LIII
But meanwhile axe and lever
Have
manfully
been plied;
And now the bridge hangs tottering
Above the boiling tide.
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ades huc emissus ab atro
limine, cui soli cuncta
impetrare
facultas,
Glaucia!
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Robert Forst |
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AND, dost thou ask the reason of my
sadness?
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Byron |
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For Wyrd oft saveth
earl
undoomed
if he doughty be!
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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By faint degrees, voice, lute, and pleasure ceased;
A deadly silence step by step increased,
Until it seem'd a horrid
presence
there,
And not a man but felt the terror in his hair.
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Keats - Lamia |
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Rather stout blows with Durendal I'll lay,
With my good sword that by my side doth sway;
Till
bloodied
o'er you shall behold the blade.
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Chanson de Roland |
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s blackness fell, lit
lanterns
and opened his gates.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Modern editors of what they call the "Roman Elegies"
bring
abundant
annotation, and often detail Goethe's own emendations.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Ungern heb ich das
Gastrecht
auf,
Die Tur ist offen, hast freien Lauf.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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m platz lo gais temps de pascor
'And so that you may carry news of me, know that I am
Bertrand
de Born,
he who gave evil counsel to the Young King.
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Troubador Verse |
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Yea, and thus
Is Aphrodite to
dishonour
cast,
The queen of rapture unto mortal men.
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Aeschylus |
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When we come to Tasso and
Camoens, we seem to have gone backward in this respect; we seem to come
upon poetry in which
supernatural
machinery is in a state of chronic
insubordination.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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'Tis great turmoil, when a guest
Comes to a
mourning
house.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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no
medelyng
of goode in hys solitarie
wrecchednesse.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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This July
creature
thought perhaps
Our speech not worth assuming;
She sat upon her parents' laps
And mimicked the gnat's humming;
IX.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Daffodil
bulbs instead of balls
Stared from the sockets of the eyes!
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T.S. Eliot |
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WHOis she coming, that the roses bend
Their
shameless
heads to do her honour ?
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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"Let my foes choke, and my friends shout afar,
While through the thronged streets your bridal car
Wheels round its
dazzling
spokes.
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Keats - Lamia |
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_ To exhibit the
characteristics
of.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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That new-born nation, the new sons of Earth,
With war's
lightning
bolts creating dearth,
Beat down these fine walls, on every hand,
Then vanished to the countries of their birth,
That not even Jove's sire, in all his worth,
Might boast a Roman Empire in this land.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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THE SOLITUDE OF
ALEXANDER
SELKIRK.
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Golden Treasury |
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As the little tiny swallow or the chaffinch,
Round their warm and cosey nest are seen to hover,
So hovers there the mother dear who bore him;
And aye she weeps, as flows a river's water;
His sister weeps as flows a streamlet's water;
His
youthful
wife, as falls the dew from heaven--
The Sun, arising, dries the dew of heaven.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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You lead me to the
withering
balustrade,
The gardens' sesame has become so strange.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Lo, now that body is the song whereof
Spirit is mood, knoweth not our
delight?
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Divinely do I know, when life is clean,
How like a noble shape of golden glass
The passions of the body, powers of the mind,
Chalice the sweet
immortal
wine of soul,
That, as a purple fragrance dwells in air
From vintage poured, fills the corrupting world
With its own savour.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Some lords, who stood
around there,
respectfully
opened a way for the young girl.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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And
Lucretius
designs a whole book in his sixth:--
"Quod in primo quoque carmine claret.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Rodrigue
But the
infamous
shall not remain above.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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THE LEGACY-HUNTER CONSIDERS A
MARRIAGE
_de Convenance_
Paula would like to marry me;
But I have no desire to get her.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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From no ignoble race, in future days,
The Gods shall prove thee sprung, whom so endow'd
With ev'ry grace
Penelope
hath borne.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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And question'd every gust of rugged wings
That blows from off each beaked promontory:
They knew not of his story;
And sage
Hippotades
their answer brings,
That not a blast was from his dungeon stray'd;
The air was calm, and on the level brine
Sleek Panope with all her sisters play'd.
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Golden Treasury |
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Consequently, these
Epistles in their progress (if I have health and leisure to make any
progress) will be less dry, and more
susceptible
of poetical ornament.
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Alexander Pope |
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Some kill their love when they are young,
And some when they are old;
Some
strangle
with the hands of Lust,
Some with the hands of Gold:
The kindest use a knife, because
The dead so soon grow cold.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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There you'll lie
In noon's delight, with bees to flash above you,
Drown amid buttercups that blaze in the wind,
Forgetting
all save beauty.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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not that here thy Bust
Is mix'd with Heroes, or with Kings thy dust; 10
But that the Worthy and the Good shall say,
Striking
their pensive bosoms--_Here_ lies GAY.
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Alexander Pope |
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) What didst thou say,
Jacinta?
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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The reminiscence comes
Of sunless dry geraniums
And dust in crevices,
Smells of chestnuts in the streets
And female smells in shuttered rooms
And cigarettes in corridors
And
cocktail
smells in bars.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Pay we our vows and go; yet when we part,
Then, even then, I will
bequeath
my heart
Into thy loving hands; for I'll keep none
To warm my breast, when thou, my pulse, art gone,
No, here I'll last, and walk, a harmless shade,
About this urn, wherein thy dust is laid,
To guard it so, as nothing here shall be
Heavy, to hurt those sacred seeds of thee.
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Robert Herrick |
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TO HIS
HOUSEHOLD
GODS.
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Robert Herrick |
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Thinking
about his embrace and its pleasures, she seems to be asking
Shouldn't our glorious son here at our side stand erect?
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Here, forgive us all our scorning;
Here, we promise milder duty:
And the evening and the morning
Shall re-organize in beauty
A sabbath day of sabbath joy, for
universal
chanting.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Wild ass or trotting jackal comes and couches in the
mouldering
gates:
Wild satyrs call unto their mates across the fallen fluted drums.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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"An unseen tomb-torch flickers on thy path,
Whilst, as from vial full, thy spare-naught wrath
Splashes this
trembling
race:
These are thy grass as thou their trenchant scythes
Cleaving their neck as 'twere a willow withe--
Their blood none can efface.
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Hugo - Poems |
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I see a better state to me belongs
Than that which on thy humour doth depend:
Thou canst not vex me with
inconstant
mind,
Since that my life on thy revolt doth lie.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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In short, unable by their schemes to get
The morsel she'd so
fortunately
met,
Each nun exerted all her art to find,
What equally might satisfy the mind.
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La Fontaine |
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How long, how long, in infinite Pursuit
Of This and That
endeavour
and dispute?
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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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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_Wit_ shoots in vain its
momentary
fires,
The meteor drops, and in a flash expires.
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Alexander Pope |
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I weep alone the woes which all my kind
Should weep--for virtue's fairest flower has pined
Beneath thy touch: what second blooms
instead?
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Petrarch |
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E'en as from aery heights of mountain springeth a springlet
Limpidest leaping forth from rocking felted with moss,
Then having headlong rolled the prone-laid valley downpouring,
Populous region amid wendeth his gradual way, 60
Sweetest solace of all to the sweltering traveller wayworn,
Whenas the heavy heat fissures the fiery fields;
Or, as to seamen lost in night of whirlwind a-glooming
Gentle of breath there comes fairest and
favouring
breeze,
Pollux anon being prayed, nor less vows offered to Castor:-- 65
Such was the aidance to us Manius pleased to afford.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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_Crank_, the noise of an
ungreased
wheel--metaphorically inharmonious
verse.
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Robert Burns |
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Paris could not lay the fold
Belted down with emerald;
Venice could not show a cheek
Of a tint so
lustrous
meek.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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'
The weeping child could not be heard,
The weeping parents wept in vain:
They
stripped
him to his little shirt,
And bound him in an iron chain,
And burned him in a holy place
Where many had been burned before;
The weeping parents wept in vain.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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i
diliuere
vp ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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{5}
of
subsistence
by manual labour.
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Tacitus |
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Let
suppliant
youths obtain thine ear!
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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ON
AEMILIUS
THE FOUL.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Gazing into her eyes, holding hands, giving kisses, exchanging
Syllables sweet and those words lovers alone understand,
Murmuring our
conversations
we stutter in sweet oratory.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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At length did cross an Albatross,
Thorough the fog it came;
As if it had been a
Christian
soul,
We hailed it in God's name.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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AUTUMN SONG
Like a joy on the heart of a sorrow,
The sunset hangs on a cloud;
A golden storm of
glittering
sheaves,
Of fair and frail and fluttering leaves,
The wild wind blows in a cloud.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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O vierges, o demons, o monstres, o martyres,
De la realite grands esprits contempteurs,
Chercheuses
d'infini, devotes et satyres,
Tantot pleines de cris, tantot pleines de pleurs,
Vous que dans votre enfer mon ame a poursuivies,
Pauvres soeurs, je vous aime autant que je vous plains,
Pour vos mornes douleurs, vos soifs inassouvies,
Et les urnes d'amour dont vos grands coeurs sont pleins!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth
in
paragraph
1.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Famine had spared the palace of the king:-- _4000
He rioted in
festival
the while,
He and his guards and priests; but Plague did fling
One shadow upon all.
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Shelley |
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Þā se
æðeling
gīong,
þæt hē bī wealle, wīs-hycgende,
gesæt on sesse; seah on enta geweorc,
hū þā stān-bogan stapulum fæste
2720 ēce eorð-reced innan hēoldon.
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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lh marrimen
If all the grief and woe and bitterness
Bernart de
Ventadorn
(fl.
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Troubador Verse |
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And thus he spoke: "Do not
yourself
affright!
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
|
XXVIII
Nor what a heavy loss he would sustain
(Cease they to royal
Agramant
to read)
Were Mandricardo or Rogero slain;
A thing by cruel Destiny decreed.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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They lived by the side of the great Lake
Pipple-Popple (one of the seven families, indeed, lived _in_ the lake), and
on the outskirts of the city of Tosh, which,
excepting
when it was quite
dark, they could see plainly.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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You see how amber through the streams
More gently strokes the sight,
With some conceal'd delight,
Than when he darts his radiant beams
Into the
boundless
air;
Where either too much light his worth
Doth all at once impair,
Or set it little forth.
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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la toupie et la boule
Dans leur valse et leurs bonds; meme dans nos sommeils
La
Curiosite
nous tourmente et nous roule,
Comme un Ange cruel qui fouette des soleils.
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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_
'I there
neglected
find' has been the reading of all editions
hitherto--a strange reason for being enamoured.
| Guess: |
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John Donne |
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ille deum uitam accipiet diuisque uidebit
permixtos heroas et ipse uidebitur illis,
pacatumque reget patriis
uirtutibus
orbem.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Nor gives the sun his golden orb to roll,
But
universal
night usurps the pole!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Now with pallor,
I see the scarlet flag already waving;
It means the harvest-hirelings' dance with Death;
With unpicked
fruitage
tempest-toused and torn.
| Guess: |
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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One of the worst instances is in 'In Memoriam',
where what is appropriate to the simple
sentiment
finds, as it should
do, corresponding simplicity of expression in the first couplet, to
collapse into the falsetto of strained artificiality in the second:--
To rest beneath the clover sod
That takes the sunshine and the rains,
_Or where the kneeling hamlet drains
The chalice of the grapes of God_.
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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Sonnets Pour Helene Book II: XLII
In these long winter nights when the idle Moon
Steers her chariot so slowly on its way,
When the cockerel so tardily calls the day,
When night to the troubled soul seems years through:
I would have died of misery if not for you,
In shadowy form, coming to ease my fate,
Utterly naked in my arms, to lie and wait,
Sweetly deceiving me with a
specious
view.
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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Consequently we will collect the votes according to the proper order,
that is to say, begin first
consulting
the juniors in respect of rank.
| Guess: |
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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The Ridge was wreathed with angry fire
As flames rise round a martyr's stake;
For many a hero on that pyre
Was offered for our dear land's sake,
What time in heaven the gray clouds flew
To mingle with the deathless blue;
While here, below, the blue and gray
Melted
minglingly
away,
Mirroring heaven, to make another day.
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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I know it by my heart so
strangely
sick
With looking out for the first drowsy stir
In that huge flaming quiet of the camp.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Chatterton's own circle of
acquaintance
was far less brilliant.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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6
Undaunted
was General Chen Xuanli,7 with spear and axe, he exercised loyal ardor.
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"No--no--"
There came
whisperings
in the wind:
"Good bye!
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Stephen Crane |
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CCVI
That
Emperour
is from his swoon revived.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Men say that _then_, to see his foe's sad fall
As some old prisoner clings to his prison wall,
Babel,
accomplice
of their guilt, was seen
O'er the far hills to gaze with vision keen!
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Hugo - Poems |
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Treacherous now he is keeping his word: giving me themes for my poems
While he is stealing my time, potency,
presence
of mind.
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The female of the Halcyon,
Love, the
seductive
Sirens,
All know the fatal songs
Dangerous and inhuman.
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Appoloinaire |
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It by no means follows, however, that the
incitements of Passion' or the precepts of Duty, or even the lessons of
Truth, may not be introduced into a poem, and with advantage; for they
may
subserve
incidentally, in various ways, the general purposes of
the work: but the true artist will always contrive to tone them down in
proper subjection to that _Beauty _which is the atmosphere and the real
essence of the poem.
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Poe - 5 |
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The very tombs now
vanished
like their dead!
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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His manners were not always nice, but how my spirit cried
To be an artless Bandar loose upon the
mountain
side!
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Kipling - Poems |
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'Calm in the utmost stress of doom,
Devout toward adverse powers above,
They hated with
intenser
hate
And loved with fuller love.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Nay if thou will'st, back to the beating brine,
Back to the boisterous billow let us go,
And walk all day beneath the hyaline
Huge vault of Neptune's watery portico,
And watch the purple monsters of the deep
Sport in
ungainly
play, and from his lair keen Xiphias leap.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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{32a} That is, Beowulf
supports
Eadgils against Onela, who is slain
by Eadgils in revenge for the "care-paths" of exile into which Onela
forced him.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Albion groand on Tyburns brook
Albion gave his loud death groan The
Atlantic
Mountains trembled
Aloft the Moon fled with a cry the Sun with streams of blood
From Albions Loins fled all Peoples and Nations of the Earth Fled {Erdman's notes indicate that "Blake first wrote ?
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Blake - Zoas |
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Biron was a friend of Henri IV,
Lusignan
a famous family, both associated with the Valois.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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SGANARELLE: Is this the
patient?
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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To range, deep-wrapt, along a heavenly height,
O'erseeing all that man but undersees;
To loiter down lone alleys of delight,
And hear the beating of the hearts of trees,
And think the thoughts that lilies speak in white
By greenwood pools and
pleasant
passages;
With healthy dreams a-dream in flesh and soul,
To pace, in mighty meditations drawn,
From out the forest to the open knoll
Where much thyme is, whence blissful leagues of lawn
Betwixt the fringing woods to southward roll
By tender inclinations; mad with dawn,
Ablaze with fires that flame in silver dew
When each small globe doth glass the morning-star,
Long ere the sun, sweet-smitten through and through
With dappled revelations read afar,
Suffused with saintly ecstasies of blue
As all the holy eastern heavens are, --
To fare thus fervid to what daily toil
Employs thy spirit in that larger Land
Where thou art gone; to strive, but not to moil
In nothings that do mar the artist's hand,
Not drudge unriched, as grain rots back to soil, --
No profit out of death, -- going, yet still at stand, --
Giving what life is here in hand to-day
For that that's in to-morrow's bush, perchance, --
Of this year's harvest none in the barn to lay,
All sowed for next year's crop, -- a dull advance
In curves that come but by another way
Back to the start, -- a thriftless thrift of ants
Whose winter wastes their summer; O my Friend,
Freely to range, to muse, to toil, is thine:
Thine, now, to watch with Homer sails that bend
Unstained by Helen's beauty o'er the brine
Tow'rds some clean Troy no Hector need defend
Nor flame devour; or, in some mild moon's shine,
Where amiabler winds the whistle heed,
To sail with Shelley o'er a bluer sea,
And mark Prometheus, from his fetters freed,
Pass with Deucalion over Italy,
While bursts the flame from out his eager reed
Wild-stretching towards the West of destiny;
Or, prone with Plato, Shakespeare and a throng
Of bards beneath some plane-tree's cool eclipse
To gaze on glowing meads where, lingering long,
Psyche's large Butterfly her honey sips;
Or, mingling free in choirs of German song,
To learn of Goethe's life from Goethe's lips;
These, these are thine, and we, who still are dead,
Do yearn -- nay, not to kill thee back again
Into this charnel life, this lowlihead,
Not to the dark of sense, the blinking brain,
The hugged delusion drear, the hunger fed
On husks of guess, the monarchy of pain,
The cross of love, the wrench of faith, the shame
Of science that cannot prove proof is, the twist
Of blame for praise and bitter praise for blame,
The silly stake and tether round the wrist
By fashion fixed, the virtue that doth claim
The gains of vice, the lofty mark that's missed
By all the mortal space 'twixt heaven and hell,
The soul's sad growth o'er stationary friends
Who hear us from our height not well, not well,
The slant of accident, the sudden bends
Of purpose tempered strong, the gambler's spell,
The son's disgrace, the plan that e'er depends
On others' plots, the tricks that passion plays
(I loving you, you him, he none at all),
The artist's pain -- to walk his blood-stained ways,
A special soul, yet judged as general --
The endless grief of art, the sneer that slays,
The war, the wound, the groan, the funeral pall --
Not into these, bright spirit, do we yearn
To bring thee back, but oh, to be, to be
Unbound of all these gyves, to stretch, to spurn
The dark from off our dolorous lids, to see
Our spark, Conjecture, blaze and sunwise burn,
And suddenly to stand again by thee!
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Sidney Lanier |
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