While they pay the due rites to
the tomb with diverse games, Juno,
daughter
of Saturn, sends Iris down
the sky to the Ilian fleet, and breathes a gale to speed her on,
revolving many a thought, and not yet satiate of the ancient pain.
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She turned away with looks fixed fast on the ground,
stirred no more in
countenance
by the speech he essays than if she stood
in iron flint or Marpesian stone.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Fine was the mitigated fury, like
Apollo's
presence
when in act to strike
The serpent--Ha, the serpent!
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Keats - Lamia |
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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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"
Fortune, who loves her cruel game,
Still bent upon some
heartless
whim,
Shifts her caresses, fickle dame,
Now kind to me, and now to him:
She stays; 'tis well: but let her shake
Those wings, her presents I resign,
Cloak me in native worth, and take
Chaste Poverty undower'd for mine.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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We were hemmed in this place,
so few of us, so few of us to fight
their sure lances,
the
straight
thrust--effortless
with slight life of muscle and shoulder.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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--
Regardent le
boulanger
faire
Le lourd pain blond.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Thy master and thy
mistress
live.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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The city won for Allah from the Giaour,
The Giaour from Othman's race again may wrest;
And the Serai's
impenetrable
tower
Receive the fiery Frank, her former guest;
Or Wahab's rebel brood, who dared divest
The Prophet's tomb of all its pious spoil,
May wind their path of blood along the West;
But ne'er will Freedom seek this fated soil,
But slave succeed to slave through years of endless toil.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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'
To The Sole Concern
All
Summarised
The Soul.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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What these strong masters wrote at large in miles,
I followed in small copy in my acre;
For there's no rood has not a star above it;
The cordial quality of pear or plum
Ascends as gladly in a single tree
As in broad orchards
resonant
with bees;
And every atom poises for itself,
And for the whole.
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Emerson - Poems |
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"They charged, they struck; both fell, both bled;
Brain rose again, ungloved;
Heart
fainting
smiled, and softly said,
`My love to my Beloved.
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Sidney Lanier |
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_37 Bitter
editions
1839; Better 1824.
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Shelley |
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'
Thus
clamored
his mind to his mind:
Not fleshly dole is the sinner's goal,
Hell's not below, nor yet above,
'Tis fixed in the ever-damned soul --'
`Fixed?
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Sidney Lanier |
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THAT WAS MY COUNTER-BLADE UNDER
LEONARDO
TERRONE, MASTER OF FENCE
i~* ONE while your tastes were keen to you, \J Gone where the grey winds call to you,
By that high fencer, even Death,
Struck of the blade that no man parrieth;
Such is your fence, one saith, One that hath known you.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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"If I'm design'd yon lordling's slave--
By Nature's law design'd--
Why was an
independent
wish
E'er planted in my mind?
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Robert Burns |
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Thou first reveal'st to us thy face
Turned o'er the shoulder's parting grace,
A moment glimpsed, then seen no more,--
Thou whose swift
footsteps
we can trace 30
Away from every mortal door.
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James Russell Lowell |
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In A New Night
Woman I've lived with
Woman I live with
Woman I'll live with
Always the same
You need a red cloak
Red gloves a red mask
And dark stockings
The reasons the proofs
Of seeing you quite naked
Nudity pure O ready finery
Breasts O my heart
Fertile Eyes
Fertile Eyes
No one can know me more
More than you know me
Your eyes in which we sleep
The two of them
Have cast a spell on my male orbs
Greater than worldly nights
Your eyes where I voyage
Have given the road-signs
Directions
detached
from the earth
In your eyes those that show us
Our infinite solitude
Is no more than they think exists
No one can know me more
More than you know me.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Except for insults, do you lack
courage?
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Night on the Prairies
Night on the prairies,
The supper is over, the fire on the ground burns low,
The wearied
emigrants
sleep, wrapt in their blankets;
I walk by myself--I stand and look at the stars, which I think now
never realized before.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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_35
Then stay thy swift steps mid the dark
mountain
heather,
Though chill blow the wind and severe is the weather,
For perfidy, traveller!
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Shelley |
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Then o'er her head she cast a veil more white
Than new-fallen snow, and
dazzling
as the light.
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Iliad - Pope |
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(and thou,
ineffable
guest and sister!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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But spite of that and lasting,
And hours of
sleepless
care,
The soul of Andrew Jackson
Shone forth in glory there.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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J'ai suivi des mois pleins,
pareille
aux vacheries
Hysteriques, la houle a l'assaut des recifs,
Sans songer que les pieds lumineux des Maries
Pussent forcer le muffle aux Oceans poussifs;
J'ai heurte, savez-vous?
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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It
presents
an ideal picture of Pope, the man and the
author, of his life, his friendships, his love of his parents, his
literary relationships and aims.
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Alexander Pope |
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When Juan sought the
subterranean
flood.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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)
Ships once our safety, and our glorious might,
Are doomed with worms and rottenness to fight,
Whilst France rides sovereign o'er the British
main,
Our
merchants
robbed, and our brave seamen>
ta'en.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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O, either 'twas some
stranger
passed, and shore
His locks for very ruth before that tomb:
Or, if he found perchance, to seek his home,
Some spy.
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Euripides - Electra |
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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'Twas a lay
More subtle cadenced, more forest wild
Than Dryope's lone lulling of her child;
And nothing since has floated in the air
So
mournful
strange.
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Keats |
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Half-past three,
The lamp sputtered,
The lamp
muttered
in the dark.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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This must be our task
In Heav'n, this our delight; how wearisom
Eternity
so spent in worship paid
To whom we hate.
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Milton |
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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THE BOOK OF PICTURES
PRESAGING
I am like a flag unfurled in space,
I scent the oncoming winds and must bend with them,
While the things beneath are not yet stirring,
While doors close gently and there is silence in the chimneys
And the windows do not yet tremble and the dust is still heavy--
Then I feel the storm and am vibrant like the sea
And expand and
withdraw
into myself
And thrust myself forth and am alone in the great storm.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Imagists |
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He should be
thankful
to myself for that.
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Yeats |
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And for the Grekes weren me so leve,
I com my-self in my propre persone,
To teche in this how yow was best to done;
`Havinge
un-to my tresour ne my rente 85
Right no resport, to respect of your ese.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Heu quse cervices subnectunt pectora tales,
Frigidiora gelu,
candidiora
nive ?
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Marvell - Poems |
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_ Legal
authority
conferred.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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"'What hurts thee,
Polypheme?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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And only
inwardly
inclines,
As we are wont if there draws nigh
A stranger on his final round.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Rarely of shadowing wood the silence lone,
The
solitary
horror pleased so well,
Except that of my sun too much I lose.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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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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Here every tree is strange to me,
All foreign things where eer I go,
There's none where boyhood made a swee
Or
clambered
up to rob a crow.
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John Clare |
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His speech is in their stammering tongue,
And His
forgiveness
in their smile.
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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nec pignora longe;
quippe bis ad partus uenit Lucina manuque
ipsa leui
grauidos
tetigit fecunda labores.
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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' to whom Geraint replied,
'O friend, I seek a
harbourage
for the night.
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Tennyson |
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' EJC}
That he may also draw Ahania's spirit into her Vortex {This line appears to have been inserted between 2
previously
written lines EJC}
Ah happy blindness [she] Enion sees not the terrors of the uncertain
And oft thus she wails from the dark deep, the golden heavens tremble {Of the 100 lines that make up p.
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Blake - Zoas |
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The mist of eve was rising,
The sun was hastening down,
When he was aware of a
princely
pair
Fast pricking towards the town.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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At least if before thy flight a child of thine had been clasped in my
arms,--if a tiny Aeneas were playing in my hall, whose face might yet
image thine,--I would not think myself ensnared and
deserted
utterly.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Such often might be gleaned
From the great City, else it must have proved
To me a heart-depressing wilderness; 115
But much was wanting:
therefore
did I turn
To you, ye pathways, and ye lonely roads;
Sought you enriched with everything I prized,
With human kindnesses and simple joys.
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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" we cry,
Heart-sick with hope deferred:
"No
speaking
signs are in the sky,"
Is still the watchman's word.
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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come, I pray,
With speed put on your
woodland
dress,
And bring no book; for this one day
We'll give to idleness.
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible
explanation of the
extraordinary
amount of suffering that there is in the
world.
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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What rumour without is there
breeding?
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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I had trod the road which Dante
treading
saw
the suns of seven circles shine,
Ay!
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Wilde - Poems |
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]
38 (return)
[ These, as well as other resemblances suggested by ancient geographers, have been mostly
destroyed
by the greater accuracy of modern maps.
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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A foe may meet thee of a braver kind,
Who,
shortening
with a storm of blows thy stay,
Shall send thee howling all in blood away!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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On the other hand, it is clear that a poem may be
improperly
brief.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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I found, ten years ago, that there were a
number of writers doing work which appeared to me extremely good, but
which was narrowly known; and I thought that anyone, however
unprofessional and meagrely gifted, who
presented
a conspectus of it in
a challenging and manageable form might be doing a good turn both to the
poets and to the reading public.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
|
You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose
such as creation of derivative works, reports,
performances
and
research.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Where each old poetic mountain
Inspiration
breathed
around;
Every shade and hallow'd fountain
Murmur'd deep a solemn sound:
Till the sad Nine, in Greece's evil hour
Left their Parnassus for the Latian plains.
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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A month or so before the
marriage
day,
A young man, in the laughing scorn of his youth,
Naisi, the son of Usnach, climbed up there,
And having wooed, or, as some say, been wooed,
Carried her off.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
|
The smitten rock that gushes,
The
trampled
steel that springs;
A cheek is always redder
Just where the hectic stings!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Tenants of the house,
Thoughts
of a dry brain in a dry season.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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The
uncommonly
deep snow has made him think
Of his old song, _The Wild Colonial Boy_,
He always used to sing along the tote-road.
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Idomenean
mounts shall I scale?
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Catullus - Carmina |
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_ Beleses, why
So wrapt in thy
devotions?
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Byron |
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The rain, it rains not every day
On the soak'd meads; the Caspian main
Not always feels the unequal sway
Of storms, nor on Armenia's plain,
Dear Valgius, lies the cold dull snow
Through all the year; nor
northwinds
keen
Upon Garganian oakwoods blow,
And strip the ashes of their green.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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My soul burns with the
quenchless
fire
That lit my lover's funeral pyre:
Alas!
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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And perhaps the masts,
inviting
lightning,
Are those the gale bends over shipwrecks,
Lost, without masts, without masts, no fertile islands.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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May the blood-hounds of
misfortune never track his steps, nor the screech-owl of sorrow alarm
his
dwelling!
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The lav'rock in the morning she'll rise frae her nest,
And mount i' the air wi' the dew on her breast,
And wi' the merry
ploughman
she'll whistle and sing,
And at night she'll return to her nest back again.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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The house of supposition,
The
glimmering
frontier
That skirts the acres of perhaps,
To me shows insecure.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Their deaths were dew-drops on Heaven's
amaranth
bower,
And tolled on flowers as Summer gales went by.
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John Clare |
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O wander without
brooding
through these valleys,
Through every oft-entwining path again.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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[Sidenote F: I menaced thee with one blow for the
covenant
between us on
the first night.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Down the steep rock with hurried feet and fast
Clomb the brave lad, and reached the cave of Pan,
And heard the goat-foot snoring as he passed,
And leapt upon a grassy knoll and ran
Like a young fawn unto an olive wood
Which in a shady valley by the well-built city stood;
And sought a little stream, which well he knew,
For oftentimes with boyish careless shout
The green and crested grebe he would pursue,
Or snare in woven net the silver trout,
And down amid the
startled
reeds he lay
Panting in breathless sweet affright, and waited for the day.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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He has given up the many
scenes of his
_Creadeamh
agus Gorta_, and has written a play in one
scene, which, as it can be staged without much trouble, has already
been played in several places.
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Yeats |
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Di quella valle fu' io litorano
tra Ebro e Macra, che per cammin corto
parte lo
Genovese
dal Toscano.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Keats - Lamia |
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If
business
is battle, name it so:
War-crimes less will shame it so,
And widows less will blame it so.
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Sidney Lanier |
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The heroic
companions whom we find celebrated partly by Homer and partly in
traditions which, if not of equal antiquity, were
grounded
on the
same feeling, seem to have but one heart and soul, with scarcely a
wish or object apart, and only to live as they are always ready to
die for one another.
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Iliad - Pope |
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But take it: if the smack is sour,
The better for the
embittered
hour;
It should do good to heart and head
When your soul is in my soul's stead;
And I will friend you, if I may,
In the dark and cloudy day.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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"The banks of the river were crowded with a
considerable
number of
women, their persons comely, and their dress elegant.
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Petrarch |
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Or why was the
substance
not made more sure
That formed the brave fronts of these palaces?
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Poor Merry Andrew in the neuk,
Sat guzzling wi' a tinkler hizzie;
They mind't na wha the chorus teuk,
Between
themselves
they were sae busy:
At length wi' drink and courting dizzy
He stoitered up an' made a face;
Then turn'd, an' laid a smack on Grizzie,
Syne tun'd his pipes wi' grave grimace.
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Robert Forst |
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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And
therefore the
reputation
of honesty must first be gotten, which cannot be
but by living well.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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M'Swiney
rather than in that of her own
governess
Mrs.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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I am
exceedingly
fond of Welsh rabbit.
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Poe - 5 |
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Woe to the eyes you dazzle without cloud
Untried!
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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But evermore a Claudius shrinks from a
stricken
field,
And changes color like a maid at sight of sword and shield.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Mark its scarred and
shattered
walls,
(Hark!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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, with
fundamental
meanings of division and
opposition: 1) w.
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Beowulf |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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On those bright eyes
attentive
let her gaze
Of her miscall'd my love, but sure my foe.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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LX
When Rollant heard that he should be rerewarden
Furiously
he spoke to his good-father:
"Aha!
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Chanson de Roland |
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