"If care with freezing years should come
And wandering seem but folly,--
Should we be loth to stir from home,
And yet be melancholy;
Should life be dull, and spirits low,
'Twill soothe us in our sorrow
That earth has
something
yet to show,
The bonny Holms of Yarrow!
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This withered root of knots of hair
Slitted below and gashed with eyes,
This oval O cropped out with teeth:
The sickle motion from the thighs
Jackknifes upward at the knees
Then straightens out from heel to hip
Pushing the
framework
of the bed
And clawing at the pillow slip.
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' This may or may not have
been true, but it is certain that Fell was not the only newspaper
proprietor who was ready to exchange a little cheap
flattery
for
articles by Chatterton that would never be paid for.
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His black matted head on his shoulder is bent,
And deep is the sigh of his breath,
And with
stedfast
dejection his eyes are intent
On the fetters that link him to death.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Run home and dress yourself in the boy's clothes
Prepared
for you.
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do not charge anything for copies of this eBook,
complying
with the
rules is very easy.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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I would be
Known as the woman whom his strength had chosen
To ruin the
Assyrians!
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Here it is used to
reinforce
the sense of a binding love.
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Troubador Verse |
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Fortuna saeuo laeta negotio et
ludum insolentem ludere pertinax
transmutat
incertos honores,
nunc mihi nunc alii benigna.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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1148)
The Castellan of Blaye, he
flourished
early to mid 12th century and probably died during the Second Crusade, 1147-9.
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Troubador Verse |
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And under scent and song of flowers and birds,
Far inland out of the golden bays the air
Is charged with briny savour, and whispered news
Gentle as
whitening
oats the breezes stroke.
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discordant
vestments through the trees,
And the red banner fluctuates in the breeze; 1827.
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s sense here,
particularly
in the context of the more tightly woven ?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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the Night a silver cup
Fill'd with the wine of anguish waited at the golden feast
But the bright Sun was not as yet; he filling all the expanse
Slept as a bird in the blue shell that soon shall burst away
[] [Los saw the wound of his blow he saw he pitied he wept] *
{This is the line as Erdman gives it, but does not remark that the line is nearly
illegible
in the manuscript and appears to be written in pencil and erased.
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Blake - Zoas |
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A Single Smile
A single smile disputes
Each star with the
gathering
night
A single smile for us both
And the blue of your joyful eyes
Against the mass of night
Finding its flame in my eyes
I have seen by needing to know
The deep night create the day
With no change in our appearance.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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O pitous, pale, and grene
Shal been your fresshe
wommanliche
face
For langour, er ye torne un-to this place.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Your
Highnesse
part, is to receiue our Duties:
And our Duties are to your Throne, and State,
Children, and Seruants; which doe but what they should,
By doing euery thing safe toward your Loue
And Honor
King.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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hyrstum behrorene, _divested of
ornaments_
(from which
the ornaments had fallen away), 2760.
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Beowulf |
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Shepster
swayne, you tare mie gratche[37].
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Poi
comincio
da tutte parti un grido
tal, che 'l maestro inverso me si feo,
dicendo: <>.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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_--I have already described the
technical
developments of poetry
during this dynasty.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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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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On her white breast a
sparkling
Cross she wore,
Which Jews might kiss, and Infidels adore.
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Alexander Pope |
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Then keep your heart for men like me
And safe from
trustless
chaps.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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And the great gray ships are silent, and the weary
watchers
rest;
The black cloud dies in the August skies, and deep in the golden west
Invisible hands are limning a glory of crimson bars,
And far above is the wonder of a myriad wakened stars!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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"
"The description of the Melancolia--
'Her folded wings as of a mighty eagle,
But all too impotent to lift the regal
Robustness of her earth-born
strength
and pride.
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Kipling - Poems |
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I Her eyes are wild, her head is bare,
The sun has burnt her coal-black hair;
Her
eyebrows
have a rusty stain,
And she came far from over the main.
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William Wordsworth |
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Canzon : Nor doth God's light match light shed over me The
rltfflftwjgga
thy caught sunlight is about me thrown,
Oh, for the very ruth thine eyes have told, Answer the rune this love of thee hath taught me.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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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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T.S. Eliot |
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form.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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And through the solitudes remote and strange
The golden gloss of eve, from tree to tree,
Descends, amid the yellow, flamingly,
Then
darksome
mists o'er darksome bushes range.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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--She is a winsome wee thing,
She is a
handsome
wee thing,
She is a lo'esome wee thing,
This dear wee wife o' mine.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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As with one half blind
Whom common simples cure, her act flashed home
In that mute moment to my opened mind
The power, the pride, the reach of
perished
Rome.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Or through the mining outlet bocked,
Down
headlong
hurl.
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Robert Burns |
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Not all thy
flushing
suns are set, I.
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Robert Herrick |
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Raised in the forests, he has their
wildness
too.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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þūhte him eall tō rūm, wongas and
wīc-stede (_fields and
dwelling
seemed to him all too broad_, i.
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Beowulf |
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Where'er the radiance of thy coming fall,
Shall dawn for thee her saffron
footcloths
spread,
Sunset her purple canopies and red,
In serried splendour, and the night unfold
Her velvet darkness wrought with starry gold
For kingly raiment, soft as cygnet-down.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Yet they do well who name it with a name,
For all its rash
surrenders
call it true.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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_The Mother_
Folks think a witch who has
familiar
spirits
She _could_ call up to pass a winter evening,
But _won't_, should be burned at the stake or something.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Your
unfortunate
lover finds here less pain,
Death at your hand, than life with your disdain.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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ON A BOX
CONTAINING
HIS OWN WORKS
I break up cypress and make a book-box;
The box well-made,--and the cypress-wood tough.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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[67]
What is left but the sighing wind blowing in the tangled
grasses?
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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CASSIOPEIAS CHAIRE, a circumpolar
constellation
having a fancied
resemblance to a chair.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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And now, declining with his sloping wheels,
Down sunk the sun behind the western hills
The goddess shoved the vessel from the shores,
And stow'd within its womb the naval stores,
Full in the openings of the
spacious
main
It rides; and now descends the sailor-train,
Next, to the court, impatient of delay.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Creator, thou art sadder than thy
creature!
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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Once, in her
arrogance
even maintained that she had subjected
To her own will, as her slave, Jove's most illustrious son.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Not physiognomy alone, nor brain alone, is worthy for the Muse: I say
the form complete is
worthier
far.
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Whitman |
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)
Living in
retirement
beyond the World,
Silently enjoying isolation,
I pull the rope of my door tighter
And stuff my window with roots and ferns.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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{a}t] renoune y-spradde
passynge
to ferne poeples go?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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No less than three people are "smashed,"--the Old Man of
Whitehaven "who danced a
quadrille
with a Raven;" the Old Person of Buda;
and the Old Man with a gong "who bumped at it all the day long," though in
the last-named case we admit that there was considerable provocation.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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, _that which is
determined
for farther on, future
destiny_: acc.
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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(C)
Copyright
2000-2016 A.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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VII
The light within her eyes, which slays Base thoughts and stilleth
troubled
waters,
Is like the gold where sunlight plays Upon the still overshadowed waters.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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" KAU}
Roaring let out the fluid, the molten metal ran in channels
Cut by the plow of ages held in Urizens strong hand
In many a valley, for the Bulls of Luvah dragd the Plow
With trembling horror pale aghast the Children of Men Man
Stood on the infinite Earth & saw these visions in the air
In waters & in Earth beneath they cried to one another
What are we terrors to one another - Come O
brethren
wherefore
Was this wide Earth spread all abroad.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Note: The Rose
tremiere
is the hollyhock.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Who
assisted
thee to ravage and to plunder;
I trow thou hadst full many wicked comrades.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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But, since thou need'st
assurance
of how soon,
Wait till that angel comes who opens all,
The reconciler, he who lifts the veil,
The reuniter, the rest-bringer, Death.
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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Let them perceive
That, having Vashti, there is none like thee:
Others are men; but thou art he whose spirit
Is station'd in the beauty of the queen,
Whose flesh knows such
amazement
as before
Never beneath the lintels of man's sense
Came, an especial messenger from Heaven.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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To do her honor a feast we made
For every bird that can swim or wade,--
Herons and Gulls, and Cormorants black,
Cranes, and
Flamingoes
with scarlet back,
Plovers and Storks, and Geese in clouds,
Swans and Dilberry Ducks in crowds:
Thousands of Birds in wondrous flight!
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Beneath new heavens, where not a star we knew,
Through changing climes, where poison'd air we drew;
Wandering new seas, in gulfs unknown, forlorn,
By labour weaken'd, and by famine worn;
Our food corrupted, pregnant with disease,
And
pestilence
on each expected breeze;
Not even a gleam of hope's delusive ray
To lead us onward through the devious way--
That kind delusion[377] which full oft has cheer'd
The bravest minds, till glad success appear'd;
Worn as we were, each night with dreary care,
Each day, with danger that increas'd despair;
Oh !
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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At the violet hour, when the eyes and back
Turn upward from the desk, when the human engine waits
Like a taxi
throbbing
waiting,
I Tiresias, though blind, throbbing between two lives,
Old man with wrinkled female breasts, can see
At the violet hour, the evening hour that strives 220
Homeward, and brings the sailor home from sea,
The typist home at teatime, clears her breakfast, lights
Her stove, and lays out food in tins.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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What is it, old
greybeard?
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Aristophanes |
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Many a treasure
fetched from far was
freighted
with him.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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7 Now in her daies of Teares, Jerusalem 25
(Her men slaine by the foe, none
succouring
them)
Remembers what of old, shee esteemed most,
Whilest her foes laugh at her, for what she hath lost.
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John Donne |
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28
Doth still before thee rise the beauteous image 29
There laughs in the heightening year, soft 30
The
blissful
meadows beckoned.
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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ELECTRA,
_daughter
of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra_.
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Euripides - Electra |
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FUSCUS
_smiles, and with a
mischievous
fondness for a joke,
pretends he does not understand_.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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But he had not been more than three months
at home, when he
intimates
to his correspondents
his intention to accept an invitation to accompany
Lord Carlisle, who had been appointed ambas-
sador-extraordinary to Russia, Sweden, and Den-
mark.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Strange unto her each childish game,
But when the winter season came
And dark and drear the
evenings
were,
Terrible tales she loved to hear.
| Guess: |
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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PREFACE
There is
something
grotesque in the idea of a prose translation of a
poet, though the practice is become so common that it has ceased to
provoke a smile or demand an apology.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Its
business
office is located at
809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email
business@pglaf.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
|
CXXV
Were't aught to me I bore the canopy,
With my extern the outward honouring,
Or laid great bases for eternity,
Which proves more short than waste or
ruining?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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But, swift behind these wint'ry days of woe
A spring of joy arose in
liveliest
glow,
Such gentle manners, leagued with wisdom, reign'd
In the dread victors, and their rage restrain'd.
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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"Cooks need not be
indulged
in waste;
Yet still you'd better teach them
Dishes should have _some sort_ of taste.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
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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Then, with a shout that awakens
All the echoes of hillside and glen,
Through the low,
frowning
gate of the fortress,
Sword in hand, rush the Green Mountain men.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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The
Florentines
thus possessed
themselves of Monte Gemmoli, and, in like manner, of several other
strongholds.
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Petrarch |
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additional
contact information:
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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few verses touch their nicer ear;
They scarce can bear their
laureate
twice a year;
And justly Caesar scorns the poet's lays:
It is to history he trusts for praise.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
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sat tibi sint noctes quas de me, Paulle, fatiges,
somniaque in faciem credita saepe meam:
atque ubi secreto nostra ad simulacra loqueris,
ut
responsurae
singula uerba iace.
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My morning coat, my collar
mounting
firmly to the chin,
My necktie rich and modest, but asserted by a simple pin--
(They will say: "But how his arms and legs are thin!
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Sweet is Spring in its lovely showing,
Sweet the violet veiled in blowing,
Sweet it is to love and be loved;
Ah, sweet
knowledge
beyond my knowing!
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Christina Rossetti |
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Your
apparition
cannot satisfy me:
Since I myself entombed you in porphyry.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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[_With a wild
gesture_
DONA SOL _drinks half of the
poison, and hands_ HERNANI _the rest.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Should that morn come, and show thy opened eyes
All that Life's palpitating tissues feel,
How wilt thou bear thyself in thy
surprise?
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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For, fisherman, what fresh or seawater catch
equals him, either in form or savour,
that lovely divine fish, Jesus, My
Saviour?
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Appoloinaire |
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[Footnote D: In the
beginning
of winter, these mountains, in the
moonlight nights, are covered with immense quantities of woodcocks;
which, in the dark nights, retire into the woods.
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William Wordsworth |
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And when it was brought to him he drank deeply, and gave it
to his lord
chamberlain
to drink.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Thus let me live, unseen, unknown,
Thus
unlamented
let me die,
Steal from the world, and not a stone
Tell where I lie.
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Alexander Pope |
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I
afterwards
found the same
question had been put to Mr.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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What merit do I in my self respect,
That is so proud thy service to despise,
When all my best doth worship thy defect,
Commanded
by the motion of thine eyes?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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But what their care
bequeathed
us our madness flung away:
All the ripe fruit of threescore years was blighted in a day.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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The results of this great change were
singularly
happy and
glorious.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Prom thousand blossoms came a bubbling
'Mid purple sheen of sorcery,
The song of countless
warblers
singing
Broke through the Spring's first cry of glee.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Go find it, faeries, go and find
That tiny pinch of
priceless
dust,
And bring a casket silver-lined,
And framed of gold that gems encrust;
And we will lay it safe therein,
And consecrate it to endless time;
For it inspired a bard to win
Ecstatic heights in thought and rhyme.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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