They were easy to find who
elsewhere
sought
in room remote their rest at night,
bed in the bowers, {2a} when that bale was shown,
was seen in sooth, with surest token, --
the hall-thane's {2b} hate.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Clarence
and the Malmesey over again;
'Twas a delightful death.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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"So yesterday I read the acts
Of Hector and each clangorous king
With
wrathful
great AEacides:--
Old Homer leaves a sting.
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Christina Rossetti |
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I never saw a man who looked
With such a wistful eye
Upon that little tent of blue
Which prisoners call the sky,
And at every wandering cloud that trailed
Its
ravelled
fleeces by.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Now, be off, and do your
surveying
somewhere
else.
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Aristophanes |
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'But sith ye love discreven so,
And lakke and preise it, bothe two,
Defyneth
it into this letter, 4805
That I may thenke on it the better;
For I herde never [diffyne it ere],
And wilfully I wolde it lere.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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each his center basement finds;
suspended
there they stand {According to Erdman, the word "center" was originally deleted by Blake with a strong ink stroke and therefore not easily erased.
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Blake - Zoas |
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And that furnace-heated breath
Blew into my placid dreams
The heart of fire from whence it came:
Haunt of beauty and of death
Where the forest breaks in flame
Of
flaunting
blossom, where the flood
Of life pulses hot and stark,
Where a wing'd death breeds in mud
And tumult of tree-shadowed streams--
Black waters, desolately hurled
Through the uttermost, lost, dark,
Secret places of the world.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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This peace, then, and
happiness
thronged me around.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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--I have
considered
our whole life is like a play:
wherein every man forgetful of himself, is in travail with expression of
another.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Sweeney
addressed
full length to shave
Broadbottomed, pink from nape to base,
Knows the female temperament
And wipes the suds around his face.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Civilized
lands
Afford few types thereof;
Here is a man who takes his rest
Beside his very Love,
Beside the one who was his wife
In our sight up above!
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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The old man rais'd his hoary head and saw
The wilder'd stranger--seeming not to see, 220
His
features
were so lifeless.
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Keats |
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WELL-BRED _makes the proposed
arrangement
with_
BRIDGET.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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"What do you think
yourself?
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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The sonnets of Les Antiquites provide a fascinating comment on the
Classical
Roman world as seen from the viewpoint of the French Renaissance.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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sent a
memorandum
to the West.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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In the
southern
clime,
Where the summer's prime
Never fades away,
Lovely Lyca lay.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Copyright laws in most
countries
are in
a constant state of change.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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But as this angelic creature is, I am afraid, extremely rare in any
station and rank of life, and totally denied to such a humble one as
mine, we meaner mortals must put up with the next rank of female
excellence--as fine a figure and face we can produce as any rank of
life whatever; rustic, native grace; unaffected modesty, and unsullied
purity; nature's mother-wit, and the
rudiments
of taste; a simplicity
of soul, unsuspicious of, because unacquainted with, the crooked ways
of a selfish, interested, disingenuous world; and the dearest charm of
all the rest, a yielding sweetness of disposition, and a generous
warmth of heart, grateful for love on our part, and ardently glowing
with a more than equal return; these, with a healthy frame, a sound,
vigorous constitution, which your higher ranks can scarcely ever hope
to enjoy, are the charms of lovely woman in my humble walk of life.
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Robert Burns |
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She was dressed always in
clinging
dresses of Eastern silk, and
as she was so small, and her long black hair hung straight down
her back, you might have taken her for a child.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Subordinate to Urizen
And to his sons in their degrees & to his beauteous
daughters
{'In sevens & tens.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Strathallan's Lament^1
Thickest
night, o'erhang my dwelling!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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The
compliment was thoroughly justified; and it is not every landscape-painter
to whom it could
honestly
be paid.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Some of the princes, it has been satirically hinted, behaved
afterwards in such a way as if they wished that the scripture of the
Burns should be fulfilled: in this strain, he has imitated the license
and
equalled
the wit of some of the elder Scottish Poets.
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Robert Forst |
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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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to thee 'tis given
To guard the banner of the free,
To hover in the sulphur smoke,
To ward away the battle stroke,
And bid its blendings shine afar,
Like rainbows on the cloud of war,
The harbingers of
victory!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Hippolytus,
hardened
by their savage laws,
Hears love's language he never heard before.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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These evenings as in days of old
The Larinas would celebrate,
The servants used to congregate
And the young ladies fortunes told,
And every year distributed
Journeys and
warriors
to wed.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Over the pallid margin of dim seas breaking,
Over the
thickening
in the darkness that is land,
They fly.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Where fierce the surge with awful bellow
Doth ever lash the rocky wall;
And where the moon most brightly mellow
Dost beam when mists of evening fall;
Where midst his harem's countless blisses
The Moslem spends his vital span,
A
Sorceress
there with gentle kisses
Presented me a Talisman.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Redistribution is
subject to the trademark license,
especially
commercial
redistribution.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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As if some little Arctic flower,
Upon the polar hem,
Went wandering down the latitudes,
Until it puzzled came
To continents of summer,
To
firmaments
of sun,
To strange, bright crowds of flowers,
And birds of foreign tongue!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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{15e} Horses are
frequently
led or ridden into the hall where folk
sit at banquet: so in Chaucer's Squire's tale, in the ballad of
King Estmere, and in the romances.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Tomorrow
thou shalt know.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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That tongue that tells the story of thy days,
Making lascivious
comments
on thy sport,
Cannot dispraise, but in a kind of praise;
Naming thy name, blesses an ill report.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Amazement
of an anger
Against created shape and narrowness?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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By all of all men's hopes and fears,
And all the wonders poets sing,
The
laughter
of unclouded years,
And every sad and lovely thing:
By the romantic ages stored
With high endeavour that was his,
By all his mad catastrophes,
Make me a man, O Lord.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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And round that early-laurelled head
Will flock to gaze the strengthless dead,
And find
unwithered
on its curls
The garland briefer than a girl's.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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In abandoned cities foxes and badgers talk, in deserted villages tigers and
leopards
contend.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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"Such still, such ages weave ye, as ye run,"
Sang to their
spindles
the consenting Fates
By Destiny's unalterable decree.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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O what a canty warld were it,
Would pain and care and
sickness
spare it;
And fortune favour worth and merit,
As they deserve!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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'At Dawn I Love You'
At dawn I love you I've the whole night in my veins
All night I have gazed at you
I've all to divine I am certain of shadows
They give me the power
To envelop you
To stir your desire to live
At my
motionless
core
The power to reveal you
To free you to lose you
Invisible flame in the day.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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I see her
trundling
her mop, and
contemplating the whirling phenomenon through blurred optics; but to
term her 'a poor outcast' seems as much as to say that poor Susan was
no better than she should be, which I trust was not what you meant to
express.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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All but one weighty, grave
request!
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Elizabeth Browning |
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In 1726, Swift visited Pope and encouraged him to
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How swift upon the
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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All are arrayed in green, and
garlands
wear
Of the fresh leaf.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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XXVI
"Sir Odoric in war well taught and bred,
Gained in few blows such vantage in the fray,
He left Corebo on the field for dead,
And,
following
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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A load your Atlas
shoulders
cannot lift?
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Emerson - Poems |
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[23]
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Keats - Lamia |
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XXIII
Brought by a pedlar vagabond
Unto their solitude one day,
This monument of thought profound
Tattiana purchased with a stray
Tome of "Malvina," and but three(56)
And a half rubles down gave she;
Also, to
equalise
the scales,
She got a book of nursery tales,
A grammar, likewise Petriads two,
Marmontel also, tome the third;
Tattiana every day conferred
With Martin Zadeka.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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--Knowledge is the action of the soul and is perfect without
the senses, as having the seeds of all science and virtue in itself; but
not without the service of the senses; by these organs the soul works:
she is a
perpetual
agent, prompt and subtle; but often flexible and
erring, entangling herself like a silkworm, but her reason is a weapon
with two edges, and cuts through.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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It dances with purple and yellow crocuses in its hair,
And its feet shine as they flutter over
drenched
grasses.
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Imagists |
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No longer delay, let us hasten away in the
track of the sea-gull's call,
The sea is our mother, the cloud is our brother,
the waves are our
comrades
all.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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This be a figured cloth with forms of manhood
primeval
50
Showing by marvel-art the gifts and graces of heroes.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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ilke
goodnesse
or ellys som o?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Colui che mai non vide cosa nova
produsse
esto visibile parlare,
novello a noi perche qui non si trova.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Sur le
requisitoire
de M.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Max Ernst
In one corner agile incest
Turns round the
virginity
of a little dress
In one corner sky released
leaves balls of white on the spines of storm.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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In shape it
is nearly circular--and it is hung so that a reflection of the person
can be
obtained
from it in none of the ordinary sitting-places of the
room.
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Poe - 5 |
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I fear, I fear
What they may be
That
secretly
bind her:
What hand holds the reins
Of those sightless forces
That govern her courses.
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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'Tis unmeet, if he hears
Our turmoil or is
burdened
with our tears.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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Farai
chansoneta
nueva
I'll make a little song that's new,
Before wind, frost, and rain come too;
My lady tests me, and would prove
How, and in just what way, I am
In love, yet despite all she may do
I'd rather be stuck here in this jam.
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Troubador Verse |
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Experts even denied that the two
priapeia
(I
& XXIV) were by Goethe at all, although they are in the same hand as the
rest.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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My words are
guiltless
of the bigot's sense;
My soul has fire to mingle with the fire
Of all these souls, within or out of doors
Of Rome's church or another.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Tarpey, an Irishman whose
comedy _Windmills_ was
successfully
prepared by the Stage Society some
years ago, a little play which I have not yet seen; and Mr.
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Yeats |
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Nous
dorerons
ton Louvre en donnant nos gros sous!
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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" It is
doubtful
whether one can
call it a tragedy at all.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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And all outrageous ugliness of time,
Excess and Blasphemy and
squinting
Crime
Beset me, but I kept my calm sublime:
I hate them not, Nirvana.
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Sidney Lanier |
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hindeman
sīðe, _the
last time, for the last time_, 2050, 2518.
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Beowulf |
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at yif it
wa{n}te?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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In vain he strove with wonted ease
To modify and extenuate
His evil deeds in church and state,
For gone was now his power to please;
And his pompous words had no more weight
Than
feathers
flying in the breeze.
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Longfellow |
|
)
The word towne (well-behaved) still exists in wan-ton, the
original
meaning of which was ill-mannered, ill-bred.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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And so
The divers spots to divers parts and limbs
Are noxious; 'tis a
variable
air
That causes this.
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Lucretius |
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THE WITCH
[_beginning with great emphasis to declaim out of the book_]
Remember
then!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Laws,
promulgated
by Dungi, 138, 31.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Their
versification, which, having received its laws only from the ear,
abounds in irregularities, seems
licentious
and uncouth.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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at clerkes
schullen
fordo ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Hast thou a city, is there a door
That knows thy footfall,
Wandering
One?
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Euripides - Electra |
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The
threshold
they destroyed.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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e ne
vndirstonde
nat how gret a wro{n}g ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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We rose, and greeted our brothers, and
welcomed
our foes.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Forgotten lutes with strings that Time has slackened,
We two shall draw them close and bid them sing--
Forgotten games,
forgotten
books still open
Where you had laid them by at vesper-time,
And your embroidery, whereon half-worked
Weeps Amor wounded by a rose's thorn.
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Sara Teasdale |
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I shall know why, when time is over,
And I have ceased to wonder why;
Christ will explain each
separate
anguish
In the fair schoolroom of the sky.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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The capitalist was
encouraged
to make this attempt by the grant of
special privileges of manufacture for a limited period.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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The wandering airs they faint
On the dark the silent stream--
The champak odors fail
Like sweet
thoughts
in a dream;
The nightingale's complaint,
It dies upon her heart,
As I must die on shine,
O, beloved as thou art!
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Poe - 5 |
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sparge molam et fragilis incende
bitumine
lauros.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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A precious, mouldering pleasure 't is
To meet an antique book,
In just the dress his century wore;
A privilege, I think,
His
venerable
hand to take,
And warming in our own,
A passage back, or two, to make
To times when he was young.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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