XXII
And my Tattiana now began
To
understand
by slow degrees
More clearly, God be praised, the man,
Whom autocratic fate's decrees
Had bid her sigh for without hope--
A dangerous, gloomy misanthrope,
Being from hell or heaven sent,
Angel or fiend malevolent.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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[Note 37: It is thus that I am
compelled
to render a female
garment not known, so far as I am aware, to Western Europe.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Cortez set out to take gold by force, and not
by establishing any system of commerce with the natives, the only just
reason for effecting a
settlement
in a foreign country.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Filled with secret fire, there's
heaviness
in your eyes.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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She's torn from her bed by
sorrowful
unquiet.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Then, in rising day,
On the grass they play;
Parents were afar,
Strangers
came not near,
And the maiden soon forgot her fear.
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blake-poems |
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- To the Azure that October stirred, pale, pure,
That in the vast pools mirrors
infinite
languor,
And over dead water, where the leaves wander
The wind, in russet throes, dig their cold furrow,
Allows a long ray of yellow light to flow.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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A demon wishing to interrupt her prayers
extinguished
the light she carried, but divine power rekindled it.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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) LFS}
They said The Spectre is in every man insane & most
Deformd Thro the three heavens descending in fury & fire
We meet it with our Songs & loving blandishments & give
To it a form of
vegetation
But this Spectre of Tharmas
Is Eternal Death What shall we do O God help pity & help
So spoke they & closd the Gate of Auricular power nerves the Tongue in trembling fear*
{Passage written down the right margin LFS}
What have I done!
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Blake - Zoas |
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for in good health are ye all, grandly ye digest,
naught fear ye, nor arson nor house-fall, thefts impious nor poison's
furtive cunning, nor aught of
perilous
happenings whatsoe'er.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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595
Phaedra
If you hated me, I would not
complain
of it,
My Lord.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Ah,
hapless brother, heavily
snatched
from me.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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The
preparations
have every one been justified,
The orchestra have sufficiently tuned their instruments--the baton has
given the signal.
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Whitman |
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I was struck most by her
voice, wherein I found the remembrance of the most delicious contralti,
as well as a little of the hoarseness of a throat
continually
laved with
brandy.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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385
And over al this, yet muchel more he thoughte
What for to speke, and what to holden inne,
And what to arten hir to love he soughte,
And on a song anoon-right to biginne,
And gan loude on his sorwe for to winne; 390
For with good hope he gan fully assente
Criseyde
for to love, and nought repente.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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What sacred Trophy marks the hallowed ground,
Recording
Freedom's smile and Asia's tear?
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Byron |
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Lear were written for a young lady of his
acquaintance, who had quoted to him the words of a young lady not of his
acquaintance,
"How
pleasant
to know Mr.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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"Does spring hide its joy,
When buds and
blossoms
grow?
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blake-poems |
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I doubt not
officers
are, whilst we speak, _35
Sent to arrest us.
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Shelley |
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Where's my smooth brow gone:
My arching lashes, yellow hair,
Wide-eyed glances, pretty ones,
That took in the cleverest there:
Nose not too big or small: a pair
Of
delicate
little ears, the chin
Dimpled: a face oval and fair,
Lovely lips with crimson skin?
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Villon |
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It was made from the shell of a tortoise, stuck round with leather, with two horns and a
sounding
board and strings made from sheep's gut.
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Appoloinaire |
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-----------------------------------------
Printed, and Publish'd
according
to
ORDER.
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Milton |
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Was he afraid, or
tranquil?
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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"
X
THEN Hrothgar went with his hero-train,
defence-of-Scyldings, forth from hall;
fain would the war-lord
Wealhtheow
seek,
couch of his queen.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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You will not be
offended
when I say
That never was your beauty more divine.
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Longfellow |
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He was ever art-for-art,
yet, having breadth of
comprehension
and a Heine-like capacity for
seeing both sides of his own nature with its idiosyncrasies, he could
write: "The puerile utopia of the school of art-for-art, in excluding
morality, and often even passion, was necessarily sterile.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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and an
inarticulate
cry rises from there that seems the voice of light.
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Appoloinaire |
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And yet they seem alive and quivering
Against my
tremulous
hands which loose the string
And let them drop down on my knee to-night.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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And gently,
Unbroken when the sky fills with storm,
Jealous to add who knows what spaces
To simple day the day so true in feeling,
Does it not seem, Mery, that each year,
Where spontaneous grace relights your brow,
Suffices, given so much wonder and for me,
Like a lone fan with which a room's surprised,
To refresh with as little pain as is needed here
All our inborn and
unvarying
friendship.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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20 and the
remaining
spawn still rage at will.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Poulet-Malassis, que le genie original de Baudelaire
enthousiasmait, s'offrit de les publier sous le titre de _Fleurs du
Mal,_ titre neuf, audacieux,
longtemps
cherche et trouve enfin non
point par Baudelaire ni par l'editeur, mais par Hippolyte Babou.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Thou neither dost
perswade
me to seek wealth
For Empires sake, nor Empire to affect
For glories sake by all thy argument.
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Milton |
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But if the rust was not on the tinned roofs and spires, it was
on the
inhabitants
and their institutions.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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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 Sassycus (rather than
Alcibiades) find a parallel in Beauregard, so Weakwash, as he is called
by the brave
Lieutenant
Lion Gardiner, need not seek far among our own
Sachems for his anti-type.
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James Russell Lowell |
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This, this is he, who, with a stretched out hand,
And
matchless
might, shall free my groaning
land.
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Marvell - Poems |
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ELECTRA
Where, where are ye, avenging powers,
Puissant
Furies of the slain?
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Aeschylus |
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The birds sit
chittering
in the thorn,
A' day they fare but sparely;
And lang's the night frae e'en to morn--
I'm sure it's winter fairly.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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We never know we go, -- when we are going
We jest and shut the door;
Fate
following
behind us bolts it,
And we accost no more.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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If they'd take
elsewhere
the honours they send me!
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Racine - Phaedra |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Gather the north flowers to
complete
the south,
And catch the early love up in the late.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Why, what angel uplifts
Such a music, so clear,
It may seem in God's ear
Worth more than a woman's hoarse
weeping?
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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"'_I know_--is all the mourner saith,
Knowledge by suffering entereth,
And Life is
perfected
by Death.
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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--I was half glad,
But my poor mistress went
distract
and mad,
When the boar tusk'd him: so away she flew
To Jove's high throne, and by her plainings drew
Immortal tear-drops down the thunderer's beard;
Whereon, it was decreed he should be rear'd
Each summer time to life.
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Keats |
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"
"This," he cried aloud, "this, too, is holy— O dear beauty in what beggar's guise
You may hide your splendor, yet I know you; Though the ears be deaf, the eyes be blind,
"Glorious are all things, and forever
Beautiful
and holy is the real!
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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While he is still
refusing to admit the facts and beseeching her not to "desert" him, she in
a gentle but
businesslike
way makes him promise to take care of the
children and, above all things, not to marry again.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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He, when the wheel of empire whirleth back,
And though the world's
disjointed
axle crack,
Sings still of ancient rights and better times.
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Marvell - Poems |
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{95} The art plastic was
moulding
in clay, or potter's
earth anciently.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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No; 'tis that of Time:
Triumph, arch, pillar, all he doth displace,
Scoffing; and apostolic statues climb
To crush the
imperial
urn, whose ashes slept sublime,
CXI.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Wilde - Poems |
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Courageous
men
carried the head from the cliff by the sea,
an arduous task for all the band,
the firm in fight, since four were needed
on the shaft-of-slaughter {23d} strenuously
to bear to the gold-hall Grendel's head.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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To him, his love for his wife and children is a
beautiful
thing, a
subject to speak and sing about as well as an emotion to feel.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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terms imposed by the
copyright
holder.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Nor shall
we miss the way we go; up the dim valleys we have seen the skirts of the
town, and learned all the river in
continual
hunting.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Soon after this he descried eight Moorish vessels bearing
down upon him; his artillery, however, soon made them use their oars in
flight, nor could Gama
overtake
any of them for want of wind.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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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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T.S. Eliot |
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in thy
sweetest
wave
Of the most living crystal that was e'er
The haunt of river nymph, to gaze and lave
Her limbs where nothing hid them, thou dost rear
Thy grassy banks whereon the milk-white steer
Grazes; the purest god of gentle waters!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Knopf 1917
The
Solitary
B.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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So many have fallen in
the woods that a
squirrel
cannot run after a falling nut without being
heard.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Then, thus to my
assembling
friends I spake.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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'Ay, heave the ballast overboard,
And stow the
eatables
in the aft locker.
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| Source: |
Shelley |
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[Sidenote: Your wife Rusticiana is also alive, and bewails her
separation
from you.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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How tall among her sisters, and how fair, --
How grave beyond her youth, yet debonair
As dawn, 'mid
wrinkled
Matres of old lands
Our youngest Alma Mater modest stands!
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Sidney Lanier |
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For thirty years, he
produced
and distributed Project
Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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)
Are all these
drawings
yours?
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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And in the fire throws the sheath;
When Ruin, with his sweeping besom,
Just frets till Heav'n
commission
gies him;
While o'er the harp pale Misery moans,
And strikes the ever-deep'ning tones,
Still louder shrieks, and heavier groans!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Thus gentle Lamia judg'd, and judg'd aright,
That Lycius could not love in half a fright,
So threw the goddess off, and won his heart
More
pleasantly
by playing woman's part,
With no more awe than what her beauty gave,
That, while it smote, still guaranteed to save.
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Keats - Lamia |
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]
[Sidenote:
Reflection
on the efficacy of the one and the other
will soon cause us to see their differences.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Thy words are music, and thy strain of love
Is
borrowed
from the choir of heaven above.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Attonitusque
legis terrai, frugiferai.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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THE
PROGRESS
OF POESY.
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Golden Treasury |
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"
THYRSIS
"A bowl of milk, Priapus, and these cakes,
Yearly, it is enough for thee to claim;
Thou art the
guardian
of a poor man's plot.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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What then at last avail to me those sighs,
Which from my sorrows flow,
And in my
semblance
show
The life of anguish and despair I lead?
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Petrarch - Poems |
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]
[Footnote X: See Smollett's 'Ode to Leven Water' in 'Humphry Clinker',
and compare 'The Italian
Itinerant
and the Swiss Goatherd', in
"Memorials of a Tour on the Continent" in 1820, part ii.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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"There while the wild winds whistled o'er the main,
Thus careful I address'd the
listening
train:
"'O friends, be wise!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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The sailors, hearing the female Halycon sing,
prepared
to die, safe however around mid-December, when these birds make their nests, and one knows that then the sea will be calm.
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Appoloinaire |
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For we invade them
impiously
for gain;
We devastate them unreligiously,
And coldly ask their pottage, not their love.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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"Ah, but beautiful within him
Was the spirit of Osseo,
From the Evening Star descended,
Star of Evening, Star of Woman,
Star of
tenderness
and passion!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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GREECE
THE sea was
sapphire
coloured, and the sky
Burned like a heated opal through the air;
We hoisted sail; the wind was blowing fair
For the blue lands that to the eastward lie.
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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Facts,
centuries
before,
He traverses familiar,
As one should come to town
And tell you all your dreams were true;
He lived where dreams were sown.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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On one page of his
letters he writes
earnestly
to the atheist Thelwall in defence of
Christianity; on another page we find him saying, "My Spinosism (if
Spinosism it be, and i' faith 'tis very like it)"; and then comes the
solemn assurance: "I am a Berkleyan.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
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Thou hast no end to gain--no heart to break--
Castiglione
lied who said he loved--
Thou true--he false!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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The injured
elements
say, 'Not in us;'
And night and day, ocean and continent,
Fire, plant and mineral say, 'Not in us;'
And haughtily return us stare for stare.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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'The joy of woman in the death of her most beloved,
Who dies for love of her,
In torments of fierce
jealousy
and pangs of adoration.
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They came o'er wild Parthenius
Tossing in waves of pine,
O'er Cirrha's dome, o'er Adria's foam,
O'er purple Apennine,
From where with flutes and dances
Their ancient mansion rings,
In lordly Lacedaemon,
The City of two kings,
To where, by Lake Regillus,
Under the Porcian height,
All in the lands of Tusculum,
Was fought the
glorious
fight.
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Li Po |
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"This music crept by me upon the waters"
And along the Strand, up Queen
Victoria
Street.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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But thou
forgotten
and far off shalt dwell,
By great Alpheus' waters, in a dell
Of Arcady, where that gray Wolf-God's wall
Stands holy.
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Euripides - Electra |
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With oar-strokes timing to their song,
They weave in simple lays
The pathos of remembered wrong,
The hope of better days,--
The triumph-note that Miriam sung,
The joy of uncaged birds:
Softening
with Afric's mellow tongue
Their broken Saxon words.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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They rested on their paddles, and uprose
Neuha, and
pointing
to the approaching foes,
Cried, "Torquil, follow me, and fearless follow!
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Byron |
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Shal I
compleyne
unto my lady free?
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Although his father's temple be fallen, and though of its pillars
Scarcely
a pair yet records ancient glory adored,
Nevertheless the son's place of worship still stands, and forever
Will there the ardent requests alternate with the thanks.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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_Can_ the Egyptians seek
Help from the garlick, onion and the leek,
And pay no vows to thee, who _art the_ best
God, and far more
_transcending_
than the rest?
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Robert Herrick |
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But go, Achilles, as affairs require,
Before the Grecian peers renounce thine ire:
Then uncontroll'd in
boundless
war engage,
And heaven with strength supply the mighty rage!
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Iliad - Pope |
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'T was
universe
that did applaud
While, chiefest of the crowd,
Enabled by his royal dress,
Myself distinguished God.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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So, in his purple wrapp'd receive mee Lord,
By these his thornes give me his other Crowne;
And as to others soules I preach'd thy word,
Be this my Text, my Sermon to mine owne,
Therfore
that he may raise the Lord throws down.
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John Donne |
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