At length their
expression
appeared to flash suddenly
out into the external world, when, with a quick leap, he sprang from his
chair, and falling heavily with his head and shoulders upon the table,
and in contact with the corpse, poured out rapidly and vehemently a
detailed confession of the hideous crime for which Mr.
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when I see you, child, and when I hear
You sing, or try, with low voice whispering near,
And touch of fingers soft, my grief to cheer,
I dream this darkness, where the
tempests
groan,
Trembles, and passes with half-uttered moan.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Gosson's _Pleasant
Quippes_
(1595) speaks of 'these
naked paps, the Devils ginnes.
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) can copy and distribute it in the United States without
permission and without paying
copyright
royalties.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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MARY VIRGIN
How came, how came from out thy night
Mary, so much light
And so much gloom:
Who was thy
bridegroom?
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Rilke - Poems |
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Safe in
marvellous
walls we are;
Wondering sense like builded fires,
High amazement of desires,
Delight and certainty of love,
Closing around, roofing above
Our unapproacht and perfect hour
Within the splendours of love's power.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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The debtor was imprisoned, not in a public jail
under the care of impartial public functionaries, but in a
private workhouse
belonging
to the creditor.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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The Queen
Looked hard upon her lover, he on her;
And each foresaw the
dolorous
day to be:
And all talk died, as in a grove all song
Beneath the shadow of some bird of prey;
Then a long silence came upon the hall,
And Modred thought, 'The time is hard at hand.
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Tennyson |
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With the great gale we journey
That breathes from gardens thinned,
Borne in the drift of blossoms
Whose petals throng the wind;
Buoyed on the heaven-heard whisper
Of dancing
leaflets
whirled
From all the woods that autumn
Bereaves in all the world.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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The cross, by angels on the aerial rock
Planted, a flight of
laughing
demons mock.
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At fall of
eventide
he went
To drink beside the river-head;
A waiting hunter threw his dart,
And struck my lover through the heart.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Elsewhere,
_covered,
ornamented
with gold plate_: nom.
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Beowulf |
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THE LITTLE BLACK BOY
My mother bore me in the
southern
wild,
And I am black, but O my soul is white!
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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" he made no reply,
That
mysterious
old person of Deal.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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[401]
Spire, vaults, the shrine, the spoil, the slain,
The turbaned victors, the Christian band,
All that of living or dead remain,
Hurled on high with the shivered fane,
In one wild roar
expired!
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Byron |
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) The "False Dawn"; Subhi Kazib, a
transient
Light on the Horizon
about an hour before the Subhi sadik or True Dawn; a well-known
Phenomenon in the East.
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Li Po |
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It seems I have lived for a hundred years
Among these things;
And it is useless for me now to make
complaint
against them.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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21:
printed Grosart and Chambers, and, last two verses only,
Simeon_]
[10 pantinge;] hauntinge: _RP31_]
[14 she badd _S_: she bidd _Grosart_: she bids _Chambers_: the
bould _RP31_]
[19 and to play _RP31_, _S_: and play _Grosart and Chambers_]
[26 faynt] fair _Chambers_]
[28 were] was _RP31_]
[29 princes] Princess _Chambers_]
[33 lover] woer _Chambers_
chusinge]
a choosing _Chambers_]
_To His Mistress.
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John Donne |
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How shined the soul,
unconquered
in the tower!
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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O squelettes musques,
Antinous
fletris, dandys a face glabre,
Cadavres vernisses, lovelaces chenus,
Le branle universel de la danse macabre
Vous entraine en des lieux qui ne sont pas connus!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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And that I was a maiden Queen
Guarded by an Angel mild:
Witless woe was ne'er
beguiled!
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blake-poems |
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Vainly he strove, with ready wit,
To joke about the weather--
To
ventilate
the last '_on dit_'--
To quote the price of leather--
She groaned "Here I and Sorrow sit:
Let us lament together!
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Lewis Carroll |
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How much it means that I say this to you--
Without these friendships--life, what
cauchemar!
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T.S. Eliot |
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If June with flowers has spangled all the ground,
Or winter bleak the
flickering
hearth around
Draws close the circling seat;
The child still sheds a never-failing light;
We call; Mamma with mingled joy and fright
Watches its tottering feet.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Haply there lay a mound
hard at hand, crowned with cornel thickets and
bristling
dense with
shafts of myrtle.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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'The fiend of madness which had made its prey
Of my poor heart, was lulled to sleep awhile:
There was an
interval
of many a day,
And a sea-eagle brought me food the while, _2950
Whose nest was built in that untrodden isle,
And who, to be the gaoler had been taught
Of that strange dungeon; as a friend whose smile
Like light and rest at morn and even is sought
That wild bird was to me, till madness misery brought.
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Shelley |
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[_THE CHILD ceases
strewing
the primroses, and kneels
upon the settle beside MAIRE and puts her arms about
her neck.
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Yeats |
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This
withered
root of knots of hair
Slitted below and gashed with eyes,
This oval O cropped out with teeth:
The sickle motion from the thighs
Jackknifes upward at the knees
Then straightens out from heel to hip
Pushing the framework of the bed
And clawing at the pillow slip.
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T.S. Eliot |
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CHORUS
To willing hearts, and schooled to feel,
Prometheus, came thy tongue's appeal;
Therefore we leave, with lightsome tread,
The flying cars in which we sped--
We leave the stainless virgin air
Where winged
creatures
float and fare,
And by thy side, on rocky land,
Thus gently we alight and stand,
Willing, from end to end, to know
Thine history of woe.
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Aeschylus |
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Vigorously he
cantered
onward thence.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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primal scorpion rod--
The one
permitted
opposite of God!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Who the youth was, what his name was, where the place from
which he came was,
Who had brought him from the battle, and had left him at our door,
He could not speak to tell us; but 'twas one of our brave fellows,
As the
homespun
plainly showed us which the dying soldier wore.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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In arms the glittering squadron rising round
Rush sudden; hills of
slaughter
heap the ground;
Whole flocks and herds lie bleeding on the plains,
And, all amidst them, dead, the shepherd swains!
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Iliad - Pope |
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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The silly husband secrets tried to know,
And rather seemed to seek the wily foe,
Which fear has often
rendered
fatal round,
When otherwise the ill had ne'er been found.
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La Fontaine |
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III
Madame se tient trop debout dans la prairie
Prochaine
ou neigent les fils du travail; l'ombrelle
Aux doigts; foulant l'ombelle; trop fiere pour elle
Des enfants lisant dans la verdure fleurie
Leur livre de maroquin rouge!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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To waft o'er yonder main
Thy bark, that bids the world adieu for aye
To seek a better strand,
The western winds their ready wings expand;
Which, through the dangers of that dusky way,
Where all deplore the first infringed command,
Will guide her safe, from primal bondage free,
Reckless
to stop or stay,
To that true East, where she desires to be.
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Petrarch |
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And joys and
happiness
attend thy throne!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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THROUGH the casement a noble-child saw
In the spring-time golden and green,
As he harked to the swallow's lore,
And looked so
rejoiced
and keen.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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_Oui, Comedie Francaise_
Nay, nay, sweet England, do not grieve
Near where the royal victims fell
No Man's Land is an eerie sight
No more old England will they see
Not long did we lie on the torn, red field of pain
Not since Wren's Dome has whispered with man's prayer
Not with her ruined silver spires
Now is the midnight of the nations: dark
Now lamp-lit gardens in the blue dusk shine
Now slowly sinks the day-long labouring sun
Now spake the Emperor to all his shining battle forces
O gracious ones, we bless your name
O living
pictures
of the dead
O race that Caesar knew
Of all my dreams by night and day
Often I think of you, Jimmy Doane
Oh, down by the Millwall Basin as I went the other day
Oh, red is the English rose
Oh!
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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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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Keats |
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No lights are over the mesa,
The wind is hard and wild,
I stand at the
darkened
window
And cry like a child.
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Sara Teasdale |
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XXV
"By him King Desiderius shall be pressed,
The valiant leader of the Lombard horde:
And of the fiefs of Calaon and Este;
For this
imperial
Charles shall make him lord.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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have tied my living tongue
With thanks more large than man e'er said or sung,
So let the dumbness of this image be
My eloquence, and still
interpret
me.
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Sidney Lanier |
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But, meeting with some interesting
persons whose conversation
beguiled
him, night came on before he was
aware how late it was.
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Petrarch |
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Close to the walls,
advancing
o'er the fields
Beneath one roof of well-compacted shields,
March, bending on, the Greeks' embodied powers,
Far stretching in the shade of Trojan towers.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Forbear that dream, or else
disprove
its pureness by a sign.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Sur ta chair le parfum rode
Comme autour d'un encensoir;
Tu charmes comme le soir,
Nymphe
tenebreuse
et chaude.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Knowledgeable
men and women in Ireland sometimes
distinguish between the simples that work cures by some medical
property in the herb, and those that do their work by magic.
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Yeats |
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As luck would have it, his
temerity
came off unpunished.
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Robert Burns |
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We now know Poe to have been a man suffering at the time of his
death from
cerebral
lesion, a man who drank at intervals and little.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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EJC}
At the first Sound the Golden sun arises from the Deep
And shakes his awful hair
The Eccho wakes the moon to unbind her silver locks
The golden sun bears on my song
And nine bright spheres of harmony rise round the fiery King
The joy of woman is the Death of her most best beloved
Who dies for Love of her
In torments of fierce jealousy & pangs of
adoration
The Lovers night bears on my song
And the nine Spheres rejoice beneath my powerful controll
They sing unceasing to the notes of my immortal hand
The solemn silent moon
Reverberates the living harmony upon my limbs
The birds & beasts rejoice & play
And every one seeks for his mate to prove his inmost joy
Furious & terrible they sport & rend the nether deeps
The deep lifts up his rugged head
And lost in infinite huming wings vanishes with a cry
The fading cry is ever dying
The living voice is ever living in its inmost joy
Arise you little glancing wings & sing your infant joy
Arise & drink your bliss
For every thing that lives is holy for the source of life
Descends to be a weeping babe
For the Earthworm renews the moisture of the sandy plain
Now my left hand I stretch to earth beneath
And strike the terrible string
I wake sweet joy in dens of sorrow & I plant a smile
In forests of affliction
And wake the bubbling springs of life in regions of dark death
O I am weary lay thine hand upon me or I faint
I faint beneath these beams of thine
For thou hast touchd my five senses & they answerd thee
Now I am nothing & I sink
And on the bed of silence sleep till thou awakest me
Thus sang the Lovely one in Rapturous delusive trance
Los heard delighted reviving he siezd her in his arms delusive hopes
Kindling She led him into Shadows & thence fled outstretchd
Upon the immense like a bright rainbow weeping & smiling & fading
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I am made to sow the thistle for wheat; the nettle for a nourishing dainty
I have planted a false oath in the earth, it has brought forth a poison tree
I have chosen the serpent for a councellor & the dog
For a schoolmaster to my children
I have blotted out from light & living the dove & nightingale
And I have caused the earth worm to beg from door to door
I have taught the thief a secret path into the house of the just
I have taught pale artifice to spread his nets upon the morning
My heavens are brass my earth is iron my moon a clod of clay
My sun a pestilence burning at noon & a vapour of death in night
What is the price of Experience do men buy it for a song
Or wisdom for a dance in the street?
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Blake - Zoas |
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The second volume
contains
poems then, with two exceptions, first
published.
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Tennyson |
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That it is partly upon his ignorance of future events, and partly upon
the hope of future state, that all his
happiness
in the present depends,
v.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Away--away--'mid seas of rays that roll
Empyrean
splendor o'er th' unchained soul--
The soul that scarce (the billows are so dense)
Can struggle to its destin'd eminence--
To distant spheres, from time to time, she rode,
And late to ours, the favour'd one of God--
But, now, the ruler of an anchor'd realm,
She throws aside the sceptre--leaves the helm,
And, amid incense and high spiritual hymns,
Laves in quadruple light her angel limbs.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Now what you
question
of my ancient friend,
With truth I answer; thou the truth attend.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the
law of the state
applicable
to this agreement, the agreement shall be
interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by
the applicable state law.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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And Sophocles a man;
When Sappho was a living girl,
And
Beatrice
wore
The gown that Dante deified.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Are you a
favourite
among the ladies?
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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The ruling passion of Camoens is also
strongly
marked in his
writings.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Many dates and facts are conjecture, and so the order of the poets is at times
somewhat
arbitrary where dates of birth and death are uncertain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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We were by no means inveigled to enter facades so majestic;
Somber cortile we passed, balcony high and gallant,
Hastening
onward until an humble but exquisite portal
Offered a refuge to both, ardent seeker and guide.
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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The Blessed One,
The All-Highest, hath instilled into thy soul,
Great lord, the spirit of kindness and meek patience;
Thou wishest not
perdition
for the sinner,
Thou wilt wait quietly, until delusion
Shall pass away; for pass away it will,
And truth's eternal sun will dawn on all.
| Guess: |
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Hauksbee was
sometimes
nice to her own sex.
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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The
inhabitants
came out of their
houses, offering bread and salt.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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They said I was a wealthy man;
My sheep upon the
mountain
fed,
And it was fit that thence I took
Whereof to buy us bread:"
"Do this; how can we give to you,"
They cried, "what to the poor is due?
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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1400
We'll have as witness the god
worshipped
there:
We will pray that he acts towards us as a father.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Those accounts, indeed, differ widely from each other,
and, in all probability, differ as widely from the ancient poem
from which they were
originally
derived.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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_] To the other ship,
And I will follow you and cut the rope
When I have said
farewell
to this man here,
For neither I nor any living man
Will look upon his face again.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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Goodness
would not make
Evil; and what else hath he made?
| Guess: |
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Byron |
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within its cave
What
treasure
lay so locked, so hid?
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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At times we went through particular hardship, 20 a whole day spent
covering
just a few leagues.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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And the
braggarts
all in silence were bound.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Lost causes triumph like the sun; Dreams that deluded are brought true; A
resurrection
morning breaks —
The soul in him is born anew,
Then, to the old and easy path Of dull, sad inanition wanes:
And still this is the man God made, And still the love of God remains!
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Exactly as the rain-filled cloud is seen
Lifting earthly vapours through the air,
Forming a bow, and then drinking there
By plunging deep in Tethys' hoary sheen,
Next, climbing again where it has been,
With bellying shadow darkening everywhere,
Till finally it bursts in lightning glare,
And rain, or snow, or hail shrouds the scene:
This city, that was once a shepherd's field,
Rising by degrees, such power did wield,
She made herself the queen of sea and land,
Till
helpless
to sustain that huge excess,
Her power dispersed, so we might understand
That all, one day, must come to nothingness.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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[Sidenote:
Boethius
complains of Fortune's unrelenting rage.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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till we find where the sly one hides
and bring him forth,
Ever love, ever the sobbing liquid of life,
Ever the bandage under the chin, ever the
trestles
of death.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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You have hands to square and hew
Vast marble-blocks, hard on your day of doom,
Ever building mansions new,
Nor
thinking
of the mansion of the tomb.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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"
So on the English Channel boasts the foe
On whose
imperial
brow death's helmet nods.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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g
2220
slǣpende
be fȳre, fyrena hyrde
þēofes cræfte, þæt sie .
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Beowulf |
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Who late so free as Spanish girls were seen
(Ere War uprose in his
volcanic
rage),
With braided tresses bounding o'er the green,
While on the gay dance shone Night's lover-loving Queen?
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Leary
Updated
editions
will replace the previous one--the old editions
will be renamed.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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The silver, Sallust, shows not fair
While buried in the greedy mine:
You love it not till
moderate
wear
Have given it shine.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Are we then
As
Holofernes
to thee?
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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' I have gone through so many yesterdays when I
strove with Death that I have
realised
to its full the wisdom of that
sentence; and it is to me not merely a figure of speech, but a
literal fact.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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1180-1220)
Peire Raimon de Tolosa or Toloza was from the
merchant
class of Toulouse.
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Troubador Verse |
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For
frequent
tears have run
The colours from my life, and left so dead
And pale a stuff, it were not fitly done
To give the same as pillow to thy head.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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The quiver'd Dian, sister of the day,
(Her golden arrows
sounding
at her side,)
Saturnia, majesty of heaven, defied.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Death is a
dialogue
between
The spirit and the dust.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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The canker blooms have full as deep a dye
As the perfumed
tincture
of the roses.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Ambrosia
was the food of the gods.
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Ronsard |
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"Tell him night finished before we finished,
And the old clock kept
neighing
'day!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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"
"Who, then, am I,
according
to you?
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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The person or entity that provided you with
the defective work may elect to provide a
replacement
copy in lieu of a
refund.
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Imagists |
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Mallarme's spiritual position is taken to be atheistic, and
therefore
religious assumptions should not be made in interpreting these fragments.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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The horrid crags, by toppling convent crowned,
The cork-trees hoar that clothe the shaggy steep,
The
mountain
moss by scorching skies imbrowned,
The sunken glen, whose sunless shrubs must weep,
The tender azure of the unruffled deep,
The orange tints that gild the greenest bough,
The torrents that from cliff to valley leap,
The vine on high, the willow branch below,
Mixed in one mighty scene, with varied beauty glow.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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