and show'dst what
different
spirits move
The good men and the evil; those who love
And those who love not.
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"Why," said another, "Some there are who tell
Of one who
threatens
he will toss to Hell
The luckless Pots he marr'd in making--Pish!
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this flesh how it
crumbles
to dust and is blown!
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Instead of, or beside,
supplying
such
paint-boxes as we do, we might supply these natural colors to the
young.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Do you have hopes the lyre can soar
So high as to win
immortality?
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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When the
long
Atlantic
coast stretches longer, and the Pacific coast stretches
longer, he easily stretches with them north or south.
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The
revolution
of the seasons must be a curious phenomenon to them.
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XIX
If chaste Laodamia, Portia true,
Evadne, Argia, Arria, and many more
Merited praise, because that glorious crew
Coveted burial with their lords of yore,
How much more fame is to
Victoria
due?
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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--Which of the Greeklings durst
ever give
precepts
to Demosthenes?
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Who tell the
triumphs
of that day,
When, smiling at the cannon's roar,
Our hero, 'mid the bloody fray,
Conquered on Erie's echoing shore.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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On they move
Indissolubly firm; nor obvious Hill,
Nor streit'ning Vale, nor Wood, nor Stream divides 70
Thir perfet ranks; for high above the ground
Thir march was, and the passive Air upbore
Thir nimble tread; as when the total kind
Of Birds in orderly array on wing
Came summond over Eden to receive
Thir names of thee; so over many a tract
Of Heav'n they march'd, and many a Province wide
Tenfold the length of this terrene: at last
Farr in th' Horizon to the North appeer'd
From skirt to skirt a fierie Region, stretcht 80
In battailous aspect, and neerer view
Bristl'd with upright beams innumerable
Of rigid Spears, and Helmets throng'd, and Shields
Various, with boastful
Argument
portraid,
The banded Powers of Satan hasting on
With furious expedition; for they weend
That self same day by fight, or by surprize
To win the Mount of God, and on his Throne
To set the envier of his State, the proud
Aspirer, but thir thoughts prov'd fond and vain 90
In the mid way: though strange to us it seemd
At first, that Angel should with Angel warr,
And in fierce hosting meet, who wont to meet
So oft in Festivals of joy and love
Unanimous, as sons of one great Sire
Hymning th' Eternal Father: but the shout
Of Battel now began, and rushing sound
Of onset ended soon each milder thought.
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Milton |
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Stephane
Mallarme
(1844-1896)
Stephane Mallarme
'Stephane Mallarme'
Paul Gauguin, 1891, The Rijksmuseum
Sigh
My soul towards your brow, where, O calm sister,
An autumn dreams blotched by reddish smudges,
And towards the errant sky of your angelic eye
Climbs: as in a melancholy garden the true sigh
Of a white jet of water towards the Azure!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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_
And we, who deemed him wise,
We who
believed
that Thou wast dead,
How should we seek Thine eyes?
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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180
XXI
Now when broad day the world
discovered
has,
Up Una rose, up rose the Lyon eke,
And on their former journey forward pas,
In wayes unknowne, her wandring knight to seeke,
With paines farre passing that long wandring Greeke,?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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O, sweet are Coila's haughs an' woods,
When
lintwhites
chant amang the buds,
And jinkin hares, in amorous whids,
Their loves enjoy;
While thro' the braes the cushat croods
With wailfu' cry!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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The invalidity or
unenforceability
of any
provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Else
wherefore
sex?
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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At this
point the epic brings in a new and
powerful
_motif_, the renunciation
of woman's love in the presence of a great undertaking.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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The rats are
underneath
the piles.
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T.S. Eliot |
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In the same year he held the office of praetor, and was a member of one of the most select of the old
priestly
colleges, in which a pre-requisite of membership was that a man should be born of a good family.
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Tacitus |
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"All the images," said Coleridge, "rose up before me as
_things_, with a parallel
production
of the correspondent
expressions.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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(_alone_) _inserts_ ful
_before_
sturdely.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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) carried elsewhither
* * * *
_Hymen O Hymenaeus, Hymen here, O
Hymenaeus!
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Catullus - Carmina |
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XLIX
I was for calm existence made,
For rural
solitude
and dreams,
My lyre sings sweeter in the shade
And more imagination teems.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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{40c} Ten Brink points out the strongly heathen
character
of this
part of the epic.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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When the earth falters and the waters swoon
With the
implacable
radiance of noon,
And in dim shelters koils hush their notes,
And the faint, thirsting blood in languid throats
Craves liquid succour from the cruel heat,
BUY FRUIT, BUY FRUIT, steals down the panting street.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Resolved
am I
In the woods, rather, with wild beasts to couch,
And bear my doom, and character my love
Upon the tender tree-trunks: they will grow,
And you, my love, grow with them.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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>>,
comincio
Pluto con la voce chioccia;
e quel savio gentil, che tutto seppe,
disse per confortarmi: <
la tua paura; che, poder ch'elli abbia,
non ci torra lo scender questa roccia>>.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Here are the blood-stained Dukes' and Marquis' line,
Barbaric
lords, who amid war's rapine
Bore gilded saints upon their banners still
Painted on fishes' skin with cunning skill.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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However after times will praise,
This portion, my prophetic bays,
Cannot deliver up to th' rust,
Yet I keep
peaceful
in my dust.
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Robert Herrick |
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LET us
surround
the silent pool
Wherein the water ways commingle,
You seek my chary soul to kindle:
A breeze o'erwafts us chaste and cool.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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_ Ay, she will bring forth a son
superior
to his father.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Thanks, Sir Thomas, we be
beholden
to you, and we'll pray for
you on our bended knees till our lives' end.
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Tennyson |
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]
[Sidenote D: But yet thou
sinnedst
a little,]
[Sidenote E: for love of thy life.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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at men
merueilen
on swiche ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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)
Why we have not
developed
into friends.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Excepting
the gods, there is none greater than yourself, and that
will ever be our opinion.
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Aristophanes |
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Stephen Crane |
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Extending
forward, parallel with the proboscis, and on each side of it, was a
gigantic staff, thirty or forty feet in length, formed
seemingly
of pure
crystal and in shape a perfect prism,--it reflected in the most gorgeous
manner the rays of the declining sun.
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Poe - 5 |
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Thus am I with desyr and reson twight;
Desyr for to
destourben
hir me redeth,
And reson nil not, so myn herte dredeth.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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34, only 19 comprise the standard text block; the rest are marginal additions, with 2
sizeable
columns at the foot of the page, a 5-line stanza written up the lower righthand side of the page, and 2 additional larger stanzas appearing in the lefthand margin.
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Blake - Zoas |
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All swims before her eyes, flashes with black, she catches the main
words only,
Sentences
broken, gunshot wound in the breast, cavalry skirmish,
taken to hospital,
At present low, but will soon be better.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Equitone,
Tell her I bring the
horoscope
myself:
One must be so careful these days.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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And now she's at the doctor's door,
She lifts the knocker, rap, rap, rap,
The doctor at the casement shews,
His
glimmering
eyes that peep and doze;
And one hand rubs his old night-cap.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Regular epic having reached its climax in
_Paradise
Lost_, the
epic purpose must find some other way of going on.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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For Nature listens in the rose
And
hearkens
in the berry's bell
To help her friends, to plague her foes,
And like wise God she judges well.
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Emerson - Poems |
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And now this spell was snapt: once more
I viewed the ocean green,
And looked far forth, yet little saw
Of what had else been seen--
Like one, that on a lonesome road
Doth walk in fear and dread,
And having once turned round walks on,
And turns no more his head;
Because he knows, a
frightful
fiend
Doth close behind him tread.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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'
I asked the
childish
voice.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Fletcher, Bishop of Bristol, in satisfaction of his official claim to
the goods and
chattels
of suicides.
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Robert Herrick |
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Vitellius at first had an easy march on dry ground,
or ground moderately overflowed by the tide, when suddenly the fury of
the north wind swelling the ocean (a constant effect of the
equinox)
the
legions were surrounded and tossed with the tide, and the land was all
on flood; the sea, the shore, the fields, had the same tempestuous face;
no distinction of depths from shallows; none of firm, from deceitful,
footing.
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Tacitus |
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* * * * *
_Wilde's Poems were first
published
in volume form in 1881_, _and were
reprinted four times before the end of 1882_.
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Wilde - Poems |
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And the brave city 10
With its
enchantment?
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Sappho |
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Suffice it that, as all things must decay,
The hempen rope at length was worn away,
Unravelled at the end, and, strand by strand,
Loosened and wasted in the ringer's hand,
Till one, who noted this in passing by,
Mended the rope with braids of briony,
So that the leaves and
tendrils
of the vine
Hung like a votive garland at a shrine.
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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Nur muss man sich nicht allzu angstlich qualen
Denn eben wo
Begriffe
fehlen,
Da stellt ein Wort zur rechten Zeit sich ein.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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It is that distant years which did not take
Thy sovranty, recoiling with a blow,
Have forced my
swimming
brain to undergo
Their doubt and dread, and blindly to forsake
Thy purity of likeness and distort
Thy worthiest love to a worthless counterfeit.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Another edition, of about four to five
thousand
copies, duodecimo, came out
at Boston in 1860-61, including a number of new pieces.
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Whitman |
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That
Archbishop
spurs on by vassalage,
He will not pause ere Abisme he assail;
So strikes that shield, is wonderfully arrayed,
Whereon are stones, amethyst and topaze,
Esterminals and carbuncles that blaze;
A devil's gift it was, in Val Metase,
Who handed it to the admiral Galafes;
So Turpin strikes, spares him not anyway;
After that blow, he's worth no penny wage;
The carcass he's sliced, rib from rib away,
So flings him down dead in an empty place.
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Chanson de Roland |
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e
wasshyng
of her vessel
?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Amid the wild wood's lone and difficult ways,
Where travel at great risk e'en men in arms,
I pass secure--for only me alarms
That sun, which darts of living love the rays--
Singing fond thoughts in simple lays to her
Whom time and space so little hide from me;
E'en here her form, nor hers alone, I see,
But maids and matrons in each beech and fir:
Methinks
I hear her when the bird's soft moan,
The sighing leaves I hear, or through the dell
Where its bright lapse some murmuring rill pursues.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Continued
use of this site implies consent to that usage.
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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ON such a point we readily should say,
Long live the fools who wit so well
display!
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La Fontaine |
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My honour's mute, my duty
impotent!
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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We go down,
overwhelmed
by
numbers.
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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Have such high honours from above been
shown,
For whom the
elements
we mourners see.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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'
Then got Sir Lancelot
suddenly
to horse,
Wroth at himself.
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Tennyson |
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[247:4]
In
_Hyperion_
we see, too, the influence of the study of Greek
sculpture upon Keats's mind and art.
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Keats |
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And now the
blossoms
by the night be stirred
Around you surge, and may their purple fall
To veil from sight your shame.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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'To shelter
Rosamunde
from hate
borne her by the queen,
the king had a palace made
such as had ne'er been seen'.
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Appoloinaire |
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Full many a stranger and from many a land
Hath lodged in this old castle, and my hand
Served them; but never has there passed this way
A
scurvier
ruffian than our guest to-day.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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[118] The
pastimes
of love.
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Aristophanes |
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ist viel gereist,
Frauleins
alle Hoflichkeit erweist.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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From them, through terrour of impending death,
I fly, a banish'd man
henceforth
for ever.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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--but all-consuming care
Destroys perhaps the
strength
that time would spare:
Dire is the ocean, dread in all its forms!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Or will Pity, in line with all I ask here,
Succour a poor man, without
crushing?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
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our country's hope and glory,
I'll tell thee all the truth, without a falsehood:
Thou must know that I had comrades, four in number;
Of my comrades four the first was gloomy midnight;
The second was a steely dudgeon dagger;
The third it was a swift and speedy courser;
The fourth of my companions was a bent bow;
My
messengers
were furnace-harden'd arrows.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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Great standing
miracle!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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Thus, as in a town, plague-stricken,
Each man be he sound or no
Must
indifferently
sicken;
As when day begins to thicken, _250
None knows a pigeon from a crow,--
22.
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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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Your glance entered my heart and blood, just like
A flash of
lightning
through the clouds.
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Then spake the elder Consul,
And ancient man and wise:
"Now harken,
Conscript
Fathers,
To that which I advise.
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Included in the Esdaile
manuscript
book.
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May't please your
Highnesse
sit
Macb.
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And sweet the hops upon the Kentish leas,
And sweet the wind that lifts the new-mown hay,
And sweet the fretful swarms of grumbling bees
That round and round the linden blossoms play;
And sweet the heifer breathing in the stall,
And the green
bursting
figs that hang upon the red-brick wall,
And sweet to hear the cuckoo mock the spring
While the last violet loiters by the well,
And sweet to hear the shepherd Daphnis sing
The song of Linus through a sunny dell
Of warm Arcadia where the corn is gold
And the slight lithe-limbed reapers dance about the wattled fold.
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Wilde - Poems |
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No one else among lyrists within the
period defined, has such unfailing freshness: so much variety within
the sphere prescribed to himself: such
closeness
to nature, whether
in description or in feeling: such easy fitness in language: melody so
unforced and delightful.
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Robert Herrick |
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backing clouds
Then sleep fell on her eyelids in a Chasm of the Valley
The
Sixteenth
morn the Spectre stood before her manifest ]
The Spectre thus spoke.
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here they are just
bringing
a dead man
along.
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I as all others to his Baptism came,
Which I believ'd was from above; but he
Strait knew me, and with loudest voice proclaim'd
Me him (for it was shew'n him so from Heaven)
Me him whose Harbinger he was; and first
Refus'd on me his Baptism to confer,
As much his greater, and was hardly won;
But as I rose out of the laving stream, 280
Heaven open'd her eternal doors, from whence
The Spirit
descended
on me like a Dove,
And last the sum of all, my Father's voice,
Audibly heard from Heav'n, pronounc'd me his,
Me his beloved Son, in whom alone
He was well pleas'd; by which I knew the time
Now full, that I no more should live obscure,
But openly begin, as best becomes
The Authority which I deriv'd from Heaven.
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What if I file this mortal off,
See where it hurt me, -- that 's enough, --
And wade in
liberty?
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"
The Priest sat by and heard the child;
In
trembling
zeal he seized his hair,
He led him by his little coat,
And all admired the priestly care.
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Thou shalt see the field-mouse peep
Meagre from its celled sleep;
And the snake all winter-thin
Cast on sunny bank its skin;
Freckled nest-eggs thou shalt see
Hatching
in the hawthorn-tree, 60
When the hen-bird's wing doth rest
Quiet on her mossy nest;
Then the hurry and alarm
When the bee-hive casts its swarm;
Acorns ripe down-pattering,
While the autumn breezes sing.
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Keats |
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1175)
Estat ai en greu cossirier
I've been in great
distress
of mind,
A chantar m'er de so qu'ieu no volria
Now I must sing of what I would not do,
Arnaut de Mareuil (late 12th century)
Bel m'es quan lo vens m'alena
It's sweet when the breeze blows softly,
Arnaut Daniel (fl.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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inde uiam morum longaeque examina uitae
affatusque
pios monituraque somnia poscam.
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