But Summer swiftly fades away
And golden Autumn draweth nigh,
And pallid nature
trembling
grieves,
A victim decked with golden leaves;
Dark clouds before the north wind fly;
It blew: it howled: till winter e'en
Came forth in all her magic sheen.
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He
could have
borrowed
money and gone back to Bristol, but there are many
precedents for beaten generalissimos falling on their swords rather
than return home defeated and disgraced.
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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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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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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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II
Tell me ye stones and give me O
glorious
palaces answer.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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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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"
To this the king: "Our
daughter
but express'd
Her cares imperfect to our godlike guest.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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"Or has the sudden frost
disturbed
its bed?
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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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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N'es-tu pas l'oasis ou je reve, et la gourde
Ou je hume a longs traits le vin du
souvenir?
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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my father, Petr'
Andrejitch!
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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LXXI
A void was at the bottom, where a wide
Portal conducted to an inner room:
From thence a light shone out on every side,
As of a torch
illumining
the gloom.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Your orders are vain breath--
That
stranger
enters to be known as Death--
Or merely Exile--clothed in alien guise--
Death drags away--with _his_ prey Exile flies!
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Hugo - Poems |
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Now I breathe you again, my woods of Ryton:
Not only golden with your daffodil-fires
Lying in pools on the loose dusky ground
Beneath the larches, tumbling in broad rivers
Down sloping grass under the cherry trees
And birches: but among your branches clinging
A mist of that Ferrara-gold I first
Loved in the easy hours then green with you;
And as I stroll about you now, I have
Accompanying me--like troops of lads and lasses
Chattering and dancing in a shining fortune--
Those
mornings
when your alleys of long light
And your brown rosin-scented shadows were
Enchanted with the laughter of my boys.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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"The Love of Christ which passeth Knowledge"
"A Bruised Reed shall he not Break"
A Better Resurrection
Advent
The Three Enemies
One Certainty
Christian
and Jew
Sweet Death
Symbols
"Consider the Lilies of the Field"
The World
A Testimony
Sleep at Sea
From House to Home
Old and New Year Ditties
Amen
Mother Country
THE PRINCE'S PROGRESS, ETC.
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Christina Rossetti |
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That
Emperour
by way of hostage guards it;
Four benches then upon the place he marshals
Where sit them down champions of either party.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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O Lord of Hoasts, how dear
The pleasant
Tabernacles
are!
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Milton |
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The scents of red roses and
sandalwood
flutter
and die in the maze of their gem-tangled hair,
And smiles are entwining like magical serpents
the poppies of lips that are opiate-sweet;
Their glittering garments of purple are burning
like tremulous dawns in the quivering air,
And exquisite, subtle and slow are the tinkle
and tread of their rhythmical, slumber-soft feet.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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How blanch again my statue virgin-limbed, 180
Soiled with the incense-smoke her chosen priest
Poured more
profusely
as within decreased
The fire unearthly, fed with coals from far
Within the soul's shrine?
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James Russell Lowell |
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Could she have guessed that it would be;
Could but a crier of the glee
Have climbed the distant hill;
Had not the bliss so slow a pace, --
Who knows but this
surrendered
face
Were undefeated still?
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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So when men bury us beneath the yew
Thy crimson-stained mouth a rose will be,
And thy soft eyes lush
bluebells
dimmed with dew,
And when the white narcissus wantonly
Kisses the wind its playmate some faint joy
Will thrill our dust, and we will be again fond maid and boy.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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From Maximin
IN sorrow, day and night the disciple watched
Upon the mount where from the Lord ascended:
"Thus leaveth thou thy faithful to
despair?
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Green
paddocks
have but little charms
With gain the merchandise of farms;
And, muse and marvel where we may,
Gain mars the landscape every day--
The meadow grass turned up and copt,
The trees to stumpy dotterels lopt,
The hearth with fuel to supply
For rest to smoke and chatter bye;
Giving the joy of home delights,
The warmest mirth on coldest nights.
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John Clare |
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--The next
succeeding
May,
We both to service went from sports and play,
Though in the village still; as friends and kin
Thought neighbour's service better to begin.
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John Clare |
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[Begun at Marlow, 1817 (summer); already in the press, March, 1818;
finished at the Baths of Lucca, August, 1818;
published
with other
poems, as the title-piece of a slender volume, by C.
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Shelley |
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"
First before all there answers Falfarun;
--Brother he was to King Marsiliun--
"Fair sir nephew, go you and I at once
Then verily this battle shall be done;
The
rereward
of the great host of Carlun,
It is decreed we deal them now their doom.
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Chanson de Roland |
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"
EARTH'S ANSWER
Earth raised up her head
From the
darkness
dread and drear,
Her light fled,
Stony, dread,
And her locks covered with grey despair.
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blake-poems |
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See Dionysius Homer's thoughts refine, 665
And call new
beauties
forth from ev'ry line!
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Alexander Pope |
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or if you must offend
Against the precept, ne'er
transgress
its End;
Let it be seldom, and compell'd by need; 165
And have, at least, their precedent to plead.
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Alexander Pope |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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7020
'If ther be castel or citee
Wherin that any bougerons be,
Although
that they of Milayne were,
For ther-of ben they blamed there:
Or if a wight, out of mesure, 7025
Wolde lene his gold, and take usure,
For that he is so coveitous:
Or if he be to leccherous,
Or [thefe, or] haunte simonye;
Or provost, ful of trecherye, 7030
Or prelat, living Iolily,
Or prest that halt his quene him by;
Or olde hores hostilers,
Or other bawdes or bordillers,
Or elles blamed of any vyce, 7035
Of whiche men shulden doon Iustyce:
By alle the seyntes that we pray,
But they defende hem with lamprey,
With luce, with elis, with samons,
With tendre gees, and with capons, 7040
With tartes, or with cheses fat,
With deynte flawnes, brode and flat,
With caleweys, or with pullaille,
With coninges, or with fyn vitaille,
That we, undir our clothes wyde, 7045
Maken thurgh our golet glyde:
Or but he wol do come in haste
Roo-venisoun, [y]-bake in paste:
Whether so that he loure or groine,
He shal have of a corde a loigne, 7050
With whiche men shal him binde and lede,
To brenne him for his sinful dede,
That men shulle here him crye and rore
A myle-wey aboute, and more.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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On this Mars armipotent raised the spirit and
strength
of the Latins,
and goaded their hearts to rage, and sent Flight and dark Fear among the
Teucrians.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Upon his fragile form the troopers' bloody grip
Was deeply dug, while sharply
challenged
they:
"Were you one of this currish crew?
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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'
_'Tresvolontiers;' _and he
proceeded
to his library, brought me a Dr.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Be with us now or we betray our trust — And say, "There is no wisdom but in death"
—
The
changeless
regions of our empery,
Where once we moved in friendship with the stars.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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O much deceived, much failing, hapless Eve,
Of thy
presumed
return!
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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who dost oft return,
Ministering comfort to my nights of woe,
From eyes which Death,
relenting
in his blow,
Has lit with all the lustres of the morn:
How am I gladden'd, that thou dost not scorn
O'er my dark days thy radiant beam to throw!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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And so the Day, about to yield his breath,
Utters the stars unto the
listening
Night,
To stand for burning fare-thee-wells of light
Said on the verge of death.
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Sidney Lanier |
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How many lambs might the stern wolf betray,
If like a lamb he could his looks
translate!
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Erdman does not note this
placement
in his edition.
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Blake - Zoas |
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" He
fired, and slightly wounded his opponent,
shouting
"Bravo!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Next, Camus, reverend sire, went footing slow,
His mantle hairy, and his bonnet sedge
Inwrought
with figures dim, and on the edge
Like to that sanguine flower inscribed with woe:
"Ah!
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Golden Treasury |
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No sooner had she entered, than our man
Locked instantly the door, but vain his plan;
To open it the
princess
had a key;
The girl her fault perceived, and tried to flee;
He held her fast; the charmer loudly called;
The princess came--or vainly she had squalled.
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La Fontaine |
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Methinks
I find her now, and now perceive
She's distant; now I soar, and now descend;
Now what I wish, now what is true believe.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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The stout
upstanders
say, All's well with us: ruers have nought to
rue!
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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She is praised by
contrast
with the
antitype, Thryth, just as Beowulf was praised by contrast with
Heremod.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Thine is the
stillest
night,
Thine the securest fold;
Too near thou art for seeking thee,
Too tender to be told.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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And when I reached the market place, a youth
standing
on a house-top
cried, "He is a madman.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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e
despoylynge
fro ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Yet my Hart
Throbs to know one thing: Tell me, if your Art
Can tell so much: Shall Banquo's issue euer
Reigne in this
Kingdome?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Brandimart
does his best, and when 'tis done,
Yields to the storm: Thus Fortune, fickle dame,
Now smiles upon the paynim monarch, who
Besieges royal Charlemagne anew.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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And whan I was not fer therfro, 1660
The savour of the roses swote
Me smoot right to the herte rote,
As I hadde al
embawmed
[be.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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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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Lucretius |
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) Iram, planted by King Shaddad, and now sunk
somewhere
in the
Sands of Arabia.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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"
Nay, why
external
for internal given?
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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* * * * Hesperus from us, O comrades, has stolen one away * * * * _Hymen O
Hymenaeus, Hymen hither O
Hymenaeus!
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Catullus - Carmina |
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The Native Member in Council knew as much about
Punjabis
as
he knew about Charing Cross.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Soon as the
prospect
open'd to his view,
His wounded eyes the scene of sorrow knew;
Dire disarray!
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Iliad - Pope |
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"We see an instance of Coleridge's liability to err, in his 'Biographia
Literaria'--professedly his
literary
life and opinions, but, in fact, a
treatise _de omni scibili et quibusdam aliis.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Ever the dim beginning,
Ever the growth, the rounding of the circle,
Ever the summit and the merge at last, (to surely start again,)
Eidolons!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Throw
Physicke
to the Dogs, Ile none of it.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Je sais qu'il est des yeux, des plus melancoliques,
Qui ne recelent point de secrets precieux;
Beaux ecrins sans joyaux, medaillons sans reliques,
Plus vides, plus
profonds
que vous-memes, o Cieux!
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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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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Last, may the bride and
bridegroom
be
Untouch'd by cold sterility;
But in their springing blood so play,
As that in lusters few they may,
By laughing too, and lying down,
People a city or a town.
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Robert Herrick |
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Cloud another lord awaited,
Or that in scenes Le Notre's art created
For princely sport and ease,
Crimean steeds,
trampling
the velvet glade,
Should browse the bark beneath the stately shade
Of the great Louis' trees?
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Hugo - Poems |
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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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If, which our valley bars, this wall of stone,
From which its present name we closely trace,
Were by
disdainful
nature rased, and thrown
Its back to Babel and to Rome its face;
Then had my sighs a better pathway known
To where their hope is yet in life and grace:
They now go singly, yet my voice all own;
And, where I send, not one but finds its place.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Copyright
laws in most countries are in
a constant state of change.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Be pleased to admire
My
juvenile
choir!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Coleridge - Poems |
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E l'un
rispuose
a me: <
son di piombo si grosse, che li pesi
fan cosi cigolar le lor bilance.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Midway in it the
pleasant Tiber stream breaks to sea in
swirling
eddies, laden with
yellow sand.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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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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"
Brings his horse his eldest sister,
And the next his arms, which glister,
Whilst the third, with
childish
prattle,
Cries, "when wilt return from battle?
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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"
--Thus
answered
Johnny in his glory,
And that was all his travel's story.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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--
Said one, console thyself:--past moments scan;
When thou hast rested here a thousand years,
Thou'lt then ascend amid the Heav'nly spheres;
But first in holy purgatory learn,
To cleanse thyself from sins that we discern;
One day thy soul shall leave this
loathsome
place,
And, pure as ice, repair to realms of grace.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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NURSE'S SONG
When the voices of children are heard on the green,
And
laughing
is heard on the hill,
My heart is at rest within my breast,
And everything else is still.
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The first personal merit which appears in his almost wholly
valueless
early
work is a sense of colour.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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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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In headquarters you were allowed to be a remonstrating official; such is
unprecedented
in the court.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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He starts in
revulsion
on
seeing_ APOLLO.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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They tell us you might sue us if there is
something
wrong with
your copy of this etext, even if you got it for free from
someone other than us, and even if what's wrong is not our
fault.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Own to light, love, attraction,
O pearls the sea mingles with its great masses,
O
gleaming
birds of the forest's sombre ocean!
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I weep alone the woes which all my kind
Should weep--for virtue's fairest flower has pined
Beneath thy touch: what second blooms
instead?
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Gentle night, do thou
befriend
me,
Downy sleep, the curtain draw;
Spirits kind, again attend me,
Talk of him that's far awa!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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whose vista seems so
brightly
fill'd,
A sunny breath, and that exhaling, dies
The hope, oft, many watchful years have swell'd.
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Petrarch |
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I fear me
'Tis as you say--his
lordship
is unwell.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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IV
She, who with her head the stars surpassed,
One foot on Dawn, the other on the Main,
One hand on Scythia, the other Spain,
Held the round of earth and sky encompassed:
Jupiter fearing, if higher she was classed,
That the old Giants' pride might rise again,
Piled these hills on her, these seven that soar,
Tombs of her
greatness
at the heavens cast.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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I ought to speak out freely
With words though that will take,
For it can scarcely please me
When the
tricksters
rake
More love in than is at stake
For the lover who loves truly.
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Troubador Verse |
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From the fixed cone the cloud-rack flowed
Like ample banner flung abroad
To all the dwellers in the plains
Round about, a hundred miles,
With salutation to the sea and to the
bordering
isles.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Dried is the olive:
elsewhere
turn'd the stream
Whose source from famed Parnassus was derived.
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Petrarch |
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But, has he a friend that would dispute my claim
With this my sword which I have girt in place
My
judgement
will I warrant every way.
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Chanson de Roland |
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or how he told
Of the changed limbs of Tereus- what a feast,
What gifts, to him by
Philomel
were given;
How swift she sought the desert, with what wings
Hovered in anguish o'er her ancient home?
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Him at morning-tide
billows bore to the
Battling
Reamas,
whence he hied to his home so dear
beloved of his liegemen, to land of Brondings,
fastness fair, where his folk he ruled,
town and treasure.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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To mask my
departure
I'll stay here a moment.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Meredith - Poems |
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Then it may be, O flattering tale,
Some future ignoramus shall
My famous
portrait
indicate
And cry: he was a poet great!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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