They dropped like flakes, they dropped like stars,
Like petals from a rose,
When
suddenly
across the June
A wind with fingers goes.
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And sometimes into cities she would send
Her dream, with feast and rioting to blend;
And once, while among mortals dreaming thus,
She saw the young Corinthian Lycius
Charioting foremost in the envious race,
Like a young Jove with calm uneager face,
And fell into a
swooning
love of him.
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Keats |
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For there you sat a hundred miles away,
A rug upon your knees, your hands gone frail,
And daily bade your
farewell
to the day,
A music blent of trees and clouds a-sail
And figures in some old neglected tale:
And watched the sunset gathering,
And heard the birdsong fading,
And went within when the last sleepy lay
Passed to a farther vale,
Never complaining, and stepped up to bed
More and more slow, a tall and sunburnt man
Grown bony and bearded, knowing you would be dead
Before the summer, glad your life began
Even thus to end, after so short a span,
And mused a space serenely,
Then fell to easy slumber,
At peace, content.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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There seemed a purple stile
Which little yellow boys and girls
Were
climbing
all the while
Till when they reached the other side,
A dominie in gray
Put gently up the evening bars,
And led the flock away.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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The real you is fierce, of
pitiless
cruelty:
The false you one enjoys, in true intimacy,
I sleep beside your ghost, rest by an illusion:
Nothing's denied me.
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Ronsard |
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He preseth not so ofte, that ye
Ought of his come
encombred
be;
Ther presen other folk on yow
Ful ofter than [that] he doth now.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Wilde - Poems |
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A
rustling
and a flitter
Torments and charms, makes sad and free.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Run, good Eumaeus, then, and (what before
I thoughtless err'd in) well secure that door:
Learn, if by female fraud this deed were done,
Or (as my thought
misgives)
by Dolius' son.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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I envy light that wakes him,
And bells that boldly ring
To tell him it is noon abroad, --
Myself his noon could bring,
Yet
interdict
my blossom
And abrogate my bee,
Lest noon in everlasting night
Drop Gabriel and me.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Infanta
No, I merely wish, plagued by suffering,
To
retrieve
my calm, in meditating.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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They
assigned
to
Petrarch for his own residence a large palace, called the Two Towers,
formerly belonging to the family of Molina.
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Petrarch |
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Freedom and peace and
goodwill
among Nations,
Love that will bind us with love all our own.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Thou, soul, unloosen'd--the
restlessness
after I know not what;
Come, let us lag here no longer, let us be up and away!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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representations
concerning
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SCHULER (liest):
Eritis sicut Deus,
scientes
bonum et malum.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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What is it that makes you so fond of
Lithuania!
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Some states do not allow
disclaimers
of certain implied
warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages.
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Keats - Lamia |
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ou doest vs stronge
tourment!
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Meredith - Poems |
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Untidiness
I can endure, but ignorance never!
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Kipling - Poems |
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His look is grave,
--Yea from thejsecret that I never knew--
And
slightly
glazed,
Since to our winter from the spring he came.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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The world replies,
He is a
charming
youth and wise.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Healest thy wandering and distempered child:
Thou pourest on him thy soft influences,
Thy sunny hues, fair forms, and breathing sweets,
Thy melodies of woods, and winds, and waters,
Till he relent, and can no more endure
To be a jarring and a dissonant thing,
Amid this general dance and minstrelsy;
But,
bursting
into tears, wins back his way,
His angry spirit healed and harmonized
By the benignant touch of love and beauty.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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The snow of deepest silence
O'er
everything
doth fall,
So beautiful and quiet,
And yet so like a pall;
As if all life were ended,
And rest were come to all.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Our king and his lord
chamberlain
have lost their reason.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Tiger, tiger, burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What
immortal
hand or eye
Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?
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blake-poems |
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--
OSWALD I knew
How you would be disturbed by this dire news,
And therefore chose this
solitary
Moor,
Here to impart the tale, of which, last night,
I strove to ease my mind, when our two Comrades,
Commissioned by the Band, burst in upon us.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Captains
and soldiers are smeared on the bushes and grass;
The General schemed in vain.
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Li Po |
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As Appius Claudius was that day, so may his
grandson
be!
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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In this volume were the _Ruins
of Time_ and the _Tears of the Muses_, two poems on the
indifference
shown
to literature before 1580, and the remarkable _Mother Hubberds Tale_, a
bitter satire on the army, the court, the church, and politics.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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_
_Sensation_, ou le poete
adolescent
va loin, bien loin, <
bohemien>>
_Par la nature, heureux comme avec une femme.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Oui, ces gens harceles de chagrins de menage,
Moulus par le travail et tourmentes par l'age,
Ereintes
et pliant sous un tas de debris,
Vomissement confus de l'enorme Paris,
Reviennent, parfumes d'une odeur de futailles,
Suivis de compagnons blanchis dans les batailles,
Dont la moustache pend comme les vieux drapeaux!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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We
will remember within what walls we lie, and understand that this level
life too has its summit, and why from the mountain-top the deepest
valleys have a tinge of blue; that there is
elevation
in every hour,
as no part of the earth is so low that the heavens may not be seen
from, and we have only to stand on the summit of our hour to command
an uninterrupted horizon.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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With huge heathenish tribes roaring exultant here,
Jewry fights as maid with a ravisher:
Tribes who better than we deal with the gods their lords,
For they
pleasantly
sin, yet the gods sharpen and drive their swords.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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On his
return the
perfidious
Cossack had told his comrades that he had advanced
upon the rebels, and that he had been presented to their chief, and that
this chief gave him his hand to kiss and had had a long interview with
him.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Out spoke the victor then
As he hail'd them o'er the wave,
"Ye are
brothers!
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Golden Treasury |
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_ I wish to merit his forgiveness, and
Thine own,
although
I have not injured thee.
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Byron |
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I am
scattered
in its whirl.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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So bashful when I spied her,
So pretty, so
ashamed!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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So with curious eyes and sick surmise
We watched him day by day,
And wondered if each one of us
Would end the self-same way,
For none can tell to what red Hell
His
sightless
soul may stray.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Like poison loathes the oil,
His arms no longer black and blue with honourable toil,
He who
erewhile
was known
For quoit or javelin oft and oft beyond the limit thrown?
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Yes, I know that Earth in the depths of this night,
Casts a strange mystery with vast
brilliant
light
Beneath hideous centuries that darken it the less.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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We believe that the
individuality
of a poet may
often be better expressed in free-verse than in conventional forms.
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Imagists |
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But nathelees, thus
thoughte
he at the laste,
`What, parde, rather than my felawe deye,
Yet shal I som-what more un-to him seye:' 525
And seyde, `Freend, sin thou hast swich distresse,
And sin thee list myn arguments to blame,
Why nilt thy-selven helpen doon redresse,
And with thy manhod letten al this grame?
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Lewis Carroll |
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Sommetyme at
tragedie
theie laughe and synge,
At merrie yaped[26] fage[27] somme hard-drayned water brynge.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Why, all the Saints and Sages who discuss'd
Of the Two Worlds so wisely--they are thrust
Like foolish
Prophets
forth; their Words to Scorn
Are scatter'd, and their Mouths are stopt with Dust.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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S'io fossi pur di tanto ancor leggero
ch'i' potessi in cent' anni andare un'oncia,
io sarei messo gia per lo sentiero,
cercando
lui tra questa gente sconcia,
con tutto ch'ella volge undici miglia,
e men d'un mezzo di traverso non ci ha.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Full of calm joy it was, as I of grief;
Too full of joy and soft delicious warmth;
So that I felt a
movement
in my heart
To chide, and to reproach that solitude
With songs of misery, music of our woes;
And sat me down, and took a mouthed shell 270
And murmur'd into it, and made melody--
O melody no more!
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Keats |
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The big round tear hung trembling in his eye:
The synod grieved, and gave a pitying sigh,
Then silent sate--at length
Antinous
burns
With haughty rage, and sternly thus returns:
"O insolence of youth!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Thou hast, in truth, a most
incredulous
mind,
Whom even with an oath I have not moved,
Or aught persuaded.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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And dost thou think
my untamed
thoughts
and speak my vast language?
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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All sang one song: "Blessed be thou among
The
daughters
of Adam!
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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_ I discern
Vain aspiration,
unresultive
work.
| Guess: |
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Elizabeth Browning |
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in the air
I know not which thy chamber is, --
I 'm
knocking
everywhere.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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IV
The happiest day-the happiest hour
Mine eyes shall see-have ever seen
The
brightest
glance of pride and power
I feet have been:
V
But were that hope of pride and power
Now offered with the pain
Ev'n _then I _felt-that brightest hour
I would not live again:
VI
For on its wing was dark alloy
And as it fluttered-fell
An essence-powerful to destroy
A soul that knew it well.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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For myself,
although
I had corresponded
with her for many years, I saw her but twice face to face, and
brought away the impression of something as unique and remote as
Undine or Mignon or Thekla.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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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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que vous etes bien dans le beau cimetiere
Vous bourgmestres vous bateliers
Et vous conseillers de regence
Vous aussi tziganes sans papiers
La vie vous pourrit dans la panse
La croix vous pousse entre les pieds
Le vent du Rhin ulule avec tous les hiboux
Il eteint les cierges que toujours les enfants rallument
Et les
feuilles
mortes
Viennent couvrir les morts
Des enfants morts parlent parfois avec leur mere
Et des mortes parfois voudraient bien revenir
Oh!
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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One morn, disputing with my tired soul,
And like a hero
stiffening
all my nerves,
I trod a suburb shaken by the jar
Of rolling wheels, where the fog magnified
The houses either side of that sad street,
So they seemed like two wharves the ebbing flood
Leaves desolate by the river-side.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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2600
It is but foly, and wrong wening,
To aske so
outrageous
a thing.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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terque, dum procedit, 'io triumphe,'
non semel dicemus, 'io triumphe'
ciuitas omnis
dabimusque
diuis
tura benignis.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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The
ravening
she-wolf knew them,
And licked them o'er and o'er,
And gave them of her own fierce milk,
Rich with raw flesh and gore.
| Guess: |
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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unless a
copyright
notice is included.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Sara Teasdale |
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He's cured the king, here he's king, abides,
And priest of the
quintessential
holy Treasure.
| Guess: |
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19th Century French Poetry |
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I've seen a dying eye
Run round and round a room
In search of something, as it seemed,
Then
cloudier
become;
And then, obscure with fog,
And then be soldered down,
Without disclosing what it be,
'T were blessed to have seen.
| Guess: |
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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KAU}
The times are now returnd upon us, we have given
ourselves
To scorn and now are scorned by the slaves of our enemies
Our beauty is coverd over with clay & ashes, & our backs
Furrowd with whips, & our flesh bruised with the heavy basket
Forgive us O thou piteous one whom we have offended, forgive
The weak remaining shadow of Vala that returns in sorrow to thee.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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The
President
plied me like a tool.
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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>>
TABLEAUX
PARISIENS
LE SOLEIL
Le long du vieux faubourg, ou pendant aux masures
Les persiennes, abri des secretes luxures,
Quand le soleil cruel frappe a traits redoubles
Sur la ville et les champs, sur les toits et les bles.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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--Et je sens les baisers qui me
viennent
aux levres.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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This
contains
but 158 Rubaiyat.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Depending on the nature of subsequent use that is made, additional rights may need to be obtained independently of
anything
we can address.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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I do not
remember
.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Satiate, at length, with wonder at that sight,
They enter'd each a bath, and by the hands 60
Of maidens laved, and oil'd, and cloath'd again
With shaggy mantles and resplendent vests,
Sat both
enthroned
at Menelaus' side.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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`But he that goth, for gold or for richesse, 400
On swich message, calle him what thee list;
And this that thou dost, calle it gentilesse,
Compassioun, and felawship, and trist;
Departe it so, for wyde-where is wist
How that there is dyversitee
requered
405
Bitwixen thinges lyke, as I have lered.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
|
'Twould blow like this through holt and hanger
When Uricon the city stood:
'Tis the old wind in the old anger,
But then it
threshed
another wood.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Not such, O
Tyndarus!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
|
He says
indifferently
and alike, "_How are you, friend_?
| Guess: |
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Whitman |
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Yet since the grapple needs must be,
I who have wandered in the night
With Dante, Petrarch's Laura known,
Seen Vallombrosa's groves breeze-blown,
Met Angelo and Raffael,
Against
iconoclastic
might
In this grim hour must wish thee well!
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Away with you and all your
withered
flowers,
I have a flower in my soul no one can take!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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To fight Russia by
the re-establishment of Polish
independence
was not, therefore, to be
thought of.
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Byron |
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" Whereas the early poems were characterized by a
tendency
to turn
away from the turmoil of life--in fact, the concrete world of reality
does not seem to exist--there is noticeable in these two later volumes
an advance toward life in the sense that the poet is beginning to
approach and to vision some of its greatest symbols.
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Rilke - Poems |
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The best of the earth cannot be told anyhow, all or any is best,
It is not what you anticipated, it is cheaper, easier, nearer,
Things are not dismiss'd from the places they held before,
The earth is just as positive and direct as it was before,
Facts, religions, improvements, politics, trades, are as real as before,
But the soul is also real, it too is positive and direct,
No reasoning, no proof has establish'd it,
Undeniable
growth has establish'd it.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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For heaven is a
different
thing
Conjectured, and waked sudden in,
And might o'erwhelm me so!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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THE mother abbess
sermonized
and fired,
And seemed as if her tongue would ne'er be tired.
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La Fontaine |
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the opinion that he is always or usually dressed in a
fool's costume has
absolutely
no justification'.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Time was, two maidens from their home
At
eventide
would hither come,
And, by the light the moonbeams gave,
Lament, embrace upon that grave.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Its
business
office is located at
809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email
business@pglaf.
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Imagists |
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Within the bosom here of either knight,
Honour, be sure, and duty
strongly
sways:
For the amorous strife between them is delayed,
Till to the Moorish camp they furnish aid.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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nis þæt feor heonon, 1362; næs him feor
þanon tō
gesēcanne
sinces bryttan, 1922; acc.
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Beowulf |
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Tiger, tiger, burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What
immortal
hand or eye
Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Thou whom he spurned so harshly, and now dared[g]
Drive from our
presence
with his savage jeers,
And made thee weep and blush?
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Byron |
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Snowfalls hiss
Fall and how I miss
My beloved in my arms
The Farewell
(Alcools: L'Adieu)
I've gathered this sprig of heather
Autumn is dead you will remember
On earth we'll see no more of each other
Fragrance of time sprig of heather
Remember I wait for you forever
Acrobats
(Alcools:Saltimbanques)
The
strollers
in the plain
walk the length of gardens
before the doors of grey inns
through villages without churches
And the children gone before
The others follow dreaming
Each fruit tree resigns itself
When they signal from afar
They have burdens round or square
drums and golden tambourines
Apes and bears wise animals
gather coins as they progress
The Bells
(Alcools: Les Cloches)
My gipsy beau my lover
Hear the bells above us
We loved passionately
Thinking none could see us
But we so badly hidden
All the bells in their song
Saw from heights of heaven
And told it everyone
Tomorrow Cyprien Henry
Marie Ursule Catherine
The baker's wife her husband
and Gertrude that's my cousin
Will smile when I go by them
I won't know where to hide
You far and I'll be crying
Perhaps I shall be dying
The Gypsy
(Alcools: La tzigane)
The gypsy knew in advance
Our two lives star-crossed by night
We said farewell to her and then
from that deep well Hope began
Love heavy a performing bear
Danced upright when we wanted
And the blue bird lost his plumes
And the beggars lost their Ave
We knew quite well that we were damned
But hope of love in the street
Made us think hand in hand
Of what the Gypsy did foresee
The Sign
(Alcools: Signe)
I am bound to the King of the Sign of Autumn
Parting I love the fruits I detest the flowers
I regret every one of the kisses that I've given
Such a bitter walnut tells his grief to the showers
My Autumn eternal O my spiritual season
The hands of lost lovers juggle with your sun
A spouse follows me it's my fatal shadow
The doves take flight this evening their last one
One Evening
(Alcools: Un soir)
An eagle descends from this sky white with archangels
And you sustain me
Let them tremble a long while all these lamps
Pray pray for me
The city's metallic and it's the only star
Drowned in your blue eyes
When the tramways run spurting pale fire
Over the twittering birds
And all that trembles in your eyes of my dreams
That a lonely man drinks
Under flames of gas red like a false dawn
O clothed your arm is lifted
See the speaker stick his tongue out at the listeners
A phantom has committed suicide
The apostle of the fig-tree hangs and slowly rots
Let us play this love out then to the end
Bells with clear chimes announce your birth
See
The streets are garlanded and the palms advance
Towards thee
Moonlight
(Alcools: Clair de Lune)
Mellifluent moon on the lips of the maddened
The orchards and towns are greedy tonight
The stars appear like the image of bees
Of this luminous honey that offends the vines
For now all sweet in their fall from the sky
Each ray of moonlight's a ray of honey
Now hid I conceive the sweetest adventure
I fear stings of fire from this Polar bee
that sets these deceptive rays in my hands
And takes its moon-honey to the rose of the winds
Autumn Ill
(Alcools: Automne malade)
Autumn ill and adored
You die when the hurricane blows in the roseries
When it has snowed
In the orchard trees
Poor autumn
Dead in whiteness and riches
Of snow and ripe fruits
Deep in the sky
The sparrow hawks cry
Over the sprites with green hair the dwarfs
Who've never been loved
In the far tree-lines
the stags are groaning
And how I love O season how I love your rumbling
The falling fruits that no one gathers
The wind the forest that are tumbling
All their tears in autumn leaf by leaf
The leaves
You press
A crowd
That flows
The life
That goes
Hotels
(Alcools: Hotels)
The room is free
Each for himself
A new arrival
Pays by the month
The boss is doubtful
Whether you'll pay
Like a top
I spin on the way
The traffic noise
My neighbour gross
Who puffs an acrid
English smoke
O La Valliere
Who limps and smiles
In my prayers
The bedside table
And all the company
in this hotel
know the languages
of Babel
Let's shut our doors
With a double lock
And each adore
his lonely love
Hunting Horns
(Alcools: Cors de chasse)
Our story's noble as its tragic
like the grimace of a tyrant
no drama's chance or magic
no detail that's indifferent
makes our great love pathetic
And Thomas de Quincey drinking
Opiate poison sweet and chaste
Of his poor Anne went dreaming
We pass we pass since all must pass
Often I'll be returning
Memories are hunting horns alas
whose note along the wind is dying
Vitam Impendere Amori
(Vitam Impendere Amori: To Threaten Life for Love)
Love is dead within your arms
Do you remember his encounter
He's dead you restore the charms
He returns at your encounter
Another spring of springs gone past
I think of all its tenderness
Farewell season done at last
You'll return as tenderly
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Appoloinaire |
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As once, to fill the rapid page
My pen no longer finds delight,
Other and colder thoughts affright,
Sterner
solicitudes
engage,
In worldly din or solitude
Upon my visions such intrude.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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In dying panges he gryp'd his throte more stronge, 535
And from their sockets started out his eyes;
And from his mouthe came out his blameless tonge;
And bothe in peyne and
anguishe
eftsoon dies.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Yet
graceful
ease, and sweetness void of pride, 15
Might hide her faults, if Belles had faults to hide:
If to her share some female errors fall,
Look on her face, and you'll forget 'em all.
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Alexander Pope |
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The Foundation is
committed
to complying with the laws regulating
charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United
States.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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