Its letters,
although
naturally lying
Like the knight Pinto--Mendez Ferdinando--
Still form a synonym for Truth--Cease trying!
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Villon
presumably
means that they were 'near cousins' in spirit.
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Villon |
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has þine life, which Leo
translates
_by thy leave_ (= ON.
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Beowulf |
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Unauthenticated
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Come, golden bridegroom, break this mortal night,
Five times chained with
darkness
of my senses.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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THE POET'S LOVE-SONG
In noon-tide hours, O Love, secure and strong,
I need thee not; mad dreams are mine to bind
The world to my desire, and hold the wind
A voiceless captive to my
conquering
song.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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The strengthe of Iohan they
undirstonde
7185
The grace in which, they seye, they stonde,
That doth the sinful folk converte,
And hem to Iesus Crist reverte.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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I shall lack that forever though,
So no wonder at my hunger now;
For never did
Christian
lady seem
Fairer - nor would God wish her to -
Nor Jewess nor Saracen below.
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Troubador Verse |
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Epirus' bounds recede, and mountains fail;
Tired of up-gazing still, the wearied eye
Reposes gladly on as smooth a vale
As ever Spring yclad in grassy dye:
E'en on a plain no humble beauties lie,
Where some bold river breaks the long expanse,
And woods along the banks are waving high,
Whose shadows in the glassy waters dance,
Or with the
moonbeam
sleep in Midnight's solemn trance.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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at it is
suffisant
of hy{m} self.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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By course of
justice!
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Shakespeare |
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And when they're quickly borne
In their exceeding lightness, easily
(As earlier I showed) one subtle image,
Compounded, moves by its one blow the mind,
Itself so subtle and so
strangely
quick.
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Lucretius |
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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The
spearsman
who brings this
will ask for the gold clasp
you wear under your coat.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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The surface of the
fountain
is black, an appearance produced by
its depth, from the darkness of the rocks, and the obscurity of the
cavern; for, on being brought to light, nothing can be clearer than its
water.
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Petrarch |
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How often I think neither I know, nor any man knows, aught of them,)
May-be seeming to me what they are (as doubtless they indeed but seem)
as from my present point of view, and might prove (as of course they
would) nought of what they appear, or nought anyhow, from entirely
changed points of view;
To me these and the like of these are curiously answer'd by my
lovers, my dear friends,
When he whom I love travels with me or sits a long while holding me
by the hand,
When the subtle air, the impalpable, the sense that words and reason
hold not,
surround
us and pervade us,
Then I am charged with untold and untellable wisdom, I am silent, I
require nothing further,
I cannot answer the question of appearances or that of identity
beyond the grave,
But I walk or sit indifferent, I am satisfied,
He ahold of my hand has completely satisfied me.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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'SOTTO VOCE'
(To EDWARD THOMAS)
The haze of noon wanned silver-grey,
The
soundless
mansion of the sun;
The air made visible in his ray,
Like molten glass from furnace run,
Quivered o'er heat-baked turf and stone
And the flower of the gorse burned on--
Burned softly as gold of a child's fair hair
Along each spiky spray, and shed
Almond-like incense in the air
Whereon our senses fed.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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'
'But you must,' the
tormentor
insists, ''tis all right;
You must rise when I bid you, and, what's more, be light.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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_]
WALPURGIS
NIGHT.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Alas for him that is gone,
And for thee, O
wandering
one:
That now, methinks, in a land
Of the stranger must toil for hire,
And stand where the poor men stand,
A-cold by another's fire,
O son of the mighty sire:
While I in a beggar's cot
On the wrecked hills, changing not,
Starve in my soul for food;
But our mother lieth wed
In another's arms, and blood
Is about her bed.
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Euripides - Electra |
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By the bless'd genius of this
friendly
bower!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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it is thou who dost send from below
A doom on the
desperate
doer--ere long
On a mother a father shall visit his wrong.
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Aeschylus |
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XIV
=To a Lady Sleeping=
O thou whose fringed lids I gaze upon,
Through whose dim brain the winged dreams are born,
Unroof the shrines of
clearest
vision,
In honour of the silverflecked morn:
Long hath the white wave of the virgin light
Driven back the billow of the dreamful dark.
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Tennyson |
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A sailor's
business
is the shore,
A soldier's -- balls.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Two ills can ne're
perplexe
us, sinne to'excuse; 5
But of two good things, we may leave and chuse.
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John Donne |
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If you
do not charge anything for copies of this eBook,
complying
with the
rules is very easy.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Highbury
bore me.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Since I have seen falling to my life's flood
The leaf of a rose snatched from out your days,
Now at last I can say to the
fleeting
years:
- Pass by!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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He sate his horse, the which he called Marmore,
Never so swift was any bird in course;
He's loosed the reins, and
spurring
on that horse
He's gone to strike Gerin with all his force;
The scarlat shield from's neck he's broken off,
And all his sark thereafter has he torn,
The ensign blue clean through his body's gone,
Until he flings him dead, on a high rock;
His companion Gerer he's slain also,
And Berenger, and Guiun of Santone;
Next a rich duke he's gone to strike, Austore,
That held Valence and the Honour of the Rhone;
He's flung him dead; great joy the pagans shew.
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Chanson de Roland |
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XV
Almighty
God!
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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A heart that is distant creates a
wilderness
round it.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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9 1 The souls of those killed in the
rebellion
will not forgive the rebels.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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A
something
in a summer's noon, --
An azure depth, a wordless tune,
Transcending ecstasy.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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From pest on land, or death on ocean,
When
hurricanes
its surface fan,
O object of my fond devotion!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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) it is not my
fault,
although
'tis said so to be, nor may anyone impute any crime to me;
albeit the fabling tongues of folk make it so, who, whene'er aught is found
not well done, all clamour at me: "Door, thine is the blame!
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Keats - Lamia |
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"
And God made no answer, but like a
thousand
swift wings passed
away.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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He can then be restored only by an appeal to
the Highest Honor or
Magnificence
(Prince Arthur) through the good offices
of Truth and Common Sense.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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There are plenty that have a
more native and puckery flavor,
seedlings
from the old stock often, and
yet new varieties.
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James Russell Lowell |
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--
They stood, the three, as the three hundred stood
Who dyed
Thermopylae
with holy blood.
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Byron |
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--my friend
Baldazzar
here
Will hand them to Your Grace.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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It may be worthy of note that Wordsworth himself sanctioned the
principle of tracing out local allusions both by dictating the Fenwick
notes, and by republishing his Essay on the
topography
of the Lakes,
along with the Duddon Sonnets, in 1820--and also, by itself, in
1822--"from a belief that it would tend materially to illustrate" his
poems.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Their shining fronts,
Their songs, their splendours, (better, yet the same,
As river-water hallowed into fonts)
Met in thee, and from out thee overcame
My soul with
satisfaction
of all wants:
Because God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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She
smoothes
the hair of the grass.
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T.S. Eliot |
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970
For I dar sweren, if that she
Had among ten
thousand
be,
She wolde have be, at the leste,
A cheef mirour of al the feste,
Thogh they had stonden in a rowe, 975
To mennes eyen that coude have knowe.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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XXV
Would that I might possess the Thracian lyre,
To wake from Hades, and their idle pose,
Those old Caesars, and the shades of those,
Who once raised this ancient city higher:
Or that I had Amphion's to inspire,
And with sweet harmony these stones enclose
To quicken them again, where they once rose,
Ausonian glory conjuring from its pyre:
Or that with skilful pencil I might draw
The portrait of these palaces once more,
With the spirit of some high Virgil filled;
I would attempt, inflamed by my ardour,
To
recreate
with the pen's slight power,
That which our own hands could never build.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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This master of the ceremonies is
The
intendant
of the palace, I presume:
'Tis a fine building, but decayed.
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Byron |
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They are the work of Providence, and more _150
The battle's loss may profit those who lose,
Than victory
advantage
those who win.
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Shelley |
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440
Hence had the huntress Dian her dred bow
Fair silver-shafted Queen for ever chaste,
Wherwith she tam'd the brinded lioness
And spotted
mountain
pard, but set at nought
The frivolous bolt of Cupid, gods and men
Fear'd her stern frown, and she was queen oth' Woods.
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Milton |
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O'Sullivan_
Noormahal
the Fair
The Djinns--_John L.
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Hugo - Poems |
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White as an angel is the English child,
But I am black, as if
bereaved
of light.
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blake-poems |
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In fact the
satyr stands between
Gilgamish
and Ishara(?
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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You will see me any morning in the park
Reading the comics and the
sporting
page.
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T.S. Eliot |
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With
fragrant
flowers thy head is crowned
While like a guard we stand around,
And hail thee as our King!
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Longfellow |
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For the crimson flower of our life is eaten by
the
cankerworm
of truth,
And no hand can gather up the fallen withered
petals of the rose of youth.
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Wilde - Poems |
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You'd do well, while you're in flow,
To make Rhyme a
fraction
wiser.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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the crashing prows
Of fierce Ionian oarsmen swept the sea,
And death was in their wake, and shipwreck
murderous!
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Aeschylus |
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Therefore well beware 100
Thou also, mistress, lest a day arrive
When all these charms by which thou shin'st among
Thy sister-menials, fade; fear, too, lest her
Thou should'st perchance irritate, whom thou serv'st,
And lest Ulysses come, of whose return
Hope yet survives; but even though the Chief
Have perish'd, as ye think, and comes no more,
Consider
yet his son, how bright the gifts
Shine of Apollo in the illustrious Prince
Telemachus; no woman, unobserved 110
By him, can now commit a trespass here;
His days of heedless infancy are past.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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30
King, wilt thou bear this mad
impiety?
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Byron |
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it is an ever-fixed mark,
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown,
although
his height be taken.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Ilk Star, gae hide thy
twinkling
ray,
When I'm to meet my Anna!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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O quick and
forgetive
power!
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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What art of mine can
lengthen
out thy day?
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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Be still, be still, my soul; it is but for a season:
Let us endure an hour and see
injustice
done.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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n-chun, to write the
following
poem.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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--
Be welcome,
strangers
both, and pass below
My lintel.
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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[337] A parody of a
hemistich
from 'Alcaeus.
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Aristophanes |
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[175] A
Thracian
tribe from the right bank of the Strymon.
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Aristophanes |
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17
And with five
bastions
it did fence,
As aiming one for every sense.
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Marvell - Poems |
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This would make her an exact or close
contemporary
of Thais, beautiful Athenian courtesan and mistress of Alexander the Great (356-323BC).
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Villon |
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"
So he told his
sorrowful
tidings,
and little {39d} he lied, the loyal man
of word or of work.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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So, a mariner, I long for land-fall,--
When a darker purple on the sea-rim, 10
O'er the prow uplifted, shall be Lesbos
And the
gleaming
towers of Mitylene.
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Sappho |
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e gode kny3t, & kene men hem serued
Of alle dayntye3 double, as derrest my3t falle,
484 Wyth alle maner of mete &
mynstralcie
bo?
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Mehus,
daughter
of Ninkasi, 144.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Vice is a monster of so frightful mien,
As, to be hated, needs but to be seen;
Yet seen too oft,
familiar
with her face,
We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Even When We Sleep
Even when we sleep we watch over each other
And this love heavier than a lake's ripe fruit
Without
laughter
or tears lasts forever
One day after another one night after us.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Meredith - Poems |
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in that enchanted land
Whose
slumbering
vales forlorn Calypso knew,
Where never mower rose at break of day
But all unswathed the trammelling grasses grew,
And the sad shepherd saw the tall corn stand
Till summer's red had changed to withered grey?
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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At last the lady takes leave of the knight by
catching
him
in her arms and kissing him (ll.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Partiti, bestia, che questi non vene
ammaestrato
da la tua sorella,
ma vassi per veder le vostre pene>>.
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Where duly the sixth
handmaid
doth return
From service on the day.
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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it seems but Sunday past
Since we went out together for the last,
And plain enough indeed it was to find
She'd something more than common on her mind;
For she was always fond and full of chat,
In passing harmless jokes bout beaus and that,
But nothing then was
scarcely
talked about,
And what there was, I even forced it out.
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Again, it was exclusive
not inclusive, since its object was, evidently, not the meritorious if
impossible one of attempting to be a
compendium
of present-day American
verse.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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"Gentle Barons, to
Charlemagne
go ye;
He is in siege of Cordres the city.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Which more than her eyes
she loved; for sweet as honey was it and its mistress knew, as well as
damsel knoweth her own mother nor from her bosom did it rove, but hopping
round first one side then the other, to its mistress alone it
evermore
did
chirp.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive
Foundation
at the
address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to
the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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In heavenly panoply
divinely
bright
Thou stand'st, and armies tremble at thy sight,
As at Achilles' self!
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Iliad - Pope |
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For the
transport
in their rhythm
Was the throb of thy desire,
And thy lyric moods shall quicken 35
Souls of lovers yet unborn.
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Sappho |
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Li Po |
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--And Lipsius to affirm, _Scio_, _poetam
neminem praestantem fuisse_, _sine parte quadam
uberiore
divinae aurae_.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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The wonderful purity of nature at this season is a most
pleasing
fact.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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I see the place of the idea of the Deity incarnated by avatars in
human forms,
I see the spots of the
successions
of priests on the earth, oracles,
sacrificers, brahmins, sabians, llamas, monks, muftis, exhorters,
I see where druids walk'd the groves of Mona, I see the mistletoe
and vervain,
I see the temples of the deaths of the bodies of Gods, I see the old
signifiers.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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She had dreams all yesternight
Of her own betrothed knight;
And she in the
midnight
wood will pray
For the weal of her lover that's far away.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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But at a later, sterile age,
The
solstice
of our earthly years,
Mournful Love's deadly trace appears
As storms which in chill autumn rage
And leave a marsh the fertile ground
And devastate the woods around.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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XXIII
Oh how wise that man was, in his caution,
Who counselled, so his race might not moulder,
Nor Rome's
citizens
be spoiled by leisure,
That Carthage should be spared destruction!
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Fool, to stand here cursing
When I might be
running!
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Imagists |
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Sundays and
Tuesdays
he fasts and sighs,
His teeth are as sharp as the rats' below,
After dry bread, and no gateaux,
Water for soup that floats his guts along.
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Villon |
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