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Then quickly spake Orestes: "By the way
We
cleansed
us in a torrent stream.
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Out of the heavy night she came, Silently calling his name;
Deep in her
mutineering
eyes Love chanting lullabies,
Timidly questioning
One who was wont to sing,
Stilling the songs upon his lips, Freezing his finger tips,
Stabbing his heart, and nailing his feet Fast to the iron street,
Trustingly going then
Down the dark street again.
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Quam ieiuna pium desideret ara cruorem,
Doctast amisso Laudamia viro, 80
Coniugis ante coacta novi dimittere collum,
Quam veniens una atque altera rursus hiemps
Noctibus in longis avidum saturasset amorem,
Posset ut abrupto vivere coniugio,
Quod scirant Parcae non longo tempore adesse, 85
Si miles muros isset ad Iliacos:
Nam tum Helenae raptu primores Argivorum
Coeperat ad sese Troia ciere viros,
Troia (nefas) commune sepulcrum Asiae Europaeque,
Troia virum et
virtutum
omnium acerba cinis, 90
Quaene etiam nostro letum miserabile fratri
Attulit.
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Indeed, those beds and bowers
Be
overgrown
with bitter weeds and rue,
And wait thy weeding; yet here's eglantine,
Here's ivy!
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XXXII
Blancandrin
comes before Marsiliun,
Holding the hand of county Guenelun;
Says to the King "Lord save you, Sire, Mahum
And Apollin, whose holy laws here run!
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Chanson de Roland |
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To alle the develles I me take,
Or elles, god, thou me
confounde!
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How direct me to perform a
baseness?
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Farewell old Coila's hills and dales,
Her heathy moors and winding vales;
The scenes where wretched fancy roves,
Pursuing
past, unhappy loves!
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With joy the monarch march'd before,
And found
Menestheus
on the dusty shore,
With whom the firm Athenian phalanx stands;
And next Ulysses, with his subject bands.
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And note the case when often
We lack the power to see
refulgent
things,
Because our eyes are hampered by their light--
With a mere doorway this would happen not;
For, since it is our very selves that see,
No open portals undertake the toil.
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Lucretius |
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_ Now may all fruits be pleasant to thy lips,
Beautiful
Eve!
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Paradiso
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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The gale, it plies the
saplings
double,
It blows so hard, 'twill soon be gone:
To-day the Roman and his trouble
Are ashes under Uricon.
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Now,
under the influence of nature, he intuitively knows that beauty once
seen and grasped is man's
possession
for ever.
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In Justice Overdo's time,
they were the receptacles of
fraudulent
debtors, thieves and
prostitutes.
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s sound speeds its morning marker, colors of spring in the ninefold palace make
immortal
peaches drunk.
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creation
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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And I will kiss her in the waterfalls,
And at the rainbow's end, and in the incense
That curls about the feet of sleeping gods,
And sing with her in
canebrakes
and in rice fields,
In Romany, eternal Romany.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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How Fox and Sheridan
rejoice!
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Robert Forst |
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A myriad leaves,
Like birds that fly the mournful
Northern
air.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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"
In the evening
The far valleys were
sprinkled
with tiny lights.
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Stephen Crane |
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He, from his
brethren
parted, here must tread
A different journey, for his fraudful theft
Of the great herd, that near him stall'd; whence found
His felon deeds their end, beneath the mace
Of stout Alcides, that perchance laid on
A hundred blows, and not the tenth was felt.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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I never take care, yet I've taken great pain
To acquire some goods, but have none by me:
Who's nice to me is one I hate: it's plain,
And who speaks truth deals with me most falsely:
He's my friend who can make me believe
A white swan is the
blackest
crow I've known:
Who thinks he's power to help me, does me harm:
Lies, truth, to me are all one under the sun:
I remember all, have the wisdom of a stone,
Welcomed gladly, and spurned by everyone.
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Villon |
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Time has
done its work upon them, and the literary creed of the wits of Queen
Anne's day is as
antiquated
as their periwigs and knee-breeches.
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Milton |
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Enough of Battle's
minions!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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And on each pleasant footstep stay,
We
opportunely
may relate
The progress of this house's fate.
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Marvell - Poems |
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ou hat3 dalt
disserued
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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For the
uninitiated
I would also suggest reading a little about the Troubadours on Wikipedia, which leads the reader on to a vast amount of interesting material online, especially the music.
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" acclaim
Of
vassalage
might well recall the tale.
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Chanson de Roland |
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I pray thee, take
And keep yon woman for me till I make
My
homeward
way from Thrace, when I have ta'en
Those four steeds and their bloody master slain.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Go to King Arthur's court and tell him that his
kitchen knave sent you, and crave his pardon for
breaking
his laws.
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Tennyson |
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Consort revered of
Laertiades!
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Some catch
themselves
to every mound,
Then lingeringly and slowly move
As if they knew the precious ground
Were opening for their fertile love:
They almost try to dig, they need
So much to plant their thistle-seed.
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be-nemdon
þēodnas
mǣre (_as, [how?
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Alexander Pope |
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Yes; and in yon field below,
A
thousand
years of silenced factions sleep--
The Forum, where the immortal accents glow,
And still the eloquent air breathes--burns with Cicero!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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LXXXII
I grant thou wert not married to my Muse,
And therefore mayst without attaint o'erlook
The
dedicated
words which writers use
Of their fair subject, blessing every book.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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And if I do, when morning comes,
It is as if a hundred drums
Did round my pillow roll,
And shouts fill all my
childish
sky,
And bells keep saying 'victory'
From steeples in my soul!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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In both
instances
the conduct of the AEneid is joined with the
descriptive exuberance of the Odyssey.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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FEMMES DAMNEES
A la pale clarte des lampes languissantes,
Sur de profonds coussins tout impregnes d'odeur,
Hippolyte revait aux
caresses
puissantes
Qui levaient le rideau de sa jeune candeur.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Here vaulted rocks impend, dash'd by the waves
Immense of
Amphitrite
azure-eyed;
The blessed Gods those rocks, Erratic, call.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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"
I
listened
to the branchless pole
That held aloft the singing wire;
I heard its muffled music roll,
And stirred with sweet desire:
"O wire more soft than seasoned lute,
Hast thou no sunlit word for me?
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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The mighty Mahmud, Allah-breathing Lord,
That all the misbelieving and black Horde
Of Fears and Sorrows that infest the Soul
Scatters
before him with his whirlwind Sword.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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They had
suffered
more than
any other people from the war.
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Aristophanes |
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AN
EXCELLENT
NEW SONG.
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Robert Forst |
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It is the
conformity
of life,
of the conditions and the fate of the land.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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You enter, in your
Florence
wanderings,
The church of Saint Maria Novella.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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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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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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'T is fit the forest fall,
The steep be graded,
The
mountain
tunnelled,
The sand shaded,
The orchard planted,
The glebe tilled,
The prairie granted,
The steamer built.
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Emerson - Poems |
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"
VIII
Aphrodite of the foam,
Who hast given all good gifts,
And made Sappho at thy will
Love so greatly and so much,
Ah, how comes it my frail heart 5
Is so fond of all things fair,
I can never choose between
Gorgo and
Andromeda?
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Sappho |
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"
The Eye
Said the Eye one day, "I see beyond these valleys a
mountain
veiled
with blue mist.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Secrets from other people's wives are a
necessary
luxury in modern life.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Oh may some spark of your
celestial
fire, 195
The last, the meanest of your sons inspire,
(That on weak wings, from far, pursues your flights;
Glows while he reads, but trembles as he writes)
To teach vain Wits a science little known,
T' admire superior sense, and doubt their own!
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Alexander Pope |
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Let's hush over all that's denied us,
Let's promise at peace to remain,
Though
everything
else be decried us
But still a stroll-round atwain.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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London Bridge is falling down falling down falling down
Poi s'ascose nel foco che gli affina
Quando fiam ceu chelidon-- O swallow swallow
Le Prince d'Aquitaine a la tour abolie 430
These
fragments
I have shored against my ruins
Why then Ile fit you.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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And how many women have been
victims of your
cruelty!
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Appoloinaire |
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_E'nvy_ and _e'nvying_ occur in Campion (1602), and yet
_envy'_
survived
Milton.
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James Russell Lowell |
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3050
To Resoun than prayeth Chastitee,
Whom Venus flemed over the see,
That she hir
doughter
wolde hir lene,
To kepe the roser fresh and grene.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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"
Here the speaker sat down in his place,
And
directed
the Judge to refer to his notes
And briefly to sum up the case.
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Lewis Carroll |
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The testimony of Horace, though given incidentally,
confirms
the
statements of Cato, Valerius Maximus, and Varro.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Come not with
purposes
of harm to me!
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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XXXIV
"So that one city saving, not alone
Will the Parisians bless your helping hand,
Who, sadder than for sorrows of their own,
Timid, afflicted, and disheartened stand;
And their unhappy wives and
children
moan,
Which share in the same peril, and the band
Or virgins, dedicate to heavenly spouse,
Lest this day frustrate see their holy vows;
XXXV
-- "I say, this city saved from deadly wound,
Not only will Parisians hold you dear;
But habitants of all the countries round:
Nor speak I only of the nations near;
For city there is none on Christian ground.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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And foul, or fair, or dark the night,
Their wild-fire lamps are burning bright:
For which full many a daring crime
Is acted in the summer-time;--
When glow-worm found in lanes remote
Is murdered for its shining coat,
And put in flowers, that nature weaves
With hollow shapes and silken leaves,
Such as the
Canterbury
bell,
Serving for lamp or lantern well;
Or, following with unwearied watch
The flight of one they cannot match,
As silence sliveth upon sleep,
Or thieves by dozing watch-dogs creep,
They steal from Jack-a-Lantern's tails
A light, whose guidance never fails
To aid them in the darkest night
And guide their plundering steps aright.
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John Clare |
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There 's triumph of the finer mind
When truth,
affronted
long,
Advances calm to her supreme,
Her God her only throng.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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She begs for them of
careless
crowd,
Of earnest brows and narrow hearts,
That when it hears her cry aloud,
Turns like the ebb-tide and departs.
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Hugo - Poems |
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My judges, who appeared to be
listening
to my answers with a certain
good will, were again prejudiced against me by the sight of my
confusion.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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On the house-tops was no woman
But spat towards him and hissed,
No child but
screamed
out curses,
And shook its little fist.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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"That's
distinctly
one for you," said the Nilghai.
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Kipling - Poems |
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I never saw a man who looked
With such a wistful eye
Upon that little tent of blue
Which
prisoners
call the sky,
And at every wandering cloud that trailed
Its raveled fleeces by.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Series
For the splendour of the day of
happinesses
in the air
To live the taste of colours easily
To enjoy loves so as to laugh
To open eyes at the final moment
She has every willingness.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Could the
passionate
past that is fled
Call back its dead,
Could we live it all over again,
Were it worth the pain!
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Wilde - Poems |
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I will put in my poems that with you is heroism
upon land and sea,
And I will report all heroism from an
American
point of view.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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I have lost my sight, smell, hearing, taste and touch:
How should I use it for your closer
contact?
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T.S. Eliot |
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while a third we bring
Select to Jove, the
inviolable
king.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Let's hush over all that's denied us,
Let's promise at peace to remain,
Though
everything
else be decried us
But still a stroll-round atwain.
| Guess: |
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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UNA
Roving, roving, as it seems,
Una lights my clouded dreams;
Still for
journeys
she is dressed;
We wander far by east and west.
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Emerson - Poems |
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'There is Hawthorne, with genius so shrinking and rare
That you hardly at first see the strength that is there;
A frame so robust, with a nature so sweet,
So earnest, so graceful, so lithe and so fleet, 1000
Is worth a descent from Olympus to meet;
'Tis as if a rough oak that for ages had stood,
With his gnarled bony branches like ribs of the wood,
Should bloom, after cycles of struggle and scathe,
With a single anemone trembly and rathe;
His strength is so tender, his
wildness
so meek,
That a suitable parallel sets one to seek,--
He's a John Bunyan Fouque, a Puritan Tieck;
When Nature was shaping him, clay was not granted
For making so full-sized a man as she wanted, 1010
So, to fill out her model, a little she spared
From some finer-grained stuff for a woman prepared,
And she could not have hit a more excellent plan
For making him fully and perfectly man.
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James Russell Lowell |
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and
wherefore
not with thee?
| Guess: |
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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6
XXX
Alfene immemor atque unanimis false sodalibus
iam te nil miseret, dure, tui dulcis
amiculi?
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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(_Enter the
Lacedaemonian
Envoys.
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Aristophanes |
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The maid announced the meal in tones
That I myself had taught her,
Meant to allay my sister's moans
Like oil on
troubled
water:
I rushed to Jones, the lively Jones,
And begged him to escort her.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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FOREWORD
IN the
opinions
of some of the deepest literary
thinkers of Germany, Stefan George finds a place as
the greatest poet of the day.
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The latter method of
writing the name is apparently
cryptographic
for _d_Gis-bar-aga-(mis);
the fire god _Gibil_ has also the title _Gis-bar_.
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'You Rise the Water Unfolds'
You rise the water unfolds
You sleep the water flowers
You are water ploughed from its depths
You are earth that takes root
And in which all is grounded
You make bubbles of silence in the desert of sound
You sing nocturnal hymns on the arcs of the rainbow
You are everywhere you abolish the roads
You
sacrifice
time
To the eternal youth of an exact flame
That veils Nature to reproduce her
Woman you show the world a body forever the same
Yours
You are its likeness.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Our king and his lord
chamberlain
have lost their reason.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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And while the pony moves his legs,
In Johnny's left-hand you may see,
The green bough's
motionless
and dead;
The moon that shines above his head
Is not more still and mute than he.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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To rise 'tis trying,
It
struggles
still!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Primes de quoi Deduit servoit,
Et quel
compaignie
il avoit
Sans longue fable vous veil dire,
Et du vergier tretout a tire 700
La facon vous redirai puis.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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is ilk sweuene--
Ich take to
witnesse
god of heuene-- 36
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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--Published 1807
The History of Rob Roy is sufficiently known; his Grave is near the head
of Loch Ketterine, in one of those small Pin-fold-like Burial-grounds,
of neglected and desolate appearance, which the Traveller meets with in
the
Highlands
of Scotland.
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Maisie put her chin in her hands and decided that there could be no
doubt whatever of the
villainy
of Dick.
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Whatever spirit, careless of his charge,
His post neglects, or leaves the fair at large,
Shall feel sharp vengeance soon o'ertake his sins, 125
Be stopp'd in vials, or transfix'd with pins;
Or plung'd in lakes of bitter washes lie,
Or wedg'd whole ages in a bodkin's eye:
Gums and Pomatums shall his flight restrain,
While clogg'd he beats his silken wings in vain; 130
Or Alum styptics with contracting pow'r
Shrink his thin essence like a rivel'd flow'r:
Or, as Ixion fix'd, the wretch shall feel
The giddy motion of the
whirling
Mill,
In fumes of burning Chocolate shall glow, 135
And tremble at the sea that froths below!
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"
"When shall this slough of sense be cast,
This dust of
thoughts
be laid at last,
The man of flesh and soul be slain
And the man of bone remain?
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