This
exquisite
fragment is printed in
Coleridge's works in a prefatory note to the prose "Wanderings of Cain.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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His voice will one day be
potential or magisterial wherever the English
language
is spoken--that is
to say, in the four corners of the earth; and in his own American
hemisphere, the uttermost avatars of democracy will confess him not more
their announcer than their inspirer.
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Whitman |
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"--think some:
Others--"How blest the
Paradise
to come!
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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And thou, send up to us the
righteous
boon
For which we pray: thine aids be heaven and earth,
And justice guide the right to victory,
[_To the Chorus_
Thus have I prayed, and thus I shed these streams,
And follow ye the wont, and as with flowers
Crown ye with many a tear and cry the dirge,
Your lips ring out above the dead man's grave.
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Aeschylus |
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I have
forgotten
her
We are here in a wood of little beeches
We challenged Death.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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heaven and earth the raging chief defies;
What fury in his breast, what
lightning
in his eyes!
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Iliad - Pope |
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' and fled, as flies
A troop of snowy doves athwart the dusk,
When some one batters at the dovecote-doors,
Disorderly
the women.
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Tennyson |
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That new-born nation, the new sons of Earth,
With war's
lightning
bolts creating dearth,
Beat down these fine walls, on every hand,
Then vanished to the countries of their birth,
That not even Jove's sire, in all his worth,
Might boast a Roman Empire in this land.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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And all around the portal,
And high above the wall,
Stood a great throng of people,
But sad and silent all;
Young lads and
stooping
elders
That might not bear the mail,
Matrons with lips that quivered,
And maids with faces pale.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Powder becomes, like petticoat,
Your little, gray old woman:
Naked I sit upon my goat,
And show the
untrimmed
human.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Some to _Conceit_ alone their taste confine,
And glitt'ring
thoughts
struck out at ev'ry line; 290
Pleas'd with a work where nothing's just or fit;
One glaring Chaos and wild heap of wit.
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Alexander Pope |
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Its fair women have become the brown earth, still more, their
artifice
of powder and mascara.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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If thought is life
And
strength
and breath
And the want
Of thought is death;
Then am I
A happy fly,
If I live,
Or if I die.
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blake-poems |
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After having vied with
returned
favours squandered treasure
More than a red lip with a red tip
And more than a white leg with a white foot
Where then do we think we are?
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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He wheels his mares, who at their
frontlets
chafe
And yearn to charge upon the gates amain.
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Aeschylus |
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ai
schullen
do; miracles grete & ryue;
Bot we ne fynde nou?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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LAWRENCE
Snake
HAROLD MONRO
Thistledown (from 'Real Property')
Real
Property
" " "
Unknown Country " " "
ROBERT NICHOLS
Night Rhapsody (from 'Aurelia')
November " "
J.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Victorinus 182 Gaisford:
_Pelliaco_
(_-to_
G) ?
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Latin - Catullus |
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I only knew what haunted thought
Quickened
his step, and why
He looked upon the garish day
With such a wistful eye;
The man had killed the thing he loved,
And so he had to die.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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You must preserve Wuwei Commandery, 28 and make plans for its
enduring
benefit.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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]
XVIII
Shouts of
applause!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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This
translation
or rather adaptation contains many of the two hundred or so fragments, in some cases fragments of the fragments, excluding things I found too partial or obscure to resonate.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Or by an
agreement
on a paper?
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Whitman |
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"
While, for those who preferred a more
forcible
word,
He had different names from these:
His intimate friends called him "Candle-ends,"
And his enemies "Toasted-cheese.
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Lewis Carroll |
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Winter Stars
I went out at night alone;
The young blood flowing beyond the sea
Seemed to have
drenched
my spirit's wings--
I bore my sorrow heavily.
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Sara Teasdale |
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when, like spring, that
gracious
mien of thine
Dawns on thy Rome, more gently glides the day,
And suns serener shine.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Of all the sorrows of all the
prisoners
mine is the hardest to bear!
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Modern luxury has
substituted
preserved
ice, in place of the more ancient mixture.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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")
Do I dare
Disturb the
universe?
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T.S. Eliot |
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Still the present I raise aloft, still the future of the States I
harbinge
glad and sublime,
And for the past I pronounce what the air holds of the red aborigines.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Penelope poterat bis denos salua per annos
uiuere, tam multis femina digna procis;
coniugium
falsa poterat differre Minerua,
nocturno soluens texta diurna dolo;
uisura et quamuis numquam speraret Vlixen,
illum exspectando facta remansit anus.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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To me seated secure
came grief for joy when Grendel began
to harry my home, the hellish foe;
for those
ruthless
raids, unresting I suffered
heart-sorrow heavy.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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The styles are taken from
Classical
art.
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Ronsard |
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To maydens, huswyfes, and unlored[20] dames, 25
Hee redes hys tales of
merryment
& woe.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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_A
BROADWAY
PAGEANT.
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Whitman |
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"
LXVIII
While she so seeks the Saracen to cheer,
Behold a
messenger
with pouch and horn,
On panting hackney!
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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'
This is the old
threefold
division of the human mind.
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Alexander Pope |
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Poor little
birdies!
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Hugo - Poems |
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" Adam complies, and relates how he appealed to
God for a companion, and was
answered
in the fairest of God's gifts.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Imagists |
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To him
Antinous
thus with fury said:
"What words ill-omen'd from thy lips have fled?
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Odyssey - Pope |
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'Do you see him, she cried, the old lecher dies;
Through his mouth the frosts of earth take flight;
Bind his lame feet, destroy his
squinting
sight,
He's the god of craters, king of the winter's ice!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Motionless
thus they sit and dream
Until that melancholy hour
When, with the sun's last fading gleam,
The nightly shades assume their power.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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)
Comrades!
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Still in marble stone stood he,
And
stedfastly
he looked at me.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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However, this
transcription
may be compared with the edited
version in the main text to get a flavor of the changes made
in these early editions.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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The man of Macedon
Cleft gates of cities, rival kings o'erthrew
By force of gifts: their cunning snares have won
Rude
captains
and their crew.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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690
Nowe to the warre lette all the
slughornes
sounde,
The Dacyanne troopes appere on yinder rysynge grounde.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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The Caterpillar
Plants,
Caterpillars
and Insects
'Plants, Caterpillars and Insects'
Jacob l' Admiral (II), Johannes Sluyter, 1710 - 1770, The Rijksmuseun
Work leads us to riches.
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Appoloinaire |
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_The Scene is laid in the
mountains
of Argos.
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Euripides - Electra |
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a long vnagreable
dwellynges
in me.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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--The next
succeeding
May,
We both to service went from sports and play,
Though in the village still; as friends and kin
Thought neighbour's service better to begin.
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John Clare |
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Alike for those who for TO-DAY prepare,
And those that after a TO-MORROW stare,
A Muezzin from the Tower of
Darkness
cries
"Fools!
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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[Picture: Last, the
youngest
son was taken]
Last, the youngest son was taken:
Very rough and thick his hair was,
Very round and red his face was,
Very dusty was his jacket,
Very fidgety his manner.
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
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CXX
Within the town the troop set up their rest,
Until the law is graved, of
different
frame
From that before upon the stone imprest,
Which every woman doom'd to death and shame.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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_ 'He esteemeth John Done the first poet in
the world for some things: his verses of the Lost Chaine he hath by
heart; and that passage of the Calme, That dust and
feathers
doe not
stirre, all was soe quiet.
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John Donne |
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Art thou content with my
confession?
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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I, All-Creation, sing my song of praise
To God Who made me and
vouchsafes
my days,
And sends me forth by multitudinous ways.
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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What
instinct
hadst thou for it?
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Shakespeare |
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Unauthenticated
Download
Date | 10/1/17 7:36 AM 288 ?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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And fair the form of Music shines,
That bright,
celestial
creature,
Who still 'mid war's embattled lines
Gave this one touch of nature.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Ah, but now
We are not swimmers in this
dangerous
life.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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dome
displeasing
unto British eye!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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It has lost the exclusive
consciousness
of itself which
is lust, and become merged in an entire affection, as a turbid and
discoloured stream is lost in the sea.
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John Donne |
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'My eye,
piercing
the reeds, speared each immortal
Neck that drowns its burning in the water
With a cry of rage towards the forest sky;
And the splendid bath of hair slipped by
In brightness and shuddering, O jewels!
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Wilde - Poems |
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it
clattered in the cliff as if one upon a
grindstone
were grinding a
scythe.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Now therefore, let not even my advice
Displease
thee.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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It perseveres if grief be all its view,
And squanders gems for which no mortal thanks,
And blesses when self as
sacrifice
it burns.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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And now the Soul stands in a vague, intense
Expectancy
and anguish of suspense,
On the dim chamber-threshold .
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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He
departed
for Paris at the end of August 1557.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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"
"Sing, if you will--but do not speak so loud;
Besides, such things as these," said fair Mahaud,
"In your
condition
are not understood.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Highbury
bore me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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, of her were born a
thousand
young ones.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Cette femme, morceau
vraiment
miraculeux,
Divinement robuste, adorablement mince,
Est faite pour troner sur des lits somptueux,
Et charmer les loisirs d'un pontife ou d'un prince.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Now in the sea's red vintage melts the sun,
As Egypt's pearl
dissolved
in rosy wine,
And Cleopatra night drinks all.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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Weare we cold or
withered
heare
We would stay thee by us,
Or but one anothers feare
Then thou shouldst not flye us.
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John Donne |
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Or the
glistening
Eye to the poison of a smile!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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--But he who can so fare,
And
stumbleth
not on mischief anywhere,
Blessed on earth is he!
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Euripides - Electra |
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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THE SHRINE
("SHE WATCHES OVER THE SEA")
I
Are your rocks shelter for ships--
have you sent galleys from your beach,
are you graded--a safe crescent--
where the tide lifts them back to port--
are you full and sweet,
tempting
the quiet
to depart in their trading ships?
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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[C] Her maternal
instinct
is excited by Gemini.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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To whom
The
gracious
Judge without revile repli'd.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
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poor youth,
What taste of purer air hast thou to soothe
My
essence?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
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DING DONG[17]
When the world grows old by the chimney-side
Then forth to the
youngling
nooks I glide,
Where over the water and over the land
The bells are booming on either hand.
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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So that the man that will but lay his ears
As
inapostate
to the thing he hears,
Shall by his hearing quickly come to see
The truth of travels less in books than thee.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
|
She slept beneath a tree
Remembered
but by me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Was none so daring that durst make bold
(save her lord alone) of the
liegemen
dear
that lady full in the face to look,
but forged fetters he found his lot,
bonds of death!
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This poem of fin'amor, perfect or true love, is one of the more comprehensive statements of the
troubadour
ideal.
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the other was equally brave;)
Now be witness again, paint the mightiest armies of earth,
Of those armies so rapid so
wondrous
what saw you to tell us?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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How to entangle, trammel up and snare
Your soul in mine, and labyrinth you there
Like the hid scent in an
unbudded
rose?
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Keats - Lamia |
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No
footstep
stirred: the hated world an slept,
Save only thee and me.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Are these thy boasts,
Champion
of human kind?
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Coleridge - Poems |
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And what if Trade sow cities
Like shells along the shore,
And thatch with towns the prairie broad
With
railways
ironed o'er?
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Emerson - Poems |
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How have I dwelt in fear of fate: 'tis done--
Immortal
bliss for me too hast thou won.
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Keats |
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"When I beheld her, I--a lowly shepherd--
Grew in my mind
Till I was Caesar--she that crowned leopard
He
crouched
behind,
No Roman stern, but in her silken leashes
A captive mild--
Oh!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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