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Chanson de Roland |
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Do not expect, despite all my affection,
Craven
feelings
aimed in your direction.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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And within the grave there is no pleasure,
for the blindworm battens on the root,
And Desire
shudders
into ashes, and the tree
of Passion bears no fruit.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Everywhere
treason ripens; what shall I do?
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Low lies the pall,
Lowly the
mourners
all
Their passage grope;
No sable hue
Mars the serene blue
Of heaven's cope.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Shall bloom that wreath thou well hast won;
While Scotia, with exulting tear,
Proclaims
that Thomson was her son.
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One by one the Lights came up, winked and let us by;
Mile by mile we waddled on, coal and fo'c'sle short;
Met a blow that laid us down, heard a
bulkhead
fly;
Left the Wolf behind us with a two-foot list to port.
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Kipling - Poems |
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O wha can
prudence
think upon,
And sic a lassie by him?
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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or did a sea
Of fire
envelope
once this silent snow?
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Shelley |
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At least, it solaces to know
That there exists a gold,
Although I prove it just in time
Its
distance
to behold!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Despair,
despair!
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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They are used and
accustomed
to things and men.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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And the last portion of my
punishment
is
ever now upon me.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Now neere enough:
Your leauy
Skreenes
throw downe,
And shew like those you are: You (worthy Vnkle)
Shall with my Cosin your right Noble Sonne
Leade our first Battell.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Ay; that's the kind of
intercourse
he loves;
Sorcerers, fortune-tellers, necromancers.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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A washed-out smallpox cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone With all the old
nocturnal
smells
That cross and cross across her brain.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Give not thy soul to dreams: the camp--the court,
Befit thee--Fame awaits thee--Glory calls--
And her the trumpet-tongued thou wilt not hear
In hearkening to
imaginary
sounds
And phantom voices.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Doe you
remember
the conceipt you had--
O' the Spani?
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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The Cloud
descended
and the Lily bowd her modest head:
And went to mind her numerous charge among the verdant grass.
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The disastrous
consequences
of
Bēowulf's death are then foretold, and the poem ends with his funeral.
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Beowulf |
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"Never before had our tobacco
Such a sweet and
pleasant
flavor,
Never the broad leaves of our cornfields
Were so beautiful to look on,
As they seem to us this morning,
When you come so far to see us!
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Longfellow |
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Not with scarfs or perfumed gloves
Do these
celebrate
their loves:
Not by jewels, feasts and savors,
Not by ribbons or by favors,
But by the sun-spark on the sea,
And the cloud-shadow on the lea,
The soothing lapse of morn to mirk,
And the cheerful round of work.
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Emerson - Poems |
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One may venture to affirm, that there is no poem of equal
length that abounds with so many impassioned
encomiums
on the fair sex
as the Lusiad.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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An admirable evasion of whore-master man, to lay
his goatish
disposition
to the charge of a star!
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Shakespeare |
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Weialala leia
Wallala leialala
Elizabeth and Leicester
Beating oars 280
The stern was formed
A gilded shell
Red and gold
The brisk swell
Rippled both shores
Southwest
wind
Carried down stream
The peal of bells
White towers
Weialala leia 290
Wallala leialala
"Trams and dusty trees.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Such, in the painted world,
appeared
455
Davenant, with the universal herd.
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Marvell - Poems |
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See, my
cantabile!
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Whitman |
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Yet since this bittersweet ill your virtue
Combats, as it does its charm and power,
Repulsing the assault, rejecting the allure,
It will bring peace to your
troubled
mind.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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The King Amuses Himself[L]
_Persons in the Drama_
FRANCOIS
I.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Note: Floris and Blancheflor are Floris and Blancheflour lovers in a popular romance found in many different
vernacular
languages and versions.
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Troubador Verse |
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ROUND-POND
Water ruffled and speckled by galloping wind
Which puffs and spurts it into tiny pashing breakers
Dashed with lemon-yellow
afternoon
sunlight.
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Imagists |
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Highbury
bore me.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Although his father's temple be fallen, and though of its pillars
Scarcely a pair yet records ancient glory adored,
Nevertheless
the son's place of worship still stands, and forever
Will there the ardent requests alternate with the thanks.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Does thou know who made thee,
Gave thee life, and bid thee feed
By the stream and o'er the mead;
Gave thee clothing of delight,
Softest clothing, woolly, bright;
Gave thee such a tender voice,
Making all the vales
rejoice?
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Forbidden
mixtures
there to see.
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Marvell - Poems |
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I will wear as my gown the red mists of sunrise,
And as my skirt the white fringes of the clouds:
My canopy--the dim lustre of Space:
My chariot--six dragons
mounting
heavenward:
And before the light of Time has shifted a pace
Suddenly stand upon the World's blue rim.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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The reminiscence comes
Of sunless dry geraniums
And dust in crevices,
Smells of chestnuts in the streets
And female smells in shuttered rooms
And cigarettes in corridors
And
cocktail
smells in bars.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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In
mounting
higher,
The angels would press on us and aspire
To drop some golden orb of perfect song
Into our deep, dear silence.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Sara Teasdale |
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He
discovers
she's tame, playful and tender and sweet.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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What have we to do
With
Kaikobad
the Great, or Kaikhosru?
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Two
manuscripts
are extant: a
transcript by Mrs.
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Shelley |
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Agamemnon and Achilles are solemnly
reconciled: the speeches, presents, and
ceremonies
on that occasion.
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Iliad - Pope |
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When the An Lu-shan revolution broke out, he took to living sometimes
at Su-sung,
sometimes
on Mount K'uang-lu.
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Li Po |
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To revisit the
glimpses
of the moon is not for us.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Sara Teasdale |
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On me thou lookest with no doubting care,
As on a bee shut in a crystalline;
Since sorrow hath shut me safe in love's divine,
And to spread wing and fly in the outer air
Were most
impossible
failure, if I strove
To fail so.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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(still no answer)
Here 's a far sterner story,
But like--oh, very like in its despair--
Of that
Egyptian
queen, winning so easily
A thousand hearts--losing at length her own.
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Poe - 5 |
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it
is ycleped
p{ur}ueaunce
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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It's The Sweet Law Of Men
It's the sweet law of men
They make wine from grapes
They make fire from coal
They make men from kisses
It's the true law of men
Kept intact despite
the misery and war
despite danger of death
It's the warm law of men
To change water to light
Dream to reality
Enemies to friends
A law old and new
That
perfects
itself
From the child's heart's depths
To reason's heights.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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The things of the world
flourish
and decay,
Each at its own hour.
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Li Po |
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Where yet some traces of her
footsteps
lie.
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Petrarch |
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The Guinea Pigs toddled about the gardens, and ate
lettuces
and Cheshire
cheese.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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And Harold stands upon this place of skulls,
The grave of France, the deadly
Waterloo!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Chimene
And Rodrigue's arm performed these
miracles?
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Modern editors of what they call the "Roman Elegies"
bring
abundant
annotation, and often detail Goethe's own emendations.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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These last
distant ranges, on which the eye rests unwearied,
commence
with an
abrupt boulder in the north, beyond the Connecticut, and travel
southward, with three or four peaks dimly seen.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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had I the power
That leafy labyrinth to thread,
And creep, like thee, with soundless tread,
I then might view her bosom white
Heaving lovely to my sight,
As these two swans
together
heave
On the gently-swelling wave.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Nothing more
commends
the Sovereign to the subject than
it.
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Startled sands blur the desert sun;
Flying snows
bewilder
the Tartar sky.
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Li Po |
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They were close to the
Tiber, and the Germans and Gauls, who were
peculiarly
liable to
disease and could ill stand the heat, ruined their constitutions by
their immoderate use of the river.
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Tacitus |
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I call him, and _think _him the noblest of poets,
_not
_because
the impressions he produces are at _all _times the most
profound--_not _because the poetical excitement which he induces is at
_all _times the most intense--but because it is at all times the most
ethereal--in other words, the most elevating and most pure.
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Entfernen
wir uns nur geschwind!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Worthiest
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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The pow'rs above could
PRUDENCE
ne'er design;
For those who fondly court the SISTERS NINE.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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To have the feeling to-day or any day I am
sufficient
as I am.
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Hope humbly, then; with
trembling
pinions soar;
Wait the great teacher Death; and God adore.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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And while ye
reverence
what ye grant--
My sacred shrine and hidden haunt--
Blameless and blissful be your doom!
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Aeschylus |
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ALCESTIS (_her
strength
failing_).
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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He knows not his own
strength
that hath not
met adversity.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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The styles are taken from
Classical
art.
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Ronsard |
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Ten bulls, ten kine, your debt discharge:
A calf new-wean'd from parent cow,
Battening on
pastures
rich and large,
Shall quit my vow.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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The Doctor has been well
catechized
then?
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Dravot
came out with his crown on his head,
swinging
his arms and stamping his
feet, and looking more pleased than Punch.
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Kipling - Poems |
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And he ful softe and
sleighly
gan hir seye,
`Now hold your day, and dooth me not to deye.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Then within a prison-yard,
Faces fixed, and stern, and hard,
Laughter
and indecent mirth;
Ah!
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Longfellow |
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to live to see reparation_, 935;
fela sceal gebīdan lēofes and lāðes,
_experience
much good and much
affliction_, 1061; ende gebīdan, 1387, 2343; pret.
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Beowulf |
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Notes:
[The
references
are, except in the first note only, to the stanzas of
the Fifth edition.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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those uncertainty divides:
By
passions?
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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HIS RETURN TO LONDON
From the dull
confines
of the drooping west,
To see the day spring from the pregnant east,
Ravish'd in spirit, I come, nay more, I fly
To thee, blest place of my nativity!
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Robert Herrick |
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Chanson de Roland |
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But far oftener he both
studied, as I found, and
composed
on the high road.
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William Wordsworth |
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Here on my breast flows her hair, an
abundance
of curls, while her head rests,
Pressing my arm as it's bent, so as to pillow her neck.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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'Faith here's an English
Taylor come hither, for
stealing
out of a French Hose:
Come in Taylor, here you may rost your Goose.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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The
following
poem is supposed to have been made for this great
occasion.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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6 In the course of fate
troubles
now end, in the cycles we again meet a time of harmony.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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a house on earth in
contrast
with a
dwelling in heaven): nom.
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Beowulf |
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O how
enraptured
I was!
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Within a hut of stone
To bask the
centuries
away
Nor once look up for noon?
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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O for the gentleness of old Romance,
The simple
plaining
of a minstrel's song!
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Keats |
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What, shall King Henry be a pupil still,
Under the surly Gloucester's
governance?
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Eve, replying, tells how she found herself
alive, saw her form
reflected
in the water, and thought herself fairer
even than Adam until
"Thy gentle hand
Seized mine; I yielded, and from that time see
How beauty is excelled by manly grace
And wisdom, which alone is truly fair.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Sed postquam tellus scelerest imbuta nefando,
Iustitiamque omnes cupida de mente fugarunt,
Perfudere manus fraterno sanguine fratres,
Destitit extinctos natus lugere parentes, 400
Optavit genitor primaevi funera nati,
Liber ut innuptae poteretur flore novercae,
Ignaro mater substernens se inpia nato
Inpia non veritast divos scelerare penates:
Omnia fanda nefanda malo permixta furore 405
Iustificam nobis mentem
avertere
deorum.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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_Questa leggiadra e
gloriosa
Donna.
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Le Testament: Ballade: Pour Robert d'Estouteville
A t dawn of day, when falcon shakes his wing,
M ainly from pleasure, and from noble usage,
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lackbirds
too shake theirs then as they sing,
R eceiving their mates, mingling their plumage,
O, as the desires it lights in me now rage,
I 'd offer you, joyously, what befits the lover.
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