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There are also
ministers
of ugliness and all evil, like those that came
to Prometheus--
'As from the rose which the pale priestess kneels
To gather for her festal crown of flowers,
The aerial crimson falls, flushing her cheek,
So from our victim's destined agony
The shade which is our form invests us round;
Else we are shapeless as our mother Night.
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Then this insult touches me, the honour
Of one whom I have made my son's tutor;
To contest my choice, is to
challenge
me,
Make an assault upon the power supreme.
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We have
lingered
in the chambers of the sea
By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown
Till human voices wake us, and we drown.
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Still ever that slip and slide
Of the feet that shuffle or glide,
And linger or haste through the
populous
waste
Of the shadowy, dim-lit square!
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Þā ymbe hlǣw riodan hilde-dēore,
æðelinga bearn ealra twelfa,
woldon ceare cwīðan, kyning mǣnan,
word-gyd wrecan and ymb wer sprecan,
3175 eahtodan eorl-scipe and his ellen-weorc
duguðum dēmdon, swā hit ge-dēfe bið,
þæt mon his wine-dryhten wordum herge,
ferhðum
frēoge, þonne hē forð scile
of līc-haman lǣne weorðan.
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Like
warbling
water clucks the talk.
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V
Our fathers found her in the woods
Where Nature meditates and broods,
The seeds of unexampled things
Which Time to
consummation
brings
Through life and death and man's unstable moods;
They met her here, not recognized, 80
A sylvan huntress clothed in furs,
To whose chaste wants her bow sufficed,
Nor dreamed what destinies were hers:
She taught them bee-like to create
Their simpler forms of Church and State;
She taught them to endue
The past with other functions than it knew,
And turn in channels strange the uncertain stream of Fate;
Better than all, she fenced them in their need
With iron-handed Duty's sternest creed, 90
'Gainst Self's lean wolf that ravens word and deed.
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Le
degagement
reve le brisement de la grace croisee de
violence nouvelle!
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He saide; the loieaul broders lefte the place,
Success and
cheerfulness
depicted on ech face.
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'the Muse's steed:'
Pegasus, the winged horse of Greek mythology, was supposed to be the
horse of the Muses and came to be
considered
a symbol of poetic genius.
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Alexander Pope |
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The Commandant's house
became
unbearable
to me; little by little I accustomed myself to stay
alone in my quarters.
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The
Riverside
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gateways
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At length we rose up from this ease
Of tranquil happy mind,
And
searched
the garden's little length
Some new pleasaunce to find;
And there some yellow daffodils, and jasmine hanging high,
Did rest the tired eye.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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von (Robert), p39 1887, Internet Book Archive Images
Medusas,
miserable
heads
With hairs of violet
You enjoy the hurricane
And I enjoy the very same.
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Appoloinaire |
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CHISWICK PRESS: CHARLES
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AND CO.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Know thou that whether for Aegyptus' race
Thou dost their wish fulfil,
Or for the gods and for each holy place--
Be thy choice good or ill,
Blow is with blow requited, grace with grace
Such is Zeus'
righteous
will.
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Aeschylus |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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L'Apres-midi d'un Faune
Eclogue
The Faun
These nymphs, I would
perpetuate
them.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Thou hast not learnt thy
quarters
here.
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Tennyson |
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|| _seni
recocto_
Calp.
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Latin - Catullus |
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Stronger
and sweeter
New gods shall seek it.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Keats - Lamia |
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They are used and
accustomed
to things and men.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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He
departed
for Paris at the end of August 1557.
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Lamia beheld him coming, near, more near--
Close to her passing, in
indifference
drear,
His silent sandals swept the mossy green;
So neighbour'd to him, and yet so unseen
She stood: he pass'd, shut up in mysteries,
His mind wrapp'd like his mantle, while her eyes
Follow'd his steps, and her neck regal white
Turn'd--syllabling thus, "Ah, Lycius bright,
And will you leave me on the hills alone?
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Chimene
Such men are
valorous
in their first outing.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Drapings
of satin are absent; the mattress is quite unembroidered.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Upon his hay the Tramp awoke,
The golden
fountain
never broke,
The lovely sobbing strain.
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Tennyson |
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I saw him, drunk with knowledge, take
From aching brows the aureole crown,--
His locks writhed like a cloven snake,--
He left his throne to grovel down
And lick the dust of Seraphs' feet:
For what is
knowledge
duly weighed?
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Christina Rossetti |
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[154] He had
succeeded
Bassus (iii.
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Tacitus |
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Flowed up the hill and down King William Street,
To where Saint Mary
Woolnoth
kept the hours
With a dead sound on the final stroke of nine.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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"
Fired by his words, the troops dismiss their fears,
They join, they thicken, they protend their spears;
Full on the Greeks they drive in firm array,
And each from Ajax hopes the
glorious
prey:
Vain hope!
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Iliad - Pope |
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Illustrious
Agamemnon, King of men!
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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giale_
daughter
of Adrastus.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Meantime let all in
Thessaly
who dread
My sceptre join in mourning for the dead
With temples sorrow-shorn and sable weed.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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SIEBEL:
Zur Tur hinaus, er sich
entzweit!
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Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth
in
paragraph
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Into the sky,
the red
earthenware
and the galvanised iron chimneys
thrust their cowls.
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It spouts
like yellow wheat from the gargoyles, coils round the head of Saint John,
and
aureoles
him in light.
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These are really the
thoughts
of all men in all ages and lands, they
are not original with me,
If they are not yours as much as mine they are nothing, or next to nothing,
If they are not the riddle and the untying of the riddle they are nothing,
If they are not just as close as they are distant they are nothing.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Condensed
mythological references abound.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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VAGRANCY
When the slow year creeps hay-ward, and the skies
Are warming in the summer's mild surprise,
And the still breeze disturbs each leafy frond
Like hungry fishes dimpling in a pond,
It is a
pleasant
thing to dream at ease
On sun-warmed thyme, not far from beechen trees.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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SEA VIOLET
The white violet
is scented on its stalk,
the sea-violet
fragile as agate,
lies
fronting
all the wind
among the torn shells
on the sand-bank.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Eliot's comparison of the sky to a
"patient
etherized
on a table.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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'709'
The
allusion
is to the sack of Rome by the Constable Bourbon's army in
1527.
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Alexander Pope |
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+ Keep it legal Whatever your use, remember that you are responsible for
ensuring
that what you are doing is legal.
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My song take flight,
present
yourself
to her sweetly,
but for her might
Arnaut might strive more lightly.
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Troubador Verse |
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I will
discharge
it in either your straw-colour beard, your
orange-tawny beard, your purple-in-grain beard, or your
French-crown-colour beard, your perfect yellow.
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Shakespeare |
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O
laughter
if only to royally invest
My absent tomb purple, down there, is spread.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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'
So while I lay
entranced
a curtain seemed
To shrivel with crackling from before my face;
Across mine eyes a waxing radiance beamed
And showed a certain place.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Each Greecian gave,
And each a gift
dissimilar
from all.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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So when she was gone I said
In rather a dreary voice
To him of the opposite bed:
"Ah, friend, how you must
rejoice!
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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What shall we do
tomorrow?
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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whom three realms obey,
Dost
sometimes
counsel take--and sometimes tea.
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Alexander Pope |
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Yea, I shall haunt until the dusk of time
The heavy eyelids filled with
fleeting
dreams.
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Sara Teasdale |
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"
--"Thou
speakest
rightly," I broke in,
"Thou art not she I love.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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My wife and child
clutched
at my coat and wept:
"Some people want to be rich and grand:
I only want to share my porridge with you.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Sure I have heard those
vestments
sweeping o'er
The fallen leaves, when I have sat alone
In cool mid-forest.
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Keats |
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Lady of wrong and grief,
Blameless
!
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Such views the
youthful
bard allure,
But, heedless of the following gloom,
He deems their colours shall endure
'Till peace go with him to the tomb.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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No sleep that night the old man cheereth,
No prayer throughout next day he pray'd
Still, still, against his wish, appeareth
Before him that
mysterious
maid.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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XIV
He sinks, and would with him draw down his load;
But that himself the madman's arms upbear:
With sinewy arms and either palm he rowed,
And puffed and blew the brine before; the air
Breathed
softly, and the water gently flowed;
And well was needed weather more than fair:
For if the waters yet a little rise,
Whelmed by the waxing tide Orlando dies.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Their
ceaseless motion is illustrated by the turmoil of motes in a stream
of
sunlight
let into a dark room.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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BESIDE the dame in silence slid our spark;
In silence she
attended
in the dark,
Perfumed and nicely ev'ry way bedecked;
For what?
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La Fontaine |
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A LITTLE GIRL LOST
Children of the future age,
Reading this
indignant
page,
Know that in a former time
Love, sweet love, was thought a crime.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Count
Your sword is mine, and you no longer worthy
That my hand should bear this
shameful
trophy.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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There, I
maddened!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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This garment hath been an old tenant with me;
And a needle and thread with a little good skill
When I've leisure will make it stand more
weathers
still.
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John Clare |
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_1611_, _1612-25:_ man, _1633-39:_ man: _1650-69_]
[210
Firmament
_1611-12:_ firmament _1621-69_]
[212 Atomies.
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John Donne |
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Rejoice, and be
exceeding
glad, for great
Is your reward in heaven.
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Longfellow |
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They look upon his eyes,
Filled with deep surprise;
And
wondering
behold
A spirit armed in gold.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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When he was young he little knew
Of
husbandry
or tillage;
And now he's forced to work, though weak,
--The weakest in the village.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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_The
Dominant
City.
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Imagists |
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I love forsooth these reveries,
Though sandstorms make me pant,
Voluptuously
swaying
Upon an elephant.
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Hugo - Poems |
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And since it was thy care
To see the
younglings
wed,
'Tis fit that Night the pair
Should see safe brought to bed.
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Robert Herrick |
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]
[There was in Rome one antique usage as follows: On the eve of the
execution
day, the sufferers were given a public banquet--at the prison
gate--known as the "Free Festival.
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Hugo - Poems |
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LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right
of Replacement or Refund" described in
paragraph
1.
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Chanson de Roland |
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AT THE WAR OFFICE, LONDON
(_Affixing the Lists of Killed and Wounded_: _December_, 1899)
I
LAST year I called this world of gain-givings
The darkest thinkable, and questioned sadly
If my own land could heave its pulse less gladly,
So charged it seemed with
circumstance
whence springs
The tragedy of things.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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and, when my fears would rise,
With thy broad heart serenely interpose:
Brood down with thy divine sufficiencies
These
thoughts
which tremble when bereft of those,
Like callow birds left desert to the skies.
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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Most Critics, fond of some
subservient
art,
Still make the Whole depend upon a Part:
They talk of principles, but notions prize, 265
And all to one lov'd Folly sacrifice.
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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He is said to have
discovered
the elixir of
life, the philosopher's stone, and many other equally marvelous things.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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O thou whose breast all Helicon inflam'd,[386]
Whose birth seven vaunting cities proudly claim'd;
And thou whose mellow lute and rural song,[387]
In softest flow, led Mincio's waves along,
Whose warlike numbers, as a storm impell'd,
And Tiber's surges o'er his borders swell'd;
Let all Parnassus lend creative fire,
And all the Nine[388] with all their warmth inspire;
Your demigods conduct through every scene
Cold fear can paint, or wildest fancy feign;
The Syren's guileful lay, dire Circe's spell,[389]
And all the horrors of the Cyclop's cell;[390]
Bid Scylla's barking waves their mates o'erwhelm
And hurl the guardian pilot from the helm,[391]
Give sails and oars to fly the purple shore,
Where love of absent friend awakes no more;[392]
In all their charms display Calypso's smiles,
Her flow'ry arbours and her am'rous wiles;
In skins confin'd the blust'ring winds control,[393]
Or, o'er the feast bid
loathsome
harpies[394] prowl;
And lead your heroes through the dread abodes
Of tortur'd spectres and infernal[395] gods;
Give ev'ry flow'r that decks Aonia's hill
To grace your fables with divinest skill;
Beneath the wonders of my tale they fall,
Where truth, all unadorn'd and pure, exceeds them all.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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And when all the world came back
And the light crept up between the shutters,
And you heard the
sparrows
in the gutters,
You had such a vision of the street
As the street hardly understands;
Sitting along the bed's edge, where
You curled the papers from your hair,
Or clasped the yellow soles of feet
In the palms of both soiled hands.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Own to light, love, attraction,
O pearls the sea mingles with its great masses,
O
gleaming
birds of the forest's sombre ocean!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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This account of his end has
been adopted by Giles and most other
European
writers, but already in
the twelfth century Hung Mai pointed out that the story is inconsistent
with Li Yang-ping's authentic evidence.
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Li Po |
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Whatever the event may be, the conscious pleasure of
having employed his time in a fair
endeavour
will remain with him.
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Tacitus |
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After being
conquered
by Caesar, the Aedui gave them a settlement in the country now called the Bourbonnois.
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Tacitus |
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Indeed I had one apology--the
bagatelle
was not worth
presenting.
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Robert Burns |
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THROUGH the casement a noble-child saw
In the spring-time golden and green,
As he harked to the swallow's lore,
And looked so
rejoiced
and keen.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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The same man utterly
different
in
different places and seasons, v.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Do not all charms fly
At the mere touch of cold
philosophy?
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Keats |
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A LITTLE BOY LOST
"Nought loves another as itself,
Nor venerates another so,
Nor is it
possible
to thought
A greater than itself to know.
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blake-poems |
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'To shelter
Rosamunde
from hate
borne her by the queen,
the king had a palace made
such as had ne'er been seen'.
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Appoloinaire |
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The minstrel who sang on that day might possibly
have lived to read the first hexameters of Ennius, and to see the
first
comedies
of Plautus.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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In vain fair cheeks were furrowed with hot tears
For Europe's flowers long rooted up before
The
trampler
of her vineyards; in vain years
Of death, depopulation, bondage, fears,
Have all been borne, and broken by the accord
Of roused-up millions: all that most endears
Glory, is when the myrtle wreathes a sword
Such as Harmodius drew on Athens' tyrant lord.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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