Was sich die Frechheit unterfangen,
Als du jungst aus dem Dom
gegangen?
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la bague etait brisee
Que s'ils etaient d'argent ou d'or
D'emeraude ou de diamant
Seront plus clairs plus clairs encore
Que les astres du firmament
Que la lumiere de l'aurore
Que vos regards mon fiance
Auront
meilleure
odeur encore
Helas!
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Not his the feaster's wine,
Nor land, nor gold, nor power,
By want and pain God
screeneth
him
Till his elected hour.
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Emerson - Poems |
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e whiche to vs
purchaced
ene,
ffro helle he vs wan.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Her
Walsingham
could dark counsels unriddle.
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Yea, and my heart
It was, my heart in its hiding of green love,
That took so wildly the approaching sound
Of something
strangely
fearful walking near.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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So, when the summer calleth,
On forest and field of grain,
With an equal murmur falleth
The cooling drip of the rain;
Under the sod and the dew,
Waiting the
judgment
day;
Wet with the rain, the Blue;
Wet with the rain, the Gray.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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cui flauam religas comam
simplex
munditiis?
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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It was sweet to hear your note,
I'll not deny,
When April set pale clouds afloat
O'er the blue tides of sky,
And 'mid the wind's
triumphant
drums
You, in your white and azure coat,
A herald proud, came forth to cry,
"The royal summer comes!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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The mushroom is the elf of plants,
At evening it is not;
At morning in a
truffled
hut
It stops upon a spot
As if it tarried always;
And yet its whole career
Is shorter than a snake's delay,
And fleeter than a tare.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Look, how I clutch it,
Lest it fall,
And I a pauper go;
Unfitted by an instant's grace
For the
contented
beggar's face
I wore an hour ago.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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A sound
magician
is a demi-god.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Thou first and chief, sole
sovereign
of the Vale!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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The agonies old of the earth,
Its plenitude and its dearth,
The
torrents
of flame and of tears,
All these in our souls were inborn.
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Myself would hold it shame
To abase this
daughter
of a royal name.
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Euripides - Electra |
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Let them perceive
That, having Vashti, there is none like thee:
Others are men; but thou art he whose spirit
Is station'd in the beauty of the queen,
Whose flesh knows such
amazement
as before
Never beneath the lintels of man's sense
Came, an especial messenger from Heaven.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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And yit ne seide she never a dele,
That I ne
understode
it wele, 5140
Word by word, the mater al.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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My
feelings
had been wounded.
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Poe - 5 |
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A mortal sovereign holds her
dangerous
throne,
And thou mayst find a new Calypso there.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Ils se croient
endormis
dans un paradis rose.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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"Begin, my flute, with me
Maenalian
lays.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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_Enter from the right_
CLYTEMNESTRA
_on a chariot, accompanied by richly
dressed Handmaidens_.
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Euripides - Electra |
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Then read from the
treasured
volume
The poem of thy choice,
And lend to the rhyme of the poet
The beauty of thy voice.
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Poe - 5 |
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--
I had forgot
Manasses!
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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She wol not maken peple nycely
Gaure on hir, whan she comth; but softely
By nighte in-to the toun she
thenketh
ryde.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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IO
Then
wherefore
tarry ere thou tell me all?
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Aeschylus |
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"
"
Being freed of the weight of a soul
damnation," a grievous striving thing that after much
straining
was mercifully taken from me ; as had one passed saying as one in the Book of the Dead,
"
I, lo I, am the assembler of souls," and had taken it with him, leaving me thus simplex naturae, even so at peace and trans- sentient as a wood pool I made it.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Hierome come
into their mind, _Ubi
generalis
est de vitiis disputatio_, _ibi nullius
esse personae injuriam_?
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Soon, a young officer
appeared
at the corner of the
street; the girl blushed and bent her head low over her canvas.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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_Certamen adversum praefectum praetorii
communis
commodi ratione
suscepi.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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+ Keep it legal Whatever your use, remember that you are
responsible
for ensuring that what you are doing is legal.
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Meredith - Poems |
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"Me, a voice calleth to that tomb
Where these are
strewing
branch and bloom
Saying, 'Come nearer:' and I come.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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The endless strife,
The discord in the
harmonies
of life!
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Longfellow |
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witnessed a great
reaction
against state service.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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And the officer strode and
pistolled
her surely, ashamed
That men, seasoned in blood,
Should quail at a woman, only a woman,--
As a flower stamped in the mud.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Can we
suppress
the old Remorse!
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Lewis Carroll |
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Not long ago Boris sent two boyars
To
execution
merely because in secret
They drank thy health.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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And all my
Children?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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The morning lit, the birds arose;
The monster's faded eyes
Turned slowly to his native coast,
And peace was
Paradise!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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He
selected
his card and placed upon it his fresh stake.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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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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After it had been acted, and
successfully (could I hope for such a thing), I would own it if I
pleased, and use the
celebrity
it might acquire to my own purposes.
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Shelley |
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merk dir dies- Ich bitte dich, und schone meine Lunge-:
Wer recht
behalten
will und hat nur eine Zunge,
Behalt's gewiss.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Henceforth his might we know, and know our own
So as not either to provoke, or dread
New warr, provok't; our better part remains
To work in close design, by fraud or guile
What force
effected
not: that he no less
At length from us may find, who overcomes
By force, hath overcome but half his foe.
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Milton |
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About the sable blood
frequent
they swarm'd.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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There's not a hill in all the view,
Save that a forked cloud or two
Upon the verge of distance lies
And into
mountains
cheats the eyes.
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John Clare |
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Scarce had he said, when turning where he sat,
Amphinomus
beheld a bark arrived
Just then in port; he saw them furling sail,
And seated with their oars in hand; he laugh'd
Through pleasure at that sight, and thus he spake.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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'
This
accident
so pitous was to here,
And eek so lyk a sooth, at pryme face,
And Troilus hir knight to hir so dere, 920
His prive coming, and the siker place,
That, though that she dide him as thanne a grace,
Considered alle thinges as they stode,
No wonder is, sin she dide al for gode.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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With, such catalogues is every battle extended; and what can be more
tiresome than such
uninteresting
descriptions, and their imitations!
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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SONG OF THE STATUE
Who so loveth me that he
Will give his
precious
life for me?
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Rilke - Poems |
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{117a} Ocean
trembles
as if indignant that you quit the land.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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In the tent palace black headgear lines up,1 at
headquarters
gate white gowns shine.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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The
ancient lays, unjustly
despised
by the learned and polite, linger
for a time in the memory of the vulgar, and are at length too
often irretrievably lost.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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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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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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"
Att the grete
mynsterr
wyndowe sat 305
The kynge ynne myckle state,
To see CHARLES BAWDIN goe alonge
To hys most welcom fate.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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This was the truth they taught:
No treasured thing in heaven or earth
Holds potency more weird
Than our hearts hold, that throb from birth
With
wavering
flames insphered.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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(Jacinta returns no answer, and Lalage
presently
resumes.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Bright Souls [Elements] of vegetative life, budding and blossoming
Stretch
PAGE 14
Stretch their
immortal
hands to smite the gold & silver Wires
And with immortal Voice soft warbling fill all Earth & Heaven.
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Blake - Zoas |
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BRAVE infant of Saguntum, clear
Thy coming forth in that great year,
When the prodigious Hannibal did crown
His cage, with razing your
immortal
town.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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In _The Book of Hours_, Rilke withdraws from the world not from
weariness but weighed down under the manifold
conflicting
visions.
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Rilke - Poems |
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* In
Scripture
is this passage--"The sun shall not harm
thee by day, nor the moon by night.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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ADELHEID
(_after a pause_): Very well, then; carnival to-night, and
war to-morrow!
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Replied the Tsar, our country's hope and glory:
Of a truth, thou little lad, and peasant's
bantling!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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"--
"Yet
mournful
wreaths no less the victors crown'd;
In deep despair our valour oft they own'd.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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of the
interested
person or thing), _to save, to
shield_: inf.
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Beowulf |
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Judith, our fates are closer to one another's
Than one might think, seeing my face and yours:
The whole divine abyss is present in your eyes,
And I feel the starry gulf within my soul;
We are both
neighbours
of the silent skies.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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A
memorable
visit
from Raleigh, who was now a neighbor of the poet's, having also received a
part of the forfeited Desmond estate, led to the publication of the _Faerie
Queene_.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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The poet's own
signature
is generally 'Jo.
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John Donne |
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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--
Forth looked in wrath the eagle;
And carrion-kite and jay,
Soon as they saw his beak and claw,
Fled
screaming
far away.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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'To shelter
Rosamunde
from hate
borne her by the queen,
the king had a palace made
such as had ne'er been seen'.
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Appoloinaire |
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Through his personality; his pathos and
ethology he has
furthermore
engendered a new ideal;
a synthesis of Christian and Pagan feeling which in
this form has not existed before.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Early leaves drop
loitering
down
Weightless on the breeze,
First fruits of the year's decay
From the withering trees.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Woe springs from wrong, the plant is like the seed--
While Right, in honour's house, doth its own
likeness
breed.
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Aeschylus |
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and Tailbush and
Eitherside
with Pug.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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The poets who appear here have come together by
mutual accord and, although they may invite others to join them in
subsequent volumes as circumstance dictates, each one stands (as all
newcomers also must stand) as the exponent of fresh and strikingly
diverse
qualities
in our native poetry.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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But I will stake,
Seeing you are so mad, what you yourself
Will own more
priceless
far- two beechen cups
By the divine art of Alcimedon
Wrought and embossed, whereon a limber vine,
Wreathed round them by the graver's facile tool,
Twines over clustering ivy-berries pale.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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For this earth teems, and
freshening
water flows,
And breeze and dewy dawn their sweets unlock:
With such the wistful youth his bosom dresses.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Ille autem prope iam mediis versatur in undis,
Nec quisquam adparet vacua
mortalis
in alga.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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Nor could this stark and stunted stone display
Vibrance beneath the
shoulders
heavy bar,
Nor shine like fur upon a beast of prey,
Nor break forth from its lines like a great star--
There is no spot that does not bind you fast
And transport you back, back to a far past.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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Maxwell in
persuading
him, at the beginning of
the summer, to seek health at the Brow-well, a few miles east of
Dumfries, where there were pleasant walks on the Solway-side, and
salubrious breezes from the sea, which it was expected would bring the
health to the poet they had brought to many.
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Robert Burns |
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And thou, who never yet of human wrong
Left the
unbalanced
scale, great Nemesis!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Elsewhere Troilus, his armour flung away in flight--luckless boy, no
match for
Achilles
to meet!
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| Question: |
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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All
creation
slept and smiled.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Prague, the city in which Rilke was born in 1875, with its sinister
palaces and crumbling towers that rose in the early Middle Ages and have
reached out into our time like the threatening fingers of mighty hands
which have wielded swords for
generations
and which are stained with the
blood of many wounds of many races; the city where amid grey old ruins
blonde maidens are at play or are lost in reverie in the green cool
parks and shady gardens with which the Bohemian capital abounds, this
Prague of mingled grotesqueness and beauty gave to the young boy his
first impressions.
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Rilke - Poems |
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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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Imagists |
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THE LITTLE GIRL LOST
In futurity
I prophetic see
That the earth from sleep
(Grave the
sentence
deep)
Shall arise, and seek
for her Maker meek;
And the desert wild
Become a garden mild.
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blake-poems |
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96_; on
_Manfred_
and incest, iv.
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Byron |
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The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the window-panes,
The yellow smoke that rubs its muzzle on the window-panes
Licked its tongue into the corners of the evening,
Lingered
upon the pools that stand in drains,
Let fall upon its back the soot that falls from chimneys,
Slipped by the terrace, made a sudden leap,
And seeing that it was a soft October night,
Curled once about the house, and fell asleep.
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T.S. Eliot |
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ANEMURIUM, a
promontory
of Cilicia, with a maritime town of the same
name near it.
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Tacitus |
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Wi'
lightsome
heart I pu'd a rose,
Frae aff its thorny tree;
And my fause luver staw the rose,
But left the thorn wi' me.
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Golden Treasury |
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We feel so grateful, when to soft discourses
Of tree-tops,
slanting
rays towards us travel,
And only look, and listen when in pauses,
The ripened fruit resounds upon the gravel.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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After a
momentary
silence spake
Some Vessel of a more ungainly Make;
"They sneer at me for leaning all awry:
What!
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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