Hence too it happens in the sum there is
No one thing single of its kind in birth,
And single and sole in growth, but rather it is
One member of some
generated
race,
Among full many others of like kind.
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Then I am dead till thou revivest me with thy sweet song
Now taking on Ahanias form & now the form of Enion
I know thee not as once I knew thee in those blessed fields
Where memory wishes to repose among the flocks of Tharmas
Enitharmon answerd Wherefore didst thou throw thine arms around
Ahanias Image I decievd thee & will still decieve
Urizen saw thy sin & hid his beams in darkning Clouds
I still keep watch altho I tremble & wither across the heavens
In strong vibrations of fierce jealousy for thou art mine
Created for my will my slave tho strong tho I am weak {This line appears to have been inserted between 2
existing
lines.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Jia Zhi was a Drafter in the
Secretariat
(zhongshu sheren ?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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you ask, or whom did she expect;
Were all these pains a miller to
receive?
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La Fontaine |
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Good
hope was then
entertained
of a peaceful settlement, and Herrick's ode,
enthusiastic as it is, expresses little more than this.
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Robert Herrick |
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Such the love I bear
My heroine,
Tattiana
dear.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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But no, go slowly as you will,
I should not bid you hasten so,
For while I wait for love to come,
Some other girl is
standing
dumb,
Fearing her love will go.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Likewise, thou canst ne'er
Believe the sacred seats of gods are here
In any regions of this mundane world;
Indeed, the nature of the gods, so subtle,
So far removed from these our senses, scarce
Is seen even by
intelligence
of mind.
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Lucretius |
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No hollow tree or woodland bower
Well known when joy was beating high,
Where beauty ran to shun a shower
And love took pains to keep her dry,
And laid the sheaf upon the ground
To keep her from the dripping grass,
And ran for stocks and set them round
Till scarce a drop of rain could pass
Through; where the maidens they reclined
And sung sweet ballads now forgot,
Which brought sweet
memories
to the mind,
But here no memory knows them not.
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FAUST:
Werd ich den Jammer
uberstehen!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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It was enough for my hand to touch it lightly, 750
To render it distasteful to that inhuman man:
And for that
wretched
blade to soil his hands.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Only
There is shadow under this red rock,
(Come in under the shadow of this red rock),
And I will show you something different from either
Your shadow at morning
striding
behind you
Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you;
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Whether there was perfect consistency between this hatred to
the Pope and his thinking, as he
certainly
did for a time, of becoming
his secretary, may admit of a doubt.
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Petrarch |
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Come, you
transgressing
slave, away.
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Shakespeare |
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You daughter or son of
England!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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II
The
Babylonian
praises his high wall,
And gardens high in air; Ephesian
Forms the Greek will praise again;
The people of the Nile their Pyramids tall;
And that same Greek still boasting will recall
Their statue of Jove the Olympian;
The Tomb of Mausolus, some Carian;
Cretans their long-lost labyrinthine hall.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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My nerves are too
tense to give other than
clamouring
and dolorous vibrations.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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ou In my sones man,
ffor
seuentene
?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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At length along the flowery sward I saw
So sweet and fair a lady pensive move
That her mere thought inspires a tender awe;
Meek in herself, but haughty against Love,
Flow'd from her waist a robe so fair and fine
Seem'd gold and snow
together
there to join:
But, ah!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Here he
provides
me with ev'rything, sees that I get what I call for;
Each day that passes he spreads freshly plucked roses for me.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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It is very much more
difficult
to talk about a thing than to do it.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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If thou hadst had a sword,
Insolent prisoner, then (pointing to his sword) with this I'd soon
Have
vanquished
thee.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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They support their
situation
with fortitude.
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Petrarch |
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A haunting music, sole perhaps and lone
Supportress
of the faery-roof, made moan
Throughout, as fearful the whole charm might fade.
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Keats - Lamia |
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What weight, and what
authority
in thy speech!
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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{34e} Gering would
translate
"kinsman of the nail," as both are made
of iron.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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First the 1645 volume of the Minor Poems has been
printed entire; then follow in order the poems added in the reissue of
1673; the Paradise Lost, from the edition of 1667; and the Paradise
Regain'd and Samson
Agonistes
from the edition of 1671.
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Milton |
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I spurn the Past, my mind
disdains
its nod,
Nor kneels in homage to so mean a God.
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Emerson - Poems |
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--
I think it's
fiendish
to have killed so many.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a
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request, of the work in its
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"Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other
form.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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And inward thus ful softely biginne;
Nece, I conjure and heighly yow defende,
On his half, which that sowle us alle sende,
And in the vertue of
corounes
tweyne, 1735
Slee nought this man, that hath for yow this peyne!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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' This account was in the best
Rowleian manner, with strange spelling and uncouth words, but for
the most part quite intelligible to the
ordinary
reader.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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'And if men wolde ther-geyn appose 6555
The naked text, and lete the glose,
It mighte sone
assoiled
be;
For men may wel the sothe see,
That, parde, they mighte axe a thing
Pleynly forth, without begging.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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The Tortoise
Feeling
'Feeling'
Raphael Sadeler (I), 1581, The Rijksmuseun
From magic Thrace, O
delerium!
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Appoloinaire |
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Keats - Lamia |
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Lewis Carroll |
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`That is to seye, for thee am I bicomen,
Bitwixen
game and ernest, swich a mene
As maken wommen un-to men to comen; 255
Al sey I nought, thou wost wel what I mene.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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And al the whyl which that I yow devyse, 435
This was his lyf; with al his fulle might,
By day he was in Martes high servyse,
This is to seyn, in armes as a knight;
And for the more part, the longe night
He lay, and
thoughte
how that he mighte serve 440
His lady best, hir thank for to deserve.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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And though awhile against Time they make war,
These
buildings
still, yet it must be that Time
In the end, both works and names, will flaw.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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The editors and publishers
concerned
have kindly given me permission to
reprint some of the poems in this book which appeared originally in
"Poetry" (Chicago), "The Egoist" (London), "The Little Review"
(Chicago), "Greenwich Village" (New York), the first Imagist anthology
(New York: A.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Can nothing
disabuse
you of your error?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Email
contact links and up to date contact information can be found at the
Foundation's web site and
official
page at www.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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A washed-out smallpox cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone With all the old
nocturnal
smells
That cross and cross across her brain.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Let vs seeke out some
desolate
shade, & there
Weepe our sad bosomes empty
Macd.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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[5] There is in the
Original
an evident stress laid on the word ?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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aquae
strepentis
uitreus lambit liquor
sulcoque ductus irrigat riuus sata.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Albion groand on Tyburns brook
Albion gave his loud death groan The Atlantic Mountains
trembled
Aloft the Moon fled with a cry the Sun with streams of blood
From Albions Loins fled all Peoples and Nations of the Earth Fled {Erdman's notes indicate that "Blake first wrote ?
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Blake - Zoas |
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So safer, guess, with just my soul
Upon the window-pane
Where other
creatures
put their eyes,
Incautious of the sun.
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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VII
None looked upon her but he
straightway
thought
Of all the greenest depths of country cheer, 50
And into each one's heart was freshly brought
What was to him the sweetest time of year,
So was her every look and motion fraught
With out-of-door delights and forest lere;
Not the first violet on a woodland lea
Seemed a more visible gift of Spring than she.
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James Russell Lowell |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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[128]
Through Nature's vale his homely
pleasures
glide,
Unstained by envy, discontent, and pride;
The bound of all his vanity, to deck,
With one bright bell, a favourite heifer's neck; 495
Well pleased [129] upon some simple annual feast,
Remembered half the year and hoped the rest,
If dairy-produce, from his inner hoard,
Of thrice ten summers dignify [130] the board.
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
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LIX
Walking in the sky,
A man in strange black garb
Encountered
a radiant form.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
|
Updated
editions
will replace the previous one--the old editions
will be renamed.
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| Question: |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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At once she pitch'd headlong into the bilge
Like a sea-coot, whence heaving her again, 580
The seamen gave her to be fishes' food,
And I
survived
to mourn her.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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And, as the year
Grows lush in juicy stalks, I'll
smoothly
steer
My little boat, for many quiet hours,
With streams that deepen freshly into bowers.
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| Source: |
Keats |
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Those who practice poetry search for and love only the
perfection
that is God Himself.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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Even from his own paternal roof expell'd,
Some stranger ploughs his
patrimonial
field.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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you seeme to
vnderstand
me,
By each at once her choppie finger laying
Vpon her skinnie Lips: you should be Women,
And yet your Beards forbid me to interprete
That you are so
Mac.
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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To-day I saw the pale much-burdened form
Of Charity come limping o'er the line,
And straighten from the bending of the storm
And flush with stirrings of new strength divine,
Such influence and sweet
gracious
impulse came
Out of the beams of thine immortal name!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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LIV
With rue my heart is laden
For golden friends I had,
For many a rose-lipt maiden
And many a
lightfoot
lad.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Who falls unslain will only make
A
mouthful
to the wolves who slake
Their month-whet thirst.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Five score
thousand
Franks swooned on the earth and fell.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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Tame to her hand, and
familiar
to his master's table, he
would wander the woods, and, however late the night, return home to the
door he knew.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Every other would have taken like offence,
And I'd have
suffered
insults the more intense.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Here, said she,
Is your card, the drowned
Phoenician
Sailor,
(Those are pearls that were his eyes.
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| Question: |
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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That ev'n my buried Ashes such a Snare
Of Perfume shall fling up into the Air,
As not a True
Believer
passing by
But shall be overtaken unaware.
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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He said, and with
unerring
aim, all threw
Their glitt'ring spears.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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In 1627 he obtained the post of
chaplain to the unlucky expedition to the Isle of Rhe, and two years
later (September 30, 1629) he was presented by the King to the Vicarage
of Dean Prior, in Devonshire, which the
promotion
of its previous
incumbent, Dr.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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"
LXXII
The Soldier's Widow lingered in the cot; 640
And, when he rose, he thanked her pious care
Through which his Wife, to that kind shelter brought,
Died in his arms; and with those thanks a prayer
He breathed for her, and for that
merciful
pair.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
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Or when little airs arise,
How the merry
bluebell
rings [1]
To the mosses underneath?
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Tennyson |
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But near the
casement
wide to the north,
A gold is dying, in accord with the decor
Perhaps, those unicorns dashing fire at a nixie,
She who, naked and dead in the mirror, yet
In the oblivion enclosed by the frame, is fixed
As soon by scintillations as the septet.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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' 205
At which the god of love gan loken rowe
Right for despyt, and shoop for to ben wroken;
He kidde anoon his bowe nas not broken;
For
sodeynly
he hit him at the fulle;
And yet as proud a pekok can he pulle.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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--I can toy with his axe;
As I sit on the hill my feet swing in the flax,
And my knee caps the boulders and
troubles
the trees.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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"
"Of course you can't leave
_children_
free,"
Said I, "to pick and choose:
But, in the case of men like me,
I think 'Mine Host' might fairly be
Allowed to state his views.
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
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The dream of loving thee and being loved
Hath been my life; yea, with it I have kept
My heart drugg'd in a long delicious night
Colour'd with candles of
imagined
sense,
And musical with dreamt desire.
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| Question: |
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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If I go forth, a host
Of feasts and bridal dances,
gatherings
gay
Of women, will be there to fright me away
To loneliness.
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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His
companion
goes after, following,
The men of France their warrant find in him.
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| Question: |
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Chanson de Roland |
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Ulysses following, as his partner slew,
Back by the foot each slaughter'd warrior drew;
The milk-white
coursers
studious to convey
Safe to the ships, he wisely cleared the way:
Lest the fierce steeds, not yet to battles bred,
Should start, and tremble at the heaps of dead.
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Iliad - Pope |
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"
--Chaucer,
_Knightes
Tale_, l.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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Walpurgis
is the female saint
who converted the Saxons to Christianity.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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A lone peak, its rock bears the post route, a
mettlesome
horse, gold wound around its bridle.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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You stood where, 'mid the white and gold,
The rose-fire through the gloom
Touched hair and cheek and garment's fold
With soft,
ethereal
bloom.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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From the
forgotten
you call forth dreams; the
child
Reposing on the ground in the corn-clad fields,
In harvest-glow beside the naked mowers.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Le Testament: Ballade: Pour Robert d'Estouteville
A t dawn of day, when falcon shakes his wing,
M ainly from pleasure, and from noble usage,
B
lackbirds
too shake theirs then as they sing,
R eceiving their mates, mingling their plumage,
O, as the desires it lights in me now rage,
I 'd offer you, joyously, what befits the lover.
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Villon |
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Sweet friend, do you wake or are you
sleeping?
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Troubador Verse |
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"--Project Gutenberg Editor's replacement of
original footnote]
Le Directeur
Malheur a la
malheureuse
Tamise!
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T.S. Eliot |
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But Pandarus brak al this speche anoon, 1600
And seyde to Deiphebus, `Wole ye goon,
If youre wille be, as I yow preyde,
To speke here of the nedes of
Criseyde?
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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And strange to tell, among that Earthen Lot
Some could articulate, while others not:
And
suddenly
one more impatient cried--
"Who is the Potter, pray, and who the Pot?
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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And the men of France, bareheaded, bowing lowly,
Led out each a proud signora to the space
Which the
startled
crowd had rounded for them--slowly,
Just a touch of still emotion in his face,
Not presuming, through the symbol, on the grace.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Thus Rilke's monograph on Auguste Rodin will
remain the poet's
testament
on Life and Art.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Of all
the qualities we assign to the author and
director
of nature, by far
the most enviable is--to be able "to wipe away all tears from all
eyes.
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Robert Forst |
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Light of my eyes, thou com'st; it is thyself,
Sweetest
Telemachus!
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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THE NAME OF WASHINGTON
[Read before the Sons of the Revolution, New-York, February 22, 1887]
Sons of the youth and the truth of the nation,
Ye that are met to
remember
the man
Whose valor gave birth to a people's salvation,
Honor him now; set his name in the van.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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She told her
husband of the debt, but he refused
outright
to pay it.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Her lover sinks--she sheds no ill-timed tear;
Her chief is slain--she fills his fatal post;
Her fellows flee--she checks their base career;
The foe retires--she heads the
sallying
host:
Who can appease like her a lover's ghost?
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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That bowe semede wel to shete
These arowes fyve, that been unmete, 990
Contrarie
to that other fyve.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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If Menelaus live,
He will not tarry, but will surely come:
Therefore if
anywhere
the high sun's ray
Descries him upon earth, preserved by Zeus,
Who wills not yet to wipe his race away,
Hope still there is that homeward he may wend.
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Aeschylus |
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