I found the phrase to every thought
I ever had, but one;
And that defies me, -- as a hand
Did try to chalk the sun
To races
nurtured
in the dark; --
How would your own begin?
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My crime once known, if you keep the flame,
What will envy and
falsehood
not proclaim!
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By them is
breathed
the purest air,
Where'er their wanderings may chance!
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while the feet
Of Rome's clay image, dabbled soft in blood,
Grow flat with dissolution and, as meet,
Will soon be
shovelled
off like other mud,
To leave the passage free in church and street.
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Is she not supple and strong
For hurried
passion?
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"Or mebbe you're intendin' of
Investments?
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Cart ruts and horses'
footings
scarcely yield
A slur for boys, just crizzled and that's all.
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It's
unreasonable
of that woman to
pretend there are.
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Kipling - Poems |
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To satin races he is nought;
But children on the Don
Beneath his
tabernacles
play,
And Dnieper wrestlers run.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Console thyself if ptlt in shadow's veiling
Soft shimmering, thou thy
previous
plenty seest,
And a Redeemer through the breezes sailing;
The distant wind that falters from the East.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Honour
inimical
to my dear prize,
You'll cost me yet a world of tears and sighs!
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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The same
sentiments are kept up with equal spirit and
tenderness
in the sixth
stanza, but the second and fourth lines ending with short syllables
hurt the whole.
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Robert Forst |
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VII
The light within her eyes, which slays Base thoughts and stilleth
troubled
waters,
Is like the gold where sunlight plays Upon the still overshadowed waters.
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We're going home to our own folks, beyond the ocean bars,
Where the air is full of
sunlight
and the flag is full of stars.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Toward what
eventual
dream
Sleeps its cold on,
When into ultimate dark
These lives shall be gone,
And even of man not a shadow remain
Of all he has done?
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Many a
glorious
pile
Did we behold, sights that might well repay
All disappointment!
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William Wordsworth |
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'
EARTH'S ANSWER
Earth raised up her head
From the
darkness
dread and drear,
Her light fled,
Stony, dread,
And her locks covered with grey despair.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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RUTH: OR THE
INFLUENCES
OF NATURE.
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Golden Treasury |
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"
[Illustration]
There was a young person of Janina,
Whose uncle was always a fanning her;
When he fanned off her head, she smiled sweetly, and said,
"You
propitious
old person of Janina!
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Lear - Nonsense |
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It was originally
accompanied
by singing and at one
time severely censured for its immoral character 4.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Fast by the springs where she to bathe was wont,
And in those meads where
sometime
she might haunt,
Were strewn rich gifts, unknown to any Muse,
Though Fancy's casket were unlock'd to choose.
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Keats |
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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that gav'st
Boldness to fix so earnestly my ken
On th' everlasting splendour, that I look'd,
While sight was unconsum'd, and, in that depth,
Saw in one volume clasp'd of love, whatever
The universe unfolds; all properties
Of substance and of accident, beheld,
Compounded, yet one
individual
light
The whole.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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How long thou shalt continue fair,
And (when
informed)
them throw'st away
To be the greedy vulture's prey.
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Marvell - Poems |
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The fine slender shoulder-blades:
The long arms, with
tapering
hands:
My small breasts: the hips well made
Full and firm, and sweetly planned,
All Love's tournaments to withstand:
The broad flanks: the nest of hair,
With plump thighs firmly spanned,
Inside its little garden there?
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Villon |
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CCXXI
The sixth column is mustered of Bretons;
Thirty
thousand
chevaliers therein come;
These canter in the manner of barons,
Upright their spears, their ensigns fastened on.
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Chanson de Roland |
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_Deep waters
noiseless
are_; and this we know,
_That chiding streams betray small depth below_.
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Robert Herrick |
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Or will Pity, in line with all I ask here,
Succour a poor man, without
crushing?
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Villon |
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But when my simple hope I would disclose,
My o'er-fraught faltering tongue the crowded
thoughts
oppress.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Two doves upon the selfsame branch,
Two lilies on a single stem,
Two
butterflies
upon one flower:--
O happy they who look on them.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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But now and then a
landlord
or an agent
or a gauger will go by begging his bread, to show how God divides the
righteous from the unrighteous.
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Yeats |
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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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Such boons and more doth bring into a home
The present
footstep
of its proper lord.
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Aeschylus |
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"Begin, my flute, with me
Maenalian
lays.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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He was a great killer not
only of
malefactors
but of "keres" or bogeys, such as "Old Age" and "Ague"
and the sort of "Death" that we find in this play.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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These notes are not so often heard in Donne,
but
So, so break off this last
lamenting
kiss
is of the same quality as
Had we never lov'd sae kindly
or
Take, O take those lips away.
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John Donne |
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They hanged him as a beast is hanged:
They did not even toll
A requiem that might have brought
Rest to his
startled
soul,
But hurriedly they took him out,
And hid him in a hole.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Joss paled, by gloom and dread o'ercast,
And Zeno trembled like a
yielding
mast.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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From Greenwich (where
intelligence
they hold)
Comes news of pastime martial and old.
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Marvell - Poems |
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A WOMAN AND HER DEAD HUSBAND
Ah, stern cold man,
How can you lie so
relentless
hard
While I wash you with weeping water!
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Imagists |
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But when the order came Po was already dead, having reached
the age of
somewhat
over sixty.
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Li Po |
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And well he loved to quit his home
And, Calmuck, in his wagon roam
To read new
landscapes
and old skies;--
But oh, to see his solar eyes
Like meteors which chose their way
And rived the dark like a new day!
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Emerson - Poems |
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Of wealthy lustre was the banquet-room,
Fill'd with
pervading
brilliance and perfume:
Before each lucid pannel fuming stood
A censer fed with myrrh and spiced wood,
Each by a sacred tripod held aloft,
Whose slender feet wide-swerv'd upon the soft
Wool-woofed carpets: fifty wreaths of smoke
From fifty censers their light voyage took
To the high roof, still mimick'd as they rose
Along the mirror'd walls by twin-clouds odorous.
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Keats - Lamia |
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The repetition makes us feel the
monotony
of her days and
nights of grief.
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Keats |
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Say, would you change for all the wealth possest
By rich
Achaemenes
or Phrygia's heir,
Or the full stores of Araby the blest,
One lock of her dear hair,
While to your burning lips she bends her neck,
Or with kind cruelty denies the due
She means you not to beg for, but to take,
Or snatches it from you?
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Peut-on illuminer un ciel
bourbeux
et noir?
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Have the spirit of
prophecy
likewise behind ?
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Marvell - Poems |
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Her throat was serpent, but the words she spake
Came, as through
bubbling
honey, for Love's sake,
And thus; while Hermes on his pinions lay,
Like a stoop'd falcon ere he takes his prey.
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Keats - Lamia |
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THE FAUN SEES SNOW FOR THE FIRST TIME
Zeus,
Brazen-thunder-hurler,
Cloud-whirler, son-of-Kronos,
Send
vengeance
on these Oreads
Who strew
White frozen flecks of mist and cloud
Over the brown trees and the tufted grass
Of the meadows, where the stream
Runs black through shining banks
Of bluish white.
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Imagists |
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Alexander Pope |
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She turns and looks a moment in the glass,
Hardly aware of her
departed
lover; 250
Her brain allows one half-formed thought to pass:
"Well now that's done: and I'm glad it's over.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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"
Mention should be made of some prose writings which Rilke
published
in
the year 1898 and shortly afterward.
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Rilke - Poems |
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It exists
because of the efforts of hundreds of
volunteers
and donations from
people in all walks of life.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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I once was persuaded a venture to make;
A letter inform'd me that all was to wreck;--
But the pursy old
landlord
just waddled up stairs,
With a glorious bottle that ended my cares.
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Robert Burns |
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The
flowerets
brush'd by zephyr's wing,
Waving their heads in frolic play,
Oft to my fond remembrance bring
The happy spot, the happier day,
In which, disporting with the gale, I view'd
Those sweet unbraided locks, that all my heart subdued.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Slim Lacon keeps a goat for thee,
For thee the jocund shepherds wait;
O Singer of
Persephone!
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Wilde - Poems |
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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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the
use of the word Blok in "Early English
Alliterative
Poems,"
p.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Unless you have removed all
references
to Project Gutenberg:
1.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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This reflection concerning Babel, which I find in no Commentary, was
first thrown upon my mind when an excellent deacon of my congregation
(being infected with the Second Advent delusion) assured me that he had
received a first instalment of the gift of tongues as a small earnest of
larger
possessions
in the like kind to follow.
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James Russell Lowell |
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FAUST:
Mein Herr Magister Lobesan,
Lass Er mich mit dem Gesetz in
Frieden!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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[180]
My best
compliments
to our friend Allan.
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Robert Forst |
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" When hail-hurling gales arise
Of
blustering
Equinox, to fan the strife,
It stands erect, with martial ardor rife,
A joyous soldier!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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What is your most
brilliant
feat?
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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If thou art staunch without a stain,
Like the
unchanging
blue, man,
This was a kinsman o' thy ain--
For Matthew was a true man.
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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And since till girls go maying
You find the primrose still,
And find the windflower playing
With every wind at will,
But not the daffodil,
Bring baskets now, and sally
Upon the spring's array,
And bear from hill and valley
The
daffodil
away
That dies on Easter day.
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Great joy he promis'd to his thoughts, and new
Solace in her return, so long delay'd;
Yet oft his heart, divine of somthing ill,
Misgave him; hee the faultring measure felt;
And forth to meet her went, the way she took
That Morn when first they parted; by the Tree
Of
Knowledge
he must pass, there he her met,
Scarse from the Tree returning; in her hand 850
A bough of fairest fruit that downie smil'd,
New gatherd, and ambrosial smell diffus'd.
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| Source: |
Milton |
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You descended through the water clear
I drowned my self so in your glance
The soldier passes she leans down
Turns and breaks away a branch
You float on
nocturnal
waves
The flame is my own heart reversed
Coloured as that comb's tortoiseshell
The wave that bathes you mirrors well
?
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Appoloinaire |
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Cries burst from all the
millions
that attend:
_"Ascend, Leviathan, it is the end!
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Of
detected
persons--To me, detected persons are not, in any respect, worse
than undetected persons--and are not in any respect worse than I am
myself.
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Whitman |
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One thing there is alone, that doth deform thee;
In the midst of thee, O field, so fair and
verdant!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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'4
THE GOOSE GIRL'S SONG By Laura Benet
Last morn as I was
bleaching
the queen's linen On the moor-grass sere and dry,
A breath of summer breeze it blew my apron To the four parts of the sky;
And as I started up tiptoe with wonder And gazed towards the town,
A little round well opened to my footsteps With water clear and brown.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Then the
character
of
the narrative changes.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Shuttleworthy's heart good to see the old fellow
swallow it, as he did, quart after quart; so that, one day, when the
wine was in and the wit as a natural consequence, somewhat out, he said
to his crony, as he slapped him upon the back--"I tell you what it is,
'Old Charley,' you are, by all odds, the
heartiest
old fellow I ever
came across in all my born days; and, since you love to guzzle the wine
at that fashion, I'll be darned if I don't have to make thee a present
of a big box of the Chateau-Margaux.
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Poe - 5 |
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Collins, Heinemann, Hodder and
Stoughton, John Lane, Macmillan, Martin Secker, Selwyn and Blount,
Sidgwick and Jackson, and the Golden
Cockerel
Press; and to the Editors
of 'The Cbapbook', 'The London Mercury' and 'The Westminster
Gazette'.
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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PALAEMON
Say on then, since on the greensward we sit,
And now is
burgeoning
both field and tree;
Now is the forest green, and now the year
At fairest.
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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"
It was the desire of beauty that made her a poet; her "nerves of
delight" were always
quivering
at the contact of beauty.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Now that's worth
hearing!
| Guess: |
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
There are two not strictly orthodox
opinions
to which Donne seems to
have leant: (1) this, perhaps a remnant of his belief in Purgatory,
the theory of a state of preparation, in this doctrine applied even
to the saints; (2) a form of the doctrine now called 'Conditional
Immortality'.
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That's all that's left already of our true play,
Where the pure poet's gesture, humble, vast
Must deny the dream, the enemy of his trust:
So that on the morning of his exalted stay,
When ancient death is for him as for Gautier,
The un-opening of sacred eyes, the being-still,
The solid tomb may rise,
ornament
this hill,
The sepulchre where lies the power to blight,
And miserly silence and the massive night.
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His billows roll where
monsters
wander in the foamy paths
On clouds the Sons of Urizen beheld Heaven walled round {Irretrievable word following "beheld.
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Blake - Zoas |
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How the lit lake shines, a
phosphoric
sea,
And the big rain comes dancing to the earth!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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In this circumstance, and those
afterwards
related, the North American savages exactly agree with the ancient Germans.
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Tacitus |
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What not put vpon
His spungie
Officers?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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The robe, that with its regal folds enwraps
The world, and with the nearer breath of God
Doth burn and quiver, held so far retir'd
Its inner hem and skirting over us,
That yet no glimmer of its majesty
Had stream'd unto me:
therefore
were mine eyes
Unequal to pursue the crowned flame,
That rose and sought its natal seed of fire;
And like to babe, that stretches forth its arms
For very eagerness towards the breast,
After the milk is taken; so outstretch'd
Their wavy summits all the fervent band,
Through zealous love to Mary: then in view
There halted, and "Regina Coeli" sang
So sweetly, the delight hath left me never.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Pain turned to
pleasure
at his call,
Health lived and issued from his voice.
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John Clare |
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Then was
laughter
of liegemen loud resounding
with winsome words.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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sed uobis facile est uerba et
componere
fraudes:
hoc unum didicit femina semper opus.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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"How, then, does it happen," resumed my judge, "that the officer and
gentleman be the only one
pardoned
by the usurper, while all his
comrades are massacred in cold blood?
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Then "mid the gray there peeps a glimmer soon,
A new light rises 'neath the evening star,
A grass-plot
stretches
o'er a crag afar.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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VII
The light within her eyes, which slays Base thoughts and stilleth
troubled
waters,
Is like the gold where sunlight plays Upon the still overshadowed waters.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Even as a fire leaps into flame and burns
Leaping and
laughing
in its lovely flight,
And then under the flame a glowing dome
Deepens slowly into blood-like light:--
So did you flame and in flame take delight,
So are you hollow'd now with aching fire.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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[Illustration]
There was a young person in red,
Who
carefully
covered her head,
With a bonnet of leather, and three lines of feather,
Besides some long ribands of red.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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You will not then on palfrey nor on steed,
Jennet nor mule, come
cantering
in your speed;
Flung you will be on a vile sumpter-beast;
Tried there and judged, your head you will not keep.
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Chanson de Roland |
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The
cherubim
are winged oxen, but in no way monstrous.
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