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With foam and with dust, the black charger was gray
By the flash of his eye, and the red nostril's play,
He seemed to the whole great army to say,
"I have brought you
Sheridan
all the way
From Winchester, down to save the day!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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God
bringeth
Justice in his own slow tide.
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Euripides - Electra |
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"
So the hand of the child, automatic,
Slipped out and
pocketed
a toy that was running along
the quay.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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To Heorot came she, where
helmeted
Danes
slept in the hall.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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To stake all one's life on one throw--whether the
stake be power or pleasure I care not--there is no
weakness
in that.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Trigon & cubes divide the elements in finite bonds
Multitudes without number work incessant: the hewn stone
Is placd in beds of mortar mingled with the ashes of Vala
{Alternate
reading of "on" for "in.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Though absent long,
These forms of beauty have not been to me,
As is a landscape to a blind man's eye:
But oft, in lonely rooms, and mid the din
Of towns and cities, I have owed to them,
In hours of weariness, sensations sweet,
Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart,
And passing even into my purer mind
With tranquil restoration:--feelings too
Of
unremembered
pleasure; such, perhaps,
As may have had no trivial influence
On that best portion of a good man's life;
His little, nameless, unremembered acts
Of kindness and of love.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Nod the cloud-piercing pines their
troubled
heads, 1815.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Huc ut venimus, incidere nobis 5
Sermones varii, in quibus, quid esset
Iam Bithynia, quo modo se haberet,
Ecquonam mihi
profuisset
aere.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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XVI
Chanty, thou art a lie,
A toy of women,
A
pleasure
of certain men.
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Stephen Crane |
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We may, if we like,
think that poetry would be more "natural" if it were composed by the
folk as the folk, and not by persons
peculiarly
endowed; and to think so
is doubtless agreeable to the notion that the folk is more important
than the individual.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Meredith - Poems |
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I don't know how it
is, my dear, for though, except your company, there is nothing on
earth gives me much
pleasure
as writing to you, yet it never gives me
those giddy raptures so much talked of among lovers.
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Robert Burns |
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His images are for the
most part derived from water, sky, the changes of weather, shadows of
things rather than things themselves, and usually mental
reflections
of
them.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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O, habet G
ascriptum
in marg.
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Latin - Catullus |
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_1770
Those sanguine slaves amid ten
thousand
dead
Stabbed in their sleep, trampled in treacherous war
The gentle hearts whose power their lives had sought to spare.
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Shelley |
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Is it worth while, dear, since
As mates in Mellstock
churchyard
we can lie,
Till the last crash of all things low and high
Shall end the spheres?
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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)
Across the country, between two ocean shore lines,
where cities cling to rail and water routes,
there people and horses stop in their foot tracks,
cars and wagons stop in their wheel tracks--
faces at street crossings shine with a silence
of eggs laid in a row on a pantry shelf--
among the ways and paths of the flow of the Republic
faces come to a standstill, sixty
clockticks
count--
in the name of the Boy, in the name of the Republic.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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No, Sir John; it is my cousin Silence, in
commission
with
me.
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Shakespeare |
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980
`For other thought nor other dede also
Might never be, but swich as purveyaunce,
Which may not ben
deceyved
never-mo,
Hath feled biforn, with-outen ignoraunce.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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For he hears the lambs' innocent call,
And he hears the ewes' tender reply;
He is watchful while they are in peace,
For they know when their
shepherd
is nigh.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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NATURE DISPLAYED IN HER EVERY CHARM, BUT SOON
WITHDREW
HER FROM SIGHT.
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Petrarch |
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XII
So that
wherefore
should I be here,
Watching Adda lip the lea,
When the whole romance to see here
Is the dream I bring with me?
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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But by "Nature" was meant not at all the natural impulses of the
individual, but those rules founded upon the natural and common reason
of mankind which the ancient critics had extracted and
codified
from the
practice of the ancient poets.
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Alexander Pope |
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"
THYRSIS
"Here is a hearth, and
resinous
logs, here fire
Unstinted, and doors black with ceaseless smoke.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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If the editor preferred one
reading to another it was on purely internal evidence, a result of
his own
decision
as to which was the more correct or the preferable
reading.
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John Donne |
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Yet there is no
attempt to make
anything
there credible: Morris seems to have mixed up
the effects of epic with the effects of a fairy-tale.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Here of a Sunday morning
My love and I would lie
And see the
coloured
counties,
And hear the larks so high
About us in the sky.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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THE LAMB
Little Lamb, who make thee
Dost thou know who made thee,
Gave thee life, and bid thee feed
By the stream and o'er the mead;
Gave thee
clothing
of delight,
Softest clothing, wolly, bright;
Gave thee such a tender voice,
Making all the vales rejoice?
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blake-poems |
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the Nizam of Hyderabad
In the Forest
Past and Future Life
The Poet's Love-Song
To the God of Pain
The Song of Princess Zeb-un-nissa
Indian Dancers
My Dead Dream
Damayante to Nala in the Hour of Exile
The Queen's Rival
The Poet to Death
The Indian Gipsy
To my Children
The Pardah Nashin
To Youth
Nightfall
in the City of Hyderabad
Street Cries
To India
The Royal Tombs of Golconda
To a Buddha seated on a Lotus
INTRODUCTION
It is at my persuasion that these poems are now published.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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"I fear thee, ancyent
Marinere!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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While they considered his proposition, Emerson went into the
White Mountains to weigh his
conflicting
duties to his church and
conscience.
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Emerson - Poems |
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So spake th'
Apostate
Angel, though in pain,
Vaunting aloud, but rackt with deep despare:
And him thus answer'd soon his bold Compeer.
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Milton |
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This study had taught him that the
highest beauty is not
incompatible
with definiteness of form and
clearness of detail.
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Keats |
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"The _ch_ and _gh_ have always the
guttural
sound.
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Robert Forst |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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The
Cinnabar
Courtyard is near to royal concerns, moving swift as spirits, the imperial guard is firm.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Matzner
suggests
brayn-wod.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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ere
Ne
woldestou
noman tellen here
?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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BUCKINGHAM, EDITOR OF THE BOSTON
COURIER,
COVERING
A LETTER FROM MR.
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James Russell Lowell |
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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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Our pace took sudden awe,
Our feet
reluctant
led.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Thy life a banquet--but its board a
scaffold
at the close,
Where far from Christ's beatic reign, Satanic deeds arose!
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Hugo - Poems |
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MEPHISTOPHELES:
Madam, es tut mir
herzlich
leid;
Allein er hat sein Geld wahrhaftig nicht verzettelt.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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When Arthur beheld the dead body of his kinsman lying on the ground bathed
in blood, he is said to have exclaimed, "O
righteous
God, this blood were
worthy to be preserved and enshrined in gold!
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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--_A sad-coloured landscape_, _Waddon Vale_
I
"O TIME, whence comes the Mother's moody look amid her labours,
As of one who all
unwittingly
has wounded where she loves?
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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And the last remnant of the
platform, the part of the stage that still projected beyond the
proscenium, dwindled in size till it
disappeared
in their own day.
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Yeats |
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For silence hath no deepness in her heart
Where love's low name low
breathed
would not be heard
By angels, clear as thunder.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Of hendecasyllabics
hundreds
three 10
Therefore expect thou, or return forthright
Linens whose loss affects me not for worth
But as mementoes of a comrade mine.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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But no, go slowly as you will,
I should not bid you hasten so,
For while I wait for love to come,
Some other girl is
standing
dumb,
Fearing her love will go.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Is that
trembling
cry a song?
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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The river, fleet, the port, the shore, the main,
Were sites of
conflict
now, where death did reign.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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She turns and looks a moment in the glass,
Hardly aware of her
departed
lover; 250
Her brain allows one half-formed thought to pass:
"Well now that's done: and I'm glad it's over.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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But a cup of wine levels life and death
And a thousand things
obstinately
hard to prove.
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Li Po |
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The sun, in ancient wise, is sounding,
With brother-spheres, in rival song;
And, his
appointed
journey rounding,
With thunderous movement rolls along.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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The
veneration
which they had for them was
vague and uninformed.
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Petrarch |
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But from my grave across my brow
Plays no wind of healing now,
And fire and ice within me fight
Beneath the
suffocating
night.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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1835 gār-holt more
properly
means _spear-shaft_; cf.
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Beowulf |
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_"
ALCESTIS
_The scene
represents
the ancient Castle of_ ADMETUS _near Pherae
in Thessaly.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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The works of the poet were much admired in society, but
he was not happy in his
domestic
life.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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PROMETHEUS
In part I praise thee, to the end will praise;
Goodwill thou lackest not, but yet forbear
Thy further
trouble!
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Aeschylus |
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O memory, take and keep
All that my eyes, your servants, bring you home--
Those other days beneath the low white dome
Of smooth-spread clouds that creep
As slow and soft as sleep,
When shade grows pale and the cypress stands upright,
Distinct in the cool light,
Rigid and solid as a dark hewn stone;
And many another night,
That melts in
darkness
on the narrow quays,
And changes every colour and every tone,
And soothes the waters to a softer ease,
When under constellations coldly bright
The homeward sailors sing their way to bed
On ships that motionless in harbour float.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow
Out of this stony
rubbish?
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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I'll back to the Duke of
Gloucester
and
tell him so.
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Shakespeare |
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XLI
In my own shire, if I was sad
Homely comforters I had:
The earth, because my heart was sore,
Sorrowed
for the son she bore;
And standing hills, long to remain,
Shared their short-lived comrade's pain.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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When from the dark synod, or blood-reeking field,
To his chamber the monarch is led,
All soothers of sense their soft virtue shall yield,
And
quietness
pillow his head.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Donations
are accepted in a number of other
ways including checks, online payments and credit card donations.
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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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Nor are thy lips ungraceful, Sire of men,
Nor tongue ineloquent; for God on thee
Abundantly
his gifts hath also pour'd, 220
Inward and outward both, his image faire:
Speaking or mute all comliness and grace
Attends thee, and each word, each motion formes.
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Milton |
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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49_; the offer of Madame de Stael's _Considerations sur la
Revolution
Francaise_, _vii.
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| Source: |
Byron |
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Gallus habet fratres, quorumst
lepidissima
coniunx
Alterius, lepidus filius alterius.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Ballade: Du Concours De Blois
I'm dying of thirst beside the fountain,
Hot as fire, and with
chattering
teeth:
In my own land, I'm in a far domain:
Near the flame, I shiver beyond belief:
Bare as a worm, dressed in a furry sheathe,
I smile in tears, wait without expectation:
Taking my comfort in sad desperation:
I rejoice, without pleasures, never a one:
Strong I am, without power or persuasion,
Welcomed gladly, and spurned by everyone.
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| Source: |
Villon |
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Days, with fiery-hearted, bold advances;
Nights in dim and shadowy, swift retreat;
Rains that rush with bright, embattled lances;
Thunder, booming round your stirless feet;--
Winds that set the orchard with sweet fancies
All abloom, or ripple the ripening wheat;
Moonlight, starlight, on your mute graves falling;
Dew,
distilled
as tears unbidden flow;--
Dust of drought in drifts and layers crawling;
Lulling dreams of softly whispering snow;
Happy birds, from leafy coverts calling;--
These go on, yet none of these you know:
Hearing not our human voices
Speaking to you all in vain,
Nor the psalm of a land that rejoices,
Ringing from churches and cities and foundries a mighty refrain!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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1080
Aboute hir nekke of gentil entaile
Was shet the riche chevesaile,
>>
Par derriere dusques as os,
Qu'il abaissent des bons les los,
Et
desloent
les aloes,
Et si loent les desloes.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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For there's no sequestered grot,
Lone
mountain
tarn, or isle forgot,
But Justice, journeying in the sphere,
Daily stoops to harbor there.
| Guess: |
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Emerson - Poems |
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Balin dragged
him by the
banneret
of his helmet and struck again, but in a minute
twenty warriors with pointed lances were making for him from the castle.
| Guess: |
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Tennyson |
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Already all,
throughout
their chivalry,
Are mad with spite and hatred; jars arise,
And strife; and means to still their enmity
Their sovereign is unable to devise.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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The proclamation was written in coarse but emphatic terms, and was
likely to produce a great
impression
on the minds of simple people.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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'Twas he,
indignant
at the honor paid
To crime, who with his heel an onslaught made
Upon Duke Lupus' shameful monument,
Tore down, the statue he to fragments rent;
Then column of the Strasburg monster bore
To bridge of Wasselonne, and threw it o'er
Into the waters deep.
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mirtos_ R
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_inmiti_
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Hauksbee
gave a sigh of relief when both the "I wills" had been
said, and went her way.
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though such power do in thy
magic live," will
scarcely
tend to obviate.
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CLXXXVI
And, after that, another vision came:
Himseemed
in France, at Aix, on a terrace,
And that he held a bruin by two chains;
Out of Ardenne saw thirty bears that came,
And each of them words, as a man might, spake
Said to him: "Sire, give him to us again!
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Chanson de Roland |
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And it bears the fruit of Deceit,
Ruddy and sweet to eat,
And the raven his nest has made
In its
thickest
shade.
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One in the
Asiatic Society's Library at Calcutta (of which we have a Copy),
contains (and yet incomplete) 516, though swelled to that by all kinds
of
Repetition
and Corruption.
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I laughed and said I could not;--set you down,
Your gray eyes wonder-filled beneath that crown
Of bright hair
gladdening
me as you raced by.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Whenever he worked it upon anyone that person would seem to
be
imprisoned
within the four walls of a tower and could not get out.
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O, so unnatural Nature,
You whose
ephemeral
flower
Lasts only from dawn to dusk!
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Like white water are you who fill the cup of my mouth,
Like a brook of water
thronged
with lilies.
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Then was kindled within him a thirst which outran
Those
perishing
waters; a thirst of fierce fever,
Hope, love, doubt, desire, which consume him for ever.
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Darkness again the wood investeth,
The moon midst clouds is seen to sail,
And once more on the margin resteth
The maiden
beautiful
and pale.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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la bague etait brisee
Que le lilas qui vient d'eclore
Que le thym la rose ou qu'un brin
De lavande ou de romarin
Les musiciens s'en etant alles
Nous
continuames
la promenade
Au bord d'un lac
On s'amusa a faire des ricochets
Avec des cailloux plats
Sur l'eau qui dansait a peine
Des barques etaient amarrees
Dans un havre
On les detacha
Apres que toute la troupe se fut embarquee
Et quelques morts ramaient
Avec autant de vigueur que les vivants
A l'avant du bateau que je gouvernais
Un mort parlait avec une jeune femme
Vetue d'une robe jaune
D'un corsage noir
Avec des rubans bleus et d'un chapeau gris
Orne d'une seule petite plume defrisee
Je vous aime
Disait-il
Comme le pigeon aime la colombe
Comme l'insecte nocturne
Aime la lumiere
Trop tard
Repondait la vivante
Repoussez repoussez cet amour defendu
Je suis mariee
Voyez l'anneau qui brille
Mes mains tremblent
Je pleure et je voudrais mourir
Les barques etaient arrivees
A un endroit ou les chevau-legers
Savaient qu'un echo repondait de la rive
On ne se lassait point de l'interroger
Il y eut des questions si extravagantes
Et des reponses tellement pleines d'a-propos
Que c'etait a mourir de rire
Et le mort disait a la vivante
Nous serions si heureux ensemble
Sur nous l'eau se refermera
Mais vous pleurez et vos mains tremblent
Aucun de nous ne reviendra
On reprit terre et ce fut le retour
Les amoureux s'entr'aimaient
Et par couples aux belles bouches
Marchaient a distances inegales
Les morts avaient choisi les vivantes
Et les vivants
Des mortes
Un genevrier parfois
Faisait l'effet d'un fantome
Les enfants dechiraient l'air
En soufflant les joues creuses
Dans leurs sifflets de viorne
Ou de sureau
Tandis que les militaires
Chantaient des tyroliennes
En se repondant comme on le fait
Dans la montagne
Dans la ville
Notre troupe diminua peu a peu
On se disait
Au revoir
A demain
A bientot
Bientot entraient dans les brasseries
Quelques-uns nous quitterent
Devant une boucherie canine
Pour y acheter leur repas du soir
Bientot je restai seul avec ces morts
Qui s'en allaient tout droit
Au cimetiere
Ou
Sous les Arcades
Je les reconnus
Couches
Immobiles
Et bien vetus
Attendant la sepulture derriere les vitrines
Ils ne se doutaient pas
De ce qui s'etait passe
Mais les vivants en gardaient le souvenir
C'etait un bonheur inespere
Et si certain
Qu'ils ne craignaient point de le perdre
Ils vivaient si noblement
Que ceux qui la veille encore
Les regardaient comme leurs egaux
Ou meme quelque chose de moins
Admiraient maintenant
Leur puissance leur richesse et leur genie
Car y a-t-il rien qui vous eleve
Comme d'avoir aime un mort ou une morte
On devient si pur qu'on en arrive
Dans les glaciers de la memoire
A se confondre avec le souvenir
On est fortifie pour la vie
Et l'on n'a plus besoin de personne
CLOTILDE
L'anemone et l'ancolie
Ont pousse dans le jardin
Ou dort la melancolie
Entre l'amour et le dedain
Il y vient aussi nos ombres
Que la nuit dissipera
Le soleil qui les rend sombres
Avec elles disparaitra
Les deites des eaux vives
Laissent couler leurs cheveux
Passe il faut que tu poursuives
Cette belle ombre que tu veux
CORTEGE
A M.
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reads, _the sleeping keys_; for
_yet forc't they are to go_ it has _and yet are forc't to go_; _drinking
to the odd Number of Nine_ for _Number of Wine_, as to which see below;
_turned her home_ for
_twirled
her home_; _dear soul_ for _rare soul_.
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We have lingered in the
chambers
of the sea
By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown
Till human voices wake us, and we drown.
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