How should the
Autocrat
of bondage be 300
The king of serfs, and set the nations free?
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Byron |
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We gather out our natures like a cloud,
And thus fulfil their
lightnings!
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5620
He thenkith nought that ever he shal
Into any
syknesse
falle.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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_Iuuenes_ GRVenB
50 _Numquam se extollit quam mun{i}team ducat uuam_ T
51 _per
flectens_
T
52 _flacellum_ T
53 _han{c} nulli agri?
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Latin - Catullus |
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James
Cunningham, Earl of Glencairn, died 20th January, 1791, aged 42 years;
he was succeeded by his only and
childless
brother, with whom this
ancient race was closed.
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Robert Forst |
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He gives the words of the decree, and also of the
edict, by which the
teachers
were banished by Crassus, several years
after.
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Tacitus |
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is
moeueable
[[pg 172]]
{and} t{ra}nsitorie moment.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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USHER: Franz von Sickingen is without and sends word that having
heard how faith has been broken with his brother-in-law, he insists
upon justice, or within an hour he will fire the four
quarters
of the
town, and abandon it to be sacked by his men.
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The celebrated travel book entitled: 'History of Prince Don Pedro of Portugal, in which is told what happened to him on the way composed for Gomez of
Santistevan
when he had covered the seven regions of the globe, one of the twelve who bore the prince company', reports that the Prince of Portugal, Don Pedro of Alfaroubeira, set out with twelve companions to visit the seven regions of the world.
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Appoloinaire |
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Nor me the foot-bath pleases more; my foot
Shall none of all thy
ministring
maidens touch, 430
Unless there be some ancient matron grave
Among them, who hath pangs of heart endured
Num'rous, and keen as I have felt myself;
Her I refuse not.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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You see
I've had it since I was born;
And lately a
devilish
corn.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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We Have Created the Night
We have created the night I hold your hand I watch
I sustain you with all my powers
I engrave in rock the star of your powers
Deep furrows where your body's goodness fruits
I recall your hidden voice your public voice
I smile still at the proud woman
You treat like a beggar
The madness you respect the
simplicity
you bathe in
And in my head which gently blends with yours with the night
I wonder at the stranger you become
A stranger resembling you resembling everything I love
One that is always new.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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DAMOETAS
For me too wrought the same Alcimedon
A pair of cups, and round the handles wreathed
Pliant acanthus, Orpheus in the midst,
The forests
following
in his wake; nor yet
Have I set lip to them, but lay them by.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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I have heard your quick breaths
And seen your arms writhe toward me;
At those times
--God help us--
I was
impelled
to be a grand knight,
And swagger and snap my fingers,
And explain my mind finely.
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Stephen Crane |
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I wrote a novel, I wrote fat volumes of journals; I
took myself very
seriously
in those days.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Will men not say
That
insolently
we made of sacred things
A worldly instrument?
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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For whom I robbed the dingle,
For whom betrayed the dell,
Many will
doubtless
ask me,
But I shall never tell!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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"But all the mighty standard yet had wrought,
And was appointed to perform thereafter,
Throughout the mortal kingdom which it sway'd,
Falls in
appearance
dwindled and obscur'd,
If one with steady eye and perfect thought
On the third Caesar look; for to his hands,
The living Justice, in whose breath I move,
Committed glory, e'en into his hands,
To execute the vengeance of its wrath.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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To think of time--of all that
retrospection!
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Whitman |
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XXIII
Oh how wise that man was, in his caution,
Who counselled, so his race might not moulder,
Nor Rome's citizens be spoiled by leisure,
That Carthage should be spared
destruction!
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Half-past three,
The lamp sputtered,
The lamp
muttered
in the dark.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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"
My
sympathies
were warming fast
Towards the little fellow:
He was so utterly aghast
At having found a Man at last,
And looked so scared and yellow.
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Lewis Carroll |
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For the most part, the poetry of war,
undertaken
in this spirit, has
touched and exalted such special qualities as patriotism, courage, self-
sacrifice, enterprise, and endurance.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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STREET CRIES
When dawn's first cymbals beat upon the sky,
Rousing the world to labour's various cry,
To tend the flock, to bind the
mellowing
grain,
From ardent toil to forge a little gain,
And fasting men go forth on hurrying feet,
BUY BREAD, BUY BREAD, rings down the eager street.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Perhaps the theory of Perizonius cannot
be better
illustrated
than by showing that what he supposes to
have taken place in ancient times has, beyond all doubt, taken
place in modern times.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Like moon just dawning on the night
The
crescent
honours of his head;
One dapple spot of snowy white,
The rest all red.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Now, Christ be
thanked!
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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My sister and my fae,
Grim
vengeance
yet shall whet a sword
That thro' thy soul shall gae!
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Robert Burns |
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When I hoped I feared,
Since I hoped I dared;
Everywhere alone
As a church remain;
Spectre cannot harm,
Serpent cannot charm;
He deposes doom,
Who hath
suffered
him.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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There is a
legend[15] that he was drowned while making a drunken effort to embrace
the
reflection
of the moon in the water.
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Li Po |
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"
They shall remember how we used to walk
Here on the cliff beneath the oleanders
In the long limpid
twilight
of the spring,
Looking toward Lemnos, where the amber sky
Was pierced with the faint arrow of a star.
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Sara Teasdale |
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As they are
arresting
him_, DOWN-RIGHT _enters.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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_129
conqueror
or conqueror's cj.
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Shelley |
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Perhaps you're not aware
That, if you don't behave, you'll soon
Be
chuckling
to another tune--
And so you'd best take care!
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| Question: |
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Lewis Carroll |
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555
What need of armes, where peace doth ay remaine,
(Said he,) and
battailes
none are to be fought?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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:
_diuuenti_
uisus sum legere in
Paris.
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Latin - Catullus |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Cupid, escaping attention, slipped off to enslave, however, her hero:
Artlessly conquering by--force of a
beautiful
girl,
Afterward decked out his couple in mute masquerade: lionskin
Over her shoulders, the club leaned (by much toil) at her side;
Wiry stiff hair of the hero larded with blossoms, a distaff
Laid in his fist, to conform strength to the dalliance of love.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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In two
The six
associates
part.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Half-past two,
The street-lamp said,
"Remark the cat which
flattens
itself in the gutter,
Slips out its tongue
And devours a morsel of rancid butter.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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[314] Driven in from the country parts by the
Lacedaemonian
invaders.
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Aristophanes |
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Secondo che ci
affliggono
i disiri
e li altri affetti, l'ombra si figura;
e quest' e la cagion di che tu miri>>.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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My
crippled
sense fares bow'd along
His uncompanioned way,
And wronged by death pays life with wrong
And I wake by night and dream by day.
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Chimene
You should rather take part in all this joy,
Blessing the grace the Heavens employ,
Madame, no one but me
deserves
to suffer.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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these young birds,
With gay and
glittering
wing and amorous song,
Can shed their love as lightly as their plumage.
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Hugo - Poems |
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My boy was by my side, so slim
And
graceful
in his rustic dress!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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with great surprise,
He saw a palace of
extensive
size,
Erected where, an hour or two before,
A hovel was not seen, nor e'en a door.
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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The seventh, the fraudful wretch (no cause descried),
Touch'd by Diana's
vengeful
arrow, died.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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2 By the
pricking
of my Thumbes,
Something wicked this way comes:
Open Lockes, who euer knockes.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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editions
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be renamed.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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What is this sudden cradle song
That
gradually
lulls my poor being?
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19th Century French Poetry |
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subject to the trademark license,
especially
commercial
redistribution.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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"
--Yet when we came back, late, from the
Hyacinth
garden,
Your arms full, and your hair wet, I could not
Speak, and my eyes failed, I was neither
Living nor dead, and I knew nothing, 40
Looking into the heart of light, the silence.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Robert Forst |
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Then, fired by all the Muse, aloud he sings
The mighty deeds of demigods and kings;
From that fierce wrath the noble song arose,
That made Ulysses and
Achilles
foes;
How o'er the feast they doom the fall of Troy;
The stern debate Atrides hears with joy;
For Heaven foretold the contest, when he trod
The marble threshold of the Delphic god,
Curious to learn the counsels of the sky,
Ere yet he loosed the rage of war on Troy.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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CYCLOPS:
'Twas Nobody
destroyed
me.
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Shelley |
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"
Then the gauzes removes he which shade her,
At her beauty all wonder intensely;
One moment the Pasha survey'd her,
And,
dropping
his tchebouk, without sense lay.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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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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No man:
Th'
expedition
of my violent Loue
Out-run the pawser, Reason.
| Guess: |
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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But what
If I expose
beforehand
thy bold fraud
To all men?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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"The thirst
Of
knowledge
high, whereby thou art inflam'd,
To search the meaning of what here thou seest,
The more it warms thee, pleases me the more.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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"Let us see," said he, "if you will be able to keep your word; poets
have as much need of an
audience
as Ivan Kouzmitch has need of his
'_petit verre_' before dinner.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Se l'ira sovra 'l mal voler s'aggueffa,
ei ne
verranno
dietro piu crudeli
che 'l cane a quella lievre ch'elli acceffa'.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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260
I saw parch'd
Abyssinia
rouse and sing
To the silver cymbals' ring!
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Keats |
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There is no copy at the India
House, none at the
Bibliotheque
Nationale of Paris.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Sara Teasdale |
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And thou, who never yet of human wrong
Left the unbalanced scale, great
Nemesis!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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I am God from
Eternity
to Eternity
Obey thy Lord.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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Ventre affame n'a pas d'oreilles
Et les
convives
mastiquaient a qui mieux mieux
Ah!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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In the present instance
the worthy man was so entirely carried away by the
excessive
warmth of
his sympathy, that he seemed to have quite forgotten, when he offered to
go bail for his young friend, that he himself (Mr.
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Poe - 5 |
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"--"If I should stay,"
Said Lamia, "here, upon this floor of clay,
And pain my steps upon these flowers too rough,
What canst thou say or do of charm enough
To dull the nice
remembrance
of my home?
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Keats - Lamia |
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Ile Charme the Ayre to giue a sound,
While you
performe
your Antique round:
That this great King may kindly say,
Our duties, did his welcome pay.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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BRUMES ET PLUIES
O fins d'automne, hivers, printemps trempes de boue,
Endormeuses
saisons!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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hē gefēng
slǣpendne
rinc, 741;
gūðrinc gefēng atolan clommum, 1502; gefēng þā be eaxle .
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Beowulf |
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The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Distressful
beauty melts each stander-by.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Christina Rossetti |
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12 All this
concernes
not you, who passe by mee, 45
O see, and marke if any sorrow bee
Like to my sorrow, which Jehova hath
Done to mee in the day of his fierce wrath?
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John Donne |
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It will be as wonderful as the
personality
of a child.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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She did not
come, but
although
the water began to rise, he trusted so firmly in her
word, that he clung to the pillars of the bridge and waited till he was
drowned.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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Howe'er, old boy, you presently shall see,
If any belle solicited should be,
To grant indulgencies, with
presents
sweet,
She will not straight capitulation beat;
At least, if they be such as I have viewed:--
Moor, change to dog; immediately ensued
The metamorphose that the fair required,
The black'moor was again a dog admired.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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My Lord, I dare to say here that heaven, 615
In this case, wished to make me an
exception!
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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Ay,
wonderful
in Jewry.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Whitman |
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Ah
traytoure!
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Sprenger
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' At the time when this highly
eulogistic
notice of the youthful
unknown poet appeared, the _Athenaeum_ was edited by John Sterling and
Frederick Denison Maurice, its then proprietors.
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Reasoning from the loins in the unreal forms of Ulros night
And when Luvah age after age was quite melted with woe
The fires of Vala faded like a shadow cold & pale
An
evanescent
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The French Text
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UN COUP DE DES JAMAIS, QUAND BIEN MEME LANCE DANS DES CIRCONSTANCES ETERNELLES DU FOND D'UN NAUFRAGE, Soit que l'Abime blanchi, etale, furieux sous une inclinaison planche desesperement d'aile, la sienne, par avance retombee d'un mal a dresser le vol et couvrant les jaillissements, coupant au ras les bonds tres a l'interieur resume l'ombre enfouie dans la profondeur, par cette voile alternative jusqu'adapter sa beante profondeur entant que la coque d'un batiment penche de l'un ou l'autre bord
LE MAITRE, hors d'anciens calculs, ou la manoeuvre avec l'age oubliee surgi jadis, il empoignait la barre inferant de cette configuration a ses pieds de l'horizon unanime, que se prepare s'agite et mele au poing qui l'etreindrait, comme on menace un destin et les vents, l'unique Nombre, qui ne peut pas etre un autre Esprit, pour le jeter dans la tempete en reployer la division et passer fier; hesite, cadavre par le bras ecarte du secret qu'il detient plutot que de jouer, en maniaque: chenu la partie au nom des flots, un envahit le chef, coule en barbe, soumise naufrage, cela direct de l'homme sans nef, n'importe ou vaine
ancestralement a n'ouvrir pas la main crispee par dela l'inutile tete, legs en la disparition, a quelqu'un ambigu, l'ulterieur demon immemorial, ayant de contrees nulles induit le
vieillard
vers cette conjonction supreme avec la probabilite, celui son ombre puerile caressee et polie et rendue et lavee assouplie par la vague, et soustraite aux durs os perdus entre les ais ne d'un ebat, la mer par l'aieul tentant ou l'aieul contre la mer, une chance oiseuse, Fiancailles dont le voile d'illusion rejailli leur hantise, ainsi que le fantome d'un geste chancellera, s'affalera, folie N'ABOLIRA
COMME SI Une insinuation simple au silence, enroulee avec ironie, ou le mystere precipite, hurle, dans quelque proche tourbillon d'hilarite et d'horreur, voltige autour du gouffre sans le joncher ni fuir et en berce le vierge indice COMME SI
plume solitaire eperdue, sauf que la rencontre ou l'effleure une toque de minuit et immobilise au velours chiffonne par un esclaffement sonore, cette blancheur rigide, derisoire en opposition au ciel, trop pour ne pas marquer exigument quiconque prince amer de l'ecueil, s'en coiffe comme de l'heroique, irresistible mais contenu par sa petite raison, virile en foudre
soucieux expiatoire et pubere muet rire que SI La lucide et seigneuriale aigrette de vertige au front invisible scintille, puis ombrage, une stature mignonne tenebreuse, debout en sa torsion de sirene, le temps de souffleter, par d'impatientes squames ultimes, bifurquees, un roc faux manoir tout de suite evapore en brumes qui imposa une borne a l'infini
C'ETAIT LE NOMBRE, issu stellaire, EXISTAT-IL autrement qu'hallucination eparse, d'agonie; COMMENCAT-IL ET CESSAT-IL, sourdant que nie, et clos, quand apparu enfin, par quelque profusion repandue en rarete; SE CHIFFRAT-IL evidence de la somme, pour peu qu'une; ILLUMINAT-IL, CE SERAIT, pire non davantage ni moins indifferemment mais autant, LE HASARD Choit la plume, rythmique suspens du sinistre, s'ensevelir aux ecumes originelles nagueres, d'ou sursauta son delire jusqu'a une cime fletrie par la neutralite identique du gouffre
RIEN de la memorable crise ou se fut l'evenement accompli, en vue de tout resultat nul humain, N'AURA EU LIEU, une elevation ordinaire verse l'absence QUE LE LIEU inferieur clapotis quelconque, comme pour disperser l'acte vide abruptement, qui sinon par son mensonge eut fonde la perdition, dans ces parages du vague, en quoi toute realite se dissout
EXCEPTE a l'altitude PEUT-ETRE, aussi loin qu'un endroit fusionne avec au-dela, hors l'interet quant a lui signale, en general, selon telle obliquite, par telle declivite de feux, vers ce doit etre le Septentrion aussi Nord UNE CONSTELLATION froide d'oubli et de desuetude, pas tant qu'elle n'enumere, sur quelque surface vacante et superieure, le heurt successif, sideralement, d'un compte total en formation, veillant, doutant, roulant, brillant et meditant avant de s'arreter a quelque point dernier qui le sacre Toute pensee emet un Coup de Des.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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She first appears in the persons of Fallace
and Saviolina in _Every Man out of his Humor_; then in _Cynthia's
Revels_, where Moria and her friends play the part; then as
Cytheris
in
_Poetaster_, Lady Politick in _The Alchemist_, the collegiate ladies
in _The Silent Woman_, and Fulvia and Sempronia in _Catiline_.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Chimene
My
troubled
mind dares hope for nothing there.
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NOTE:
_275 right
editions
1824, 1839; night 1822.
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Shelley |
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Among other things, this
requires
that you do not remove, alter or modify the
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Their
children
cried, "O ma and pa!
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Lear - Nonsense |
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_ Hard as thy chains and cold as all these rocks
Is he, Prometheus, who
withholds
his heart
From joining in thy woe.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Ah, when I die, and planets hold their flight
Above my grave, still let my spirit keep
Sometimes
its vigil of divine remorse,
'Midst pity, praise, or blame heaped o'er my corse!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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