SEANCHAN
holds up his hand as if a bird perched upon
it.
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Her cap blew off, her gown blew up,
And a
whirlwind
clear'd the larder;
And while on all sides breaking loose
Her household fled the danger,
Quoth she, "The Devil take the goose,
And God forget the stranger!
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The gradual
distance
hid them, and she turned, and went.
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"
MENALCAS
"I am all hers; she wept to see me go,
And,
lingering
on the word, 'farewell' she said,
'My beautiful Iollas, fare you well.
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brother?
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The shouts are France, Spain, Albion,
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While in sweet cadence rising small and still
The far-off minstrels of the haunted hill,
As the last bleating of the fold expires,
Tune in the
mountain
dells their water lyres.
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If she knows it to be a wrong
When I'm dead she'll grieve for me,
Yet I'd rather she brought death on,
Than live as her
pleasure
decree,
Worse than death not to see the one
Whom I love so tenderly.
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Troubador Verse |
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This
murtherous
Shaft that's shot,
Hath not yet lighted: and our safest way,
Is to auoid the ayme.
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Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied
warranties or the exclusion or
limitation
of certain types of damages.
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I shall do so:
But I must also feele it as a man;
I cannot but
remember
such things were
That were most precious to me: Did heauen looke on,
And would not take their part?
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Your
formidable
voice echoed in my ear.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Then
suddenly
the tune went false,
The dancers wearied of the waltz,
The shadows ceased to wheel and whirl.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Ill
LOVE calls not worthy him whoe'er
renounced
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Nor aught it matters whether journey we
To regions adverse to ourselves and change
The
atmospheric
cloak, or whether nature
Herself import a tainted atmosphere
To us or something strange to our own use
Which can attack us soon as ever it come.
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Lucretius |
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The faint damp wind that, ere the even, blows
Piling the west with many a tawny sheaf,
Then when the last glad wavering hours are mown Sigheth and dies because the day is sped;
This wind is like her and the
listless
air Wherewith she goeth by beneath the trees,
The trees that mock her with their scarlet stain.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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XIX
Devouring
Time, blunt thou the lion's paws,
And make the earth devour her own sweet brood;
Pluck the keen teeth from the fierce tiger's jaws,
And burn the long-liv'd phoenix, in her blood;
Make glad and sorry seasons as thou fleets,
And do whate'er thou wilt, swift-footed Time,
To the wide world and all her fading sweets;
But I forbid thee one most heinous crime:
O!
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"To walk four miles through mud and rain,
To spend the night in smoking,
And then to find that it's in vain--
And I've to do it all again--
It's really _too_
provoking!
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Lewis Carroll |
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To
SEND
DONATIONS
or determine the status of compliance for any
particular state visit http://pglaf.
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A public domain book is one that was never subject to
copyright
or whose legal copyright term has expired.
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Meredith - Poems |
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"
In a far foreign land
Upon the wave-edged sand,
Some friends gaze wistfully
Across the
glittering
sea.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Royalty payments
must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you
prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your
periodic
tax
returns.
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Keats - Lamia |
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Their virtues, O God, are measured, their sins are weighed, and
even the countless things that pass in the dim twilight of neither
sin nor virtue are
recorded
and catalogued.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Long did he prove
All that were his, and all that owed him love,
But never a soul he found would yield up life
And leave the
sunlight
for him, save his wife:
Who, even now, down the long galleries
Is borne, death-wounded; for this day it is
She needs must pass out of the light and die.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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So tauml ich von Begierde zu Genuss,
Und im Genuss
verschmacht
ich nach Begierde.
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15
Ignosco tibi, Sapphica puella
Musa doctior: est enim venuste
Magna Caecilio
incohata
mater.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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The
lighting
of candles within the
magic circle is mentioned below (note 1.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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The themes of
_Traumgekront_ are extended
somewhat
beyond the immediate environment
of Prague and some of the most beautiful poems are luminous pictures of
villages hidden in the snowy blossoming of May and June, out of which
rises here and there the solitary soft voice of a boy or girl singing.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Tietjens made the twilight more
interesting by glaring into the
darkened
rooms, with every hair erect,
and following the motions of something that I could not see.
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Kipling - Poems |
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The listener remained
perfectly
mute.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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--She is, among other things, a great florist--and
is rather past the meridian of once
celebrated
beauty.
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Robert Forst |
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uiuit edax uultur ducensque per aera gyros
miluus et pluuiae graculus auctor aquae;
uiuit et armiferae cornix inuisa Mineruae,
illa quidem saeclis uix
moritura
nouem;
occidit illa loquax humanae uocis imago,
psittacus, extremo munus ab orbe datum!
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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"
A
FRAGMENT
OF THE THIRTY-FOURTH BOOK OF DIODORUS SICULUS.
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Tacitus |
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er be somwhat
folysche
and confus 3788
whan ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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For they all thought he was dying, as they
gathered
'round
him crying,--
And they said, "O, how they'll miss him!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Beowulf |
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Come on then; I wait you with
unflinching
foot, and I
will snap off your testicles like a bitch.
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Aristophanes |
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But what foul wrong have I done to thee, Ozias,
That thou shouldst go about to put such wrong
Into my life as these
defiling
words?
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Pact of peace they
plighted
further
on both sides firmly.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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'The makers of gold and the makers
of verse,' they are the twin
creators
that sway the world's
secret desire for mystery; and what in my father is the genius of
curiosity--the very essence of all scientific genius--in me is
the desire for beauty.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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' For the 'Allegory,' though shrewd enough in most
things, had the
reputation
of being 'saift-baked,' i.
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Li Po |
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On the Dunes
If there is any life when death is over,
These tawny beaches will know much of me,
I shall come back, as
constant
and as changeful
As the unchanging, many-colored sea.
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Sara Teasdale |
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in the world.
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Meredith - Poems |
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He must be rare if even / have not And lost mid-page
Such age
As his pardons the habit,
He
analyzes
form and thought to see
How I 'scaped immortality.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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"--think some:
Others--"How blest the
Paradise
to come!
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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"
Fiercely the orderly rode down the slope of the
corn-field--scarred and forlorn,
Rutted by violent wheels, and scathed by the
shot that had plowed it in scorn;
Fiercely, and burning with wrath for the sight
of his comrades crushed at a blow,
Flung in broken shapes on the ground like
ruined
memorials
of woe:
These were the men whom at daybreak he knew,
but never again could know.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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What rumour without is there
breeding?
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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nonacrias_
(_os_ Ven) GRVen: _non ac_(_acc_
O)_uos_ ACO: _non uacuus_ Bapt.
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Latin - Catullus |
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And
wherefore
say not I that I am old?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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The listener
remained
perfectly mute.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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No longer the flowers are gay,
The
springtime
hath lost its caress,
Alone I will dream to-day,
Weep in the silent recess.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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There were many individuals of dashing appearance, whom I easily
understood as
belonging
to the race of swell pick-pockets with which
all great cities are infested.
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Poe - 5 |
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There
pilgrims
climb slowly one by one,
And behind them a blind man goes:
With him I will walk till day is done
Up the pathway that no one knows .
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Having received
frequent
invitations to Lombes from the
Bishop, who had resided some time in his diocese, Petrarch looked
forward with pleasure to the time when he should revisit him.
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Petrarch |
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Tear--
tear us an altar,
tug at the cliff-boulders,
pile them with the rough stones--
we no longer
sleep in the wind,
propitiate
us.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Oh the
trembling
fear!
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blake-poems |
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'Tis much he dares,
And to that
dauntlesse
temper of his Minde,
He hath a Wisdome, that doth guide his Valour,
To act in safetie.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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[Poems by William Blake 1789]
SONGS OF
INNOCENCE
AND OF EXPERIENCE
and THE BOOK of THEL
SONGS OF INNOCENCE
INTRODUCTION
Piping down the valleys wild,
Piping songs of pleasant glee,
On a cloud I saw a child,
And he laughing said to me:
"Pipe a song about a Lamb!
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blake-poems |
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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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2 Guan Zhong lived in poverty, but Bao Shu treated him very well; and when Bao entered the service of the Count Huan of Qi, he
recommended
Guan Zhong.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Ghostly mother, keep aloof
One hour longer from my soul,
For I still am
thinking
of
Earth's warm-beating joy and dole!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Those
blossoms
fall ere June, warm June that brings
The small white Clover.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Sara Teasdale |
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In direful hunger craving
Summers & Winters round
revolving
in the frightful deep.
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Blake - Zoas |
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CXXXV
Whoever hath her wish, thou hast thy 'Will,'
And 'Will' to boot, and 'Will' in over-plus;
More than enough am I that vex'd thee still,
To thy sweet will making
addition
thus.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Such slimy monsters ne*er
approached
a tluone,
Since Pharaoh's days, nor so defiled a crown.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Swift, bring the axe that slew my lord of old;
I'll know anon or death or
victory?
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Aeschylus |
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Trust not too much to colour,
beauteous
boy;
White privets fall, dark hyacinths are culled.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Yeats |
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So saying, on he led his radiant Files,
Daz'ling the Moon; these to the Bower direct
In search of whom they sought: him there they found
Squat like a Toad, close at the eare of Eve; 800
Assaying
by his Devilish art to reach
The Organs of her Fancie, and with them forge
Illusions as he list, Phantasms and Dreams,
Or if, inspiring venom, he might taint
Th' animal Spirits that from pure blood arise
Like gentle breaths from Rivers pure, thence raise
At least distemperd, discontented thoughts,
Vain hopes, vain aimes, inordinate desires
Blown up with high conceits ingendring pride.
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Milton |
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Lest there grow
From thee the
avenger?
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Euripides - Electra |
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But God was not angry, nor ever confused his tongue,
For not out of selfish nor
impudent
travail was wrung
The song of all men and all things that the all-lover sung.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Quis me uno vivit felicior, aut magis hac res
Optandas
vita dicere quis poterit?
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Meredith - Poems |
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True to those
counsels
which I judge the best,
I tell the faithful dictates of my breast.
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Iliad - Pope |
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If ye'll but stand to what ye've said,
I'se gang wi' thee, my
shepherd
lad,
And ye may row me in your plaid,
And I sall be your dearie.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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The results of this great change were
singularly
happy and
glorious.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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"
HOLY THURSDAY
Is this a holy thing to see
In a rich and
fruitful
land, --
Babes reduced to misery,
Fed with cold and usurous hand?
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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Mine eyes, like clouds, were
drizzling
rain, II.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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KINGS IN LEGENDS
Kings in old legends seem
Like
mountains
rising in the evening light.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Why does
everyone
in the village hate me?
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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It is
needless
to add, that Father Urreta is a
second Sir John Mandevylle.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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The
Latin ballads
perished
forever.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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"I learned
versification
wholly from Dryden's
works," he once said.
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Here is the man with three staves, and here the Wheel,
And here is the one-eyed merchant, and this card,
Which is blank, is something he carries on his back,
Which I am
forbidden
to see.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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'So their spirit is
heightened
to fury.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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den sollt Ihr noch
verlieren!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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The pebble
loosened
from the frost
Asks of the urchin to be tost.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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" he cried; and all his
watchful
sons,
Their finger on their lip, stared at their sire.
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Hugo - Poems |
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With leaping fish the blue pond is full;
With singing
thrushes
the green boughs droop.
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Li Po |
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" KAU}
And Enitharmon joyd Plotting to rend the secret cloud
To plant divisions in the Soul of Urizen & Ahania
But For
infinitely
beautiful the wondrous work arose {Erdman notes that the word "For" has been deleted in Blake.
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Blake - Zoas |
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But well for him
that after death-day may draw to his Lord,
and
friendship
find in the Father's arms!
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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