No pardon vile Obscenity should find, 530
Tho' wit and art conspire to move your mind;
But Dulness with Obscenity must prove
As shameful sure as
Impotence
in love.
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His account of the infancy and youth of
Romulus and Remus has been preserved by Dionysius, and
contains
a
very remarkable reference to the ancient Latin poetry.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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And the marsh dragged one back,
and another
perished
under the cliff,
and the tide swept you out.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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You have no feeling; you
have no temperament; you are quite the most stupid
creature
I was ever
engaged to.
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Yeats |
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The generous lovers,
studious
to succeed,
Bid their whole herds and flocks in banquets bleed;
By precious gifts the vow sincere display:
You, only you, make her ye love your prey.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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_You_ shall ne'er be dumb,
While strains of mine have voice and breath:
The dull neglect of days to come
Those hard-won honours shall not blight:
No, Lollius, no: a soul is yours
Clear-sighted, keen, alike upright
When Fortune smiles and when she lowers:
To greed and rapine still severe,
Spurning the gain men find so sweet:
A consul not of one brief year,
But oft as on the judgement-seat
You bend the
expedient
to the right,
Turn haughty eyes from bribes array,
Or bear your banners through the fight,
Scattering the foeman's firm array.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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In the amplitude of her joy, the Moon filled all your chamber as with a
phosphorescent air, a luminous poison; and all this living radiance
thought and said: "You shall be for ever under the
influence
of my kiss.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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" I do
not make my
progress
among mankind as a bowl does among its
fellows--rolling through the crowd without bearing away any mark of
impression, except where they hit in hostile collision.
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Robert Forst |
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Germans speak, I suppose,
bitterly
when they're in love.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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We're
messengers
from pagan Baligant;
To Marsilies, he says, he'll be warrant,
So sends him here his glove, also this wand.
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Chanson de Roland |
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I labour to lose him, lose him with regret,
From that flows all my
sorrowful
secret.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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_Fend_, _Fen_, to make a shift,
contrive
to live.
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Robert Burns |
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O'Leary, from
somewhere
on Archie Road,
Dodgin' shells and smellin' powder while the battle ebbed and
flowed.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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It exists
because of the efforts of
hundreds
of volunteers and donations from
people in all walks of life.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Yet are Spain's maids no race of Amazons,
But formed for all the
witching
arts of love:
Though thus in arms they emulate her sons,
And in the horrid phalanx dare to move,
'Tis but the tender fierceness of the dove,
Pecking the hand that hovers o'er her mate:
In softness as in firmness far above
Remoter females, famed for sickening prate;
Her mind is nobler sure, her charms perchance as great.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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To think that other working-men will make just as great account of them--
yet we make little or no
account!
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Whitman |
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The Portuguese prince even visited the Kingdoms of Prester John and
returned
to his own country after three years and four months.
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Appoloinaire |
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' A gull would have no
difficulty
in overtaking the
swiftest ship which ever sailed.
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John Donne |
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_ whan I
considre
q{uo}d I many
?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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The Gothini and Osi prove themselves not to be Germans; the first, by their use of the Gallic, the second, of the Pannonian tongue; and both, by their
submitting
to pay tribute: which is levied on them, as aliens, partly by the Sarmatians, partly by the Quadi.
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Tacitus |
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This book of which I make mencioun,
Entitled was al thus, as I shal telle, 30
Tullius of the dreme of Scipioun';
Chapitres
seven hit hadde, of hevene and helle,
And erthe, and soules that therinne dwelle,
Of whiche, as shortly as I can hit trete,
Of his sentence I wol you seyn the grete.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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And so I would, were it not for fear,
For never has one so shaped and made
For love such
diffidence
displayed.
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Troubador Verse |
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_)
Aye, master, unless you tell me why we are
following
this unknown fellow,
I will not be silent, but I will worry and torment you, for you cannot
beat me because of my sacred chaplet of laurel.
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Aristophanes |
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the Horde has learnt to prize me;
"'Tis the Horde with gold
supplies
me.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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O now I triumph--and you shall also;
O hand in hand--O
wholesome
pleasure--O one more desirer and lover!
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Whitman |
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But, in our later lays,
Full
freighted
with your praise,
Fair memory harbors those whose lives, laid down
In gallant faith and generous heat,
Gained only sharp defeat.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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But the host stopt to hint when he'd ordered the dray
Sir Barleycorn's order was
purchase
and pay.
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John Clare |
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The Ghost
I went back to the
clanging
city,
I went back where my old loves stayed,
But my heart was full of my new love's glory,
My eyes were laughing and unafraid.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Wu Yun was
summoned
by the Emperor,
and Po went with him to Ch'ang-an.
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Li Po |
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Now mine eyes are raised to see,
And all the
doorways
of my soul flung free.
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Euripides - Electra |
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Alcides too shall be my theme,
And Leda's twins, for horses be,
He famed for boxing; soon as gleam
Their stars at sea,
The lash'd spray
trickles
from the steep,
The wind sinks down, the storm-cloud flies,
The threatening billow on the deep
Obedient lies.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
BIBLIOGRAPHY
(The following lists include poetical works only)
AMY LOWELL
A Dome of Many-Colored Glass
Houghton
Mifflin Co.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Have you guess'd you yourself would not
continue?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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org/donate
While we cannot and do not solicit
contributions
from states where we
have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition
against accepting unsolicited donations from donors in such states who
approach us with offers to donate.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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My memory
Is still
obscured
by seeing your coming
And going.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Even When We Sleep
Even when we sleep we watch over each other
And this love heavier than a lake's ripe fruit
Without
laughter
or tears lasts forever
One day after another one night after us.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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A public domain book is one that was never subject to
copyright
or whose legal copyright term has expired.
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Meredith - Poems |
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iluGilgamish
su-na-tam i-pa-sar
iluEn-ki-[du w]a?
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Sweet Jessamine we called her; for she shone
Like blossoms that in sun and shade have grown,
Gathering
from each alike a perfect white,
Whose rich bloom breaks opaque through darkest night.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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" And, all the time, her subtle criticism is alert, and
this woman of the East marvels at the women of the West, "the
beautiful worldly women of the West," whom she sees walking in the
Cascine, "taking the air so consciously attractive in their brilliant
toilettes, in the brilliant
coquetry
of their manner!
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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But confess that in this temple
All the stairs are
slightly
awkward.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Step lofty; for this name is told
As far as cannon dwell,
Or flag subsist, or fame export
Her
deathless
syllable.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Thou scene of all my happiness and
pleasure!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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]
IS the clear light of love I praise
That
steadfast
gloweth o'er deep waters,
A clarity that gleams always.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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SAILING SHIPS
Lying on Downs above the wrinkling bay
I with the kestrels shared the cleanly day,
The candid day; wind-shaven, brindled turf;
Tall cliffs; and long sea-line of marbled surf
From Cornish Lizard to the Kentish Nore
Lipping the bulwarks of the English shore,
While many a lovely ship below sailed by
On unknown errand, kempt and leisurely;
And after each, oh, after each, my heart
Fled forth, as, watching from the Downs apart,
I shared with ships good joys and fortunes wide
That might befall their beauty and their pride;
Shared first with them the
blessèd
void repose
Of oily days at sea, when only rose
The porpoise's slow wheel to break the sheen
Of satin water indolently green,
When for'ard the crew, caps tilted over eyes,
Lay heaped on deck; slept; mumbled; smoked; threw dice;
The sleepy summer days; the summer nights
(The coast pricked out with rings of harbour-lights),
The motionless nights, the vaulted nights of June
When high in the cordage drifts the entangled moon,
And blocks go knocking, and the sheets go slapping,
And lazy swells against the sides come lapping;
And summer mornings off red Devon rocks,
Faint inland bells at dawn and crowing cocks;
Shared swifter days, when headlands into ken
Trod grandly; threatened; and were lost again,
Old fangs along the battlemented coast;
And followed still my ship, when winds were most
Night-purified, and, lying steeply over,
She fled the wind as flees a girl her lover,
Quickened by that pursuit for which she fretted,
Her temper by the contest proved and whetted.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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O renouveau d'amour, aurore triomphale
Ou, courbant a leurs pieds les Dieux et les Heros
Kallipige la blanche et le petit Eros
Effleureront,
couverts
de la neige des roses,
Les femmes et les fleurs sous leurs beaux pieds ecloses!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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"Good
gracious!
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Kipling - Poems |
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All your softly
gracious
ways
Make an island in my days
Where my thoughts fly back to be
Sheltered from too strong a sea.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Donations are accepted in a number of other
ways
including
including checks, online payments and credit card
donations.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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"
Then Goody, who had nothing said,
Her bundle from her lap let fall;
And
kneeling
on the sticks, she pray'd
To God that is the judge of all.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Arrived there,
That bare-head knight for dread and
dolefull
teene,
Would faine have fled, ne durst approchen neare, 305
But th' other forst him stay, and comforted in feare.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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XXXVII
As through the wild green hills of Wyre
The train ran, changing sky and shire,
And far behind, a fading crest,
Low in the
forsaken
west
Sank the high-reared head of Clee,
My hand lay empty on my knee.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Wet or dry it was the same:
She would come in at all hours,
Set me eating and drinking
And say I must grow strong; 280
At last the day seemed long
And home seemed
scarcely
home
If she did not come.
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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No tender wisdom floods the eyes
That watch me with their
suppliant
light--
I hold him dearer than the wise,
And for him make me wise and bright.
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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Thou there dysperpellest[69] thie levynne-bronde;
Whylest mie soulgh's forwyned, thou art the gare; 415
Sleene ys mie
comforte
bie thie ferie honde;
As somme talle hylle, whann wynds doe shake the ground,
Itte kerveth all abroade, bie brasteynge hyltren wounde.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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that the images and OCR not be re-hosted, redistributed or used commercially.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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how your door is
creaking!
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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I was
extremely
curious to know on what account my retainer had thought
of writing to Pugatchef.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Glory and worship be
To you, sweet Maids, thrice three,
Who still inspire me;
And teach me how to sing
Unto the lyric string,
My measures
ravishing!
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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See how trees on trees, in legions,
Hurrying
by us, change their places,
And the bowing crags make faces,
And the rocks, long noses showing,
Hear them snoring, hear them blowing!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Besides, we observe ten vessels
Of our old enemies,
flaunting
their banners;
They have dared to approach the river-course.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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receipt of the work.
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Stephen Crane |
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III
Had Roland of Eleusis' deity
The sovereign power possessed no less than will,
He for
Angelica
had land and sea
Ransacked, and wood and field, and pool and rill,
Heaven, and Oblivion's bottom: but since he
Had not, his pressing purpose to fulfil,
Her dragon and her car, the unwearied knight
Pursued the missing maid as best he might.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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day — perhaps more than ever in her history—is in the minds and hearts of other nations, these two poetic and
romantic
episodes of her past are timely.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Whose fault has foiled her fond
endeavor?
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Now o're the one halfe World
Nature seemes dead, and wicked Dreames abuse
The Curtain'd sleepe: Witchcraft celebrates
Pale Heccats Offrings: and wither'd Murther,
Alarum'd by his Centinell, the Wolfe,
Whose howle's his Watch, thus with his
stealthy
pace,
With Tarquins rauishing sides, towards his designe
Moues like a Ghost.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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quid tum, si carpunt, tacita quem mente
requirunt?
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Latin - Catullus |
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Tu contiens, mer d'ebene, un eblouissant reve
De voiles, de rameurs, de flammes et de mats:
Un port retentissant ou mon ame peut boire
A grands flots le parfum, le son et la couleur;
Ou les vaisseaux,
glissant
dans l'or et dans la moire,
Ouvrent leurs vastes bras pour embrasser la gloire
D'un ciel pur ou fremit l'eternelle chaleur.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Tacitus |
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[64]
Allusion
to cock-fighting.
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Aristophanes |
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Well, if Albert won't leave you alone, there it is, I said,
What you get married for if you don't want
children?
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Now, in the
desolate
dawn,
Crying of blue jays.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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Epitaph On A Lap-Dog
Named Echo
In wood and wild, ye
warbling
throng,
Your heavy loss deplore;
Now, half extinct your powers of song,
Sweet Echo is no more.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Certain
qualities
of the highest poet
Pope no doubt lacked, lofty imagination, intense passion, wide human
sympathy.
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Alexander Pope |
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"
I will accept thy will to do and be,
Thy hatred and
intolerance
of sin,
Thy will at least to love, that burns within
And thirsteth after Me:
So will I render fruitful, blessing still
The germs and small beginnings in thy heart,
Because thy will cleaves to the better part.
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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God hath made
us
conquerors
over the evil that was in us.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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I would not have a pain to own
For those dark curls and those bright eyes
A
frowning
lip, a heart of stone,
False love and folly I despise.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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Of night, or
lonelines
it recks me not,
I fear the dred events that dog them both,
Lest som ill greeting touch attempt the person
Of our unowned sister.
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| Source: |
Milton |
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And wines, purple and blue and like gold fire,
Made of the colours of the morning sea
And
fragrance
wild as woman's need of love.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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And might it not be possible to escape them by
turning into one of our narrow New England lanes, shut in though it were
by bleak stone walls on either hand, and where no better flowers were to
be gathered than goldenrod and
hardhack?
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James Russell Lowell |
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inge is in his
substaunce
as longe as it is oon.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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And dost thou not find, replied Adam, these words therein,
And Adam rebelled against his Lord and
transgressed?
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Shelley |
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It occurred
to me that the author might be John Davies of Hereford, who was
a
dependent
of the Countess and her two sons, and who made a
calligraphic copy of the _Psalms_ of Sidney and his sister, from
which they were printed by Singer in 1823.
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John Donne |
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O Nightingale, that on yon bloomy Spray
Warbl'st at eeve, when all the Woods are still,
Thou with fresh hope the Lovers heart dost fill,
While the jolly hours lead on
propitious
May,
Thy liquid notes that close the eye of Day,
First heard before the shallow Cuccoo's bill
Portend success in love; O if Jove's will
Have linkt that amorous power to thy soft lay,
Now timely sing, ere the rude Bird of Hate
Foretell my hopeles doom in som Grove ny: 10
As thou from yeer to yeer hast sung too late
For my relief; yet hadst no reason why,
Whether the Muse, or Love call thee his mate,
Both them I serve, and of their train am I.
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Milton |
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Lo, now Thy banner over me is love,
All heaven flies open to me at Thy nod:
For Thou hast lit Thy flame in me a clod,
Made me a nest for
dwelling
of Thy Dove.
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Christina Rossetti |
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ng,
Governor
of the
districts Hsuan and Sh?
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Li Po |
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Nothing is sure for me but what's uncertain:
Obscure,
whatever
is plainly clear to see:
I've no doubt, except of everything certain:
Science is what happens accidentally:
I win it all, yet a loser I'm bound to be:
Saying: 'God give you good even!
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Villon |
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I lopp'd the branchy head: aloft in twain
Sever'd the bole, and smoothed the shining grain;
Then posts, capacious of the frame, I raise,
And bore it, regular, from space to space:
Athwart the frame, at equal distance lie
Thongs of tough hides, that boast a purple dye;
Then polishing the whole, the
finished
mould
With silver shone, with elephant, and gold.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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--and now
Her sacred beauty
vanishes
away.
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Shelley |
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(72)
The Larinas
unwisely
went,
From apprehension of the cost,
By their own horses, not the post--
So Tania to her heart's content
Could taste the pleasures of the road.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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What serener palaces,
Where I may all my many senses please,
And by mysterious sleights a hundred thirsts
appease?
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Keats - Lamia |
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310
To make it more renomed than before,
(I, tho a Saxon, yet the truthe will telle)
The Saxonnes steynd the place wyth Brittish gore,
Where nete but bloud of
sacrifices
felle.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Now let us go to kneel before the tombs
Of Russia's great
departed
rulers.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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, _merit on account of
services
rendered during many
years_: nom.
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Beowulf |
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On the black promontory's windless head,
The last awake, the
fireflies
rise and fall
And tangle up their dithering skeins of light.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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I prefer deeper patience,
Monotony
of stalled beasts.
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Imagists |
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The world was made for man, but made
Wisely a steep difficulty to be climbed,
That he, so
labouring
the stubborn slant,
May step from off the world with a well-used courage,
All slouch disgrace fought out of him, a man
Well worthy of a Heaven.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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ing is
flitti{n}g
fortune but a manere shewyng of wrycchednesse [[pg 32]]
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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For drink I would venture my neck;
A hizzie's the half of my craft;
But what could ye other expect
Of ane that's
avowedly
daft?
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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