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And instantly
There was
terrific
clamor among the people
Against being ranged in rows.
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Roused by the woodland nymphs at early dawn,
The
mountain
goats came bounding o'er the lawn:
In haste our fellows to the ships repair,
For arms and weapons of the sylvan war;
Straight in three squadrons all our crew we part,
And bend the bow, or wing the missile dart;
The bounteous gods afford a copious prey,
And nine fat goats each vessel bears away:
The royal bark had ten.
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Nor could I go
burdened
with grief, but made merry
Till I came to the gate of that overgrown ground
Where scarce once a year sees the priest come to bury.
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This is mainly due to the multiplicity
of the aspects of things, and to the immense width of
relation
in which
Whitman stands to all sorts and all aspects of them.
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If my praise her grace effaces,
Then 't is not my heart that showeth, But the skilless tongue that soweth Words
unworthy
of her graces.
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And when
yourself
you come my way
My vision does not cleave, but turns
Without a shiver or salute.
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Quei mi sgrido: <
di
riguardar
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hergefuhrt?
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POEMS
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SET in this stormy Northern sea,
Queen of these restless fields of tide,
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Wilde - Poems |
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"
He
unscrewed
the mouthpiece of his silver water-pipe, fitted a plain
amber one, and passed the pipe to me.
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Kipling - Poems |
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The schoolboy hears and brushes through the trees
And runs about till
drabbled
to the knees.
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John Clare |
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The dayes honour, and the hevenes ye,
The nightes fo, al this clepe I the sonne, 905
Gan westren faste, and
dounward
for to wrye,
As he that hadde his dayes cours y-ronne;
And whyte thinges wexen dimme and donne
For lak of light, and sterres for to appere,
That she and al hir folk in wente y-fere.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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If thy
Hrethric
should come to court of Geats,
a sovran's son, he will surely there
find his friends.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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O Rose of the crimson beauty,
Why hast thou
awakened
the sleeper?
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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IF any thing prevent your sov'reign bliss,
And Paradise
incautiously
you miss,
Most certainly the evil will arise,
From keeping for your husbands large supplies,
Of what a surplus you have clearly got,
And more than requisite to them allot,
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Keats - Lamia |
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This I forgot last night:
you must not be blamed,
it is not your fault;
as a child, a flower--any flower
tore my breast--
meadow-chicory, a common grass-tip,
a leaf shadow, a flower tint
unexpected
on a winter-branch.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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though I love what others do abhor,
With others thou shouldst not abhor my state:
If thy
unworthiness
rais'd love in me,
More worthy I to be belov'd of thee.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Hence reek they ravaged fields with
Christian
blood;
And yet with greater rancour and despite,
Like cruel foe, I purposed to offend,
But that it chanced, one changed me to a friend.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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There lies the poem, said Maternus; you may, if you
think proper, peruse it with all its
imperfections
on its head.
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Tacitus |
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If folk would but stop
attributing
to God, motives, opinions, arrangements and likings, which they'd con|sider an insult to set down to any wise and good friend of their own, how much useless bother would come to an end!
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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"
The last part of _The Book of Hours_, _The Book of Poverty and Death_,
is finally a
symphony
of variations on the two great symbolic themes in
the work of Rilke.
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Rilke - Poems |
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The Serpent
The Fall
'The Fall'
Anonymous,
Hieronymus
Cock, c.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Müller,
_Science
of Lang.
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Beowulf |
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Night is worn,
And the morn
Rises from the
slumbrous
mass.
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blake-poems |
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They
grovelled
at its iron feet, and shrieked,
"Mercy!
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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what a small part of his whole work it
represents!
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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XXIII
The lads in their
hundreds
to Ludlow come in for the fair,
There's men from the barn and the forge and the mill and the fold,
The lads for the girls and the lads for the liquor are there,
And there with the rest are the lads that will never be old.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Not at a little cost,
Hardly by prayer or tears,
Shall we recover the road we lost
In the drugged and doubting years,
But after the fires and the wrath,
But after
searching
and pain,
His Mercy opens us a path
To live with ourselves again.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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In A New Night
Woman I've lived with
Woman I live with
Woman I'll live with
Always the same
You need a red cloak
Red gloves a red mask
And dark stockings
The reasons the proofs
Of seeing you quite naked
Nudity pure O ready finery
Breasts O my heart
Fertile Eyes
Fertile Eyes
No one can know me more
More than you know me
Your eyes in which we sleep
The two of them
Have cast a spell on my male orbs
Greater than worldly nights
Your eyes where I voyage
Have given the road-signs
Directions detached from the earth
In your eyes those that show us
Our
infinite
solitude
Is no more than they think exists
No one can know me more
More than you know me.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Now to the
streaming
fountain,
Or up the heathy mountain,
The hart, hind, and roe, freely, wildly-wanton stray;
In twining hazel bowers,
His lay the linnet pours;
The lav'rock to the sky
Ascends wi' sangs o' joy,
While the sun and thou arise to bless the day.
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Robert Burns |
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But now you haue
preuented
me, and I thanke you.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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With not even one blow
landing?
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Villon |
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"
X
--Under that oak of heretofore
Sat Sweetheart mine with me no more:
By many a Fiord, and Strom, and Fleuve
Have I since
wandered
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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The
Foundation
is committed to complying with the laws regulating
charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United
States.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Demodocus
the bard sings, first the loves of Mars and
Venus, then the introduction of the wooden horse into Troy.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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e walle wyn we3ed to hem oft,
1404 & efte in her
bourdyng
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Am I now
dreaming?
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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When marching in; a seasonable recruit
Of citizens and merchants held dispute,
And charging all their pipes, a sullen band
Of Presbyterian
Switzers
made a stand.
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Marvell - Poems |
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My friends, I confess it:
Great
displeasure
I take lying alone in my bed.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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"Ah, my friend, you do not know, you do not know
What life is, you should hold it in your hands";
(Slowly twisting the lilac stalks)
"You let it flow from you, you let it flow,
And youth is cruel, and has no remorse
And smiles at
situations
which it cannot see.
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T.S. Eliot |
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May be that I by heaven's decrees
Shall
abdicate
the bard's profession,
And shall adopt some new caprice.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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[551] A poet and musician of Mitylene, who gained the prize of the lyre
at the
Panathenaea
in 457 B.
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Aristophanes |
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She that in bed such love does win,
Is
cleansed
forever of her sin.
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Troubador Verse |
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At last they slowed their
impetuous
flight.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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" I decided that
if the shaking of her breasts could be stopped, some of the fragments
of the afternoon might be collected, and I concentrated my attention
with careful
subtlety
to this end.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Herman
received
it and at once left
the table.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Alone for
Holofernes
am I come.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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And
thenceforth
shall so firm an amity
'Twixt thee and me be, that neither Fortune,
The monstrous phantom which pursues success, _180
That careful miser, that free prodigal,
Who ever alternates, with changeful hand,
Evil and good, reproach and fame; nor Time,
That lodestar of the ages, to whose beam
The winged years speed o'er the intervals _185
Of their unequal revolutions; nor
Heaven itself, whose beautiful bright stars
Rule and adorn the world, can ever make
The least division between thee and me,
Since now I find a refuge in thy favour.
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Shelley |
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_The Plot:_ Una
wandering
in quest of her Knight is guarded by a Lion.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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_Moray Dalton_
THE PLAYERS
We
challenged
Death.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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See, Lovers, how I'm treated, in what ways
I die of cold through summer's
scorching
days:
Of heat, in the depths of icy weather.
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Ronsard |
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It should be added that this is not a haphazard
anthology
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Huge sea-wood fed with copper
Burned green and orange, framed by the
coloured
stone,
In which sad light a carved dolphin swam.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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The inspiring god Oileus' active son
Perceived
the first, and thus to Telamon:
"Some god, my friend, some god in human form
Favouring descends, and wills to stand the storm.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Rilke - Poems |
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One hand she press'd upon that aching spot
Where beats the human heart, as if just there,
Though an immortal, she felt cruel pain:
The other upon Saturn's bended neck
She laid, and to the level of his ear
Leaning with parted lips, some words she spake
In solemn tenour and deep organ tone:
Some mourning words, which in our feeble tongue
Would come in these like accents; O how frail 50
To that large
utterance
of the early Gods!
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Keats |
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We have kings, I say,
To keep cash going, and the game at play;
There's why a king wants money--he'd be missed
Without a
fertilizing
civil list.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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--The Brocken or
Blocksberg
is
the highest peak of the Harz mountains, which comprise about 1350 square
miles.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Father Damien was Christ-like when he went out to live with the lepers,
because in such service he
realised
fully what was best in him.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Scorn &
Indignation
rose upon Enitharmon
Then Enitharmon reddning fierce stretchd her immortal hands *
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Blake - Zoas |
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The
copyright
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what you can do with this work.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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auro
repensus
scilicet acrior
miles redibit.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Facing this last, two samplers you might see,
Each, with its urn and stiffly weeping tree,
Devoted to some memory long ago
More faded than their lines of worsted woe;
Cut paper decked their frames against the flies,
Though none e'er dared an entrance who were wise, 320
And bushed
asparagus
in fading green
Added its shiver to the franklin clean.
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James Russell Lowell |
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asked
Baudelaire
after he had read Griswold on Poe.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Not falsely to
constrain!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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And you, ye twinkling
starnies
bright,
My Matthew mourn!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Euryclea awakens
Penelope
with the news of Ulysses' return, and
the death of the suitors.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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MARIE (_kneeling):_
Merciful
God, have pity on him!
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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'
hactenus, et mouit pictis innixa cothurnis
densum
caesarie
terque quaterque caput.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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whanne hir 2060
blysfulnesse
dure?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Place me where on the ice-bound plain
No tree is cheer'd by summer breezes,
Where Jove
descends
in sleety rain
Or sullen freezes;
Place me where none can live for heat,
'Neath Phoebus' very chariot plant me,
That smile so sweet, that voice so sweet,
Shall still enchant me.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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I can't support myself: my
strength
has left me.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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"--I am so apt to a _lapsus linguae_, that I sometimes think
the character of a certain great man I have read of
somewhere
is very
much _apropos_ to myself--that he was a compound of great talents and
great folly.
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Robert Burns |
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That ought to be
sufficient
for those American Intellectuals who are bemoaning the deca dence of poetry.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Relations
between the two peoples
have been strained before.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
)
Soe wylle wee beere the
Dacyanne
armie downe,
And throughe a storme of blodde wyll reache the champyon crowne.
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Scottish
scenes
and Scottish story are the themes I could wish to sing.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
Aye free, aff-han', your story tell,
When wi' a bosom crony;
But still keep something to yoursel',
Ye scarcely tell to ony:
Conceal yoursel' as weel's ye can
Frae
critical
dissection;
But keek thro' ev'ry other man,
Wi' sharpen'd, sly inspection.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Again doth flash our old ancestral sword,
This
glorious
sword--the dread of dark Kazan!
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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For my crime I now
conceive
a perfect terror:
I view my life with hatred, my love with horror.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Thy master and thy
mistress
live.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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XI
And
therefore
if to love can be desert,
I am not all unworthy.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Ah me,
My brother, should it strike not him, but thee,
This
wrestling
with dark death, behold, I too
Am dead that hour.
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Euripides - Electra |
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e
p{ur}ueau{n}ce
woot byforn
to comen.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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For the
position
of _tantum_ cf.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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By brooks too broad for leaping
The
lightfoot
boys are laid;
The rose-lipt girls are sleeping
In fields where roses fade.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Which to
abrupter
greatness thrust.
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Marvell - Poems |
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at non multa uirum sub signis milia ducta
una dies dabat exitio nec turbida ponti
aequora
lidebant
nauis ad saxa uirosque.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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And while in grief dissolved all weep and sigh,
She, in meek silence, joyous sits secure,
Gathering
already virtue's guerdon high.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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