When my wounded engines shall plunge me through the vacant depth of the sky,
And my body goes falling, falling, to my lonely mother, the sea,
You will watch for my joyous signal and swoop in swift reply,
And snatch me against your
breastplate
where my waking soul shall lie!
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8 Like thee among the gods is none
O Lord, nor any works
Of all that other Gods have done
Like to thy
glorious
works.
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Milton |
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Of what brave men has Venus not been
conqueror!
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Racine - Phaedra |
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The water lives so far,
Like
neighbor
from another world
Residing in a jar.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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[Footnote 8: 'Mother, since thou didst bear me to be so short-lived,
Olympian Zeus that thunders from on high should
especially
have bestowed
honour on me.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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So we saunter toward the Holy Land, till one day the sun shall shine
more brightly than ever he has done, shall
perchance
shine into our
minds and hearts, and light up our whole lives with a great awakening
light, as warm and serene and golden as on a bankside in autumn.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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160
19 Arise, cry in the night, poure, for thy sinnes,
Thy heart, like water, when the watch begins;
Lift up thy hands to God, lest
children
dye,
Which, faint for hunger, in the streets doe lye.
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John Donne |
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'T is the white stag, Fame, we 're a-hunting,
PICCADILLY
tragical faces, BEAYUeTIthFatUwLe,re whole, and are so sunken;
And, O ye vile, ye that might have been loved, That are so sodden and drunken,
Who hath
forgotten
you?
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Now that beyond the'
accursed
stream she dwells,
She may no longer move me, by that law,
Which was ordain'd me, when I issued thence.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Think of loving and being loved;
I swear to you, whoever you are, you can
interfuse
yourself with such
things that everybody that sees you shall look longingly upon you.
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Whitman |
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Marlborough
(Mass.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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LXV
Once, I knew a fine song,
--It is true, believe me,--
It was all of birds,
And I held them in a basket;
When I opened the wicket,
Heavens!
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Stephen Crane |
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The Foundation makes no representations concerning
the
copyright
status of any work in any country outside the United
States.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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The sweet spring-flowers not always keep
Their bloom, nor
moonlight
shines the same
Each evening.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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The birds put up the bars to nests,
The cattle fled to barns;
There came one drop of giant rain,
And then, as if the hands
That held the dams had parted hold,
The waters wrecked the sky,
But
overlooked
my father's house,
Just quartering a tree.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Happiness
is but a name,
Make content and ease thy aim.
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Robert Burns |
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Still, as the fray grew louder,
Boldly they worked and well;
Steadily
came the powder,
Steadily came the shell.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Why am I the neighbour always
Of those who force to sing thy
trembling
strings?
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Rilke - Poems |
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some we loved, the loveliest and the best
That Time and Fate of all their Vintage prest,
Have drunk their Cup a Round or two before,
And one by one crept
silently
to Rest.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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The night was wide, and
furnished
scant
With but a single star,
That often as a cloud it met
Blew out itself for fear.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Remember
that of man, and curb this passion.
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Byron |
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Deliver me from this
rapacious
deep!
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Keats |
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And up into the sounding hall I past;
But nothing in the sounding hall I saw,
No bench nor table,
painting
on the wall
Or shield of knight; only the rounded moon
Through the tall oriel on the rolling sea.
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Tennyson |
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Amorous Prince, the
greatest
lover,
I want no evil that's of your doing,
But, by God, all noble hearts must offer
To succour a poor man, without crushing.
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Villon |
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Dissilo,
alquanto
del color consperso
che fa l'uom di perdon talvolta degno.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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whatever
title suit thee,
Auld Hornie, Satan, Kick, or Clootie,
Wha in yon cavern grim an' sootie,
Closed under hatches,
Spairges about the brunstane cootie,
To scaud poor wretches!
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Robert Burns |
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In October, 1916, he was
recalled
to England, was promoted to the rank
of Staff Captain in the Intelligence Corps, and was sent to Italy to
engage in special duties.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Kalenda maia
Calends of May
Nor leafy spray
Nor songs of birds, nor flowers gay
Please me today
My Lady, nay,
Lest there's a fine message I pray
From your loveliness, to relay
The
pleasures
new love and joy may
Display
And I'll play
For you, true lady, I say,
And lay
By the way
The jealous ones, ere I go away.
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Troubador Verse |
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Most
honourable
in thee: but scarcely wise!
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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It ceas'd: yet still the sails made on
A
pleasant
noise till noon,
A noise like of a hidden brook
In the leafy month of June,
That to the sleeping woods all night
Singeth a quiet tune.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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* * * * *
It was a dream, the glade is tenantless,
No soft Ionian
laughter
moves the air,
The Thames creeps on in sluggish leadenness,
And from the copse left desolate and bare
Fled is young Bacchus with his revelry,
Yet still from Nuneham wood there comes that thrilling melody
So sad, that one might think a human heart
Brake in each separate note, a quality
Which music sometimes has, being the Art
Which is most nigh to tears and memory;
Poor mourning Philomel, what dost thou fear?
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Wilde - Poems |
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O born in Manlius' year with me,
Whate'er you bring us, plaint or jest,
Or passion and wild revelry,
Or, like a gentle wine-jar, rest;
Howe'er men call your Massic juice,
Its broaching claims a festal day;
Come then; Corvinus bids produce
A
mellower
wine, and I obey.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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genehost
brægd
eorl Bēowulfes ealde lāfe (_many an earl of B.
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Beowulf |
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I said to my heart, my feeble heart;
Haven't we had enough of
sadness?
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Who
assisted
thee to ravage and to plunder;
I trow thou hadst full many wicked comrades.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Yet aft a ragged cowte's been known
To mak a noble aiver;
So, ye may doucely fill a throne,
For a' their clish-ma-claver:
There, him at
Agincourt
wha shone,
Few better were or braver;
And yet, wi' funny, queer Sir John,
He was an unco shaver
For monie a day.
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Robert Burns |
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Among other things, this
requires
that you do not remove, alter or modify the
eBook or this "small print!
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Thou beest a worme so
groffile
and so smal,
I wythe thie bloude woulde scorne to foul mie sworde,
Botte wythe thie weaponnes woulde upon thee falle,
Alyche thie owne feare, slea thee wythe a worde.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Mentula
presumes
the Pimplean mount to scale: the Muses with their
pitchforks chuck him headlong down.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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"
"Hath he let vultures climb his eagle's seat
To make Jove's bolts
purveyors
of their maw?
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Two we were, with one heart blessed:
If heart's dead, yes, then I foresee,
I'll die, or I must
lifeless
be,
Like those statues made of lead.
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Villon |
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Neither through pity, or o'erstrain'd respect
Flatter me, but
explicit
all relate
Which thou hast witness'd.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Quoniam a
corruptissimo
exemplari transcripsit, non
enim quodpiam aliud extabat, unde posset libelli huius habere copiam
exemplandi.
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Latin - Catullus |
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[678] The fee of the citizens who attended the
Assembly
had varied like
that of the dicasts, or jurymen.
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Aristophanes |
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The meadows broad
From ferns and grapes and from the folded flowers
Sent a
nocturnal
fragrance; harlot flies
Flashed their small fires in air, or held their court
In fairy groves of herds-grass.
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Emerson - Poems |
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In their own
ateliers
often I 've visited them.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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--from my house hath outcast me;
She hath borne
children
to our enemy;
She hath made me naught, she hath made Orestes naught.
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Euripides - Electra |
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This fact makes the new text the more interesting since the
legend of Gilgamish is said to have originated at Erech and the
hero in fact figures as one of the
prehistoric
Sumerian rulers of
that ancient city.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Baudelaire habitait dans l'ile Saint-Louis, sur le quai d'Anjou, en ce
vieil et triste hotel Pimodan plein de souvenirs
somptueux
et
nostalgiques.
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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THIS breathed itself to life in Julie, THIS
Invested her with all that's wild and sweet;
This hallowed, too, the memorable kiss
Which every morn his fevered lip would greet,
From hers, who but with friendship his would meet:
But to that gentle touch, through brain and breast
Flashed the thrilled spirit's love-devouring heat;
In that absorbing sigh
perchance
more blest,
Than vulgar minds may be with all they seek possest.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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It was too late for man,
But early yet for God;
Creation
impotent
to help,
But prayer remained our side.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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No image-maker am I, who being still make statues
Standing
on the same base.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Keats - Lamia |
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Your Muse shall sing in loftier strain
How Caesar climbs the sacred height,
The fierce Sygambrians in his train,
With laurel dight,
Than whom the Fates ne'er gave mankind
A richer
treasure
or more dear,
Nor shall, though earth again should find
The golden year.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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All your life long, if need be, lie in siege,
Vengeance
for those the felon slew to wreak.
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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They thought it terrible to see thee coming;
They falter'd in their impiousness,
Their hearts gave in to thee; they went
Backward before thee and shewed thee the tent
Where
Holofernes
would have thee in to him,
Yea, for his slayer waiting,
Waiting thee to entertain,
Desiring thee, his death, to enjoy, as Jael
Waited for Sisera her slain.
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
|
at
crystenmas
whyle;
"& i schal fonde, bi my fayth, to fylter wyth ?
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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The stimulus, beyond the grave
His countenance to see,
Supports me like
imperial
drams
Afforded royally.
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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We
worshipped
inland--
we stepped past wood-flowers,
we forgot your tang,
we brushed wood-grass.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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This day the town the
threatening
flag set forth
Of Marquis Swantibore, the monster he
Who in the wood tied up his wife, to be
Devoured by wolves, together with the bull
Of which with jealousy his heart was full.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Upon the throne
He sat, and
suddenly
he fell; blood gushed
From his mouth and ears.
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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This is how we made war, and this is what the officials
of Orenburg called
prudence
and foresight.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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If quicksilver were gold,
And troubled pools of it shaking in the sun
It were not such a fancy of bickering gleam
As Ryton
daffodils
when the air but stirs.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Je serai ce soir ivre-mort;
Alors, sans peur et sans remord,
Je me
coucherai
sur la terre,
Et je dormirai comme un chien.
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Grandine grossa, acqua tinta e neve
per l'aere
tenebroso
si riversa;
pute la terra che questo riceve.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Feares and scruples shake vs:
In the great Hand of God I stand, and thence,
Against the vndivulg'd pretence, I fight
Of
Treasonous
Mallice
Macd.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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The priest never knew that she did so, but still
He felt a power on him too strong for his will:
And
whenever
the Great Name was there to be read,
His voice sank to silence--THAT could not be said,
Or the air could not hold it.
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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He led the
warriors
from the ?
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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She might have wept if that hand
Coldly placed against her heart,
Had ever felt dew's
heavenly
wand
Touch human clay with subtle art.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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I am the pool of gold
When sunset burns and dies--
You are my
deepening
skies;
Give me your stars to hold.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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--Now welcome, thou dread Power
Nameless, yet thus omnipotent, which here
Walk'st in the shadow of the midnight hour
With a deep awe, yet all
distinct
from fear:
Thy haunts are ever where the dead walls rear
Their ivy mantles, and the solemn scene
Derives from thee a sense so deep and clear
That we become a part of what has been,
And grow unto the spot, all-seeing but unseen.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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The flames of the Dog Days keep
Far from your green steep,
Because your shade around
Is always close and deep,
For the
shepherds
changing ground,
The weary oxen, the sheep,
And the cattle that wander round.
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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That stand by the inward-opening door
Trade's hand doth tighten ever more,
And sigh their
monstrous
foul-air sigh
For the outside hills of liberty,
Where Nature spreads her wild blue sky
For Art to make into melody!
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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I live and sing my idle songs
Upon these happy plains:
"And Matthew, for thy
children
dead
I'll be a son to thee!
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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Its bottom will I strew with amber shells,
And pebbles blue from deep
enchanted
wells.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
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If thou hadst had a sword,
Insolent prisoner, then (pointing to his sword) with this I'd soon
Have
vanquished
thee.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Rilke - Poems |
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with
supplicating
breath,
Thou begg'st his arms, and in his arms thy death.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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[Picture: The camera]
This he perched upon a tripod--
Crouched
beneath its dusky cover--
Stretched his hand, enforcing silence--
Said, "Be motionless, I beg you!
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
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What fire, save mine, had not been quench'd and kill'd
Beneath the flood these sad eyes
ceaseless
shed?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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A coolness of
twilight
takes
Its way to you at each beat
Whose imprisoned flutter makes
The horizon gently retreat.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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The wind tapped like a tired man,
And like a host, "Come in,"
I boldly answered; entered then
My residence within
A rapid,
footless
guest,
To offer whom a chair
Were as impossible as hand
A sofa to the air.
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Gentile or Jew
O you who turn the wheel and look to windward, 320
Consider
Phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as you.
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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"Let us over countries rove,
On our
charming
steeds content,
In the azure light of love,
And its sweet bewilderment.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Under the
Cedarcroft
Chestnut.
| Guess: |
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Sidney Lanier |
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Hsiang, king of Ch'u, was
feasting
in the Orchid-tower Palace, with Sung
Yu and Ching Ch'ai to wait upon him.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Without their
blessing
you would not be
happy.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Singers, singing in lawless freedom,
Jokers, pleasant in word and deed,
Run free of false gold, alloy, come,
Men of wit -
somewhat
deaf indeed -
Hurry, be quick now, he's dying poor man.
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Villon |
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When on another quick she lights^ ^
And cries, " he calFd us
Israelites
;
But now, to make his saying true^
Rails rain for quails, for manna dew.
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Marvell - Poems |
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All
necessary
text will still be
there; it just won't be as pretty.
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Lewis Carroll |
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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On finding that
Xeques Fonteyma, the commander, was uncle to the King of Melinda, he
restored the
valuable
prize, and treated him with the utmost courtesy.
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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His wise and patient heart shall share
The strong sweet
loveliness
of all things made, 10
And the serenity of inward joy
Beyond the storm of tears.
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Sappho |
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While nature to his birth presents
This masque of quarrelling elements,
A numerous fleet of
cormorants
black,
That sailed insulting o'er the wrack,
Received into their cruel care.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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_Donna che lieta col
Principio
nostro.
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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Proud and erect she drank the music in,
The lively and the warlike call to arms;
Her eyes blinked like an ancient eagle's eyes;
Her
forehead
seemed to await the laurel crown!
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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If our colors are struck and the
fighting
done?
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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To
Introduce
Myself.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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In _Advent_, the
experience
of the atmosphere becomes an experience in
his innermost soul and, therefore, all things become of value to him
only in so far as they partake of the atmosphere, as they are seen in a
peculiar air and distance.
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Rilke - Poems |
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When he was young he little knew
Of
husbandry
or tillage;
And now he's forced to work, though weak,
--The weakest in the village.
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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