No boast can be from breed of Grendel,
any on earth, for that uproar at dawn,
from the longest-lived of the
loathsome
race
in fleshly fold!
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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I see vapours exhaling from unexplored countries;
I see the savage types, the bow and arrow, the
poisoned
splint, the fetish,
and the obi.
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Whitman |
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It is difficult to acknowledge duly my obligation to
collectors
of
autograph Letters--Mr.
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ee pictures,
And note the
propere?
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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[PHERES _is now out of sight;_ ADMETUS _drops his
defiance
and
seems like a broken man.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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"This is no my ain
house," is a great
favourite
air of mine; and if you will send me your
set of it, I will task my muse to her highest effort.
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Robert Forst |
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Latin - Catullus |
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Sir Philip Sidney
(_credite
posteri!
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James Russell Lowell |
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To pass this
formidable Cape was the commission of Zarco and Vaz, who were also
ordered to survey the African coast, which,
according
to the information
given to Henry by the Moors, extended to the Equator.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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The oven was
commonly
out of
doors, built of stone and mortar, frequently on a raised platform of
planks.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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'196 the Turk':
it was formerly the practice for a Turkish monarch when
succeeding
to
the throne to have all his brothers murdered so as to do away with
possible rivals.
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Alexander Pope |
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MOON-BATHERS
Falls from her heaven the Moon, and stars sink burning
Into the sea where
blackness
rims the sea,
Silently quenched.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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And Betty's still at Susan's side:
By this time she's not quite so flurried;
Demure with
porringer
and plate
She sits, as if in Susan's fate
Her life and soul were buried.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Half-past one,
The street lamp sputtered,
The street lamp muttered,
The street lamp said,
"Regard that woman
Who
hesitates
toward you in the light of the door
Which opens on her like a grin.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Could the
passionate
past that is fled
Call back its dead,
Could we live it all over again,
Were it worth the pain!
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Wilde - Poems |
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"My patriot falls: but shall he lie unsung,
While empty greatness saves a
worthless
name?
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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But if, of beauty vain,
She treats me with disdain;
Do thou, O verdant shore, attend my sighs:
Let them so freely flow,
That all the world may know,
My sorrow thou at least didst not
despise!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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In this wretched state, the
recollection
of which makes me yet
shudder, I hung my harp on the willow-trees, except in some lucid
intervals, in one of which I composed the following.
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Robert Forst |
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But the war poet has left the mere
arguments
to others.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Wrongs, injuries, from many a darksome den,
Now gay in hope explore the paths of men:
See from this cavern grim Oppression rise,
And throw on poverty his cruel eyes;
Keen on the helpless victim see him fly,
And stifle, dark, the feebly-bursting cry:
Mark ruffian Violence, distain'd with crimes,
Rousing elate in these degenerate times;
View unsuspecting Innocence a prey,
As guileful Fraud points out the erring way:
While subtile Litigation's pliant tongue
The life-blood equal sucks of Right and Wrong:
Hark, injur'd Want recounts th' unlisten'd tale,
And much-wrong'd Mis'ry pours th'
unpitied
wail!
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Robert Burns |
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For the mother watches o'er the infant,
He must rise up in her latter days,
She will need the man that was her baby
To stand by her when her
strength
decays.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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To which may be added,
that he who when living could not help himself, arose, as you say, after
he was dead, and
exhibited
the marks of his punishment, and his hands
which had been perforated on the cross.
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Tacitus |
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Except for the limited right of
replacement
or refund set forth
in paragraph 1.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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It was a den where no insulting light
Could glimmer on their tears; where their own groans
They felt, but heard not, for the solid roar
Of thunderous
waterfalls
and torrents hoarse,
Pouring a constant bulk, uncertain where.
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Keats |
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or by the shafts
Of gentle Dian suddenly
subdued?
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Copyright, 1916, by the editors, trading as
CONTEMPORARY
VERSE.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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To my loyal heart do no injury;
Let me be noble without perjury;
My bonds are far too strong to be broken;
Even without hope my faith's unshaken;
Unable to leave or possess Chimene,
The death I seek is my
sweetest
pain.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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O
blinding
hour, O holy, terrible day,
When first the shaft into his vision shone
Of light anatomized!
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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[573] Women slaves were forbidden by law to be present at the
Thesmophoria; they
remained
at the door of the temple and there waited
for the orders of their mistresses.
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Aristophanes |
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Even in modern times songs have been by no
means without influence on public affairs; and we may therefore
infer that, in a society where printing was unknown and where
books were rare, a pathetic or
humorous
party-ballad must have
produced effects such as we can but faintly conceive.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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For come Diseases on, and Penury's rage,
Labour, and Pain, and Grief, and joyless Age,
And Conscience dogging close his bleeding way 640
Cries out, and leads her Spectres to their prey,
'Till Hope-deserted, long in vain his breath
Implores the
dreadful
untried sleep of Death.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Copyright laws in most
countries
are in
a constant state of change.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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"
"And then,"
interrupted
the head of the Customs, "I'm a Kirghiz instead
of a College Counsellor if these robbers do not deliver up their ataman,
chained hand and foot.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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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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His
right side unarmed was exposed to the enemy, whose left side, which was
nearest to him was
defended
with half a cuirass.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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LE CHATIMENT DE TARTUFE
Tisonnant,
tisonnant
son coeur amoureux sous
Sa chaste robe noire, heureux, la main gantee,
Un jour qu'il s'en allait, effroyablement doux,
Jaune, bavant la foi de sa bouche edentee,
Un jour qu'il s'en allait, <>,--un Mechant
Le prit rudement par son oreille benoite
Et lui jeta des mots affreux, en arrachant
Sa chaste robe noire autour de sa peau moite!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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"
"Quite a
mistake!
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Lear - Nonsense |
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[_The_ PEASANT _goes to the_ ARMED
SERVANTS
_at the back, to help them
with the baggage.
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Euripides - Electra |
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So stately they ascend
It is as swans
discarded
you
For duties diamond.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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ou hat3 dalt
disserued
?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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"You gave me
hyacinths
first a year ago;
"They called me the hyacinth girl.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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40
_Maries_
prerogative
was to beare Christ, so
'Tis preachers to convey him, for they doe
As Angels out of clouds, from Pulpits speake;
And blesse the poore beneath, the lame, the weake.
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John Donne |
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We
encourage
the use of public domain materials for these purposes and may be able to help.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Horses and
horsemen
that make gazers fear
Are only empty armor.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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II
The
Babylonian
praises his high wall,
And gardens high in air; Ephesian
Forms the Greek will praise again;
The people of the Nile their Pyramids tall;
And that same Greek still boasting will recall
Their statue of Jove the Olympian;
The Tomb of Mausolus, some Carian;
Cretans their long-lost labyrinthine hall.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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'" Hereupon some
little squibbing and bickering occurred among various members of
the crowd, and
especially
between "Old Charley" and Mr.
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Poe - 5 |
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ere
citatis_
RVen: _erae c.
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Latin - Catullus |
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The owlets through the long blue night
Are
shouting
to each other still:
Fond lovers, yet not quite hob nob,
They lengthen out the tremulous sob,
That echoes far from hill to hill.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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The babe unborn:
But, won by Venus' voice and thine,
Relenting
Jove Aeneas will'd
With other omens more benign
New walls to build.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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*****
gain,
Whatever abides eternal must indeed
Either repel all strokes, because 'tis made
Of solid body, and permit no entrance
Of aught with power to sunder from within
The parts compact--as are those seeds of stuff
Whose nature we've exhibited before;
Or else be able to endure through time
For this: because they are from blows exempt,
As is the void, the which abides untouched,
Unsmit by any stroke; or else because
There is no room around, whereto things can,
As 'twere, depart in dissolution all,--
Even as the sum of sums eternal is,
Without or place beyond whereto things may
Asunder fly, or bodies which can smite,
And thus
dissolve
them by the blows of might.
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Lucretius |
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It was no dream; or say a dream it was,
Real are the dreams of Gods, and smoothly pass
Their pleasures in a long
immortal
dream.
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Keats - Lamia |
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]
{and}
forsothe
eu{er}y thing kepith thilke ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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"
Immediately a party of Russian hussars
surrounded
us with awful oaths.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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" said I "let us match
This water's
pleasant
tune
With some old border song, or catch
That suits a summer's noon.
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Golden Treasury |
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"
"Foully and
villainously
slain!
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Tennyson |
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I arise from dreams of Thee
In the first sweet sleep of night,
When the winds are
breathing
low
And the stars are shining bright:
I arise from dreams of thee,
And a spirit in my feet
Hath led me--who knows how?
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Golden Treasury |
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O harsh
surrounding
cloud that will not free my soul.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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In Bolton, while we rested on
the rails of a cottage fence, the strains of music which issued from
within,
probably
in compliment to us, sojourners, reminded us that
thus far men were fed by the accustomed pleasures.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Him, who lives ever, and for ever reigns
In mystic union of the Three in One,
Unbounded,
bounding
all, each spirit thrice
Sang, with such melody, as but to hear
For highest merit were an ample meed.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Ronsard refers to Neo-Platonic metaphysics in
criticising
Plato's 'Idealism'.
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Ronsard |
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Through Morpheus' sleepy pow'r, and Bacchus' wine:
Our host, at length,
completed
his design.
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La Fontaine |
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Does the sower
Sow by night,
Or the
ploughman
in darkness plough?
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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THE CHOICE
RUDYARD KIPLING
April, 1917
(THE AMERICAN SPIRIT SPEAKS)
_To the Judge of Right and Wrong
With Whom
fulfilment
lies
Our purpose and our power belong,
Our faith and sacrifice.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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And look how when a frantic storm doth tear
A
stubborn
oak, or holm, long growing there,
But lull'd to calmness, then succeeds a breeze
That scarcely stirs the nodding leaves of trees:
So when this war, which tempest-like doth spoil
Our salt, our corn, our honey, wine and oil,
Falls to a temper, and doth mildly cast
His inconsiderate frenzy off, at last,
The gentle dove may, when these turmoils cease,
Bring in her bill, once more, the branch of peace.
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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Obsession
After years of wisdom
During which the world was transparent as a needle
Was it cooing about
something
else?
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Liberty
On my
notebooks
from school
On my desk and the trees
On the sand on the snow
I write your name
On every page read
On all the white sheets
Stone blood paper or ash
I write your name
On the golden images
On the soldier's weapons
On the crowns of kings
I write your name
On the jungle the desert
The nests and the bushes
On the echo of childhood
I write your name
On the wonder of nights
On the white bread of days
On the seasons engaged
I write your name
On all my blue rags
On the pond mildewed sun
On the lake living moon
I write your name
On the fields the horizon
The wings of the birds
On the windmill of shadows
I write your name
On each breath of the dawn
On the ships on the sea
On the mountain demented
I write your name
On the foam of the clouds
On the sweat of the storm
On dark insipid rain
I write your name
On the glittering forms
On the bells of colour
On physical truth
I write your name
On the wakened paths
On the opened ways
On the scattered places
I write your name
On the lamp that gives light
On the lamp that is drowned
On my house reunited
I write your name
On the bisected fruit
Of my mirror and room
On my bed's empty shell
I write your name
On my dog greedy tender
On his listening ears
On his awkward paws
I write your name
On the sill of my door
On familiar things
On the fire's sacred stream
I write your name
On all flesh that's in tune
On the brows of my friends
On each hand that extends
I write your name
On the glass of surprises
On lips that attend
High over the silence
I write your name
On my ravaged refuges
On my fallen lighthouses
On the walls of my boredom
I write your name
On passionless absence
On naked solitude
On the marches of death
I write your name
On health that's regained
On danger that's past
On hope without memories
I write your name
By the power of the word
I regain my life
I was born to know you
And to name you
LIBERTY
Ring Of Peace
I have passed the doors of coldness
The doors of my bitterness
To come and kiss your lips
City reduced to a room
Where the absurd tide of evil
leaves a reassuring foam
Ring of peace I have only you
You teach me again what it is
To be human when I renounce
Knowing whether I have fellow creatures
Ecstasy
I am in front of this feminine land
Like a child in front of the fire
Smiling vaguely with tears in my eyes
In front of this land where all moves in me
Where mirrors mist where mirrors clear
Reflecting two nude bodies season on season
I've so many reasons to lose myself
On this road-less earth under horizon-less skies
Good reasons I ignored yesterday
And I'll never ever forget
Good keys of gazes keys their own daughters
in front of this land where nature is mine
In front of the fire the first fire
Good mistress reason
Identified star
On earth under sky in and out of my heart
Second bud first green leaf
That the sea covers with sails
And the sun finally coming to us
I am in front of this feminine land
Like a branch in the fire.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Meanwhile an advanced guard of cavalry were on their way from the Latin
city, while the rest of their marshalled
battalions
linger on the
plains, and bore a reply to King Turnus; three hundred men all under
shield, in Volscens' leading.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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My
brothers
these; the same our native shore,
One house contain'd us, as one mother bore.
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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It is therefore conceivable that the appearance of
Castor and Pollux may be become an article of faith before the
generation which had fought at
Regillus
had passed away.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Ce qu'il faut a ce coeur profond comme un abime,
C'est vous, Lady Macbeth, ame
puissante
au crime,
Reve d'Eschyle eclos au climat des autans;
Ou bien toi, grand Nuit, fille de Michel-Ange,
Qui tors paisiblement dans une pose etrange
Tes appas faconnes aux bouches des Titans!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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And aye so fond they of their singing seem
That in their holes abed at close of day
They still keep piping in their honey dreams,
And larger ones that thrum on ruder pipe
Round the sweet smelling closen and rich woods
Where tawny white and red flush clover buds
Shine bonnily and bean fields blossom ripe,
Shed dainty
perfumes
and give honey food
To these sweet poets of the summer fields;
Me much delighting as I stroll along
The narrow path that hay laid meadow yields,
Catching the windings of their wandering song.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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'
But Laura
loitered
still among the rushes
And said the bank was steep.
| Guess: |
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I look to none; my lips proclaim 1450
What last proclaimed they--Conrad still the same:
Why should'st thou seek an outlaw's life to spare,
And change the
sentence
I deserve to bear?
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Byron |
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Your
sometime
poet; but if fates do give
Me longer date and more fresh springs to live,
Oft as your field shall her old age renew,
Herrick shall make the meadow-verse for you.
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Robert Herrick |
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And whan yow list, ye may come here ayeyn;
And, er ye gon, thus muche I seye yow here;
As help me Pallas with hir heres clere,
If that I sholde of any Greek han routhe, 1000
It sholde be your-selven, by my
trouthe!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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And whence this
promise?
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La Fontaine |
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Canter so far, to
Sarraguce
they come,
Pass through ten gates, across four bridges run,
Through all the streets, wherein the burghers crowd.
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Chanson de Roland |
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till to-morrow eve,
And you, my
friends!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Beautiful
Virgin!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Lov'st not good
company?
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Sidney Lanier |
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One morning he
suffered
the Common Change
And his body was one with the dust and dirt of the hill.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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"
"I am like thee, O, Night, patient and passionate; for in my breast
a thousand dead lovers are buried in shrouds of
withered
kisses.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Semiriamis; _rest_
Semiramus
(_as in_ Leg.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Deare Duff, I prythee
contradict
thy selfe,
And say, it is not so.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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He, the young man carbuncular, arrives,
A small house agent's clerk, with one bold stare,
One of the low on whom assurance sits
As a silk hat on a
Bradford
millionaire.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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What though that light, thro' storm and night,
So
trembled
from afar-
What could there be more purely bright
In Truths day-star?
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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No god is there of carven stone
To watch with still approving eyes
My
thoughts
like steady incense rise;
I dream and weep alone.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Paradiso
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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But what use is it to affect a proud
display?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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e
decollacioun
of seint Ion*.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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The aged woman now, from what he said,
Though she before Zerbino had not seen,
Perceived
'twas him of whom, in the thieves' hold,
Isabel of Gallicia erst had told.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Those
heavenly
features make my bosom sigh,
To think from earthly praise they mean to fly.
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La Fontaine |
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You brought me even here, where I
Live on a hill against the sky
And look on
mountains
and the sea
And a thin white moon in the pepper tree.
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Sara Teasdale |
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To Rome by this bold father was I brought,
To learn those arts which well-born youths are taught,
So dressed, and so attended, you would swear
I was some wealthy lord's
expensive
heir.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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More health and
happiness
betide my liege
Than can my care-tun'd tongue deliver him.
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Shakespeare |
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Theseus
Your eyes have tamed that rebellious heart:
His first sighs
resulted
from your happy art.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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The wasps
flourish
greenly
Dawn goes by round her neck
A necklace of windows
You are all the solar joys
All the sun of this earth
On the roads of your beauty.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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