But well I know, to
approach
they never dare;
Lances and spears they poise to hurl at them,
Arrows, barbs, darts and javelins in the air.
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ay for charyte
cherysen
a gest,
2056 & halden honour in her honde, ?
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An Ace of Hearts steps forth: The King unseen 95
Lurk'd in her hand, and mourn'd his captive Queen:
He springs to Vengeance with an eager pace,
And falls like thunder on the
prostrate
Ace.
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Alexander Pope |
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Copyright laws in most countries are in
a
constant
state of change.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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In no wise daunted by this rebuff, he found the
opportunity
to send
her another note in a few days.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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In that city there is no pagan now
But he been slain, or takes the
Christian
vow.
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It was only the force of Donne's
personality
that could achieve even
an approximate harmony of elements so divergent as are united in his
love-verses, that could master the lower-natured steed that drew the
chariot of his troubled and passionate soul and make it subservient to
his yoke-fellow of purer strain who is a lover of honour, and modesty,
and temperance, and the follower of true glory.
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Far and few, far and few,
Are the lands where the
Jumblies
live:
Their heads are green, and their hands are blue;
And they went to sea in a sieve.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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I doubt not when our earthly cries are ended,
The
Listener
finds them in one music blended.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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For Lancelot will be
gracious
to the rat,
And our wise Queen, if knowing that I know,
Will hate, loathe, fear--but honour me the more.
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Tennyson |
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Yet still I feel
immortal!
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Keats |
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Soon as he saw me, "Hither haste," he cried,
"O
Meliboeus!
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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"
Took the olifant, that he would not let go,
Struck him on th' helm, that
jewelled
was with gold,
And broke its steel, his skull and all his bones,
Out of his head both the two eyes he drove;
Dead at his feet he has the pagan thrown:
After he's said: "Culvert, thou wert too bold,
Or right or wrong, of my sword seizing hold!
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Chanson de Roland |
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But she, the child, knew not the solemn words,
And suddenly yielded to a troublous wailing,
As helpless as the cry of
frightened
birds
Whose untried wings for flight are unavailing.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Like a
Bacchante
in her sport
Beside the cup she sang her rhymes
And the young revellers of past times
Vociferously paid her court,
And I, amid the friendly crowd,
Of my light paramour was proud.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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"
The conversation was
interrupted
at this point, to the great regret of
the young girl.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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120
"Do
"You know
nothing?
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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We gazed on it together
In mute and glad remembrance, and each heart
Grew closer to the other, and the eye
Was riveted and charm-bound, gazing like
The Indian on a still-eyed snake, low crouch'd
A beauty which is death, when all at once
That painted vessel, as with inner life,
'Gan rock and heave upon that painted sea;
An earthquake, my loud heartbeats, made the ground
Roll under us, and all at once soul, life,
And breath, and motion, pass'd and flow'd away
To those unreal billows: round and round
A
whirlwind
caught and bore us; mighty gyves,
Rapid and vast, of hissing spray wind-driven
Far through the dizzy dark.
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Tennyson |
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259) attributes to Byron a statement that Murray had to choose
between continuing to be his
publisher
and printing the "Navy Lists,"
and "that there was no hesitation which way he should decide: the
Admiralty carried the day.
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Byron |
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I spoke to none, nor did abide,
But silently I went my way,
Nor noticed I where joyously _525
Sate my two younger babes at play,
In the court-yard through which I passed;
But went with footsteps firm and fast
Till I came to the brink of the ocean green,
And there, a woman with gray hairs, _530
Who had my mother's servant been,
Kneeling, with many tears and prayers,
Made me accept a purse of gold,
Half of the
earnings
she had kept
To refuge her when weak and old.
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Shelley |
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Her hair is a
sinister
black,
Her skin, tanned by the devil.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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I rush there: when, at my feet, entwine (bruised
By the languor tasted in their being-two's evil)
Girls sleeping in each other's arms' sole peril:
I seize them without untangling them and run
To this bank of roses wasting in the sun
All perfume, hated by the
frivolous
shade
Where our frolic should be like a vanished day.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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what food
Will he convey up thither to sustain
Himself and his rash Armie, where thin Aire
Above the Clouds will pine his
entrails
gross,
And famish him of Breath, if not of Bread?
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Milton |
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XXVIII
My
letters!
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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at
stalworth
to plese,
1660 ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Now saw from the cliff a
Scylding
clansman,
a warden that watched the water-side,
how they bore o'er the gangway glittering shields,
war-gear in readiness; wonder seized him
to know what manner of men they were.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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CXXIII
No, Time, thou shalt not boast that I do change:
Thy
pyramids
built up with newer might
To me are nothing novel, nothing strange;
They are but dressings of a former sight.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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There were also several packets of stamps,
Yellow and blue
Guatemala
parrots,
Blue stags and red baboons and birds from Sarawak,
Indians and Men-of-war
From the United States,
And the green and red portraits
Of King Francobollo
Of Italy.
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Imagists |
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Sara Teasdale |
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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He saw not the two maidens, nor their smiles,
Wan as
primroses
gather'd at midnight
By chilly finger'd spring.
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Keats |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Gar mancher steht lebendig hier
Den Euer Vater noch zuletzt
Der heissen
Fieberwut
entriss,
Als er der Seuche Ziel gesetzt.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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that once did visit me,
Making night
glorious
with your smile, where are ye?
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Longfellow |
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120
Thus night oft see me in thy pale career,
Till civil-suited Morn appeer,
Not trickt and frounc't as she was wont,
With the Attick Boy to hunt,
But Cherchef't in a comly Cloud,
While rocking Winds are Piping loud,
Or usher'd with a shower still,
When the gust hath blown his fill,
Ending on the
russling
Leaves,
With minute drops from off the Eaves.
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Milton |
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the lark starts up from his bed in the meadow there,
Breaking the
gossamer
threads and the nets of dew,
And flashing adown the river, a flame of blue!
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Wilde - Poems |
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Let him smile in triumph gay,
True heart, victorious over lavish hand,
By the Alban lake that day
'Neath citron roof all marble shalt thou stand:
Incense there and fragrant spice
With odorous fumes thy nostrils shall salute;
Blended notes thine ear entice,
The lyre, the pipe, the
Berecyntine
flute:
Graceful youths and maidens bright
Shall twice a day thy tuneful praise resound,
While their feet, so fair and white,
In Salian measure three times beat the ground.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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I could not print
Ground where the grass had yielded to the steps
Of generations of
illustrious
men,
Unmoved.
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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For me, for years, here,
Forever, your
dazzling
smile prolongs
The one rose with its perfect summer gone
Into times past, yet then on into the future.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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With her each day the
pleasing
hours he shares,
And at her aspect ciilms his growing cares ;
Or with a grandsire's joy her children sees.
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Marvell - Poems |
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That pain should be allied
To
pleasure
is, alas!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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It is that
something
in the soul which says,--Rage on, whirl
on, I tread master here and everywhere; master of the spasms of the sky and
of the shatter of the sea, master of nature and passion and death, and of
all terror and all pain.
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Whitman |
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Let Lyde hear those maidens' guilt,
Their famous doom, the ceaseless drain
Of outpour'd water, ever spilt,
And all the pain
Reserved
for sinners, e'en when dead:
Those impious hands, (could crime do more?
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Reeds and some discarded
garments
all hastily cobbled together--
I helped to make it myself: diligent in my own grief.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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I love my own fond lover,
Young Calais, son of Thurian Ornytus:
For him I'd die twice over,
Would Fate but spare the sweet
survivor
thus.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Before all my tinder
Dies away into coals, coals then to ashes decline,
She will be back and new faggots as well as big logs will be blazing,
Making a
festival
where lovers will warm up the night.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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_The Spectator_:--"The
Challenge
of the Guns," by Private A.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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I am coming, Valkyr, I am coming, where the channel fog-banks lie;
I can see your signals blinking through the mist of their changing smoke; When I rush with the speed of a
whirlwind
I feel you are riding nigh;
I am counting the days, beloved, the days that I live to die.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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No pangs of ours can change him; not though we
In the mid-frost should drink of Hebrus' stream,
And in wet winters face
Sithonian
snows,
Or, when the bark of the tall elm-tree bole
Of drought is dying, should, under Cancer's Sign,
In Aethiopian deserts drive our flocks.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Her captain then was I, I was her crew,
The mind that laid her course, the wake she drew,
The waves that rose against her bows, the gales,--
Nay, I was more: I was her very sails
Rounded before the wind, her eager keel,
Her
straining
mast-heads, her responsive wheel,
Her pennon stiffened like a swallow's wing;
Yes, I was all her slope and speed and swing,
Whether by yellow lemons and blue sea
She dawdled through the isles off Thessaly,
Or saw the palms like sheaves of scimitars
On desert's verge below the sunset bars,
Or passed the girdle of the planet where
The Southern Cross looks over to the Bear,
And strayed, cool Northerner beneath strange skies,
Flouting the lure of tropic estuaries,
Down that long coast, and saw Magellan's Clouds arise.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Nor do I always find
presently
from
it what I seek; but while I am doing another thing, that I laboured for
will come; and what I sought with trouble will offer itself when I am
quiet.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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I came at last to the ocean
And found it wild and black,
And I cried to the
windless
valleys,
"Be kind and take me back!
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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For my life, to break with him about
Beatrice!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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Yes, Nature's road must ever be preferred;
Reason is here no guide, but still a guard:
'Tis hers to rectify, not overthrow,
And treat this passion more as friend than foe:
A
mightier
power the strong direction sends,
And several men impels to several ends:
Like varying winds, by other passions tossed,
This drives them constant to a certain coast.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
|
Copyright infringement
liability
can be quite severe.
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
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O we will walk this world,
Yoked in all
exercise
of noble end,
And so through those dark gates across the wild
That no man knows.
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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And will this divine grace, this supreme
perfection
depart those for whom life exists only to discover and glorify them?
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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And beside him is
stretched
that slayer-of-men
with knife-wounds sick: {38b} no sword availed
on the awesome thing in any wise
to work a wound.
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Doubt me, my dim
companion!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Des qu'elle fut rentree, elle dit au majordome:
--Tenez,
distribuez
ceci.
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Yeats |
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Her e'en, sae bonie blue, betray
How she repays my passion;
But
prudence
is her o'erword aye,
She talks o' rank and fashion.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Thy son his latent guest
Long knew, but lock'd the secret in his breast:
With well
concerted
art to end his woes,
And burst at once in vengeance on the foes.
| Guess: |
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Odyssey - Pope |
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"
One morning thus, by
Esthwaite
lake,
When life was sweet, I knew not why,
To me my good friend Matthew spake, 15
And thus I made reply.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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[Sidenote D: Sir Gawayne tells him his name, and
declares
that he is
willing to give and receive a blow.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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--he read, and read, and read,
'Till his brain turned--and ere his twentieth year,
He had
unlawful
thoughts of many things:
And though he prayed, he never loved to pray
With holy men, nor in a holy place--
But yet his speech, it was so soft and sweet,
The late Lord Velez ne'er was wearied with him.
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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V
TO VITTORIA COLONNA
Lady, how can it chance--yet this we see
In long experience--that will longer last
A living image carved from
quarries
vast
Than its own maker, who dies presently?
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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'Felt her hog and felt her sag, betted when she'd break;
Wondered
every time she raced if she'd stand the shock;
Heard the seas like drunken men pounding at her strake;
Hoped the Lord 'ud keep his thumb on the plummer-block.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Stephen Crane |
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a cradle shall redeem thy worth--
A Cradle yet shall save the
widespread
earth!
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Hugo - Poems |
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"
{7a} There is no
irrelevance
here.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
XVII
Twice a week the winter thorough
Here stood I to keep the goal:
Football
then was fighting sorrow
For the young man's soul.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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XXIX
THE LENT LILY
'Tis spring; come out to ramble
The hilly brakes around,
For under thorn and bramble
About the hollow ground
The
primroses
are found.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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BALLAD OF THE GOODLY FERE1
SIMON ZELOTES
SPEAKETH
IT SOMEWHILE AFTER THE CRUCIFIXION
FA' we lost the goodliest fere o' all
L For the priests and the gallows tree?
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
--
When shall the saner softer polities
Whereof we dream, have play in each proud land,
And patriotism, grown Godlike, scorn to stand
Bondslave
to realms, but circle earth and seas?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Then,
sweetest
Silvia, let's no longer stay;
True love, we know, precipitates delay.
| Guess: |
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Robert Herrick |
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v
The
Universal
Man.
| Guess: |
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Blake - Zoas |
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Accordingly, on the pretext
of giving a banquet, Civilis summoned the chief nobles and the most
determined of the
tribesmen
to a sacred grove.
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Tacitus |
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In this new book we have followed a
slightly
different arrangement to that
of the former Anthology.
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Imagists |
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We've danced our leathers
entirely
through,
And have only bare soles to run with.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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XLVII
Betwixt mine eye and heart a league is took,
And each doth good turns now unto the other:
When that mine eye is famish'd for a look,
Or heart in love with sighs himself doth smother,
With my love's picture then my eye doth feast,
And to the painted banquet bids my heart;
Another time mine eye is my heart's guest,
And in his
thoughts
of love doth share a part:
So, either by thy picture or my love,
Thy self away, art present still with me;
For thou not farther than my thoughts canst move,
And I am still with them, and they with thee;
Or, if they sleep, thy picture in my sight
Awakes my heart, to heart's and eye's delight.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Seven queens shone round her ivory bed,
Like seven soft gems on a silken thread,
Like seven fair lamps in a royal tower,
Like seven bright petals of Beauty's flower
Queen Gulnaar sighed like a
murmuring
rose
"Where is my rival, O King Feroz?
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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And similarly, if we cannot accept the current
estimate
of Li Po,
we have at least the satisfaction of knowing that some of China's
most celebrated writers are on our side.
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Li Po |
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Let him the Greeks to hardy toils excite,
'Tis ours to labour in the
glorious
fight.
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Iliad - Pope |
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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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In the
recesses
what hath stirred
Of a heart cold and cynical?
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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III
The
philosophic
passers say,
"See that old mansion mossed and fair,
Poetic souls therein are they:
And O that gaudy box!
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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The value of an idea has nothing whatever to do with the sincerity of
the man who
expresses
it.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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How well I knew this
stealthy
wolf would howl,
When in the eagle talons ta'en in air!
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Hugo - Poems |
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Then Acme slightly bending back her head, and the swimming eyes of
her sweet boy with rose-red lips a-kissing, "So," quoth she, "my life,
Septumillus, this Lord unique let us serve for aye, as more
forceful
in me
burns the fire greater and keener 'midst my soft marrow.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Come, fill the Cup, and in the fire of Spring
Your Winter garment of
Repentance
fling:
The Bird of Time has but a little way
To flutter--and the Bird is on the Wing.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Patrum_ of Joannes Ernestus Grabius,
which was
published
at Oxford in 1714.
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Byron |
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_All insert_ moste
_before_
able.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Er liebte nur das allzuviele Wandern
Und fremde Weiber und fremden Wein
Und das
verfluchte
Wurfelspiel.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Burns, was accompanied by
two others in honour of the poet's mistress: the muse was high in
song, and used few words in the letter which
enclosed
them.
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Robert Forst |
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" It is descriptive
of the approaching conquest of Britain by Napoleon, and
treats the embryo
enterprise
as if already conducted to a
successful conclusion and become matter of history.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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NIGHT
The sun
descending
in the West,
The evening star does shine;
The birds are silent in their nest,
And I must seek for mine.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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