According
to
the value of money at that time, my loss was of some importance.
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IV
Thou hast thy calling to some palace-floor,
Most
gracious
singer of high poems!
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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XX
It
fortuned
a noble warlike knight?
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XCV
How sweet and lovely dost thou make the shame
Which, like a canker in the
fragrant
rose,
Doth spot the beauty of thy budding name!
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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But when I lifted up my head
From shadows shaken on the snow,
I saw Orion in the east
Burn
steadily
as long ago.
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Sara Teasdale |
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A LITTLE BOY LOST
"Nought loves another as itself,
Nor
venerates
another so,
Nor is it possible to thought
A greater than itself to know.
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blake-poems |
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is it She, which on the other shore
Goes richly
painted?
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John Donne |
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Ennius' answer has been preserved to us in the lines in
which he alludes
scornfully
to the _Punica_ of Naevius as written 'in
verses such as the Fauns and Bards chanted of old', the verses, that is,
of the old poetry of magic.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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But he in prison pens the
christened
train,
('Twould seem) to be to Argier's realm addrest.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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My heart more love than your
forgetfulness!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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God loads and unloads, thus His work begins,
To load with
blessings
and unload from sins.
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Robert Herrick |
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Than
thoughte
he thus: `If I my tale endyte
Ought hard, or make a proces any whyle,
She shal no savour han ther-in but lyte,
And trowe I wolde hir in my wil bigyle.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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les migrations plus enormes que les
anciennes
invasions.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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on my feet fall vain tears
As the roar of my laughter
redoubles
their fears.
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Hugo - Poems |
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VII
"For which of us could hope
To show in life that world-awakening scope
Granted the few whose memory none lets die,
But all men
magnify?
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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LOVE THAT LIVES
Dear face--bright,
glinting
hair;
Dear life, whose heart is mine--
The thought of you is prayer,
The love of you divine.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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of
causes
encountrynge
{and} flowyng to-gidre to hem selfe.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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I found the phrase to every thought
I ever had, but one;
And that defies me, -- as a hand
Did try to chalk the sun
To races
nurtured
in the dark; --
How would your own begin?
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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"
What joy, for
fatherland
to die!
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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'To shelter
Rosamunde
from hate
borne her by the queen,
the king had a palace made
such as had ne'er been seen'.
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Appoloinaire |
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_
The translator most heartily dissents from Hayward's
assertion
that a
translator of Faust "must sacrifice either metre or meaning.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Seethed in mists of Penmanmaur,
Taught by Plinlimmon's Druid power,
England's genius filled all measure
Of heart and soul, of strength and pleasure,
Gave to the mind its emperor,
And life was larger than before:
Nor sequent
centuries
could hit
Orbit and sum of SHAKSPEARE'S wit.
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Emerson - Poems |
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_'
Gifford's note on this passage is: 'This
proverbial
phrase is
found in most (sic) of our ancient dramas.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Gradually he
calmed down, though he still
grumbled
from time to time, shaking his
head--
"A hundred roubles, it is easy to talk!
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Sweet, sweet it is, in cheering hopes to dwell,
Immortal, ever young,
In maiden
gladness
fostering evermore
A soft content of soul!
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Aeschylus |
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The
frightened
horse, with broken rein,
Stood at the stable-door again;
But none came home to fill his rack,
Or take the saddle from his back;
The saddle--it was all he bore--
The man was seen alive no more!
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John Clare |
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Once more upon the woody Apennine,
The infant Alps, which--had I not before
Gazed on their mightier parents, where the pine
Sits on more shaggy summits, and where roar
The thundering lauwine--might be worshipped more;
But I have seen the soaring
Jungfrau
rear
Her never-trodden snow, and seen the hoar
Glaciers of bleak Mont Blanc both far and near,
And in Chimari heard the thunder-hills of fear,
LXXIV.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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To mask my
departure
I'll stay here a moment.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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So thou, and
pleasant
happy life 5
Lead wi' thy parent's wooden wife.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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All arts of
tenderness
to him are known,
Kind to Ulysses' race as to his own;
No father with a fonder grasp of joy
Strains to his bosom his long-absent boy.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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O war ich vor des hohen Geistes Kraft
Entzuckt,
entseelt
dahin gesunken!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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A rout this morning left Sir Walter's Hall,
That as they
galloped
made the echoes roar;
But horse and man are vanished, one and all; 15
Such race, I think, was never seen before.
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William Wordsworth |
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565
Be silent always when you doubt your sense;
And speak, tho' sure, with seeming diffidence:
Some positive,
persisting
fops we know,
Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so;
But you, with pleasure own your errors past, 570
And make each day a Critic on the last.
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Alexander Pope |
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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His shrapnel helmet set atilt,
His bombing
waistcoat
sagging low,
His rifle slung across his back:
Poised in the very act to throw.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Still, the final test of poems or any
character
or work
remains.
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Whitman |
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No portion where the maidens throng to praise
Castor--my Castor, whom in ancient days,
Ere he passed from us and men
worshipped
him,
They named my bridegroom!
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Euripides - Electra |
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--is borne along by his horses, and thrown
back
entangled
with his empty chariot, still clutching the reins; his
neck and hair are dragged over the ground, and his reversed spear scores
the dust.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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The Cossack eats Poland,
Like stolen fruit;
Her last noble is ruined,
Her last poet mute:
Straight, into double band
The victors divide;
Half for freedom strike and stand;--
The astonished Muse finds
thousands
at her side.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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they will lie
becalmed
in sight of strand--
Sight of my strand, where I do dwell alone;
Their songs wake singing echoes in my land--
They cannot hear me moan.
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Christina Rossetti |
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A heart that is distant creates a
wilderness
round it.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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_v_
Namque nullum peius macerat hemonem
quamde mare saeuom: uires quoi sunt magnae,
topper eas confringunt
importunae
undae.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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By what fearful design are you being
tempted?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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All the happy songs he wrought
From remembrance soon must fade,
As the wash of silver
moonlight
15
From a purple-dark ravine.
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Sappho |
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To him the mansion's master made reply,
He in his house might at his
pleasure
lie.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Thy homely help render,
Incubus!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Certainly
not, nor their father.
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Aristophanes |
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From the cool shade I hear the silver plash
Of the blown
fountain
at the garden's end.
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Sappho |
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is kny3t, & to his cler arme3,
632 For ay
faythful
in fyue & sere fyue sy?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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is, god of heuene:
To mychel ioye he tourne my
sweuene!
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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This said he paus'd not, but with ventrous Arme
He pluckt, he tasted; mee damp horror chil'd
At such bold words voucht with a deed so bold:
But he thus overjoy'd, O Fruit Divine,
Sweet of thy self, but much more sweet thus cropt,
Forbidd'n here, it seems, as onely fit
For Gods, yet able to make Gods of Men: 70
And why not Gods of Men, since good, the more
Communicated, more
abundant
growes,
The Author not impair'd, but honourd more?
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Milton |
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Where the huge crowd upon Zerbino falls,
Ariodantes
and Lurcanio go;
And with them many a cavalier and count,
Who do their best Zerbino to remount.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Under the firelight, under the brush, her hair
Spread out in fiery points
Glowed into words, then would be
savagely
still.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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No longer
loitering
makest thou,
Now comest thou.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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His father was ruined by religious persecution
in the reign of Mary, became a
preacher
in Elizabeth's reign, and died a
month before the poet's birth in 1573.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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--All honest hearts
Must sorrow for a
brightness
that departs,
A good life worn away.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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_ This is not only a vivid way of
describing the
banishment
of all their natural pity.
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Keats |
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Once to know the fight had not been in vain, And in life dead hope would arise and start—
Start and bring visions of thy lost face
Bring
ecstasies
we alone could share;
But the leaves are falling on that still place, And on my heart falls the old despair.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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6770
'No good man oughte it to refuse,
Ne oughte him therof to excuse,
Be wrooth or blythe who-so be;
For I wol speke, and telle it thee,
Al shulde I dye, and be put doun, 6775
As was seynt Poul, in derk prisoun;
Or be exiled in this caas
With wrong, as maister William was,
That my moder Ypocrisye
Banisshed
for hir greet envye.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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THE STAR
A WHITE star born in the evening glow
Looked to the round green world below,
And saw a pool in a wooded place
That held like a jewel her
mirrored
face.
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Sara Teasdale |
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I am a good deal
inclined
to think with those who maintain, that what
are called nervous affections are in fact diseases of the mind.
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Robert Forst |
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O
konntest
du in meinem Innern lesen,
Wie wenig Vater und Sohn
Solch eines Ruhmes wert gewesen!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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This
pressure
of the hand shall tell thee
What cannot be expressed:
Give thyself up at once and feel a rapture,
An ecstasy never to end!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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EJC}
Farewell the God calls me away I depart in my sweet bliss
She fled
vanishing
on the wind And left a dead cold corse
In Los's arms howlings began over the body of death {Line written over erased text.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Is my life vulgar, my fate mean,
Which on such golden
memories
can lean?
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Phaedra
You
Heavens!
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Racine - Phaedra |
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398_;
_Reflections
on Westminster Abbey_, _ii.
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Byron |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Though many a wounded bosom bleeds
For sire, for son, for lover dear,
Yet Sorrow smiles amid her weeds,--
Affliction
dries her tender tear;
Oh!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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You
understand
me, but I'll seek redress;
Think you so very cheap to have success?
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La Fontaine |
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When critics
disagree
the artist is in accord with himself.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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We often paused, and looking back, we saw
The clefts and
openings
in the hills all fill'd
With the blue valley and the glistening brooks,
And with the low dark groves--a land of Love;
Where Love was worshipp'd upon every height,
Where Love was worshipp'd under every tree--
A land of promise, flowing with the milk
And honey of delicious memories
Down to the sea, as far as eye could ken,
From verge to verge it was a holy land,
Still growing holier as you near'd the bay,
For where the temple stood.
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Tennyson |
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A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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If the government of the Republic picked him saying,
"You are wanted, your country takes you"--
if the Republic put a stethoscope to his heart
and looked at his teeth and tested his eyes and said,
"You are a citizen of the Republic and a sound
animal in all parts and functions--the Republic takes you"--
then to-day the baskets of flowers are all for the Republic,
the roses, the songs, the
steamboat
whistles,
the proclamations of the honorable orators--
they are all for the Republic.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Aye, closer; clasp my body well,
And let thy sorrow loose, and shed,
As o'er the grave of one new dead,
Dead evermore, thy last
farewell!
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Euripides - Electra |
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How few of the others,
Are men
equipped
with common sense.
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Villon |
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representations
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the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United
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Imagists |
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[Illustration]
There was a young person of Bantry,
Who frequently slept in the pantry;
When disturbed by the mice, she
appeased
them with rice,
That judicious young person of Bantry.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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A LITTLE BOY LOST
"Nought loves another as itself,
Nor
venerates
another so,
Nor is it possible to thought
A greater than itself to know.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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For pity do not this sad heart belie--
Even as thou
vanishest
so I shall die.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Keats - Lamia |
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e
iugeme{n}t
of ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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Whoever wanders
somewhere
in the world
Wanders in vain in the world
Wanders to me.
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And since the warfare has not yet ceased, 12 all our lads are on
campaign
in the east.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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The aims of Ennius were not
essentially
different from
those of Livius and Naevius.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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"I am ignorant of the
latitude
in which it is situated.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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And the shrill-voiced
changers
of money
Who sat with their clerks at the tables.
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Tennyson |
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A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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copyright
law means that no one owns a United States
copyright
in these works,
so the Foundation (and you!
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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forming the counterpoint to this prosody, a work which lacks precedent, have been left in a primitive state: not because I agree with being timid in my attempts; but because it is not for me, save by a special pagination or volume of my own, in a Periodical so courageous, gracious and
accommodating
as it shows itself to be to real freedom, to act too contrary to custom.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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And thou, my heart, to me alone that shows
Disloyal
still, what cruel guides of late
In thee find shelter, now the chosen mate
Of my most mischievous and bitter foes?
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Petrarch |
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In Middleton and
Rowley's _World Tossed at Tennis_ five different colored
starches
are
personified.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Dolphins, playing in the sea
Hurling his ink at skies above,
Medusas,
miserable
heads
In your pools, and in your ponds,
The female of the Halcyon,
Do I know where your ennui's from, Sirens,
Dove, both love and spirit
In spreading out his fan, this bird,
My poor heart's an owl
Yes, I'll pass fearful shadows
This cherubim sings the praises
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Appoloinaire |
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Bridemaids and
bridegroom
shrank in fear,
But I stood high who stood at bay:
'And if I answer yea, fair Sir,
What man art thou to bar with nay?
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Christina Rossetti |
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ON THE
ANNOUNCEMENT
OF THE DEATH OF LAURA.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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