Yea, if the Christ (called thine) now paced yon street,
Thy
halfness
hot with His rebuke would swell;
Legions of scribes would rise and run and beat
His fair intolerable Wholeness twice to hell.
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They are like one of our
chaises that has lost its top, only stouter and longer in the body,
with a seat for the driver where the dasher is with us, and broad
leather ears on each side to protect the riders from the wheel and
keep
children
from falling out.
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Lost causes triumph like the sun; Dreams that deluded are brought true; A resurrection morning breaks —
The soul in him is born anew,
Then, to the old and easy path Of dull, sad
inanition
wanes:
And still this is the man God made, And still the love of God remains!
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The rich will feast on
Christmas
Day;
The poor will fast on Christmas Day.
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on account of the
abominable
misprints in the first number, your ground would
have been far more tenable.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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But with this runs the
story of some noble, last of his race, who hides all his wealth
within this barrow and there chants his
farewell
to life's glories.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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LXXXI cum LXXX
continuant
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Madame, you must
remember
your promise.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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The broken
fingernails
of dirty hands.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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{34e} Gering would
translate
"kinsman of the nail," as both are made
of iron.
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[Illustration]
Not long this
transport
held its place:
Within a little moment's space
Quick tears were raining down his face.
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Yet free from
flattery
or empire.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Brōsinga mene,
corrupted
from, or according to Müllenhoff, written by
mistake for, Breosinga mene (O.
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Beowulf |
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I was not
conscious
of it.
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Spoilt child of fortune,
everything
fits together to ensure
your greatness.
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A monster, that ev'n this worst age outvies,
Conspicuous
and above the common size.
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Tacitus |
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This the
pestilent
goddess [195-227]spreads abroad in the
mouths of men, and bends her course right on to King Iarbas, and with
her words fires his spirit and swells his wrath.
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"
LINES WRITTEN A FEW MILES ABOVE TINTERN ABBEY, ON
REVISITING
THE BANKS
OF THE WYE DURING A TOUR, July 13, 1798.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Sigh
My soul, towards your brow where O calm sister,
An autumn dreams, blotched by reddish smudges,
And towards the errant sky of your angelic eye
Climbs: as in a
melancholy
garden the true sigh
Of a white jet of water towards the Azure!
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Mallarme - Poems |
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And I, with the tears raining from my eyes,
Stood near the Cyclops, ministering to him;
The rest, in the recesses of the cave, _400
Clung to the rock like bats,
bloodless
with fear.
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Shelley |
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Two days ago with dancing
glancing
hair,
With living lips and eyes:
Now pale, dumb, blind, she lies;
So pale, yet still so fair.
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Christina Rossetti |
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That night came Arthur home, and while he climb'd,
All in a death-dumb autumn-dripping gloom,
The
stairway
to the hall, and look'd and saw
The great Queen's bower was dark,--about his feet
A voice clung sobbing till he question'd it,
"What art thou?
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Tennyson |
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You fear the
sovereign
power so little.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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infringement
liability can be quite severe.
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Meredith - 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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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Under the
Sultanate of Malik Shah, he came to Merv, and
obtained
great praise
for his proficiency in science, and the Sultan showered favors upon
him.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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[283] 50
Throughout
1641, 1692, 1716, W Thoroughout G
[284] 53 an] my 1692, f.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Clouds of dust,
Crash of
collapsing
cubes.
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Imagists |
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Ah, Moon of my Delight who know'st no wane,
The Moon of Heav'n is rising once again:
How oft
hereafter
rising shall she look
Through this same Garden after me--in vain!
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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--That I at last
Might stamp the image of my glorious dream
Upon the world, even though it be wax
And the fires are
kindling
that must melt it out.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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The theme
appointed
may be history, it may be philosophy, it
may be poetry.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Lo, where the white-maned horses of the surge, 10
Plunging in
thunderous
onset to the shore,
Trample and break and charge along the sand!
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Sappho |
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"
Right and left the caissons drew
As the car went
lumbering
through,
Quick succeeding in review
Squadrons military;
Sunburnt men with beards like frieze,
Smooth-faced boys, and cries like these,--
"U.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Consider
it not so deepely
Mac.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Compliance
requirements are not uniform and it takes a
considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up
with these requirements.
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Beowulf |
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Then among
his joyous comrades (for all the throng of his captains girt him close
about) he begins in these words of cheer:
'The
greatest
deed is done, O men; be all fear gone for what remains.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Erwarte nicht
Das dreimal
gluhende
Licht!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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49 _patriam allocuta est ita uoce miseriter_ (_miseritus_
ORBLa1:
_miseritus
al.
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Latin - Catullus |
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"
So again I saw,
And leaped, unhesitant,
And struggled and fumed
With outspread
clutching
fingers.
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Meredith - Poems |
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The little park was filled with peace,
The walks were
carpeted
with snow,
But every iron gate was locked.
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Sara Teasdale |
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--A Fame that is wounded to the world would be better cured by
another's apology than its own: for few can apply
medicines
well
themselves.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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O'er the roof of the helmet high, a ridge,
wound with wires, kept ward o'er the head,
lest the relict-of-files {15c} should fierce invade,
sharp in the strife, when that
shielded
hero
should go to grapple against his foes.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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"
After a few more remarks the officer walked up to the window where
Lisaveta
Ivanovna
sat.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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He passes on his Journey
to Hell Gates, finds them shut, and who sat there to guard them, by whom
at length they are op'nd, and
discover
to him the great Gulf between
Hell and Heaven; with what difficulty he passes through, directed by
Chaos the Power of that place, to the sight of this new World which he
sought.
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Milton |
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Let courtly phrase the heroes' worth admire,
And, for your injur'd names, that worth require:
Let all the soft
endearments
of the fair,
And words that weep your wrongs, your wrongs declare.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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SAPPHO
ONE HUNDRED LYRICS
BY
BLISS CARMAN
1907
"SAPPHO WHO BROKE OFF A
FRAGMENT
OF HER SOUL
FOR US TO GUESS AT.
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Sappho |
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Emily
Dickinson
appears to have written her first poems in the
winter of 1862.
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]
[Footnote 50: Torture of the "_batogs_," little rods, the
thickness
of a
finger, with which a criminal is struck on the bare back.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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If you
do not charge
anything
for copies of this eBook, complying with the
rules is very easy.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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quas fugit in auras
spiritus?
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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The human nature unto which I felt
That I belonged, and reverenced with love,
Was not a punctual presence, but a spirit 610
Diffused through time and space, with aid derived
Of
evidence
from monuments, erect,
Prostrate, or leaning towards their common rest
In earth, the widely scattered wreck sublime
Of vanished nations, or more clearly drawn 615
From books and what they picture and record.
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William Wordsworth |
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And have I lived to see with
mournful
eyes
In every Greek a new Achilles rise?
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Iliad - Pope |
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And this was
evidently
prudent, for
when the fourth section opens, direct exhortation to the audience has
again become necessary:
Maintenant, seigneurs, ecoutez ce que dit l'Ecriture.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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A swan from time past remembers it's he
Magnificent yet struggling hopelessly
Through not having sung a
liveable
country
From the radiant boredom of winter's sterility.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Not like the dew did she return
At the
accustomed
hour!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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I would send them where their industry should
be daily
increased
by praise, and that kindled by emulation.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Inefficient,
Craven
spirits!
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Longfellow |
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--Desormais tu n'es plus, o matiere
vivante!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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R:
_uiuenti_
Bha: _inuenti_ (_in uenti_ G) ?
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Latin - Catullus |
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and all
language
but that of the poets and of
the poor is already bed-ridden.
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Yeats |
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Je croyais voir unis par un nouveau dessin
Les hanches de l'Antiope au buste d'un imberbe,
Tant sa taille faisait
ressortir
son bassin.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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There is an odd grating on the glass which I find
at the same time strange, irritating, and
singularly
harmonious.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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I would have seen it, but I wait here yet:
I was at the
crowning
of the good king of Estampa.
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Troubador Verse |
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His father slew Troy's
thousands
in their pride;
He hath but one to kill.
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Euripides - Electra |
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"]
[505] ["The display was most magnificent; the
powerful
light which threw
all below into strong relief, reached but high enough to touch the
pendent helmets and banners into faint colouring, and the roof was a
vision of tarnished gleams and tissues among the Gothic tracery.
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Byron |
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Que ce sont bien intrigues de genies
Cette depense et ces
desordres
vains!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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I made the father and the son rebel against each other''
Dante Inferno XXVIII, 134-136
The joyful
springtime
pleases me
That makes the leaves and flowers appear,
I'm pleased to hear the gaiety
Of birds, those echoes in the ear,
Of song through greenery;
I'm pleased when I see the field
With tents and pavilions free,
And joy then comes to me
All through the meadowlands to see
The heavy-armoured cavalry.
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Troubador Verse |
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It isn't our
business
to run about the
earth reforming Bessie Brokes.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Stephen Crane |
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For never rain or dew
Such
fragrance
drew
From plant or flower--the very doubt endears
My sadness ever new, _10
The sighs I breathe, the tears I shed for thee.
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Shelley |
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XXXIX
I grow weary of the foreign cities,
The sea travel and the
stranger
peoples.
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Sappho |
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I keep it there as a secret debt that
I am glad to think I can never
possibly
repay.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Yea, the lines hast thou laid unto me
in pleasant places, And the beauty of this thy Venice
hast thou shown unto me Until is its
loveliness
become unto me
a thing of tears.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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)
Scraps of a song keep
rumbling
in my head .
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Kings must not oft be seen by public eyes:
_State at a
distance
adds to dignities_.
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Robert Herrick |
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And
blossoms
fall upon an open sea.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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"
"I wish you
strength
to bring you pride,
And a love to keep you clean,
And I wish you luck, come Lammastide,
At racing on the green.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Swiftly and quietly down she slips,
A lighthouse to starboard, and one to port,
The colored lanterns of passing ships, A tow of barges, an old gray fort;
And we aboard her are lulled to rest
By the
rhythmic
beat of her mighty heart,
By the song of the winds from the salt southwest And the wash of the waters her great prows part.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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"
THYRSIS
"A bowl of milk, Priapus, and these cakes,
Yearly, it is enough for thee to claim;
Thou art the
guardian
of a poor man's plot.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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FINIS
Joachim du Bellay
'Joachim du Bellay'
Science and literature in the Middle Ages and the
Renaissance
- P.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Rodrigue is dead, and his death changed me
To afflicted lover from
implacable
enemy.
| Guess: |
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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From me they heard, and bitter was their wrath,
How those your kinsmen strove to work you wrong,
And how of us were thwarted: then to me
This company of spearmen did they grant,
That
honoured
I might walk, nor unaware
Die by some secret thrust and on this land
Bring down the curse of death, that dieth not.
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Aeschylus |
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)
And shall a promise hold,
unbroken?
| Guess: |
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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For you, on Latmos, fondling your sleeping boy,
Would always wish some languid ploy
As restraint for your flying chariot:
But I whom Love devours all night long,
Wish from evening onwards for the dawn,
To find the
daylight
that your night forgot.
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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O the
unworthy
lord!
| Guess: |
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Golden Treasury |
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_vi_
_Wives and Slaves_
(_a_) CVM seruos fueris proprios
mercatus
in usus
et famulos dicas, homines tamen esse memento.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Non ti rimembra di quelle parole
con le quai la tua Etica pertratta
le tre disposizion che 'l ciel non vole,
incontenenza, malizia e la matta
bestialitade?
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The under-earth inhabitants--are they
But mingled millions
decomposed
to clay?
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Byron |
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Porter
And on her daughter 200
They wash their feet in soda water
Et O ces voix d'enfants,
chantant
dans la coupole!
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Hear how Timotheus' varied lays surprize,
And bid
alternate
passions fall and rise!
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Alexander Pope |
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And I, the unknown son of a famous father, 945
Lag far behind even the
footsteps
of my mother.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Now the mother drops breath; she is dumb, and her heart goes dead for a space,
Till the motherhood, mistress of death, shrieks, shrieks through the glen,
And that place of the lashing is live with men,
And Maclean, and the gillie that told him, dash up in a
desperate
race.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Thomas Warton's
_Enquiry
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Advance at once to the
equestrian
Chief
Nestor, within whose bosom lies, perhaps,
Advice well worthy of thy search; entreat
Himself, that he will tell thee only truth,
Who will not lye, for he is passing wise.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Shoulder
your duds dear son, and I will mine, and let us hasten forth,
Wonderful cities and free nations we shall fetch as we go.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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It's true, though your enemy,
I cannot blame you for fleeing infamy;
And, however strong my
outburst
of pain
I do not accuse you, I only weep again.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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