Two other
small
fragments
of Poetry are printed in p.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Nay, _he_ might have been there; but I muflled me so,
He could
scarcely
have seen my figure.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Ye who so many
thousand
kisses sung
Have read, deny male masculant I be?
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Per lor
maladizion
si non si perde,
che non possa tornar, l'etterno amore,
mentre che la speranza ha fior del verde.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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When last the wintry gusts gave over strife
With the conquering sun of spring, and left the skies
Warm and serene, but yet with moistened eyes
In pity of the shatter'd infant buds,--
That time thou didst adorn, with amber studs,
My hunting cap, because I laugh'd and smil'd,
Chatted with thee, and many days exil'd
All torment from my breast;--'twas even then,
Straying about, yet, coop'd up in the den
Of helpless discontent,--hurling my lance 930
From place to place, and
following
at chance,
At last, by hap, through some young trees it struck,
And, plashing among bedded pebbles, stuck
In the middle of a brook,--whose silver ramble
Down twenty little falls, through reeds and bramble,
Tracing along, it brought me to a cave,
Whence it ran brightly forth, and white did lave
The nether sides of mossy stones and rock,--
'Mong which it gurgled blythe adieus, to mock
Its own sweet grief at parting.
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Keats |
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After which
splendid
entertainments are
made, where the celebrated musician and poet, Demodocus, plays and
sings to the guests.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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"What
terrible
moments," he said to Spence, "does one feel after one has
engaged for a large work.
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Alexander Pope |
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It does not appear there was any danger in holding and singing
Sufi Pantheism, so long as the Poet made his Salaam to
Mohammed
at the
beginning and end of his Song.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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On the whole, therefore, Spenser's
literary
affinities
were more with the Gothic than the classical.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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The wasps
flourish
greenly
Dawn goes by round her neck
A necklace of windows
You are all the solar joys
All the sun of this earth
On the roads of your beauty.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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April cold with
dropping
rain
Willows and lilacs brings again,
The whistle of returning birds,
And trumpet-lowing of the herds.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Thou art the mystic homeless One;
Into the world Thou never came,
Too mighty Thou, too great to name;
Voice of the storm, Song that the wild wind sings,
Thou Harp that
shatters
those who play Thy strings!
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Rilke - Poems |
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Who would commend his
mistress
now ?
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Marvell - Poems |
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Your wings,
brushing
it, spill never a drop
From the glass I fill, from which my thirst I quench.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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I dread Pelides now: his rage of mind
Not long continues to the shores confined,
Nor to the fields, where long in equal fray
Contending nations won and lost the day;
For Troy, for Troy, shall
henceforth
be the strife,
And the hard contest not for fame, but life.
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Iliad - Pope |
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And when the words were ended, not unlike
To iron in the furnace, every cirque
Ebullient shot forth scintillating fires:
And every sparkle
shivering
to new blaze,
In number did outmillion the account
Reduplicate upon the chequer'd board.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Innocent
one,
pray thou for me a sinner.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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I answer'd thee in
*thunder
deep *Be Sether ragnam.
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Milton |
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He passes the fountain, the blasted pine-tree--
The
footstep
is lagging and weary;
Yet onward he goes, through the broad belt of light,
Toward the shades of the forest so dreary.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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The wood lay in a glow
From golden sunset and from ruddy sky;
The sun had stooped to earth though once so high;
Had stooped to earth, in slow
Warm dying
loveliness
brought near and low.
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Christina Rossetti |
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and when my fears would rise,
With thy broad heart serenely interpose:
Brood down with thy divine sufficiencies
These
thoughts
which tremble when bereft of those,
Like callow birds left desert to the skies.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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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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T.S. Eliot |
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For oak and elm have pleasant leaves
That in the
springtime
shoot:
But grim to see is the gallows-tree,
With its adder-bitten root,
And, green or dry, a man must die
Before it bears its fruit!
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Wilde - Poems |
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Nor was I longer to invite him scant,
Happy at once to make him
Protestant
And silent.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Then,
With painful scrambling scratched and raw,
Two hands that seemed like hands of men
Eased down two legs and a body through
The blazing fire, and forth there came
Before our wide and
wondering
view
A figure shrinking half with shame,
And half with weakness.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Nothing now will ripen the bright green apples,
Full of
disappointment
and of rain,
Brackish they will taste, of tears, when the yellow dapples
Of Autumn tell the withered tale again.
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Imagists |
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Leaves of day and moss of dew,
Reeds of breeze, smiles perfumed,
Wings
covering
the world of light,
Boats charged with sky and sea,
Hunters of sound and sources of colour
Perfume enclosed by a covey of dawns
that beds forever on the straw of stars,
As the day depends on innocence
The whole world depends on your pure eyes
And all my blood flows under their sight.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Il n'etait pas voute, mais casse, son echine
Faisant avec sa jambe un parfait angle droit,
Si bien que son baton, parachevant sa mine,
Lui donnait la tournure et le pas maladroit
D'un
quadrupede
infirme ou d'un juif a trois pattes.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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1780
THEL
I
The daughters of Mne Seraphim led round their sunny flocks,
All but the youngest: she in
paleness
sought the secret air.
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blake-poems |
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Did the harebell loose her girdle
To the lover bee,
Would the bee the harebell hallow
Much as
formerly?
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Nay, 'tis older news that foreign sailor
With the cheek of sea-tan stops to prattle
To the young fig-seller with her basket 15
And the breasts that bud beneath her tunic,
And I hear it in the
rustling
tree-tops.
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Sappho |
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I did but smile,
As one who winks; and
thereupon
the shade
Broke off, and peer'd into mine eyes, where best
Our looks interpret.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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The German composer admired the French poet, and his Kundry, in
the sultry second act of Parsifal, has a
Baudelairian
hue, especially in
the temptation scene.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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From pest on land, or death on ocean,
When
hurricanes
its surface fan,
O object of my fond devotion!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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In hot summer have I great rejoicing
When the
tempests
kill the earth's foul peace, And the lightnings from black heav'n flash crimson, And the fierce thunders roar me their music
And the winds shriek through the clouds mad, op-
posing,
And through all the riven skies God's swords clash.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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So towards old
Sylvanus
they her bring;
Who with the noyse awaked commeth out
To weet the cause, his weake steps governing,
And aged limbs on Cypresse stadle stout; 125
And with an yvie twyne his wast is girt about.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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ider wende in
clennesse!
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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With saddest music all day long
She soothed her secret sorrow:
At night she sighed "I fear 'twas wrong
Such
cheerful
words to borrow.
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Lewis Carroll |
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So him and Tom they hitched up the mules,
Pertestin' that folks was mighty big fools
That 'ud stay in Georgy ther
lifetime
out,
Jest scratchin' a livin' when all of 'em mought
Git places in Texas whar cotton would sprout
By the time you could plant it in the land.
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Sidney Lanier |
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"'Tis no common rule,
Lycius," said he, "for uninvited guest
To force himself upon you, and infest
With an
unbidden
presence the bright throng
Of younger friends; yet must I do this wrong,
And you forgive me.
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Keats - Lamia |
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Non che Roma di carro cosi bello
rallegrasse
Affricano, o vero Augusto,
ma quel del Sol saria pover con ello;
quel del Sol che, sviando, fu combusto
per l'orazion de la Terra devota,
quando fu Giove arcanamente giusto.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry
meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of
achieving
verbal
beauty, or rather of making verbal beauty tell.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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IN APRIL
Again the woods are odorous, the lark
Lifts on
upsoaring
wings the heaven gray
That hung above the tree-tops, veiled and dark,
Where branches bare disclosed the empty day.
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Rilke - Poems |
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A poor torn heart, a tattered heart,
That sat it down to rest,
Nor noticed that the ebbing day
Flowed silver to the west,
Nor noticed night did soft descend
Nor
constellation
burn,
Intent upon the vision
Of latitudes unknown.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Is it not
beautiful?
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Thus alone can we attain
To those turrets, where the eye
Sees the world as one vast plain,
And one
boundless
reach of sky.
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Longfellow |
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,
fundamental
meaning = _existentia_, hence: 1) _good
condition, happiness, abundance_: dat.
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Beowulf |
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Before the phantom of False morning died,
Methought
a Voice within the Tavern cried,
"When all the Temple is prepared within,
"Why nods the drowsy Worshiper outside?
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Beguiled by the dream, Agamemnon set forth in battle array the whole
Greek host, save that Achilles and his
followers
were absent.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Unauthenticated
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Du Fu - 5 |
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þætte
freoðuwebbe
fēores on-sæce .
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Beowulf |
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Liberty
On my notebooks from school
On my desk and the trees
On the sand on the snow
I write your name
On every page read
On all the white sheets
Stone blood paper or ash
I write your name
On the golden images
On the soldier's weapons
On the crowns of kings
I write your name
On the jungle the desert
The nests and the bushes
On the echo of childhood
I write your name
On the wonder of nights
On the white bread of days
On the seasons engaged
I write your name
On all my blue rags
On the pond mildewed sun
On the lake living moon
I write your name
On the fields the horizon
The wings of the birds
On the windmill of shadows
I write your name
On each breath of the dawn
On the ships on the sea
On the mountain demented
I write your name
On the foam of the clouds
On the sweat of the storm
On dark insipid rain
I write your name
On the glittering forms
On the bells of colour
On physical truth
I write your name
On the wakened paths
On the opened ways
On the scattered places
I write your name
On the lamp that gives light
On the lamp that is drowned
On my house reunited
I write your name
On the bisected fruit
Of my mirror and room
On my bed's empty shell
I write your name
On my dog greedy tender
On his listening ears
On his awkward paws
I write your name
On the sill of my door
On familiar things
On the fire's sacred stream
I write your name
On all flesh that's in tune
On the brows of my friends
On each hand that extends
I write your name
On the glass of surprises
On lips that attend
High over the silence
I write your name
On my ravaged refuges
On my fallen lighthouses
On the walls of my boredom
I write your name
On passionless absence
On naked solitude
On the marches of death
I write your name
On health that's regained
On danger that's past
On hope without memories
I write your name
By the power of the word
I regain my life
I was born to know you
And to name you
LIBERTY
Ring Of Peace
I have passed the doors of coldness
The doors of my bitterness
To come and kiss your lips
City reduced to a room
Where the absurd tide of evil
leaves a reassuring foam
Ring of peace I have only you
You teach me again what it is
To be human when I renounce
Knowing whether I have fellow creatures
Ecstasy
I am in front of this feminine land
Like a child in front of the fire
Smiling vaguely with tears in my eyes
In front of this land where all moves in me
Where mirrors mist where mirrors clear
Reflecting two nude bodies season on season
I've so many reasons to lose myself
On this road-less earth under horizon-less skies
Good reasons I ignored yesterday
And I'll never ever forget
Good keys of gazes keys their own daughters
in front of this land where nature is mine
In front of the fire the first fire
Good
mistress
reason
Identified star
On earth under sky in and out of my heart
Second bud first green leaf
That the sea covers with sails
And the sun finally coming to us
I am in front of this feminine land
Like a branch in the fire.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Observe the tiny tracks of mice around every stem,
and the
triangular
tracks of the rabbit.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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"
But
O O O O that Shakespeherian Rag--
It's so elegant
So
intelligent
130
"What shall I do now?
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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XXIII
Oh how wise that man was, in his caution,
Who counselled, so his race might not moulder,
Nor Rome's citizens be spoiled by leisure,
That Carthage should be spared
destruction!
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Why look you, friend,
There's not a
virtuous
woman in Madrid,
In this whole city!
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Longfellow |
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Meredith - Poems |
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e emperour 289
went in to
euffamyans
hous;
They axyd hym of syche a man;
he sayde he knwe there of noone.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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To the stile
She came o'er violet carpets soft, attired,
To meet the harvest bridegroom, as erewhile,
To be his
truelove
till the feast expired.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Now happiest,
loveliest
in yon lovely Earth,
Whence sprang the "Idea of Beauty" into birth,
(Falling in wreaths thro' many a startled star,
Like woman's hair 'mid pearls, until, afar,
It lit on hills Achaian, and there dwelt)
She look'd into Infinity--and knelt.
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Poe - 5 |
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Now, of my
threescore
years and ten,
Twenty will not come again,
And take from seventy springs a score,
It only leaves me fifty more.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Yeats |
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The time has come for me to hold in scorn
The murmur of
distinguished
nobodies,
And quash pernicious custom.
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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--a
clamorous
curse,
A dirge of ruin.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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attempt ye still to rise,
By mountains piled on mountains, to the skies,
Heaven still with
laughter
the vain toil surveys,
And buries madmen in the heaps they raise.
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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Those new-set teeth shall drink her blood:
So look'd the Raetian mountaineers
On Drusus:--whence in every field
They learn'd through
immemorial
years
The Amazonian axe to wield,
I ask not now: not all of truth
We seekers find: enough to know
The wisdom of the princely youth
Has taught our erst victorious foe
What prowess dwells in boyish hearts
Rear'd in the shrine of a pure home,
What strength Augustus' love imparts
To Nero's seed, the hope of Rome.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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A Presence large, a grave and steadfast Form
Amid the leaves' light play and fantasy,
A calmness
conquered
out of many a storm,
A Manhood mastered by a chestnut-tree!
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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"--
"Lord, it
existeth
still.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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I have bewept a worthy husband's death,
And liv'd with looking on his images;
But now two mirrors of his princely semblance
Are crack'd in pieces by
malignant
death,
And I for comfort have but one false glass,
That grieves me when I see my shame in him.
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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380
Not higher that Hill nor wider looking round,
Whereon for different cause the Tempter set
Our second Adam in the Wilderness,
To shew him all Earths
Kingdomes
and thir Glory.
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| Source: |
Milton |
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These
bondwomen
are all
I keep in mine own house.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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O, this world's
transience!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Could I have resisted the
seductive
charm.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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in every clime a flying ray 590
Is all we have to chear our wintry way,
Condemn'd, in mists and
tempests
ever rife,
To pant slow up the endless Alp of life.
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253 _te_ G, sed fuerat _et_: _et_ O ||
_adriana_
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ee it, read,
I will not bate a
_Harrington_
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Very
soon they became truly
attached
to her, for one could not know her
without loving her.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Fluch jener hochsten
Liebeshuld!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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CALIFORNIA
CITY LANDSCAPE
On a mountain-side the real estate agents
Put up signs marking the city lots to be sold there.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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"
And it soothed me to see
Those sensational simpers,
And I said "This is
scrumptious!
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Lewis Carroll |
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CLXVII
The count Rollant sees the
Archbishop
lie dead,
Sees the bowels out of his body shed,
And sees the brains that surge from his forehead;
Between his two arm-pits, upon his breast,
Crossways he folds those hands so white and fair.
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Chanson de Roland |
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A good and
vertuous
Nature may recoyle
In an Imperiall charge.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Despite the anguish of this sad affair,
When Chimene
Rodrigue
has secured
All my hopes are dead, my spirit cured.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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--Ah, but I know how this infirmity
Will fail and be not, no, not memory,
When I begin the
marvellous
hour.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Madden
suggests
blunk (horse).
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Whally, iv, 34,
streaked
(Warren).
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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She hailed him there in his pride,
Home from the
perilous
years,
In the heart of his walled lands,
In the Giants' cloud-capt ring;
Herself, none other, laid
The hone to the axe's blade;
She lifted it in her hands,
The woman, and slew her king.
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Euripides - Electra |
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With his usual sharpness he had
doubtless guessed that
Pugatchef
was not pleased with me.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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595
`Distreyne
hir herte as faste to retorne
As thou dost myn to longen hir to see;
Than woot I wel, that she nil nought soiorne.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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How pleased they were at what you said;
You try to touch the smile,
And dip your fingers in the frost:
When was it, can you tell,
You asked the company to tea,
Acquaintance, just a few,
And chatted close with this grand thing
That don't
remember
you?
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Polypheme's white tooth
Slips on the nut if, after
frequent
showers,
The shell is over-smooth,--and not so much
Will turn the thing called love, aside to hate
Or else to oblivion.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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For some wood-daemon
has
lightened
your steps.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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The blood-red sun bent over me
Your eyes are like the
sea—the
bitter sea!
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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"My lord," he said,
"The stars are displaced
"By this
towering
wisdom.
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Stephen Crane |
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After exchanging presents with the Redcross
Knight, he bids
farewell
to Una and her companions.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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We who followed thee and
thine arms when Dardania went down in fire; we who under thee have
traversed on shipboard the
swelling
sea; we in like wise will exalt to
heaven thy children to be, and give empire to their city.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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The gem in Eastern mine which slumbers,
Or ruddy gold 'twill not bestow;
'Twill not subdue the turban'd numbers,
Before the Prophet's shrine which bow;
Nor high through air on
friendly
pinions
Can bear thee swift to home and clan,
From mournful climes and strange dominions--
From South to North--my Talisman.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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To such the gentle murmurs of the main
Seem to re-echo all they mourn in vain;
To such the gladness of the
gamesome
crowd
Is source of wayward thought and stern disdain:
How do they loathe the laughter idly loud,
And long to change the robe of revel for the shroud!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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So, Buddha,
beautiful!
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Sidney Lanier |
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