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XXXV
On the idle hill of summer,
Sleepy with the flow of streams,
Far I hear the steady drummer
Drumming
like a noise in dreams.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Though storms around my vessel rave,
I will not fall to craven prayers,
Nor bargain by my vows to save
My Cyprian and Sidonian wares,
Else added to the
insatiate
main.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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associated
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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THE CONTEST
I
Your stature is modelled
with
straight
tool-edge:
you are chiselled like rocks
that are eaten into by the sea.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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"It is not true, before God it is not true,"
exclaimed
Marya.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Of all the sounds despatched abroad,
There's not a charge to me
Like that old measure in the boughs,
That
phraseless
melody
The wind does, working like a hand
Whose fingers brush the sky,
Then quiver down, with tufts of tune
Permitted gods and me.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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In the use of his sources three tendencies are especially noticeable:
the motivation of borrowed incidents; the adjusting of action on a
moral basis: the
reworking
of his own favorite themes and incidents.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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The
business
now let's execute I pray,
On which the dame he took without delay,
And placed her near where Andrew hid his head,
Then 'gan to operate as he was led.
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La Fontaine |
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"
[Illustration]
There was an Old Man with an Owl,
Who
continued
to bother and howl;
He sat on a rail, and imbibed bitter ale,
Which refreshed that Old Man and his Owl.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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'127 Clarissa':
it does not appear that Pope had any
individual
lady in mind.
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Alexander Pope |
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He did not wring his hands, as do
Those witless men who dare
To try to rear the
changeling
Hope
In the cave of black Despair:
He only looked upon the sun,
And drank the morning air.
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Wilde - Poems |
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"
(See
Washington
Irving's 'Chronicles of Wolfert's Roost', etc.
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William Wordsworth |
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Yet how much less it were to gain,
Though thou hast left me free,
The
loveliest
things that still remain
Than thus remember thee!
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Golden Treasury |
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Ah, mirror, for Christ's love
Give me one token that there still abides
Remote, beyond this island mystery,
So be it only this side Hope, somewhere,
In streams, on sun-warm
mountain
pasturage,
True life, natural breath; not this phantasma.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Then she smiled around right childly, then she gazed around right
queenly,
And I bowed--I could not answer; alternated light and gloom--
While as one who quells the lions, with a steady eye serenely,
She, with level
fronting
eyelids, passed out stately from the room.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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" I am
naturally
anxious
that what I have written should circulate as I wrote it, if it circulate
at all.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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' The edition
of 1669 substitutes 'theirs' for 'they',
referring
back to 'others'.
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John Donne |
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I have seen
beautiful
feet
but never beauty welded with strength.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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The _Faerie Queene_ might almost
be called the epic of the English
conquest
of Ireland.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Sir, can you tell
Where he bestowes
himselfe?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Oh many a peer of England brews
Livelier
liquor than the Muse,
And malt does more than Milton can
To justify God's ways to man.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Man: Some dismal
accident
it needs must be;
What shall we do, stay here or run and see?
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Milton |
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The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation"
or PGLAF), owns a compilation
copyright
in the collection of Project
Gutenberg-tm electronic works.
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Stephen Crane |
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She who was named eternal, and arrayed
Her
warriors
but to conquer--she who veiled
Earth with her haughty shadow, and displayed
Until the o'er-canopied horizon failed,
Her rushing wings--Oh!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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For a moment I thought that I saw the smock
Of a
shepherd
in search of his flock.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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To hide my eyes within the night
I watch the
changeful
lighthouse gleam
Alternately with red and white.
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Sara Teasdale |
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WITH THE
FOREGOING
POEM.
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Robert Forst |
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And such a horror calm and dumb,
Admiring nature does benumb ;
The viscous air, where'er she flj,
Follows and sucks her azure dye ;
The jellying stream
compacts
below,
If it might fix her shadow so ;
The stupid fishes hang, as plain
As flies in crystal overtaken.
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Marvell - Poems |
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ROBERT HERRICK: HIS
FAREWELL
UNTO POETRY.
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Robert Herrick |
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His majesty having commanded a general
muster of the militia throughout the kingdom, the city of _London_
not only mustered 6000 citizens
completely
armed, who performed their
several evolutions with surprizing dexterity; but a martial spirit
appeared amongst the rising generation.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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WHEN Easter came, new
difficulties
rose
Then, in confession, ALL she should disclose.
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La Fontaine |
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A reprint of
this volume in 1640 is
sometimes
called the Second Folio.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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But from my grave across my brow
Plays no wind of healing now,
And fire and ice within me fight
Beneath the
suffocating
night.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Wearied of war-horse,
gratefully
one glides
In gilded barge, or in crowned, velvet car,
From gay Whitehall to gloomy Temple Bar--"
(Where--had you slipt, that head were bleaching now!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Tomorrow
your Dictator
Shall bring in triumph home
The spoils of thirty cities
To deck the shrines of Rome!
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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The self-same moment I could pray;
And from my neck so free
The
Albatross
fell off, and sank
Like lead into the sea.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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What hath availed me Syrtes or Scylla, what desolate
Charybdis?
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Prom thousand blossoms came a bubbling
'Mid purple sheen of sorcery,
The song of countless
warblers
singing
Broke through the Spring's first cry of glee.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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"Art thou a Lombard, my
brother?
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Toward the piano they both shyly glanced
For she would sing to him on many a night,
And the child seated in the fading light
Would listen strangely as if half entranced,
His large eyes fastened with a quiet glow
Upon the hand which by her ring seemed bent
And slowly
wandering
o'er the white keys went
Moving as though against a drift of snow.
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Rilke - Poems |
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"IN YOUTH I HAVE KNOWN ONE"
_How often we forget all time, when lone
Admiring
Nature's universal throne;
Her woods--her wilds--her mountains-the intense
Reply of Hers to Our intelligence!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Its
business
office is located at 809
North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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In attempting des oeufs a la Princesse, he had
unfortunately perpetrated an omelette a la Reine; the discovery of a
principle in ethics had been
frustrated
by the overturning of a stew;
and last, not least, he had been thwarted in one of those admirable
bargains which he at all times took such especial delight in bringing
to a successful termination.
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Poe - 5 |
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If he picked himself and said, "I am ready to die,"
if he gave his name and said, "My country, take me,"
then the baskets of roses to-day are for the Boy,
the flowers, the songs, the steamboat whistles,
the proclamations of the
honorable
orators,
they are all for the Boy--that's him.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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I have seen eyes in the street
Trying to peer through lighted shutters,
And a crab one afternoon in a pool,
An old crab with
barnacles
on his back,
Gripped the end of a stick which I held him.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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10
LXXXIII
In the quiet garden world,
Gold
sunlight
and shadow leaves
Flicker on the wall.
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Sappho |
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"
And the Scribe bowed low in dread,
And unto
Iskander
said:
"Allah is great and just,
But we are as ashes and dust;
How shall I do this thing,
When I know that my guilty head
Will be forfeit to the King?
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Longfellow |
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Once, in error, I entered public life;
I am
inwardly
ashamed that my talents were not sufficient.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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XXIV
If that blind fury that engenders wars,
Fails to rouse the creatures of a kind,
Whether swift bird aloft or fleeting hind,
Whether
equipped
with scales or sharpened claws,
What ardent Fury in her pincers' jaws
Gripped your hearts, so poisoned the mind,
That intent on mutual cruelty, we find,
Into your own entrails your own blade bores?
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Free us, for without be goodly colours, Green of the wood-moss and flower-colours, And
coolness
beneath the trees.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Certainly the keeper of this inn
appreciates
Horace
and the poet pupils of Epicurus.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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The bald-head philosopher
Had fix'd his eye, without a twinkle or stir
Full on the alarmed beauty of the bride,
Brow-beating her fair form, and
troubling
her sweet pride.
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Keats |
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O how
charmingly
Nature hath array'd thee
With the soft green grass and juicy clover,
And with corn-flowers blooming and luxuriant.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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The prudent queen the lofty stair ascends:
At
distance
due a virgin-train attends;
A brazen key she held, the handle turn'd,
With steel and polish'd elephant adorn'd:
Swift to the inmost room she bent her way,
Where, safe reposed, the royal treasures lay:
There shone high heap'd the labour'd brass and ore,
And there the bow which great Ulysses bore;
And there the quiver, where now guiltless slept
Those winged deaths that many a matron wept.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Shall I look again on the camp or walls of
Laurentum?
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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the
beautifier
of the dead,
Adorner of the ruin, comforter
And only healer when the heart hath bled--
Time!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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iste calorem,
quo digesta capax
solidaret
semina mundus,
inseruit.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Latin mortal
dreadful
word,
Ibis, Nile's native bird.
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Appoloinaire |
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[This is
supposed
to be the last Poem written by the hand, or
conceived by the muse of Burns.
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Robert Burns |
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did enfold
With greedie pawes, and over all did spred
His golden wings: his dreadfull hideous hed 270
Close couched on the bever, seem'd to throw
From flaming mouth bright sparkles fierie red,
That suddeine horror to faint harts did show,
And scaly tayle was
stretcht
adowne his backe full low.
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Gilbert
Correggio
left at his death a widow, the sister of Cane de la
Scala, and four sons, Guido, Simone, Azzo, and Giovanni.
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Petrarch |
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, 'of more
importance
than that they should be called a
quintessence.
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose
such as creation of derivative works, reports,
performances
and
research.
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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At last I saw the ocean, a
pleasing
sight to me:
I stood upon the shore of a mighty glorious sea.
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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This is no Grecian fable, of
fountains
running wine,
Of maids with snaky tresses, or sailors turned to swine.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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[_He goes with_
ALCESTIS
_into the house_.
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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difficile est longum subito
deponere
amorem.
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Latin - Catullus |
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LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a
defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can
receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a
written
explanation
to the person you received the work from.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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And all his
substance
fell into decay.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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I suppose it will appear in Johnson's second
number--the first was
published
before my acquaintance with him.
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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Paradiso
?
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Thus let this crystall'd lily be
A rule, how far to teach
Your
nakedness
must reach;
And that no further than we see
Those glaring colours laid
By art's wise hand, but to this end
They should obey a shade,
Lest they too far extend.
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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Don't listen to those cursed birds
But
Paradisial
Angels' words.
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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But then the
beauteous
hill of moss
Before their eyes began to stir;
And for full fifty yards around,
The grass it shook upon the ground;
But all do still aver
The little babe is buried there,
Beneath that hill of moss so fair.
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Woe, woe, and woe again,
AEgisthus
gone!
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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The sorrows and pains took up so much space
There was no room left to talk about the
weather!
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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15_;
_Whistle
for
It_, i.
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Byron |
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232
A Wise
prophete
was in ?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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In every issue there is sure to be at least one poem so
interesting
as to justify the publication of that number of the magazine.
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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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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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Myself how
changed!
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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LVI
Then comforts him -- that Christ aye heaven allows
To them, that late or early heaven desire;
And all those
labourers
of the Gospel shows,
Paid by the vineyard's lord with equal hire.
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Not the cormorant, cradled there on the sea,
Not stones from the walls, or the
rhythmic
beat
Of a trader's oars thrashing the waves below.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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The first edition of the poems was in ten _chuan_, and was
published
by
Li Yang-ping in the year of the poet's death.
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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'
'Ah, sire, for goddis love,' seide I, 2135
Er ye passe hens, ententifly
Your
comaundementis
to me ye say,
And I shal kepe hem, if I may;
For hem to kepen is al my thought.
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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One kiss for all others
requites
me,
Although it is never to be,
And sweetens my dreams and invites me:
'Tis the kiss that she dare not give me.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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Gentle and rather foolish,
she was devoted to her two
children
Mary and, his sister's junior by
two years, Thomas the Poet.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Then he
followed
his foes, who fled before him
sore beset and stole their way,
bereft of a ruler, to Ravenswood.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Adorable
sorciere, aimes-tu les damnes!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Once when the Emperor was sitting in the Pavilion of Aloes Wood, he had
a sudden stirring of heart, and wanted Po to write a song
expressive
of
his mood.
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Li Po |
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CLIV
The little Love-god lying once asleep,
Laid by his side his heart-inflaming brand,
Whilst many nymphs that vow'd chaste life to keep
Came
tripping
by; but in her maiden hand
The fairest votary took up that fire
Which many legions of true hearts had warm'd;
And so the general of hot desire
Was, sleeping, by a virgin hand disarm'd.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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My
thoughts
tear me,
I dread their fever.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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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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Hugo - Poems |
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Black is night's cope;
But death will not appal
One who, past
doubtings
all,
Waits in unhope.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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The crowd go now to see him, in a headlong rush,
I went out, at your command, to find Hippolytus,
When a
thousand
cries split the heavens.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Beckford,--in all
the crack novels, I say, from those of Bulwer and Dickens to those of
Bulwer and Dickens to those of Turnapenny and Ainsworth, the two little
Latin words cui bono are
rendered
"to what purpose?
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Poe - 5 |
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Gilgamish
and Enkidu
grappled with each other,
goring like an ox.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Ou fons de la
fontaine
aval
Avoit deux pierres de cristal
Qu'a grande entente remirai,
Et une chose vous dirai,
<<
That ye wol holde a greet mervayle
Whan it is told, withouten fayle.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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He wrote for certain papers, which, as
everybody
knows,
Is worse than serving in a shop or scaring off the crows.
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Kipling - Poems |
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