THROUGH the
casement
a noble-child saw
In the spring-time golden and green,
As he harked to the swallow's lore,
And looked so rejoiced and keen.
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It has no future but itself,
Its infinite realms contain
Its past,
enlightened
to perceive
New periods of pain.
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Beauty of a richer vein,
Graces of a subtler strain,
Unto men these moonmen lend,
And our
shrinking
sky extend.
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CVII
Then Oliver has drawn his mighty sword
As his comrade had bidden and implored,
In knightly wise the blade to him has shewed;
Justin he strikes, that Iron Valley's lord,
All of his head has down the middle shorn,
The carcass sliced, the
broidered
sark has torn,
The good saddle that was with old adorned,
And through the spine has sliced that pagan's horse;
Dead in the field before his feet they fall.
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Victor, thoughtful and
taciturn, rhymed
profusely
in tragedies, "printing" in his books,
"Chateaubriand or nothing!
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LX
Now hollow fires burn out to black,
And lights are
guttering
low:
Square your shoulders, lift your pack,
And leave your friends and go.
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I have said that "to enter the Cafe in the cul-de-sac Le Febvre was to
enter the sanctum of a man of genius"--but then it was only the man
of genius who could duly
estimate
the merits of the sanctum.
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at length a brooded *
Smile broke from Urizen for
Enitharmon
brightend more & more
Sullen he lowerd on Enitharmon but he smild on Los
Saying Thou art the Lord of Luvah into thine hands I give
The prince of Love the murderer his soul is in thine hands
Pity not Vala for she pitied not the Eternal Man
Nor pity thou the cries of Luvah.
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I love to look, as evening fails,
On vestals
streaming
in their veils,
Within the fane past altar rails,
Green palms in hand.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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''T was all I had,' she
stricken
gasped;
Oh, what a livid boon!
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Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth
in
paragraph
1.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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At half-past seven, element
Nor implement was seen,
And place was where the
presence
was,
Circumference between.
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Return
Delights!
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The Peacock
Juno and the Peacock
'Juno and the Peacock'
Magdalena van de Passe, Peter Paul Rubens, 1617 - 1634, The Rijksmuseun
In
spreading
out his fan, this bird,
Whose plumage drags on earth, I fear,
Appears more lovely than before,
But makes his derriere appear.
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Appoloinaire |
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One thing there is alone, that doth deform thee;
In the midst of thee, O field, so fair and
verdant!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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A Fan
(Of
Mademoiselle
Mallarme's)
With nothing of language but
A beating in the sky
From so precious a place yet
Future verse will rise.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Come set me round with many faithful spears
Of confident remembrance -- how I crushed
Cat-lived rebellions,
pitfalled
treasons, hushed
Scared husbands' heart-break cries on distant wives,
Made cowards blush at whining for their lives,
Watered my parching souls, and dried their tears.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Thus we find, both in
the Homeric poems and in Hesiod, [several
examples
of common
phrases, in Greek].
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but Fate to Cinara gave
A life of little space;
And now she cheats the grave
Of Lyce, spared to raven's length of days,
That youth may see, with laughter and disgust,
A fire-brand, once ablaze,
Now
smouldering
in grey dust.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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And were you lost, I would be,
Though my name
Rang loudest
On the
heavenly
fame.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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In this it will be seen that the clause 'Since
separation
.
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Flowed up the hill and down King William Street,
To where Saint Mary
Woolnoth
kept the hours
With a dead sound on the final stroke of nine.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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CCIX
"Rollant, my friend, fair youth that bar'st the bell,
When I arrive at Aix, in my Chapelle,
Men coming there will ask what news I tell;
I'll say to them:
`Marvellous
news and fell.
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Chanson de Roland |
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"
"Of course you can't leave
_children_
free,"
Said I, "to pick and choose:
But, in the case of men like me,
I think 'Mine Host' might fairly be
Allowed to state his views.
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Lewis Carroll |
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The same doth happen in all directions forth:
From whatso side a space is made a void,
Whether from crosswise or above, forthwith
The neighbour particles are borne along
Into the vacuum; for of verity,
They're set a-going by poundings from elsewhere,
Nor by
themselves
of own accord can they
Rise upwards into the air.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Yea, swords and fire
Can do no more destruction on this folk:
A fierce untimely mowing now befits
This corn
incapable
of sacred bread,
This field unprofitable but to flame!
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Yon stars that reigned at my nativity,
Whose influence hath
allotted
death and hell.
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Though they sleep or wake to torment
and wish to
displace
our old cells--
thin rare gold--
that their larve grow fat--
is our task the less sweet?
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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A century of blue and stilly light
Bowed down before me, the dew came again,
The moon my sibyl worshipped through the night,
The sun
returned
and long abode; but then
Hoarse drooping darkness hung me with a shroud
And switched at me with shrivelled leaves in scorn.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Je me representai sa majeste native,
Son regard de vigueur et de graces arme,
Ses cheveux qui lui font un casque parfume,
Et dont le
souvenir
pour l'amour me ravive.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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_20
And canst thou not contend with agony,
That thus at
midnight
thou dost quit thine home?
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Shelley |
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"Tears kindle not the
doubtful
spark.
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Lewis Carroll |
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XXX
Others, I am not the first,
Have willed more
mischief
than they durst:
If in the breathless night I too
Shiver now, 'tis nothing new.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
|
VI
With what fumes of fame was each
confident
pate full!
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James Russell Lowell |
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Li Po |
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o misero frater adempte mihi,
tu mea tu moriens fregisti commoda, frater,
tecum una tota est nostra sepulta domus,
omnia tecum una
perierunt
gaudia nostra,
quae tuus in uita dulcis alebat amor.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Pray for us, now beyond violence,
To the Son of the Virgin Mary,
So of grace to us she's not chary,
Shields us from Hell's
lightning
fall.
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Villon |
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in truth the hair
exceeding
like--
CHORUS
Like to what locks and whose?
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Aeschylus |
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Most Englishmen, if we were to replace
verst-posts with milestones and substitute a graveyard for
a palisade, would instantly
recognize
its Yankee extraction.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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TO THE FUTURE
O Land of
Promise!
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James Russell Lowell |
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THE
SZECHWAN
ROAD
Eheu!
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Li Po |
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It is
discernible
in the most
tedious and in the most superficial modern works on the early
times of Rome.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Sed famem istam
pro valido testimonio virilitatis roborisque potius habui,
cibumque
ad
eam satiandam, salva paterna mea carne, petii.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Come, wee'l to sleepe: My strange & self-abuse
Is the
initiate
feare, that wants hard vse:
We are yet but yong indeed.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Es wird ihr
hoffentlich
nicht schaden!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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A Friar, who
gathered
simples in the wood,
A grey-haired man--he loved this little boy,
The boy loved him--and, when the Friar taught him,
He soon could write with the pen: and from that time,
Lived chiefly at the Convent or the Castle.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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1560
Saying: 'From me, Heaven claims an
innocent
life.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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All were
winnowed
through and through,
Five lines lasted sound and true;
Five were smelted in a pot
Than the South more fierce and hot;
These the siroc could not melt,
Fire their fiercer flaming felt,
And the meaning was more white
Than July's meridian light.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Newby
Chief
Executive
and Director
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Stephen Crane |
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A UNE PASSANTE
La rue
assourdissante
autour de moi hurlait.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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His
range of
sympathy
is wider.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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'
Or strike him with a hatchet,
He is
permitted
by the King
To drop all _formal_ parleying--
And then you're _sure_ to catch it!
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Lewis Carroll |
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In the
long run, I fancy, the effect of gracious
loveliness
which Alcestis
certainly makes is not so much due to any words of her own as to what the
Handmaid and the Serving Man say about her.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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The
Princeton
University Press:--"To France," by Herbert Jones, from _A
Book of Princeton Verse_.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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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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He paused at every door
And
listened
to the breath
Of those who did not know
How near they were to Death.
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Sara Teasdale |
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It has been
injuriously
said of Burns, by Coleridge, that the man
sunk, but the poet was bright to the last: he did not sink in the
sense that these words imply: the man was manly to the latest draught
of breath.
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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Les parfums ne font pas
frissonner
sa narine;
Il dort dans le soleil, la main sur sa poitrine
Tranquille.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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But peace; for from broad words, and cause he fayl'd
His
presence
at the Tyrants Feast, I heare
Macduffe liues in disgrace.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
|
II
Maidens the poets learn from you to tell
How solitary and remote you are,
As night is lighted by one high bright star
They draw light from the
distance
where you dwell.
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Rilke - Poems |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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There were undoubtedly more than two cities
engluphed
in the "dead sea.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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"Wait, Petr' Andrejitch," said she, "I am
changing
my dress.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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"
thou well dost wish me ill," Audiart, Audiart,
THOUGH
Where thy bodice laces start
As ivy fingers
clutching
through Its crevices,
Audiart, Audiart, Stately, tall and lovely tender
Who shall render,
Audiart, Audiart, Praises meet unto thy fashion?
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Victory, Maids of Argos,
Victory!
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Euripides - Electra |
|
XIV
Can't you hear voices, beloved, out on the Via
Flamina?
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Straightway he seized a
sleeping
warrior
for the first, and tore him fiercely asunder,
the bone-frame bit, drank blood in streams,
swallowed him piecemeal: swiftly thus
the lifeless corse was clear devoured,
e'en feet and hands.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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TO MAKE AN
AMBLONGUS
PIE.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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at oon man of encrese of his
glorious
renou{n}.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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"For the charges at our inn,
You with maiden smiles shall pay;
I the landlord's heart will win
In a scholar's
pleasant
way.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Risest from forth thy silent sea of pines,
How
silently!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
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The watercourses were my guide;
I
travelled
grateful by their side,
Or through their channel dry;
They led me through the thicket damp,
Through brake and fern, the beavers' camp,
Through beds of granite cut my road,
And their resistless friendship showed.
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Emerson - Poems |
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It
begins by urging men to abandon vain
questionings
of God's providence
and to take up the consideration of their own natures, for "the proper
study of mankind is man.
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Alexander Pope |
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{a}t pheb{us}
the sonne w{i}t{h} his goldene chariet /
bryngeth
forth the
rosene day / ?
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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THE TIGER
Tiger, tiger, burning bright
In the forest of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could Frame thy fearful
symmetry?
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blake-poems |
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It was nobody's
business
to warn Pluffles that he was unwise.
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Kipling - Poems |
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In a Garden
The world is resting without sound or motion,
Behind the apple tree the sun goes down
Painting
with fire the spires and the windows
In the elm-shaded town.
| Guess: |
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Sara Teasdale |
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That excellent lady was
sorely tried with domestic afflictions for a time, and to these he
appears to allude; but he
deadened
the effect of his sympathy, when he
printed the stanzas in the Museum, changing the fourth line to,
"Dearest Nancy, thou canst tell!
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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I have no
precious
time at all to spend;
Nor services to do, till you require.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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You will see me any morning in the park
Reading the comics and the
sporting
page.
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T.S. Eliot |
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As, in your field, I plant I lose no grain,
For the harvest
resembles
me, and ever
God orders me to plough, and sow again:
Even for this end are we come together.
| Guess: |
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Villon |
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Perhaps 't is some strange charm to draw him here, 'Thout which he may not leave his new-found crew That ride the two-foot
coursers
of the deep,
And laugh in storms and break the fishers' nets.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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"Project Gutenberg
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Archive Foundation.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Rouse thy winds to fury, and
overwhelm
their sinking vessels, or
drive them asunder and strew ocean with their bodies.
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"
He is old, and kind, and deaf, and blind,
And very, very pleased with his
charming
moat
And the swans which float.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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closing on the gates,
He peals his
vaunting
and appalling cry!
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Aeschylus |
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But who what drug the burning entrail sears,
Or who for her would knife or noose prepare,
No man appears to me, though such to sight
He seem, but rather some
infernal
sprite.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Difficult
is it, alas, to conceal the shame of a monarch;
Hide it can neither his crown, nor a tight Phrygian cap:
Midas has asses ears!
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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See what effect our low
submissions
gain!
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Iliad - Pope |
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In the country we
Can count the time without much fuss--
The stomach doth
admonish
us.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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]
[This etext has been
transcribed
from the original edition, which was
published in New York in 1911.
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Sara Teasdale |
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I have not followed original spacing exactly, except where it
genuinely
appears to add impact to the verse.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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LXVII
Olympia's beauties are of those most rare,
Nor is the forehead's
beauteous
curve alone
Excellent, and her eyes and cheeks and hair,
Mouth, nose, and throat, and shoulders; but, so down
Descending from the lady's bosom fair,
Parts which are wont to be concealed by gown,
Are such, as haply should be placed before
Whate'er this ample world contains in store.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Then I'd like to be a bull, white as snow,
Transforming myself, for carrying her,
In April, when, through meadows so tender,
A flower, through a
thousand
flowers, she goes.
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Ronsard |
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VII
My eyes are weary
Following
you everywhere.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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that she
The common fate of all things rare
May read in thee:
How small a part of time they share
That are so
wondrous
sweet and fair!
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Golden Treasury |
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