An empty flagon they have cast aside,
Broken and soiled, the dust upon my pride,
Will be your shroud, beloved
pestilence!
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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I had mine with a vengeance,--my king got his crown,
And made his whole
business
to break other folks's.
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James Russell Lowell |
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HOW strange your conduct, cried the sprightly youth:
Extremes you seek, and overleap the truth;
Just now the fond desire to have a boy
Chased ev'ry care and filled your heart with joy;
At present quite the contrary appears
A moment changed your fondest hopes to fears;
Come, hear the rest; no longer waste your breath:
Kind Nature all can cure,
excepting
death.
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La Fontaine |
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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But, has he a friend that would dispute my claim
With this my sword which I have girt in place
My
judgement
will I warrant every way.
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Chanson de Roland |
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XXXVIII
First time he kissed me, he but only kissed
The fingers of this hand
wherewith
I write;
And ever since, it grew more clean and white.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Yet, whatever absurdities our
Mandevylles may have obtruded on the public, the
evidence
of the fact is
not thereby wholly destroyed.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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In 1831
he married a beautiful lady of the
Gontchareff
family and settled
in the neighbourhood of St.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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The reminiscence comes
Of sunless dry geraniums
And dust in crevices,
Smells of chestnuts in the streets
And female smells in shuttered rooms
And cigarettes in corridors
And
cocktail
smells in bars.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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'
The poet who writes best in the
Shakespearian
manner is a poet with
a circumstantial and instinctive mind, who delights to speak with
strange voices and to see his mind in the mirror of Nature; while Mr.
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Yeats |
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The contents supply the South
Babylonian version of the second book of the epic _sa nagba imuru_,
"He who has seen all things," commonly
referred
to as the Epic of
Gilgamish.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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The four
Epistles
were published separately.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Ay, canst thou buy a single sigh
Of true love's least, least
ecstasy?
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Sidney Lanier |
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The Galli come:
And hollow cymbals, tight-skinned tambourines
Resound around to bangings of their hands;
The fierce horns
threaten
with a raucous bray;
The tubed pipe excites their maddened minds
In Phrygian measures; they bear before them knives,
Wild emblems of their frenzy, which have power
The rabble's ingrate heads and impious hearts
To panic with terror of the goddess' might.
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Lucretius |
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" He
fired, and slightly wounded his opponent,
shouting
"Bravo!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Nor thou
altogether
a wise man.
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Shakespeare |
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Thou scene of all my happiness and
pleasure!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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^1
Dearest of
distillation!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Its
popularity
must have returned,
however, since Barnaby Riche in the _Irish Hubbub_,1622, p.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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[Note 65: Lepage--a celebrated
gunmaker
of former days.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Please do not assume that a book's
appearance
in Google Book Search means it can be used in any manner anywhere in the world.
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Meredith - Poems |
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The poems of The Ruins of Rome belong to the
beginning
of his four and a half year residence in Italy.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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A story born out of the dreaming eyes
And crazy brain and
credulous
ears of famine.
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Yeats |
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These relics once, dear pledges of himself,
The traitor left me, which, O earth, to thee
Here on this very
threshold
I commit-
Pledges that bind him to redeem the debt.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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And, as our happy circle sat,
The fire well capp'd the company:
In grave debate or
careless
chat,
A right good fellow, mingled he:
He seemed as one of us to sit,
And talked of things above, below,
With flames more winsome than our wit,
And coals that burned like love aglow.
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Sidney Lanier |
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AN
OCCASIONAL
ADDRESS SPOKEN BY MISS FONTENELLE
ON HER BENEFIT NIGHT,
Nov.
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Robert Burns |
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There, by the starlit fences,
The wanderer halts and hears
My soul that lingers sighing
About the
glimmering
weirs.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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At length they reached the sea; on ship-board got;
A quick and pleasing passage was their lot;
Delightfully
serene, which joy increased;
To land they came (from perils thought released;)
At Joppa they debarked; two days remained:
And when refreshed, the proper road they gained;
Their escort was the lover's train alone;
On Asia's shores to plunder bands are prone;
By these were met our spark and lovely fair;
New dangers they, alas!
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La Fontaine |
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It is to be hoped that common
sense, in the time to come, will prefer
deciding
upon a work of Art
rather by the impression it makes--by the effect it produces--than by
the time it took to impress the effect, or by the amount of "sustained
effort" which had been found necessary in effecting the impression.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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For I don't know when I may
See her, the
distance
is so far.
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Troubador Verse |
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Sara
Teasdale
(1884-1933):
Teasdale was born in St.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Written on the blank leaf of a book, which I presented to a very young
lady, whom I had formerly characterized under the
denomination
of _The
Rose Bud.
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Robert Forst |
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"
Love's answer soon the truth forgotten shows--
"This high pure privilege true lovers claim,
Who from mere human feelings
franchised
are!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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nīða
genǣgdan
nefan Hererīces (_in combats pressed hard upon H.
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Beowulf |
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The
arrangement
is chronological so far as it
might be, that the history of America as told by her poets should
be set forth.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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For ever warm and still to be enjoy'd,
For ever panting, and for ever young;
All breathing human passion far above,
That leaves a heart high-sorrowful and cloy'd,
A burning forehead, and a
parching
tongue.
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Keats |
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Fair Burnet strikes th' adoring eye,
Heaven's
beauties
on my fancy shine;
I see the Sire of Love on high,
And own His work indeed divine!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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This dream, this
horrible
dream!
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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'
_'Tresvolontiers;' _and he
proceeded
to his library, brought me a Dr.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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1603_, has been dropped by Grosart, the Grolier Club
edition, and
Chambers
on the strength of a statement made to Drummond
by Ben Jonson.
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John Donne |
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And we will talk, until thought's melody _560
Become too sweet for utterance, and it die
In words, to live again in looks, which dart
With
thrilling
tone into the voiceless heart,
Harmonizing silence without a sound.
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Shelley |
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Strange that the termagant winds should scold
The
Christmas
Eve so bitterly!
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Sidney Lanier |
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There is no being but fears Zim; to him bows down
Even the sainted Llama in the holy place;
And the wild Kasburder
chieftain
at his dark power
Turns pale, and seeks a foeman of some lesser race.
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Hugo - Poems |
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I do confess thee sweet, but find
Thou art so
thriftless
o' thy sweets,
Thy favours are the silly wind
That kisses ilka thing it meets.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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"
LXXXVII
Pride hath Rollanz, wisdom Olivier hath;
And both of them shew
marvellous
courage;
Once they are horsed, once they have donned their arms,
Rather they'd die than from the battle pass.
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Chanson de Roland |
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VESPERS
Last night, at sunset,
The
foxgloves
were like tall altar candles.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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His locked, letter'd, braw brass collar
Shew'd him the
gentleman
an' scholar;
But though he was o' high degree,
The fient a pride, nae pride had he;
But wad hae spent an hour caressin,
Ev'n wi' al tinkler-gipsy's messin:
At kirk or market, mill or smiddie,
Nae tawted tyke, tho' e'er sae duddie,
But he wad stan't, as glad to see him,
An' stroan't on stanes an' hillocks wi' him.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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For thirty years, he produced and
distributed
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Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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She
prefaced
half a hint of this
With, "God forbid it should be true!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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]
She is so little--in her hands a rose:
A stern duenna watches where she goes,
What sees Old Spain's Infanta--the clear shine
Of waters
shadowed
by the birch and pine.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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"
Such was the flow of that pure rill, that well'd
From forth the fountain of all truth; and such
The rest, that to my wond'ring
thoughts
I found.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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_
I think the whole species of young men may be naturally enough divided
into two grand classes, which I shall call the _grave_ and the
_merry_; though, by the by, these terms do not with
propriety
enough
express my ideas.
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Robert Burns |
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"Project Gutenberg" is a
registered
trademark.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Donations are accepted in a number of other
ways including including checks, online
payments
and credit card
donations.
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La Fontaine |
|
If you are redistributing or providing access to a work
with the phrase "Project Gutenberg"
associated
with or appearing on the
work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Under his
spurning
feet the road
Like an arrowy Alpine river flowed,
And the landscape sped away behind
Like an ocean flying before the wind,
And the steed, like a bark fed with furnace fire,
Swept on, with his wild eye full of ire.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Orpheus
Orpheus and Eurydice
'Orpheus and Eurydice'
Etienne Baudet, Nicolas Poussin, 1648 - 1711, The Rijksmuseun
Look at this pestilential tribe
Its
thousand
feet, its hundred eyes:
Beetles, insects, lice
And microbes more amazing
Than the world's seventh wonder
And the palace of Rosamunde!
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Appoloinaire |
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Thou, who didst subdue
Thy country's foes ere thou wouldst pause to feel
The wrath of thy own wrongs, or reap the due
Of hoarded
vengeance
till thine eagles flew
O'er prostrate Asia;--thou, who with thy frown
Annihilated senates--Roman, too,
With all thy vices, for thou didst lay down
With an atoning smile a more than earthly crown--
LXXXIV.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Five score
thousand
Franks swooned on the earth and fell.
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Chanson de Roland |
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So sped from stage to stage,
fulfilled
in turn,
Flame after flame, along the course ordained,
And lo!
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Aeschylus |
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but when Urizen frownd She wept
In mists over his carved throne & when he turnd his back
Upon his Golden hall & sought the Labyrinthine porches
Of his wide heaven Trembling, cold in paling fears she sat
A Shadow of Despair
therefore
toward the West Urizen formd
A recess in the wall for fires to glow upon the pale
Females limbs in his absence & her Daughters oft upon
A Golden Altar burnt perfumes with Art Celestial formd
Foursquare sculpturd & sweetly Engravd to please their shadowy mother {"Pleasd" mended to "please.
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Blake - Zoas |
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He saw its faults as
clearly, or more clearly, than the critics who
condemned
him.
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William Wordsworth |
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King
Yet, all who in my service so engage
Do not acquit themselves with such courage;
And valour that is not born of excess
Seldom
achieves
comparable success.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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I ought to speak out freely
With words though that will take,
For it can scarcely please me
When the
tricksters
rake
More love in than is at stake
For the lover who loves truly.
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Troubador Verse |
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From salty spray
The brown tint of his glowing cheek still rough;
Fruit quickly ripe,
'Neath foreign suns in
scorching
airs and heat.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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how unlike those late
terrific
sleeps!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Then uprose Belial--"a fairer person lost not Heaven"--and
reasoned
that force was futile.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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But in my foe's
embraces
spent the night.
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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" Here we see both what he calls his "gangrened sensibility" and a
complete
abandonment
to the feelings of the moment.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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For, sir, this wot we wel biforn;
If riche men doon you homage,
That is as fooles doon outrage;
But ye shul not
forsworen
be, 6025
Ne let therfore to drinke clarree,
Or piment maked fresh and newe.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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XXXV
His malady, whose cause I ween
It now to
investigate
is time,
Was nothing but the British spleen
Transported to our Russian clime.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Even at the very start my
strength
fails:
What will become of me before it's all over?
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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A French translator of
the poem speaks in his introduction as follows: "This Faust, conceived by
him in his youth,
completed
in ripe age, the idea of which he carried with
him through all the commotions of his life, as Camoens bore his poem with
him through the waves, this Faust contains him entire.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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The armed men more weighty were for that,
Many of them down to the bottom sank,
Downstream
the rest floated as they might hap;
So much water the luckiest of them drank,
That all were drowned, with marvellous keen pangs.
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Chanson de Roland |
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This was partly done with
reference
to the character of
Oswald, and his persevering endeavour to lead the man he disliked into
so heinous a crime; but still more to preserve in my distinct
remembrance, what I had observed of transitions in character, and the
reflections I had been led to make, during the time I was a witness of
the changes through which the French Revolution passed.
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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He joined the Fourth Crusade in 1203 and was present at the siege of
Constantinople
in 1204.
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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He next
delivered
a pompous and elaborate speech in the senate, 37
where he was loaded with far-fetched compliments by the members.
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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Leonor
But Madame, how far your
thoughts
leap apace
From a duel which perhaps may not take place.
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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According to his
legendary
vida, he was the lover of Seremonda, or Soremonda, wife of Raimon of Castel Rossillon.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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"You must work the sum to prove it," clanked the
careless
tonga-bar.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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But, when he had refused the proffered gold,
To cruel injuries he became a prey,
Sore traversed in whate'er he bought and sold:
His troubles grew upon him day by day,
Till all his
substance
fell into decay.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Peter, on the
above-mentioned 28th of September, dealing with the natives, Cartier
says: "We inquired of them by signs if this was the route to Hochelaga
[Montreal]; and they answered that it was, and that there were yet
three days'
journeys
to go there.
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
|
I
What man so wise, what earthly wit so ware,
As to discry the crafty cunning traine,
By which deceipt doth maske in visour faire,
And cast her colours dyed deepe in graine,
To seeme like Truth, whose shape she well can faine, 5
And fitting gestures to her purpose frame;
The
guiltlesse
man with guile to entertaine?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
|
_ The 'am I' of
the _W_ is
probably
what Donne first wrote, and I am strongly tempted
to restore it.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
|
What cant assumes, what
hypocrites
will dare,
Speaks home to truth and shows it what they are.
| Guess: |
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John Clare |
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You know the
councils
of the ever-living,
And all the tossing of your wings is joy,
And all that murmuring's but a marriage song;
But if it be reproach, I answer this:
There is not one among you that made love
By any other means.
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LAND OF THE FREE By
Gertrude
Cornwell Hopkins
There is a man within a grimy window-square; —
I do not know how long it is he has been there
Three years of working-days I've passed on trains high in the air, And always he was there.
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My harsh dreams knew the riding of you
The fleece of this goat and even
You set
yourself
against beauty.
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Appoloinaire |
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Methinks
I find her now, and now perceive
She's distant; now I soar, and now descend;
Now what I wish, now what is true believe.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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There I beheld the emblem of a mind 70
That feeds upon infinity, that broods
Over the dark abyss, [B] intent to hear
Its voices issuing forth to silent light
In one continuous stream; a mind sustained
By recognitions of transcendent power, 75
In sense
conducting
to ideal form,
In soul of more than mortal privilege.
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William Wordsworth |
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Then, methought, the air grew denser,
perfumed
from an unseen censer
Swung by Angels whose faint foot-falls tinkled on the tufted floor.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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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 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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FAIR
Isabella
now the abbess sent,
Who straight obeyed, and to her tears gave vent,
Which overspread those lily cheeks and eyes,
A roguish youth so lately held his prize.
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La Fontaine |
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When my off'ring next I make,
Be thy hand the
hallowed
cake,
And thy breast the altar whence
Love may smell the frankincense.
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Robert Herrick |
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A poem was
frequently
kept back, from some doubt as to its worth,
or from a wish to alter and amend it.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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When sense from spirit files away,
And
subterfuge
is done;
When that which is and that which was
Apart, intrinsic, stand,
And this brief tragedy of flesh
Is shifted like a sand;
When figures show their royal front
And mists are carved away, --
Behold the atom I preferred
To all the lists of clay!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Something
o' that, I said.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Be still, be still, my soul; it is but for a season:
Let us endure an hour and see
injustice
done.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Some kill their love when they are young,
And some when they are old;
Some
strangle
with the hands of Lust,
Some with the hands of Gold:
The kindest use a knife, because
The dead so soon grow cold.
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Wilde - Poems |
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