1157-1170)
A townsman's son from the Bishopric of Clermont-Ferrand, Peire d'Alvernhe was a
professional
troubadour.
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Troubador Verse |
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How to entangle, trammel up and snare
Your soul in mine, and
labyrinth
you there
Like the hid scent in an unbudded rose?
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Keats |
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An
instance
of the kind I'll now detail:
The feeling bosom will such lots bewail!
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La Fontaine |
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Three days in the cathedral did I visit
His corpse,
escorted
thither by all Uglich.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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I am the pool of blue
That
worships
the vivid sky;
My hopes were heaven-high,
They are all fulfilled in you.
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Sara Teasdale |
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A
thousand
times I fondly ask the boon;
Let's take it to the woods: 'tis not too soon;
Young as it is, I'll feed it morn and night,
And always make it my supreme delight.
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La Fontaine |
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But no force may withhold Evander; he comes
amid them; the bier is set down; he flings himself on Pallas, and clasps
him with tears and sighs, and scarcely at last does grief leave his
voice's
utterance
free.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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the tyrant whom I sing, descried
Ere long his error, that, till then, his dart
Not yet beneath the gown had pierced my heart,
And brought a
puissant
lady as his guide,
'Gainst whom of small or no avail has been
Genius, or force, to strive or supplicate.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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they will lie
becalmed
in sight of strand,--
Sight of my strand, where I do dwell alone;
Their songs wake singing echoes in my land,--
They cannot hear me moan.
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Christina Rossetti |
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_Charles
Hamilton
Sorley_
NO MAN'S LAND
No Man's Land is an eerie sight
At early dawn in the pale gray light.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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I found the phrase to every thought
I ever had, but one;
And that defies me, -- as a hand
Did try to chalk the sun
To races
nurtured
in the dark; --
How would your own begin?
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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ou art welcome vs vntille,
Her-Inne
schaltou
wone;
Page 44
216
I was out after ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Pagans are come great martyrdom seeking;
Noble and fair reward this day shall bring,
Was never won by any
Frankish
King.
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Chanson de Roland |
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THE
SZECHWAN
ROAD
Eheu!
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Li Po |
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CCXXIII
And the eighth column hath Naimes made ready;
Tis of Flamengs, and barons out of Frise;
Forty
thousand
and more good knights are these,
Nor lost by them has any battle been.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Chatterton first exhibited the _Songe to AElla_ in his own
handwriting, then gave Barrett the parchment, which
contained
strange
textual variations.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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She snuffs and barks if any passes bye
And swings her tail and turns
prepared
to fly.
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John Clare |
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The tablet is said to have been found at Senkere, ancient
Larsa near Warka, modern Arabic name for and vulgar descendant
of the ancient name Uruk, the Biblical Erech
mentioned
in Genesis
X.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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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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But accept, ye sublime Majority,
My
congratulations
hearty.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Fair Burnet strikes th' adoring eye,
Heaven's
beauties
on my fancy shine;
I see the Sire of Love on high,
And own His work indeed divine!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Delfica
Do you know it, Daphne, that ballad of old,
At the sycamore-foot, or beneath the white laurels,
Under myrtle or olive or trembling willows,
That song of love that resounds
forever?
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Thomas Warton's
_Enquiry
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Canst hear me through the water-bass,
Cry: "To the Shore,
Sweetheart?
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Sidney Lanier |
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And he of the swollen purple throat,
And the stark and staring eyes,
Waits for the holy hands that took
The Thief to Paradise;
And a broken and a
contrite
heart
The Lord will not despise.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Whose
causeway
parts the vale with shady rows?
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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From cocoon forth a butterfly
As lady from her door
Emerged -- a summer afternoon --
Repairing everywhere,
Without design, that I could trace,
Except to stray abroad
On
miscellaneous
enterprise
The clovers understood.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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and when the morning ray
Sheds her bright beam, pursue the
destined
way.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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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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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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Imagists |
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VII Spatium unius uersus in O titulo carens: _AD
LESBIAM_
cett.
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Latin - Catullus |
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I scarcely ought to say what now I speak,
But anxiously your
happiness
I seek.
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La Fontaine |
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We gazed with terror on the gloomy sleep
Of them that
perished
in the whirlwind's sweep, 1798.
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William Wordsworth |
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Long
conversations
she could rarely get,
And various obstacles the lovers met;
No interviews where they might be at ease,
But ev'ry thing conspired to fret and teaze.
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La Fontaine |
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"
So spake the hypocrites, who cursed and lied; _3605
Alas, their sway was past, and tears and laughter
Clung to their hoary hair, withering the pride
Which in their hollow hearts dared still abide;
And yet
obscener
slaves with smoother brow,
And sneers on their strait lips, thin, blue and wide, _3610
Said that the rule of men was over now,
And hence, the subject world to woman's will must bow;
17.
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Shelley |
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A story born out of the dreaming eyes
And crazy brain and
credulous
ears of famine.
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Yeats |
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But the
complete
type was refined away during the fifth century; and one
stage in the process produced a play with a normal chorus but with one
figure of the Satyric or "revelling" type.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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For truth and goodness are plain and open; but
imposture
is
ever ashamed of the light.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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At length they reached the sea; on ship-board got;
A quick and pleasing passage was their lot;
Delightfully
serene, which joy increased;
To land they came (from perils thought released;)
At Joppa they debarked; two days remained:
And when refreshed, the proper road they gained;
Their escort was the lover's train alone;
On Asia's shores to plunder bands are prone;
By these were met our spark and lovely fair;
New dangers they, alas!
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La Fontaine |
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Elle se secouera de vous,
hargneux
pourris!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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NEIGHBOUR
But patience, if you please: attend I pray
You've no
conception
what I meant to say:
The playful fair was actively employ'd,
In plucking am'rous flow'rs--they kiss'd and toy'd.
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La Fontaine |
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So unsuspected violets
Within the fields lie low,
Too late for
striving
fingers
That passed, an hour ago.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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If ears are porches, mouth, nose, and eyes had better be doors and windows; yet the concept of
micromacrocosm
is better expressed in "infinite orb immoveable," with its matching of the oxymoron in "primum mobile.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Whoe'er offends, at some unlucky time
Slides into verse, and hitches in a rhyme,
Sacred to
ridicule
his whole life long,
And the sad burthen of some merry song.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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So they began to sing, voice answering voice
In strains alternate- for
alternate
strains
The Muses then were minded to recall-
First Corydon, then Thyrsis in reply.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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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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Christina Rossetti |
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Ye
mariners!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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CCXIV
Now to be off would that
Emperour
Charles,
When pagans, lo!
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Chanson de Roland |
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Only three manuscripts have the, to
my mind, most
probably
correct reading in _Satyre I_, l.
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John Donne |
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"
— Current Opinion, New
York
"Each
contribution
is a gem.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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37 BC
THE ECLOGUES
by Virgil
ECLOGUE I
MELIBOEUS TITYRUS
MELIBOEUS
You, Tityrus, 'neath a broad beech-canopy
Reclining, on the slender oat rehearse
Your silvan ditties: I from my sweet fields,
And home's
familiar
bounds, even now depart.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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With this incessant, passionless sensibility, it was not
unnatural
that his
thirst for friendship was stronger than his need of love; that to him
friendship was hardly distinguishable from love.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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No chapter met, howe'er, when morrow came;
Another day arrived, and still the same;
The sages of the convent thought it best,
In fact, to let the mystick
business
rest.
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La Fontaine |
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His enemies' spilt blood drowns out justice,
As a new trophy for his crimes does service;
We swell the pomp, and
scornful
of the law,
Follow his chariot, with two kings before.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Fortuitously appearing for a moment in the World
He
suddenly
departs, never to return.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Oh dear, night and day
the
experiments
are going on, and every man who brings a new
prescription is welcome as a brother.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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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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Christina Rossetti |
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1202)
Fortz chausa es que tot lo maior dan
A harsh thing it is that brings such harm,
Peire
Cardenal
(c.
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Troubador Verse |
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eue:
To
chircheward
he went.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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My days of life approach their end,
Yet I in idleness expend
The remnant destiny concedes,
And thus each
stubbornly
proceeds.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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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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I shall know why, when time is over,
And I have ceased to wonder why;
Christ will explain each
separate
anguish
In the fair schoolroom of the sky.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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_Reginald
McIntosh
Cleveland_
BRITISH MERCHANT SERVICE
Oh, down by Millwall Basin as I went the other day,
I met a skipper that I knew, and to him I did say:
"Now what's the cargo, Captain, that brings you up this way?
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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[Sidenote D: Sir Gawayne beseeches the king to let him
undertake
the blow.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Poor Avarice one torment more would find;
Nor could
Profusion
squander all in kind.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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It is characterized by
much of the
coarseness
which was so prevalent
in that age, and from which Marvell was by no
means free ; though, as we shall endeavour here-
after to show, his spirit was far from partaking
of the malevolence of ordinary satirists.
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Marvell - Poems |
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And naked to the hangman's noose
The morning clocks will ring
A neck God made for other use
Than
strangling
in a string.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Strange unto her each
childish
game,
But when the winter season came
And dark and drear the evenings were,
Terrible tales she loved to hear.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Now and then he would be
cheerful
and confident about the future,
sketching plans for going Home and seeing his mother.
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Kipling - Poems |
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The old man sits among his broken
experiments
and looks at the burning
Cathedral.
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Imagists |
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This and the fellow poem _Upon
Absence_
may be compared with Donne's
poems on the same theme.
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John Donne |
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The myrtle groves are those of the
Underworld
in Classical mythology.
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Ronsard |
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The wealth might disappoint,
Myself a poorer prove
Than this great purchaser suspect,
The daily own of Love
Depreciate the vision;
But, till the
merchant
buy,
Still fable, in the isles of spice,
The subtle cargoes lie.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Pope disliked him because of his
criticism of the poet's
translation
of the 'Iliad', "good verses, but
not Homer.
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Alexander Pope |
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What are the roots that clutch, what
branches
grow
Out of this stony rubbish?
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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According to his
legendary
vida, he was the lover of Seremonda, or Soremonda, wife of Raimon of Castel Rossillon.
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Troubador Verse |
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XXXV
His malady, whose cause I ween
It now to
investigate
is time,
Was nothing but the British spleen
Transported to our Russian clime.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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AElla, whanne
knowynge
thatte bie you I lyve,
Wylle thyncke too smalle a guyfte the londe & sea.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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And yet there is in this no Gordian knot
Which one might not undo without a sabre,
If one could merely
comprehend
the plot.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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My memory
Is still
obscured
by seeing your coming
And going.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Je me
souviens!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Are so
superfluous
cold,
I would as soon attempt to warm
The bosoms where the frost has lain
Ages beneath the mould.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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After a single citation only
exceptions
are noted.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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The attempt would only hurry me into that sphere of
acute
feelings
from which abstruse research, the mother of self-oblivion,
presents an asylum.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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80
--To towns, whose shades of no rude noise [19] complain,
From ringing team apart [20] and grating wain--
To flat-roofed towns, that touch the water's bound,
Or lurk in woody sunless glens profound,
Or, from the bending rocks, obtrusive cling, 85
And o'er the
whitened
wave their shadows fling--
The pathway leads, as round the steeps it twines; [21]
And Silence loves its purple roof of vines.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Ere I start,
A
kindlier
errand interrupts my heart,
And I must utter, though it vex your ears,
The love, the honor, felt so many years.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Free scope he yields unto his glance,
Reviews both dress and countenance,
With all
dissatisfaction
shows.
| Guess: |
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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An elderly waiter
with trembling hands was hurriedly
spreading
a pink and white checked
cloth over the rusty green iron table, saying: "If the lady and
gentleman wish to take their tea in the garden, if the lady and
gentleman wish to take their tea in the garden .
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While Laura smiles, all-conscious of that love
Which from this
faithful
breast no time can e'er remove.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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/ Paris:/
Published
by A.
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Byron |
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Tindal of Oxford left him a
considerable
sum
of money.
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Alexander Pope |
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Your idle and
luxurious
way of living
Will one day take your breath away entirely.
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Longfellow |
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MEPHISTOPHELES (zu Faust):
Herr Doktor, nicht
gewichen!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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The maiden at her casement sits
As
daylight
glimmers, darkness flits,
But ah!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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"
--"Deeds of home; that live yet
Fresh as new--deeds of
fondness
or fret;
Ancient words that were kindly expressed or unkindly,
These, these have their heeds.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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--to tell
The
loveliness
of loving well!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Phaedra
Noble,
glittering
creator of a sad family,
You, whose daughter my mother dared claim to be, 170
Who blush perhaps on viewing my troubled mind,
Oh Sun, I come to look on you for one last time.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Then Mary Bayfield seeks the glen,
The white
hawthorn
and grey oak tree,
And nought but heaven can tell me then
How dear thy beauty is to me.
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John Clare |
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