That is why,
according
to my will,
Castile was ruled these ten years from Seville,
To be nearer them, and be the swifter
To oppose whatever threat they offer.
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In the
very aspect of those primitive and rugged trees there was, methinks, a
tanning principle which
hardened
and consolidated the fibres of men's
thoughts.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Thus from
the 'purple light' of our later poetry there are hours in which we
may look to the
daffodil
and rose-tints of Herrick's old Arcadia, for
refreshment and delight.
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Robert Herrick |
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dressed?
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Rare writings we read
together
and praise:
Doubtful meanings we examine together and settle.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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"Time was a
Shepherd
with four sheep.
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Sidney Lanier |
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X Yet, love, mere love, is
beautiful
indeed
XI And therefore if to love can be desert
XII Indeed this very love which is my boast
XIII And wilt thou have me fashion into speech
XIV If thou must love me, let it be for nought
XV Accuse me not, beseech thee, that I wear
XVI And yet, because thou overcomest so
XVII My poet thou canst touch on all the notes
XVIII I never gave a lock of hair away
XIX The soul's Rialto hath its merchandize
XX Beloved, my beloved, when I think
XXI Say over again, and yet once over again
XXII When our two souls stand up erect and strong
XXIII Is it indeed so?
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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I follow'd, stooping low
My forehead, as a man, o'ercharg'd with thought,
Who bends him to the
likeness
of an arch,
That midway spans the flood; when thus I heard,
"Come, enter here," in tone so soft and mild,
As never met the ear on mortal strand.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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is tyme
twelmonyth
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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A little, once, it looked ill,
Our consort began to burn--
They
quenched
the flames with a will,
But our men were falling still,
And still the fleet was astern.
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Keats - Lamia |
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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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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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The
Psalmist
numbered out the years of man:
They are enough: and if thy tale be TRUE,
Thou, who didst grudge him e'en that fleeting span,
More than enough, thou fatal Waterloo!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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So
architects
do squai*c and hew
Green trees that in the forest grew.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Doesn't he come down
in his seventeen-two
perambulator
every morning the Pink Hussars parade?
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Kipling - Poems |
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Again the neighing of the horse, is that
Not seen to differ likewise, when the stud
In buoyant flower of his young years raves,
Goaded by winged Love, amongst the mares,
And when with widening
nostrils
out he snorts
The call to battle, and when haply he
Whinnies at times with terror-quaking limbs?
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Lucretius |
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The long _u_ is
due to analogy with
_namassu_
a Sumerian loan-word with nisbe ending.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Chief
Executive
and Director
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Li Po |
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Since I to mortals brought prerogatives,
Unto this durance dismal am I bound:
Yea, I am he who in a fennel-stalk,
By stealthy sleight,
purveyed
the fount of fire,
The teacher, proven thus, and arch-resource
Of every art that aideth mortal men.
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Aeschylus |
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No crier to the polling summons the eager throng;
No Tribune
breathes
the word of might that guards the weak from
wrong.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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($1 to $5,000) are particularly
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to maintaining tax exempt
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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There was MARIA CHAPMAN, too,
With her swift eyes of clear steel-blue, 30
The coiled-up mainspring of the Fair,
Originating everywhere
The expansive force without a sound
That whirls a hundred wheels around,
Herself
meanwhile
as calm and still
As the bare crown of Prospect Hill;
A noble woman, brave and apt,
Cumaean sibyl not more rapt,
Who might, with those fair tresses shorn,
The Maid of Orleans' casque have worn, 40
Herself the Joan of our Ark,
For every shaft a shining mark.
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James Russell Lowell |
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VII
=The Mystic=
Angels have talked with him, and showed him thrones:
Ye knew him not: he was not one of ye,
Ye scorned him with an undiscerning scorn:
Ye could not read the marvel in his eye,
The still serene abstraction; he hath felt
The vanities of after and before;
Albeit, his spirit and his secret heart
The stern experiences of
converse
lives,
The linked woes of many a fiery change
Had purified, and chastened, and made free.
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Tennyson |
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Vpon my Head they plac'd a
fruitlesse
Crowne,
And put a barren Scepter in my Gripe,
Thence to be wrencht with an vnlineall Hand,
No Sonne of mine succeeding: if't be so,
For Banquo's Issue haue I fil'd my Minde,
For them, the gracious Duncan haue I murther'd,
Put Rancours in the Vessell of my Peace
Onely for them, and mine eternall Iewell
Giuen to the common Enemie of Man,
To make them Kings, the Seedes of Banquo Kings.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Cease, cease, my foolish babe,
What you are saying is sorrowful to me--much it displeases me;
Behold with the rest, again I say--behold not banners and
pennants
aloft;
But the well-prepared pavements behold--and mark the solid-walled houses.
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Whitman |
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"Is it
possible
that I have
written verses that are 'filled with beauty,' and is it possible
that you really think them worthy of being given to the world?
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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_ Since you are earnest, it
behooves
to speak; hear then.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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I promise clemency; I will not punish
With vain
disgrace
a lie that's past.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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And sweet the hops upon the Kentish leas,
And sweet the wind that lifts the new-mown hay,
And sweet the fretful swarms of grumbling bees
That round and round the linden blossoms play;
And sweet the heifer
breathing
in the stall,
And the green bursting figs that hang upon the red-brick wall,
And sweet to hear the cuckoo mock the spring
While the last violet loiters by the well,
And sweet to hear the shepherd Daphnis sing
The song of Linus through a sunny dell
Of warm Arcadia where the corn is gold
And the slight lithe-limbed reapers dance about the wattled fold.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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On wings of fury flies the brave Alvar
Through oceans howling with the wintry war,
Through skies of snow his brother's
vengeance
bears;
And, soon in arms, the valiant sire appears:
Before him vict'ry spreads her eagle wing
Wide sweeping o'er Cambaya's haughty king.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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O how charmingly Nature hath array'd thee
With the soft green grass and juicy clover,
And with corn-flowers
blooming
and luxuriant.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Whensoe'er
Our
wanderer
comes again!
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Euripides - Electra |
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"I have prayed for thee with bursting sob
When passion's course was free;
I have prayed for thee with silent lips,
In the anguish none could see:
They
whispered
oft, 'She sleepeth soft'--
But I only prayed for thee.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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The logs swayed and
chafed and groaned as fresh
consignments
from up-stream battered the now
weakening dam.
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Kipling - Poems |
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additional
contact information:
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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On his head a bonnet blue,
Bonnie laddie,
Highland
laddie;
His royal heart was firm and true,
Bonnie Highland laddie.
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Robert Forst |
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O all the kings, my men,
Shall fear this
terrible
happiness of mine!
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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the
defective
work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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spirits, sylphs, there be,
And fays the wind blows often here;
The gnomes that squat the ceiling near,
In corners made by old books dim;
The long-backed dwarfs, those goblins grim
That seem at home 'mong vases rare,
And chat to them with friendly air--
Oh, how the joyous demon throng
Must all have laughed with laughter long
To see you on my rough drafts fall,
My bald hexameters, and all
The mournful, miserable band,
And drag them with relentless hand
From out their box, with true delight
To set them each and all a-light,
And then with clapping hands to lean
Above the stove and watch the scene,
How to the mass
deformed
there came
A soul that showed itself in flame!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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And
suddenly
the sultan kneels!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Nearly all the
individual
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collection are in the public domain in the United States.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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More leaden than the actual self of lead
Outer and inner
darkness
weighed on me.
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Christina Rossetti |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Bridges, like most of us to-day, has a lyrical and
meditative
mind, and
delights to speak with his own voice and to see Nature in the mirror of
his mind.
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Yeats |
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Night is worn,
And the morn
Rises from the
slumbrous
mass.
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blake-poems |
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I guess, 'twas frightful there to see
A lady so richly clad as she--
Beautiful
exceedingly!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Who knows but I am
enjoying
this?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Where Mercy, Love, and Pity dwell,
There God is
dwelling
too.
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blake-poems |
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DEATH BY WATER
Phlebas the Phoenician, a
fortnight
dead,
Forgot the cry of gulls, and the deep sea swell
And the profit and loss.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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The task is obviously not one of translation or of paraphrasing,
but of
imaginative
and, at the same time, interpretive construction.
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Sappho |
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Pizarro,
however, in the barbarity of his character, far
exceeded
him.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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With you I'll breathe the air which ye respire,
And, smiling, hide my
melancholy
lyre
When it is wet with tears.
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Hugo - Poems |
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The Loir is a
tributary
of the larger Loire, in the Vendomois.
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Ronsard |
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The host took from one of the shelves
of the press a jug and a glass,
approached
him, and, having looked him
well in the face--
"Well, well," said he, "so here you are again in our part of the world.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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And whistle: All's for the best
In this best of
Carnivals!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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But, herte myn, with-oute more speche, 1510
Beth to me trewe, or elles were it routhe;
For I am thyn, by god and by my
trouthe!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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And faith, 'tis pleasant till 'tis past:
The
mischief
is that 'twill not last.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Obsession
After years of wisdom
During which the world was transparent as a needle
Was it cooing about
something
else?
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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In frost and cold though lame he's forced to go--
The call's more urgent when he
journeys
slow.
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John Clare |
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Then inland just where the small meadow begins,
Well bulwarked with
boulders
that jut in the tide,
Lies safe beyond storm-beat the harbour in sun.
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Sappho |
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O hadst thou died beneath the
righteous
sword
Of that brave man whom once I call'd my lord!
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Iliad - Pope |
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So that not fainting, but refresht and astonisht
And strangely spirited and
divinely
angry
My body may arise out of its passion,
Out of being enjoyed by this fiend's flesh.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Tacitus |
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'Oh better then be slave or wife
Than fritter now blank life away: 70
Then night had
holiness
of night,
And day was sacred day.
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Christina Rossetti |
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4 Among cypress and pine I gaze on the empty halls, in dust and sand I stand on the
darkened
road.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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I have these several months been
hammering
at an elegy on the amiable
and accomplished Miss Burnet.
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Robert Forst |
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V
Yet faithful still 'mid woe and doubt
One woman's loyal heart--whose pain
Filled it with pure celestial light--
Shone starry-constant like the North,
Or that still
radiance
beaming forth
From sacred lights in some lone fane.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Wherever
now
My heedless course I may pursue
One object on thy desert brow
I everlastingly shall view--
A rock, the sepulchre of Fame!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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"There is a spirit in the post;
It, too, was once a
murmuring
tree;
Its withered, sad, imprisoned ghost
Echoes my melody.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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_All_ sey (say), _after which
ryght is
needlessly
inserted; I omit it_.
| Guess: |
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Mother whose heart hung humble as a button
On the bright
splendid
shroud of your son,
Do not weep.
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Stephen Crane |
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Life is a scavenger's pit--I escape--
I only,
rejecting
it,
lying here on this couch.
| Guess: |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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But
wherefore
this?
| Guess: |
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Keats |
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_The Mother_
Folks think a witch who has
familiar
spirits
She _could_ call up to pass a winter evening,
But _won't_, should be burned at the stake or something.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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The
conquerors
had a good right to exult in their success; for
their glory was all their own.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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]
Enter Lear, with
Cordelia
[dead] in his arms, [Edgar, Captain,
and others following].
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Shakespeare |
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The epic poet
collaborates
with the spirit
of his time in the composition of his work.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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So he, whose
mischievous
advice prevailed.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Thou beauteous wreath, with
melancholy
eyes,
Possess whatever bliss thou canst devise,
Telling me only where my nymph is fled,--
Where she doth breathe!
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Keats - Lamia |
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After Vintage
COMB in the death-foreboded park, to view
How yonder smiling bank in
radiance
shimmers,
The virgin cloudlets' unexpected blue
Upon the tarn and tinted pathway glimmers.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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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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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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_'
Is the
appropriate
answer.
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Lewis Carroll |
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Wright
1918
TO THE MEMORY OF
AUGUSTE RODIN
THROUGH WHOM I CAME TO KNOW
RAINER MARIA RILKE
POEMS OF RAINER MARIA RILKE
INTRODUCTION
Acknowledgment
To the Editors of Poetry--A
magazine
of Verse, and Poet Lore, the
translator is indebted for permission to reprint certain poems in this
book--also to the compilers of the following anthologies--Amphora II
edited by Thomas Bird Mosher--The Catholic Anthology of World Poetry
selected by Carl van Doren.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Thou, thou,
illustrious
GAMA, thou shalt bring
The olive bough of peace, deputed king!
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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After passing through many wild ways, our knight
recovers
from the
wound in his neck, and at last comes safe and sound to the court of
King Arthur.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Nay, the wild rocks and woods then voiced the roar
Of Afric lions
mourning
for thy death.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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what herb Medea brewed
Will bring the
unexultant
peace of essence not subdued?
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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The
quarrels
of Ireland shall end.
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Yeats |
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If I have found
Another, true to save me at the bound
Of life and death, that other's child am I,
That other's
fostering
friend, until I die.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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SIEBEL:
Zur Tur hinaus, er sich
entzweit!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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When I am gone, dreame me some happinesse,
Nor let thy lookes our long hid love confesse,
Nor praise, nor dispraise me, nor blesse nor curse
Openly loves force, nor in bed fright thy Nurse 50
With
midnights
startings, crying out, oh, oh
Nurse, o my love is slaine, I saw him goe
O'r the white Alpes alone; I saw him I,
Assail'd, fight, taken, stabb'd, bleed, fall, and die.
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John Donne |
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org
Title: The
Hesperides
& Noble Numbers: Vol.
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Robert Herrick |
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XCI
"I fifteen days or twenty ask, that I
Yet once again may to our army speed;
So that, by me from
leaguering
enemy
The African cantonments may be freed:
I will some fit and just occasion spy,
Meanwhile, to justify my change of creed,
I for my honour make this sole request;
Then wholly yours for life, in all things, rest.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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But what their care bequeathed us our madness flung away:
All the ripe fruit of threescore years was
blighted
in a day.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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On each side every hamlet
Pours forth its joyous crowd,
Shouting
lads and baying dogs,
And children laughing loud,
And old men weeping fondly
As Rhea's boys go by,
And maids who shriek to see the heads,
Yet, shrieking, press more nigh.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Of all complexions the cull'd sovereignty
Do meet, as at a fair, in her fair cheek,
Where several
worthies
make one dignity,
Where nothing wants that want itself doth seek.
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Shakespeare |
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A Transcript of the
Registers
of the
Company of Stationers of London; 1554-1640.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Mallarme
left a series of fragments for a four-part poetic memorial, a 'tomb'.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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