So they,
enranged
well,
Did on those two attend,
And their best service lend
Against their wedding day, which was not long:
Sweet Thames!
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Golden Treasury |
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It may be wilderness without,
Far feet of failing men,
But holiday
excludes
the night,
And it is bells within.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Me-azag,
daughter
of Ninkasi, 144.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Then, hurrying to the voice of
the
terrible
trumpet-note, on all sides the wild rustics snatch their
arms and stream in: therewithal the men of Troy pour out from their
camp's open gates to succour Ascanius.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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That ought to be
sufficient
for those American Intellectuals who are bemoaning the deca dence of poetry.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Rilke - Poems |
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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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Villon |
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voici la nuit de joie aux
profonds
spasmes
Qui descend dans la rue, o buveurs desoles,
Buvez.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Villon
presumably
means that they were 'near cousins' in spirit.
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Villon |
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Each pore and natural outlet shrivell'd up
By ignorance and
parching
poverty,
His energies roll back upon his heart,
And stagnate and corrupt; till changed to poison,
They break out on him, like a loathsome plague-spot;
Then we call in our pamper'd mountebanks--
And this is their best cure!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Certitude
If I speak it's to hear you more clearly
If I hear you I'm sure to
understand
you
If you smile it's the better to enter me
If you smile I will see the world entire
If I embrace you it's to widen myself
If we live everything will turn to joy
If I leave you we'll remember each other
In leaving you we'll find each other again.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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"
From the wood a sound is gliding,
Vapours dense the plain are hiding,
Cries the Dame in anxious measure:
"Stay, I'll wash thy head, my
treasure!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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org
Title: The Poetical Works of
Elizabeth
Barrett Browning, Vol.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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why wylt thou goe,
Wythoute
thye lovynge wyfe?
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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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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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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),
supplying fela and
blending
the broken half-lines into one.
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Beowulf |
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ai
striueden
& chid ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Metaphysics
(I ought to except sir
W.
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Shelley |
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No, Plantagenet,
'Tis not for fear but anger that thy cheeks
Blush for pure shame to
counterfeit
our roses,
And yet thy tongue will not confess thy error.
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There are two 'longe' s
probably
of the same mean|ing ryming, 91-2.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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God bless the narrow sea which keeps her off,
And keeps our Britain, whole within herself,
A nation yet, the rulers and the ruled--
Some sense of duty, something of a faith,
Some reverence for the laws
ourselves
have made,
Some patient force to change them when we will,
Some civic manhood firm against the crowd--
But yonder, whiff!
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Tennyson |
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In 1449 the Azores were
discovered
by
Gonsalo Vello; and the coast sixty leagues beyond Cape Verde was visited
by the fleets of Henry.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Here heed we Boreas' icy breath as much
As the wolf heeds the number of the flock,
Or furious rivers their
restraining
banks.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Five years have passed; five summers, with the length
Of five long
winters!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Mysteriously glowing through a background dim
When he was
suffering
she came to him,
And all the heavy pain within his heart
Rose in his hands and stole into his art.
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Rilke - Poems |
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My path seemed
honeycombed
with pits.
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Sidney Lanier |
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FROSCH:
Nein, sagt mir nur, was ist
geschehn?
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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answerest
thou
The High-Priest so?
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Longfellow |
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_Non nimium
credendum
antiquitati_.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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The
indignation
of the army had broken
out against him, because he was supposed to have intrigued against
Fonteius Capito, and to have accused him falsely.
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Tacitus |
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Such was the hapless chance, most beautiful Laodamia, 105
Tare fro' thee dearer than life, dearer than spirit itself,
Him, that husband, whose love in so mighty a whirlpool of passion
Whelmed thee absorbed and plunged deep in its gulfy abyss,
E'en as the Grecians tell hard by Pheneus of Cyllene
Drained was the marish and dried, forming the fattest of soils, 110
Whenas in days long done to delve through marrow of mountains
Dared, falsing his sire, Amphtryoniades;
What time sure of his shafts he smote Stymphalian monsters
Slaying their host at the hest dealt by a lord of less worth,
So might the gateway of Heaven be trodden by more of the godheads, 115
Nor might Hebe abide longer to
maidenhood
doomed.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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: _sopironibus_ Voss:
_sponsionibus_
Heyse: _ropionibus_ Peiper.
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Latin - Catullus |
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e
rycheste
of that cette.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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And the prince
inquired
of him, "What has
befallen you?
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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My
watchful
dog, whose starts of furious ire,
When stranger passed, so often I have check'd; 1798.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Don't listen to those cursed birds
But
Paradisial
Angels' words.
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Appoloinaire |
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Her name was Jane, and neighbour's
children
we,
And old companions once, as ye may be;
And like to you, on Sundays often strolled
To gipsies' camps to have our fortunes told;
And oft, God rest her, in the fortune-book
Which we at hay-time in our pockets took,
Our pins at blindfold on the wheel we stuck,
When hers would always prick the worst of luck;
For try, poor thing, as often as she might,
Her point would always on the blank alight;
Which plainly shows the fortune one's to have,
As such like go unwedded to the grave,--
And so it proved.
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John Clare |
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He ended, and the Prince, at his command,
Guided by flaming torches, sought the couch
Where he was wont to sleep, and there he slept
On that night also, waiting the
approach
60
Of sacred dawn.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Reapers are now going home, back from
harvesting
grain.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Like a tall tree in the tempest
Bent and lashed the giant bulrush;
And in masses huge and heavy
Crashing
fell the fatal Wawbeek;
Till the earth shook with the tumult
And confusion of the battle.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Below thir stanes lie Jamie's banes:
O Death, it's my opinion,
Thou ne'er took such a blethrin' b--ch
Into thy dark
dominion!
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Robert Burns |
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'Our life is given us as a blank;
Ourselves
must make it blest or curst:
Who dooms me I shall only be
The second, not the first?
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Christina Rossetti |
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e last with
trawayle
borne hyt was 401
To ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Les Amours de Cassandre: XX
I'd like to turn the deepest of yellows,
Falling, drop by drop, in a golden shower,
Into her lap, my lovely Cassandra's,
As sleep is
stealing
over her brow.
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Ronsard |
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When day,
expiring
in the west,
The curtain draws of nature's rest,
He flies to her arms he lo'es best--
The gard'ner wi' his paidle.
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Robert Forst |
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LIMITED WARRANTY,
DISCLAIMER
OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right
of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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And oft, robb'd of my perfect mind, I thought
At last my feet a resting-place had found:
Here will I weep in peace, (so fancy wrought,)
Roaming the
illimitable
waters round;
Here watch, of every human friend disowned,
All day, my ready tomb the ocean-flood--
To break my dream the vessel reached its bound:
And homeless near a thousand homes I stood,
And near a thousand tables pined, and wanted food.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Not a shriek, not a scream;
Scarcely
even a howl or a groan,
As the man they called "Ho!
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Lewis Carroll |
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To those who gaze from the sea's edge
It is there for benefit;
It is there for purging light;
There for
purifying
storms;
And its depths reflect all forms;
It cannot parley with the mean,--
Pure by impure is not seen.
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Emerson - Poems |
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The first of these,
originally published in 1846, and brought out in an
enlarged
form in 1863,
is exclusively devoted to nonsense-verses of one type.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Strong in thyself, and
powerful
to give strength!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Stephen Crane |
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"
The
following
is a sample of Sung Yu's prose:
MASTER T?
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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We break the ox, and wear away the strength
Of sturdy farm-hands; iron tools to-day
Barely avail for tilling of the fields,
So
niggardly
they grudge our harvestings,
So much increase our labour.
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Lucretius |
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I seek my lord who has
forgotten
me.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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So, borne aloft,
thy fame must fly, O friend my Beowulf,
far and wide o'er
folksteads
many.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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O
amazement
of things!
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Whitman |
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ENDYMION
The rising moon has hid the stars;
Her level rays, like golden bars,
Lie on the
landscape
green,
With shadows brown between.
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Longfellow |
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WHAT THE THUNDER SAID
After the torchlight red on sweaty faces
After the frosty silence in the gardens
After the agony in stony places
The shouting and the crying
Prison and palace and reverberation
Of thunder of spring over distant mountains
He who was living is now dead
We who were living are now dying
With a little patience 330
Here is no water but only rock
Rock and no water and the sandy road
The road winding above among the mountains
Which are mountains of rock without water
If there were water we should stop and drink
Amongst the rock one cannot stop or think
Sweat is dry and feet are in the sand
If there were only water amongst the rock
Dead mountain mouth of carious teeth that cannot spit
Here one can neither stand nor lie nor sit 340
There is not even silence in the mountains
But dry sterile thunder without rain
There is not even solitude in the mountains
But red sullen faces sneer and snarl
From doors of
mudcracked
houses
If there were water
And no rock
If there were rock
And also water
And water 350
A spring
A pool among the rock
If there were the sound of water only
Not the cicada
And dry grass singing
But sound of water over a rock
Where the hermit-thrush sings in the pine trees
Drip drop drip drop drop drop drop
But there is no water
Who is the third who walks always beside you?
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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The
spear
trembled
in his hand.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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The Project Gutenberg eBook, Sonnets from the Portuguese, by Elizabeth
Barrett Browning
This eBook is for the use of anyone
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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used on or
associated
in any way with an electronic work by people who
agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Ye
mountains
that see us descend to the shore,
Shall view us as victors, or view us no more!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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He spent most of his career as court poet and close friend of
Boniface
I of Montferrat.
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Troubador Verse |
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_S' Amor novo
consiglio
non n' apporta.
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Petrarch |
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These nymphs, I would
perpetuate
them.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Contents
Le Testament: Ballade Des Dames Du Temps Jadis
Le Testament: Les Regrets De La Belle Heaulmiere
Le Testament: Ballade: 'Item: Donne A Ma Povre Mere'
Le Testament: Ballade: A S'amye
Le Testament: Ballade: Pour Robert d'Estouteville
Le Testament: Rondeau
Le Testament: Epitaph et Rondeau
Ballade: Du
Concours
De Blois
Ballade: Epistre
L'Epitaphe Villon: Ballade Des Pendus
Index of First Lines
Le Testament: Ballade Des Dames Du Temps Jadis
Tell me where, or in what country
Is Flora, the lovely Roman,
Archipiades or Thais,
Who was her nearest cousin,
Echo answering, at clap of hand,
Over the river, and the meadow,
Whose beauty was more than human?
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Villon |
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e ne
vndirstonde
nat
how gret a wro{n}g ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Blood of Troy and Rutulia shall be thy dower, O
maiden, and Bellona is the
bridesmaid
who awaits thee.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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But I delay too long, let me seek Chimene,
And in
welcoming
her relieve my pain.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Veramente
piu volte appaion cose
che danno a dubitar falsa matera
per le vere ragion che son nascose.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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"
In this, and
subsequent
editions, Marshall's title-page is re-engraved
and the Outlandish Proverbs are omitted.
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Robert Herrick |
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What merit do I in my self respect,
That is so proud thy service to despise,
When all my best doth worship thy defect,
Commanded
by the motion of thine eyes?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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My
excellent
and
much-lamented friend, the late Basil, Lord Daer, happened to arrive at
Catrine the same day, and, by the kindness and frankness of his manners,
left an impression on the mind of the poet which was never effaced.
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Robert Burns |
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1110
Forth to [120] the gentle Ass he springs,
And up about his neck he climbs;
In loving words he talks to him,
He kisses, kisses face and limb,--
He kisses him a
thousand
times!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
|
_30
Joy to the Spirit came,--
Such joy as when a lover sees
The chosen of his soul in happiness,
And witnesses her peace
Whose woe to him were bitterer than death, _35
Sees her unfaded cheek
Glow
mantling
in first luxury of health,
Thrills with her lovely eyes,
Which like two stars amid the heaving main
Sparkle through liquid bliss.
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| Source: |
Shelley |
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Wondrous
seems it,
what manner a man of might and valor
oft ends his life, when the earl no longer
in mead-hall may live with loving friends.
| Guess: |
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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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.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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ORESTES
These are no dreams, void shapes of
haunting
ill,
But clear to sight my mother's hell-hounds come!
| Guess: |
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Aeschylus |
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A chain-droop'd lamp was flickering by each door;
The arras, rich with horseman, hawk, and hound,
Flutter'd in the
besieging
wind's uproar;
And the long carpets rose along the gusty floor.
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If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement
violates
the
law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be
interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by
the applicable state law.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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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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We Have Created the Night
We have created the night I hold your hand I watch
I sustain you with all my powers
I engrave in rock the star of your powers
Deep furrows where your body's goodness fruits
I recall your hidden voice your public voice
I smile still at the proud woman
You treat like a beggar
The madness you respect the simplicity you bathe in
And in my head which gently blends with yours with the night
I wonder at the stranger you become
A stranger resembling you resembling
everything
I love
One that is always new.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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We know that men will treat with derision
Whatever they cannot understand,
At
goodness
and truth and beauty's vision
Will shut their eyes and murmur and howl at it;
And must the dog, too, snarl and growl at it?
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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" These we know to
have been jewels of a radiance so imperishable that the broken gleams of
them still dazzle men's eyes, whether shining from the two small brilliants
and the handful of star-dust which alone remain to us, or
reflected
merely
from the adoration of those poets of old time who were so fortunate as to
witness their full glory.
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Sappho |
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It is but fair to say, however,
that the author, whoever he was, seems not to have been unaware of some
of them himself, as is shown by a great many notes
appended
to the
verses as we received them, and purporting to be by Scaliger, Bentley,
and others,--among them the _Esprit de Voltaire_!
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James Russell Lowell |
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Get us up
something
new and jaunty!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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'
"Athens and
Lacedemon
had between them a species of rivalship similar to
yours: but their forces were not by any means so nearly balanced.
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Petrarch |
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Me reft from it, had bene
partaker
of the place.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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"
With cheek
unchanging
from its sallow gloom,
However near his own or other's tomb;
With hand, whose almost careless coolness spoke
Its grasp well-used to deal the sabre-stroke;
With eye, though calm, determined not to spare,
Did Lara too his willing weapon bare.
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Byron |
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Made for his use all
creatures
if he call,
Say what their use, had he the pow'rs of all?
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Alexander Pope |
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Let King
Cophetua
know the truth thereof.
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Shakespeare |
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To-day I thought what boots it what I
thought?
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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What leagues are lost before the dawn of day,
Thus
loitering
pensive on the willing seas,
The flapping sails hauled down to halt for logs like these!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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E quel nasetto che stretto a consiglio
par con colui c'ha si benigno aspetto,
mori fuggendo e
disfiorando
il giglio:
guardate la come si batte il petto!
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Am I thus
whitened
by the toil of battles
To witness in a day but withered laurels?
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Long had I suffer'd, till--to combat more
In strength, in hope too sunk--at last before
Impartial Reason's seat,
Whence she
presides
our nobler nature o'er,
I summon'd my old tyrant, stern and sweet;
There, groaning 'neath a weary weight of grief,
With fear and horror stung,
Like one who dreads to die and prays relief,
My plea I open'd thus: "When life was young,
I, weakly, placed my peace within his power,
And nothing from that hour
Save wrong I've met; so many and so great
The torments I have borne,
That my once infinite patience is outworn,
And my life worthless grown is held in very hate!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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