God save the Marquis,
His lovely sister, save,
Her loyal love and brave,
It
conquers
me anew,
Better still holds me too.
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And
suddenly
I turned and saw again
The gleaming curve of tracks, the bridge above--
They were burned deep into my heart before,
The night I watched them to avoid your eyes,
When you were saying, "Oh, look up at me!
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How few of the others,
Are men
equipped
with common sense.
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Thou canst not ask me with thee here to roam
Over these hills and vales, where no joy is,--
Empty of
immortality
and bliss!
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"
As for those I speak of, I pluck them as a wild fruit, native to this
quarter of the earth,--fruit of old trees that have been dying ever
since I was a boy and are not yet dead,
frequented
only by the
woodpecker and the squirrel, deserted now by the owner, who has not
faith enough to look under their boughs.
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authors come;
Thou
printest
all--and sellest some--
My Murray.
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Byron |
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The well-beloved are
wretched
then.
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Appoloinaire |
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When the dyre
clatterynge
of the shielde and launce
Made them to be by Hugh Fitzhugh espyd.
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"
Pitying, I dropped a tear:
But I saw a glow-worm near,
Who replied, "What wailing wight
Calls the
watchman
of the night?
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blake-poems |
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And thus, I cannot speak
Of love even, as a good thing of my own:
Thy soul hath
snatched
up mine all faint and weak,
And placed it by thee on a golden throne,--
And that I love (O soul, we must be meek!
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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"Gentle breeze, that wanderest unseen,
And bendest the thistles round Loira of storms,
Traveler
of the windy glens,
Why hast thou left my ear so soon?
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'Twas
midnight
now, the eve of that great day
Whereon the many nations at whose call _2045
The chains of earth like mist melted away,
Decreed to hold a sacred Festival,
A rite to attest the equality of all
Who live.
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Shelley |
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Slow-melting strains their Queen's
approach
declare:
Where'er she turns the Graces homage pay:
With arms sublime that float upon the air
In gliding state she wins her easy way:
O'er her warm cheek and rising bosom move
The bloom of young Desire and purple light of Love.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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From the beach the child holding the hand of her father,
Those burial-clouds that lower victorious soon to devour all,
Watching,
silently
weeps.
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Sweet dreams of
pleasant
streams
By happy, silent, moony beams!
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blake-poems |
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"And if Bones plagues him anyhow--
Squeaking
and all the rest of it,
As he was doing here just now--
_I_ prophesy there'll be a row,
And Tibbs will have the best of it!
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Lewis Carroll |
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Quod Pandarus, `Ma dame, god yow see, 85
With al your book and al the
companye!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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"
Then I thought "'Tis for me
That she whines and she
whimpers!
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Lewis Carroll |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Hippolyte
Phaedra accuse Hippolytus of a guilty
passion!
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Racine - Phaedra |
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All was ended now, the hope, and the fear, and the sorrow,
All the aching of heart, the restless, unsatisfied longing,
All the dull, deep pain, and constant anguish of
patience!
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Longfellow |
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It contains
also a masterly compliment to the
expedition
of GAMA, which is all along
represented as the harbinger and diffuser of the blessings of
civilization.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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The
_Araucana_
is versified history, not
epic.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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it back returns upon a nether course
Till fired with ardour fresh
recruited
in its humble spring season
It rises up on high all summer till its wearied course
Turns into autumn.
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Blake - Zoas |
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"
Then the gauzes removes he which shade her,
At her beauty all wonder intensely;
One moment the Pasha survey'd her,
And,
dropping
his tchebouk, without sense lay.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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at in godenesse
schulden
be; li?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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) Indeed I hardly knew poor Omar was so
far gone till his
Apologist
informed me.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Climb up, and seize him by the toes,--all
studious
as he sits,--
And pull him down, and chop him into endless little bits!
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Thus, fairly, all things perish, when with ebbing
They're made less dense and when from blows without
They are laid low; since food at last will fail
Extremest eld, and bodies from outside
Cease not with thumping to undo a thing
And overmaster by
infesting
blows.
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Lucretius |
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Their manner
of
drinking
is setting a very bad example.
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I saw thee sit there in
disconsolate
sighs,
Where the hall of thy fathers a ruined heap lies.
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John Clare |
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It fell, as he ordered,
in rapid
achievement
that ready it stood there,
of halls the noblest: Heorot {1a} he named it
whose message had might in many a land.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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VII
Rome
Oh for the rising moon
Over the roofs of Rome,
And swallows in the dusk
Circling
a darkened dome!
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Sara Teasdale |
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Keats - Lamia |
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If plagues or earthquakes break not Heaven's design,
Why then a Borgia, or a
Catiline?
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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But you shall see some so abound
with words, without any seasoning or taste of matter, in so
profound
a
security, as while they are speaking, for the most part they confess to
speak they know not what.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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It
conveys a proof of the greatness of the Portuguese sovereign, and
affords a
compliment
to loyalty, which could not fail to be acceptable
to a monarch.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Vida's
description
of the game of chess in his 'Scacchia
Ludus' certainly gave him the model for the game of ombre in the third
canto of 'The Rape of the Lock'; Boileau's 'Lutrin' probably suggested
to him the idea of using the mock-heroic for the purposes of satire.
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Alexander Pope |
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Fond impious man, think'st thou yon
sanguine
cloud
Raised by thy breath, has quench'd the orb of day?
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Golden Treasury |
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Ah, men do not know how much
strength
is in poise,
That he goes the farthest who goes far enough,
And that all beyond that is just bother and stuff.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Meanwhile in the heavenly dwellings Latona's
daughter
addressed fleet
Opis, one of her maiden fellowship and sacred band, and sadly uttered
these accents: 'Camilla moves to fierce war, O maiden, and vainly girds
on our arms, dear as she is beyond others to me.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Then the friar,
With voice as low as if a maiden hummed
Love-songs of
Provence
in a mild day-dream:
"And when he broke the second seal, I heard
The second beast say, Come and see.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Have the past struggles
succeeded?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Come set me round with many
faithful
spears
Of confident remembrance -- how I crushed
Cat-lived rebellions, pitfalled treasons, hushed
Scared husbands' heart-break cries on distant wives,
Made cowards blush at whining for their lives,
Watered my parching souls, and dried their tears.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Keep nature's great
original
in view,
And thence the living images pursue.
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XIV
Thus speaking, the trooped apparitions
Began to disband
And resolve them in two:
Those whose record was lovely and true
Bore to
northward
for home: those of bitter traditions
Again left the land,
XV
And, towering to seaward in legions,
They paused at a spot
Overbending the Race--
That engulphing, ghast, sinister place--
Whither headlong they plunged, to the fathomless regions
Of myriads forgot.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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[Sidenote C: The Green Knight
enquires
the name of his opponent.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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His consort
knew,
rejoiced
in her wiles, and felt her beauty.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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For ere his wickedness
pretended
love,
Jane, I'll be bound, was spotless as the dove,
And's good a servant, still old folks allow,
As ever scoured a pail or milked a cow;
And ere he led her into ruin's way,
As gay and buxom as a summer's day:
The birds that ranted in the hedge-row boughs,
As night and morning we have sought our cows,
With yokes and buckets as she bounced along,
Were often deafed to silence with her song.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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shivering
fisherwife
in your shawl,
Perhaps they have found a prey
Who leap and shout in the bay,
And you will weep for the grief of it all
For many and many a day.
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Tennyson |
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Executive
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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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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could renew againe,
Of endlesse life he might him not deprive, 355
But unto hell did thrust him downe alive,
With flashing thunderbolt ywounded sore:
Where long remaining, he did alwaies strive
Himselfe with salves to health for to restore,
And slake the
heavenly
fire, that raged evermore.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Neither love me for
Thine own dear pity's wiping my cheeks dry,--
A
creature
might forget to weep, who bore
Thy comfort long, and lose thy love thereby!
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Her small brow is the habitation of a
tenacious
will and the love of
prey.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Comes that river
From forth the sultry places down the south,
Rising far up in midmost realm of day,
Among black
generations
of strong men
With sun-baked skins.
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Lucretius |
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I hastened to take leave of
the
Commandant
and his family.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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It was in your cup I drank intoxication,
When they saw me praying at Iacchus' feet,
And from your
laughing
eyes' secret lightening,
For the Muses made me one of the sons of Greece.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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For not as water at times
Gives off the alien heat, nor is thereby
Itself destroyed, but
unimpaired
remains--
Not thus, I say, can the deserted frame
Bear the dissevering of its joined soul,
But, rent and ruined, moulders all away.
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Lucretius |
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And he who takes what love brings too,
Though little it grant of hope's fine brew,
Cannot fail to find
pleasures
new
And in fresh joy rich recompense:
So that I praise the honours sent,
The gifts, neck, hands that make me kiss,
My remedy for all amiss.
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Troubador Verse |
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1137-1152)
Born
apparently
in Gascony, his real name unknown, he probably spent most of his career in the courts of William X of Aquitaine and Eble III of Ventadorn.
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Troubador Verse |
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This
second element is that which the French sculptor in a
different
medium
has carried to perfection.
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Rilke - Poems |
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The orchard sparkled like a Jew, --
How mighty 't was, to stay
A guest in this
stupendous
place,
The parlor of the day!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Thou scene of all my
happiness
and pleasure!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Fair Bradamant pursued her
faithless
guide,
Suspended there, and pondering on her doom:
And came upon the felon where he stood,
Fearing lest she might lose him in the wood.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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*
Eternity groand & was troubled at the Image of Eternal Death
The
Wandering
Man bow'd his faint head and Urizen descended
And the one must have murderd the other if he had not descended *
Indignant muttering low thunders; Urizen descended
Gloomy sounding, Now I am God from Eternity to Eternity
Sullen sat Los plotting Revenge.
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Blake - Zoas |
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The well-beloved are
wretched
then.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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Above, sharp rocks forbid access; around
Roar the wild waves; beneath, is sea
profound!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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And preyede hir, she wolde hir sorwe apese,
And seyde, `Y-wis, we Grekes con have Ioye
To
honouren
yow, as wel as folk of Troye.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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' A few nights after this I awoke to see the
loveliest
people
I have ever seen.
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Yeats |
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Sherman, French & Company:--"The
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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30
VII
The Cyprian came to thy cradle,
When thou wast little and small,
And said to the nurse who rocked thee
"Fear not thou for the child:
"She shall be kindly favoured, 5
And fair and
fashioned
well,
As befits the Lesbian maidens
And those who are fated to love.
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Sappho |
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Lear, and of which the best
specimen
occurs
in his last book, "He tinkledy-binkledy-winkled the bell.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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I have tiding,
Glad tiding, behold how in duty
From far
Lehistan
the wind, gliding.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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though I love what others do abhor,
With others thou shouldst not abhor my state:
If thy
unworthiness
rais'd love in me,
More worthy I to be belov'd of thee.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Thus, we usually do not
keep eBooks in
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with any particular paper edition.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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(reads) 'This policy and
reverence
of age makes the world
bitter to the best of our times; keeps our fortunes from us
till our oldness cannot relish them.
| Guess: |
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Shakespeare |
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But if still it stand
Unmoved, or if some other, sev'ring sheer
The olive from its bottom, have
displaced
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My bed--that matter is best known to thee.
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III
She dwelt forever in a region bright,
Peopled with living fancies of her own,
Where naught could come but visions of delight,
Far, far aloof from earth's eternal moan: 20
A summer cloud thrilled through with rosy light,
Floating beneath the blue sky all alone,
Her spirit
wandered
by itself, and won
A golden edge from some unsetting sun.
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James Russell Lowell |
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It has been
difficult to compare these renderings with the original, for proper
names are throughout
distorted
or interchanged.
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He said; their cheeks all faded at the sound,
And each with sharpen'd eyes search'd ev'ry nook
For an escape from his
impending
doom,
Till thus, alone, Eurymachus replied.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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That were a pretty pastime now
I'd build about a
thousand
bridges quicker.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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It takes its name from the Spanish
phrase
originally
used by the player who declared trumps: "Yo soy
l'hombre," 'i.
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Alexander Pope |
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The
Cardinal
and several
eminent persons who attended him had frequent conversations with our
poet, in which they described to him the state of Germany and the
situation of the Emperor.
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Petrarch |
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It is no
pleasure
to be alive.
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Once in thy heart my sovran
influence
spread
A public precedent to lovers told;
Though other duties drew thee from my fold,
I soon reclaim'd thee as thy footsteps fled.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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OLD MAN TRAVELLING; ANIMAL
TRANQUILLITY
AND DECAY, A SKETCH.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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'707-708'
Cremona was the
birthplace
of Vida; Mantua, of Virgil.
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And that there is no God any more divine than
Yourself?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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You'd only hear my voice and see my eyes And the
remembrance
of old ecstasies Awakening within you solemn-grand
Would flood my words; you would forget my hand Lay tremulous on yours, you would arise
And go from me as night when silence dies
And dawn and shouting harrow all the land.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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