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Ye sprightly youths, quite flushed with hope and spirit,
Who think to storm the world by dint of merit,
To you the dotard has a deal to say,
In his sly, dry, sententious, proverb way;
He bids you mind, amid your
thoughtless
rattle,
That the first blow is ever half the battle:
That tho' some by the skirt may try to snatch him,
Yet by the forelock is the hold to catch him;
That whether doing, suffering, or forbearing,
You may do miracles by persevering.
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Why grasse is greene, or why our blood is red,
Are
mysteries
which none have reach'd unto.
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John Donne |
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My memory
Is still
obscured
by seeing your coming
And going.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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) Ha, there's drinking going on
here; we shall get
something
here.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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I
THE ARTIST
Nothing the greatest artist can conceive
That every marble block doth not confine
Within itself; and only its design
The hand that follows
intellect
can achieve.
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Longfellow |
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Aye, let her scatter far and wide
Her terror, where the land-lock'd waves
Europe from Afric's shore divide,
Where swelling Nile the corn-field laves--
Of
strength
more potent to disdain
Hid gold, best buried in the mine,
Than gather it with hand profane,
That for man's greed would rob a shrine.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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* * * * *
Are cottages of mud and stone,
By valley wood and glen,
And their calm
dwellers
little known
Men, and but common men,
That drive afield with carts and ploughs?
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John Clare |
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'265'
What is the
difference
between "principles" and "notions" in this line?
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Alexander Pope |
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les colliers
tinteront
cherront les masques
Va-t'en va-t'en contre le feu l'ombre prevaut
Ah!
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Hence, thou suborned
informer!
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Others for
Language
all their care express, 305
And value books, as women men, for Dress:
Their praise is still--the Style is excellent:
The Sense, they humbly take upon content.
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Alexander Pope |
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A flight of heavy-handed
bullets was
succeeded
by yelling and shouts.
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Kipling - Poems |
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And he also, he--
Who whilom paved a highway down the sea,
And gave his legionaries thoroughfare
Along the deep, and taught them how to cross
The pools of brine afoot, and did contemn,
Trampling upon it with his cavalry,
The
bellowings
of ocean--poured his soul
From dying body, as his light was ta'en.
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Lucretius |
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Many small donations
($1 to $5,000) are particularly
important
to maintaining tax exempt
status with the IRS.
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Stephen Crane |
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My hand in dedicative worship lifts
In shame on high to thee the scattered off'ring,
No more a token of imagined glory,
--Although with many a precious tear-drop shining--
No more a choice of rare and
wondrous
jewels,
That fain from destiny for thee I'd conquer,
Than e'er the tale of hellish love and hatred
Can spread by this subdued and falt'ring voice.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Now comes the sax an'
twentieth
simmer,
I've seen the bud upo' the timmer,
Still persecuted by the limmer
Frae year to year;
But yet despite the kittle kimmer,
I, Rob, am here.
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Robert Burns |
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" The "i" in "slithy" is long,
as in "writhe"; and "toves" is
pronounced
so as to rhyme with "groves.
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Lewis Carroll |
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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From the circle of your cropped hair
there is light,
and about your male torse
and the foot-arch and the
straight
ankle.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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He can then be restored only by an appeal to
the Highest Honor or
Magnificence
(Prince Arthur) through the good offices
of Truth and Common Sense.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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"
Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flirt and flutter,
In there stepped a stately raven of the saintly days of yore;
Not the least
obeisance
made he; not an instant stopped or stayed he;
But, with mien of lord or lady, perched above my chamber door--
Perched upon a bust of Pallas just above my chamber door--
Perched, and sat, and nothing more.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT
LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF
CONTRACT
EXCEPT THOSE
PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH F3.
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Tennyson |
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They only perish of winter 10
Whom Love,
audacious
and tender,
Never hath visited.
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Sappho |
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Crime of sorts ever
precedes
some greater crime.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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(Enter
VICTORIAN
and HYPOLITO behind.
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Longfellow |
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consecrated
at Rheims, 29th of May, 1825, and was entered
on the roll of the Legion of Honor repaying the favors with the verses
expected.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Sol ibi candidior fragrantia signa pererrat;
Proque truci Tauro, stricto pro forcipe Cancri,
Securis viol^eque
rosseque
allabitur umbris.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Sun warm on pennons and streamers, dragons and serpents stir, 4 by palace halls the breeze is light,
swallows
and sparrows fly high.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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A
newspaper
is a market
Where wisdom sells its freedom
And melons are crowned by the crowd.
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Stephen Crane |
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He later changed his mind and
incorporated
it into the text.
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Blake - Zoas |
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"But if the host's a man like you--
I mean a man of sense;
And if the house is not too new--"
"Why, what has _that_," said I, "to do
With Ghost's
convenience?
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Lewis Carroll |
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_
HE
SYMPATHISES
WITH HIS FRIEND ORSO AT HIS INABILITY TO ATTEND A
TOURNAMENT.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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she
deems him destroyed in the shock of battle, and,
distracted
by sudden
anguish, shrieks that she is the source of guilt, the spring of ill, and
with many a mad utterance of frenzied grief rends her purple attire with
dying hand, and ties from a lofty beam the ghastly noose of death.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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The Vulgar thus through Imitation err;
As oft the Learn'd by being singular; 425
So much they scorn the crowd, that if the throng
By chance go right, they purposely go wrong;
So Schismatics the plain
believers
quit,
And are but damn'd for having too much wit.
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Alexander Pope |
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O, sacred weapon left for truth's defence,
Sole dread of folly, vice, and
insolence!
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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And indeed there will be time
For the yellow smoke that slides along the street,
Rubbing its back upon the window-panes;
There will be time, there will be time
To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet;
There will be time to murder and create,
And time for all the works and days of hands
That lift and drop a
question
on your plate;
Time for you and time for me,
And time yet for a hundred indecisions,
And for a hundred visions and revisions,
Before the taking of a toast and tea.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Let this sad interim like the ocean be
Which parts the shore, where two
contracted
new
Come daily to the banks, that when they see
Return of love, more blest may be the view;
Or call it winter, which being full of care,
Makes summer's welcome, thrice more wished, more rare.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Yet now, disdainful of so light a prize,
Fierce o'er the field the thund'ring hero flies;
And his bold arm the brave Castilian joins
In dreadful
conflict
with the Moorish lines.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Filled with secret fire, there's
heaviness
in your eyes.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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A patch of
flowering
grass,
low, trailing--
you brushed this:
the green stems show yellow-green
where you lifted--turned the earth-side
to the light:
this and a dead leaf-spine,
split across,
show where you passed.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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And gently,
Unbroken when the sky fills with storm,
Jealous to add who knows what spaces
To simple day the day so true in feeling,
Does it not seem, Mery, that each year,
Where spontaneous grace relights your brow,
Suffices, given so much wonder and for me,
Like a lone fan with which a room's surprised,
To refresh with as little pain as is needed here
All our inborn and
unvarying
friendship.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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As thou heard'st,
Two
champions
to the succour of his spouse
He sent, who by their deeds and words might join
Again his scatter'd people.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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idem_ RBVen
10
_uentos_
ACah: _uento_ GORBLa1D
11 sic ?
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Latin - Catullus |
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ARGUMENT
How a Ship having passed the Line was driven by storms to the cold Country
towards the South Pole; and how from thence she made her course to the
tropical
Latitude
of the Great Pacific Ocean; and of the strange things
that befell; and in what manner the Ancyent Marinere came back to his own
Country.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Still from side to side his eyes went roaming, As in fever earnestly he moaned
Old forgotten ecstasies and
splendors
Ebbed from out my heart forevermore.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Which wey be ye comen,
benedicite?
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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I lay in the ether recesses,
I ate of the heavenly bread,
Ye sang of celestial journeys,
Ye sang of the
glorious
dead.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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What further could I wish the fop to do,
But turn a wit, and scribble verses too;
Pierce the soft
labyrinth
of a lady's ear
With rhymes of this per cent.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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His
everlasting
jokes about the
Commandant's family, and, above all, his witty remarks upon Marya
Ivanofna, displeased me very much.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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It is to you I owe the cruel gift,
Leda, my mother, and the Swan, my sire,
To you the beauty and to you the bale;
For never woman born of man and maid
Had wrought such havoc on the earth as I,
Or
troubled
heaven with a sea of flame
That climbed to touch the silent whirling stars
And blotted out their brightness ere the dawn.
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Sara Teasdale |
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In the edition of 1836 the seven lines of the printed
text--205-211--replaced these four lines of the
editions
1793-1832.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Latin mortal
dreadful
word,
Ibis, Nile's native bird.
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Appoloinaire |
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AT THE FARRAGUT STATUE
ROBERT BRIDGES
[Sidenote: 1801, 1870]
_Farragut's statue by Saint Gaudens was
unveiled
in New York in
1881_
To live a hero, then to stand
In bronze serene above the city's throng;
Hero at sea, and now on land
Revered by thousands as they rush along;
If these were all the gifts of fame--
To be a shade amid alert reality,
And win a statue and a name--
How cold and cheerless immortality!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Two Truths are told,
As happy
Prologues
to the swelling Act
Of the Imperiall Theame.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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The ivy smothering the armed tower;
The dying wind that mocks the pilot's ear;
The lordly equipage at midnight hour,
Draws into danger in a fog the peer;
The votaries of Satan or of Jove;
The wretched mendicant absorbed in woe;
The din of multitudes that onward move;
The voice of conscience in the heart below;
The waves, which Thou, O Lord, alone canst still;
Th' elastic air; the streamlet on its way;
And all that man projects, or sovereigns will;
Or things
inanimate
might seem to say;
The strain of gondolier slow streaming by;
The lively barks that o'er the waters bound;
The trees that shake their foliage to the sky;
The wailing voice that fills the cots around;
And man, who studies with an aching heart--
For now, when smiles are rarely deemed sincere,
In vain the sceptic bids his doubts depart--
Those doubts at length will arguments appear!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Thou hast despoil'd the fairest face e'er seen--
Thou hast extinguish'd, Death, the brightest eyes,
And snapp'd the cord in sunder of the ties
Which bound that spirit brilliantly serene:
In one short moment all I love has been
Torn from me, and dark silence now supplies
Those gentle tones; my heart, which bursts with sighs,
Nor sight nor sound from weariness can screen:
Yet doth my lady, by
compassion
led,
Return to solace my unfailing woe;
Earth yields no other balm:--oh!
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Petrarch |
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V
Resuming
the fair history, I say,
Out of the city he in secret rode;
Nor to his brother would his plan bewray,
Who oft on him had vain reproof bestowed:
But to the left t'wards Ramah shaped his way,
By the most level and most easy road.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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at good
{and}
blisfulnesse
is al oone {and} ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Humboldt,
speaking
of the Orinoco, says that this name
is unknown in the interior of the country; so likewise the tribes that
dwell about the sources of the St.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Some say that bright majority
Of
vanished
dames and men!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Her eye
proclaims
her of the Briton-Line:
Her lion-port, her awe-commanding face
Attemper'd sweet to virgin-grace.
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Golden Treasury |
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Hail forren wonder
Whom certain these rough shades did never breed
Unlesse the Goddes that in rurall shrine
Dwell'st here with Pan, or Silvan, by blest Song
Forbidding
every bleak unkindly Fog
To touch the prosperous growth of this tall Wood.
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Milton |
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Astonishd &
Confounded
he beheld
Her shadowy form now Separate he shudderd & was silent
Till her caresses & her tears revivd him to life & joy
Two wills they had two intellects & not as in times of old
This Urizen percievd & silent brooded in darkning Clouds
To him his Labour was but Sorrow & his Kingdom was Repentance
He drave the Male Spirits all away from Ahania {Alternate reading of "drove" for "drave.
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Blake - Zoas |
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) Your
eyelashes
are all wet, Sweet?
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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Know you aught
That doth concern this
Herbert?
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Thou rich-man's
lawgiver!
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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Thou art a trouble here;
Seest thou not how all these feasting women
Pause, and the
pleasure
is distrest in them?
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Easy
Easy and beautiful under
your eyelids
As the meeting of pleasure
Dance and the rest
I spoke the fever
The best reason for fire
That you might be pale and luminous
A thousand fruitful poses
A thousand ravaged embraces
Repeated move to erase themselves
You grow dark you unveil yourself
A mask you
control it
It deeply resembles you
And you seem nothing but lovelier naked
Naked in shadow and dazzlingly naked
Like a sky shivering with flashes of lightning
You reveal yourself to you
To reveal yourself to others
Talking of Power and Love
Between all my torments between death and self
Between my despair and the reason for living
There is injustice and this evil of men
That I cannot accept there is my anger
There are the blood-coloured fighters of Spain
There are the sky-coloured fighters of Greece
The bread the blood the sky and the right to hope
For all the innocents who hate evil
The light is always close to dying
Life always ready to become earth
But spring is reborn that is never done with
A bud lifts from dark and the warmth settles
And the warmth will have the right of the selfish
Their atrophied senses will not resist
I hear the fire talk lightly of coolness
I hear a man speak what he has not known
You who were my flesh's
sensitive
conscience
You I love forever you who made me
You will not tolerate oppression or injury
You'll sing in dream of earthly happiness
You'll dream of freedom and I'll continue you
The Beloved
She is standing on my eyelids
And her hair is wound in mine,
She has the form of my hands,
She has the colour of my eyes,
She is swallowed by my shadow
Like a stone against the sky.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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For her this rhyme is penned, whose
luminous
eyes,
Brightly expressive as the twins of Loeda,
Shall find her own sweet name, that, nestling lies
Upon the page, enwrapped from every reader.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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"Why do you sigh, fair
creature?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
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All--all expired save thee--save less than thou:
Save only the divine light in thine eyes-
Save but the soul in thine
uplifted
eyes.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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Early in the morning
When the first cock crowed his warning, 200
Neat like bees, as sweet and busy,
Laura rose with Lizzie:
Fetched in honey, milked the cows,
Aired and set to rights the house,
Kneaded cakes of whitest wheat,
Cakes for dainty mouths to eat,
Next churned butter, whipped up cream,
Fed their poultry, sat and sewed;
Talked as modest maidens should:
Lizzie with an open heart, 210
Laura in an absent dream,
One content, one sick in part;
One
warbling
for the mere bright day's delight,
One longing for the night.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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William Wordsworth |
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Give me a culture which imports much muck from
the meadows, and deepens the soil,--not that which trusts to heating
manures, and
improved
implements and modes of culture only!
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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He captured the wild
mountain
goats.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Cammel, whirled
Beyond the circuit of the shuddering Bear
In
fractured
atoms.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Cradock has suggested to me the
probable
course of that
morning walk.
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William Wordsworth |
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For, fisherman, what fresh or seawater catch
equals him, either in form or savour,
that lovely divine fish, Jesus, My
Saviour?
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Appoloinaire |
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Sweet Jessamine we called her; for she shone
Like
blossoms
that in sun and shade have grown,
Gathering from each alike a perfect white,
Whose rich bloom breaks opaque through darkest night.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Had he been a New Englander, it is probable that he would have been
ranked as the first of American lyrists by that magnanimous cabal which
has so long
controlled
the destinies of American Letters, in conducting
the thing called "The North American Review.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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I wish one could know them, I wish there were tokens to tell
The fortunate fellows that now you can never discern;
And then one could talk with them
friendly
and wish them farewell
And watch them depart on the way that they will not return.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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if thou have any close-pent guilt
Pressing
upon thy heart, and this the hour
Of visitation--
MARMADUKE A bold word from _you_!
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William Wordsworth |
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VII
The face of all the world is changed, I think,
Since first I heard the
footsteps
of thy soul
Move still, oh, still, beside me, as they stole
Betwixt me and the dreadful outer brink
Of obvious death, where I, who thought to sink,
Was caught up into love, and taught the whole
Of life in a new rhythm.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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It
exists because of the efforts of hundreds of
volunteers
and donations
from people in all walks of life.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Or des vergers fleuris se figeaient en arriere
Les petales tombes des cerisiers de mai
Sont les ongles de celle que j'ai tant aimee
Les petales fleuris sont comme ses paupieres
Sur le chemin du bord du fleuve lentement
Un ours un singe un chien menes par des tziganes
Suivaient une roulotte trainee par un ane
Tandis que s'eloignait dans les vignes rhenanes
Sur un fifre lointain un air de regiment
Le mai le joli mai a pare les ruines
De lierre de vigne vierge et de rosiers
Le vent du Rhin secoue sur le bord les osiers
Et les roseaux jaseurs et les fleurs nues des vignes
La synagogue
Ottomar Scholem et Abraham Loeweren
Coiffes de feutres verts le matin du sabbat
Vont a la synagogue en longeant le Rhin
Et les coteaux ou les vignes rougissent la-bas
Ils se disputent et crient des choses qu'on ose a peine traduire
Batard concu pendant les regles ou Que le diable entre dans ton
pere
Le vieux Rhin souleve sa face ruisselante et se detourne pour
sourire
Ottomar Scholem et Abraham Loeweren sont en colere
Parce que pendant le sabbat on ne doit pas fumer
Tandis que les chretiens passent avec des cigares allumes
Et parce qu'Ottomar et Abraham aiment tous deux
Lia aux yeux de brebis et dont le ventre avance un peu
Pourtant tout a l'heure dans la synagogue l'un apres l'autre
Ils baiseront la thora en soulevant leur beau chapeau
Parmi les feuillards de la fete des cabanes
Ottomar en chantant sourira a Abraham
Ils dechanteront sans mesure et les voix graves des hommes
Feront gemir un Leviathan au fond du Rhin comme une voix d'automne
Et dans la synagogue pleine de chapeaux on agitera les loulabim
Hanoten ne Kamoth bagoim tholahoth baleoumim
Les cloches
Mon beau tzigane mon amant
Ecoute les cloches qui sonnent
Nous nous aimions eperdument
Croyant n'etre vus de personne
Mais nous etions bien mal caches
Toutes les cloches a la ronde
Nous ont vus du haut des clochers
Et le disent a tout le monde
Demain Cyprien et Henri
Marie Ursule et Catherine
La
boulangere
et son mari
Et puis Gertrude ma cousine
Souriront quand je passerai
Je ne saurai plus ou me mettre
Tu seras loin Je pleurerai
J'en mourrai peut-etre
La Loreley
A Jean Seve
A Bacharach il y avait une sorciere blonde
Qui laissait mourir d'amour tous les hommes a la ronde
Devant son tribunal l'eveque la fit citer
D'avance il l'absolvit a cause de sa beaute
O belle Loreley aux yeux pleins de pierreries
De quel magicien tiens-tu ta sorcellerie
Je suis lasse de vivre et mes yeux sont maudits
Ceux qui m'ont regardee eveque en ont peri
Mes yeux ce sont des flammes et non des pierreries
Jetez jetez aux flammes cette sorcellerie
Je flambe dans ces flammes O belle Loreley
Qu'un autre te condamne tu m'as ensorcele
Eveque vous riez Priez plutot pour moi la Vierge
Faites-moi donc mourir et que Dieu vous protege
Mon amant est parti pour un pays lointain
Faites-moi donc mourir puisque je n'aime rien
Mon coeur me fait si mal il faut bien que je meure
Si je me regardais il faudrait que j'en meure
Mon coeur me fait si mal depuis qu'il n'est plus la
Mon coeur me fit si mal du jour ou il s'en alla
L'eveque fit venir trois chevaliers avec leurs lances
Menez jusqu'au couvent cette femme en demence
Va t'en Lore en folie va Lore aux yeux tremblants
Tu seras une nonne vetue de noir et blanc
Puis ils s'en allerent sur la route tous les quatre
La Loreley les implorait et ses yeux brillaient comme des astres
Chevaliers laissez-moi monter sur ce rocher si haut
Pour voir une fois encore mon beau chateau
Pour me mirer une fois encore dans le fleuve
Puis j'irai au couvent des vierges et des veuves
La-haut le vent tordait ses cheveux deroules
Les chevaliers criaient Loreley Loreley
Tout la-bas sur le Rhin s'en vient une nacelle
Et mon amant s'y tient il m'a vue il m'appelle
Mon coeur devient si doux c'est mon amant qui vient
Elle se penche alors et tombe dans le Rhin
Pour avoir vu dans l'eau la belle Loreley
Ses yeux couleur du Rhin ses cheveux de soleil
Schinderhannes
Dans la foret avec sa bande
Schinderhannes s'est desarme
Le brigand pres de sa brigande
Hennit d'amour au joli mai
Benzel accroupi lit la Bible
Sans voir que son chapeau pointu
A plume d'aigle sert de cible
A Jacob Born le mal foutu
Juliette Blaesius qui rote
Fait semblant d'avoir le hoquet
Hannes pousse une fausse note
Quand Schulz vient portant un baquet
Et s'ecrie en versant des larmes
Baquet plein de vin parfume
Viennent aujourd'hui les gendarmes
Nous aurons bu le vin de mai
Allons Julia la mam'zelle
Bois avec nous ce clair bouillon
D'herbes et de vin de Moselle
Prosit Bandit en cotillon
Cette brigande est bientot soule
Et veut Hannes qui n'en veut pas
Pas d'amour maintenant ma poule
Sers-nous un bon petit repas
Il faut ce soir que j'assassine
Ce riche juif au bord du Rhin
Au clair des torches de resine
La fleur de mai c'est le florin
On mange alors toute la bande
Pete et rit pendant le diner
Puis s'attendrit a l'allemande
Avant d'aller assassiner
Rhenane d'automne
A Toussaint-Luca
Les enfants des morts vont jouer
Dans le cimetiere
Martin Gertrude Hans et Henri
Nul coq n'a chante aujourd'hui
Kikiriki
Les vieilles femmes
Tout en pleurant cheminent
Et les bons anes
Braillent hi han et se mettent a brouter les fleurs
Des couronnes mortuaires
C'est le jour des morts et de toutes leurs ames
Les enfants et les vieilles femmes
Allument des bougies et des cierges
Sur chaque tombe catholique
Les voiles des vieilles
Les nuages du ciel
Sont comme des barbes de biques
L'air tremble de flammes et de prieres
Le cimetiere est un beau jardin
Plein de saules gris et de romarins
Il vous vient souvent des amis qu'on enterre
ah!
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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'Twas near his castle, far away
From city or from succour near,
And almost on the break of day;
I did not think to see another,
My moments seemed reduced to few;
And with one prayer to Mary Mother,
And, it may be, a saint or two,
As I resigned me to my fate,
They led me to the castle gate:
Theresa's doom I never knew, 340
Our lot was
henceforth
separate.
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Byron |
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Oppose the
arrogant
and prove your courage:
Only blood may redeem this outrage;
Kill, or die.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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But restively the other strove, and broke
The
fittings
of the car, and plunged away
With mouth un-bitted: o'er the broken yoke
My son was hurled, and lo!
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Aeschylus |
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This is for Spirit to be lord of life;
And man, with foolish hope looking for this,
Takes the ravishing drunkenness he hath
From us, for
knowledge
of the Spirit's power.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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And darkly fell her answer dread
Upon his unresisting head,
Like half a
hundredweight
of lead.
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Lewis Carroll |
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A TALE OF JERUSALEM
Intensos
rigidarn
in frontern ascendere canos
Passus erat----
--Lucan--De Catone
----a bristly bore.
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Poe - 5 |
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[126] Terms
borrowed
from the circus races.
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Aristophanes |
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O heaven, what tears, what loud
complaints
ensue!
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Aloft, here, half a village shines, arrayed
In golden light; [24] half hides itself in shade:
While, from amid the
darkened
roofs, the spire,
Restlessly flashing, seems to mount like fire: [25] 100
There, all unshaded, blazing forests throw
Rich golden verdure on the lake [26] below.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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I was reading then one of those dear poems (whose flakes of rouge have more charm for me than young flesh), and dipping a hand into the pure animal fur, when a street organ sounded
languishingly
and sadly under my window.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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God permits
industrious
angels
Afternoons to play.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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"Slender in
bulk—but
it contains good poems.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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