thou who hast
The fatal gift of beauty, which became
A funeral dower of present woes and past,
On thy sweet brow is sorrow ploughed by shame,
And annals graved in
characters
of flame.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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masterest
thou some thirty acres of grass-land
Full told, forty of field soil; others are sized as the sea.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Liberty is poorly served by men whose good intent is
quelled from one failure or two
failures
or any number of failures, or from
the casual indifference or ingratitude of the people, or from the sharp
show of the tushes of power, or the bringing to bear soldiers and cannon or
any penal statutes.
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Whitman |
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He had due rites and
tendance?
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Euripides - Electra |
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the figure is not drawn correctly;
One of the angles, 'tis the outer one,
Is somewhat open, dost
perceive
it?
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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I will have shown, in the Poem below, more than a sketch, a 'state' which yet does not entirely break with tradition; will have furthered its presentation in many ways too, without offending anyone;
sufficing
to open a few eyes (This applies to the 1897 printing specifically: translator's note).
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Mallarme - Poems |
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e hersum
euensong
of ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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And checks his song to execrate Godoy,
The royal wittol Charles, and curse the day
When first Spain's queen beheld the black-eyed boy,
And gore-faced Treason sprung from her
adulterate
joy.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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`And over al this, your fader shal despyse
Us alle, and seyn this citee nis but lorn;
And that
thassege
never shal aryse, 1480
For-why the Grekes han it alle sworn
Til we be slayn, and doun our walles torn.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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(4)
Of this day's
glorious
feast and revel
The pleasure and delight are difficult to describe.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Youre eyne, alyche a baulme, wylle staunche hys bloode, 960
Holpe oppe hys woundes, & yev hys harte alle cheere;
Uponne your eyne he holdes hys lyvelyhode[109];
You doe hys spryte, & alle hys
pleasaunce
bere.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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ne god ne may nat ben
desseiuid
in no manere.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Farewell
those forms that in thy noon-tide shade,
Rest, near their little plots of wheaten glade; 1820.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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[_During the last few lines_
HERACLES
_has entered, unperceived by
the_ SERVANT.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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"Tell him to read further,"
rejoined
Saveliitch, quite unmoved.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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2
Heathcote,
Katherine
Sophia Manners, Lady, vii.
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Byron |
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Affter kyng
Salomons
de?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Note: Ronsard's Helene, was Helene de Surgeres, a lady in waiting to
Catherine
de Medicis.
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Ronsard |
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46
_amisit_
R, _s_ super rasuram
48 _Kymeneo kymene?
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Latin - Catullus |
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Her house he enters, ghastly white,
The
vestibule
finds empty quite--
He enters the saloon.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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>>
Plonge tes yeux dans les yeux fixes
Des
Satyresses
ou des Nixes,
La Dent dit: << Pense a ton devoir!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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The plains began to sink, and windy slopes
Of the high
mountains
to increase; for rocks
Could not subside, nor all the parts of ground
Settle alike to one same level there.
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Lucretius |
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Certeynely
q{uod} I ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Who else had power stern Hera's craft to stay,
Her
vengeful
curse to loose_?
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Aeschylus |
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Petronius
has given a lively
description of the rhetoricians of his time.
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Tacitus |
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"
The poems of Sappho so mysteriously lost to us seem to have
consisted
of at
least nine books of odes, together with _epithalamia_, epigrams,
elegies, and monodies.
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Sappho |
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And now the
bickering
storm, with sudden start,
In flirting fits of anger carps aloud,
Thee urging to thine end,
Sore wept by troubled skies.
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John Clare |
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critical
which both
challenge
and affirmation.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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O, my fine
_Ingine_!
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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They tolled the one bell only,
Groom there was none to see,
The
mourners
followed after,
And so to church went she,
And would not wait for me.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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, but its
volunteers
and employees are scattered
throughout numerous locations.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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,
_protector
of the people, prince_: acc.
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Beowulf |
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Stage above stage the
imperial
structure stands,
Holds the chief honours, and the town commands:
High walls and battlements the courts inclose,
And the strong gates defy a host of foes.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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[Illustration]
The next thing that happened to them was in a narrow part of the sea, which
was so entirely full of fishes that the boat could go on no farther: so
they
remained
there about six weeks, till they had eaten nearly all the
fishes, which were soles, and all ready-cooked, and covered with
shrimp-sauce, so that there was no trouble whatever.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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490
But now, paraunter, som man wayten wolde
That every word, or sonde, or look, or chere
Of Troilus that I
rehersen
sholde,
In al this whyle un-to his lady dere;
I trowe it were a long thing for to here; 495
Or of what wight that stant in swich disioynte,
His wordes alle, or every look, to poynte.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Non ideo, Gelli, sperabam te mihi fidum
In misero hoc nostro, hoc perdito amore fore,
Quod te cognossem bene
constantemve
putarem
Aut posse a turpi mentem inhibere probro,
Sed neque quod matrem nec germanam esse videbam 5
Hanc tibi, cuius me magnus edebat amor.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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The circles of the stormy moon
Slide
westward
toward the River Plate,
Death and the Raven drift above
And Sweeney guards the horned gate.
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T.S. Eliot |
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for, close upon his flight,
A little falcon dashed in winged pursuit,
Plucking
with claws the eagle's head, while he
Could only crouch and cower and yield himself.
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Aeschylus |
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O, so unnatural Nature,
You whose
ephemeral
flower
Lasts only from dawn to dusk!
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Ronsard |
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, but its volunteers and
employees
are scattered
throughout numerous locations.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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He who writes a new _De
Amicitia_ must find a niche for them, and praise them in
Tusculan
prose.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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I hear huge
Pestilence
draw his vaporous breath:
"Beware, prepare, or else ye die," he saith.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Borne by four horses and brandishing a torch, he rode
in triumph midway through the
populous
city of Grecian Elis, and claimed
for himself the worship of deity; madman!
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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There you'll lie
In noon's delight, with bees to flash above you,
Drown amid
buttercups
that blaze in the wind,
Forgetting all save beauty.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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CCLXXXVI
Sees Tierris then 'that in the face he's struck,
On grassy field runs clear his flowing blood;
Strikes Pinabel on 's helmet brown and rough,
To the nose-piece he's broken it and cut,
And from his head scatters his brains in th' dust;
Brandishes
him on th' sword, till dead he's flung.
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Chanson de Roland |
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And thought's
entangled
skein being wound,
He knew the moorland of his swound,
And the pale pools that smeared the ground;
The far wood-pines like offing ships;
The fourth pool's yew anear him drips,
_World's cruelty_ attaints his lips,
And still he tastes it, bitter still;
Through all that glorious possible
He had the sight of present ill.
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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Eve had for pupil the inquiring snake,
Whose doubts she
answered
on a great concern;
But he the tables so contrived to turn,
It next was his to give and hers to take;
Till man deemed poison sweet for her sweet sake,
And fired a train by which the world must burn.
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Christina Rossetti |
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A taper lighted that dear
pardoning
face,
More tender in the shade that wrapped the place,
And the child stayed his horse, and in the shine
Of the wax taper knelt down at the shrine.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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)]
[446] [The Doge
overstates
his authority.
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Byron |
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In so
profound
abysm I throw all care
Of others' voices, that my adder's sense
To critic and to flatterer stopped are.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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O, so
unnatural
Nature,
You whose ephemeral flower
Lasts only from dawn to dusk!
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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Che val perche ti
racconciasse
il freno
Iustiniano, se la sella e vota?
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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com>
Updated editions will replace the
previous
one--the old editions
will be renamed.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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5
Yet even the high gods at times do err;
Be therefore thou not overcome with woe,
But
dedicate
anew to greater love
An equal heart, and be thy radiant self
Once more, Gorgo.
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Sappho |
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Rilke - Poems |
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It sails the air like a ship of the line, worthy to
struggle with the elements, falling back from time to time like a ship
on its beam ends, and holding its talons up as if ready for the
arrows, in the
attitude
of the national bird.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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[One of the
daughters
of Mrs.
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Robert Forst |
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You women of the earth
subordinated
at your tasks!
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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Among the minor poems of Bryant, none has so much
impressed
me as the
one which he entitles "June.
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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Black day he chose for planting thee,
Accurst he rear'd thee from the ground,
The bane of
children
yet to be,
The scandal of the village round.
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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<
toujours
la meme vieille histoire!
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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The
tranquil
"D" follows the wind's rising,
The middle lay lingers indecisive.
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Tous les cent ans, on rend ces granges respectables
Par un
badigeon
d'eau bleue et de lait caille.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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A more ancient
migration
of the Chamavi to the banks of the Rhine is cursorily mentioned by Tacitus, Annal.
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Tacitus |
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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He, sick to lose
The amorous promise of her lone complain,
Swoon'd,
murmuring
of love, and pale with pain.
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| Source: |
Keats |
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And yet thou shalt not fear me
wronging
thee:
Tell me, O thou Despair, whither thou goest?
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Tis
needless
then that I refuse,
Would you but your own reason use.
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Marvell - Poems |
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YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO
REMEDIES
FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT
LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE
PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH 1.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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"
Among the windings of the violins
And the ariettes
Of cracked cornets
Inside my brain a dull tom-tom begins
Absurdly hammering a prelude of its own,
Capricious
monotone
That is at least one definite "false note.
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T.S. Eliot |
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He said it and quit and faded away,
A
gunnysack
shirt on his bones.
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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v
The
Universal
Man.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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I shall know why, when time is over,
And I have ceased to wonder why;
Christ will explain each separate anguish
In the fair
schoolroom
of the sky.
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Connected
with the castle of the Viscount of Limoges, his skill earned him the nickname of Master of the Troubadours.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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That race which, strong from Ilion's fires,
Its gods, on Tuscan waters tost,
Its sons, its
venerable
sires,
Bore to Ausonia's citied coast;
That race, like oak by axes shorn
On Algidus with dark leaves rife,
Laughs carnage, havoc, all to scorn,
And draws new spirit from the knife.
| Guess: |
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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In a short time these become
a small tree, an
inverted
pyramid resting on the apex of the other, so
that the whole has now the form of a vast hour-glass.
| Guess: |
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
|
[Illustration]
There was a young person of Bantry,
Who frequently slept in the pantry;
When disturbed by the mice, she appeased them with rice,
That
judicious
young person of Bantry.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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A CERTAIN Citizen, with fortune large,
When settled with a handsome wife in charge,
Not long
attended
for the marriage fruit:
The lady soon put matters 'yond dispute;
Produced a girl at first, and then a boy,
To fill th' expecting parent's breast with joy.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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I have heard that on a day
Mine host's sign-board flew away,
Nobody knew whither, till
An astrologer's old quill
To a sheepskin gave the story,
Said he saw you in your glory,
Underneath
a new old-sign
Sipping beverage divine, 20
And pledging with contented smack
The Mermaid in the Zodiac.
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Keats |
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at thowe hast sent me;
Myne owne men that
shoullde
bee,
hate gewyn me of theyre cheryte.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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IV
Lastly I ask--now old and chill--
If aught of him remain
unperished
still;
And find, in me alone, a feeble spark,
Dying amid the dark.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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His
stepfather
was
proud of him.
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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PROMISE
In
countless
upward-striving waves
The moon-drawn tide-wave strives;
In thousand far-transplanted grafts
The parent fruit survives;
So, in the new-born millions,
The perfect Adam lives.
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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"
FAUST:
Das ist ein
allgemeiner
Brauch,
Ein Jud und Konig kann es auch.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Petrarch accompanied him as far as five miles
beyond Piacenza, but refused to comply with the Emperor's solicitations
to
continue
with him as far as Rome.
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Petrarch |
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Currite
ducentes
subtegmina, currite, fusi.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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forth issuing from the city's gate,
Whose wall appeared like shining gold I said,
Two youthful dames, not born in low estate,
If measured by their mien and garb, nor bred
By swain, in early wants and
troubles
versed;
But amid princely joys in palace nursed!
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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During the same summer, a cohort of Usipii, 107 which had been levied in Germany, and sent over into Britain,
performed
an extremely daring and memorable action.
| Guess: |
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Tacitus |
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"
Ben Jonson was of a north-country family from the Annan
district
that
produced Thomas Carlyle.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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o,
You
interrupt
vs not.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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'Tis much he dares,
And to that
dauntlesse
temper of his Minde,
He hath a Wisdome, that doth guide his Valour,
To act in safetie.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Yet we find such an acute critic as the
late Edmund
Clarence
Stedman writing, "Poe's chief influence upon
Baudelaire's own production relates to poetry.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Whilst their
churches
unbuilt.
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Marvell - Poems |
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"No other contemporary poet has more
independently
yoked the dominant thought of the times.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Oh, the empty dreams were dim
And the empty dreams were wide,
They were sweet and shadowy houses
Where my
thoughts
could hide.
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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how can Love's eye be true,
That is so vexed with
watching
and with tears?
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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O lullaby, with your daughter, and the innocence
Of your cold feet, greet a terrible new being:
A voice where
harpsichords
and viols linger,
Will you press that breast, with your withered finger,
From which Woman flows in Sibylline whiteness to
Those lips starved by the air's virgin blue?
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Nearly all the
individual
works in the
collection are in the public domain in the United States.
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Tennyson |
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With
comrades
eleven the lord of Geats
swollen in rage went seeking the dragon.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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