Wherefore
'tis less a marvel that the sea,
The mighty ocean, increaseth not.
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The
Handmaid
is outspoken about him.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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I never saw a man who looked
With such a wistful eye
Upon that little tent of blue
Which
prisoners
call the sky,
And at every drifting cloud that went
With sails of silver by.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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But they came back repeating oracles
Mystic, ambiguous, inscrutable,
Till, at the last, an utterance direct,
Obscure no more, was brought to Inachus--
A
peremptory
charge to fling me forth
Beyond my home and fatherland, a thing
Sent loose in banishment o'er all the world;
And--should he falter--Zeus should launch on him
A fire-eyed bolt, to shatter and consume
Himself and all his race to nothingness.
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Aeschylus |
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I cried out, was
answered
by silence.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Here we French and your Engineers
stood;
Over there a
detachment
of German sharpshooters lay hid in a wood.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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He is not
forgotten
by the lady, who pays him an early
visit, seeking to make further trial of his virtues.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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It is the tyrants who have beaten out
Ploughshares and pruning-hooks to spears and swords,
And shall I pause and
moralize
and doubt?
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James Russell Lowell |
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LIII
Art thou the top-most apple
The
gatherers
could not reach,
Reddening on the bough?
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Sappho |
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By what mean hast thou render'd thee so drunken,
To the clay that thou bowest down thy figure,
And the grass and the windel-straws art
grasping?
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Miu at Soochow; he
reprinted
it in facsimile.
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Li Po |
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"
Far and faint, yet each moment clearer, Straight as an arrow down the sound,
An old-time freighter is drawing nearer, "City of Taunton"
westward
bound.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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CLEMENT
_despatches
a servant to bring home the young couple
to dinner "upon my warrant.
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are, so far as I know,
translated
for the first time.
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Li Po |
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You gods have given man
Desire that too much knows itself; and thence
He is all
confounded
by the pleasure of us.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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So drunk, he disavows it
With badinage divine;
So dazzling, we mistake him
For an
alighting
mine.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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I'll taste the unguent of your eyelids' shore,
To see if it can grant to the heart, at your blow,
The
insensibility
of stones and the azure.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Earth's glories flee of human eyes unseen,
Earth's kingdoms fade to a
remembered
dream,
But thine henceforth shall be a power supreme,
Dazzling command and rich dominion,
The winds thy heralds and thy vassals all
The silver-belted planets and the sun.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Welcome, red and roundy sun,
Dropping
lowly in the west;
Now my hard day's work is done,
I'm as happy as the best.
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John Clare |
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Till thirty were not left alive
They dwindled, dwindled, one by one,
And I may say that many a time
I wished they all were gone:
They
dwindled
one by one away;
For me it was a woeful day.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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_Buskit-nest_, an
ornamented
residence.
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Robert Forst |
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Ta poitrine sur ma poitrine,
Melant nos voix,
Lents, nous
gagnerions
la ravine,
Puis les grands bois!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Along the lichened pathway of the leaf-crowned alley,
With faltering
footsteps
tardily we passed,
And then through ever lighter-glimmering twigs, the
valley
With distant dome re-opened forth at last.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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To
Rencesvals
I go, and Rollanz, he
Nor Oliver may scape alive from me;
The dozen peers are doomed to martyry.
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Chanson de Roland |
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This man has discovered the sweetest
enjoyment
in peace; he will
share it with none.
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Aristophanes |
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It
cost, in 1710, from twelve to twenty-eight
shillings
per pound.
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Alexander Pope |
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Soon as due vows on every part were paid,
And sacred wheat upon the victim laid,
Strong Thrasymed
discharged
the speeding blow
Full on his neck, and cut the nerves in two.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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The words they had from him were flaying knives,
And burning
splinters
fixt in their skinless flesh,
And stones thrown till their breasts were broken in.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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"
Old age, alarmed, uncertain--A young woman's voice,
appealing
to me for
comfort;
A young man's voice, "_Shall I not escape_?
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Whitman |
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IV
Ask
whomever
you will but you'll never find out where I'm lodging,
High society's lords, ladies so groomed and refined.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose
such as creation of derivative works, reports,
performances
and
research.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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is, but I know that she is young, for I saw
her
portrait
in a weekly paper, and I think that she is clever enough
to make her work of some importance.
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Yeats |
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Unauthenticated Download Date | 10/1/17 7:36 AM Seeing Off Attendant Censor Fan (23) on his Way to a Post 291 Whirling gusts blow on the
solitary
tree, the bright sun shines on the sleeve I grasp.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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And having determined how
you'll say it,
you had next best
ascertain
whom
it is that you say it to.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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The two officers found the
apartments
full.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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To that degree effect
succeeds
to cause,
Nor is the flame once wont to be create
In flowing streams, nor cold begot in fire.
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Lucretius |
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I see ye're
complimented
thrang,
By mony a lord an' lady;
"God save the King" 's a cuckoo sang
That's unco easy said aye:
The poets, too, a venal gang,
Wi' rhymes weel-turn'd an' ready,
Wad gar you trow ye ne'er do wrang,
But aye unerring steady,
On sic a day.
| Guess: |
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Cold
moonlight
falls on silent towers;
The young ghosts walk with the old;
But Oxford dreams of the dawn of May
And her heart is free and bold.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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frēcne
genēðdon
eafoð uncūðes (_we have boldly
risked, dared, the monster's power_), 961.
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Beowulf |
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Of contemporaries you alone have
understood my satires and
reflective
poems.
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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'Tis madness to resist or blame
The face of angry heaven's flame;
And if we would speak true,
Much to the Man is due
Who, from his private gardens, where
He lived
reserved
and austere
(As if he his highest plot
To plant the bergamot)
Could by industrious valour climb
To ruin the great work of time,
And cast the Kingdoms old
Into another mould.
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Golden Treasury |
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Pour ses virginites
presentes
et futures
Elle mord aux fraicheurs de ta Remission;
Mais plus que les lys d'eau, plus que les confitures
Tes pardons sont glaces, o Reine de Sion.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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" He hung down his head
And spake not, then
answering
blushed scarlet-red,--
"At the tryst with her lover.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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His
eulogy of the " Defence " is as
emphatic
as that
of the Paradise Lost, in the well-known recom-
mendatory lines prefixed to most editions of that
poem.
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Marvell - Poems |
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MARMADUKE Now for the corner-stone of my philosophy:
I would not give a denier for the man
Who, on such
provocation
as this earth
Yields, could not chuck his babe beneath the chin,
And send it with a fillip to its grave.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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We have respect for man's
immortal
soul,
We seldom take man's life, except in war;
It frights the traitor more to maim and blind.
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Tennyson |
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[Footnote 1: Bacon was the name of a presumably
intrusive
host.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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In his counsels and
deliberations
he foresees the future times:
in the equity of his judgment he hath remembrance of the past, and
knowledge of what is to be done or avoided for the present.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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They hang us now in
Shrewsbury
jail:
The whistles blow forlorn,
And trains all night groan on the rail
To men that die at morn.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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All are at peace, who once so
fiercely
warred:
Brother and brother, now, we chant a common chord.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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loudly and
musically
call me by my nighest
name!
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Whitman |
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e in forte take; 219
with muchel honour
schaltou
haue
alle ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Paint me a
cavernous
waste shore
Cast in the unstilted Cyclades,
Paint me the bold anfractuous rocks
Faced by the snarled and yelping seas.
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T.S. Eliot |
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(C)
Copyright
2000-2016 A.
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Appoloinaire |
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As Far As My Eye Can See In My Body's Senses
All the trees all their branches all of their leaves
The grass at the foot of the rocks and the houses en masse
Far off the sea that your eye bathes
These images of day after day
The vices the virtues so imperfect
The transparency of men passing among them by chance
And passing women breathed by your elegant obstinacies
Your obsessions in a heart of lead on virgin lips
The vices the virtues so imperfect
The likeness of looks of
permission
with eyes you conquer
The confusion of bodies wearinesses ardours
The imitation of words attitudes ideas
The vices the virtues so imperfect
Love is man incomplete
Barely Disfigured
Adieu Tristesse
Bonjour Tristesse
Farewell Sadness
Hello Sadness
You are inscribed in the lines on the ceiling
You are inscribed in the eyes that I love
You are not poverty absolutely
Since the poorest of lips denounce you
Ah with a smile
Bonjour Tristesse
Love of kind bodies
Power of love
From which kindness rises
Like a bodiless monster
Unattached head
Sadness beautiful face.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Those within, in hurry and
confusion, desire retreat from their distress; in vain; while they
cluster
together
and fall back to the side free from the destroyer, the
tower sinks prone under the sudden weight with a crash that thunders
through all the sky.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Even Redi, though he chaunted
Bacchus in the Tuscan valleys,
Never drank the wine he vaunted
In his
dithyrambic
sallies.
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Longfellow |
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_Emmonsail's Heath in Winter_
I love to see the old heath's withered brake
Mingle its
crimpled
leaves with furze and ling,
While the old heron from the lonely lake
Starts slow and flaps his melancholy wing,
And oddling crow in idle motions swing
On the half rotten ashtree's topmost twig,
Beside whose trunk the gipsy makes his bed.
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John Clare |
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And the warbler's voice
resounds
clear :?
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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[Illustration]
There was a Young Lady of Tyre,
Who swept the loud chords of a lyre;
At the sound of each sweep she
enraptured
the deep,
And enchanted the city of Tyre.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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"
Then
answered
Guene: "So be it, as you say.
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Chanson de Roland |
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They, in old time, in
Hypereia
dwelt
The spacious, neighbours of a giant race
The haughty Cyclops, who, endued with pow'r
Superior, troubled them with frequent wrongs.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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124
_scuscitata
cano uoltarium_ (_uolunt.
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Latin - Catullus |
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How he arrived at the land of the
Cimmerians, and what ceremonies he
performed
to invoke the dead.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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The death of the Countess had
surprised
no one, as it had long been
expected.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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To town he comes,
completes
the nation's hope,
And heads the bold train-bands, and burns a Pope.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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_Hell_, the "middle den," the
occupants
of which had to catch the other
players.
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Robert Herrick |
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So, if my hap it be to see once more
Those scenes my footsteps tottered in before,
An infant follower in Napoleon's train:
Rodrigo's holds,
Valencia
and Leon,
And both Castiles, and mated Aragon;
Ne'er be it mine, O Spain!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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'
Tho
Pandarus
a litel gan to smyle, 505
And seyde, `By my trouthe, I shal yow telle.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Page 54
324
Atte
seuentene
?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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And I was
astonished
and said to myself,
"Shall they of this so holy city have but one eye and one hand?
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Then the harmony
Of morning spheres
resounded
round the poles.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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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.
| Guess: |
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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[42]
As lambs or fawns in April
clustering
lie [43]
Under a hoary oak's thin canopy, 150
Stretched at his feet, with stedfast upward eye,
His children's children listened to the sound; [44]
--A Hermit with his family around!
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Molti
sarebber
lieti, che son tristi,
se Dio t'avesse conceduto ad Ema
la prima volta ch'a citta venisti.
| Guess: |
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Of roots what a creaking and
groaning!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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A man
of his
learning
to be going in rags the way he is, there must be some
good cause for that.
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Yeats |
|
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Doth it bear hidden in its heart
Water-line
patterns
of all art?
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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2600
It is but foly, and wrong wening,
To aske so
outrageous
a thing.
| Guess: |
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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O the
trembling
fear!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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"
His spear in hand he
brandishes
and wields,
Towards Carlun has turned the point of steel.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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And then Apollo with the plectrum strook _670
The chords, and from beneath his hands a crash
Of mighty sounds rushed up, whose music shook
The soul with sweetness, and like an adept
His sweeter voice a just
accordance
kept.
| Guess: |
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Shelley |
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driht-scype
drēogan
(_do a heroic deed_), 1471; pret.
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
|
And staggering up to the brink of the gulf man will look down
And
painfully
strive with weak sight to explore
The silent gulfs below which the long shadows drown;
Through every one of these he passed before.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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In the empty mountains he lived for thirty years
Daily
watching
for the Heavenly Coach to come.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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What despair would follow my
answered
prayer!
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Racine - Phaedra |
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You are welcome,
When once our
enterprise
is o'er, which must not
Be interrupted by a private brawl.
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Byron |
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At once the Four spred out thir Starrie wings
With dreadful shade contiguous, and the Orbes
Of his fierce Chariot rowld, as with the sound
Of torrent Floods, or of a
numerous
Host.
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Milton |
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The wife of the postmaster came at once to gossip with her, and
announced to her
pompously
that she was the niece of a stove-warmer
attached to the Palace, and, in a word, put her up to all the mysteries
of the Palace.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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The melody upon clear strings inflected
Were dull when o'er taut sense thy
presence
floweth, With quivering notes' accord that never palleth.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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1175)
Known only as the Comtessa de Dia, the Countess of Dia, in contemporary documents, she was almost certainly named Beatriz, and
probably
the daughter of Count Isoard II of Dia north-east of Montelimar.
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Troubador Verse |
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Must I
perchance
a thousand books turn over,
To find that men are everywhere distrest,
And here and there one happy one discover?
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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As Far As My Eye Can See In My Body's Senses
All the trees all their branches all of their leaves
The grass at the foot of the rocks and the houses en masse
Far off the sea that your eye bathes
These images of day after day
The vices the virtues so imperfect
The transparency of men passing among them by chance
And passing women breathed by your elegant obstinacies
Your obsessions in a heart of lead on virgin lips
The vices the virtues so imperfect
The likeness of looks of permission with eyes you conquer
The
confusion
of bodies wearinesses ardours
The imitation of words attitudes ideas
The vices the virtues so imperfect
Love is man incomplete
Barely Disfigured
Adieu Tristesse
Bonjour Tristesse
Farewell Sadness
Hello Sadness
You are inscribed in the lines on the ceiling
You are inscribed in the eyes that I love
You are not poverty absolutely
Since the poorest of lips denounce you
Ah with a smile
Bonjour Tristesse
Love of kind bodies
Power of love
From which kindness rises
Like a bodiless monster
Unattached head
Sadness beautiful face.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Poets and
musicians
fight their battles best in the region of the
ideal.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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The shadows, maimed and antic,
Gesture and shape distort,
Like mockery of a demon dumb
Out of the hell-din whence they come
That dogs them for his sport:
But as if dead men were risen
And stood before me there
With a terrible fame about them blown
In beams of spectral air,
I see them, men transfigured
As in a dream, dilate
Fabulous with the Titan-throb
Of
battling
Europe's fate;
For history's hushed before them,
And legend flames afresh,--
Verdun, the name of thunder,
Is written on their flesh.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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"
They
stretched
their limbs and argued it out where they sat.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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