I suppose in the whole of India there are
few men whose
learning
is greater than his, and I don't think
there are many men more beloved.
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Epithalamium_
ITE, uerecundo
coniungite
foedera lecto
atque Cupidineos discite ferre iocos;
alliget amplexus tenerorum mater Amorum,
quae regit Idalium, quae Cnidon alma regit,
concordisque tegens cum maiestate benigna
constituat, patres et cito reddat auos.
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' Having, then, distinctly
stated that I challenge no attention in the following little poem to its
merely verbal jingle, I must beg the candid reader to confine his
criticism to its
treatment
of the subject.
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Lewis Carroll |
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What effect
is
produced
in xxx and how?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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When sense from spirit files away,
And
subterfuge
is done;
When that which is and that which was
Apart, intrinsic, stand,
And this brief tragedy of flesh
Is shifted like a sand;
When figures show their royal front
And mists are carved away, --
Behold the atom I preferred
To all the lists of clay!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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"
So the hand of the child, automatic,
Slipped out and
pocketed
a toy that was running along
the quay.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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What will your Grace have done with
Margaret?
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Shakespeare |
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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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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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' This account was in the best
Rowleian manner, with strange spelling and uncouth words, but for
the most part quite intelligible to the
ordinary
reader.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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When from the east appears the purple ray
Of morn arising, and salutes the eyes
That wear the night in
watching
for the day,
Thus speaks my heart: "In yonder opening skies,
In yonder fields of bliss, my Laura lies!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Thus
expecting
thy reply, I profane my lips on thy foot, my
eyes on thy picture, and my heart on thy every part.
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Shakespeare |
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For sports, for pageantry and plays
Thou hast thy eves and holidays;
On which the young men and maids meet
To exercise their dancing feet;
Tripping
the comely country round,
With daffodils and daisies crown'd.
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Robert Herrick |
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"
Let the night be; it has neither
knowledge
nor pity.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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L
When I behold the pharos shine
And lay a path along the sea,
How gladly I shall feel the spray,
Standing upon the
swinging
prow;
And question of my pilot old, 5
How many watery leagues to sail
Ere we shall round the harbour reef
And anchor off the wharves of home!
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Sappho |
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He drew not nigh unheard, the Angel bright,
Ere he drew nigh, his radiant visage turnd,
Admonisht by his eare, and strait was known
Th' Arch-Angel Uriel, one of the seav'n
Who in Gods presence, neerest to his Throne
Stand ready at command, and are his Eyes 650
That run through all the Heav'ns, or down to th' Earth
Bear his swift errands over moist and dry,
O're Sea and Land: him Satan thus accostes;
Uriel, for thou of those seav'n Spirits that stand
In sight of God's high Throne, gloriously bright,
The first art wont his great authentic will
Interpreter through highest Heav'n to bring,
Where all his Sons thy Embassie attend;
And here art likeliest by supream decree
Like honour to obtain, and as his Eye 660
To visit oft this new Creation round;
Unspeakable desire to see, and know
All these his
wondrous
works, but chiefly Man,
His chief delight and favour, him for whom
All these his works so wondrous he ordaind,
Hath brought me from the Quires of Cherubim
Alone thus wandring.
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Milton |
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As fades each lesser ray
Before your splendour more intense and bright,
So to my raptured heart,
When your surpassing
sweetness
you impart,
No other thought of feeling may remain
Where you, with Love himself, despotic reign.
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Petrarch |
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But after the
third or fourth
freezing
and thawing they will not be found so good.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Each sundown makes them mournful, each sunrise
Brings back the
brightness
in their failing eyes.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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"
Thus the fam'd hero, perfected in wiles,
With fair similitude of truth beguiles
The queen's attentive ear: dissolved in woe,
From her bright eyes the tears unbounded flow,
As snows
collected
on the mountain freeze;
When milder regions breathe a vernal breeze,
The fleecy pile obeys the whispering gales,
Ends in a stream, and murmurs through the vales:
So, melting with the pleasing tale he told,
Down her fair cheek the copious torrent roll'd:
She to her present lord laments him lost,
And views that object which she wants the most,
Withering at heart to see the weeping fair,
His eyes look stern, and cast a gloomy stare;
Of horn the stiff relentless balls appear,
Or globes of iron fix'd in either sphere;
Firm wisdom interdicts the softening tear.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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81
_Translation from
Prometheus
Vinctus of AEschylus_, i.
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Byron |
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Yes; but one bird to carol in the field,--
A nightingale, in mossy shade concealed,--
A distant flute,--for music's stream can roll
To soothe the heart, and
harmonize
the soul,--
O!
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Hugo - Poems |
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He
returned
to the stage for a
short time through necessity, but found his best friends in the best of
the young poets of the day.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Dolphins, playing in the sea
Hurling his ink at skies above,
Medusas, miserable heads
In your pools, and in your ponds,
The female of the Halcyon,
Do I know where your ennui's from, Sirens,
Dove, both love and spirit
In spreading out his fan, this bird,
My poor heart's an owl
Yes, I'll pass fearful shadows
This
cherubim
sings the praises
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Appoloinaire |
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II
SIX weeks our
guardsman
walked the yard,
In the suit of shabby grey:
His cricket cap was on his head,
And his step seemed light and gay,
But I never saw a man who looked
So wistfully at the day.
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Wilde - Poems |
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So long as I
Stand by the
youthful
tsar, so long he will not
Forsake the throne.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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It ought to bring all
courtiers
on their backs:
Such painted puppets!
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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This Sarpedoun, as he that
honourable
435
Was ever his lyve, and ful of heigh prowesse,
With al that mighte y-served been on table,
That deyntee was, al coste it greet richesse,
He fedde hem day by day, that swich noblesse,
As seyden bothe the moste and eek the leste, 440
Was never er that day wist at any feste.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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"
Such was the flow of that pure rill, that well'd
From forth the fountain of all truth; and such
The rest, that to my wond'ring
thoughts
I found.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Men loved unkindness then, but
lightless
in the quarry
I slept and saw not; tears fell down, I did not mourn;
Sweat ran and blood sprang out and I was never sorry:
Then it was well with me, in days ere I was born.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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He points out that all animals, man included, have powers
suited to their
position
in the world (ll.
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Alexander Pope |
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My song take flight,
present
yourself
to her sweetly,
but for her might
Arnaut might strive more lightly.
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Troubador Verse |
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"
Towns and
countries
woo together,
Forelands beacon, belfries call;
Never lad that trod on leather
Lived to feast his heart with all.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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<>,
rispuose
lui, <
virtu del ciel mi mosse, e con lei vegno.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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_Studies
themselves
will languish and decay,
When either price or praise is ta'en away.
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Robert Herrick |
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Southey)_
The Portrait of a Child--_Dublin
University
Magazine_
BALLADES.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Then turns his eyes towards the Orient,
Calls upon God with heartiest intent:
"Very Father, this day do me defend,
Who to Jonas succour didst truly send
Out of the whale's belly, where he was pent;
And who didst spare the king of Niniven,
And Daniel from
marvellous
torment
When he was caged within the lions' den;
And three children, all in a fire ardent:
Thy gracious Love to me be here present.
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Chanson de Roland |
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) can copy and distribute it in the United States without
permission and without paying
copyright
royalties.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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du present volume des
_Poesies
completes
d'Arthur Rimbaud.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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]-- 505
Of briddes, whiche
therinne
were,
That songen, through hir mery throtes,
Daunces of love, and mery notes.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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His eyes beheld
Their own wan light through the
reflected
lines _470
Of his thin hair, distinct in the dark depth
Of that still fountain; as the human heart,
Gazing in dreams over the gloomy grave,
Sees its own treacherous likeness there.
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| Source: |
Shelley |
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The wrinkles which thy glass will truly show
Of mouthed graves will give thee memory;
Thou by thy dial's shady stealth mayst know
Time's thievish
progress
to eternity.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Rude representations of
warriors
show the boar on the helmet
quite as large as the helmet itself.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Les
phenomenes
s'emurent.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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what conqueror hath
committed
this cruelty upon you?
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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His sister, wife, and children yawned,
With a long, slow, and drear ennui,
All human
patience
far beyond; _715
Their hopes of Heaven each would have pawned,
Anywhere else to be.
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Shelley |
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But with th'
occasion
and the place comply,
Conceal his force, nay seem sometimes to fly.
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Alexander Pope |
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some we loved, the
loveliest
and the best
That Time and Fate of all their Vintage prest,
Have drunk their Cup a Round or two before,
And one by one crept silently to Rest.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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with partial aim
I dimmed thy light or damped thy holy flame;
But blessed the paeans of
delivered
France,
And hung my head and wept at Britain's name.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Send me now, and I shall go;
Call me, I shall hear you call;
Use me ere they lay me low
Where a man's no use at all;
Ere the
wholesome
flesh decay,
And the willing nerve be numb,
And the lips lack breath to say,
"No, my lad, I cannot come.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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er be a
blisfulnesse
?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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My lord, I have considered with myself
The tide of this most
renowned
duke,
And in my conscience do repute his Grace
The rightful heir to England's royal seat.
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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"
To whom, while anger in his bosom glows,
With warmth replies the man of mighty woes:
"Since
audience
mild is deign'd, permit my tongue
At once to pity and resent thy wrong.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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The good
Bishop of Montpellier, who knew the family, said that Charles was a
little crazy--second
marriages
usually bring woe in their train.
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Of all these ways, if each pursues his own,
Satire be kind, and let the wretch alone:
But show me one who has it in his power
To act
consistent
with himself an hour.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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THE KING OF ARGOS
Not at my private hearth ye sit and sue;
And if the city bear a common stain,
Be it the common toil to cleanse the same:
Therefore
no pledge, no promise will I give,
Ere counsel with the commonwealth be held.
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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15
Quod si non aliud potest, ruborem
Ferreo canis
exprimamus
ore.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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--Was your advice
As to the thyrsis or the ivy asked,
When, in grand ballet of
fantastic
form,
God Phoebus, or God Pan, and all his court,
Turned the fair head of the proud Montespan,
Calling her Amaryllis?
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Imagists |
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EPITAPH ON AN INFANT
Its balmy lips the infant blest
Relaxing from its mother's breast,
How sweet it heaves the happy sigh
Of
innocent
satiety!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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tibia pro lituis et pro clangore tubarum
molle lyrae
festumque
canant.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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I should have been too saved, I see,
Too rescued; fear too dim to me
That I could spell the prayer
I knew so perfect yesterday, --
That
scalding
one, "Sabachthani,"
Recited fluent here.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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--my
thoughts
do twine and bud
XXX I see thine image through my tears to-night
XXXI Thou comest!
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Compliance
requirements
are not uniform and it takes a
considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up
with these requirements.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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I say established; for it is with literature as with law
or empire-an
established
name is an estate in tenure, or a throne in
possession.
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Poe - 5 |
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Furious and fell,
tremendous
to behold!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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The Student came to his relief
By saying in his easy way
To the Musician: "Calm your grief,
My fair Apollo of the North,
Balder the Beautiful and so forth;
Although your magic lyre or lute
With broken strings is lying mute,
Still you can tell some doleful tale
Of
shipwreck
in a midnight gale,
Or something of the kind to suit
The mood that we are in to-night
For what is marvellous and strange;
So give your nimble fancy range,
And we will follow in its flight.
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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'T was not the Lord that sent you;
As an
incarnate
devil did you come!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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Thus under Satan's all paternal care
They
brothers
are, this royal bandit pair.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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As when, in the early spring, 5
A
daffodil
blooms in the grass,
Golden and gracious and glad,
The solitude smiled.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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What's
property?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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He wrote histories of the Revolution,
of
Napoleon
and of France.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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They quitte him out to rathe; 205
O nyce world, lo, thy
discrecioun!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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I floated down its
historic
stream in
something more than imagination, under bridges built by the Romans,
and repaired by later heroes, past cities and castles whose very names
were music to my ears, and each of which was the subject of a legend.
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Les richesses
jaillissant
a chaque demarche!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Thou shalt visit him again
To watch his heart grow cold;
To know the gnawing pain
I knew of old;
To see one much more fair
Fill up the vacant chair,
Fill his heart, his
children
bear:--
While thou and I together
In the outcast weather
Toss and howl and spin.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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We shall lose our time,
And all be turn'd to barnacles, or to apes
With foreheads
villainous
low.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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Where'er he be, on water or on land,
Under pale suns or climes that flames enfold;
One of Christ's own, or of Cythera's band,
Shadowy beggar or Croesus rich with gold;
Citizen, peasant, student, tramp; whate'er
His little brain may be, alive or dead;
Man knows the fear of mystery everywhere,
And peeps, with
trembling
glances, overhead.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Then with eyes to the front all,
And with guns horizontal,
Stood our sires;
And the balls
whistled
deadly,
And in streams flashing redly
Blazed the fires;
As the roar
On the shore,
Swept the strong battle-breakers o'er the green-sodded acres
Of the plain;
And louder, louder, louder cracked the black gunpowder,
Cracking amain!
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give thy self the thanks, if aught in me
Worthy perusal stand against thy sight;
For who's so dumb that cannot write to thee,
When thou thy self dost give
invention
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Quem colent homines magis
Caelitum?
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And should we not rate
more cheaply any honor that men could pay us, if we
remembered
that
every day we sat at the table of the Great King?
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Some do but scratch us:
Slow and
insidious
these poison our hearts over years.
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Whose artful strains have oft delaid
The huddling brook to hear his madrigal,
And sweeten'd every
muskrose
of the dale,
How cam'st thou here good Swain?
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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I can
repeople
with the past--and of
The present there is still for eye and thought,
And meditation chastened down, enough;
And more, it may be, than I hoped or sought;
And of the happiest moments which were wrought
Within the web of my existence, some
From thee, fair Venice!
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That soul will hate the ev'ning mist,
So often lovely, and will list
To the sound of the coming
darkness
(known
To those whose spirits hearken) as one
Who, in a dream of night, _would_ fly
But _cannot_ from a danger nigh.
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The
verses which the poet wrote on the occasion are among the most imperfect
of his pieces, but a few stanzas may perhaps be a matter of curiosity,
both on account of the
character
to which they relate and the light
which they throw on the situation and the feelings of the writer before
his work was known to the public.
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Robert Burns |
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The valiant Brandimart resorts that eve
Thitherward, where their tents the paynims rear;
And parleys, by this noble leader's leave,
With Agramant; for they were friends whilere;
And,
underneath
the banner of the Moor,
He into France had passed from Africk's shore.
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Wrinkles where his eyes are,
Wrinkles where his nose is,
Wrinkles where his mouth is,
And a little old devil looking out of every
wrinkle!
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A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
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Les Amours de Cassandre: CLXXIV
Now when the sky and when the earth again
Fill with ice: cold hail
scattered
everywhere,
And the horror of the worst months of the year
Makes the grass bristle across the plain:
Now when the wind mutinously prowling,
Cracks the boulders, and uproots the trees,
When the redoubled roaring of the seas
Fills all the shoreline with its wild surging:
Love burns me, and winter's bitter cold
That freezes all, cannot freeze the old
Ardour in my heart that lasts forever.
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_ Mother of the world,
Take heart before this
Presence!
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As Far As My Eye Can See In My Body's Senses
All the trees all their branches all of their leaves
The grass at the foot of the rocks and the houses en masse
Far off the sea that your eye bathes
These images of day after day
The vices the virtues so imperfect
The transparency of men passing among them by chance
And passing women breathed by your elegant obstinacies
Your obsessions in a heart of lead on virgin lips
The vices the virtues so imperfect
The likeness of looks of permission with eyes you conquer
The
confusion
of bodies wearinesses ardours
The imitation of words attitudes ideas
The vices the virtues so imperfect
Love is man incomplete
Barely Disfigured
Adieu Tristesse
Bonjour Tristesse
Farewell Sadness
Hello Sadness
You are inscribed in the lines on the ceiling
You are inscribed in the eyes that I love
You are not poverty absolutely
Since the poorest of lips denounce you
Ah with a smile
Bonjour Tristesse
Love of kind bodies
Power of love
From which kindness rises
Like a bodiless monster
Unattached head
Sadness beautiful face.
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Gentle night, do thou
befriend
me,
Downy sleep, the curtain draw;
Spirits kind, again attend me,
Talk of him that's far awa!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Some do but scratch us:
Slow and
insidious
these poison our hearts over years.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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