisse and eek oo sorwe bothe;
Y-liche they were bothe gladde and wrothe;
Al was us oon,
withoute
were.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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"
Thy age, great Caesar, has restored
To squalid fields the plenteous grain,
Given back to Rome's almighty Lord
Our standards, torn from Parthian fane,
Has closed
Quirinian
Janus' gate,
Wild passion's erring walk controll'd,
Heal'd the foul plague-spot of the state,
And brought again the life of old,
Life, by whose healthful power increased
The glorious name of Latium spread
To where the sun illumes the east
From where he seeks his western bed.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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HERACLES (_a hand on the
shoulder
of each_).
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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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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[64] The cohort on guard seem to have been in mufti, without
helmets and shields or their
military
cloaks, but armed with
swords and javelins.
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Tacitus |
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A cruel god
destroys
your race.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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[677] The countryfolk
affected
to despise the townspeople, whom they
dubbed idle and lazy.
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Aristophanes |
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In
Paradise
names only nature showed.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this
electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without
prominently displaying the
sentence
set forth in paragraph 1.
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Keats - Lamia |
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First at the trenches I shall be to greet;
There's not a watch I shall not share with you;
But more--but most--there where for you the red,
Drenched, dreadful, splendid,
sacrificial
field lifts up
Inflexible demand,
I will be there!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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What is a jewel if it be not set
Forth by a ring or some rich
carcanet?
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Robert Herrick |
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Chambers
discharg'd]
WOLSEY.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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At all times of the day and night
This
wretched
woman thither goes,
And she is known to every star,
And every wind that blows;
And there beside the thorn she sits
When the blue day-light's in the skies,
And when the whirlwind's on the hill,
Or frosty air is keen and still,
And to herself she cries,
"Oh misery!
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Not in vain
The ecstasy boils in their flaming breast;
Action is hallowed, being glorified
Beforehand
by the poets!
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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If it be thy
pleasure
let us rather cast
a lot.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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--This is so imperfect an account, and will be so late
ere it reach you, that were it not to discharge my conscience I would
not trouble you with it; but after all my
diligence
I could make it no
sooner nor better.
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Robert Burns |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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With fiercer blasts the pine's dim height
Is rock'd; proud towers with heavier fall
Crash to the ground; and thunders smite
The
mountains
tall.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Then too we know the varied smells of things
Yet never to our
nostrils
see them come;
With eyes we view not burning heats, nor cold,
Nor are we wont men's voices to behold.
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Lucretius |
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my heart
For better lore would seldom yearn,
Could I but teach the
hundredth
part
Of what from thee I learn.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Half-past two,
The street-lamp said,
"Remark the cat which
flattens
itself in the gutter,
Slips out its tongue
And devours a morsel of rancid butter.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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"
"I saw her in a ravaged aisle,
Bowed down on bended knee;
That her poor ghost
outflickers
there
Is known to none but me.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Her golden tresses on the wind she threw,
Which twisted them in many a
beauteous
braid;
In her fine eyes the burning glances play'd,
With lovely light, which now they seldom show:
Ah!
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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When a guest arrives
She gives up all to be with him; while I
Must be the drudge, make ready the guest-chamber,
Prepare the food, set
everything
in order,
And see that naught is wanting in the house.
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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What glory can her
wondrous
eyes behold?
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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"
So your
chimneys
I sweep, and in soot I sleep.
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blake-poems |
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Bobby fought his way through the rain to the Tail Twisters' temporary
mess, and Revere could have fallen on the boy's neck for the joy of
seeing that ugly,
wholesome
phiz once more.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Sometimes, when we
walked along the back side of a house which stood near the road, we
observed stout stakes leaning against it, by which the shutters, now
pushed half open, were
fastened
at night; within, the houses were
neatly ceiled with wood not painted.
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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que vous etes bien dans le beau cimetiere
Vous
mendiants
morts saouls de biere
Vous les aveugles comme le destin
Et vous petits enfants morts en priere
Ah!
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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With thee I do forget the toil and stress,
The loveless road that knows no resting place,
Time's straitened pulse, the soul's dread weariness,
My freedom, and my life
republican!
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Meredith - Poems |
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Many a goodly court my
presence
knows,
Yet in her there's more that does impress,
Measure and wit and other virtue glows
Beauty, youth, good manners, actions stir,
Of courtesy she has well-learnt her share
Of all displeasing things I find her free
I think no good thing lacking anyway.
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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Silence
(To Eleonora Duse)
We are anhungered after solitude,
Deep stillness pure of any speech or sound,
Soft quiet
hovering
over pools profound,
The silences that on the desert brood,
Above a windless hush of empty seas,
The broad unfurling banners of the dawn,
A faery forest where there sleeps a Faun;
Our souls are fain of solitudes like these.
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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Now,
hovering
bee-like, she would stop
Entranced before some tempting shop,
Getting in people's way and prying
At things she never thought of buying:
Now wafted on without an aim,
Until in course of time she came
To Watson's bootshop.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Nos grands bois sentiraient la seve,
Et le soleil
Sablerait
d'or fin leur grand reve
Sombre et vermeil!
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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ai ben good; 119
Ne
schaltou
hem neuere good holde; bot with sterne mood.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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MARGARETE
(sich auf dem Lager verbergend):
Weh!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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exactly the opposite of the word
expected is used to conclude the sentence--to move the sudden hilarity of
the
audience
as a finale to the scene.
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Aristophanes |
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Therefore
in this ancient cup
May the sword-blades drink their fill
Of the homebrew there, until
They will have for masters none
But the threshold and hearthstone.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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Sometimes,
however, a tragedy that possesses
artistic
elements of beauty crosses
our lives.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Ah, that the pure and simple never know
Aught of
themselves
and all their holy worth!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth
in
paragraph
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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And what the
creeping
breeze that comes [24]
The little pond to stir?
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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On account of some
supposed
satirical allusions his
opera 'Polly' was refused a license, and when his friends, the Duke and
Duchess of Queensberry (see l.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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Ye
Dacyanne
menne, gyff Dacyanne menne yee are, 980
Lette nete botte blodde suffycyle for yee bee;
On everich breaste yn gorie letteres scarre,
Whatt sprytes you have, & howe those sprytes maie dree.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Charles the great in vain your aid will seek--
None such as he till God His
Judgement
speak;--
Here must you die, and France in shame be steeped;
Here perishes our loyal company,
Before this night great severance and grief.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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Knowledge the clue to life can give;
Then wherefore
hesitate
to live?
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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I have long ago made
up my mind as to my own reputation in the
business
of authorship, and
have nothing to be pleased or offended at, in your adoption or
rejection of my verses.
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Robert Forst |
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Like Poe, his
emotions
transformed
themselves into ideas.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form,
including
any
word processing or hypertext form.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Phoebus gilding the brow o' morning,
Banishes ilk
darksome
shade,
Nature gladdening and adorning;
Such to me my lovely maid.
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Robert Burns |
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Thee Thetis, fairest of maids Nereian,
vouchsafed
to marry?
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Once he invited to dinner eight other elderly and retired officials; the
occasion was recorded in a picture
entitled
"The Nine Old Men at
Hsiang-shan.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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strēam ūt brecan of beorge, _saw a stream break out from the rocks_,
2547; lēt se hearda
Higelāces
þegn brādne mēce .
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Beowulf |
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Illustrious farr and wide, but by his own
First seen, them unexpected joy surpriz'd,
When the great Ensign of Messiah blaz'd
Aloft by Angels born, his Sign in Heav'n:
Under whose Conduct Michael soon reduc'd
His Armie, circumfus'd on either Wing,
Under thir Head
imbodied
all in one.
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Milton |
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"
Her visage
scorched
him ere she spoke:
"There are," she said, "a kind of folk
Who have no horror of a joke.
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Lewis Carroll |
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'You Rise the Water Unfolds'
You rise the water unfolds
You sleep the water flowers
You are water ploughed from its depths
You are earth that takes root
And in which all is grounded
You make bubbles of silence in the desert of sound
You sing
nocturnal
hymns on the arcs of the rainbow
You are everywhere you abolish the roads
You sacrifice time
To the eternal youth of an exact flame
That veils Nature to reproduce her
Woman you show the world a body forever the same
Yours
You are its likeness.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Half-past one,
The street lamp sputtered,
The street lamp muttered,
The street lamp said,
"Regard that woman
Who
hesitates
toward you in the light of the door
Which opens on her like a grin.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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To her whom it adorns this sheath imparteth
The living motion from the light surrounding; And thus my nobler parts, to grief's confounding, Impart into my heart a peace which starteth
From one round whom a
graciousness
is cast Which clingeth in the air where she hath past.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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A little lower the
loathsome
beast
he smote with sword; his steel drove in
bright and burnished; that blaze began
to lose and lessen.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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