Absence, hear thou my protestation
A Chieftain to the Highlands bound
A flock of sheep that
leisurely
pass by
Ah, Chloris!
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In the
southern
clime,
Where the summer's prime
Never fades away,
Lovely Lyca lay.
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{40c} Ten Brink points out the strongly heathen
character
of this
part of the epic.
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You've stolen away that great power
My beauty ordained for me
Over priests and clerks, my hour,
When never a man I'd see
Would fail to offer his all in fee,
Whatever remorse he'd later show,
But what was
abandoned
readily,
Beggars now scorn to know.
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illo non ualidus subiit iuga tempore taurus,
non domito frenos ore
momordit
equus,
non domus ulla fores habuit, non fixus in agris,
qui regeret certis finibus arua, lapis.
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The
application
of the name in
the 17th Cen.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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After his father's death, while still under age, he obtains the
throne (2371, 2376, 2379); wherefore Bēowulf, as nephew of Heardrēd's
father, acts as
guardian
to the youth till he becomes older, 2378.
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Beowulf |
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Fierce Love it was once steeled a mother's heart
With her own offspring's blood her hands to imbrue:
Mother, thou too wert cruel; say wert thou
More cruel, mother, or more
ruthless
he?
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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'363 Knight of the post':
a slang term for a
professional
witness ready to, swear to anything for
money.
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Alexander Pope |
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Poetry is reality's essence visioned and made manifest by one endowed
with a perception acutely sensitive to sound, form, and colour, and
gifted with a power to shape into
rhythmic
and rhymed verbal symbols the
reaction to Life's phenomena.
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Rilke - Poems |
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)
and a most particuller frind and
acquaintance?
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Poe - 5 |
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),
And watch the clouds, that late were rich with
light,
Slow saddening round, and mark the star of eve
Serenely brilliant (such should wisdom be)
Shine
opposite!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Look on this spot--a nation's
sepulchre!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Is this not
sufficient
to drive one to hang oneself?
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Aristophanes |
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I go without my clothes now,
One thin shirt for me,
For noble love
protects
now
From the chilly breeze.
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Troubador Verse |
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DURING THE
PONTIFICATE
OF CLEMENT VIII.
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Shelley |
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references
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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" asked the chief, as his thumb-point at will
Silently
over the sword's edge played.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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The Foundation makes no
representations
concerning
the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United
States.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Such were the late days of
Europe, admired by the ignorant for the
innocence
of manners.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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And will this divine grace, this supreme perfection depart those for whom life exists only to
discover
and glorify them?
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Appoloinaire |
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He had
obtained
for him a canonicate at Verona.
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Petrarch |
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But the most solemn
sacrifices
were those which were offered up at Upsal in Sweden every ninth year.
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Tacitus |
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Robert Grant and the
_Nation_
(New York):--"The Superman.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Shall it be law to stab the petty robber
Who aims but at our purse; and shall this Parricide--
Worse is he far, far worse (if foul dishonour
Be worse than death) to that confiding Creature
Whom he to more than filial love and duty
Hath falsely trained--shall he fulfil his
purpose?
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William Wordsworth |
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O thou field of my delight so fair and
verdant!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Amid his toil thou gav'st Leander breath;
Thou leddest Orpheus through the gleams of death;
Thou madest Pluto bear thin element;
And now, O winged
Chieftain!
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Keats |
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He'd much to say to us about his cousins,
And sent to each, through us, his
compliments
by dozens.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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"
`Thenk here-ayeins, whan that the sturdy ook, 1380
On which men hakketh ofte, for the nones,
Receyved
hath the happy falling strook,
The grete sweigh doth it come al at ones,
As doon these rokkes or these milne-stones.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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"
From the wood a sound is gliding,
Vapours dense the plain are hiding,
Cries the Dame in anxious measure:
"Stay, I'll wash thy head, my
treasure!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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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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Corneille - Le Cid |
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'O virtu mia, perche si ti
dilegue?
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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I years had been from home,
And now, before the door,
I dared not open, lest a face
I never saw before
Stare vacant into mine
And ask my
business
there.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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They are not made
Frailly by earth or hands, but
immortal
in our dream.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Tabernacle or tomb,
Or dome of worm,
Or porch of gnome,
Or some elf's
catacomb?
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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But serving courts and cities, be
Less happy, less
enjoying
thee.
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Robert Herrick |
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The
primrose
I will pu', the firstling o' the year,
And I will pu' the pink, the emblem o' my dear;
For she's the pink o' womankind, and blooms without a peer,
And a' to be a Posie to my ain dear May.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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A SONG OF THE VIRGIN MOTHER In "Los
Pastores
de Belen.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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May ye not ten dayes thanne abyde,
For myn honour, in swich an
aventure?
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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You bewitched the rivers, flowers and woods,
With your lyre, in vain but beguilingly,
Yet not what your soul felt, the beauty
That dealt what was
festering
in your blood.
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Ronsard |
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And here is a quite
unsuspected
pitfall into
which they successively plunge headlong.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Note: The ballade was written for Robert to present to his wife Ambroise de Lore, as though
composed
by him.
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Villon |
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till the marks
Of fire and
belching
thunder fill the dark
And, almost torn asunder, one falls stark,
Hammering upon the other!
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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'
'Is that
photograph
quite spoilt?
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Yeats |
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About his nekke he bar a bible,
And
squierly
forth gan he gon; 7415
And, for to reste his limmes upon,
He had of Treson a potente;
As he were feble, his way he wente.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Cautious, hint to any captive
You have passed
enfranchised
feet!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Cylander one, Tanacro hight the other;
Bold, and of royal mien each martial brother;
XLVII
"And truly were, and would have been alway
Worthy of every praise and fame, withal
Had they not yielded up themselves a prey
To that
uncurbed
desire, which Love we call;
By which they were seduced from the right way
Into foul Error's crooked maze; and all
The good that by those brethren had been wrought,
Waxed, in a moment, rank, corrupt and naught.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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There lies a den,
Beyond the seeming
confines
of the space
Made for the soul to wander in and trace
Its own existence, of remotest glooms.
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Keats |
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"
Speaking of her brother Christopher, then at Cambridge, Dorothy
Wordsworth wrote thus in 1793:
"He is not so ardent in any of his
pursuits
as William is, but he is
yet particularly attached to the same pursuits which have so
irresistible an influence over William, _and deprive him of the power
of chaining his attention to others discordant to his feelings.
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William Wordsworth |
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His
footsteps
echo along the floor
Of a distant passage, and pause awhile;
He is standing by an open door
Looking long, with a sad, sweet smile,
Into the room of his absent son.
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Longfellow |
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They colored the horizon round;
Stars flamed and faded as they bade,
All echoes hearkened for their sound,--
They made the
woodlands
glad or mad.
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Emerson - Poems |
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the Night a silver cup
Fill'd with the wine of anguish waited at the golden feast
But the bright Sun was not as yet; he filling all the expanse
Slept as a bird in the blue shell that soon shall burst away
[] [Los saw the wound of his blow he saw he pitied he wept] *
{This is the line as Erdman gives it, but does not remark that the line is nearly
illegible
in the manuscript and appears to be written in pencil and erased.
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Blake - Zoas |
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1145-1175)
According to the troubadour Uc de Saint Circ, Bernart was the son of a baker at the castle of
Ventadour
or Ventadorn, in the Correze.
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Troubador Verse |
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In the mean time, they are most welcome to my Ode; only, let them
insert it as a thing they have met with by
accident
and unknown to
me.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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"By him who died on cross,
"With his cruel bow he lay'd full low
"The
harmless
Albatross.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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But, if at the Church they would give us some ale,
And a pleasant fire our souls to regale,
We'd sing and we'd pray all the
livelong
day,
Nor ever once wish from the Church to stray.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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no prayer, no moving art,
E'er bent that fierce,
inexorable
heart!
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Iliad - Pope |
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Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed
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Keats |
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the air
Closes upon my accents, as despair
Upon my heart--let death upon
despair!
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| Question: |
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Shelley |
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I could stand
Upon thy shores, O Erin, and could count
The billows that, in their
unceasing
swell,
Dash on thy beach, and every wave might seem
An instrument in Time the giant's grasp, _15
To burst the barriers of Eternity.
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Shelley |
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I have seen eyes in the street
Trying to peer through lighted shutters,
And a crab one afternoon in a pool,
An old crab with
barnacles
on his back,
Gripped the end of a stick which I held him.
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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"You must know--" said the Judge: but the Snark
exclaimed
"Fudge!
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Lewis Carroll |
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(Vain were engine and wheel,
She was under full steam)--
With the roar of a thunder-stroke
Her two
thousand
tons of oak
Brought up on us, right abeam!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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E'en this air so subtly gloweth,
Guerdoned
by thy sun-gold traces
Canzon: spear
?
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Some, however, would derive the word from _sans
terre_, without land or a home, which, therefore, in the good sense,
will mean, having no
particular
home, but equally at home everywhere.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Not falsely to
constrain!
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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ELECTRA,
_daughter
of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra_.
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Euripides - Electra |
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WORLD
BUILDERS
By Abigail Fithian Halsev
These are the things that make the world, The sun and air, the earth and sky,
The golden sunlight everywhere,
The wings of angels drifting by.
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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-yang[37]
summoned
us, blowing on his jade _sh?
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Li Po |
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Meredith - Poems |
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And when he comes home to me at night
He is not cheery, but sits and sighs,
And I see the great tears in his eyes,
And try to be
cheerful
for his sake.
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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I
composed
these verses while I stayed at Ochtertyre with Sir William
Murray.
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| Question: |
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Robert Burns |
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Water dashed on the coals
suddenly
smothers their glow.
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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5
I wander through life,
With the
searching
mind
That is never at rest,
Till I reach the shade
Of my lover's door.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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That ev'ry guest might learn to suit his taste,
Behind had Conscience, real or mock'ry, placed;
Conscience
a guide who every evil spies,
But royal nurses early pluck out both his eyes!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Like white water are you who fill the cup of my mouth,
Like a brook of water
thronged
with lilies.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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The Project
Gutenberg
EBook of Boris Godunov, by Alexander Pushkin
This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
almost no restrictions whatsoever.
| Guess: |
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Sous les
plafonds
duquel tant de pompe avait lui.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Already my spirit, longing for better ways,
Paces through my flesh, rebelliously,
And already brings the victim fuel to feed
His
immolation
in your vision's rays.
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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what Thou art,
Surpasses
me to know;
Yet sure I am, that known to Thee
Are all Thy works below.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Here in an aether more clear now a luster
encircles
my forehead.
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Les pieces etaient tapissees d'un papier aux
larges rayures rouges et noires,
couleurs
diaboliques, qui
s'accordaient avec les draperies d'un lourd damas.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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"Why doth my face," said Beatrice, "thus
Enamour thee, as that thou dost not turn
Unto the
beautiful
garden, blossoming
Beneath the rays of Christ?
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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XVI
Breac and
Landriglier
past on the left hand,
Orlando's vessel skims the Breton shore;
Then shapes her course towards the chalky strand,
Whence England's isle the name of Albion bore:
But the south wind, which had her canvas fanned,
Shifts to north-west, and freshening, blows so sore,
The mariners are fain to strike all sail,
And wear and scud before the boisterous gale.
| Guess: |
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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And then her mouth, more
delicate
5
Than the frail wood-anemone,
Brushes my cheek, and deeper grow
The purple shadows.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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The poems
contributed
by him to
the volume of 1827, 'Poems by Two Brothers', are not without some slight
promise, but are very far from indicating extraordinary powers.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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The Elephant
Two Elephants
'Two Elephants'
Nicolaes de Bruyn, 1594, The Rijksmuseun
I carry
treasure
in my mouth,
As an elephant his ivory.
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Appoloinaire |
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Can innocents the rage of parties know,
And they who ne'er
offended
find a foe?
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Iliad - Pope |
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PANTHEA:
Look, sister, where a troop of spirits gather,
Like flocks of clouds in spring's
delightful
weather, _665
Thronging in the blue air!
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Shelley |
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Now are you old,
blossoming
white and blanched,
Yet by such words you still appear infant.
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Chanson de Roland |
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I leave now, and go too
To unite all our
scattered
votes for you.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Upstood Acroneus and Ocyalus,
Elatreus, Nauteus, Prymneus, after whom
Anchialus with Anabeesineus
Arose, Eretmeus, Ponteus, Proreus bold,
Amphialus
and Thoon.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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For thirty years, he
produced
and distributed Project
Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Note: Hercules, Alcmene's son, tormented by the shirt of Nessus
immolated
himself on a pyre on Mount Oeta, and was deified.
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Ronsard |
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accipiat
coniunx felici foedere diuam,
dedatur cupido iam dudum nupta marito.
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Latin - Catullus |
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Even this
entertainment
wearies after a time; and all the times are
very, very long.
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Kipling - Poems |
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BAL DES PENDUS
Au gibet noir, manchot aimable,
Dansent, dansent les paladins,
Les maigres paladins du diable,
Les
squelettes
de Saladins.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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