Licinius Crassus Frugi
was accused of treason to Nero by
Aquilius
Regulus, an
informer, whom one of Pliny's friends calls 'the vilest of
bipeds'.
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One keeps the heart-bred villain full in sight,
The other cants and acts the hypocrite,
Smoothing the deed where law sharks set their gin
Like a coy dog to draw
misfortune
in.
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Beauties
in vain their pretty eyes may roll;
Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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Alexander Pope |
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Thou wilt, in part, thyself
Fit speech devise, and heav'n will give the rest;
For thou wast neither born, nor hast been train'd
To manhood, under
unpropitious
Pow'rs.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Why then
tomorrow
night, or Tuesday morn,
On Tuesday noon, or night, on Wednesday morn.
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The mouth cannot be sure
Of tasting
anything
in its bite
Unless your princely lover cares
In that mighty brush of hair
To breathe out, like a diamond,
The cry of Glory stifled there.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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_John Finley_
CHAPLAIN TO THE FORCES
["I have once more to remark upon the devotion to duty, courage, and
contempt of danger which has characterized the work of the Chaplains of
the Army
throughout
this campaign.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Ay, there some dropples
moistened
on my face,
And pattered on my hat--tis coming nigh!
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John Clare |
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What profits
loathing
ere ye know?
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Euripides - Electra |
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Gather the north flowers to
complete
the south,
And catch the early love up in the late.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Hardy, Masefield, Binyon, Newbolt,
Watson, Rupert Brooke, and the two young soldiers--the one English, the
other American--who have lately lost their lives while on active
service: Captain Charles
Hamilton
Sorley, who was killed at Hulluch,
October 18, 1915; and Alan Seeger, who fell, mortally wounded, during
the charge on Belloy-en-Santerre, July 4, 1916.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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So we cannot say that Homer was not as deliberate a
craftsman
in words
as Milton himself.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Amorous Prince, the
greatest
lover,
I want no evil that's of your doing,
But, by God, all noble hearts must offer
To succour a poor man, without crushing.
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Villon |
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what
is the
diversion?
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Poe - 5 |
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The porch of the house is meant, and the
allusions are to the ceremonies at the
threshold
(cp.
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Robert Herrick |
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Mine arms enfold
That, which
unswayed
by me grew up and bloomed
To other worlds:
Mine own, and yet so infinitely far.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Yet they abstain'd not, and a dreadful fate
Due to their
wickedness
have, therefore, found.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Paul Verlaine (1844-1896)
Paul Verlaine
'Paul Verlaine'
Library of the World's best Literature, Ancient and Modern (p248, 1896)
Internet
Book Archive Images
The piano kissed.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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This book
contains
much just and brilliant
writing.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS', WITH NO
OTHER WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT
LIMITED TO WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTABILITY
OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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)[34] Going
round mountains and
skirting
lakes was as nothing to them.
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Li Po |
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The summer trees have clad
themselves
in shade;
The autumn "lan"[51] already houses the dew.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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: SONNET
on the tally-board of wasted days
IF write me for They daily
proud idleness, Let high Hell summons me, and I confess,
No overt act the
preferred
charge allays.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Yea, and paid me richly for the
practice
of it.
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Shakespeare |
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" 240
And nowe the
officers
came ynne
To brynge Syr CHARLES awaie,
Whoe turnedd toe his lovynge wyfe,
And thus toe her dydd saie:
"I goe to lyfe, and nott to dethe; 245
Truste thou ynne Godde above,
And teache thye sonnes to feare the Lorde,
And ynne theyre hertes hym love:
"Teache them to runne the nobile race
Thatt I theyre fader runne: 250
FLORENCE!
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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From without, at the same time, were heard the cries of
the people, "that if he escaped the
judgment
of the Senate, they would
with their own hands destroy him.
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Tacitus |
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Now my crimes have
overflowed
the measure.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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God grant him now His
Benediction!
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Chanson de Roland |
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In this and the other Elegy
(whose title assigns it to Lady Markham) the stress is laid on the
saintliness and asceticism of life
becoming
a widow.
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John Donne |
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Yet will you take a
faithful
friend's advice?
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Now, quick hither with the wine-flagon, that I
may fill up the
drinking
bowls!
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Aristophanes |
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Then praise the Lord Most High
Whose
Strength
hath saved us whole,
Who bade us choose that the Flesh should die
And not the living Soul!
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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When the shades of evening creep
O'er the day's fair, gladsome e'e,
Sound and safely may he sleep,
Sweetly blythe his
waukening
be.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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improbus
ille puer; crudelis tu quoque, mater.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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To what he himself
perceives
and knows he has a personal
relation of the intensest kind: to anything in the way of prescription, no
relation at all.
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Whitman |
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I wish
sincerely
I could do the same,
With one for whom I feel a tender flame.
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La Fontaine |
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--
Whose is that voice profound
Which mourns the
swallowed
land,
With moans,
Or groans,
New threats of ruin close at hand?
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Hugo - Poems |
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ei lette worche
of
preciouse
stones.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Now- for a breath I tarry
Nor yet
disperse
apart-
Take my hand quick and tell me,
What have you in your heart.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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O holy pyre, O flame that's nourished by
A fire divine, may your fierce heart now burn
My
familiar
surface so completely, I,
Free and naked, might with a single flight
Rise, beyond the sky, to adore in turn
That other beauty from which your own derives.
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Ronsard |
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The honey
dropping
from Favonio's tongue,
The flowers of Bubo, and the flow of Y--ng!
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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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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Whither he went I may not come, it seems
He is become
estranged
from all the rest,
And all the sea is now his wonder-house.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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The hierodule opened her mouth
speaking
unto Enkidu.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Huge sea-wood fed with copper
Burned green and orange, framed by the
coloured
stone,
In which sad light a carved dolphin swam.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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The Foundation's
principal
office is located at 4557 Melan Dr.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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With your air
indifferent
and imperious
At a stroke our mad poetics to confute--"
And--"Are we then so serious?
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T.S. Eliot |
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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And, now, the speed and stroke of thunderbolt
Is so tremendous, and with glide so swift
Those thunderbolts rush on and down, because
Their roused force itself collects itself
First always in the clouds, and then prepares
For the huge effort of their going-forth;
Next, when the cloud no longer can retain
The increment of their fierce impetus,
Their force is pressed out, and
therefore
flies
With impetus so wondrous, like to shots
Hurled from the powerful Roman catapults.
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Lucretius |
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Who cheer'd me with her
comfortable
words!
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Through thy reality, lo, the
immortal
idea!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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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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This is how the Grolier Club editor takes it;
Grosart and
Chambers
prefer to follow _1635-69_.
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John Donne |
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I give
the full list in the hope that it may lead to the
identification
of the
unfortunate man:
1.
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Kipling - Poems |
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780
How wostow so that thou art
gracelees?
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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take one breath from my
tremulous
lips;
Take one tear, dropped aside as I go, for thought of you,
Dead house of love!
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Whitman |
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As whan the hyndes, before a mountayne wolfe, 515
Flie from his paws, and angrie vysage grym;
But when he falls into the pittie golphe,
They dare hym to his bearde, and battone hym;
And cause he
fryghted
them so muche before,
Lyke cowart hyndes, they battone hym the more.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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The Gods are first, and that advantage use
On our belief, that all from them proceeds,
I question it, for this fair Earth I see, 720
Warm'd by the Sun, producing every kind,
Them nothing: If they all things, who enclos'd
Knowledge
of Good and Evil in this Tree,
That whoso eats thereof, forthwith attains
Wisdom without their leave?
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Milton |
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In these verses,
graceful fancy is so subtly
interwoven
with nonsense as almost to beguile
us into feeling a real interest in Mr.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Be still, be still, my soul; it is but for a season:
Let us endure an hour and see
injustice
done.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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my heart
For better lore would seldom yearn,
Could I but teach the
hundredth
part
Of what from thee I learn.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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He
cherished
it as a lover,
He drained it, every bout;
His eyes with tears ran over,
As oft as he drank thereout.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Long time in silence did their anxious fears
Question that thus it was; long time they lay
Fondling
and kissing every doubt away;
Long time ere soft caressing sobs began
To mellow into words, and then there ran
Two bubbling springs of talk from their sweet lips.
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Keats |
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As _yet, _they have not
_insisted _on our
estimating
"Lamar" tine by the cubic foot, or Pollock
by the pound--but what else are we to _infer _from their continual
plating about "sustained effort"?
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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I dreaded that first robin so,
But he is mastered now,
And I 'm
accustomed
to him grown, --
He hurts a little, though.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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It
resides in the
imagination
or fancy or cultivated blindness of the man
who looks at her.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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XIV
That
Emperour
hath ended now his speech.
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Chanson de Roland |
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VALERIVS
MARTIALIS
40-104?
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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The invalidity or
unenforceability
of any
provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions.
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Chanson de Roland |
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goddes hous in
Ierusalems
burgh?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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"Can it be that they are afraid of an attack by the Kirghiz; but
then is it likely that Ivan
Kouzmitch
would hide from me such a trifle?
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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The Stewarts only contended for prerogatives which they knew their
predecessors enjoyed, and which they saw their contemporaries
enjoying; but these prerogatives were inimical to the
happiness
of a
nation and the rights of subjects.
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Robert Burns |
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Les Amours de Cassandre: CLII
Moon with dark eyes, goddess with horses black,
That steer you up and down, and high and low,
Never
remaining
long, when once they show,
Pulling your chariot endlessly there and back:
My desires and yours are never a match,
Because the passions that pierce your soul,
And the ardours that inflame mine so,
Court different desires to ease their lack.
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Ronsard |
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By what mean hast thou render'd thee so drunken,
To the clay that thou bowest down thy figure,
And the grass and the windel-straws art
grasping?
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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If to the
transient
storm of night
Succeeds a star-bespangled sky,
And the clear rain-drops catch the light,
Glittering on all the foliage nigh;
Methinks her eyes I view, as on that day
When through the envious veil they shot their magic ray.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Unauthenticated
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Date | 10/1/17 7:36 AM 294 ?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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He
had to dig down deep into the pit of his
personality
to reach the
central core of his music.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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This Diamond he greetes your Wife withall,
By the name of most kind Hostesse,
And shut vp in
measurelesse
content
Mac.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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It might be told (but
wherefore
speak of things
Common to all?
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William Wordsworth |
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Stephen Crane |
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Carman's method, apparently, has been to imagine each
lost lyric as discovered, and then to translate it; for the indefinable
flavour of the translation is maintained throughout, though
accompanied
by
the fluidity and freedom of purely original work.
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Sappho |
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Of
Sarraguce
the keys to you I bear,
Tribute I bring you, very great and rare,
And twenty men; look after them with care.
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Chanson de Roland |
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And how no mortal
wranglings
can confuse
The harmony of Zeus?
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Elizabeth Browning |
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This tune is claimed by
Nathaniel
Gow.
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Robert Burns |
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The hapless Nymph with wonder saw;
A whisker first, and then a claw
With many an ardent wish
She stretch'd, in vain, to reach the prize--
What female heart can gold
despise?
| Guess: |
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Golden Treasury |
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_ The
confusion
of elements from which the
world was created.
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Keats |
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They seem to have been called
Decumates
(Decimated), because the inhabitants, liable to the incursions of the Germans, paid a tithe of their products to be received under the protection of the Romans.
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Tacitus |
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There grasped me firm
and haled me to bottom the hated foe,
with
grimmest
gripe.
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oeuvres sont
pleines des
mensonges
dont profita sa cupidite.
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John Donne |
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HODGSON
YE
MARINERS
WHO SPREAD YOUR SAILS.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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BEAUTY SHOWED ITSELF IN, AND
DISAPPEARED
WITH, LAURA.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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_Both_ thought; _read_
thinketh
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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With shaded eyes your vision follows
The gentle swans'
receding
train.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Who speak the secret of
impassive
earth?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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