The Clown Chastised
Eyes, lakes of my simple passion to be reborn
Other than as the actor who
gestures
with his hand
As with a pen, and evokes the foul soot of the lamps,
Here's a window in the walls of cloth I've torn.
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She often accuses me and tries me,
And lays false charges now, at will,
Yet
whenever
she acts vilely
All the fault's laid at my door still!
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XVIII
And then at last our bliss
Full and perfect is,
But now begins; for from this happy day
Th'old Dragon under ground
In straiter limits bound,
Not half so far casts his usurped sway, 170
And wrath to see his Kingdom fail,
Swindges
the scaly Horrour of his foulded tail.
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In scenam vero prodire, et populo esse spectaculo nemini in
iisdem
gentibus
fuit turpitudini.
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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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156
_scilla_
O: _silla_ GRVenLa1
158 _conub_ BAC: _connub.
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Latin - Catullus |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Sometimes these cogitations still amaze
The
troubled
midnight and the noon's repose.
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alter erit tum Tiphys, et altera quae uehat Argo
delectos heroas; erunt etiam altera bella,
atque iterum ad Troiam magnus
mittetur
Achilles.
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I'm also pleased to view some lord
Who leads the vanguard in attack,
On armoured horse, a
fearless
sword,
Who can inspire his men to hack
Away and bravely fight,
And when the conflict's joined aright,
Each must in readiness delight,
And follow where he might,
For none attains to honour's height
Till blows have landed left and right.
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Troubador Verse |
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TO ANTHEA
Anthea, I am going hence
With some small stock of innocence;
But yet those blessed gates I see
Withstanding
entrance
unto me;
To pray for me do thou begin;--
The porter then will let me in.
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For the cheat, Turner, for them both mui^t
throw ;
♦ Campfispe was Alexander's mistress, whom ApelN^s, by
Alexander's command, painted naked, and fell
violently
in
love with her.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Outside the day was one of green and blue,
With touches of a
luminous
glowing red,
Across the quiet pond the small waves sped.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Not song but wail, and
mourners
pale,
Not bards, to love belong.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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That Emperour, if he combat with me,
Must lose his head, cut from his
shoulders
clean;
He may be sure naught else for him's decreed.
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Chanson de Roland |
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The
shutters
were drawn and the undertaker wiped his feet--
He was aware that this sort of thing had occurred before.
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T.S. Eliot |
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To realise the nineteenth century one must
realise every century that has preceded it and that has
contributed
to
its making.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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XXXVI
Let me confess that we two must be twain,
Although our
undivided
loves are one:
So shall those blots that do with me remain,
Without thy help, by me be borne alone.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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_The
conclusion
concerning the whole_, _and the parts_.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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No
footstep
stirred: the hated world an slept,
Save only thee and me.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Unnatural vices
Are
fathered
by our heroism.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Now let us come to what
concerns
us more
Than bridge or gardens.
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Longfellow |
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Equipt with feathers, black as ink in hue,
And piercing talons was the winged pest;
An eye of fire it had, a cruel look,
And, like ship-sails, two
spreading
pinions shook.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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As the dulce downie barbe beganne to gre,
So was the well thyghte texture of hys lore;
Eche daie
enhedeynge
mockler for to bee, 105
Greete yn hys councel for the daies he bore.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Relieve my terrors, and grant a mother's prayers
such power that they may yield to no stress of
voyaging
or of stormy
gust: be birth on our hills their avail.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Old Nestor, rising then, the hero led
To his high seat: the chief refused and said:
"'Tis now no season for these kind delays;
The great
Achilles
with impatience stays.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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"]
XXX
God grant I meet not at a ball
Or at a promenade mayhap,
A
schoolmaster
in yellow shawl
Or a professor in tulle cap.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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provided
you with
the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a
refund.
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Robert Burns |
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By the all-pitying love
That could thy Godhead move
To dwell a lowly
sojourner
on earth,
Turn, Lord!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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sometimes
for necessity, when we are driven, or think it
fitter, to speak that in obscure words, or by circumstance, which uttered
plainly would offend the hearers.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Shakespeare |
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"When yellow waves the heavy grain,
The threat'ning storm some strongly rein;
Some teach to meliorate the plain
With tillage-skill;
And some
instruct
the shepherd-train,
Blythe o'er the hill.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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SHOULD you, good reader, any person meet,
With rosy, smiling looks, and cheeks replete,
The form not clumsy, you may safely say,
A Papimanian
doubtless
I survey.
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La Fontaine |
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'Tis when the sigh,--in youth sincere
And only then,
The sigh that's
breathed
for one to hear--
Is by that one, that only Dear
Breathed back again.
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Golden Treasury |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Have you too the old ever-fresh
forbearance
and impartiality?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Thus, Woman, Principle of Life, Speaker of the Ideal
Would you see
The dark form of the sun
The contours of life
Or be truly dazzled
By the fire that fuses all
The flame conveyer of modesties
In flesh in gold that fine gesture
Error is as unknown
As the limits of spring
The
temptation
prodigious
All touches all travels you
At first it was only a thunder of incense
Which you love the more
The fine praise at four
Lovely motionless nude
Violin mute but palpable
I speak to you of seeing
I will speak to you of your eyes
Be faceless if you wish
Of their unwilling colour
Of luminous stones
Colourless
Before the man you conquer
His blind enthusiasm
Reigns naively like a spring
In the desert
Between the sands of night and the waves of day
Between earth and water
No ripple to erase
No road possible
Between your eyes and the images I see there
Is all of which I think
Myself inderacinable
Like a plant which masses itself
Which simulates rock among other rocks
That I carry for certain
You all entire
All that you gaze at
All
This is a boat
That sails a sweet river
It carries playful women
And patient grain
This is a horse descending the hill
Or perhaps a flame rising
A great barefooted laugh in a wretched heart
An autumn height of soothing verdure
A bird that persists in folding its wings in its nest
A morning that scatters the reddened light
To waken the fields
This is a parasol
And this the dress
Of a lace-maker more seductive than a bouquet
Of the bell-sounds of the rainbow
This thwarts immensity
This has never enough space
Welcome is always elsewhere
With the lightning and the flood
That accompany it
Of medusas and fires
Marvellously obliging
They destroy the scaffolding
Topped by a sad coloured flag
A bounded star
Whose fingers are paralysed
I speak of seeing you
I know you living
All exists all is visible
There is no fleck of night in your eyes
I see by a light exclusively yours.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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FN a garden where the
whitethorn
spreads her r leaves
My lady hath her love lain close beside her,
Till the warder cries the dawn Ah dawn that
grieves !
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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But you must not regard our critics, who are at bottom good-natured
fellows,
considering
their two professions,--taking up the law in
court, and laying it down out of it.
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Byron |
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5 A dappled gray was
conventionally
associated with an office in the censorate.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Knight-Adkin_
TO AN OLD LADY SEEN AT A GUESTHOUSE
FOR SOLDIERS
Quiet thou didst stand at thine
appointed
place,
There was no press to purchase--younger grace
Attracts the youth of valour.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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The listener remained
perfectly
mute.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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"
Well, then, I hate thee,
Unrighteous
Picture;
Wicked Image, I hate thee;
So, strike with thy vengeance
The heads of those little men
Who come blindly.
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Stephen Crane |
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[Illustration]
There was a Young Lady of Ryde,
Whose shoe-strings were seldom untied;
She
purchased
some clogs, and some small spotty Dogs,
And frequently walked about Ryde.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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you will fall off behind,
You
propitious
Old Man with a beard!
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Lear - Nonsense |
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The
following
foreign translations of this poem have appeared:
1.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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He'll teach my son how to
exercise
command.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Oh thou, orr what
remaynes
of thee,
AElla, the darlynge of futurity,
Lett thys mie songe bolde as thie courage be,
As everlastynge to posteritye.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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With act and speech and pen
'Tis yours to spread
The morning-red
That ushers in a grander day:
To scatter
prejudice
that blinds,
And hail fresh thoughts in noble minds;
To overthrow bland tyrannies
That cheat the people, and with slow disease
Change the Republic to a mockery.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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But
struggle
not 'gainst such a mate, O virgin.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Otho sends fleet to Narbonese Gaul, and orders Illyric
Legions[3] to
concentrate
at Aquileia.
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Tacitus |
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Two long odes in a new and regular verse form, on Gregorian rhythm, and entitled "Flesh" and "Flower", areincluded,
together
with a selection of lyrics from those published in .
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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God He refuseth no man, but makes way
For all that now come or
hereafter
may.
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Robert Herrick |
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"
The harbour-bay was clear as glass,
So
smoothly
it was strewn!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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But while he was seeking with
thimbles
and care,
A Bandersnatch swiftly drew nigh
And grabbed at the Banker, who shrieked in despair,
For he knew it was useless to fly.
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Lewis Carroll |
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TWENTY-SIX
NONSENSE
RHYMES AND PICTURES.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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"]
[Footnote 6:
Professor
Cowell.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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But there is One who holds this falling
Infinitely
softly in His hands.
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Rilke - Poems |
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7 or obtain
permission
for the use of the work and the
Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Night and her
admirable
stars again!
| Guess: |
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Rapidly then renewed heat overcomes those lowering vapors,
Sends up a flame that anew bright and more
powerful
gleams.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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If she wants me not, I'd rather
I'd died the day my service
commenced!
| Guess: |
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Troubador Verse |
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He won't get free of her again; she'll lead
His
wildness
home and keep him tame for ever.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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So he not only
accepts the lace, but
promises
to keep the possession of it a secret
(ll.
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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My tears of pity and compassion flow,
But thou
discernest
suffering virtue's tears
That flow in secret and to Thee appeal.
| Guess: |
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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I loose my hair and go singing;
To the four
frontiers
men join in my refrain.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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'
He spoke in an eager,
impulsive
way, as though his heart were in the
words and thoughts of the moment; and the old man answered slowly and
deliberately, as though his heart were in distant days and distant
deeds.
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Yeats |
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Concessive
clauses with þēah, þēah þe, þēah .
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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For the first time the sun
kissed my own naked face and my soul was
inflamed
with love for
the sun, and I wanted my masks no more.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Rilke - Poems |
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The text of these Notes, as printed in the edition of 1857,
is
certainly
(in very many cases) widely different from what is given in
'The Prose Works' of 1876.
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William Wordsworth |
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However, labour endears rest, and both
together are absolutely necessary for the proper
enjoyment
of human
existence.
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| Question: |
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Robert Burns |
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I wonder who those
strangers
were I met
Going into the city?
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Longfellow |
|
3, this work is
provided
to you 'AS-IS', WITH NO OTHER
WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO
WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Be so, bold Spirit; stand centre-like, unmoved;
And be not only thought, but proved
To be what I report thee, and inure
Thyself, if want comes, to endure;
And so thou dost; for thy desires are
Confined
to live with private Lar:
Nor curious whether appetite be fed
Or with the first, or second bread.
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Robert Herrick |
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III Now the flock of chickens squawks in confusion, when
visitors
come, the chickens raise a ruckus.
| Guess: |
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Du Fu - 5 |
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"
"Such
diamonds
are for queens and not for simple little girls," said Sir
Torre.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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Now confess,
Didst ever think my
daughter
would be a queen?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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that hadst not eye to see
How ill the
measures
of these states agrees .
| Guess: |
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Marvell - Poems |
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And I and all the souls in pain,
Who tramped the other ring,
Forgot if we
ourselves
had done
A great or little thing,
And watched with gaze of dull amaze
The man who had to swing.
| Guess: |
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Wilde - Poems |
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Sab: Shepherd 'tis my office best
To help
insnared
chastity;
Brightest Lady look on me, 910
Thus I sprinkle on thy brest
Drops that from my fountain pure,
I have kept of pretious cure,
Thrice upon thy fingers tip,
Thrice upon thy rubied lip,
Next this marble venom'd seat
Smear'd with gumms of glutenous heat
I touch with chaste palms moist and cold,
Now the spell hath lost his hold;
And I must haste ere morning hour 920
To wait in Amphitrite's bowr.
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| Source: |
Milton |
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And when, in the session
Of nations, the separate
language
is heard,
Each shall aspire, in sublime indiscretion,
To help with a thought or exalt with a word
Less her own than her rival's honour.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
|
490
`Sin that we seyden that we wolde bleve
With him a wouke; and now, thus sodeinly,
The ferthe day to take of him oure leve,
He wolde wondren on it,
trewely!
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Or only as a
superlative
kind of ornament?
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Oh, thou didst walk in agony,
Hearing thy mother's cry, the cry
Of
wordless
wailing, well know I.
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Euripides - Electra |
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_Hisped_
(_hispidus_), rough with hairs.
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THE BOOK OF PICTURES
PRESAGING
I am like a flag unfurled in space,
I scent the
oncoming
winds and must bend with them,
While the things beneath are not yet stirring,
While doors close gently and there is silence in the chimneys
And the windows do not yet tremble and the dust is still heavy--
Then I feel the storm and am vibrant like the sea
And expand and withdraw into myself
And thrust myself forth and am alone in the great storm.
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Rilke - Poems |
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One look from thee, one word,
delights
me more
Than this world's wisdom o'er and o'er.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Draw pictures of the Plum-pudding flea, and the Moppsikon
Floppsikon
Bear, and state by whom waterproof tubs
were first used.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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The farther it
runs from reason or
possibility
with them the better it is.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Please check the Project
Gutenberg
Web pages for current donation
methods and addresses.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Death sets a thing significant
The eye had hurried by,
Except a perished creature
Entreat us tenderly
To ponder little workmanships
In crayon or in wool,
With "This was last her fingers did,"
Industrious until
The thimble weighed too heavy,
The
stitches
stopped themselves,
And then 't was put among the dust
Upon the closet shelves.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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additional
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copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon
request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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I keep my countenance, I remain self-possessed
Except when a street piano, mechanical and tired
Reiterates
some worn-out common song
With the smell of hyacinths across the garden
Recalling things that other people have desired.
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(Alcools: Le Pont Mirabeau)
Under the Mirabeau flows the Seine
And our amours
Shall I remember it again
Joy always followed after Pain
Comes the night sounds the hour
The days go by I endure
Hand in hand rest face to face
While underneath
The bridge of our arms there races
So weary a wave of eternal gazes
Comes the night sounds the hour
The days go by I endure
Love vanishes like the water's flow
Love vanishes
How life is slow
And how Hope lives blow by blow
Comes the night sounds the hour
The days go by I endure
Let the hour pass the day the same
Time past returns
Nor love again
Under the Mirabeau flows the Seine
Comes the night sounds the hour
The days go by I endure
Twilight
(Alcools: Crepuscule)
Brushed by the shadows of the dead
On the grass where day expires
Columbine strips bare admires
her body in the pond instead
A charlatan of twilight formed
Boasts of the tricks to be performed
The sky without a stain unmarred
Is studded with the milk-white stars
From the boards pale Harlequin
First salutes the spectators
Sorcerers from Bohemia
Fairies sundry enchanters
Having unhooked a star
He proffers it with outstretched hand
While with his feet a hanging man
Sounds the cymbals bar by bar
The blind man rocks a pretty child
The doe with all her fauns slips by
The dwarf observes with saddened pose
How Harlequin magically grows
Clotilde
(Alcools: Clotilde)
The anemone and flower that weeps
have grown in the garden plain
where
Melancholy
sleeps
between Amor and Disdain
There our shadows linger too
that the midnight will disperse
the sun that makes them dark to view
will with them in dark immerse
The deities of living dew
Let their hair flow down entire
It must be that you pursue
That lovely shadow you desire
The White Snow
(Alcools: La blanche neige)
The angels the angels in the sky
One's dressed as an officer
One's dressed as a chef today
And the others sing
Fine sky-coloured officer
Sweet Spring when Christmas is long gone
Will deck you with a lovely sun
A lovely sun
The chef plucks geese
Ah!
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Appoloinaire |
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1540
What nedeth yow to tellen al the chere
That
Deiphebus
un-to his brother made,
Or his accesse, or his siklych manere,
How men gan him with clothes for to lade,
Whan he was leyd, and how men wolde him glade?
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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3, a full refund of any
money paid for a work or a
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of receipt of the work.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Wright's
Political
Songs, for the Camden Society, 1839, p.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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The applause of contemporaries, however, is not always justified by the
verdict of after-times, and does not always secure an
immortality
of
renown.
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Sappho |
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