--But whatsoever nature at any time dictated to the most
happy, or long exercise to the most laborious, that the wisdom and
learning of
Aristotle
hath brought into an art, because he understood the
causes of things; and what other men did by chance or custom he doth by
reason; and not only found out the way not to err, but the short way we
should take not to err.
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His form had not yet lost
All its original brightness, nor appeared
Less than an Archangel ruined, and the excess
Of glory obscured: as when the sun new-risen
Looks through the horizontal misty air
Shorn of his beams, or, from behind the moon,
In dim eclipse,
disastrous
twilight sheds
On half the nations, and with fear of change
Perplexes monarchs.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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God intends Happiness to be equal; and to be so, it must be social, since
all
particular
Happiness depends on general, and since He governs by
general, not particular Laws, v.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Rushing impetuous forth, we straight prepare
A furious onset with the sound of war,
And shouting seize the god; our force to evade,
His various arts he soon resumes in aid;
A lion now, he curls a surgy mane;
Sudden our hands a spotted paid restrain;
Then, arm'd with tusks, and
lightning
in his eyes,
A boar's obscener shape the god belies;
On spiry volumes, there a dragon rides;
Here, from our strict embrace a stream he glides.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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XXIX
It fortuned, (as faire it then befell,)
Behind his backe unweeting, where he stood,
Of auncient time there was a springing well, 255
From which fast
trickled
forth a silver flood,
Full of great vertues, and for med'cine good.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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The
companion
piece by Du Fu survives, along with the companion pieces by Wang Wei and Cen Shen.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Waltz:/ An
Apostrophic
Hymn.
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Byron |
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The Literary Digest says, in a recent issue :
"There are many "poetry magazines,' but so far as we know Contemporary Verse is the only Ameriean magazine devoted wholly to the
publication
of poetry.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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they were living things,
Most
terrible
to see.
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Wilde - Poems |
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"
"And yet," added Ben-Levi, "thou canst not point me out a Philistine-no,
not one-from Aleph to Tau-from the
wilderness
to the battlements--who
seemeth any bigger than the letter Jod!
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Poe - 5 |
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Again, gold unto gold
Doth not one
substance
bind, and only one?
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Pero, se l'avversario d'ogne male
cortese i fu, pensando l'alto effetto
ch'uscir dovea di lui, e 'l chi e 'l quale
non pare indegno ad omo d'intelletto;
ch'e' fu de l'alma Roma e di suo impero
ne l'empireo ciel per padre eletto:
la quale e 'l quale, a voler dir lo vero,
fu stabilita per lo loco santo
u' siede il
successor
del maggior Piero.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Only thine eyes remained;
They would not go--they never yet have gone;
Lighting
my lonely pathway home that night,
They have not left me (as my hopes have) since;
They follow me--they lead me through the years.
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Poe - 5 |
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_
Et, apres la
promenade
au bois.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Accursed
be that tongue that tels mee so;
For it hath Cow'd my better part of man:
And be these Iugling Fiends no more beleeu'd,
That palter with vs in a double sence,
That keepe the word of promise to our eare,
And breake it to our hope.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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his boat and
twinkling
oar.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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But he in Cristis wrath him ledeth,
That more than Crist my
bretheren
dredeth.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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You only I hear--yet the star holds me, (but will soon depart,)
Yet the lilac with
mastering
odor holds me.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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He hates
informers
and pursuivants.
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John Donne |
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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And in things unknown to a man, not
to give his opinion, lest by the affectation of knowing too much he lose
the credit he hath, by
speaking
or knowing the wrong way what he utters.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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And should I then
presume?
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T.S. Eliot |
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What premonition,
O purple swallow, 10
Told thee the happy
Hour of
migration?
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Sappho |
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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.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Which
shews, that the only decay or hurt of the best men's
reputation
with the
people is, their wits have out-lived the people's palates.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Death has reared himself a throne
In a strange city lying alone
Far down within the dim West,
Wherethe
good and the bad and the worst and the best
Have gone to their eternal rest.
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Poe - 5 |
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Here let me rest; and let me have
This for my heaven that was Thy grave:
And, coveting no higher sphere,
I'll my
eternity
spend here.
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Robert Herrick |
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See, the elder and younger move
At the garden's edge, and beside them
White carnations with long frail stems,
Stirred by the wind, in a marble urn,
Lean,
watching
them, live and motionless,
And, trembling with shade there, seem to be
Butterflies caught in flight, frozen ecstasy.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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The
hastiest
comparison of their
poetic work will show that their only common ideal was the worship of an
exotic beauty.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Yet, do not do so: for what then would I be
Other than an empty phantom after death,
Bodiless on that shore where love is surely less
(Pardon me Dis) than our idlest
fantasy?
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Ronsard |
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The words of mourning, of
acute grief, are said; and according to Germanic
sequence
of
thought, inexorable here, the next and only topic is revenge.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Darkness
deepens.
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Hugo - Poems |
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When we have brought back the clean earth and
destroyed
the
law and the Church all life will become like a flame of fire, like a
burning eye .
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Yeats |
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From east to west
A groan of
accusation
pierces Heaven!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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"
_James Norman Hall_
"ALL THE HILLS AND VALES ALONG"
All the hills and vales along
Earth is
bursting
into song,
And the singers are the chaps
Who are going to die perhaps.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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editions, all of which are
confirmed
as Public Domain in the U.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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The effect of
a page of her more recent
manuscript
is exceedingly quaint and
strong.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Ance mair I hail thee, thou gloomy
December!
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Robert Burns |
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"Let pass the banners and the spears,
The hate, the battle, and the greed;
For greater than all gifts is peace, 15
And
strength
is in the tranquil mind.
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Sappho |
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I have
wandered
o'er the earth,
And never found thy likeness--Speak to me!
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Byron |
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Quare agite optatos animi
coniungite
amores.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Nor humble her ways,
nor grudged she gifts to the Geatish men,
of
precious
treasure.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Fine gold her hair, her face as sunlit snow,
Her brows and lashes jet, twin stars her eyne,
Whence the young archer oft took fatal aim;
Each loving lip--whence,
utterance
sweet and low
Her pent grief found--a rose which rare pearls line,
Her tears of crystal and her sighs of flame.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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He
departed
for Paris at the end of August 1557.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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In the same temple, the
resounding
wood,
All vocal beings hymned their equal God:
The shrine with gore unstained, with gold undressed,
Unbribed, unbloody, stood the blameless priest:
Heaven's attribute was universal care,
And man's prerogative to rule, but spare.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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_There is a growing
desire to
overrate
them.
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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Happy old man, who 'mid familiar streams
And
hallowed
springs, will court the cooling shade!
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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"
But
especially
"Thing-um-a jig!
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Lewis Carroll |
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in whom, for joy's light throng,
Infinite
woes their constant mansion find!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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To walk
together
to the Kirk
And all together pray,
While each to his great father bends,
Old men, and babes, and loving friends,
And Youths, and Maidens gay.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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So don't you join our fraternity,
But pray that God
absolves
us all.
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Villon |
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Why I was not singing
erewhile
for you to follow, to understand--nor
am I now;
(I have been born of the same as the war was born,
The drum-corps' rattle is ever to me sweet music, I love well the
martial dirge,
With slow wail and convulsive throb leading the officer's funeral;)
What to such as you anyhow such a poet as I?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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When the golden days arrive,
With the swallow at the eaves,
And the first sob of the south-wind
Sighing at the latch with spring, 40
Long hereafter shall thy name
Be
recalled
through foreign lands,
And thou be a part of sorrow
When the Linus songs are sung.
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Sappho |
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th,
ffor
penaunce
?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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"
"Is Marya
Ivanofna
gone?
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Not the mounds of wheat
That load Sardinian
threshing
floors;
Not Indian gold or ivory--no,
Nor flocks that o'er Calabria stray,
Nor fields that Liris, still and slow,
Is eating, unperceived, away.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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7 and any additional
terms imposed by the
copyright
holder.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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I
have
corrected
throughout.
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John Donne |
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--Has he perchance, at eve,
When here the thinker
homeward
went, has he,
Who--seeing souls all naked--could not fear
Your nudity, in his inquiring mind,
Confronted you with Man?
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Imagists |
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This eBook is for the use of anyone
anywhere
at no cost and with
almost no restrictions whatsoever.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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ai
striueden
& chid ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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O son, this breast
Pillowed thine head full oft, while, drowsed with sleep,
Thy
toothless
mouth drew mother's milk from me.
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Aeschylus |
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& wet thy veil with dewy tears, *
In slumbers of my night-repose, infusing a false
morning?
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Blake - Zoas |
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]
[Sidenote: yet do not thereby change their nature, as before they
happened
they had it in their power not to happen.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Tu non se' in terra, si come tu credi;
ma folgore,
fuggendo
il proprio sito,
non corse come tu ch'ad esso riedi>>.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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As a proof of the length of his arm, they told us that he could
garter his tartan
stockings
below the knee without stooping, and added
a dozen different stories of single combats, which he had fought, all
in perfect good humour, merely to prove his prowess.
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Thus Providence, right understood,
Whose end and aim is doing good,
Sends nothing here without its use;
Though
ignorance
loads it with abuse,
And fools despise the blessing sent,
And mock the Giver's good intent.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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Hieron de Mendoca and Sebastian de Mesa relate, that Don
Sebastian, after having two horses killed under him, was surrounded and
taken; but the party who had secured him,
quarrelling
among themselves
whose prisoner he was, a Moorish officer rode up and struck the king a
blow over the right eye, which brought him to the ground; when,
despairing of ransom, the others killed him.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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'
So speaks he, and his
Rutulians
draw back from a level space at his
bidding.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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When I recount thy
worshippers
of yore
I tremble, and can only bend the knee;
Nor raise my voice, nor vainly dare to soar,
But gaze beneath thy cloudy canopy
In silent joy to think at last I look on thee!
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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[Sidenote: We hardly need say that happiness is not an unjoyous
and melancholy state, for in the pursuit of the
smallest
matters
men seek only pleasure.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Vanish into air,
Warm
mountaineer!
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Keats |
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alternate
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Chanson de Roland |
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For wash and clean us as much as we will,
We always prove
unfruitful
still.
| Guess: |
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Can the spice-rose
drip such acrid fragrance
hardened
in a leaf?
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Continued
use of this site implies consent to that usage.
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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quid loquar infectos fraterno sanguine fratres,
uenalis ad fata patres
matrumque
sepulcra?
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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The passion of love had fallen from the high
estate it once possessed and become the mere
relaxation
of the idle
moments of a man of fashion.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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Behold,
Broad it is now become, a
plenteous
water,
A roomy tide.
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Quoniam a corruptissimo
exemplari
transcripsit, non
enim quodpiam aliud extabat, unde posset libelli huius habere copiam
exemplandi.
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Latin - Catullus |
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Then indeed, hapless and
dismayed
by doom, Dido prays for death, and is
weary of gazing on the arch of heaven.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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After many proposals, it was at last agreed, that
of his twelve
attendants
he should leave seven as hostages; that what
goods were aboard his fleet should be landed; and that Gama should be
safely conducted to his ship, after which the treaty of commerce and
alliance was to be finally settled.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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I find
_tredge_ in the interlude of 'Jack Jugler,' _bresh_ in a citation by
Collier from 'London Cries' of the middle of the seventeenth century,
and
_resche_
for _rush_ (fifteenth century) in the very valuable 'Volume
of Vocabularies' edited by Mr.
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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Wherfore
I rede, in thy going,
And also in thyn ageyn-coming,
Thou be wel war that men ne wit;
Feyne thee other cause than it 2520
To go that weye, or faste by;
To hele wel is no folye.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Thou, whether broad Timavus' rocky banks
Thou now art passing, or dost skirt the shore
Of the Illyrian main,- will ever dawn
That day when I thy deeds may celebrate,
Ever that day when through the whole wide world
I may renown thy verse- that verse alone
Of
Sophoclean
buskin worthy found?
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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And then,
If haply our hand be set beneath one eye
And press below thereon, then to our gaze
Each object which we gaze on seems to be,
By some sensation twain--then twain the lights
Of lampions burgeoning in flowers of flame,
And twain the
furniture
in all the house,
Two-fold the visages of fellow-men,
And twain their bodies.
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Lucretius |
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[In order to
complete
the Life of Solomon, of which his Book of Wisdom, &c.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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REMBRANDT, sad hospital that a murmuring fills,
Where one tall
crucifix
hangs on the walls,
Where every tear-drowned prayer some woe distils,
And one cold, wintry ray obliquely falls.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Here, as I turn'd my anxious eyes around,
If any shade I then could see renown'd
In old or modern times; the bard I spied
Whose unabated love pursued his bride
Down to the coast of Hades; and above
His life resign'd, the pledge of
constant
love,
Calling her name in death.
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Petrarch |
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We
could not dream of
resuming
our journey.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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VI
Leave we
sometime
the wretch who, while he layed
Snares for another, wrought his proper doom;
And turn we to the damsel he betrayed,
Who had nigh found at once her death and tomb.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Crucified
I cried to men, "I would be
crucified!
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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It
ends in
rejoicing
and gladness against the tragic convention.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Who, with living flowers
Of
loveliest
blue, spread garlands at your feet?
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William Wordsworth |
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When the army
demanded
that he should confer equestrian rank on his
freedman Asiaticus, he checked their shameful flattery.
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Tacitus |
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Then since he has no further heights to climb,
And naught to witness he has come this endless way,
On the wind-bitten ice cap he will wait for the last of time,
And watch the crimson sunrays fading of the world's latest day:
And blazing stars will burst upon him there,
Dumb in the
midnight
of his hope and pain,
Speeding no answer back to his last prayer,
And, if akin to him, akin in vain.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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