In the end of the year departed these eminent persons; Asinius Agrippa,
of ancestors more
illustrious
than ancient, and in his own character
not unworthy of them: and Quintus Haterius, of a Senatorian family, and
himself, while he yet lived, famous for eloquence: but the monuments
of his genius, since published, are not equally esteemed.
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Tacitus |
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Canzon That my heart is half afraid
For the
fragrance
on him laid; Even so love's might amazes !
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Sache qu'il faut aimer, sans faire la grimace,
Le pauvre, le mechant, le tortu, l'hebete,
Pour que tu puisses faire a Jesus, quand il passe,
Un tapis
triomphal
avec ta charite.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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The very children in the school we
had that morning passed had gone through her wars, and recited her
alarms, ere they had heard of the wars of
neighboring
Lancaster.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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There is the despot who
tyrannises
over the soul.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Take these eight drachmae and go and
conclude
a truce with
the Lacedaemonians for me, my wife and my children; I leave you free, my
dear citizens, to send out embassies and to stand gaping in the air.
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Aristophanes |
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I doubt not when our earthly cries are ended,
The
Listener
finds them in one music blended.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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And then,
If haply our hand be set beneath one eye
And press below thereon, then to our gaze
Each object which we gaze on seems to be,
By some
sensation
twain--then twain the lights
Of lampions burgeoning in flowers of flame,
And twain the furniture in all the house,
Two-fold the visages of fellow-men,
And twain their bodies.
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Lucretius |
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(I'm
thinking
chiefly of the wheelbarrow.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Now no one fares awhile my road, forsaken,
I find no wight within me hope to waken,
Who yet the
smallest
solace might implore,
So deep in darkness plods no pilgrim more.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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dear to many) of the knight
Of Scotland I was telling, who hard-by
Had heard, as was rehearsed, a
piercing
cry.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Page 54
324
Atte
seuentene
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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"
He spent a minute putting his ideas in order, and began very slowly,
translating in his mind from the
vernacular
to English, as many
Anglo-Indian children do.
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Kipling - Poems |
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_ Should the nobly born
Be thankless for that refuge which their habits
Of early
delicacy
render more 40
Needful than to the peasant, when the ebb
Of fortune leaves them on the shoals of life?
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Byron |
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And he dances, and he yells;
Keeping time, time, time,
In a sort of Runic rhyme,
To the paean of the bells--
Of the bells:--
Keeping time, time, time,
In a sort of Runic rhyme,
To the
throbbing
of the bells--
Of the bells, bells, bells--
To the sobbing of the bells:--
Keeping time, time, time,
As he knells, knells, knells,
In a happy Runic rhyme,
To the rolling of the bells--
Of the bells, bells, bells:--
To the tolling of the bells--
Of the bells, bells, bells, bells,
Bells, bells, bells--
To the moaning and the groaning of the bells.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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*Tis not a freedom that, where all command,
Nor tyranny, where one does them withstand ;
* Marine meteors, which Portuguese
nuiriners
call the
Bodies of the Saints; corpos santos.
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Marvell - Poems |
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50
Sprytes of the bleste, and everich Seyncte ydedde,
Poure owte your
pleasaunce
on mie fadres hedde.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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He dressed
expensively
but soberly, in the
English fashion; his linen dazzling, the prevailing hue of his
habiliments black.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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[335] Hormus[336] was raised to
equestrian
rank.
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Tacitus |
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e A-byde,
Page 73
Fore thowe hast soughte
pylgermages
wyde.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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This group of erased lines, which appeared in pencil under lines 2-4 and, partially obscured by a note by Ellis, in the right margin, are written here with Erdman's suppositions and unrecoverable sections so marked EJC}
To plant
divisions
in the Soul of Urizen & Ahania
To conduct the Voice of Enion to Ahanias midnight pillow
Urizen saw & envied & his imagination was filled
Repining he contemplated the past in his bright sphere
Terrified with his heart & spirit at the visions of futurity
That his dread fancy formd before him in the unformd void
For Now Los & Enitharmon walkd forth on the dewy Earth
Contracting or expanding their all flexible senses
At will to murmur in the flowers small as the honey bee
At will to stretch across the heavens & step from star to star
Or standing on the Earth erect, or on the stormy waves
Driving the storms before them or delighting in sunny beams
While round their heads the Elemental Gods kept harmony
Thus livd Los driving Enion far into the deathful infinite {According to Erdman, there is some partially recoverable erased material written above this line and in the margin: '?
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Blake - Zoas |
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At that
place call upon me; and
dispatch
with Angelo, that it may be
quickly.
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Shakespeare |
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Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this
electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without
prominently displaying the sentence set forth in
paragraph
1.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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eue him
strength
& mygh[t]e 69
A?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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The corpse of Rome lies here
entombed
in dust,
Her spirit gone to join, as all things must
The massy round's great spirit onward whirled.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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My early youth was bred to martial pains,
My soul impels me to the
embattled
plains!
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Iliad - Pope |
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In thieving thou art skill'd and giving answers;
For thy answers and thy thieving I'll reward thee
With a house upon the windy plain constructed
Of two pillars high,
surmounted
by a cross-beam.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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"GD}
I see, invisible descend into the Gardens of Vala
Luvah walking on the winds, I see the invisible knife
I see the shower of blood: I see the swords & spears of futurity
Tho in the Brain of Man we live, & in his
circling
Nerves.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Subordinate to Urizen
And to his sons in their degrees & to his
beauteous
daughters {'In sevens & tens.
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Blake - Zoas |
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It is one to me that they come or go
If I have myself and the drive of my will,
And
strength
to climb on a summer night
And watch the stars swarm over the hill.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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"God looks down from His
judgment
seat, 'Good will on earth' is His message sweet,
Turn your hearts to the Lord.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Royalty payments
must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you
prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your
periodic
tax
returns.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Quis angusta malis cum moenia vexarentur, 80
Ipse suom Theseus pro caris corpus Athenis
Proicere optavit potius quam talia Cretam
Funera Cecropiae nec funera portarentur,
Atque ita nave levi nitens ac lenibus auris
Magnanimum ad Minoa venit
sedesque
superbas.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Beautiful spirit, come with me
Over the blue
enchanted
sea:
Morn and evening thou canst play
In my garden, where the breeze
Warbles through the fruity trees;
No shadow falls upon the day:
There thy mother's arms await
Her cherished infant at the gate.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Pray for us, now beyond violence,
To the Son of the Virgin Mary,
So of grace to us she's not chary,
Shields us from Hell's
lightning
fall.
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Villon |
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Note: Myrtho a shining mask of Venus Murcia to whom myrtle was sacred, is the
counterpart
to the dark prince of El Desdichado.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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How many a holy and
obsequious
tear
Hath dear religious love stol'n from mine eye,
As interest of the dead, which now appear
But things remov'd that hidden in thee lie!
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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My soul in pain and grief that most has been
(How great the power of
constant
habit is!
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Petrarch |
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All things that pass
Are wisdom's looking-glass;
Being full of hope and fear, and still
Brimful of good or ill,
According
to our work and will;
For there is nothing new beneath the sun;
Our doings have been done,
And that which shall be was.
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Christina Rossetti |
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of appreciating Racine: but even the narrow and
barbarian
mind of
Alexander could understand the advantage of a showy act of homage to
Poetry.
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Golden Treasury |
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'"
With the kindly fatalism which is the
distinctive
note of the foregoing
stanza, the sentiment of our next extract is in vivid contrast:--
"There was an Old Man in a tree,
Who was terribly bored by a bee;
When they said, 'Does it buzz?
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Lear - Nonsense |
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some we loved, the
loveliest
and the best
That Time and Fate of all their Vintage prest,
Have drunk their Cup a Round or two before,
And one by one crept silently to Rest.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Both were educated in affluence, and both had to face
unprepared the
hardships
of life.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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He seems the center around which stars glow
While all earth's
ostentations
surge below.
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Rilke - Poems |
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And would it have been worth it, after all,
After the cups, the marmalade, the tea,
Among the porcelain, among some talk of you and me,
Would it have been worth while,
To have bitten off the matter with a smile,
To have squeezed the universe into a ball
To roll it toward some overwhelming question,
To say: "I am Lazarus, come from the dead,
Come back to tell you all, I shall tell you all"--
If one,
settling
a pillow by her head,
Should say: "That is not what I meant at all;
That is not it, at all.
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T.S. Eliot |
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In another unplaced fragment of the
Assyrian
text [11] Enkidu rejects
his mistress also, apparently on his own initiative and for ascetic
reasons.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Their way directly by that fountain lies,
Beside whose margin are in pastime met
Marphisa and
Aldigier
and Richardet.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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He has almost supt: why haue you left the
chamber?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Now pay ye the heed that is fitting,
Whilst I sing ye the Iran adventure;
The Pasha on sofa was sitting
In his harem's
glorious
centre.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Hyde's flippant style there
pleasantly
curvets,
Still his sharp wit on states and princes whets :
So Spain could not escape his laughter's spleen,
None but himself must choose the king and queen.
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Marvell - Poems |
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VII
The stones of that fair hall lie far and wide,
And but a few recall its ancient mould;
Yet when I pass the spot I long to hold
As truth what fancy saith:
"His protest lives where
deathless
things abide!
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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But ere these
matchless
heights I dare to scan,
There is a spot should not be passed in vain,--
Morat!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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For I am made
To set their hearts grim to possess my life,
And with an anger of love devour my beauty;
And yet to seal up in their mastered hearts
The rage, and bring them in croucht worship down
Before me, bent with
impotent
desire.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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What do my shouts amid
lightnings
and raging winds mean?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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e
nou{m}bre
of ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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There were
two pairs of them that divided the lake of Esthwaite, and its
in-and-out flowing streams, between them, never
trespassing
a single
yard upon each other's separate domain.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Who, that is clean, shall see
And hate not the blood-red hand,
His mother's
murderer?
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Euripides - Electra |
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Few readers can
fail to observe the natural sweetness of the verse, the single-hearted
straightforwardness of the thoughts:--nor less, the limitation of
subject to the many phases of one passion, which then characterised our
lyrical poetry,--unless when, as with Drummond and Shakespeare, the
"purple light of Love" is
tempered
by a spirit of sterner reflection.
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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Le Testament: Ballade: A S'amye
F alse beauty that costs me so dear,
R ough indeed, a hypocrite sweetness,
A mor, like iron on the teeth and harder,
N amed only to achieve my sure distress,
C harm that's murderous, poor heart's death,
O covert pride that sends men to ruin,
I
mplacable
eyes, won't true redress
S uccour a poor man, without crushing?
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Villon |
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They have
always been picturesque
protests
against the mere existence of
common-sense; they saw its dangers from the first.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Alcools, by Guillaume Apollinaire
This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
almost no
restrictions
whatsoever.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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The fee is owed
to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he has
agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the Project
Gutenberg
Literary
Archive Foundation.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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At morning they play clinging about my feet;
At night they sleep
pillowed
against my dress.
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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"
After much hesitation the editor has
gathered
in their order of time,
and printed at the end of the book, some twenty early pieces, a few of
them taken from the Appendix of the last edition and others never
printed before.
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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The
yellowhammer
never makes a noise
But flies in silence from the noisy boys;
The boys will come and take them every day,
And still she lays as none were ta'en away.
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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Did we kill
Holofernes?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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e feet of
felonous
3100
folk.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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how oft, on this
ancestral
throne,
Have troops of children climbed with exultation!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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A man who can
dominate
a London dinner-table can dominate the world.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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"Richer presents," said she,
"Gave King Harald Gormson
To the Queen, my mother,
Than such
worthless
weeds;
"When he ravaged Norway,
Laying waste the kingdom,
Seizing scatt and treasure
For her royal needs.
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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These Time has in more sober braids confined;
And bound my heart with such a
powerful
tie,
That death alone can disengage it thence.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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In the
preparation
of the Glossary the editors found it necessary to
abandon a literal and exact translation of Heyne for several reasons, and
among others from the fact that Heyne seems to be wrong in the translation
of some of his illustrative quotations, and even translates the same
passage in two or three different ways under different headings.
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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For the first time the sun
kissed my own naked face and my soul was
inflamed
with love for
the sun, and I wanted my masks no more.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE
TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE
LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL,
PUNITIVE
OR
INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH
DAMAGE.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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A queen should never dream on summer eves,
When hovering spells are heavy in the dusk:--
I think no night was ever quite so still,
So
smoothly
lit with red along the west,
So deeply hushed with quiet through and through.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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Here sooth me still, sleep ne'er should influence
These eyes the while; but always to resist
Sleep's pow'r is not for man, to whom the Gods
Each circumstance of his
condition
here
Fix universally.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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Protect me always from like excess,
Virgin, who bore, without a cry,
Christ whom we
celebrate
at Mass.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
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Thou'lt never say that Charles
forsakes
me now;
Nor to thy wife, nor any dame thou'st found,
Thou'lt never boast, in lands where thou wast crowned,
One pennyworth from me thou'st taken out,
Nor damage wrought on me nor any around.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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Too much horrified to speak,
They can only shriek, shriek,
Out of tune,
In a clamorous appealing to the mercy of the fire,
In a mad
expostulation
with the deaf and frantic fire,
Leaping higher, higher, higher,
With a desperate desire,
And a resolute endeavor
Now--now to sit, or never,
By the side of the pale-faced moon.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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at
stalworth
to plese,
1660 ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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"
Light flew his earnest words, among the
blossoms
blown.
| Guess: |
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--Without one hope her written griefs to blot,
Save in the land where all things are forgot,
My heart, alive to
transports
long unknown,
Half wishes your delusion were it's own.
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888 Segge3 hym serued semly in-no3e,
[E] Wyth sere sewes & sete,[2]
sesounde
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VI
_Before Dawn, At the
Scottish
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dareðum
lācan (_to fight_), 2849.
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Beowulf |
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She
professes
with her spells to relax the purposes of whom she will,
but on others to bring passion and pain; to stay the river-waters and
turn the stars backward: she calls up ghosts by night; thou shalt see
earth moaning under foot and mountain-ashes descending from the hills.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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40
Or ask of yonder argent fields above,
Why JOVE'S
satellites
are less than JOVE?
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Alexander Pope |
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if France be still thy
guardian
care,
Oh!
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Hugo - Poems |
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The Serpent
The Fall
'The Fall'
Anonymous,
Hieronymus
Cock, c.
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Appoloinaire |
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There stood a Trojan, not unknown to fame,
Aetion's son, and Podes was his name:
With riches honour'd, and with courage bless'd,
By Hector loved, his comrade, and his guest;
Through his broad belt the spear a passage found,
And,
ponderous
as he falls, his arms resound.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Earth rejoiced at the renewal of her beauty
as His voice
resounded
and penetrated the gates of the deep, but
only He and the Eternal Father knew the whole meaning of the divine
petition.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Night Song at Amalfi
I asked the heaven of stars
What I should give my love--
It
answered
me with silence,
Silence above.
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Sara Teasdale |
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I fitted to the latch
My hand, with
trembling
care,
Lest back the awful door should spring,
And leave me standing there.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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This long and shining flank of metal is
Magic that greasy labor cannot spoil;
While this vast engine that could rend the soil
Conceals
its fury with a gentle hiss.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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I am here, driven in with my harvest-folks by bad weather; and as you
and your sister once did me the honour of
interesting
yourselves much
_a l'egard de moi_, I sit down to beg the continuation of your
goodness.
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Robert Forst |
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To
Nannette
Falk-Auerbach.
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Sidney Lanier |
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"Their friends are waiting,
wondering
how they thrive--
Waiting a word in silence patiently.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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When I composed my
"Vision" long ago, I had attempted a description of Koyle, of which
the
additional
stanzas are a part, as it originally stood.
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It would be the prudish affectation of silly pride in me to say that I
do not need, or would not be
indebted
to a political friend; at the
same time, Sir, I by no means lay my affairs before you thus, to hook
my dependent situation on your benevolence.
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