Lycius to all made eloquent reply,
Marrying
to every word a twinborn sigh;
And last, pointing to Corinth, ask'd her sweet,
If 'twas too far that night for her soft feet.
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te wynne,
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Soon as my spirit, from her airy flight
Returning, sought again the things, whose truth
Depends not on her shaping, I observ'd
How she had rov'd to no unreal scenes
Meanwhile the leader, who might see I mov'd,
As one, who
struggles
to shake off his sleep,
Exclaim'd: "What ails thee, that thou canst not hold
Thy footing firm, but more than half a league
Hast travel'd with clos'd eyes and tott'ring gait,
Like to a man by wine or sleep o'ercharg'd?
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I loved: you know it; to avenge my father,
I was willing to condemn my lover:
Your Majesty, Sire,
yourself
could see
How my love was sacrificed to duty.
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The ghosts of dead loves everyone
That make the stark winds reek with fear
Lest love return with the foison sun And slay the memories that me cheer (Such as I drink to mine
fashion)
Wincing the ghosts of yester-year.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Witches had to appear in their "proper hew" one day in
spring and undergo a
purifying
bath.
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who
believed
thy sway
Was of such passing power in things below?
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God
bringeth
Justice in his own slow tide.
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SUNDAY NIGHT,
27_th_
_January_
1901.
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A washed-out smallpox cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone With all the old
nocturnal
smells
That cross and cross across her brain.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Over them now--year
following
year--
Over their graves the pine-cones fall,
And the whip-poor-will chants his spectre-call;
But they stir not again: they raise no cheer:
They have ceased.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Virgil was most loving of
antiquity; yet how rarely doth he insert _aquai_ and
_pictai_!
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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A fragrance breathes around; majestic grace
Attends his steps: the
astonished
virgins gaze.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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There's never a moment's rest allowed:
Now here, now there, the changing breeze
Swings us, as it wishes, ceaselessly,
Beaks
pricking
us more than a cobbler's awl.
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Villon |
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What's the
Businesse?
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NOTE
The text
followed
is that of C.
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Tacitus |
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Don Sanche caused me ill, in my defence,
And that ill-dealing arm I must
recompense!
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Wherefore
I tell thee
truly, 'come ye there, ye be killed, though ye had twenty lives to
spend.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Which vent without in other channel found;
And issued forth in many a stream, to lave
A mead of azure, white, and yellow hue;
Gladdening
the plants that on their margins grew.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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The army craves today a skilful leader;
Basmanov
send, and firmly bear the murmurs
Of the boyars.
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e kny3t mad ay god chere,
& sayde, "quat schuld I wonde,
564 [G] Of
destines
derf & dere,
What may mon do bot fonde?
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But still it is
not
possible
for me to give you a battalion and fifty Cossacks.
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Note: Jupiter,
disguised
as a shower of gold, raped Danae, and as a white bull carried off Europa.
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'113-130'
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civilized
men who, though they should
be wiser than the Indian, murmur against the decrees of God.
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THE
eloquence
he used, her fears and dread;
Lest she might give offence by what she said,
In spite of bashfulness that bliss alloys,
Soon all concluded with celestial joys.
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La Fontaine |
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From this moment,
The very
firstlings
of my heart shall be
The firstlings of my hand.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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The Editor in this and in other instances has risked the addition (or
the change) of a Title, that the aim of the verses
following
may be
grasped more clearly and immediately.
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Golden Treasury |
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By the rough
seas I swear, fear for myself never wrung me so sore as for thy ship,
lest, the rudder lost and the pilot struck away, those
gathering
waves
might master it.
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is is my most
p{ur}pos
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Les roses des roseaux des
longtemps
devorees!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Its claims are admitted
on the
strength
of the tradition.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Or on still
evenings
when the rain falls close There comes a tremor in the drops, and fast
My pulses run, knowing thy thought hath passed That beareth thee as doth the wind a rose.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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From the loud roar of foaming calumny
To the small whisper of the as paltry few
And subtler venom of the reptile crew,
The Janus glance of whose significant eye,
Learning to lie with silence, would SEEM true,
And without utterance, save the shrug or sigh,
Deal round to happy fools its
speechless
obloquy.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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D oubtless, as my heart's lady you'll have being,
E ntirely now, till death
consumes
my age.
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Villon |
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Of
Provence
and far halls of memory,
Lo, there come echoes, faint diversity
Of blended bells at even's end, or
As the distant seas should send her
The tribute of their trembling, ceaselessly Resonant.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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<>, diss' io, <
questa fortuna di che tu mi tocche,
che e, che i ben del mondo ha si tra
branche?
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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True rev'rence is, as
Cassiodore
doth prove,
The fear of God commix'd with cleanly love.
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Robert Herrick |
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Come, I cannot
cog, and say thou art this and that, like a many of these
lisping hawthorn-buds that come like women in men's
apparel, and smell like
Bucklersbury
in simple time; I
cannot; but I love thee, none but thee; and thou deserv'st it.
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Shakespeare |
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A
faithful
brother I have left,
My part in him thou'lt share!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Yet all is well; he has but passed
To Life's appointed bourne:
And alien tears will fill for him
Pity's long-broken urn,
For his
mourners
will be outcast men,
And outcasts always mourn.
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Wilde - Poems |
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This counsel pleases good Orlando so,
That for the holy place he bids him steer;
Who never
swerving
from his course, espies
The lonely rock, upon Aurora's rise.
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_First Pocket Edition June_ 1907
_Reprinted
January_
1908, 1913, 1918, 1919
* * * * *
CONTENTS
PAGE
V.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Sonnets Pour Helene Book II: XLII
In these long winter nights when the idle Moon
Steers her chariot so slowly on its way,
When the cockerel so tardily calls the day,
When night to the troubled soul seems years through:
I would have died of misery if not for you,
In shadowy form, coming to ease my fate,
Utterly naked in my arms, to lie and wait,
Sweetly
deceiving
me with a specious view.
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Ronsard |
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_puelle_
GRBVen || _nobilis_ T || _aequales_ Lachm.
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Leave me my tearless, sad refrain,
When in the pine-top wakes the gale
That
breathes
of coming rain.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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331
The
Prisoner
of Chillon (N.
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Byron |
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The Vitellians, finding themselves unable to
resist the attack of troops thus stubbornly vying with each other, and
seeing their
missiles
all glide off the shelter of shields, at last
sent their engine of war crashing down upon their heads.
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Tacitus |
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at euery wicked shrew {and} for
hys
wickednesse
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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>> en
inclinant
la tete;
--Et nous prendons du temps a trouver cette bete!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Calais, the wind is come and heaven pales And
trembles
for the love of day to be.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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And a tinkling Eastern wind-bell,
With its
fluttering
inscription,
From the rafters with bronze music
Should retard the quiet fleeting
Of uncounted hours.
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Li Po |
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Lorsque Baudelaire posa en 1862 sa
candidature
aux fauteuils
academiques laisses vacants par la mort de Scribe et du Pere
Lacordaire, il etait, dans sa pensee, de protester ainsi contre la
condamnation des _Fleurs du Mal.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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The
odoriferous
Civet doth not lie 35
Within the muskat's nose, or eare, or eye,
But in a baser place; for prudent nature
In drawinge us of various formes and stature
Gives from the curious shop of hir rich treasure
To faire parts comeliness, to baser, pleasure.
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John Donne |
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" In translating the German "Werdende"
(literally, the _becoming, developing_, or
_growing_)
by the term _word_,
I mean the _word_ in the largest sense: "In the beginning was the Word,
&c.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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"
"I will go where I am wanted, for the
sergeant
does not mind;
He may be sick to see me but he treats me very kind:
He gives me beer and breakfast and a ribbon for my cap,
And I never knew a sweetheart spend her money on a chap.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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'T is true that I am gay,
Quite gay, for I have her alone here And no man
troubleth
us.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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They pass before me, these Eyes full of light,
Eyes made
magnetic
by some angel wise;
The holy brothers pass before my sight,
And cast their diamond fires in my dim eyes.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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He is
both a realist and an optimist in extreme measure: he contemplates evil as
in some sense not existing, or, if existing, then as being of as much
importance as
anything
else.
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Whitman |
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Therefore, not singly, I erewhile rehears'd
That
blessedness
we tell of in the day:
But near me none beside his accent rais'd.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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- You provide, in
accordance
with paragraph 1.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Italy stands the other side,
While, like a guard between,
The solemn Alps,
The siren Alps,
Forever
intervene!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Gaze upon the rolling deep
(Fish is
plentiful
and cheap);
As the sea, my love is deep!
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Lear - Nonsense |
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He ap-
pears to have been well versed in most branches
of literature, though he makes no pedantic dis-
play of erudition, and in this respect is favourably
distinguished from many of his contemporaries;
yet he cites his authors with the
familiarity
bf a
thorough scholar.
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Marvell - Poems |
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thy caution, and address'd
(Replied the chief, to no
unheedful
breast:)
The wrongs and injuries of base mankind
Fresh to my sense, and always in my mind.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Know'st thou aught, this tale
belying?
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Aeschylus |
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Resolution
shall be treated to one kiss if Bessie
doesn't object.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Modern memoirs are generally written by people who have
entirely
lost
their memories and have never done anything worth recording.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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eorla (_a more
powerful
earl_), 247; fem.
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Beowulf |
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At once
Both, springing on him, seized and drew him in
Forcibly
by his locks, then cast him down
Prone on the pavement, trembling at his fate.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Les loups vont
repondant
des forets violettes:
A l'horizon, le ciel est d'un rouge d'enfer.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Ich bin von je der Ordnung Freund gewesen,
Mocht, ihn auch tot im
Wochenblattchen
lesen.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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He had on a
gunnysack
shirt over his bones,
And he lifted an elbow socket over his head,
And he lifted a skinny signal finger.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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MARCH,
OF
LAFAYETTE
COLLEGE, PA.
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Beowulf |
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But if, discarded thus, it find not thee
Its joyless exile willing to befriend,
Alone,
untaught
at others' will to wend,
Soon from life's weary burden will it flee.
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Petrarch |
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And then and then came Spring, and Rose-in-hand
My thread-bare
Penitence
a-pieces tore.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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here is the wisdom
Alembicked out of dust, or out of nothing;
Choose now the weightiest word, most golden page,
Most
somberly
musicked line; hold up these lanterns,--
These paltry lanterns, wisdoms, philosophies,--
Above your eyes, against this wall of darkness;
And you'll see--what?
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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at al
tribulac{i}ou{n}
don awey ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Now, when the flame they watch not towers
About the soil they trod,
Lads, we'll
remember
friends of ours
Who shared the work with God.
| Guess: |
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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That night is fixed for Friday first:
the play a most
interesting
one!
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Robert Forst |
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"
Which
distracted
that virulent Bull.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Tyrwhitt had
discovered Chatterton's use of Bailey's
Dictionary
and completely
refutes Bryant, Milles, and Mathias.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Meantime, o'er all the dome, they quaff, they feast,
Derisive taunts were spread from guest to guest,
And each in jovial mood his mate address'd:
"Tremble ye not, O friends, and coward fly,
Doom'd by the stern
Telemachus
to die?
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Then
he pawned his
waistcoat
and his tie, and thought regretfully of money
thrown away in times past.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Ariel awakes the song
With many a
heavenly
measure;
Fools not few he draws along,
But fair ones hear with pleasure.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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"
"I saw him in gaunt gardens lone,
Where
laughter
used to be;
That he as phantom wanders there
Is known to none but me.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Even so, gentle, strong and wise and happy, 5
Through the soul and
substance
of my being,
Comes the breath of thy great love to me-ward,
O thou dear mortal.
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Sappho |
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The sunbeam that plays on the
porchstone
wide;
And the shadow that fleets o'er the stream that flows,
And the soft blue sky with the hill's green side.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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And I like a guilty debtor sitting,
For fear of each casual word am
sweating!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Also the
blossoms
on grapevines are wanting in shape and in color,
Although the fruit when it's ripe pleases both mankind and gods.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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a rocky cavern met his sight,
Amid those
precipices
dark and blind:
Its sides descended thirty yards and more,
Worked smooth, and at the bottom was a door.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Blest be the year, the month, the hour, the day,
The season and the time, and point of space,
And blest the beauteous country and the place
Where first of two bright eyes I felt the sway:
Blest the sweet pain of which I was the prey,
When newly doom'd Love's sovereign law to embrace,
And blest the bow and shaft to which I trace,
The wound that to my inmost heart found way:
Blest be the ceaseless accents of my tongue,
Unwearied
breathing my loved lady's name:
Blest my fond wishes, sighs, and tears, and pains:
Blest be the lays in which her praise I sung,
That on all sides acquired to her fair fame,
And blest my thoughts!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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