And there's the
windflower
chilly
With all the winds at play,
And there's the Lenten lily
That has not long to stay
And dies on Easter day.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Thanatos
is not a god,
not at all a King of Terrors.
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"There was one odd Fellow in our Company--he was so like a Figure in
the 'Pilgrim's Progress' that Richard always called him the
'ALLEGORY,' with a long white beard--a rare Appendage in those
days--and a Face the colour of which seemed to have been baked in,
like the Faces one used to see on
Earthenware
Jugs.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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And you are he: the deity
To whom all lovers are designed,
That would their better objects find;
Among which
faithful
troop am I;
Who, as an offering at your shrine,
Have sung this hymn, and here entreat
One spark of your diviner heat
To light upon a love of mine;
Which, if it kindle not, but scant
Appear, and that to shortest view,
Yet give me leave t' adore in you
What I, in her, am grieved to want.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Half-past two,
The street-lamp said,
"Remark the cat which
flattens
itself in the gutter,
Slips out its tongue
And devours a morsel of rancid butter.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Where the city stands with the brawniest breed of orators and bards;
Where the city stands that is beloved by these, and loves them in return,
and understands them;
Where no monuments exist to heroes but in the common words and deeds;
Where thrift is in its place, and prudence is in its place;
Where the men and women think lightly of the laws;
Where the slave ceases, and the master of slaves ceases;
Where the
populace
rise at once against the never-ending audacity of
elected persons;
Where fierce men and women pour forth, as the sea to the whistle of death
pours its sweeping and unripped waves;
Where outside authority enters always after the precedence of inside
authority;
Where the citizen is always the head and ideal--and President, Mayor,
Governor, and what not, are agents for pay;
Where children are taught to be laws to themselves, and to depend on
themselves;
Where equanimity is illustrated in affairs;
Where speculations on the Soul are encouraged;
Where women walk in public processions in the streets, the same as the men;
Where they enter the public assembly and take places the same as the men;
Where the city of the faithfullest friends stands;
Where the city of the cleanliness of the sexes stands;
Where the city of the healthiest fathers stands;
Where the city of the best-bodied mothers stands,--
There the great city stands.
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Whitman |
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Lear - Nonsense |
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My
greatest
glory on that day will be,
That I have given my vote against this man.
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Longfellow |
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We seek the Brocken here, on the
Walpurgis
night,
Then hold ourselves, when here, completely isolated!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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The god Priapus saw I, as I wente,
Within the temple, in soverayn place stonde,
In swich aray as whan the asse him shente 255
With crye by night, and with his ceptre in honde;
Ful besily men gunne assaye and fonde
Upon his hede to sette, of sondry hewe,
Garlondes
ful of fresshe floures newe.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Knowest thou the shore
Where no
breakers
roar,
Where the storm is o'er?
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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The story is further
discredited by the fact that we find no mention of it in Greek literature--
even among those Attic
comedians
who would have clutched at it so eagerly
and given it so gross a turn--till a date more than two hundred years after
Sappho's death.
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Sappho |
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"
The
stranger
vanished .
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Remote they stand while alien troops engage,
Like
trembling
hounds before the lion's rage.
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Iliad - Pope |
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With All the
Original
Pictures and Verses
[Illustration]
There was an Old Derry down Derry, who loved to see little folks
merry;
So he made them a Book, and with laughter they shook
At the fun of that Derry down Derry.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Let those guns so unerring such
vengeance
forego?
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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And ladies fair from silken tent
Peep forth, and every eye is bent
On the
cavalcade
that comes!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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"
"I am like thee, O, Night, silent and deep; and in the heart of
my
loneliness
lies a Goddess in child-bed; and in him who is being
born Heaven touches Hell.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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my friend, and clear your looks,
Why all this toil and
trouble?
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Peut-on
illuminer
un ciel bourbeux et noir?
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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The folk of the Weders fashioned there
on the
headland
a barrow broad and high,
by ocean-farers far descried:
in ten days' time their toil had raised it,
the battle-brave's beacon.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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suggests
eatna = eotena, eardas, _haunts of the giants_
(Northumbr.
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Beowulf |
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Contents
Translator's note:
Les Amours de Cassandre: XX
Les Amours de Cassandre: XXXVI
Les Amours de Cassandre: XLIII
Les Amours de Cassandre: XLIV
Les Amours de Cassandre: XCIV
Les Amours de Cassandre: CXXXV
Les Amours de Cassandre: CLII
Les Amours de Cassandre: CLX
Les Amours de Cassandre: CLXXII
Les Amours de Cassandre: CLXXIV
Les Amours de Cassandre: CXCII
Les Amours de Cassandre: CXCIII
Les Amours de Marie: VI
Les Amours de Marie: IX
Les Amours de Marie: XLIV
Sur La Mort de Marie: IV
Sonnets Pour Helene Book I: VI
Sonnets Pour Helene Book I: IX
Sonnets Pour Helene Book I: XIX
Sonnets Pour Helene Book I: L
Sonnets Pour Helene Book II: XLII
Sonnets Pour Helene Book II: XLIII
Sonnets Pour Helene Book II: XLIX
Les Odes: A Sa Maistresse
Les Odes: O Fontaine Bellerie
Les Odes: 'Pourquoy comme une jeune poutre'
Index of First Lines
Translator's note:
Most of the Classical references
mentioned
in the notes are well known, and easily found in Ovid's Metamorphoses.
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Ronsard |
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Is it not evident to the blind, that
nowadays
to do nothing that
is right is the best way to get on?
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Aristophanes |
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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The island
of Aegina had been mainly divided in this way among
Athenian
colonists.
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Aristophanes |
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But whoso entereth within this town,
That, sheening far, celestial seems to be,
Disconsolate will wander up and down,
Mid many things unsightly to strange e'e;
For hut and palace show like filthily;
The dingy denizens are reared in dirt;
No personage of high or mean degree
Doth care for
cleanness
of surtout or shirt,
Though shent with Egypt's plague, unkempt, unwashed, unhurt.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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--I find no grain:
The cruel frost encrusts the
cornland!
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Or why was the
substance
not made more sure
That formed the brave fronts of these palaces?
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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If pride shall be in Paradise
I never can decide;
Of their
imperial
conduct,
No person testified.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Avarice en sa main tenoit
Une borse qu'el reponnoit,
Et la nooit si durement,
Que
demorast
moult longuement 230
Aincois qu'el en peust riens traire,
Mes el n'avoit de ce que faire.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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While the pale ghost his eyes doth fixed admire
Of
grandsire
Harry, and of Charles his sire.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Half-past two,
The street-lamp said,
"Remark the cat which
flattens
itself in the gutter,
Slips out its tongue
And devours a morsel of rancid butter.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Wilde - Poems |
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Thou shalt enjoy the
daintiest
savor,
Then feast thy taste on richest flavor,
Then thy charmed heart shall melt away.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Then believe me, my sweetheart, do,
While time still flowers for you,
In its
freshest
novelty,
Cull, ah cull your youthful bloom:
As it blights this flower, the doom
Of age will blight your beauty.
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Ronsard |
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'
The head turned not to hear him speak;
The old voice whistled as through a leak
(Out it came in a
quavering
squeak):
'Work for wage is a bargain fit:
If there's aught of mine that you seek
You must work for it.
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Christina Rossetti |
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When proud Arzilla's strength, Alcazer's towers,
And Tingia, boastful of her num'rous powers,
Beheld their adamantine walls o'erturn'd,
Their
ramparts
levell'd, and their temples burn'd.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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--
though thou wast the bane {9a} of thy
brethren
dear,
thy closest kin, whence curse of hell
awaits thee, well as thy wit may serve!
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Keats - Lamia |
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Take thou mie power, and see yn chylde and manne
What troulie
noblenesse
yn Canynge ranne.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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>>,
rispuos' io lui con
vergognosa
fronte.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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But lately, one rough day, this flower I past,
And recognised it, though an alter'd form,
Now standing forth an offering to the blast,
And
buffeted
at will by rain and storm.
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Golden Treasury |
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A public domain book is one that was never subject to
copyright
or whose legal copyright term has expired.
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Meredith - Poems |
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XXX
Faire seemely
pleasaunce?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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"Why do you sigh, fair
creature?
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Keats - Lamia |
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To be jealous of a Hebe's fate
Possessed by some demon now a negress
I don't come to conquer your flesh tonight, O beast
The sun, on the sand, O
sleeping
wrestler,
Eyes, lakes of my simple passion to be reborn
I bring you the child of an Idumean night!
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Affter kyng
Salomons
de?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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"
It being remembered that there were six of us with Master Villon, when that
expecting
presently to be hanged he writ a ballad whereof ye know :
"
Frtres humftins qui aprls nous vivez" NK ye a skoal for the gallows tree !
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Step lofty; for this name is told
As far as cannon dwell,
Or flag subsist, or fame export
Her
deathless
syllable.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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THE FAUN SEES SNOW FOR THE FIRST TIME
Zeus,
Brazen-thunder-hurler,
Cloud-whirler, son-of-Kronos,
Send
vengeance
on these Oreads
Who strew
White frozen flecks of mist and cloud
Over the brown trees and the tufted grass
Of the meadows, where the stream
Runs black through shining banks
Of bluish white.
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Imagists |
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Or can I have been
drinking?
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Lewis Carroll |
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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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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Glory and worship be
To you, sweet Maids, thrice three,
Who still inspire me;
And teach me how to sing
Unto the lyric string,
My
measures
ravishing!
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Robert Herrick |
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"
Can you see it still," he cried, "my
brother?
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Her hair is a
sinister
black,
Her skin, tanned by the devil.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Dante added to poetry a dialectic which, although
he made it serve his laborious ecstasy, was the invention of minds
trained by the labour of life, by a traffic among many things, and
not a spontaneous expression of an interior life; while Shakespeare
shattered the symmetry of verse and of drama that he might fill them
with things and their accidental
relations
to one another.
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Yeats |
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Then cold, and hot, and moist, and dry
In order to their
stations
leap,
And Music's power obey.
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Golden Treasury |
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Now one
breathes
here the rankness of desolation.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Stephen Crane |
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at one of he{m}
p{ur}sue?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Dearest comrades, all is over and long gone,
But love is not over--and what love, O
comrades!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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The
sprinkled
salt, the votive meal,
As soon their favour will regain,
Let but the hand be pure and leal,
As all the pomp of heifers slain.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Some felt the silent stroke of mouldering age,
Some hostile fury, some
religious
rage.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Underneath
this stone doth lie
As much beauty as could die
Which in life did harbour give
To more virtue than doth live.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Italics
representing
expanded abbreviations are shown in b{ra}ces.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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(for the plural) þone
sēlestan þāra þe mid
Hrōðgāre
hām eahtode, _the best one of those who with
Hrōðgār deliberated about their home_ (ruled), 1408.
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Beowulf |
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Had we not better
confer together and come to some
understanding?
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| Question: |
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Aristophanes |
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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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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Free us, for there is one Whose smile more availeth
Than all the age-old
knowledge
of thy books: And we would look thereon.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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l'automne l'automne a fait mourir l'ete
Dans le
brouillard
s'en vont deux silhouettes grises
L'EMIGRANT DE LANDOR ROAD
A Andre Billy.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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The infant morning
breathes
sweet breath,
And with it is blent
The wistful, wild, moist scent
Of the grass in the marsh which the sea nourisheth:
And behold!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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He passed through Kiukiang on his way,
and released the
prisoners
there.
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Li Po |
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The Knight at first takes Archimago to be a palmer,
and
inquires
for the foreign news.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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He sang who knew {1d}
tales of the early time of man,
how the
Almighty
made the earth,
fairest fields enfolded by water,
set, triumphant, sun and moon
for a light to lighten the land-dwellers,
and braided bright the breast of earth
with limbs and leaves, made life for all
of mortal beings that breathe and move.
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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I must call the neighbours
together
to welcome them.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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The people awaken
Which
godlessly
slept;
Their palaces shaken,
Their offences unwept!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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And as a
vanquished
soldier yields his sword
To one who lifts him from the bloody earth,
Even so, Beloved, I at last record,
Here ends my strife.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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I have seen the baths which Nature
has prepared; but the avarice of physicians has
rendered
them of
doubtful use.
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Petrarch |
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Thus oft before fair temples of the gods,
Beside the incense-burning altars slain,
Drops down the yearling calf, from out its breast
Breathing
warm streams of blood; the orphaned mother,
Ranging meanwhile green woodland pastures round,
Knows well the footprints, pressed by cloven hoofs,
With eyes regarding every spot about,
For sight somewhere of youngling gone from her;
And, stopping short, filleth the leafy lanes
With her complaints; and oft she seeks again
Within the stall, pierced by her yearning still.
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It creates, but it creates
by
combination
and representation.
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There was a time when any common bird
Could make me sing in unison, a time
When all the strings of boyish life were stirred
To quick response or more
melodious
rhyme
By every forest idyll;--do I change?
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Ils sont blottis, pas un ne bouge,
Au souffle du
soupirail
rouge,
Chaud comme un sein.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Note: Hercules, Alcmene's son, tormented by the shirt of Nessus
immolated
himself on a pyre on Mount Oeta, and was deified.
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Ronsard |
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What will you find out there that is not torn and
anguished?
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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bysshopes
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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The cycles of
revolving
years
May free my heart from all its fears,
And teach my lips a song to sing.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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THE HUMAN ABSTRACT
Pity would be no more
If we did not make
somebody
poor,
And Mercy no more could be
If all were as happy as we.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we
have not met the
solicitation
requirements, we know of no prohibition
against accepting unsolicited donations from donors in such states who
approach us with offers to donate.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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A good poet _might_ have written _And roses
wild_:--yet this slight change would
disenchant
the verse of its peculiar
beauty.
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Golden Treasury |
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Moral
restraint
I see has no effect,
Nor prostitution, nor our own example, _75
Starvation, typhus-fever, war, nor prison--
This was the art which the arch-priest of Famine
Hinted at in his charge to the Theban clergy--
Cut close and deep, good Moses.
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Shelley |
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Then the Butcher contrived an ingenious plan
For making a separate sally;
And had fixed on a spot
unfrequented
by man,
A dismal and desolate valley.
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Lewis Carroll |
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The golden morning's open flowings
Did sway the trees to
murmurous
bowings,
In metric chant of blessed poems.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Who, with herself, or others, from her birth
Finds all her life one warfare upon earth:
Shines in
exposing
knaves, and painting fools,
Yet is, whate'er she hates and ridicules.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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True, I discern far off the cheering light
To which, through
trackless
wilds, thou urgest me:
But wings like thine to bear me to delight
I want:--Yet from these pangs I would not flee,
Finding this only favour in her sight,
That not displeased my love and death she see.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Mery,
Without dawn too grossly now inflaming
The rose, that splendid, natural and weary
Sheds even her heavy veil of
perfumes
to hear
Beneath the flesh the diamond weeping,
Yes, without those dewy crises!
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Mallarme - Poems |
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You are more
beautiful
than they are.
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Imagists |
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We bring thee our love and our garlands for tribute,
With gifts of thy opulent giving we come;
O source of our
manifold
gladness, we hail thee,
We praise thee, O Prithvi, with cymbal and drum.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Yet in order each
Created his due station knew: those highest,
Who pure
intelligence
were made: mere power
The lowest: in the midst, bound with strict league,
Intelligence and power, unsever'd bond.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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