Fluch jener hochsten
Liebeshuld!
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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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Add national
disgrace
to private crime,
Confront mankind with brazen front sublime,
Steal but enough, the world is un-severe,--
Tweed is a statesman, Fisk a financier;
Invent a mine, and he--the Lord knows what; 50
Secure, at any rate, with what you've got.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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I have tiding,
Glad tiding, behold how in duty
From far
Lehistan
the wind, gliding.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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But, in 1836, he altered it still further in detail;
and in that state practically left it,
apparently
not caring to revise
it further.
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William Wordsworth |
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To beauty's wiles, in ev'ry class, I've bowed;
Fawned, flattered, sighed, e'en
constancy
have vowed
What gained?
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La Fontaine |
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Upon my return to the Commandant's, I sat down according to my custom by
Marya Ivanofna; her father was not at home, and her mother was engaged
with
household
cares.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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"
In the evening
The far valleys were
sprinkled
with tiny lights.
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Stephen Crane |
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Who shall do
judgment
on me, when she dies?
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Euripides - Electra |
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Baudelaire was
infuriated
over the judgment, for he knew that his book
was dramatic in expression.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Where's my smooth brow gone:
My arching lashes, yellow hair,
Wide-eyed glances, pretty ones,
That took in the
cleverest
there:
Nose not too big or small: a pair
Of delicate little ears, the chin
Dimpled: a face oval and fair,
Lovely lips with crimson skin?
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Villon |
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"What are you
thinking
of?
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Then with kindly words the father accosts
his son: 'Each hath his own
appointed
day; short and irrecoverable
[468-502]is the span of life for all: but to spread renown by deeds is
the task of valour.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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if we dream great deeds, strong men, Revolt Hearts hot,
thoughts
mighty.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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_ B)
_capiti_
?
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Latin - Catullus |
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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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Then, bending towards his dear, adorable, and execrable wife, his
inevitable and pitiless muse, he kissed her
respectfully
upon the hand,
and added, "Ah, dear angel, how I thank you for my skill!
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Ist es der Sinn, der alles wirkt und
schafft?
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Proculus, a Roman senator, said that Romulus had
descended from heaven and spoken to him and then
ascended
again (Livy,
I, 16).
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Alexander Pope |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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As giving warning of th'
unwonted
sound,
With which her yron wheeles did them affray, 265
And her darke griesly looke them much dismay:
The messenger of death, the ghastly Owle?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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From Maximin
IN sorrow, day and night the disciple watched
Upon the mount where from the Lord ascended:
"Thus leaveth thou thy
faithful
to despair?
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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XXXIX
Where this deep stream was fordable, he scanned
A crowd of
cavaliers
that armour bore:
And these the paynim questioned who had manned,
With such a troop, and to what end, the shore?
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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I walk adown the narrow lane,
The
nightingale
is singing now,
But like to me she seems at loss
For Royce Wood and its shielding bough.
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John Clare |
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Did they not to her breast their filial earth
entrust?
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Byron |
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Still,
I fear that I will die as I have lived,
A long-nosed heathen playing with his scars,
A pagan killed by
weltschmerz
.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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On their own axis as the planets run,
Yet make at once their circle round the sun;
So two
consistent
motions act the soul;
And one regards itself, and one the whole.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Women treat us just as
humanity
treats its
gods.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Milton |
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Who
alterest
all things with thy peering eyes.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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(2) It is more
characteristic
of Donne's thought.
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John Donne |
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"
--Yet when we came back, late, from the
Hyacinth
garden,
Your arms full, and your hair wet, I could not
Speak, and my eyes failed, I was neither
Living nor dead, and I knew nothing, 40
Looking into the heart of light, the silence.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Line divisions and page numbers were
retained
for use
with the Index and linenotes, except that some very short words have
been moved up or down to avoid awkward gaps.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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that of the myriads who
Before us pass'd the door of
Darkness
through,
Not one returns to tell us of the Road,
Which to discover we must travel too.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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With scented breeze, with
flowered
flame,
She touched the earth and took her name
Of May, Rose.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Are
those who offer it ready to run the risk
themselves?
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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* * * * *
Reverend Marsh, low-couched along the sea,
Old chemist, rapt in alchemy,
Distilling silence, -- lo,
That which our father-age had died to know --
The menstruum that dissolves all matter -- thou
Hast found it: for this silence, filling now
The globed clarity of receiving space,
This solves us all: man, matter, doubt, disgrace,
Death, love, sin, sanity,
Must in yon silence' clear
solution
lie.
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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The loves of the Vestal and
the God of War, the cradle laid among the reeds of Tiber, the
fig-tree, the she-wolf, the shepherd's cabin, the recognition,
the fratricide, the rape of the Sabines, the death of Tarpeia,
the fall of Hostus Hostilius, the struggle of Mettus Curtius
through the marsh, the women rushing with torn raiment and
dishevelled hair between their fathers and their husbands, the
nightly meetings of Numa and the Nymph by the well in the sacred
grove, the fight of the three Romans and the three Albans, the
purchase of the
Sibylline
books, the crime of Tullia, the
simulated madness of Brutus, the ambiguous reply of the Delphian
oracle to the Tarquins, the wrongs of Lucretia, the heroic
actions of Horatius Cocles, of Scaevola, and of Cloelia, the
battle of Regillus won by the aid of Castor and Pollux, the
defense of Cremera, the touching story of Coriolanus, the still
more touching story of Virginia, the wild legend about the
draining of the Alban lake, the combat between Valerius Corvus
and the gigantic Gaul, are among the many instances which will at
once suggest themselves to every reader.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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LIMITED WARRANTY,
DISCLAIMER
OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right
of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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"
O that
languishing
yawn!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
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It's the voice that the light made us understand here
That Hermes
Trismegistus
writes of in Pimander.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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And south and west, like a serpent of fire,
Serried the British lines,
And in between, the dying and dead,
And the stench of blood, and the
trampled
mud,
On the fair, sweet Belgian vines.
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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NURSE'S SONG
When the voices of children are heard on the green,
And laughing is heard on the hill,
My heart is at rest within my breast,
And
everything
else is still.
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blake-poems |
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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But Prince Henry resented this outrage, and having given them
some valuable presents of clothes, restored the
captives
to freedom and
their native country.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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His quaint
opinions
to inspect,
His knowledge to unfold
On what concerns our mutual mind,
The literature of old;
What interested scholars most,
What competitions ran
When Plato was a certainty.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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_70
NOTE:
_8 --or as a
tuberose
cj.
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Shelley |
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at his lif was almest do
ffor
seknesse
?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Full five-and-thirty years he lived
A running
huntsman
merry;
And still the centre of his cheek
Is red as a ripe cherry.
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Golden Treasury |
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how unlike those late
terrific
sleeps!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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how oft,
In darkness, and amid the many shapes
Of joyless day-light; when the fretful stir
Unprofitable, and the fever of the world,
Have hung upon the
beatings
of my heart,
How oft, in spirit, have I turned to thee
O sylvan Wye!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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GREECE
THE sea was
sapphire
coloured, and the sky
Burned like a heated opal through the air;
We hoisted sail; the wind was blowing fair
For the blue lands that to the eastward lie.
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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It shows they themselves
would never have been of the
professions
they are but for the profits and
fees.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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And justly so; for all that time creates,
He does well who
annihilates!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Parts of them, indeed, may be regarded as a warp of prose amid
the weft of poetry, such as Shakespeare furnishes the
precedent
for in
drama.
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Whitman |
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Well now I'm up, you must
dispense
with the fascinating
Congleton for a while.
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Kipling - Poems |
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hraðe wæs tō
būre
Bēowulf
fetod, 1311.
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Beowulf |
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A pipe have I, of hemlock-stalks compact
In
lessening
lengths, Damoetas' dying-gift:
'Mine once,' quoth he, 'now yours, as heir to own.
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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Never the heart of spring had
trembled
so
As on that day when first in Paradise
We went afoot as novices to know
For the first time what blue was in the skies,
What fresher green than any in the grass,
And how the sap goes beating to the sun,
And tell how on the clocks of beauty pass
Minute by minute till the last is done.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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But ere the circle
homeward
hies
Far, far must it remove:
White in the moon the long road lies
That leads me from my love.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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As the husband is, the wife is: thou art mated with a clown,
And the
grossness
of his nature will have weight to drag thee down.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Tennyson |
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The gods themselves and the
almightier
fates
Cannot avail to harm
With outward and misfortunate chance 5
The radiant unshaken mind of him
Who at his being's centre will abide,
Secure from doubt and fear.
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Sappho |
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Petersburg, where he was
the friend and schoolmate of Prince
Gortchakoff
the Russian
Chancellor.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Halcyon
daughter
of the skies,
Far on fearful wings she flies,
From the pomp of Sceptered State,
From the Rebel's noisy hate.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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lest the world should task you to recite
What merit lived in me, that you should love
After my death,--dear love, forget me quite,
For you in me can nothing worthy prove;
Unless you would devise some virtuous lie,
To do more for me than mine own desert,
And hang more praise upon deceased I
Than niggard truth would
willingly
impart:
O!
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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s
earliest
poem to Yan Wu ?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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And see, by their track,
bleeding
footprints we know.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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They are _Two Stories of Prague_,
_The Touch of Life_ and _The Last_; three volumes of short stories; a
two-act drama, _The Daily Life_, points to a strong Maeterlinck
influence, and finally
_Stories
of God_.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Before he was nine he was nominated for Colston's
Hospital, a local school where the Bluecoat dress was worn and at
which the 'three Rs' were taught but very little else, so that the
boy, disappointed of the hope of knowledge,
complained
he could
work better at home.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Quali
fioretti
dal notturno gelo
chinati e chiusi, poi che 'l sol li 'mbianca,
si drizzan tutti aperti in loro stelo,
tal mi fec' io di mia virtude stanca,
e tanto buono ardire al cor mi corse,
ch'i' cominciai come persona franca:
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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