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In the summer of 1831, a civil ceremony was performed over the insurgents
killed in the
previous
year, and Hugo was constituted poet-laureate of the
Revolution by having his hymn sung in the Pantheon over the biers.
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Dumb on his knees was every one
That now is bold as Caesar;
Mere pegs to hang an office on
Such
stalwart
men as these are.
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He has much to be approved, and even admired: but a just selection is
necessary, and it is to be
regretted
that he did not choose for
himself.
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Tacitus |
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That summer a Virginius
Was Consul first in place;
The second was stout Aulus,
Of the
Posthumian
race.
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And in our evil day they still watch
over the
loveliness
of the earth.
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Therefore
like her, I sometime hold my tongue:
Because I would not dull you with my song.
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not now the past, it rather needs
Of her my lovely and inveterate foe
The present power to show,
Though such she be all
language
as exceeds.
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Petrarch |
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Am I
despised
because you say,
And I dare swear, that I am gray?
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The Claudian
triumphs
all were won within the city towers;
The Claudian yoke was never pressed on any necks but ours.
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1 Moved to tears in the gray-green mist, 32
mountain
gates, closed in ten thousand layers.
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Nay, _he_ might have been there; but I muflled me so,
He could
scarcely
have seen my figure.
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Hugo - Poems |
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"
The angels sang: "See heaven's high arch unfold,
Come, we will crown thee with the stars above,
Will give thee cherub-wings of blue and gold,
And thou shalt learn our ministry of love,
Shalt rock the cradle where some mother's tears
Are dropping o'er her
restless
little one,
Or, with thy luminous breath, in distant spheres,
Shalt kindle some cold sun.
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Hugo - Poems |
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For solitude somtimes is best societie,
And short
retirement
urges sweet returne.
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Milton |
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'I GRIEVE NOT THAT RIPE
KNOWLEDGE
TAKES AWAY'
XXVI.
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James Russell Lowell |
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but both in method to use (as ladies do in
their attire) a diligent kind of negligence, and their sportive freedom;
though with some men you are not to jest, or practise tricks; yet the
delivery of the most
important
things may be carried with such a grace,
as that it may yield a pleasure to the conceit of the reader.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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you may sleep--you have done your work;)
Soon I hear you coming warbling, soon you rise and tramp amid us,
Pioneers!
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Whitman |
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Your languid
beauties
now would move me not
Did not your gentle heart and body cast
The old spell of those happy days forgot.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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My books closed again on Paphos' name,
It delights me to choose with
solitary
genius
A ruin, by foam-flecks in thousands blessed
Beneath hyacinth, far off, in days of fame.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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_John Galsworthy_
TO RUSSIA NEW AND FREE
Land of the Martyrs--of the
martyred
dead
And martyred living--now of noble fame!
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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HURRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME
Well, that Sunday Albert was home, they had a hot gammon,
And they asked me in to dinner, to get the beauty of it hot--
HURRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME
HURRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME
Goonight
Bill.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Do you have hopes the lyre can soar
So high as to win
immortality?
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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But his
Christianity
is only skin-deep.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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The last
reluctant
drop of the storm,
Wrung from the roof, is smitten warm
And turned to gold;
For in its veins doth run
The very blood of the bold, unsullied sun!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Note: The ballade was written for Robert to present to his wife Ambroise de Lore, as though
composed
by him.
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Villon |
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Where is that wise girl Eloise,
For whom was gelded, to his great shame,
Peter Abelard, at Saint Denis,
For love of her enduring pain,
And where now is that queen again,
Who
commanded
them to throw
Buridan in a sack, in the Seine?
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Villon |
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Pronounce
it for me Sir, to all our Friends,
For my heart speakes, they are welcome.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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50
In the faint fragrance of flowers,
On the sweet draft of the sea-wind,
Linger strange hints now that loosen
Tears for thy gay gentle spirit,
O
Lityerses!
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Sappho |
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II
You are useless,
O grave, O beautiful,
the
landsmen
tell it--I have heard--
you are useless.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Can we think a few old cells
were left--we are left--
grains of honey,
old dust of stray pollen
dull on our torn wings,
we are left to recall the old
streets?
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Never trust a woman who wears mauve,
whatever
her age may be, or a woman
over thirty-five who is fond of pink ribbons.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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O, where are now
The
splendors
of my court, my baths and banquets?
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Longfellow |
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Defeat
Defeat, my Defeat, my solitude and my aloofness;
You are dearer to me than a
thousand
triumphs,
And sweeter to my heart than all world-glory.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Sachons, cette nuit
d'hiver, de cap en cap, du pole
tumultueux
au chateau, de la foule a la
plage, de regards en regards, forces et sentiments las, le heler et le
voir, et le renvoyer, et sous les marees et au haut des deserts de
neige, suivre ses vues, ses souffles, son corps, son jour.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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: _et
fututa_ h2 ||
_pandas_
h
14 _nei_ Marcilius: _nec_ ?
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HIS GRIEF AT SURVIVING HER IS MITIGATED BY THE
CONSCIOUSNESS
THAT SHE
NOW KNOWS HIS HEART.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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I have seen many
prodigious
things, but I never saw a
muzzled raven.
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Aristophanes |
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She does not heed thee, wherefore should she heed,
She knows Endymion is not far away;
'Tis I, 'tis I, whose soul is as the reed
Which has no message of its own to play,
So pipes another's bidding, it is I,
Drifting
with every wind on the wide sea of misery.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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IF you were coming in the fall,
I'd brush the summer by
With half a smile and half a spurn,
As
housewives
do a fly.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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And now,
obedient
to her
words, Cupid went merrily in Achates' guiding, with the royal gifts for
the Tyrians.
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279
And wished that his
daughter
had had as much
grace,
To erect him a pyramid out of her quarry.
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Marvell - Poems |
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`And therfor wostow what I thee
beseche?
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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The
henchmen
saw, and straight
Flew to their spears, a host of them to set
Against those twain.
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Euripides - Electra |
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I dwell amid the city,
And hear the flow of souls in act and speech,
For pomp or trade, for merrymake or folly:
I hear the
confluence
and sum of each,
And that is melancholy!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Of spirit grave yet light,
How fervent fragrances uprise
Pure-born from these most rich and yet most white
Virginities!
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Sidney Lanier |
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"God looks down from His
judgment
seat, 'Good will on earth' is His message sweet,
Turn your hearts to the Lord.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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*9
LAND OF THE FREE By Gertrude
Cornwell
Hopkins
There is a man within a grimy window-square; —
I do not know how long it is he has been there
Three years of working-days I've passed on trains high in the air, And always he was there.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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And
standing
on the altar high,
"Lo, what a fiend is here!
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blake-poems |
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"
Thereat she vanished by the Cross
That, entering
Kingsbere
town,
The two long lanes form, near the fosse
Below the faneless Down.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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In
jealousy
so zealous,
Never was there woman worse;
You'd have no roses but those grown
Above some buried corse.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Enter
Malcolme
and Macduffe.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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I
wondered
at you.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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It is only fair to say that he seldom
invented a word outright, but he altered and
modified
with a free
hand.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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unless a
copyright
notice is included.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Walker
proposes
doing with "The last time I came o'er the
moor.
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Robert Burns |
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WITH THE TIDE
EDITH WHARTON
[Sidenote: January 6, 1919]
_This was written on the day after
Theodore
Roosevelt's death.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Like ape or clown, in monstrous garb
With crooked arrows starred,
Silently we went round and round
The
slippery
asphalte yard;
Silently we went round and round,
And no man spoke a word.
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Wilde - Poems |
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wherefore
with infection should he live,
And with his presence grace impiety,
That sin by him advantage should achieve,
And lace itself with his society?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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provided
you with
the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a
refund.
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Sara Teasdale |
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She knows what eyes are turned upon
Her
passings
in the land!
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Euripides - Electra |
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the shade, before his closing eyes,
Of sad Patroclus rose, or seem'd to rise:
In the same robe he living wore, he came:
In stature, voice, and
pleasing
look, the same.
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Iliad - Pope |
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Then soul, live thou upon thy servant's loss,
And let that pine to
aggravate
thy store;
Buy terms divine in selling hours of dross;
Within be fed, without be rich no more:
So shall thou feed on Death, that feeds on men,
And Death once dead, there's no more dying then.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Es ist ein gar
beschrankter
Raum,
Man sieht nichts Grunes, keinen Baum,
Und in den Salen, auf den Banken,
Vergeht mir Horen, Sehn und Denken.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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There are many chimaeras that exist today, and before combating one of them, the
greatest
enemies of poetry, it is necessary to bridle Pegasus and even yoke him.
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Appoloinaire |
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Their feet, that crushed down freedom to its grave
And felt the very earth they trod a slave,
How quiet here they lie in death's cold arms
Without the power to crush the feeble worms
Who spite of all the
dreadful
fears they made
Creep there to conquer and are not afraid.
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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For Man's grim Justice goes its way
And will not swerve aside:
It slays the weak, it slays the strong,
It has a deadly stride:
With iron heel it slays the strong
The monstrous
parricide!
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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I replied, what was true, that
neither
ourselves
nor the praetors nor their suite had brought away
anything whereby to flaunt a better-scented poll, especially as our
praetor, the irrumating beast, cared not a single hair for his suite.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Why should the
mistress
of the vales of Har, utter a sigh.
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blake-poems |
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Newby
Chief
Executive
and Director
gbnewby@pglaf.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Breezily
go they, breezily come; their dust smokes around their
career,
Till I think I am one horn out of due time, who has no calling here.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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I cling to your knees
repenting!
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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feohlēas
gefeoht, "a homicide which cannot be atoned for by
money--in this case an unintentional fratricide.
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Beowulf |
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Consider
it not so deepely
Mac.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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From
murderous
Epigrams flee,
Cruel Wit and Laughter impure
That brings tears to the high Azure,
And all that base garlic cuisine!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Those gods you
endlessly
weep will return!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Voici
hannetonner
leurs tropes.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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CCXLVII
Across that field the bold
Malprimes
canters;
Who of the Franks hath wrought there much great damage.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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Then
departed
Pau-Puk-Keewis,
Whistling, singing through the forest,
Whistling gayly to the squirrels,
Who from hollow boughs above him
Dropped their acorn-shells upon him,
Singing gayly to the wood birds,
Who from out the leafy darkness
Answered with a song as merry.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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And little they mourned
when they had hastily haled it out,
dear-bought
treasure!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Yet
Brignall
banks are fresh and fair,
And Greta woods are green,
And you may gather flowers there
Would grace a summer-queen.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
Di tal superbia qui si paga il fio;
e ancor non sarei qui, se non fosse
che,
possendo
peccar, mi volsi a Dio.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Obsession
After years of wisdom
During which the world was transparent as a needle
Was it cooing about
something
else?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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`And therfor wostow what I thee
beseche?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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And much as Wine has play'd the Infidel,
And robb'd me of my Robe of Honor--Well,
I wonder often what the Vintners buy
One half so
precious
as the stuff they sell.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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So now be present, O
celestial
maid!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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No more the
shepherd
lads in glee
Throw apples at thy wattled fold,
O goat-foot God of Arcady!
| Guess: |
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Once having found the beloved,
However sorry or woeful,
However
scornful
of loving, 15
Little it matters.
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Sappho |
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that Proteus-like idea, with as many
appellations as the nine-titled
Corcyra!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Yet
Brignall
banks are fresh and fair,
And Greta woods are green,
And you may gather flowers there
Would grace a summer-queen.
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Golden Treasury |
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By this, sad Una fraught with anguish sore,
Led with their noise, which through the aire was thrown:
Arriv'd, wher they in erth their
fruitles
bloud had sown.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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The famous "Lines
to a Young Ass" were first written as a joke, and there is some burlesque
strength in such lines as:
"Where Toil shall wed young Health, that
charming
Lass!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Hast thou no passion nor pity
For thy
deserted
companions?
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Sappho |
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In the dark night of strife
Men
perished
for their dream of Liberty
Whose lives were given for this larger life.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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TENEBRÆ
They say that I shall find him if I go
Along the dusty highways, or the green
Tracks of the downland shepherds, or between
The swaying corn, or where cool waters flow;
And others say, that speak as if they know,
That daily in the cities, in the mean
Dark streets, amid the crowd he may be seen,
With thieves and harlots
wandering
to and fro.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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As his the power, his were the crimes of those
Whom to
dispense
that sacred power he chose.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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