"
exclaimed
the old man,
"Happy are my eyes to see you.
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If your fair hand had not made a sign to me then,
White hand that makes you a
daughter
of the swan,
I'd have died, Helen, of the rays from your eyes:
But that gesture towards me saved a soul in pain:
Your eye was pleased to carry away the prize,
Yet your hand rejoiced to grant me life again.
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Ronsard |
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"--
Starts with sudden life and hears
Through the slow dripping of the
caverned
caves,--
_Angel Voices.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Sweet friend, do you wake or are you
sleeping?
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Troubador Verse |
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thy love, though much, is not so great:
It is my love that keeps mine eye awake:
Mine own true love that doth my rest defeat,
To play the
watchman
ever for thy sake:
For thee watch I, whilst thou dost wake elsewhere,
From me far off, with others all too near.
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e
fortunes
{and} ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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But, Queen, such squalid undress none should see,
Those dream-endangering eyewounds no more be
Where lovers first behold thy form in
pilgrimage
to thee.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Business
of every other kind devolved on Galeazzo.
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Petrarch |
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No, they were
tolerant
and Christian, saying, 'We
Only deplore .
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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XXXIX
I grow weary of the foreign cities,
The sea travel and the
stranger
peoples.
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Sappho |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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I mean, has ne'er your heart been smitten
slightly?
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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I composed these verses while I stayed at
Ochtertyre
with Sir William
Murray.
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Robert Forst |
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that
dwellest
where,
In the deep sky,
The terrible and fair,
In beauty vie!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Be Lyon metled, proud, and take no care:
Who chafes, who frets, or where Conspirers are:
Macbeth shall neuer vanquish'd be, vntill
Great Byrnam Wood, to high
Dunsmane
Hill
Shall come against him.
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Keats |
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I will reveal a great, a terrible
conspiracy
against the gods
to you.
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Aristophanes |
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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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I
trembled
at
the storied cliffs.
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Li Po |
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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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For philosophy and poetry combined, Browning and
Tennyson
lie
nearer to our age and mode of thought than Pope.
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Alexander Pope |
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"
So spake the varlet Marcus; and dread and silence came
On all the people at the sound of the great
Claudian
name.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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MELIBOEUS
I grudge you not the boon, but marvel more,
Such wide
confusion
fills the country-side.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Sappho |
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But, on coming to the top of a high hill, they
perceived
at a
long distance off a Clangle-Wangle (or, as it is more properly written,
Clangel-Wangel); and, in spite of the warning they had had, they ran
straight up to it.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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She hath called me from mine old ways, She hath hushed my rancour of council, Bidding me praise
Naught but the wind that
flutters
in the leaves.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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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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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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XI
Mars, now ashamed to have granted power
To his
offspring
who, with mortal frailty,
Engorged with pride in Rome's bravery,
Looked to infringe on Heaven's grandeur,
Cooling again from his initial ardour,
With which Roman hearts he'd filled completely,
Blew new fires, with ardent breath, and fiercely,
Warmed the chilly Goths with his hot valour.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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"
Digitized by VjOOQIC
14 THE POEMS
Now, Fairfax, seek her
promised
faith ;
Keligion that dispensed hath
Which she henceforward does begin ;
The Nun's smooth tongue has sucked her in.
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Marvell - Poems |
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And in the copies which she sent to friends,
sometimes
one
form, sometimes another, is found to have been used.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Latin mortal
dreadful
word,
Ibis, Nile's native bird.
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Appoloinaire |
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The dying need but little, dear, --
A glass of water's all,
A flower's unobtrusive face
To
punctuate
the wall,
A fan, perhaps, a friend's regret,
And certainly that one
No color in the rainbow
Perceives when you are gone.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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That stand by the inward-opening door
Trade's hand doth tighten ever more,
And sigh their
monstrous
foul-air sigh
For the outside hills of liberty,
Where Nature spreads her wild blue sky
For Art to make into melody!
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Sidney Lanier |
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"
It was a secret dispatch, addressed to all Commanders of detachments,
ordering them to arrest me
wherever
I should be found, and to send me
under a strong escort to Khasan, to the Commission of Inquiry appointed
to try Pugatchef and his accomplices.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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'Valiant she was, and comradely, and bold;
High-mettled; all her
thoughts
a challenge, like gay ships
Adventurous, with treasure in the hold.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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' The
interjected
'O knottie riddle' does not mean, 'Who is
to say which is the worst?
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John Donne |
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The vane a little to the east
Scares muslin souls away;
If
broadcloth
breasts are firmer
Than those of organdy,
Who is to blame?
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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]
[Footnote 46:
alluding
to the portcullis, which guarded the gate, on
which often depended the castle.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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'
'But life is in our hands,' she said:
'In our own hands for gain or loss: 110
Shall not the
Sevenfold
Sacred Fire
Suffice to purge our dross?
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Christina Rossetti |
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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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Quoi qu'il en soit, voici, seulement expurge des
apocryphes
en question
et classe aussi soigneusement que possible par ordre de dates, mais,
helas!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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And
thoughtest
thou such guest
Would in thy hall take up his rest?
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Emerson - Poems |
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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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Many small donations
($1 to $5,000) are particularly
important
to maintaining tax exempt
status with the IRS.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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So was my soul; but when 'twas full
Of unrest to o'erloading,
A voice of something beautiful
Whispered a dim foreboding,
And yet so soft, so sweet, so low,
It had not more of joy than woe;
And, as the sea doth oft lie still,
Making its waters meet,
As if by an
unconscious
will,
For the moon's silver feet,
So lay my soul within mine eyes
When thou, its guardian moon, didst rise.
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James Russell Lowell |
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The Franks dismount, and dress themselves for war,
Put
hauberks
on, helmets and golden swords;
Fine shields they have, and spears of length and force
Scarlat and blue and white their ensigns float.
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Chanson de Roland |
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HE IS CONTINUALLY IN FEAR OF
DISPLEASING
HER.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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MOON-BATHERS
Falls from her heaven the Moon, and stars sink burning
Into the sea where
blackness
rims the sea,
Silently quenched.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Rilke - Poems |
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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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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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A Pox vpo'
referring
to _Commi?
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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De workmen's few an' mons'rous slow,
De cotton's sheddin' fas';
Whoop, look, jes' look at de Baptis' row,
Hit's
mightily
in de grass, grass,
Hit's mightily in de grass.
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Sidney Lanier |
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In the lair (the form) of the female hare superfetation (second
conception
during gestation) is possible.
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Appoloinaire |
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To be so tickled, they would change their state
And
situation
with those dancing chips,
O'er whom thy fingers walk with gentle gait,
Making dead wood more bless'd than living lips.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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In what
attention
wrapt she paused to hear
My life's sad course, of which she bade me speak!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Our hearts are warm and cheery,
like
cottages
under drifts, whose windows and doors are half
concealed, but from whose chimneys the smoke cheerfully ascends.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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The scene of the adventures is laid
in the enchanted forests and castles of the far away and unreal fairyland
of mediaeval chivalry, and the incidents
themselves
are either highly
improbable or frankly impossible.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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But heaven in thy
creation
did decree
That in thy face sweet love should ever dwell;
Whate'er thy thoughts, or thy heart's workings be,
Thy looks should nothing thence, but sweetness tell.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Fleay
identifies
him with Norbret, one of the astrologers in
Beaumont and Fletcher's _Rollo, Duke of Normandy_.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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)--"which flows
continuously, with only an aspirate pause in the middle, like that
before the short line in the Sapphic Adonic, while the fifth has at the
middle pause no similarity of sound with any part besides, gives the
versification an
entirely
different effect.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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He had become a merchant trading to
the Levant, and in this
capacity
had visited the Holy Land (see 1100).
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Robert Herrick |
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Flocks and men, the lasting hills,
And the ever-wheeling stars;
Ye who freight with wondrous things 5
The wide-wandering heart of man
And the galleon of the moon,
On those silent seas of foam;
Oh, if ever ye shall grant
Time and place and room enough 10
To this fond and fragile heart
Stifled with the throb of love,
On that day one grave-eyed Fate,
Pausing in her toil, shall say,
"Lo, one mortal has
achieved
15
Immortality of love!
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Sappho |
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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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T.S. Eliot |
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Lanier's growth in
artistic
form.
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Sidney Lanier |
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But [yet] if boundless lust must scale
Thy
fortress
and _must_ needs prevail
_'Gainst thee and_ force a passage in," etc.
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Robert Herrick |
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[From Of
Reformation
in England, 1641.
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Milton |
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Whiles I stood rapt in the wonder of it, came
Missiues
from
the King, who all-hail'd me Thane of Cawdor, by which Title
before, these weyward Sisters saluted me, and referr'd me to
the comming on of time, with haile King that shalt be.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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And those bright fireflies wafting in between
And over the swaying cornstalks, just above
All their dark-feathered helmets, like little green
Stars come low and
wandering
here for love
Of this dark earth, and wandering all serene--!
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Imagists |
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Villon
presumably
means that they were 'near cousins' in spirit.
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Villon |
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--Wise is
rather the
attribute
of a prince than learned or good.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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What rumour without is there
breeding?
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Do sailors stare this way,
Cramped on the Needle's sheaf,
To hail the sudden ray
Which
promises
relief?
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Hugo - Poems |
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_
"On the other side,
Incensed
with indignation, Satan stood
Unterrified, and like a comet burn'd,
That fires the length of Ophiuchus huge
In the arctic sky, and from his horrid hair
Shakes pestilence and war.
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Iliad - Pope |
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The chairs,
the tables, the presses were burned, and the crockery in bits; the
place was in
dreadful
disorder.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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: _canam_ D: num
_seram_?
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Latin - Catullus |
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Not a little whisper all along the snow, not though the King
knocked down the first man that set hand on him--not though old Peachey
fired his last
cartridge
into the brown of 'em.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Christina Rossetti |
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Part pays, and justly, the
deserving
steer:
The hog, that ploughs not nor obeys thy call,
Lives on the labours of this lord of all.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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e toumbe
richeliche
I-grey|?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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The verse is good, and they'll be hailed
For
something
they'll do in that place.
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Troubador Verse |
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9 Gradually aging, how can I at this parting 52 hold back tears, alone keeping
feelings
within?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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Yes, here within thy
sanctified
walls there's a soul in each object,
ROMA eternal.
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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your good fortune will be
threefold
as great as your evil
fortune.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Royalty payments
must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you
prepare (or are legally required to
prepare)
your periodic tax
returns.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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La forma
universal
di questo nodo
credo ch'i' vidi, perche piu di largo,
dicendo questo, mi sento ch'i' godo.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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- You provide, in accordance with
paragraph
1.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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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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Yet discerning critics have
thought that they could still perceive in the early history of
Rome numerous fragments of this lost poetry, as the
traveller
on
classic ground sometimes finds, built into the heavy wall of a
fort or convent, a pillar rich with acanthus leaves, or a frieze
where the Amazons and Bacchanals seem to live.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Now as two
instruments
to the same key
Being tuned by art, if the one touched be.
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Marvell - 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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Do thou make
offering
for me--for the rite
I know not--as is meet on the tenth night.
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Euripides - Electra |
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I see my empty house,
I see my trees repair their boughs;
And he, the
wondrous
child,
Whose silver warble wild
Outvalued every pulsing sound
Within the air's cerulean round,--
The hyacinthine boy, for whom
Morn well might break and April bloom,
The gracious boy, who did adorn
The world whereinto he was born,
And by his countenance repay
The favor of the loving Day,--
Has disappeared from the Day's eye;
Far and wide she cannot find him;
My hopes pursue, they cannot bind him.
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Emerson - Poems |
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SONG
Two doves upon the selfsame branch,
Two lilies on a single stem,
Two
butterflies
upon one flower:--
Oh happy they who look on them.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Surprised at trembling, though it was with cold,
Who ne'er had trembled out of fear, the veterans bold
Marched stern; to grizzled moustache
hoarfrost
clung
'Neath banners that in leaden masses hung.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Obviously Goethe, just
returned north from his two years in Italy (1786-88), and alienated from
prim, courtly friends (especially since he had taken a
girlfriend
into
his cottage), had no thought of publication when he indited these
remembrances of Ancient Rome.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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