If it be thy
pleasure
let us rather cast
a lot.
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"
"Surely," replied this other;
"His
grandfathers
beat them many times.
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and alas
The trebly hundred
triumphs!
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Lynette led them into a glen and a cave where they found
pleasant
drinks
and meat, and where Gareth fell asleep.
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A peaceful
rumbling
there,
The town's at our feet.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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This is the end of human beauty:
Shrivelled arms, hands warped like feet:
The
shoulders
hunched up utterly:
Breasts.
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Villon |
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Hymen O Hymenaeus, Hymen hither O
Hymenaeus!
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Catullus - Carmina |
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To the best vantage placed, he views around
The
imperial
town, with lofty turrets crowned ;
That wealthy storehouse of the bounteous flood.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Next he sings
Of Gallus
wandering
by Permessus' stream,
And by a sister of the Muses led
To the Aonian mountains, and how all
The choir of Phoebus rose to greet him; how
The shepherd Linus, singer of songs divine,
Brow-bound with flowers and bitter parsley, spake:
"These reeds the Muses give thee, take them thou,
Erst to the aged bard of Ascra given,
Wherewith in singing he was wont to draw
Time-rooted ash-trees from the mountain heights.
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Unworthy he, the voice of fame to hear,
That
sweetest
music to an honest ear;
(For 'faith, Lord Fanny!
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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"
"They are all made to unscrew," said the Crabs; and forthwith they
deposited a great pile of claws close to the boat, with which Violet
uncombed all the pale pink worsted, and then made the
loveliest
mittens
with it you can imagine.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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[245] ["Directing my arquebuse where I saw the thickest and most serried
troop of fighting men, I aimed exactly at one whom I remarked to be
higher than the rest; the fog prevented me from being certain whether he
was on
horseback
or on foot.
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PROSE
I
FLAIRY
Pour Helene se
conjurerent
les seves ornementales dans les ombres
vierges et les clartes impassibles dans le silence astral.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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After such knowledge, what
forgiveness?
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The sun was just a-rising above the heath of furze,
And the shadows grow to giants; that bright ball never stirs:
There the
shepherds
lay with their dogs by their side,
And they started up and barked as my shadow they espied.
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John Clare |
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The myrtle groves are those of the
Underworld
in Classical mythology.
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Ronsard |
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For the prevision is allied
Unto the thing so signified;
Or say, the
foresight
that awaits
Is the same Genius that creates.
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Emerson - Poems |
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The Moors I knew, and, for their fraud prepar'd,
I left my fix'd command my navy's guard:[555]
Whate'er from shore my name or seal convey'd
Of other weight, that fix'd command forbade;
Thus, ere its birth destroy'd,
prevented
fell
What fraud might dictate, or what force compel.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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230
He, the young man carbuncular, arrives,
A small house agent's clerk, with one bold stare,
One of the low on whom assurance sits
As a silk hat on a
Bradford
millionaire.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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It is some
marvellous
thing: for I know surely
Behind it crowd out of their discipline
The coming hours to watch me seized, and stare
With questioning brows on me, and lift lean hands
From under gowns of shadow to point me out
One to another, saying: "This is she:
How will she bear it, think ye?
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Hugo - Poems |
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Varus, are your trees in
planting?
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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My doubt, mass of ancient night, ends extreme
In many a subtle branch, that
remaining
the true
Woods themselves, proves, alas, that I too
Offered myself, alone, as triumph, the false ideal of roses.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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'Thy
promised
boon, O Cyclop!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Thou tellest of an
excellent
parent marvellous in piety, who himself urined
in the womb of his son!
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Catullus - Carmina |
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The rooms were gilt; the decorations fine;
The gardens and the pleasure-grounds divine;
Such rich magnificence was never seen;
Superb the whole, a
charming
blessed demesne.
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La Fontaine |
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The Word[3] divine that lives and works for aye,
Fold you in
boundless
love's embrace alluring,
And what in floating vision glides away,
That seize ye and make fast with thoughts enduring.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Whoever will compare the poems of 1832 with the same poems as they
appeared in 1842 will see that the
difference
is not so much a
difference in degree, but almost a difference in kind.
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Tennyson |
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Force and
prudence
are invoked in vain;
The illness that seems cured appears again.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Nevertheless
the second and third pages have the heading,
running across from one to the other, 'The Printer to the
Reader.
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John Donne |
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'
And Juno, weeping: 'Ah yet, if thy mind were
gracious
where thy lips are
stern, and this gift of life might remain confirmed to Turnus!
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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The truth of the houl matter is jist simple enough; for the very first
day that I com'd from Connaught, and showd my swate little silf in the
strait to the widdy, who was looking through the windy, it was a
gone case
althegither
with the heart o' the purty Misthress Tracle.
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Poe - 5 |
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Prince, why wilt thou smite
The
smitten?
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Excessive
heat had made all clothes
Unbearable.
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La Fontaine |
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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All the happy songs he wrought
From remembrance soon must fade,
As the wash of silver
moonlight
15
From a purple-dark ravine.
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Sappho |
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Against the leader's prow, her lovely breast
With more than mortal force the goddess press'd;
The ship
recoiling
trembles on the tide,
The nymphs, in help, pour round on every side,
From the dread bar the threaten'd keels to save;
The ship bounds up, half lifted from the wave,
And, trembling, hovers o'er the wat'ry grave.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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You bewitched the rivers, flowers and woods,
With your lyre, in vain but beguilingly,
Yet not what your soul felt, the beauty
That dealt what was
festering
in your blood.
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Ronsard |
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Hearts, that have borne with me
Worse
buffets!
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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--Vite
soufflons
la lampe, afin
De nous cacher dans les tenebres!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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None that, with kindred
consciousness
endued,
If we were not, would seem to smile the less
Of all that flattered, followed, sought, and sued:
This is to be alone; this, this is solitude!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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, but its volunteers and
employees
are scattered
throughout numerous locations.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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But, for me,
I reck of Zeus as
something
less than nought.
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Aeschylus |
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to the rocks,
Menoetes!
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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One thing there is alone, that doth deform thee;
In the midst of thee, O field, so fair and
verdant!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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5
I wander through life,
With the
searching
mind
That is never at rest,
Till I reach the shade
Of my lover's door.
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Sappho |
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If
it be indeed our lot to possess Italy and grasp a
conquering
sceptre,
and to assign the spoil; thou sawest the horse and armour of Turnus as
he went all in gold; that same horse, the shield and the ruddy plume,
will I reserve from partition, thy reward, O Nisus, even from now.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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345
His tears will find no hand to dry them, no friend:
His
innocent
cries, heard by the gods above us,
Will harm his mother, and anger his ancestors.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Leonor
Is the lofty virtue
reigning
in your soul
So swift to pursue this ignoble goal?
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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The last time
I had been there something was troubling me, and I had longed for a
message from those beings or
bodiless
moods, or whatever they be, who
inhabit the world of spirits.
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Yeats |
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And the marsh dragged one back,
and another
perished
under the cliff,
and the tide swept you out.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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_("A Juana la
Grenadine!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Its
business
office is located at 809 North 1500 West, Salt
Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Thou scene of all my
happiness
and pleasure!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Bold
Brandimart
unhorsed in the career
Sobrino; but it was not plain withal
If 'twas the fault of horse or cavalier;
For seldom good Sobrino used to fall.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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[32] Fairyland,
sometimes
thought of as being in the middle of the sea,
sometimes (as here) in the sky.
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Li Po |
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_
_In the space between each toe,
Kingdoms
rise and saviours go;
Epochs fall and causes die
In the lifting of his eye.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Aye, he beheld
Phoebe, his
passion!
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Keats |
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Oh the dismal care
That shakes the
blossoms
of my hoary hair!
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blake-poems |
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Ma perche puote vostro accorgimento
ben
penetrare
a questa veritate,
come disiri, ti faro contento.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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"
XXXVII
Well I found you in the twilit garden,
Laid a lover's hand upon your shoulder,
And we both were made aware of loving
Past the reach of reason to unravel,
Or the much
desiring
heart to follow.
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Sappho |
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Whose fault has foiled her fond
endeavor?
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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_hu_ reduced to the
breathing
_'u_; read _i-ni-'u_.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Where fierce the surge with awful bellow
Doth ever lash the rocky wall;
And where the moon most brightly mellow
Dost beam when mists of evening fall;
Where midst his harem's
countless
blisses
The Moslem spends his vital span,
A Sorceress there with gentle kisses
Presented me a Talisman.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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I visit the
orchards
of spheres and look at the product,
And look at quintillions ripen'd and look at quintillions green.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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THE soft amour extended through the night,
The girl was pleas'd, and all proceeded right;
The foll'wing night, the next, 'twas still the same;
Young Clod at length her
coldness
'gan to blame;
And as he felt suspicious of the act,
He watch'd her steps and verified the fact:
A quarrel instantly between them rose;
Howe'er the fair, his anger to compose,
And favour not to lose, on honour vow'd,
That when the sparks were gone, and time allow'd,
She would oblige his craving, fierce desire;--
To which the village lad replied with ire:--
Pray what care I for any tavern guest,
Of either sex; to you I now protest,
If I be not indulg'd this very night,
I'll publish your amours in mere despite.
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La Fontaine |
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Noir
assassin
de la Vie et de l'Art,
Tu ne tueras jamais dans ma memoire
Celle qui fut mon plaisir et ma gloire!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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The poet sided with
the professors of the New Light, as the more tolerant were called, and
handled the professors of the Old Light, as the other party were
named, with the most
unsparing
severity.
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Robert Burns |
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Is he from the Mississippi
country?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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James,
_Constantinople
Ancient and Modern_, _iii.
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Byron |
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Shall
dunghill
curs confront the Helicons?
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Shakespeare |
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--La dedans sont des filles, infames
Parce que,--vous saviez que c'est faible, les femmes,
Messeigneurs
de la cour,--que ca veut toujours bien,
Vous avez crache sur l'ame, comme rien!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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I came among the Sons of God, when he
Gave up into my hands Uzzean Job
To prove him, and
illustrate
his high worth; 370
And when to all his Angels he propos'd
To draw the proud King Ahab into fraud
That he might fall in Ramoth, they demurring,
I undertook that office, and the tongues
Of all his flattering Prophets glibb'd with lyes
To his destruction, as I had in charge.
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Milton |
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" Samuel Johnson's "London,"
his first bid for recognition,
appeared
in the same week, and excited in
Pope not admiration only, but some active endeavour to be useful to its
author.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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And lo, along the ways
Crowded with nations, there arose a strife;
Disturbance
of men; tongues contradicting tongues;
Madness of noise, that scattered multitudes;
A trample of blind feet, beneath whose tread
Truth's bloom shrank withered; while incessant mouths
Howled "Progress!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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What didst thou say,
Jacinta?
| Guess: |
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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The flying wolfynnes sente a yelleynge crie; 85
Onne Vyncente and Sabryna felle the mount;
To lyve aeternalle dyd theie
eftsoones
die;
Thorowe the sandie grave boiled up the pourple founte,
On a broade grassie playne was layde the hylle,
Staieynge the rounynge course of meint a limmed[48] rylle.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Sic nimis
insultans
extremo tempore saeva
Fors etiam nostris invidit questibus aures.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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I can do so many things by myself and
unaided?
| Guess: |
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Aristophanes |
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The Conti were possess'd
Of
Montemurlo
still: the Cerchi still
Were in Acone's parish; nor had haply
From Valdigrieve past the Buondelmonte.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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]
20 (return)
[ The office of quaestor was the
entrance
to all public employments.
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Tacitus |
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On montrera mon cenotaphe
Aux cotes
brulantes
de Mozambique.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Yet still thou haunt'st me; and though well I see,
She is not thou, and only thou art she,
Still, still as though some dear _embodied_ Good,
Some _living_ Love before my eyes there stood
With
answering
look a ready ear to lend,
I mourn to thee and say--"Ah!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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But this miraculous maiden was too
beautiful
for long life, so she died
soon after I knew her first, and it was I myself who entombed her, upon
a day when spring swung her censer even in the burial-ground.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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One only valued gift your tyrant gave,
And that resumed--the fair
Lyrnessian
slave.
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Iliad - Pope |
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And when the truth I told her in sore fright,
She soon resumed her old accustom'd frame,
While,
desperate
and half dead, a hard rock mine became.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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A distinguished Scandinavian
writer has
pronounced
_Das Stunden-Buch_ one of the supreme literary
achievements of our time and its deepest and most beautiful book of
prayer.
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Rilke - Poems |
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e metail
anamayld
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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With midnight always in one's heart,
And twilight in one's cell,
We turn the crank, or tear the rope,
Each in his
separate
Hell,
And the silence is more awful far
Than the sound of a brazen bell.
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Wilde - Poems |
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" Hauptmann,
like Rilke in these poems, has placed before us great epic figures and
his art is so concentrated that often the simple expression of the
thought of one of his characters
produces
a shudder in the listener or
reader because in this thought there vibrates the suffering of an entire
social class and in it resounds the sorrow of many generations.
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Rilke - Poems |
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The matter's weighty, pray consider twice;
Have you less pity for the needy cheat,
The poor and
friendless
villain, than the great?
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Dreaming
that alone, which is--
O sorrow and shame!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Honour to
Proculeius!
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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In A New Night
Woman I've lived with
Woman I live with
Woman I'll live with
Always the same
You need a red cloak
Red gloves a red mask
And dark stockings
The reasons the proofs
Of seeing you quite naked
Nudity pure O ready finery
Breasts O my heart
Fertile Eyes
Fertile Eyes
No one can know me more
More than you know me
Your eyes in which we sleep
The two of them
Have cast a spell on my male orbs
Greater than worldly nights
Your eyes where I voyage
Have given the road-signs
Directions detached from the earth
In your eyes those that show us
Our
infinite
solitude
Is no more than they think exists
No one can know me more
More than you know me.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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The house was
soundless
as a tomb,
And she entered her chamber, there to grieve
Lone, kneeling, in the gloom.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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But that afar from us
Veriest reason may drive such life away,
Much yet remains to be embellished yet
In polished verses, albeit hath issued forth
So much from me already; lo, there is
The law and aspect of the sky to be
By reason grasped; there are the tempest times
And the bright lightnings to be hymned now--
Even what they do and from what cause soe'er
They're borne along--that thou mayst tremble not,
Marking off regions of prophetic skies
For auguries, O
foolishly
distraught
Even as to whence the flying flame hath come,
Or to which half of heaven it turns, or how
Through walled places it hath wound its way,
Or, after proving its dominion there,
How it hath speeded forth from thence amain--
Whereof nowise the causes do men know,
And think divinities are working there.
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Lucretius |
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