"Well met," I thought the look would say,
"We both were fashioned far away;
We neither knew, when we were young,
These
Londoners
we live among.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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A little
therefore
urge thee on.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Car c'est vraiment, Seigneur, le meilleur temoignage
Que nous puissions donner de notre dignite
Que cet ardent sanglot qui roule d'age en age
Et vient mourir au bord de votre
eternite!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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My reflections were broken by the arrival of a Cossack, who came running
to tell me that the great Tzar
summoned
me to his presence.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Unnatural
vices
Are fathered by our heroism.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Which high
expression
was grounded on divine reason; for a lying
mouth is a stinking pit, and murders with the contagion it venteth.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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I lie abstracted, and hear
beautiful
tales of things, and the reasons of
things;
They are so beautiful I nudge myself to listen.
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Whitman |
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"
"And what," said I, "hath
befallen
you, and where are your right
eyes and your right hands?
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Yea, will he not lift up
His lips from the bitter cup,
His brows from the dreary weight,
His hand from the
clenching
cross,
Crying, "My Father, give to me
Again the joy I had with thee
Or ere this earth was made for loss?
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Elizabeth Browning |
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LI
So wildered by such kindness, so immersed
In wonder, is the rescued cavalier,
So from those
thoughts
is he estranged, that erst
So many weary miles had made him steer,
His second thoughts confronting with his first,
Nor these like those, nor those like these appear.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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What a life of
solicitude
is the life of a parent!
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Robert Forst |
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Whether at
Naishapur
or Babylon,
Whether the Cup with sweet or bitter run,
The Wine of Life keeps oozing drop by drop,
The Leaves of Life keep falling one by one.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Darius stood
In
lamentation
o'er his fallen child.
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Aeschylus |
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VIII
Like
swelling
river waves that strain,
Onward the people crowd
In serried, billowing train.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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The king and
his courtiers comfort the knight--they laugh loudly at his adventures,
and unanimously agree that those lords and ladies that
belonged
to the
Round Table, and each knight of the brotherhood should ever after wear
a bright green belt for Gawayne's sake.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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His enemies' spilt blood drowns out justice,
As a new trophy for his crimes does service;
We swell the pomp, and
scornful
of the law,
Follow his chariot, with two kings before.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Once again,
If thou suppose
whatever
thou beholdest,
Among all visible objects, cannot be,
Unless thou feign bodies of matter endowed
With a like nature,--by thy vain device
For thee will perish all the germs of things:
'Twill come to pass they'll laugh aloud, like men,
Shaken asunder by a spasm of mirth,
Or moisten with salty tear-drops cheeks and chins.
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Lucretius |
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Thou wilt go by the
lighthouse
boat.
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Kipling - Poems |
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;
But give me real,
sterling
wit,
And I'm content.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Not
until later was he to reach the height of an
impersonal
objectivity in
his art.
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Rilke - Poems |
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e in forte take; 219
with muchel honour
schaltou
haue
alle ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Contributions to the Project Gutenberg
Literary Archive Foundation are tax
deductible
to the full extent
permitted by U.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Where is the
sovereign?
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Like resurrection were the garments white
The
wreathed
procession walked through trees arched wide
Into the church, as cool as silk inside,
With long aisles of tall candles flaming bright:
The lights all shone like jewels rich and rare
To solemn eyes that watched them gleam and flare.
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Rilke - Poems |
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= Jonson uses this
affected
form of address
again in _Timber_, ed.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Do not let it serve some impious
purpose!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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O lover, in this radiant world
Whence is the race of mortal men, 10
So frail, so mighty, and so fond,
That fleets into the vast
unknown?
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Sappho |
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Unless you have removed all
references
to Project Gutenberg:
1.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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"
--And so the conversation slips
Among velleities and
carefully
caught regrets
Through attenuated tones of violins
Mingled with remote cornets
And begins.
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T.S. Eliot |
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He threw with
weighted
dice
We may not know how fared your soul before
We willed it not.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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The Project
Gutenberg
EBook of Some Imagist Poets, by
Richard Aldington and H.
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Imagists |
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'T is not enough, your counsel still be true;
Blunt truths more mischief than nice
falsehoods
do;
Men must be taught as if you taught them not,
And things unknown propos'd as things forgot.
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Alexander Pope |
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The poems of The Ruins of Rome belong to the beginning of his four and a half year
residence
in Italy.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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So bashful when I spied her,
So pretty, so
ashamed!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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O, Civil Fury, you alone are the cause,
In Macedonian fields sowing new wars,
Arming Pompey against Caesar there,
So that achieving the rich crown of all,
Roman grandeur, prospering everywhere,
Might tumble down in more
disastrous
fall.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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The French, to their credit be it said, to a certain extent
respected the Indians as a separate and independent people, and spoke
of them and
contrasted
themselves with them as the English have never
done.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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rapid as the light
The
flashing
mass foams shaking the abyss;
The hell of waters!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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8
_serenas_
AD: _serena_ ?
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Latin - Catullus |
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Are we so made
Of death and darkness, that even thou,
O golden God of the joys of love,
Thy mind to us canst only prove,
The
glorious
devices of thy mind,
By so revealing how thy journeying here
Through this mortality, doth closely bind
Thy brightness to the shadow of dreadful Fear?
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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The stede, on whyche I came, ys swefte as ayre;
Mie
servytoures
doe wayte mee nere the wode;
Swythynne wythe mee unto the place repayre;
To AElla I wylle gev you conducte goode.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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"--"If I should stay,"
Said Lamia, "here, upon this floor of clay,
And pain my steps upon these flowers too rough,
What canst thou say or do of charm enough
To dull the nice
remembrance
of my home?
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Keats |
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10
Passion and love and longing and hot tears
Consume this mortal Sappho, and too soon
A great wind from the dark will blow upon me,
And I be no more found in the fair world,
For all the search of the revolving moon 15
And patient shine of
everlasting
stars.
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Sappho |
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I said to my heart, my feeble heart;
Haven't we had enough of
sadness?
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19th Century French Poetry |
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His poems have
always a
tendency
to resolve themselves into a series of cameos: it is
only the short poems which have organic unity.
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Tennyson |
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She turns and looks a moment in the glass,
Hardly aware of her
departed
lover; 250
Her brain allows one half-formed thought to pass:
"Well now that's done: and I'm glad it's over.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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You did-and yet 'tis
strange!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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THE ODYSSEY OF HOMER
TRANSLATED INTO
ENGLISH BLANK VERSE
BOOK I
ARGUMENT
In a council of the Gods, Minerva calls their
attention
to Ulysses, still
a wanderer.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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JUDITH _appears,
standing
against
the night and the Assyrian fires.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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>>
Et puis, Quelqu'un parait, que tous avaient nie,
Et qui leur dit,
railleur
et fier: << Dans mon ciboire,
Vous avez, que je crois, assez communie,
A la joyeuse Messe noire?
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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<< --Je vois ta mere, enfant de ce siecle appauvri,
Qui vers son miroir penche un lourd amas d'annees,
Et platre
artistement
le sein qui t'a nourri!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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'Tis known, too much thought dazes oft a mind,
Till it can learn nought of the signèd evil
God hath put in the faces of evil notions,
That spiritual sight may ken them coming
Sly and demure, and safely shut the brain
Ere they be in and swell
themselves
to lordship.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Armour has got a warrant to throw me
in jail till I find security for an
enormous
sum.
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Robert Burns |
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[9]
At the end of Book I in the
Assyrian
text and at the end of Col.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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org),
you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a
copy, a means of
exporting
a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon
request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other
form.
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| Question: |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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"The sudden
approach
and rapid advance of the Spring," says Mr.
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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" I made him nail the door shut,
And push the
headboard
of the bed against it.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Why are Eyelids stord with arrows ready drawn,
Where a
thousand
fighting men in ambush lie!
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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I let my neighbors pass me, ones and twos
And groups; the latest said the night grew chill,
And hastened: but I loitered, while the dews
Fell fast I
loitered
still.
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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Editor of
"The
Answering
Voice: A Hundred Love Lyrics by Women", 1917.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Note: Dante Gabriel Rossetti took Archipiades to be Hipparchia (see Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Philosophers, Book VI 96-98) who loved Crates the Theban Cynic philosopher (368/5-288/5BC) and of whom various tales are told suggesting her beauty, and
independence
of mind.
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Villon |
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O'er the horizon's bounding hills, where distant vision fails,
All stealthily, with eyes on earth, and
shrinking
from the sight,
As a nocturnal robber holds his dark and breathless flight,
And thinks he sees the gibbet spread its arms in solemn wrath,
In every tree that dimly throws its shadow on his path!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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INDEX OF FIRST LINES
I may not lean across the wicket, turning 11
As on the
languorous
settle 12
Silvery swallows I saw flying 13
Through the blossoms softly simmer 17
Were it much to implore thee 18
Since I be down-cast 19
See my child I'm going 20
This is just the kind of morning 21
Through the casement a noble-child saw 22
Come in the death-foreboded park, to view 25
'Neath trembling tree-tops to and fro we wander 26
Let us surround the silent pool 27
To-day we will not cross the garden-railing 27
The blue-toned campions and the blood-red poppies .
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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And in thy consulate,
This
glorious
age, O Pollio, shall begin,
And the months enter on their mighty march.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Then I am shaken as a
sweeping
storm
Shakes a ripe tree that grows above a grave
'Round whose cold clay the roots twine fast and warm--
And Youth's fair visions that glowed bright and brave,
Dreams that were closely cherished and for long,
Are lost once more in sadness and in song.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Suddenly
a wave carries the moon[41] away
And the tidal water comes with its freight of stars.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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For I have one I've chosen
Who gives me
strength
and joy.
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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But to recommend thrift to the poor is both
grotesque
and insulting.
| Guess: |
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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- To the Azure that October stirred, pale, pure,
That in the vast pools mirrors
infinite
languor,
And over dead water, where the leaves wander
The wind, in russet throes, dig their cold furrow,
Allows a long ray of yellow light to flow.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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III
YOUTH TO THE POET
(TO OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES)
Strange spell of youth for age, and age for youth,
Affinity
between two forms of truth!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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But I have excluded everything
which has an interest merely personal, or indeed any other interest than
that of poetry; and I have thus omitted the famous "Ode on the Departing
Year," in spite of the esteem in which Coleridge held it, and in spite of
its one exquisite line--
"God's image, sister of the Seraphim"--
and I have omitted it because as a whole it is
untempered
rhetoric,
shapeless in form; and I have also omitted confession pieces such as that
early one which contains, among its otherwise too emphatic utterances, the
most delicate and precise picture which Coleridge ever drew of himself:
"To me hath Heaven with bounteous hand assigned
Energic Reason and a shaping mind,
The daring ken of Truth, the Patriot's part,
And Pity's sigh, that breathes the gentle heart--
Sloth-jaundiced all!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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" Yes,
an alchemist who
suffocated
in the fumes he created.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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'481'
The English
language
and the public taste had changed very rapidly
during the century preceding Pope.
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Alexander Pope |
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Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed
editions, all of which are
confirmed
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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All his ideas merged into a single
one: how to turn to
advantage
the secret paid for so dearly.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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XXI
As long as tinted haze the
mountain
covered,
Upon my course the track I soon discovered.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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"
More silent seemed the son of Ecglaf {14a}
in
boastful
speech of his battle-deeds,
since athelings all, through the earl's great prowess,
beheld that hand, on the high roof gazing,
foeman's fingers, -- the forepart of each
of the sturdy nails to steel was likest, --
heathen's "hand-spear," hostile warrior's
claw uncanny.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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"There are ways and ways of
cleaning
samovars.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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"
"But life is in our hands," she said;
"In our own hands for gain or loss:
Shall not the
Sevenfold
Sacred Fire
Suffice to purge our dross?
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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Beautiful, wide-spread,
fire upon leaf,
what meadow yields
so
fragrant
a leaf
as your bright leaf?
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Unless you have removed all
references
to Project Gutenberg:
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Keats |
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And when at dawn the wood-nymphs, hand-in-hand,
Threaded
the bosky dell, their satyr spied
The boy's pale body stretched upon the sand,
And feared Poseidon's treachery, and cried,
And like bright sunbeams flitting through a glade
Each startled Dryad sought some safe and leafy ambuscade.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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The biographer relates that in the year 1776 Johnson and
he were on a visit to Bristol and were induced by Catcott to climb the
steep flight of stairs which led to the
muniment
room in order to
see the famous 'Rowley's Cofre'.
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Into Moses'
wholesale
shop:
There they bought a hat and bonnet,
And a gown with spots upon it,
A satin sash of Cloxam blue,
And a pair of slippers too.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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|| _aestu_ a
8
_meientis_
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Lewis Carroll |
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Madonna wept: my Lord decreed that I
Should see her then, and there her sorrows hear;
So joy, desire should fill me to the brim,
Thrilling
my very marrow and my bones.
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Petrarch |
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Nicolas carefully
annotates
"Dieu," "La Divinite,"
&c.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Come, fill the Cup, and in the fire of Spring
Your Winter garment of
Repentance
fling:
The Bird of Time has but a little way
To flutter--and the Bird is on the Wing.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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There is none but he,
Whose being I doe feare: and vnder him,
My Genius is rebuk'd, as it is said
Mark
Anthonies
was by Caesar.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Or did the kind
domestic
friend deplore
The breathless heroes on their native shore?
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Some for the Glories of This World; and some
Sigh for the Prophet's
Paradise
to come;
Ah, take the Cash, and let the Credit go,
Nor heed the rumble of a distant Drum!
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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"
He heard her speak and
accepted
her words with favor.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Who knows which way by the four winds 'twas
carried?
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Still from each fact, with skill uncouth
And savage rapture, like a tooth
She wrenched some slow
reluctant
truth.
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Lewis Carroll |
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Through the blue Immense
Strike out, all
swimmers!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Pride, power, love, wealth, and all
Time's touchstone shall destroy,
And, like base coin, prove all
Vain
substitutes
for joy.
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John Clare |
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[77]
Of all the patents granted during this time, that which seems to have
most attracted the
attention
of the dramatists was one for draining the
Fens of Lincolnshire.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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