qui non ante patet, donec manus attigit ossa:
quisquis es,
assiduas
a fuge blanditias!
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org
Title: The Queen Of Spades
1901
Author: Alexander
Sergeievitch
Poushkin
Translator: H.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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It is further
noteworthy
that
to several poems unnamed in _D_, _H49_, _Lec_ the editor of _1633_ has
given the title which these bear in _A18_, _N_, _TCC_, and _TCD_, as
though he had access to both the collections at the same time.
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le
magnifique
fleuve
De tes pleurs aboutit dans mon coeur soucieux;
Ton mensonge m'enivre, et mon ame s'abreuve
Aux flots que la Douleur fait jaillir de tes yeux!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Me, Pallas gave to lead the martial storm,
And the fair ranks of battle to deform;
Me, Mars
inspired
to turn the foe to flight,
And tempt the secret ambush of the night.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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He is at peace--this
wretched
man--
At peace, or will be soon:
There is no thing to make him mad,
Nor does Terror walk at noon,
For the lampless Earth in which he lies
Has neither Sun nor Moon.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Prove me, my
gracious
lord.
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Shakespeare |
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Of selynesse I pryze thee moe yan all
Heaven can mee sende, or counynge wytt acquyre,
Yette I wylle leave thee, onne the foe to falle,
Retournynge
to thie eyne with double fyre.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Girls, lovers, youngsters, fresh to hand,
Dancers,
tumblers
that leap like lambs,
Agile as arrows, like shots from a cannon,
Throats tinkling, clear as bells on rams,
Will you leave him here, your poor old Villon?
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Villon |
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I observed that very few of the more mystical Quatrains are in
the
Bodleian
MS.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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No imaginative
writer, however, in the whole range of English Literature, is so
peculiarly identified with locality as Wordsworth is; and there is not
one on the roll of poets, the appreciation of whose writings is more
aided by an
intimate
knowledge of the district in which he lived.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Project Gutenberg
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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He fixedly upon her stares--
She calm and
unconcerned
appears.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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But with many moans and tears
Pallas'
comrades
lay him on his shield and bear him away amid their
ranks.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Faith, niece, you tax Signior
Benedick
too much; but he'll
be meet with you, I doubt it not.
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Shakespeare |
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Please do not assume that a book's
appearance
in Google Book Search means it can be used in any manner anywhere in the world.
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Meredith - Poems |
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This
murtherous
Shaft that's shot,
Hath not yet lighted: and our safest way,
Is to auoid the ayme.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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--Endure and be still:
Thy
lamenting
will not wake her.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Swiftly and quietly down she slips,
A lighthouse to starboard, and one to port,
The colored lanterns of passing ships, A tow of barges, an old gray fort;
And we aboard her are lulled to rest
By the rhythmic beat of her mighty heart,
By the song of the winds from the salt
southwest
And the wash of the waters her great prows part.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Such noble aliment sustains my soul,
That Jove I envy not his godlike food;
I gaze on her--and feel each other good
Engulph'd in that blest draught at Lethe's bowl:
Her every word I in my heart enrol,
That on its grief it still may
constant
brood;
Prostrate by Love--my doom not understood
From that one form, I feel a twin control.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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"O
childish
minds!
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Would
you submit to the
caprices
of fortune a glory acquired for so long a
time, and at so great a cost?
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Petrarch |
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"
Later he saw that each weed
Was a
singular
knife.
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Stephen Crane |
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e
prophetes
wilned hym forto see; & many kynges also,
?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Some
Egyptian
royal love-lilt, 5
Some Sidonian refrain,
Vows of Paphos or of Tyre,
Mount against the silver sun.
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Sappho |
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]
I stood by the waves, while the stars soared in sight,
Not a cloud specked the sky, not a sail shimmered bright;
Scenes beyond this dim world were revealed to mine eye;
And the woods, and the hills, and all nature around,
Seem'd to question with moody,
mysterious
sound,
The waves, and the pure stars on high.
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Hugo - Poems |
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zip *****
This and all
associated
files of various formats will be found in:
http://www.
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Stephen Crane |
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Finally, he gave
presents
to the "ladies of
Mo-ling," hoping to secure a concubine.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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and
praising
(or valuing)
their great eating of flesh as the cause of their increase in strength.
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James Russell Lowell |
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So one day when I was nine years old my
father
punished
me--the only time I was ever punished--by
shutting me in a room alone for a whole day.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Your goodness
will excuse this distracted scrawl, which the writer dare scarcely
read, and which he would throw into the fire, were he able to write
anything better, or indeed
anything
at all.
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Robert Forst |
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"
"Your excellency,
endeavour
to suborn.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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An idle whim
To see the rebels on the
Scottish
Gate,--
And there was the face of him I was made to love,
There,--ah God,--on the gate, my murder'd lad!
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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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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Golden Treasury |
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Heare us, O heare us Lord; to thee
A sinner is more musique, when he prayes, 200
Then spheares, or Angels praises bee,
In
Panegyrique
Allelujaes;
Heare us, for till thou heare us, Lord
We know not what to say;
Thine eare to'our sighes, teares, thoughts gives voice and word.
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John Donne |
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Instances
are our own Border Ballads and Robin Hood Ballads; the Servian cycles of
the Battle of Kossovo and the prowess of Marko; the modern Greek songs
of the revolt against Turkey (the
conditions
of which seem to have been
similar to those which surrounded the growth of our riding ballads); the
fragments of Finnish legend which were pieced together into the
_Kalevala_; the Ossianic poetry; and perhaps some of the minor sagas
should be put in here.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Almost simultaneously a disturbance broke out in Germany, where 46
the inefficiency of the generals, the disaffection of the troops, the
strength of the enemy, and the
treachery
of our allies all combined to
bring the Roman government into serious danger.
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Tacitus |
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Close bosom-friend of the
maturing
sun;
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eaves run;
To bend with apples the moss'd cottage-trees,
And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;
To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells
With a sweet kernel; to set budding more
And still more, later flowers for the bees,
Until they think warm days will never cease;
For Summer has o'erbrimm'd their clammy cells.
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Golden Treasury |
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Storms came and shook thee many a weary hour,
Yet
stedfast
to thy home thy roots have been;
Summers of thirst parched round thy homely bower
Till earth grew iron--still thy leaves were green.
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John Clare |
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Crashing the lance, he snuffs the
spouting
gore
Of man and steed, o'erthrown beneath his horn:
The thronged arena shakes with shouts for more;
Yells the mad crowd o'er entrails freshly torn,
Nor shrinks the female eye, nor e'en affects to mourn.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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And for that riches where is my
deserving?
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Golden Treasury |
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"
XII
"But thou--what dost thou here
In the old man's
peaceful
hall?
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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And on this Aeneas
descries
from sea a mighty forest.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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It
presents
a fish-like shape on the map.
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Whitman |
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HORATIAN
ODE UPON CROMWELL'S RETURN FROM IRELAND.
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Golden Treasury |
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Whiles I stood rapt in the wonder of it, came
Missiues
from
the King, who all-hail'd me Thane of Cawdor, by which Title
before, these weyward Sisters saluted me, and referr'd me to
the comming on of time, with haile King that shalt be.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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" said the colonel: the battle
had shuddered and faded away,
Wraith of a fiery enchantment that left only
ashes and blood-sprinkled clay--
"Ride to the left and examine that ridge, where
the enemy's
sharpshooters
stood.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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They are
destitute
of arms, horses, and settled abodes: their food is herbs; 274 their clothing, skins; their bed, the ground.
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Tacitus |
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And has not such a Story from of Old
Down Man's
successive
generations roll'd
Of such a clod of saturated Earth
Cast by the Maker into Human mold?
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Lady of wrong and grief,
Blameless
!
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Easy
Easy and beautiful under
your eyelids
As the meeting of pleasure
Dance and the rest
I spoke the fever
The best reason for fire
That you might be pale and luminous
A thousand fruitful poses
A thousand ravaged embraces
Repeated move to erase themselves
You grow dark you unveil yourself
A mask you
control it
It deeply resembles you
And you seem nothing but
lovelier
naked
Naked in shadow and dazzlingly naked
Like a sky shivering with flashes of lightning
You reveal yourself to you
To reveal yourself to others
Talking of Power and Love
Between all my torments between death and self
Between my despair and the reason for living
There is injustice and this evil of men
That I cannot accept there is my anger
There are the blood-coloured fighters of Spain
There are the sky-coloured fighters of Greece
The bread the blood the sky and the right to hope
For all the innocents who hate evil
The light is always close to dying
Life always ready to become earth
But spring is reborn that is never done with
A bud lifts from dark and the warmth settles
And the warmth will have the right of the selfish
Their atrophied senses will not resist
I hear the fire talk lightly of coolness
I hear a man speak what he has not known
You who were my flesh's sensitive conscience
You I love forever you who made me
You will not tolerate oppression or injury
You'll sing in dream of earthly happiness
You'll dream of freedom and I'll continue you
The Beloved
She is standing on my eyelids
And her hair is wound in mine,
She has the form of my hands,
She has the colour of my eyes,
She is swallowed by my shadow
Like a stone against the sky.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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It may only be
used on or associated in any way with an
electronic
work by people who
agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement.
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Keats - Lamia |
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100
Wyth herte brymm-fulle of
gnawynge
grief,
Hee to Syr CHARLES dydd goe,
And satt hymm downe uponne a stoole,
And teares beganne to flowe.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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"
But I, grown shrewder, scan the skies
With a
suspicious
air, --
As children, swindled for the first,
All swindlers be, infer.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Who talks of Babylon when God even now
Is
training
her fierce champion, Holofernes,
Into the death a woman holds before him?
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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True is, less firmly arm'd, 430
Some disadvantage we endur'd and paine,
Till now not known, but known as soon contemnd,
Since now we find this our Empyreal forme
Incapable
of mortal injurie
Imperishable, and though peirc'd with wound,
Soon closing, and by native vigour heal'd.
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Milton |
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Donations are accepted in a number of other
ways
including
checks, online payments and credit card donations.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER
WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED,
INCLUDING
BUT NOT LIMITED TO
WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE.
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Stephen Crane |
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Thou art my friend, Baldazzar,
And I have not forgotten it--thou'lt do me
A piece of service; wilt thou go back and say
Unto this man, that I, the Earl of Leicester,
Hold him a
villain?
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Must he then only live to weep,
Who'd prove his
friendship
true and deep?
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
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Royalty
payments
must be paid
within 60 days following each date on which you prepare (or are
legally required to prepare) your periodic tax returns.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Copyright laws in most countries are in
a
constant
state of change.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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e
grattest
of gres ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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How the
hemlocks
are tipped in tinsel
By the wizard sun!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Or, il s'est accroupi frileux, les doigts de pied
Replies grelottant au clair soleil qui plaque
Des jaunes de
brioches
aux vitres de papiers,
Et le nez du bonhomme ou s'allume la laque
Renifle aux rayons, tel qu'un charnel polypier.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Theophile Gautier (1811-1872)
Theophile Gautier
'Theophile Gautier'
Felix Henri Bracquemond, 1833 - 1914, The New York Public Library: Digital Collections
Sonnet
To vein her brow's pallor, delicate,
Japan has granted its
clearest
blue;
The white porcelain is of white less true
Than her lucent neck, her temples of agate;
In her moist eye gleams a gentle light;
The nightingale's voice is harsher yet,
And, when she rises in our dark night,
We praise the moon in a cloudy dress;
Her silver eyes, burnished, move fluidly;
Caprice has pointed her pert little nose;
Her mouth has the red of raspberry, peach;
Her movements flow with a Chinese flow,
And beside her one breathes from her beauty
Something sweet, like the fragrance of tea.
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19th Century French Poetry |
|
)
13
My spirit has pass'd in
compassion
and determination around the whole earth,
I have look'd for equals and lovers and found them ready for me in
all lands,
I think some divine rapport has equalized me with them.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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DE
TKAJCaULTIOKS
VULOI KRBOUUM D.
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Marvell - Poems |
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All things invite
To peaceful Counsels, and the settl'd State
Of order, how in safety best we may 280
Compose our present evils, with regard
Of what we are and where,
dismissing
quite
All thoughts of Warr: ye have what I advise.
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Milton |
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)
9
_basiei_
O, et R m.
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Latin - Catullus |
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And you are he: the deity
To whom all lovers are designed,
That would their better objects find;
Among which faithful troop am I;
Who, as an offering at your shrine,
Have sung this hymn, and here entreat
One spark of your diviner heat
To light upon a love of mine;
Which, if it kindle not, but scant
Appear, and that to
shortest
view,
Yet give me leave t' adore in you
What I, in her, am grieved to want.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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From Kelso town I took the road
By the full-flood Tweed;
The black clouds swept across the moon
With
devouring
greed.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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I have tiding,
Glad tiding, behold how in duty
From far
Lehistan
the wind, gliding.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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Do not give
yourselves
so
much trouble; I know where there are some, fine and large ones.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Aristophanes |
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Keats |
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They stand at the door practising
tranquil
lays.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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III
Now on the place of slaughter
Are cots and
sheepfolds
seen,
And rows of vines, and fields of wheat,
And apple-orchards green;
The swine crush the big acorns
That fall from Corne's oaks.
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Compared
with the speed of its flight,
The tempest itself lags behind,
And the swift-winged arrows of light.
| Guess: |
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Golden Treasury |
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) can copy and distribute it in the United States without
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Lycius, perplex'd at words so blind and blank,
Made close inquiry; from whose touch she shrank,
Feigning a sleep; and he to the dull shade
Of deep sleep in a moment was betray'd
It was the custom then to bring away
The bride from home at blushing shut of day,
Veil'd, in a chariot, heralded along
By strewn flowers, torches, and a
marriage
song,
With other pageants: but this fair unknown
Had not a friend.
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Keats - Lamia |
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Spurred furious Hate; he foamed at mouth,
His breath was hot upon the air,
His breath
scorched
souls, as a dry drought
Withers green trees and burns them bare.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Le Testament: Epitaph et Rondeau
Epitaph
Here there lies, and sleeps in the grave,
One whom Love killed with his scorn,
A poor little scholar in every way,
He was named
Francois
Villon.
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Villon |
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Respecting
him, my soul abjures the offence;
And as the crime, I dread the consequence.
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Iliad - Pope |
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And it bears the fruit of Deceit,
Ruddy and sweet to eat,
And the raven his nest has made
In its
thickest
shade.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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And now for
fourteen
days and nights, at least,
He hadn't had his clothes off, and had lain
In muddy trenches, napping like a beast
With one eye open, under sun and rain
And that unceasing hell-fire.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Jove, guardian of the suppliant's rights, who all
Transgressors marks, and
punishes
all wrong,
Avenge me on the treach'rous race!
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Spurreynge
his palfrie oere the watrie plaine.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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A noble
convent!
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Longfellow |
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Here by the
labouring
highway
With empty hands I stroll:
Sea-deep, till doomsday morning,
Lie lost my heart and soul.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Upon Delacroix he lavished the
largesse
of his admiration.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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No longer the flowers are gay,
The
springtime
hath lost its caress,
Alone I will dream to-day,
Weep in the silent recess.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Robert Grant and the
_Nation_
(New York):--"The Superman.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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And you, even you, will be like this drear thing,
A vile
infection
man may not endure;
Star that I yearn to!
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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And over the wide field friend and foe
Spoke of small things,
remembering
not old woe
Of war and hunger, hatred and fierce words.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Not the Pilot
Not the pilot has charged himself to bring his ship into port,
though beaten back and many times baffled;
Not the pathfinder
penetrating
inland weary and long,
By deserts parch'd, snows chill'd, rivers wet, perseveres till he
reaches his destination,
More than I have charged myself, heeded or unheeded, to compose
march for these States,
For a battle-call, rousing to arms if need be, years, centuries hence.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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If I
renounced
her love, she'd scorn me:
She ought not, for love it is adorns me.
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Troubador Verse |
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And thou, my son,
With what art thou
employed?
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Hesitated
so
This side the victory!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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of the land where now
I strike my strain, far distant, to applaud
Beauties
that even a cynic must avow!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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