Thee in thy future,
Thee in thy only permanent life, career, thy own unloosen'd mind,
thy soaring spirit,
Thee as another equally needed sun, radiant, ablaze, swift-moving,
fructifying all,
Thee risen in potent cheerfulness and joy, in endless great hilarity,
Scattering for good the cloud that hung so long, that weigh'd so
long upon the mind of man,
The doubt, suspicion, dread, of gradual, certain decadence of man;
Thee in thy larger, saner brood of female, male--thee in thy
athletes, moral, spiritual, South, North, West, East,
(To thy immortal breasts, Mother of All, thy every daughter, son,
endear'd alike, forever equal,)
Thee in thy own musicians, singers, artists, unborn yet, but certain,
Thee in thy moral wealth and civilization, (until which thy proudest
material
civilization must remain in vain,)
Thee in thy all-supplying, all-enclosing worship--thee in no single
bible, saviour, merely,
Thy saviours countless, latent within thyself, thy bibles incessant
within thyself, equal to any, divine as any,
(Thy soaring course thee formulating, not in thy two great wars, nor
in thy century's visible growth,
But far more in these leaves and chants, thy chants, great Mother!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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In the
beginning
was the Word.
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T.S. Eliot |
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"
And de ole crow croak: "Don' work, no, no;"
But de fiel'-lark say, "Yaas, yaas,
An' I spec' you mighty glad, you
debblish
crow,
Dat de Baptissis's in de grass, grass,
Dat de Baptissis's in de grass!
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Sidney Lanier |
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--This Alastor, who hath left nothing unsearched or
unassailed by his impudent and
licentious
lying in his aguish writings
(for he was in his cold quaking fit all the while), what hath he done
more than a troublesome base cur?
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Any
alternate
format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm
License as specified in paragraph 1.
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Tacitus |
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' He is a man
immoderate and 'no mercy uses,' for be it churl or
chaplain
that by the
chapel rides, monk or mass-priest, or any man else, it is as pleasant
to him to kill them as to go alive himself.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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The Foundation makes no
representations
concerning
the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United
States.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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So many nights
you have
distracted
me from terror.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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'Twill turn out
dangerous
maybe, but still,--a game.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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What coral, what lilies, and what roses,
In seeming, my open hand discloses,
Now, with twin
caresses
stroking her.
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Ronsard |
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veil your
deathless
tree, --
Him you chasten, that is he!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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LXV
Once, I knew a fine song,
--It is true, believe me,--
It was all of birds,
And I held them in a basket;
When I opened the wicket,
Heavens!
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he sees
Like a strange, fated bride as yet unknown,
His timid future
shrinking
there alone,
Beneath her marriage-veil of mysteries.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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To Ireland, I:
Our
seperated
fortune shall keepe vs both the safer:
Where we are, there's Daggers in mens smiles;
The neere in blood, the neerer bloody
Malc.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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My Lord, I dare to say here that heaven, 615
In this case, wished to make me an
exception!
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Racine - Phaedra |
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The grass does not refuse
To
flourish
in the spring wind;
The leaves are not angry
At falling through the autumn sky.
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Li Po |
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We watched the ghostly dancers spin
To sound of horn and violin,
Like black leaves
wheeling
in the wind.
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Wilde - Poems |
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"
"The Third was written to protect
The
interests
of the Victim,
And tells us, as I recollect,
_To treat him with a grave respect,
And not to contradict him_.
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Lewis Carroll |
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Redistribution is subject to the
trademark license, especially
commercial
redistribution.
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Wilde - Poems |
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O harder e'en than
toughest
heart of oak,
Deafer than uncharm'd snake to suppliant moans!
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Leopards, tigers, play
Round her as she lay;
While the lion old
Bowed his mane of gold,
And her bosom lick,
And upon her neck,
From his eyes of flame,
Ruby tears there came;
While the lioness
Loosed her slender dress,
And naked they conveyed
To caves the
sleeping
maid.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Besides this, the
building
is so cracked and ruined that any
passer-by can see into the room through the holes in the wall.
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Yes, on an isle the air charges
With sight and not with visions
Every flower showed itself larger
Without
entering
our discussions.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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And yet
Those
backward
steps through pain I cannot view
Without regret.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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sand-wave_, the
iridescence
sometimes seen on the
ribbed sand left by the tide.
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Keats |
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Next morn, as the sun rose over the bay,
Still floated our flag at the
mainmast
head.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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His
versification
is admitted by
them to be "correct.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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something
it must mean, for sure,
And Hylax on the threshold 'gins to bark!
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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His hair was black, curly, glossy, his
forehead
high, square and
white.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Singers, singing in lawless freedom,
Jokers, pleasant in word and deed,
Run free of false gold, alloy, come,
Men of wit -
somewhat
deaf indeed -
Hurry, be quick now, he's dying poor man.
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Villon |
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The waves have now a redder glow--
The hours are breathing faint and low--
And when, amid no earthly moans,
Down, down that town shall settle hence,
Hell, rising from a
thousand
thrones,
Shall do it reverence.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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A bloody twain made these things be;
One was thy
bitterest
enemy,
And one the wife that lay by thee.
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Euripides - Electra |
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"Fort
Nijneosern
was
taken this morning.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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The gods denying, in just indignation,
Your walls, bloodied by that ancient instance
Of
fraternal
strife, a sure foundation.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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I had return'd, to break the weary fast
Of seeing her, my sole care in this world,
Kinder to me were Heaven and Love than e'en
If all their other gifts together join'd,
When from the right eye--rather the right sun--
Of my dear Lady to my right eye came
The ill which less my pain than pleasure makes;
As if it
intellect
possess'd and wings
It pass'd, as stars that shoot along the sky:
Nature and pity then pursued their course.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Sire, thus these hairs
whitened
in harness,
This blood of mine poured out in such excess,
This arm once dreaded by your enemies,
Would have perished, lost to infamy,
If I had not produced a worthy son,
Worthy of his land, and of your person.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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It is a pity to doubt
this green hair legend;
presently
a man of genius will not be able to
enjoy an epileptic fit in peace--as does a banker or a beggar.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Epic of Gilgamish, by Stephen Langdon
This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
almost no
restrictions
whatsoever.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Thou'st slain my son, I know that very well;
Most
wrongfully
my land thou challengest;
Become my man, a fief from me thou'lt get;
Come, serving me, from here to the Orient!
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Chanson de Roland |
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However that may be, let us
consider
of our own epigrams wherein
all these qualities are combined, perhaps we shall find in them far less
point, nay, I would venture to add, far less charm than in those of
Marot or Saint-Gelais, although almost all the works of the latter poets
are full of the same faults as are attributed to us.
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La Fontaine |
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Have you a natural gift for
speaking?
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Aristophanes |
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Go, now, leave me a
faithful
servant, though,
Who can direct my timid steps towards you.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Himself my guardian, of unblemished truth,
Among my tutors would attend my youth,
And thus
preserved
my chastity of mind--
That prime of virtue in its highest kind.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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The
special introductions to the various poems are intended to
acquaint
the
student with the circumstances under which they were composed, to trace
their literary genesis and relationships, and, whenever necessary, to
give an outline of the train of thought which they embody.
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Alexander Pope |
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--Jemima Warner, a
Pennsylvania
woman, was the
wife of one of Morgan's riflemen.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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my nostrils drink the lives of mMen
[[line]]
The
Villages
Lament.
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Blake - Zoas |
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]
Ali came riding by--the highest head
Bent to the dust, o'ercharged with dread,
Whilst "God be
praised!
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Hugo - Poems |
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_ Aye, let not grief for me into
hostility
cast thee.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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And gently,
Unbroken when the sky fills with storm,
Jealous to add who knows what spaces
To simple day the day so true in feeling,
Does it not seem, Mery, that each year,
Where spontaneous grace
relights
your brow,
Suffices, in so many aspects and for me,
Like a lone fan with which a room's surprised,
To refresh with as little pain as is needed here
All our inborn and unvarying friendship.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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" He then
Began in such soft accents, that within
The
sweetness
thrills me yet.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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The invalidity or
unenforceability
of any
provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Are so
superfluous
cold,
I would as soon attempt to warm
The bosoms where the frost has lain
Ages beneath the mould.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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When the shades of evening creep
O'er the day's fair,
gladsome
e'e,
Sound and safely may he sleep,
Sweetly blythe his waukening be.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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It may only be
used on or associated in any way with an
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Kipling - Poems |
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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It would be an
interesting
task
for the student to compare the two forms printed in this edition, to
note exactly what has been added, and the reasons for its addition, and
to mark how Pope has smoothed the junctures and blended the old and the
new.
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Alexander Pope |
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Your remarks on "Ewe-bughts, Marion," are just; still it has obtained
a place among our more classical Scottish songs; and what with many
beauties in its composition, and more prejudices in its favour, you
will not find it easy to
supplant
it.
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Robert Burns |
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Could it be
possible, I wondered, that I was in this life to woo a second time the
woman I had killed by my own neglect and
cruelty?
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Kipling - Poems |
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5
And a gold comb, and girdle,
And
trinkets
of white silver,
And gems are in my sea-chest,
Lest poor and empty-handed
Thy lover should return.
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Sappho |
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Chatterton
made many mistakes in his transcription of Rowley and in
his notes to the poems.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Johannes Faber sic cogitavit
would be no enticing preface to a book, but an
accredited
name gives
credit like the signature to a note of hand.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Rival authors hated him, too,
especially such
pilfering
bards as Philips.
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Alexander Pope |
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Sweetness
of beauty moved me to despair,
Stung me to anger by its mere content,
Made me all lonely on that way I went,
Piled care upon my care,
Brimmed full my cup, and stripped me empty and bare:
For all that was but showed what all was not,
But gave clear proof of what might never be;
Making more destitute my poverty,
And yet more blank my lot,
And me much sadder by its jubilee.
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Christina Rossetti |
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HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY
r
CONTEMPORARY VERSE
offers a
particularly
remarkable series of the year 1917.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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What tho' the moon--the white moon
Shed all the splendour of her noon,
Her smile is chilly--and her beam,
In that time of dreariness, will seem
(So like you gather in your breath)
A
portrait
taken after death.
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Poe - 5 |
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Line after line; ay, whole platoons,
Struck dead in their saddles, of brave dragoons
By the
maddened
horses were onward borne
And into the vortex flung, trampled and torn;
As Keenan fought with his men, side by side.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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I Sir, no more _Lady_ now,
Nor
_Spaniard_!
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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We wander there, we wander here,
We eye the rose upon the brier,
Unmindful
that the thorn is near,
Among the leaves;
And tho' the puny wound appear,
Short while it grieves.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Go telle to Birtha strayte, a straungerr
waytethe
here.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Comes triumph to the eastern bow,
Or hath the lance-point
conquered
now?
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Aeschylus |
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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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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Then shepherds took the badge of royalty,
And the stout labourer the sword did wield:
The Consuls' power was annually revealed,
Till six month terms won greater majesty,
Which, made perpetual, accrued such power
That the Imperial Eagle seized the hour:
But Heaven,
opposing
such aggrandisement,
Handed that power to Peter's successor,
Who, called a shepherd, fated to reign there,
Shows that all returns to its commencement.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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"
And as I sank into a dimmer dream
The pleading bee's song-burthen sole did seem:
"Hast ne'er a honey-drop of love for me
In thy huge
nectary?
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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Or how meet in human elf
Coming and past
eternities?
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Emerson - Poems |
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[_He goes with_
ALCESTIS
_into the house_.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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And so, when all the time had failed,
Without
external
sound,
Each bound the other's crucifix,
We gave no other bond.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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He was plagued by
increasing
deafness, and weak health, and died on New Year's Day 1560.
| Guess: |
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Like one by wonder reft of speech, I stood
Pond'ring the
mournful
scene in pensive mood,
As one that waits advice.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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sed ubi oris aurei Sol radiantibus oculis
lustrauit
aethera album, sola dura, mare ferum, 40
pepulitque noctis umbras uegetis sonipedibus,
ibi Somnus excitum Attin fugiens citus abiit:
trepidante eum recepit dea Pasithea sinu.
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Latin - Catullus |
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L'Epitaphe Villon: Ballade Des Pendus
My
brothers
who live after us,
Don't harden you hearts against us too,
If you have mercy now on us,
God may have mercy upon you.
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| Source: |
Villon |
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_Philosophic
Voices passing.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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As
children
caper when they wake,
Merry that it is morn,
My flowers from a hundred cribs
Will peep, and prance again.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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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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Beyond the calm
Connecticut
the hills lie
Silvered with haze as fruits still fresh with bloom,
The swallows weave in flight across the zenith
On an aerial loom.
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Sara Teasdale |
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I had
imagined
such acting, though I had
not seen it, and had once asked a dramatic company to let me rehearse
them in barrels that they might forget gesture and have their minds
free to think of speech for a while.
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Yeats |
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"By it Spenser shadows forth the
danger
surrounding
the mind that escapes from the bondage of Roman
authority and thinks for itself.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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But Ida spoke not, gazing on the ground,
And
reddening
in the furrows of his chin,
And moved beyond his custom, Gama said:
'I've heard that there is iron in the blood,
And I believe it.
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Tennyson |
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[Sidenote A: The knight abides on the bank,]
[Sidenote B: and
observes
the "huge height,"]
[Sidenote C: with its battlements and watch towers.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Thou scene of all my happiness and
pleasure!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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His younger brother John
succeeded
him as king.
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Troubador Verse |
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I see the table wider grown,
I see it garlanded with guests,
As if fair Ariadne's Crown
Out of the sky had fallen down;
Maidens within whose tender breasts
A thousand
restless
hopes and fears,
Forth reaching to the coming years,
Flutter awhile, then quiet lie
Like timid birds that fain would fly,
But do not dare to leave their nests;--
And youths, who in their strength elate
Challenge the van and front of fate,
Eager as champions to be
In the divine knight-errantry
Of youth, that travels sea and land
Seeking adventures, or pursues,
Through cities, and through solitudes
Frequented by the lyric Muse,
The phantom with the beckoning hand,
That still allures and still eludes.
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Longfellow |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Slain by her own, his mother's hand,
Maddened
by lustful wrong, the deed by Tereus
planned.
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Aeschylus |
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Have I not seen dwellers on form and favour
Lose all and more by paying too much rent
For
compound
sweet; forgoing simple savour,
Pitiful thrivers, in their gazing spent?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Comme then, and see you
swotelie
tune the strynge,
And stret[42], and engyne all the human wytte,
Toe please mie dame.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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From mean account
Lifted to mighty, where the resolute
Waters ot Aufidus
reverberant
ring
O'er fields where Daunus once held rustic state,
Of barren acres simple-minded king,--
There was I born, and first of men did mate
To lyre of Latium Aeolic lay.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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After so long, sister, to see
And hold thee, and then part, then part,
By all that chained thee to my heart
Forsaken, and
forsaking
thee!
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Euripides - Electra |
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Here, son of Saturn, was thy
favourite
throne!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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In both instances the conduct of the AEneid is joined with the
descriptive
exuberance
of the Odyssey.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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