faint
outstretchd
upon the plain
Wailing runs round the vValleys from the Mill & from the Barn
But most the polishd Palaces dark silent bow with dread {"Dark" written on top of "?
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Blake - Zoas |
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We must
dethrone
him.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Send me now, and I shall go;
Call me, I shall hear you call;
Use me ere they lay me low
Where a man's no use at all;
Ere the
wholesome
flesh decay,
And the willing nerve be numb,
And the lips lack breath to say,
"No, my lad, I cannot come.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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That word shall I (said he)
avouchen
good, 575
Sith to thee is unknowne the cradle of thy blood.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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As Proserpine still weeps for her
Sicilian
air.
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Keats |
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"
[Illustration]
There was an Old Man of Berlin,
Whose form was
uncommonly
thin;
Till he once, by mistake, was mixed up in a cake,
So they baked that Old Man of Berlin.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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He
was
transported
to his residence and expired after several days
passed in extreme agony.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Perhaps a native of some distant shore,
The future consort of her bridal hour:
Or rather some descendant of the skies;
Won by her prayer, the aerial
bridegroom
flies,
Heaven on that hour its choicest influence shed,
That gave a foreign spouse to crown her bed!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Lights, lights,
She
entertains
Sir Ferdinand
Klein.
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T.S. Eliot |
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'
When the shadow with fatal law menaced me
A certain old dream, sick desire of my spine,
Beneath funereal ceilings afflicted by dying
Folded its
indubitable
wing there within me.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Never a house like this such loves as these hath united,
Never did love conjoin by such-like
covenant
lovers, 335
As th'according tie Thetis deigned in concert wi' Peleus.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Her women
removed her wraps and proceeded to get her in
readiness
for the night.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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be still possess'd
Of dear remembrance,
blessing
still and bless'd!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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When I speak of her also
You'll quickly judge I care
Seeing my
laughter
grow.
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Troubador Verse |
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In high and haughty strain,
At morn, of kings and
governors
he prates;
At night, "A frugal table, O ye Fates,
A little shell the sacred salt to hold,
And clothes, though coarse, to keep from me the cold.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Then along the lonely path,
Once more at large, full
thousand
paces on
We travel'd, each contemplative and mute.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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'
Then, heart a-flutter, speech precise,
Describes
the shoes and asks the price.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Thinks I, while I smoke my pipe
Here beside the
tumbling
Fleet,
Apples drop when they are ripe,
And when they drop are they most sweet.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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No, but the soul
Void of words, and this heavy body,
Succumb to noon's proud silence slowly:
With no more ado,
forgetting
blasphemy, I
Must sleep, lying on the thirsty sand, and as I
Love, open my mouth to wine's true constellation!
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Mallarme - Poems |
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a mortal, like thyself, am I;
No
glorious
native of yon azure sky:
In form, ah how unlike their heavenly kind!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Meeting_
OLD KNOWELL
_with_ FORMAL _he reports that (as_ FITZSWORD) _his
connection with_ OLD KNOWELL _has been discovered; that
he has escaped with difficulty from_ YOUNG KNOWELL, _and
that the father had better hasten to_ Cob's _house to catch
his son in_ flagrante delicto.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Under
the influence of the good wine, however, the
conversation
then became
general.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Which raised surprise; soon numbers round her stood,
Astonishment expressed, but still the fair,
Whate'er was asked, would nothing more declare,
Than, in the spacious, blue, ethereal sky,
Her
marriage
would be soon, they might rely.
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La Fontaine |
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And, verily,
Yielding
the weary body to repose,
Far ancienter than cushions of soft beds,
And quenching thirst is earlier than cups.
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Lucretius |
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Sometimes their strong speed they slacken,
Though they are not overtaken;
In sleep their
jubilant
troop is near,--
I tuneful voices overhear;
It may be in wood or waste,--
At unawares 't is come and past.
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Emerson - Poems |
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who entrance none denide:
Thence to the hall, which was on every side 50
With rich array and costly arras dight:
Infinite
sorts of people did abide
There waiting long, to win the wished sight
Of her that was the Lady of that Pallace bright.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Note: 'True love' in verse two, is fins amor, noble love, the
troubadour
ideal.
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Troubador Verse |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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--it seems a little time
Since last I saw that lordly
southern
clime,
Where flower and fruit to purple radiance blow,
And like bright lamps the fabled apples glow.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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On hearing this,
Apollo, handing him a sack of
unwinnowed
wheat, bade him pick out _all
the chaff _for his reward.
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Poe - 5 |
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Where's my smooth brow gone:
My arching lashes, yellow hair,
Wide-eyed glances, pretty ones,
That took in the cleverest there:
Nose not too big or small: a pair
Of
delicate
little ears, the chin
Dimpled: a face oval and fair,
Lovely lips with crimson skin?
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Villon |
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THIS flatt'ry roused the beauteous widowed fair;
The god of soft
persuasion
soon was there,
And from his quiver in a moment drew
Two arrows keen, which from his bow-string flew;
With one he pierced the soldier to the heart,
The lady slightly felt the other dart.
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La Fontaine |
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Romanique uiri, quorum iam maxima turba est:
Tarquinioque minus reges, et Horatia proles
tota acies, parti nec non et Scaeuola trunca
nobilior, maiorque uiris tu, Cloelia, uirgo,
et Romana ferens, quae texit, moenia Cocles,
et commilitio uolucris Coruinus adeptus
et spolia et nomen, qui gestat in alite Phoebum,
et Ioue qui meruit caelum Romamque Camillus
seruando posuit, Brutusque a rege receptae
conditor, et Pyrrhi per bella Papirius ultor,
Fabricius Curiusque pares et tertia palma
Marcellus, Cossusque prior de rege necato,
certantesque Deci uotis similesque triumphis,
inuictusque mora Fabius, uictorque ferocis
Liuius Hasdrubalis socio per bella Nerone,
uel duo Scipiadae, fatum Carthaginis unum,
Pompeiusque orbis domitor per trisque triumphos
ante diem princeps, et censu Tullius oris
emeritus caelum, et tu, Claudi magna propago,
Aemiliaeque domus proceres, clarique Metelli,
et Cato fortunae uictor, matrisque sub armis
miles Agrippa suae;
Venerisque
ab origine proles
Iulia descendit caelo caelumque repleuit,
quod regit Augustus socio per signa Tonante,
cernit et in coetu diuum agnouitque Quirinum
altius aetherii quam candet circulus orbis:
illa deis sedes, haec illis, proxima diuum
qui uirtute sua similes fastigia tangunt.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Meantime
I will keep watch on thy bright sun,
And of thy seasons be a careful nurse.
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Keats |
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which to me hast been a port and shield
From life's rude daily
tempests
for long years,
Now the full fountain of my nightly tears
Which in the day I bear for shame conceal'd:
Bed!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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A stillness of white faces wrought
A
transient
death on all the hands and breasts
Of all the crowd, and men and women stood,
One instant, fixed, as they had died upright.
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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Both have that
intenseness
of feeling, which seems to resolve
itself into the element which it contemplates.
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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"Why do you sigh, fair
creature?
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
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I bee madde, dystraughte wyth brendyng rage;
Ne seas of
smethynge
gore wylle mie chafed harte asswage.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating
charities and charitable
donations
in all 50 states of the United
States.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Thou kenneste welle the
Dacyannes
myttee powere;
Wythe them a mynnute wurchethe bane for yeares; 320
Theie undoe reaulmes wythyn a syngle hower.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating
charities and charitable
donations
in all 50 states of the United
States.
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Lewis Carroll |
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SILENT HOUR
Whoever weeps
somewhere
out in the world
Weeps without cause in the world
Weeps over me.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Here
_suhuru_
is taken as a loan-word
from sugur timmatu, hair of the head.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Sonnets Pour Helene Book II: XLII
In these long winter nights when the idle Moon
Steers her chariot so slowly on its way,
When the cockerel so tardily calls the day,
When night to the troubled soul seems years through:
I would have died of misery if not for you,
In shadowy form, coming to ease my fate,
Utterly naked in my arms, to lie and wait,
Sweetly
deceiving
me with a specious view.
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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I knew not this, and therefore did I weep:
That God would love a Worm I knew, and punish the evil foot
That wilful bruis'd its helpless form: but that he cherish'd it
With milk and oil I never knew, and therefore did I weep,
And I
complaind
in the mild air, because I fade away.
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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Zeuxis and
Parrhasius
are said to be
contemporaries; the first found out the reason of lights and shadows in
picture, the other more subtlely examined the line.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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To gentle
sympathies
awake, MS.
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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My
frivolous
muse has now opened
--Cupid, the scamp--opens lips hitherto sealed so well.
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Pour your
gladness
on earth's head,
So be merry, so be dead.
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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O Palace empty and
disconsolate!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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A man
ascaunse
upponn a piece maye looke,
And shake hys hedde to styrre hys rede[42] aboute;
Quod he, gyf I askaunted oere thys booke,
Schulde fynde thereyn that trouthe ys left wythoute; 20
Eke, gyf[43] ynto a vew percase[44] I tooke
The long beade-rolle of al the wrytynge route,
Asserius, Ingolphus, Torgotte, Bedde,
Thorow hem[45] al nete lyche ytte I coulde rede.
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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So, when thou
Beneath
Sicanian
billows glidest on,
May Doris blend no bitter wave with thine,
Begin!
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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XXXIV
"He of the Queen's apartment here was sight,
Her
choicest
and her priviest chamber, where
Was never introduced whatever wight,
Save he most faithful was esteemed: he there,
As he was peeping, saw an uncouth fight;
A dwarf was wrestling with the royal fair;
And such that champion's skill, though undergrown,
He in the strife his opposite had thrown.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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A GAME OF CHESS
The Chair she sat in, like a
burnished
throne,
Glowed on the marble, where the glass
Held up by standards wrought with fruited vines
From which a golden Cupidon peeped out 80
(Another hid his eyes behind his wing)
Doubled the flames of sevenbranched candelabra
Reflecting light upon the table as
The glitter of her jewels rose to meet it,
From satin cases poured in rich profusion.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Visiting churches and palaces, all of the ruins and the pillars,
I, a
responsible
man, profit from making this trip.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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[Footnote 34:
Subaltern
officer of Cossacks.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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For nete uppon the erthe, botte to be
choughens
foode.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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desired]]
goddes grace,
fforto arere goddes temple; in on faire place, 24*
And aboute Ierusalem; treble wal arere.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Il est l'affection et l'avenir, la force et
l'amour que nous, debout dans les rages et les ennuis, nous voyons
passer dans le ciel de tempete et les
drapeaux
d'extase.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Toi qui, meme aux lepreux, aux parias maudits,
Enseignes
par l'amour le gout du Paradis,
O Satan, prends pitie de ma longue misere!
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Faith, oh my faith, what fragrant breath,
What sweet odour from her mouth's excess,
What rubies and what
diamonds
were there.
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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I wake, muse, burn, and weep; of all my pain
The one sweet cause appears before me still;
War is my lot, which grief and anger fill,
And
thinking
but of her some rest I gain.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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Je suis, mon cher savant, si docte aux voluptes,
Lorsque j'etouffe un homme en mes bras veloutes,
Ou lorsque j'abandonne aux morsures mon buste,
Timide et libertine, et fragile et robuste,
Que sur ces matelas qui se pame d'emoi
Les Anges
impuissants
se damneraient pour moi!
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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See the note to the 'Address to
the
Scholars
of the Village School of----' (vol.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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Et quand tu le verras sonder tout l'horizon,
Contempteur des vieux jougs, libre de toute crainte,
Tu viendras lui donner la
Redemption
sainte!
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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{a}t cureth eyen derkyd for
penau{n}ce
36
Now se[st] thow cleer ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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thou who hast
The fatal gift of beauty, which became
A funeral dower of present woes and past,
On thy sweet brow is sorrow
ploughed
by shame,
And annals graved in characters of flame.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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I had a song, too, on my road,
But mine was in my eyes;
For Malvern Hills were with me all the way,
Singing loveliest visible melodies
Blue as a south-sea bay;
And ruddy as wine of France
Breadths
of new-turn'd ploughland under them glowed.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
|
"
And sure enough beneath the tree
There walks another love with me,
And
overhead
the aspen heaves
Its rainy-sounding silver leaves;
And I spell nothing in their stir,
But now perhaps they speak to her,
And plain for her to understand
They talk about a time at hand
When I shall sleep with clover clad,
And she beside another lad.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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This ode was originally
addressed
to Wordsworth,
but before it was published in its first form, the "William" of the still
existing MS.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Unless you have removed all
references
to Project Gutenberg:
1.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Kosmos
Who includes diversity and is Nature,
Who is the amplitude of the earth, and the coarseness and sexuality of
the earth, and the great charity of the earth, and the equilibrium also,
Who has not look'd forth from the windows the eyes for nothing,
or whose brain held audience with messengers for nothing,
Who contains believers and disbelievers, who is the most majestic lover,
Who holds duly his or her triune proportion of realism,
spiritualism, and of the aesthetic or intellectual,
Who having consider'd the body finds all its organs and parts good,
Who, out of the theory of the earth and of his or her body
understands
by subtle analogies all other theories,
The theory of a city, a poem, and of the large politics of these States;
Who believes not only in our globe with its sun and moon, but in
other globes with their suns and moons,
Who, constructing the house of himself or herself, not for a day
but for all time, sees races, eras, dates, generations,
The past, the future, dwelling there, like space, inseparable together.
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From the loud roar of foaming calumny
To the small whisper of the as paltry few
And subtler venom of the reptile crew,
The Janus glance of whose
significant
eye,
Learning to lie with silence, would SEEM true,
And without utterance, save the shrug or sigh,
Deal round to happy fools its speechless obloquy.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Chvabrine
become master of the place!
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Electric signs flash on and out,
And gold-eyed motors dart about,
And trolleys jangle,
And crowds untangle,
And still they stand on their icy beat,
And still the
tambourines
repeat,
"God looks down from His judgment seat,
'Good will on earth' is His message sweet.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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"
Forthwith
this challenge, as erewhile the rest,
To Leo was declared at Charles' behest.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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In all these poems, we see an epic
intention
still combined with a
recognizably epic manner.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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The kettle sings, the
firelight
dances.
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Lewis Carroll |
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His
endeavors
to arouse me from the condition of abnormal gloom into
which I had fallen, were frustrated, in great measure, by certain
volumes which I had found in his library.
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Poe - 5 |
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23 Yuhua Palace4 The stream valley turns, the wind steady in the pines, a gray rat
scuttles
under ancient tiles.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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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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Five years have passed; five summers, with the length
Of five long
winters!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Together
in the foaming stream they sank;
High flashed the wave, and groaned the echoing bank.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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There no mortal man dares to swear in vain: 1395
Against false oaths, his punishment is certain:
And fearing to meet there with inexorable death,
Nothing more surely
constrains
deceitful breath.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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I waited with a
maddened
grin
To hear that voice all icy thin
Slide forth and tell my deadly sin
To hell and heaven, Rosaline!
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But the
doctrine
of Necessity teaches us that in no case could any event
have happened otherwise than it did happen, and that, if God is the
author of good, He is also the author of evil; that, if He is entitled
to our gratitude for the one, He is entitled to our hatred for the
other; that, admitting the existence of this hypothetic being, He is
also subjected to the dominion of an immutable necessity.
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Shelley |
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To fade away like morning beauty from her mortal day:
Down by the river of Adona her soft voice is heard;
And thus her gentle
lamentation
falls like morning dew.
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blake-poems |
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VIII
With arms and vassals Rome the world subdued,
So that one might judge this single city
Had found her
grandeur
held in check solely
By earth and ocean's depth and latitude.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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But, in order to
silence further inquiry, we subjoin a few passages as
illustrations
of
its general character.
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James Russell Lowell |
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And for a bodykyn[52] a swarthe
obteyne?
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Ilk care and fear, when thou art near
I
evermair
defy them, O!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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me whan it
remembre?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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FAUST:
Ach, dass die Einfalt, dass die Unschuld nie
Sich selbst und ihren heil'gen Wert
erkennt!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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THE PRINCESS BETROTHED TO THE
KING OF GARBA
WHAT various ways in which a thing is told
Some truth abuse, while others fiction hold;
In stories we invention may admit;
But diff'rent 'tis with what
historick
writ;
Posterity demands that truth should then
Inspire relation, and direct the pen.
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La Fontaine |
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On fierce-heart Finn there fell likewise,
on himself at home, the horrid sword-death;
for Guthlaf and Oslaf of grim attack
had
sorrowing
told, from sea-ways landed,
mourning their woes.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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The last
speaker's remark that the present China is different from what China is
in Chinese poetry may be true, but I may well retort that the England
as
represented
in Shakespeare is very different from the England of
to-day.
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Li Po |
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