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_Josephine Preston Peabody_
MY SON
Here is his little cambric frock
That I laid by in
lavender
so sweet,
And here his tiny shoe and sock
I made with loving care for his dear feet.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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You've not
surprised
my secret yet
Already the cortege moves on
But left to us is the regret
of there being no connivance none
The rose floats at the water's edge
The maskers have passed by in crowds
It trembles in me like a bell
This heavy secret you ask now
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Appoloinaire |
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Compliance
requirements are not uniform and it takes a
considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up
with these requirements.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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It has been the custom of late to assign to Donne the
authorship of one
charming
lyric in the _Rhapsody_, 'Absence hear thou
my protestation.
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John Donne |
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PAUL'S
APRIL 20, 1917
Not since Wren's Dome has whispered with man's prayer
Have angels leaned to wonder out of Heaven
At such uprush of intercession given,
Here where to-day one soul two nations share,
And with accord send up thro'
trembling
air
Their vows to strive as Honour ne'er has striven
Till back to hell the Lords of hell are driven,
And Life and Peace again shall flourish fair.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Edward Lear, the artist, Author of "Journals of a Landscape Painter" in
various out-of-the-way countries, and of the delightful "Books of
Nonsense," which have amused successive
generations
of children, died on
Sunday, January 29, 1888, at San Remo, Italy, where he had lived for twenty
years.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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The British were repulsed with a loss of
two thousand; the
American
loss was trifling.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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He bought no ploughs and harrows, spades and shovels, and
such trifles;
But quietly to his rancho there came, by every train,
Boxes full of pikes and pistols, and his well-beloved Sharp's
rifles;
And
eighteen
other madmen joined their leader there again.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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"
"Nay, thou art not like me, O, Madman, for thou
shudderest
yet
before pain, and the song of the abyss terrifies thee.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Aboute hir eyen two a purpre ring
Bi-trent, in sothfast
tokninge
of hir peyne, 870
That to biholde it was a dedly thing,
For which Pandare mighte not restreyne
The teres from his eyen for to reyne.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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How fit for us, how even and how sweet, 55
How good in all her titles, and how meet,
To have reform'd this forward heresie,
That women can no parts of
friendship
bee;
How Morall, how Divine shall not be told,
Lest they that heare her vertues, thinke her old: 60
And lest we take Deaths part, and make him glad
Of such a prey, and to his tryumph adde.
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John Donne |
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Still, the
alacrity
with
which a Russian hostess will turn her house topsy-turvy for
the accommodation of forty or fifty guests would somewhat
astonish the mistress of a modern Belgravian mansion.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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This both
Penelope
and I afford:
Then, prince!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Lift thine eyes which lingering see
The shadows on the foot-worn threshold fall,
Lift thine eyes slowly to the great dark tree
That stands against heaven, solitary, tall,
And thou hast visioned Life, its
meanings
rise
Like words that in the silence clearer grow;
As they unfold before thy will to know
Gently withdraw thine eyes--
THE NEIGHBOUR
Strange violin!
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Rilke - Poems |
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"
XXV
His right hand glove that
Emperour
holds out;
But the count Guenes elsewhere would fain be found;
When he should take, it falls upon the ground.
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Chanson de Roland |
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up the
earthwork
they
will swarm!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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STOUT SCIPIO, Cornelius Scipio
Africanus
(B.
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From the young corn the prick-eared leverets stare
At
strangers
come to spy the land--small sirs,
We bring less danger than the very breeze
Who in great zig-zag blows the bee, and whirs
In bluebell shadow down the bright green leas;
From whom in frolic fit the chopt straw darts and flees.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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He joined the Fourth Crusade in 1203 and was present at the siege of
Constantinople
in 1204.
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Troubador Verse |
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Byckerment
34
VI.
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Lewis Carroll |
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[Poems by William Blake 1789]
SONGS OF INNOCENCE AND OF EXPERIENCE
and THE BOOK of THEL
SONGS OF INNOCENCE
INTRODUCTION
Piping down the valleys wild,
Piping songs of pleasant glee,
On a cloud I saw a child,
And he
laughing
said to me:
"Pipe a song about a Lamb!
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blake-poems |
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Quare nec tales dignantur visere coetus,
Nec se
contingi
patiuntur lumine claro.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Divide ye bands
influence
by influence
Build we a Bower for heavens darling in the grizly deep
Build we the Mundane Shell around the Rock of Albion {Blake's rendering of this line is distinctly different from the surrounding text in form, though no indication of why is apparent.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Timotheus
placed on high
Amid the tuneful quire
With flying fingers touch'd the lyre:
The trembling notes ascend the sky
And heavenly joys inspire.
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Golden Treasury |
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But no such
everlastingness
for me!
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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No more--no more--no more--
(Such
language
holds the solemn sea
To the sands upon the shore)
Shall bloom the thunder-blasted tree,
Or the stricken eagle soar!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Emily
Dickinson
appears to have written her first poems in the
winter of 1862.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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"
Such was the flow of that pure rill, that well'd
From forth the fountain of all truth; and such
The rest, that to my wond'ring
thoughts
I found.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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What pressure from the hands that
lifeless
lie?
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Longfellow |
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Besides, we observe ten vessels
Of our old enemies,
flaunting
their banners;
They have dared to approach the river-course.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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See to it that both act honourably,
Once over, bring the
conqueror
to me.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Or ask of yonder argent fields above,
Why Jove's
satellites
are less than Jove?
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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As for
Penelope, she told him of her intent to promise herself to the man who
could wield Ulysses' bow, knowing well that none had the
strength
and
skill.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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It is interesting also to compare Donne's series of
petitions
with
those in a Middle English Litany preserved in the Balliol Coll.
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John Donne |
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There are terrible
temptations
that it requires strength--strength and
courage--to yield to.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Thou that wert wrapt in peace, the haze
Of
loveliness
spread over thee!
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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The Earl of
Leicester
here!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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At length along the flowery sward I saw
So sweet and fair a lady pensive move
That her mere thought inspires a tender awe;
Meek in herself, but haughty against Love,
Flow'd from her waist a robe so fair and fine
Seem'd gold and snow
together
there to join:
But, ah!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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at was so bryght,
to the
sexteyene
vppon a nyght.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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"
exclaimed
the old man,
"Happy are my eyes to see you.
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Longfellow |
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He wrote histories of the Revolution,
of
Napoleon
and of France.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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While the child laughs, beyond the bastion thick
Of that vast palace, Roman Catholic,
Whose every turret like a mitre shows,
Behind the lattice
something
dreadful goes.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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That little floweret's peaceful lot,
In yonder cliff that grows,
Which, save the linnet's flight, I wot,
Nae ruder visit knows,
Was mine, till Love has o'er me past,
And blighted a' my bloom;
And now, beneath the
withering
blast,
My youth and joy consume.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Anoon therwith whan I saw this, 500
He ferde thus evel ther he sete,
I wente and stood right at his fete,
And grette him, but he spak noght,
But argued with his owne thoght,
And in his witte disputed faste 505
Why and how his lyf might laste;
Him
thoughte
his sorwes were so smerte
And lay so colde upon his herte;
So, through his sorwe and hevy thoght,
Made him that he ne herde me noght; 510
For he had wel nigh lost his minde,
Thogh Pan, that men clepe god of kinde,
Were for his sorwes never so wrooth.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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It is a land of
poverty!
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blake-poems |
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This poem, with 236, exemplifies the peculiar skill with which Scott
employs proper names: nor is there a surer sign of high
poetical
genius.
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Golden Treasury |
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And the same may
possibly
be true of variants
in other poems.
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John Donne |
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Baccio Valori and
Philippo
Strozzi,
Once the Duke's friends and intimates are with us,
And Cardinals Salvati and Ridolfi.
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Longfellow |
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Christina Rossetti |
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By
Richmond
I raised my knees
Supine on the floor of a narrow canoe.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Strange that the termagant winds should scold
The
Christmas
Eve so bitterly!
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Sidney Lanier |
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The night was wide, and
furnished
scant
With but a single star,
That often as a cloud it met
Blew out itself for fear.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Petrarch
answered
that he had nothing
more to say.
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Petrarch |
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replied in the _United Irishman_
with an
impassioned
letter.
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Yeats |
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" KAU}
Of his three daughters were encompassd by the twelve bright halls
Every hall surrounded by bright Paradises of Delight
In which are towns & Cities Nations Seas Mountains & Rivers {Minor
grammatical
changes, in tense ("were" mended to "are") and capitalization ("mountains" to "Mountains") KAU}
Each Dome opend toward four halls & the Three Domes Encompassd
The Golden Hall of Urizen whose western side glowd bright
With ever streaming fires beaming from his awful limbs
His Shadowy Feminine Semblance here reposd on a [bright] White Couch
Or hoverd oer his Starry head & when he smild she brightend
Like a bright Cloud in harvest.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Our neighboring gentry reared
The good old-fashioned crops,
And made old-fashioned boasts
Of what John Bull would do
If
Frenchman
Frog appeared,
And drank old-fashioned toasts,
And made old-fashioned bows
To my Lady at the Hall.
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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"
I could no more--askance the
creature
eyeing,
D'ye think, said I, this face was made for crying?
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Robert Forst |
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I love all that thou lovest,
Spirit of
Delight!
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Golden Treasury |
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Or accordiamo a tanto invito il piede;
procacciam
di salir pria che s'abbui,
che poi non si poria, se 'l di non riede>>.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Boccalini, in his "Advertisements from Parnassus," tells us that Zoilus
once presented Apollo a very caustic criticism upon a very admirable
book:--whereupon the god asked him for the
beauties
of the work.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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For seven pyres
devoured
young-limbed
Men.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Among the fields she breathed again:
The master-current of her brain
Ran
permanent
and free;
And, coming to the banks of Tone,
There did she rest; and dwell alone
Under the greenwood tree.
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Golden Treasury |
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<>,
rispuose
lui, <
virtu del ciel mi mosse, e con lei vegno.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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The _mise-en-scene_ is
borrowed
from earlier times.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Two sounding darts the Lycian leader threw:
The first aloof with erring fury flew,
The next transpierced Achilles' mortal steed,
The generous Pedasus of Theban breed:
Fix'd in the shoulder's joint, he reel'd around,
Roll'd in the bloody dust, and paw'd the
slippery
ground.
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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What a filthy
Presidentiad!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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'
(For your dear departed wife, his friend) 2
November
1877
- 'Over the lost woods when dark winter lowers
You moan, O solitary captive of the threshold,
That this double tomb which our pride should hold's
Cluttered, alas, only with absent weight of flowers.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Or of the elder two--more anxious thought--
Breasting already broader waves of life,
A
conscious
innocence on either face,
My pensive daughter and my curious boy.
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Hugo - Poems |
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But by my heart of love laid bare to you,
My love that you can make not void nor vain,
Love that
foregoes
you but to claim anew
Beyond this passage of the gate of death,
I charge you at the Judgment make it plain
My love of you was life and not a breath.
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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Our lays are of cities whose lustre is shed,
The laughter and beauty of women long dead;
The sword of old battles, the crown of old kings,
And happy and simple and
sorrowful
things.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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HOW strange your conduct, cried the sprightly youth:
Extremes you seek, and overleap the truth;
Just now the fond desire to have a boy
Chased ev'ry care and filled your heart with joy;
At present quite the contrary appears
A moment changed your fondest hopes to fears;
Come, hear the rest; no longer waste your breath:
Kind Nature all can cure,
excepting
death.
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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In 1553 he went to Rome as one of the secretaries of
Cardinal
Jean du Bellay, his first cousin.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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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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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
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Wrinkles where his eyes are,
Wrinkles where his nose is,
Wrinkles where his mouth is,
And a little old devil looking out of every
wrinkle!
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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It is not difficult to find why he makes his
island of
Anchediva
to wander on the waves; it is an allusion to a
singular event related by Barros.
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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They might (were Harpax not too wise to spend)
Give Harpax' self the blessing of a friend;
Or find some doctor that would save the life
Of
wretched
Shylock, spite of Shylock's wife:
But thousands die, without or this or that,
Die, and endow a college, or a cat.
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Snowballs
burst
About them.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Rib, an
infrangible
one.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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What hast thou to do
With looking from the lattice-lights at me,
A poor, tired,
wandering
singer, singing through
The dark, and leaning up a cypress tree?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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If thought is life
And
strength
and breath,
And the want
Of thought is death;
Then am I
A happy fly.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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They, believing they'd
achieved
surprise,
Fearless, closed, anchored, disembarked,
And then they ran against us in the dark.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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"
The last part of _The Book of Hours_, _The Book of Poverty and Death_,
is finally a symphony of variations on the two great
symbolic
themes in
the work of Rilke.
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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LXVI
Tired with all these, for restful death I cry,
As to behold desert a beggar born,
And needy nothing trimm'd in jollity,
And purest faith unhappily forsworn,
And gilded honour shamefully misplac'd,
And maiden virtue rudely strumpeted,
And right
perfection
wrongfully disgrac'd,
And strength by limping sway disabled
And art made tongue-tied by authority,
And folly--doctor-like--controlling skill,
And simple truth miscall'd simplicity,
And captive good attending captain ill:
Tir'd with all these, from these would I be gone,
Save that, to die, I leave my love alone.
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But, when he had refused the proffered gold,
To cruel injuries he became a prey,
Sore traversed in whate'er he bought and sold:
His troubles grew upon him day by day,
Till all his
substance
fell into decay.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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I have a rendezvous with Death
On some scarred slope of
battered
hill,
When Spring comes round again this year
And the first meadow-flowers appear.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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If given my crime you await slow justice,
Honour and my
punishment
both languish.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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My mother taught me underneath a tree,
And, sitting down before the heat of day,
She took me on her lap and kissed me,
And,
pointing
to the East, began to say:
'Look on the rising sun: there God does live,
And gives His light, and gives His heat away,
And flowers and trees and beasts and men receive
Comfort in morning, joy in the noonday.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Keats - Lamia |
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" "I have the
intensest
delight
in music," he says there, "and can detect good from bad"; a rare thing
among poets.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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_ Herrick is here
imitating
the well-known lines of
Catullus to Lesbia (_Carm.
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Robert Herrick |
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In the course of the evening, you find chance for certain
Soft
speeches
to Anne, in the shade of the curtain:
You tell her your heart can be likened to _one_ flower,
'And that, O most charming of women, 's the sunflower,
Which turns'--here a clear nasal voice, to your terror, 270
From outside the curtain, says, 'That's all an error.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Ruppe il
silenzio
ne' concordi numi
poscia la luce in che mirabil vita
del poverel di Dio narrata fumi,
e disse: <
quando la sua semenza e gia riposta,
a batter l'altra dolce amor m'invita.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Then, methought, the air grew denser,
perfumed
from an unseen censer
Swung by Angels whose faint foot-falls tinkled on the tufted floor.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Thus it shall befall
Him who to worth in Women overtrusting
Lets her Will rule;
restraint
she will not brook,
And left to her self, if evil thence ensue,
Shee first his weak indulgence will accuse.
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Milton |
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Beneath the moon that shines so bright,
Till she is tired, let Betty Foy
With girt and stirrup fiddle-faddle;
But
wherefore
set upon a saddle
Him whom she loves, her idiot boy?
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Land of the warm heart and the
friendly
hand,
Strike the free chord; no more the muted strings!
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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'Twas then in valleys lone, remote,
In spring-time, heard the cygnet's note
By waters shining tranquilly,
That first the Muse
appeared
to me.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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To the Moon_
LVNA decus mundi, magni pars maxima caeli,
Luna, uagus noctis splendor, quam signa secuntur,
Luna parens mensum numerosa prole renascens:
tu biiugos stellante polos ab Sole gubernas,
te
redeunte
dies fraternus colligit horas;
te pater Oceanus renouato respicit amne,
te spirant terrae, tu uinclis Tartara cingis;
tu sistro resonas, Brimo, tu cymbala quassas;
Isis Luna Core, uel Vesta es Iuno Cybelle.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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