'
"Struck with the loud reproach, I
straight
reply:
'Whate'er thy title in thy native sky,
A goddess sure!
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Lass diesen Blick,
Lass diesen Handedruck dir sagen
Was unaussprechlich ist:
Sich
hinzugeben
ganz und eine Wonne
Zu fuhlen, die ewig sein muss!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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On page 370, tryant's drudge should
possibly
be tyrant's drudge.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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"
---Thomas
Wentworth
Higginson
TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE
As is well documented, Emily Dickinson's poems were edited in these
early editions by her friends, better to fit the conventions of the
times.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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the very prison walls
Suddenly
seemed to reel,
And the sky above my head became
Like a casque of scorching steel;
And, though I was a soul in pain,
My pain I could not feel.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Golden Treasury |
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registered
trademark.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Lo duca mio dicea: <
si vuol tenere a li occhi stretto il freno,
pero ch'errar
potrebbesi
per poco>>.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Still, however, I shall not regret having composed, though in rude and artless language, a
memorial
of past servitude, and a testimony of present blessings.
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Tacitus |
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haste, and help
My building up before this roseate realm,
And its so fruitless victories,
Whence
transient
shame Right's prophets overwhelm,
So many pillories, deserved!
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Hugo - Poems |
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Arch on arch, the
grimmest
land;
Whittle of a woodland bird
Made the pulses dance,
Note of horn in valleys heard
Filled the region with romance.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Baccio Valori and Philippo Strozzi,
Once the Duke's friends and
intimates
are with us,
And Cardinals Salvati and Ridolfi.
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Longfellow |
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Yet half his
strength
he put not forth, but check'd
His Thunder in mid Volie, for he meant
Not to destroy, but root them out of Heav'n:
The overthrown he rais'd, and as a Heard
Of Goats or timerous flock together throngd
Drove them before him Thunder-struck, pursu'd
With terrors and with furies to the bounds
And Chrystall wall of Heav'n, which op'ning wide, 860
Rowld inward, and a spacious Gap disclos'd
Into the wastful Deep; the monstrous sight
Strook them with horror backward, but far worse
Urg'd them behind; headlong themselvs they threw
Down from the verge of Heav'n, Eternal wrauth
Burnt after them to the bottomless pit.
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Milton |
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)
I hear the annual singing of the
children
in St.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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_
I think the whole species of young men may be
naturally
enough divided
into two grand classes, which I shall call the _grave_ and the
_merry_; though, by the by, these terms do not with propriety enough
express my ideas.
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Robert Forst |
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His turban has fallen from his forehead,
To assist him the
bystanders
started--
His mouth foams, his face blackens horrid--
See the Renegade's soul has departed.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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--
On burgher, squire, and clown
It smiled the long street down for near a mile
II
But evil days beset that domicile;
The stately
beauties
of its roof and wall
Passed into sordid hands.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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--No;
But I record of two simple men I saw to-day, on the pier, in the midst of
the crowd, parting the parting of dear friends;
The one to remain hung on the other's neck, and
passionately
kissed him,
While the one to depart tightly pressed the one to remain in his arms.
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Whitman |
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To this it is entitled from the
important influence which it had on Marveirs
reputation and fortunes; and as having led to the
composition of that work, on which his literary
to say, that the version it
contains
of the above interview,
and which has been extensively circulated, is not borna
out by the early biographies ; for example,, that of Cooke,.
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Marvell - Poems |
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The only artists I have ever known who are personally
delightful
are bad
artists.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Like a burst from golden mine--
Incandescent coals that pour
From the incense-bowl divine,
And around us dewdrops, shaken,
Mirror each a
twinkling
ray
'Twixt the flowers that awaken
In this glory great as day.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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What gives you fresh hope, in what happy depths 15
Do you think to
discover
traces of his steps?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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o'erturn'd the Trojan state,
Whose
perjured
monarch well deserved his fate;
Those heavenly steeds the hero sought so far,
False he detain'd, the just reward of war.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Gawayne assures her that he has
nothing worthy of her acceptance; that he is on an "uncouth errand,"
and
therefore
has "no men with no mails containing precious things,"
for which he is truly sorry.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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[33] Which had been
stretched
all round the courtyard to prevent his
escape.
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Aristophanes |
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These shadowy
retreats
are the rendezvous of life's
cripples.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Trois pas
Et, tous, nous avons mis ta
Bastille
en poussiere.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Neighbors
fill the tops of the walls, stirred to sighs, and even sobbing.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Then, nor till then, shall great
Achilles
rise:
And lo!
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Iliad - Pope |
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I heard the Owle schreame, and the
Crickets
cry.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Although the cheating
merchants
of the mart
With iron roads profane our lovely isle,
And break on whirling wheels the limbs of Art,
Ay!
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Wilde - Poems |
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Thinke of brave AElfridus, yclept the grete, 135
From porte to porte the red-haird Dane he chasd,
The Danes, with whomme not
lyoncels
coud mate,
Who made of peopled reaulms a barren waste;
Thinke how at once by you Norwegia bled
Whilste dethe and victorie for magystrie bested.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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If you
do not charge anything for copies of this eBook,
complying
with the
rules is very easy.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Eight brazen spokes in radiant order flame;
The circles gold, of
uncorrupted
frame,
Such as the heavens produce: and round the gold
Two brazen rings of work divine were roll'd.
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Iliad - Pope |
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7 and any additional
terms imposed by the
copyright
holder.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Art, like Nature, its great and only reservoir for all time past and all
time to come, ever strives for
elimination
and selection.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Old man, you must have been a very
insolent
fellow in your
youth!
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Aristophanes |
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Recorders Ages Hence
Recorders ages hence,
Come, I will take you down underneath this impassive exterior, I
will tell you what to say of me,
Publish my name and hang up my picture as that of the tenderest lover,
The friend the lover's portrait, of whom his friend his lover was fondest,
Who was not proud of his songs, but of the measureless ocean of love
within him, and freely pour'd it forth,
Who often walk'd
lonesome
walks thinking of his dear friends, his lovers,
Who pensive away from one he lov'd often lay sleepless and
dissatisfied at night,
Who knew too well the sick, sick dread lest the one he lov'd might
secretly be indifferent to him,
Whose happiest days were far away through fields, in woods, on hills,
he and another wandering hand in hand, they twain apart from other men,
Who oft as he saunter'd the streets curv'd with his arm the shoulder
of his friend, while the arm of his friend rested upon him also.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Others were dear,
Others forsook me: what art thou indeed
That I should heed
Thy
lamentable
need?
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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He passed through the fierce
and friendly peasant faces, and came where his good horse and the
rough-haired garrons were tied to bushes; and mounted and bade his
ungainly
bodyguard
mount also and ride into the narrow boreen.
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Yeats |
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what
of the boy
Ascanius?
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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I remember that well enough, but what
connection
is there
with present circumstances?
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Aristophanes |
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"The furies of thy brother
With me and mine abide,
If one of your
accursed
house
Upon black Auster ride!
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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And did the
Ninevite
demon treat with them?
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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XXV
A heavy heart, Beloved, have I borne
From year to year until I saw thy face,
And sorrow after sorrow took the place
Of all those natural joys as lightly worn
As the
stringed
pearls, each lifted in its turn
By a beating heart at dance-time.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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The revenue of the zamorim arose chiefly from the traffic of the Moors;
the various
colonies
of these people were combined in one interest, and
the jealousy and consternation which his arrival in the eastern seas had
spread among them, were circumstances well known to Gama: and he knew,
also, what he had to expect, both from their force and their fraud.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Two bodies
therefore
be;
Bind one, and one will flee.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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A worse thing yet remains,
This day the Philistines a popular Feast
Here
celebrate
in Gaza, and proclaim
Great Pomp, and Sacrifice, and Praises loud
To Dagon, as their God who hath deliver'd
Thee Samson bound and blind into thir hands,
Them out of thine, who slew'st them many a slain.
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| Source: |
Milton |
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"Why should the strong--
"The beautiful strong--
"Why should they not have the
flowers?
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Stephen Crane |
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But when to mischief mortals bend their will, 125
How soon they find fit
instruments
of ill!
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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Dear is the dewdrop to the flower,
The old wall to the weary bee,
And silence to the evening hour,
And ivy to the
stooping
tree.
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John Clare |
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He no man wrong'd at any time; but plain
Your wicked purpose in your deeds appears,
Who sense have none of
benefits
conferr'd.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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quam ieiuna pium desideret ara cruorem,
docta est amisso Laudamia uiro, 80
coniugis
ante coacta noui dimittere collum,
quam ueniens una atque altera rursus hiems
noctibus in longis auidum saturasset amorem,
posset ut abrupto uiuere coniugio,
quod scibant Parcae non longo tempore abisse, 85
si miles muros isset ad Iliacos.
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Latin - Catullus |
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I Tiresias, old man with wrinkled dugs
Perceived the scene, and foretold the rest--
I too awaited the
expected
guest.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Amonge al this I fond a tale 60
That me
thoughte
a wonder thing.
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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I am thy root in the earth
and thou art my flower in the sky, and
together
we grow before the
face of the sun.
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Victorinus
182 Gaisford: _Pelliaco_ (_-to_
G) ?
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Latin - Catullus |
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50
And brave Kyng
Harrolde
had nowe donde hys saie;
He threwe wythe myghte amayne hys shorte horse-spear.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Or was it only a
congregation of wearied woodchoppers, or of
proprietors
come to
inspect their lots, that we thought of?
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Yet one more:
I can never prevent myself from throwing a glance, if not sympathetic at
least full of curiosity, over the crowd of
outcasts
who press around the
enclosure of a public concert.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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83
capable of
salvation
or
1
?
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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318) famous
memorial
during the breakup of the Western Jin: ?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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The
mushroom
is the elf of plants,
At evening it is not;
At morning in a truffled hut
It stops upon a spot
As if it tarried always;
And yet its whole career
Is shorter than a snake's delay,
And fleeter than a tare.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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ere to-morrow's dawn be here,
"Send forth my messengers over the sea,
To seek seven beautiful brides for me;
"Radiant of feature and regal of mien,
Seven
handmaids
meet for the Persian Queen.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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" then, with his arms my neck
Encircling, kiss'd my cheek, and spake: "O soul
Justly
disdainful!
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Akoulina
Pamphilovna brought me
to her room.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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, but its volunteers and employees are scattered
throughout
numerous
locations.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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A damp and death-like odour from the hollow
--Where all must slumber--rises, yet I follow
Thy wafture still, which fire
enkindles
new
And Thy great love which ever watches true.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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One thought is comfort--that her scorn to bear,
Excels e'er
prosperous
love, with other earthly fair.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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* * * * *
Rilke has lived deeply; he has absorbed into his
artistic
and spiritual
consciousness many of the supreme values of our time.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Erewhile 'twas corn resplendent and unstained,
Or crystal, that through morning radiance shone,
Now flowing agate, deep and sombre-veined,
Then like a crimson
sparkling
precious stone.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Continued
use of this site implies consent to that usage.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Or try the wicked town of Ayr,
For there they'll think you clever;
Or, nae reflection on your lear,
Ye may
commence
a shaver;
Or to the Netherton repair,
And turn a carpet-weaver
Aff-hand this day.
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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By what
inexplicable
woe
The springs of life are all oppressed?
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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_a_) R ||
_nullo]_
D Lachm.
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Latin - Catullus |
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such a tale,
As might awake brute Nature's
sympathies!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Then bit by bit
They learned sweet plainings, such as pipe out-pours,
Beaten by finger-tips of singing men,
When heard through
unpathed
groves and forest deeps
And woodsy meadows, through the untrod haunts
Of shepherd folk and spots divinely still.
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Lucretius |
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better far
In Want's most lonely cave till death to pine,
Unseen, unheard,
unwatched
by any star;
Or in the streets and walks where proud men are,
Better our dying bodies to obtrude,
Than dog-like, wading at the heels of war,
Protract a curst existence, with the brood
That lap (their very nourishment!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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I have experienced such simple delight in the trivial matters of
fishing and sporting, formerly, as might have inspired the muse of
Homer or Shakespeare; and now, when I turn the pages and ponder the
plates of the Angler's Souvenir, I am fain to exclaim,--
"Can such things be,
And
overcome
us like a summer's cloud?
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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The well-beloved are
wretched
then.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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Thou maruell'st at my words: but hold thee still,
Things bad begun, make strong
themselues
by ill:
So prythee goe with me.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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And now, when Luke had reached his [15]
eighteenth
year,
There by the light of this old lamp they sate,
Father and Son, while far [16] into the night 125
The Housewife plied her own peculiar work,
Making the cottage through the silent hours
Murmur as with the sound of summer flies.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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Visiting
churches and palaces, all of the ruins and the pillars,
I, a responsible man, profit from making this trip.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Clinging to a colder zone
Whose dark sky sheds the snowflake down,
The snowflake is her banner's star,
Her stripes the boreal
streamers
are.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Where you, ye
breasts?
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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O the
trembling
fear!
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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THE TREE
AN OLD MAN'S STORY
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Its roots are
bristling
in the air
Like some mad Earth-god's spiny hair;
The loud south-wester's swell and yell
Smote it at midnight, and it fell.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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1641
[196] 85 may W, G
[197] 88 phant'sie W
phantasy
G o'ret.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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What shall we do
tomorrow?
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Each of us returned to his
quarters
after bidding good-bye to the whole
family.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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The bridal-songs and cradle-songs have
cadences
of sorrow,
The laughter of the sun to-day, the wind of death to-morrow.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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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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Along the
lichened
pathway of the leaf-crowned alley,
With faltering footsteps tardily we passed,
And then through ever lighter-glimmering twigs, the
valley
With distant dome re-opened forth at last.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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So, in the like name of that love of ours,
Take back these
thoughts
which here unfolded too,
And which on warm and cold days I withdrew
From my heart's ground.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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The joke of the green hair has been
disposed
of by Crepet.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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But why
unkindly
didst thou leave me so?
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He had heard of the epic poem, Africa, and
requested
its author to
recite to him some part of it.
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Petrarch |
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The tyrants sit in a stately hall;
They jibe at a
wretched
people's fall;
The tyrants forget how fresh is the pall
Over their dead and ours.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Thyn be this might, I graunt it thee,
My king of
harlotes
shalt thou be;
We wol that thou have such honour.
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