At all events the phrase in
question grew daily in favor, notwithstanding the gross impropriety of
a man betting his brains like bank-notes:--but this was a point which my
friend's perversity of
disposition
would not permit him to comprehend.
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the Horde has learnt to prize me;
"'Tis the Horde with gold
supplies
me.
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You might help me to
remember
that vision I had this morning, to
understand it.
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whose gentle virtues have obtain'd
For thee a
dwelling
with thy Maker blest,
To sit enthroned above, in angels' vest
(Whose lustre gold nor purple had attain'd):
Ah!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Thy wife sends
This message to thee,--Have thou naught to do
With that just man; for I this day in dreams
Have
suffered
many things because of him.
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XXVI
BEOWULF spake, bairn of Ecgtheow: --
"Lo, we
seafarers
say our will,
far-come men, that we fain would seek
Hygelac now.
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IV
O Pan of the evergreen forest,
Protector of herds in the meadows,
Helper of men at their toiling,--
Tillage and harvest and herding,--
How many times to frail mortals 5
Hast thou not
hearkened!
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Sappho |
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If any of my friends write me, my
direction
is, care of Mr.
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FEMMES DAMNEES
A la pale clarte des lampes languissantes,
Sur de profonds coussins tout
impregnes
d'odeur,
Hippolyte revait aux caresses puissantes
Qui levaient le rideau de sa jeune candeur.
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, was created
Duke of Gloucester and Earl of
Pembroke
in 1414.
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say, what great occasion calls
My son from fight, when Greece surrounds our walls;
Com'st thou to
supplicate
the almighty power
With lifted hands, from Ilion's lofty tower?
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Iliad - Pope |
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And now that the deed was securely done, in the night
When none had known her fate,
They
answered
those that had striven for her, day by day:
"It is over, you come too late.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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And by work I simply mean
activity
of any kind.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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The
melancholy
fate draws near which a fortune-telling Sabellian crone once
prophesied in my boyhood: "This lad neither dread poison nor hostile
sword shall take off, nor pleurisy, nor cough, nor crippling gout.
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XXVI
Who would demonstrate Rome's true grandeur,
In all her vast dimensions, all her might,
Her length and breadth, and all her depth and height
Needs no line or lead, compass or measure:
He only need draw a circle, at his leisure,
Round all that Ocean in his arms holds tight,
Be it where Sirius scorches with his light,
Or where the
northerlies
blow cold forever.
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[188] Julius Caesar, the
conqueror
of Gaul, or France.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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50 net
"Sleep on, 1 lie at heaven's high oriels Over the start that mumur as thye go
Lighting
your lattice window far below:
And every star some of the glory spells Whereof 1 know.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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We affirm there can be
unnumbered
Supremes, and
that one does not countervail another any more than one eyesight
countervails another--and that men can be good or grand only of the
consciousness of their supremacy within them.
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Whitman |
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They chide me that the skein I used to spin Holds not my
interest
now,
They mock me at the route.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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All the music that is printed here, with the
exception
of Mr.
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After driving the Moors from our coast,
Marring their plans,
answering
their boast,
Go, wage war on them in their own country,
Command my army, ravage the enemy.
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In blooming youth fair Simoisius fell,
Sent by great Ajax to the shades of hell;
Fair Simoisius, whom his mother bore
Amid the flocks on silver Simois' shore:
The nymph
descending
from the hills of Ide,
To seek her parents on his flowery side,
Brought forth the babe, their common care and joy,
And thence from Simois named the lovely boy.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Her lips and cheeks waxed rosy-fresh and young;
Drinking she sang: "My soul shall nothing want";
And drank anew: while soft a song was sung,
A
mystical
slow chant.
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Through his brain
At once the griding iron passage found; [D]
Deluge of tender thoughts then rushed amain,
Nor could his sunken eyes the
starting
tear restrain.
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Baudelaire, like Flaubert,
grasped the murky torch of
pessimism
once held by Chateaubriand,
Benjamin Constant, and Senancour.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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At the rising of the Moon,
One after another,
His
shipmates
drop down dead.
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I am contented for I know that Quiet
Wanders
laughing
and eating her wild heart
Among pigeons and bees, while that Great Archer,
Who but awaits His hour to shoot, still hangs
A cloudy quiver over Parc-na-Lee.
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LA VIE ANTERIEURE
J'ai longtemps habite sous de vastes portiques
Que les soleils marins
teignaient
de mille feux,
Et que leurs grands piliers, droits et majestueux,
Rendaient pareils, le soir, aux grottes basaltiques.
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With them Sicilia's bards, in elder days
Match'd with the
foremost
in poetic praise,
Though now they rank behind.
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We grew in age--and love--together,
Roaming the forest, and the wild;
My breast her shield in wintry weather--
And, when the friendly
sunshine
smil'd,
And she would mark the opening skies,
_I_ saw no Heaven--but in her eyes.
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A clod with rugged, meagre, rust-stained, weather-worried face,
Where care-filled creatures tug and delve to keep a
worthless
race;
And glean, begrudgedly, by all their unremitting toil,
Sour, scanty bread and fevered water from the ungrateful soil;
Made harder by their gloom than flints that gash their harried hands,
And harder in the things they call their hearts than wolfish bands,
Perpetuating faults, inventing crimes for paltry ends,
And yet, perversest beings!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Continued
use of this site implies consent to that usage.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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In 1610 the place had become neglected, whereupon commissioners were
appointed to reduce it 'into such order and state for the archers as
they were in the
beginning
of the reign of King Henry VIII.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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However, I shall have this
advantage, and honour, on my side, that whereas, by their proceeding,
any abuse may be directed at any man, no injury can possibly be done by
mine, since a
nameless
character can never be found out, but by its
_truth_ and _likeness_.
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O most
delicate
fiend!
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Shakespeare |
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A young man came to me bearing a message from his brother;
How should the young man know the whether and when of his
brother?
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I'm wrong, you didn't dance: your feet were fluttering
Over the surface of the ground, your body altering,
Its nature
transformed
that night to the divine.
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Ronsard |
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Hall's _Horae Vacivae, or Essays_,
published
in
1646, had at once given him high rank among the wits.
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Robert Herrick |
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His cristede beaver dyd him smalle abounde; 55
The cruel spear went thorough all his hede;
The purpel bloude came
goushynge
to the grounde,
And at Duke Wyllyam's feet he tumbled deade:
So fell the myghtie tower of Standrip, whenne
It felte the furie of the Danish menne.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Is clusum lato patefecit limite campum,
Isque domum nobis isque dedit dominam,
Ad quam communes
exerceremus
amores.
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: _sopironibus_ Voss:
_sponsionibus_ Heyse:
_ropionibus_
Peiper.
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By what fearful design are you being
tempted?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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XIV
There pass the
careless
people
That call their souls their own:
Here by the road I loiter,
How idle and alone.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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"
"And then," interrupted the head of the Customs, "I'm a Kirghiz instead
of a College
Counsellor
if these robbers do not deliver up their ataman,
chained hand and foot.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Other ones this year no more bestows,
No
petitions
can recall them here,
Other ones with springtide may appear.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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So with flowers, trees, birds and insects:--
The fox-glove
_clusters
dappled bells_.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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'_The Ballad
of Reading Goal_' _was
published
anonymously under the signature of C.
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Wilde - Poems |
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But when I lifted up my head
From shadows shaken on the snow,
I saw Orion in the east
Burn
steadily
as long ago.
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Then where are your
breasts?
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Aristophanes |
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Le chapeau a la main il entra du pied droit
Chez un tailleur tres chic et fournisseur du roi
Ce commercant venait de couper quelques tetes
De mannequins vetus comme il faut qu'on se vete
La foule en tous sens remuait en melant
Des ombres sans amour qui se trainaient par terre
Et des mains vers le ciel pleins de lacs de lumiere
S'envolaient quelquefois comme des oiseaux blancs
Mon bateau partira demain pour l'Amerique
Et je ne reviendrai jamais
Avec l'argent garde dans les prairies lyriques
Guider mon ombre aveugle en ces rues que j'aimais
Car revenir c'est bon pour un soldat des Indes
Les boursiers ont vendu tous mes crachats d'or fin
Mais habille de neuf je veux dormir enfin
Sous des arbres pleins d'oiseaux muets et de singes
Les mannequins pour lui s'etant deshabilles
Battirent leurs habits puis les lui essayerent
Le vetement d'un lord mort sans avoir paye
Au rabais l'habilla comme un millionnaire
Au dehors les annees
Regardaient la vitrine
Les mannequins victimes
Et passaient enchainees
Intercalees dans l'an c'etaient les journees neuves
Les vendredis sanglants et lents d'enterrements
De blancs et de tout noirs vaincus des cieux qui pleuvent
Quand la femme du diable a battu son amant
Puis dans un port d'automne aux feuilles indecises
Quand les mains de la foule y feuillolaient aussi
Sur le pont du vaisseau il posa sa valise
Et s'assit
Les vents de l'Ocean en soufflant leurs menaces
Laissaient dans ses cheveux de longs baisers mouilles
Des emigrants tendaient vers le port leurs mains lasses
Et d'autres en pleurant s'etaient agenouilles
Il regarda longtemps les rives qui moururent
Seuls des bateaux d'enfants tremblaient a l'horizon
Un tout petit bouquet flottant a l'aventure
Couvrit l'Ocean d'une immense floraison
Il aurait voulu ce bouquet comme la gloire
Jouer dans d'autres mers parmi tous les dauphins
Et l'on tissait dans sa memoire
Une tapisserie sans fin
Qui figurait son histoire
Mais pour noyer changees en poux
Ces tisseuses tetues qui sans cesse interrogent
Il se maria comme un doge
Aux cris d'une sirene moderne sans epoux
Gonfle-toi vers la nuit O Mer Les yeux des squales
Jusqu'a l'aube ont guette de loin avidement
Des cadavres de jours ronges par les etoiles
Parmi le bruit des flots et des derniers serments
ROSEMONDE
A Andre Derain
Longtemps au pied du perron de
La maison ou entra la dame
Que j'avais suivie pendant deux
Bonnes heures a Amsterdam
Mes doigts jeterent des baisers
Mais le canal etait desert
Le quai aussi et nul ne vit
Comment mes baisers retrouverent
Celle a qui j'ai donne ma vie
Un jour pendant plus de deux heures
Je la surnommai Rosemonde
Voulant pouvoir me rappeler
Sa bouche fleurie en Hollande
Puis lentement je m'en allai
Pour queter la Rose du Monde
LE BRASIER
A Paul-Napoleon Roinard
J'ai jete dans le noble feu
Que je transporte et que j'adore
De vives mains et meme feu
Ce Passe ces tetes de morts
Flamme je fais ce que tu veux
Le galop soudain des etoiles
N'etant que ce qui deviendra
Se meme au hennissement male
Des centaures dans leurs haras
Et des grand'plaintes vegetales
Ou sont ces tetes que j'avais
Ou est le Dieu de ma jeunesse
L'amour est devenu mauvais
Qu'au brasier les flammes renaissent
Mon ame au soleil se devet
Dans la plaine ont pousse des flammes
Nos coeurs pendent aux citronniers
Les tetes coupees qui m'acclament
Et les astres qui ont saigne
Ne sont que des tetes de femmes
Le fleuve epingle sur la ville
T'y fixe comme un vetement
Partant a l'amphion docile
Tu subis tous les tons charmants
Qui rendent les pierres agiles
Je flambe dans le brasier
Je flambe dans le brasier a l'ardeur adorable
Et les mains des croyants m'y rejettent multiple innombrablement
Les membres des intercis flambent aupres de moi
Eloignez du brasier les ossements
Je suffis pour l'eternite a entretenir le feu de mes delices
Et des oiseaux protegent de leurs ailes ma face et le soleil
O Memoire Combien de races qui forlignent
Des Tyndarides aux viperes ardentes de mon bonheur
Et les serpents ne sont-ils que les cous des cygnes
Qui etaient immortels et n'etaient pas chanteurs
Voici ma vie renouvelee
De grands vaisseaux passent et repassent
Je trempe une fois encore mes mains dans l'Ocean
Voici le paquebot et ma vie renouvelee
Ses flammes sont immenses
Il n'y a plus rien de commun entre moi
Et ceux qui craignent les brulures
Descendant des hauteurs
Descendant des hauteurs ou pense la lumiere
Jardins rouant plus haut que tous les ciels mobiles
L'avenir masque flambe en traversant les cieux
Nous attendons ton bon plaisir o mon amie
J'ose a peine regarder la divine mascarade
Quand bleuira sur l'horizon la Desirade
Au-dela de notre
atmosphere
s'eleve un theatre
Que construisit le ver Zamir sans instrument
Puis le soleil revint ensoleiller les places
D'une ville marine apparue contremont
Sur les toits se reposaient les colombes basses
Et le troupeau de sphinx regagne la sphingerie
A petits pas Il orra le chant du patre toute la vie
La-haut le theatre est bati avec le feu solide
Comme les astres dont se nourrit le vide
Et voici le spectacle
Et pour toujours je suis assis dans un fauteuil
Ma tete mes genoux mes coudes vain pentacle
Les flammes ont pousse sur moi comme des feuilles
Des acteurs inhumains claires betes nouvelles
Donnent des ordres aux hommes apprivoises
Terre
O Dechiree que les fleuves ont reprisee
J'aimerais mieux nuit et jour dans les sphingeries
Vouloir savoir pour qu'enfin on m'y devorat
RHENANES
Nuit rhenane
Mon verre est plein d'un vin trembleur comme une flamme
Ecoutez la chanson lente d'un batelier
Qui raconte avoir vu sous la lune sept femmes
Tordre leurs cheveux verts et longs jusqu'a leurs pieds
Debout chantez plus haut en dansant une ronde
Que je n'entende plus le chant du batelier
Et mettez pres de moi toutes les filles blondes
Au regard immobile aux nattes repliees
Le Rhin le Rhin est ivre ou les vignes se mirent
Tout l'or des nuits tombe en tremblant s'y refleter
La voix chante toujours a en rale-mourir
Ces fees aux cheveux verts qui incantent l'ete
Mon verre s'est brise comme un eclat de rire
Mai
Le mai le joli mai en barque sur le Rhin
Des dames regardaient du haut de la montagne
Vous etes si jolies mais la barque s'eloigne
Qui donc a fait pleurer les saules riverains?
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' thought he, `Thus wole I seye and thus;
Thus wole I pleyne unto my lady dere;
That word is good, and this shal be my chere;
This nil I not
foryeten
in no wyse.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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A black night veils the hills, whence rising free
Thou took'st thy
heavenward
flight!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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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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Stern critic, say not so:
Patience!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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She
listened
with a feeling of terror
and disgust.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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In the
sounding
porch
The goats he tied, then, drawing near, in terms
Reproachful thus assail'd Ulysses' ear.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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He orders his crew to bend their course and turn their prows to land,
and glides
joyfully
into the shady river.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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That other gallant lord is conqueror
Of
conquering
Rome, led captive by the fair
Egyptian queen, with her persuasive art,
Who in his honours claims the greatest part;
For binding the world's victor with her charms,
His trophies are all hers by right of arms.
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Petrarch |
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Bereitung
braucht es nicht voran,
Beisammen sind wir, fanget an!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Is that the
President?
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Whitman |
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As dying now at Hector's feet he lies,
He sternly views him, and triumphant cries:
"Lie there,
Patroclus!
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Iliad - Pope |
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We pardon his
hyperboles for the evident
earnestness
with which they are uttered.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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XXXIV
Why didst thou promise such a
beauteous
day,
And make me travel forth without my cloak,
To let base clouds o'ertake me in my way,
Hiding thy bravery in their rotten smoke?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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He is the one
philosophical
critic who is also a
poet, and thus he is the one critic who instinctively knows his way through
all the intricacies of the creative mind.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Joy to Admetus, Lord of
Thessaly!
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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HOLY THURSDAY
'Twas on a holy Thursday, their innocent faces clean,
The
children
walking two and two, in red, and blue, and green:
Grey-headed beadles walked before, with wands as white as snow,
Till into the high dome of Paul's they like Thames waters flow.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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If you
do not charge
anything
for copies of this eBook, complying with the
rules is very easy.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Perhaps he will die, and the
sacrilegious
vow 1315
Of a maddened father may yet be carried out.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Above all, we must not say
that certain incidents which have been a part of
literature
in all
other lands are forbidden to us.
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Yeats |
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Many small donations
($1 to $5,000) are
particularly
important to maintaining tax exempt
status with the IRS.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Soft
sauntered
through the village,
Sauntered as soft away!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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The invalidity or
unenforceability of any provision of this
agreement
shall not void the
remaining provisions.
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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One evening he took up a book,
And nothing in it read;
Then flung it down, and
groaning
cried,
"O!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Your sister's hand in marriage have I ta'en;
And I've a son, there is no prettier swain:
Baldwin, men say he shews the
knightly
strain.
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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And
presently
we oblige you to make peace.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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I have read a fiery gospel, writ in
burnished
rows of steel:
"As ye deal with My contemners, so with you My grace shall deal;
Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with His heel,
Since God is marching on.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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And there was great rejoicing in that distant city of Wirani,
because its king and its lord
chamberlain
had regained their reason.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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The annual occasion once past, she withdrew again into her seclusion,
and except for a very few friends was as
invisible
to the world as if
she had dwelt in a nunnery.
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Yet each man kills the thing he loves,
By each let this be heard,
Some do it with a bitter look,
Some with a
flattering
word,
The coward does it with a kiss,
The brave man with a sword!
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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Singuliere
fortune ou le but se deplace,
Et, n'etant nulle part, peut etre n'importe ou!
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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THE WALK
A Queen rejoices in her peers,
And wary Nature knows her own
By court and city, dale and down,
And like a lover volunteers,
And to her son will
treasures
more
And more to purpose freely pour
In one wood walk, than learned men
Can find with glass in ten times ten.
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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It was
besieged
and taken by Vespasian,
who sent six thousand of the prisoners to assist in cutting a passage
through the isthmus of Corinth.
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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She seeks the garden in her need--
Sudden she stops, casts down her eyes
And cares not farther to proceed;
Her bosom heaves whilst crimson hues
With sudden flush her cheeks suffuse,
Barely to draw her breath she seems,
Her eye with fire
unwonted
gleams.
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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She watches the
creeping
stalk and counts.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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Wert thou made to set alight
Such
splendour
of desire in man, and yet,
For a grave's sake, keep all thy beauty null,
And nothing be of good nor help to thy kind?
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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ai
striueden
& chid ?
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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If you
do not charge anything for copies of this eBook,
complying
with the
rules is very easy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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"
The words of the
confounded
old man seemed to have shaken Pugatchef.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Rodrigue
Chasing the harsh course of my
wretched
fate.
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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"He tried the Brocken business first,
But caught a sort of chill;
So came to England to be nursed,
And here it took the form of _thirst_,
Which he
complains
of still.
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
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His sister may have helped him, and he may possibly have gone mad
afterwards; but these painful issues are kept
determinedly
in the shade.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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THE LITTLE VAGABOND
Dear mother, dear mother, the Church is cold;
But the
Alehouse
is healthy, and pleasant, and warm.
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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'
A temperance man caught up the word,
'Ah yes,' he groaned, 'I've always heard
Our poor friend somewhat slanted 239
Tow'rd taking liquor overmuch;
I fear these spirits may be Dutch,
(A sort of gins, or something such,)
With which his house is haunted;
I see the thing as clear as light,--
If Knott would give up getting tight,
Naught farther would be wanted:'
So all his neighbors stood aloof
And, that the spirits 'neath his roof
Were not entirely up to proof,
Unanimously
granted.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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ere,
And
despised
hym fast.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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VII
A silent man whom, strangely, fate
Made doubly silent ere he died,
His speechless spirit rules us still;
And that deep spell of
influence
mute,
The majesty of dauntless will
That wielded hosts and saved the State,
Seems through the mist our spirits yet to thrill.
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Toll of a bell,
Stroke of a clock, the
scurrying
of a rat
Affrighted me, and then delighted me,
For there was life--And there was life in death--
The little murder'd princes, in a pale light,
Rose hand in hand, and whisper'd, 'come away!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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