Such was the scene--what now
remaineth
here?
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At length they all to merry London came,
To merry London, my most kindly nurse,
That to me gave this life's first native source,
Though from another place I take my name,
An house of ancient fame:
There when they came whereas those bricky towers
The which on Thames' broad aged back do ride,
Where now the studious lawyers have their bowers,
There whilome wont the Templar-knights to bide,
Till they decay'd through pride:
Next
whereunto
there stands a stately place,
Where oft I gained gifts and goodly grace
Of that great lord, which therein wont to dwell,
Whose want too well now feels my friendless case;
But ah!
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Golden Treasury |
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Proudly the war bride, ending so,
Sank
breathless
in the dumb white snow.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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because of the efforts of
hundreds
of volunteers and donations from
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As I pass down the corridor
past
desperate
faces at each cell,
your eyes and my eyes may meet.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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He told me of the great still night,
Of calm starlight,
And of the lady moon, who'd stoop
For a kiss sometimes;
Of grass as soft as sleep, of rhymes
The tired flowers sang:
The ageless April tales
Of how, when sheep grew old,
As their faith told,
They went without a pang
To far green fields, where fall
Perpetual streams that call
To
deathless
nightingales.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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So valiant a warrior
snatched
from you,
Un-avenged, kills the wish to serve you.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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We Have Created the Night
We have created the night I hold your hand I watch
I sustain you with all my powers
I engrave in rock the star of your powers
Deep furrows where your body's goodness fruits
I recall your hidden voice your public voice
I smile still at the proud woman
You treat like a beggar
The madness you respect the
simplicity
you bathe in
And in my head which gently blends with yours with the night
I wonder at the stranger you become
A stranger resembling you resembling everything I love
One that is always new.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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"
The Priest sat by and heard the child;
In
trembling
zeal he seized his hair,
He led him by his little coat,
And all admired the priestly care.
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blake-poems |
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Now I know what
silenced
me.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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"
--"O then," I
answered
miserably,
Speaking as scarce I knew,
"My loved one, I must wed with thee
If what thou say'st be true!
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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She hailed him there in his pride,
Home from the
perilous
years,
In the heart of his walled lands,
In the Giants' cloud-capt ring;
Herself, none other, laid
The hone to the axe's blade;
She lifted it in her hands,
The woman, and slew her king.
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Euripides - Electra |
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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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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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'
Then
answered
Lancelot, the chief of knights:
'And with what face, after my pretext made,
Shall I appear, O Queen, at Camelot, I
Before a King who honours his own word,
As if it were his God's?
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Tennyson |
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He gaz'd, and, fear his mind surprising,
Himself no more the hermit knows:
He sees with foam the waters rising,
And then
subsiding
to repose,
And sudden, light as night-ghost wanders,
A female thence her form uprais'd,
Pale as the snow which winter squanders,
And on the bank herself she plac'd.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this
electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Hounded by misery till my final breath,
I lay down a painful life in
tormented
death.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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We cannot linger very long in this great dim
temple where the wooden images sit all round upon thrones, and where
the
worshippers
kneel, not knowing whether they tremble because their
gods are dead or because they fear they may be alive.
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Yeats |
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In future when I
celebrate
his flame,
Expressions not so warm will be my aim;
I would not willingly abuses plant,
But rather let my writings spirit want.
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La Fontaine |
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Though coward hands have nailed you to the tree
And shed your
innocent
blood and dug your grave,
Rejoice and live!
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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LVII
"Can it be true, my life, that to forsake
Thy
champion
for this Greek should grieve not thee?
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Howsoe'er,
I let my
business
wait upon their sport.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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V
Thither the great
magicien
Merlin came,
As was his use, ofttimes to visit me:
For he had charge my discipline to frame,?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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and surely if, once in a
while,
You attain to it,
straightway
you call us no longer too fair, but
too vile.
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Imagists |
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"
"No; is he a
soldier?
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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If I did weave some clout
Of raiment, would he keep the vesture now
He wore in
childhood?
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Euripides - Electra |
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I winna blaw about mysel;
As ill I like my fauts to tell;
But friends an' folk that wish me well,
They
sometimes
roose me;
Tho' I maun own, as monie still
As far abuse me.
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Robert Burns |
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180
Twelve ships attended me, and ev'ry ship
Nine goats received by lot; myself alone
Selected
ten.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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And the
braggarts
all in silence were bound.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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He sits in a beautiful parlor,
With
hundreds
of books on the wall;
He drinks a great deal of Marsala,
But never gets tipsy at all.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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"Is it
possible?
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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striuyng
wordes an o?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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>>
Et puis, Quelqu'un parait, que tous avaient nie,
Et qui leur dit,
railleur
et fier: << Dans mon ciboire,
Vous avez, que je crois, assez communie,
A la joyeuse Messe noire?
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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The Chinese
have always (and
rightly)
despised the literature of this period, which
is "all flowers and moonlight.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Acting as
Supervisor
of
Excise
CCCXXVI.
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Robert Forst |
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Alas,
As wee do them in meanes, shall they surpasse 10
Us in the end, and shall thy fathers spirit
Meete blinde
Philosophers
in heaven, whose merit
Of strict life may be imputed faith, and heare
Thee, whom hee taught so easie wayes and neare
To follow, damn'd?
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John Donne |
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I have
presumed
to employ a similar license.
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Shelley |
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And sometimes into cities she would send
Her dream, with feast and rioting to blend;
And once, while among mortals dreaming thus,
She saw the young Corinthian Lycius
Charioting foremost in the envious race,
Like a young Jove with calm uneager face,
And fell into a
swooning
love of him.
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Keats - Lamia |
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Where Mercy, Love, and Pity dwell,
There God is
dwelling
too.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Here he uses
the words after a
libation
of a new kind and induced by fear.
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Aristophanes |
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LIII
A woman stood with quivering lips and pale,
And, pointing to a little child that lay 470
Stretched on the ground, began a piteous tale;
How in a simple freak of thoughtless play
He had provoked his father, who straightway,
As if each blow were
deadlier
than the last,
Struck the poor innocent.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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She hath called me from mine old ways, She hath hushed my rancour of council, Bidding me praise
Naught but the wind that
flutters
in the leaves.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Indeed, I marvel, and marvel greatly,
How a priest can sit here so sedately,
Reading, the whole year out and in,
Naught but the
catalogue
of sin,
And still keep any faith whatever
In human virtue!
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Longfellow |
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Greek sang and Tcherkass for his pleasure,
And
Kergeesian
captive is dancing;
In the eyes of the first heaven's azure,
And in those black of Eblis is glancing.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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At length the point of our descent we reach'd
From the last flag: soon as to that arriv'd,
So was the breath
exhausted
from my lungs,
I could no further, but did seat me there.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Lucretius |
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The _New Poems_
bear the dedication: "A mon grand ami, Auguste Rodin," indicating the
twofold influence which the French
sculptor
wielded over the poet, that
of a friend and that of an artist.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Too clearly now I find
That felon Love, to
aggravate
my pain,
Mine easy heart hath thus to hope inclined;
And now the maxim sage I call to mind,
That mortal bliss must doubtful still remain
Till death from earthly bonds the soul unbind.
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Petrarch |
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As a natural result, various lively-minded
readers
proceeded
to overemphasize these particular features, and were
carried into eccentricity or paradox.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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& the hHuman form is no more
The
listning
Stars heard, & the first beam of the morning started back
He cried out to his father, depart!
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Blake - Zoas |
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Since Gander did his pretty
youngling
wed, 396.
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Robert Herrick |
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MOLLY MAGUIRE AT MONMOUTH
WILLIAM COLLINS
[Sidenote: June 28, 1778]
_The battle of Monmouth was indecisive, but the
Americans
held
the field, and the British retreated and remained inactive for the
rest of the summer.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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wherefore hast thou need
Of such a
multitude?
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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_Nero commanded, but
withdrew
his eyes.
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Robert Herrick |
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At length the Vision closes; and the mind,
Not undisturbed by the delight it feels,
Which slowly settles into
peaceful
calm, 25
Is left to muse upon the solemn scene.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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_ Gentle Myrrha, 'tis
The end I would have chosen, had I saved
The monarch or the monarchy by this;
As 'tis, I have not
outlived
them.
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Byron |
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Indessen konnt Ihr ganz allein
An aller Hoffnung kunft'ger Freuden
In ihrem
Dunstkreis
satt Euch weiden.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Howe'er great is pharaoh, the magi, king,
Encompassed
by an idolizing ring,
None is so high as Tiglath Pileser.
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Hugo - Poems |
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1 That is, an old
embroidery
with a coherent sequence of scenes has been cut up into pieces for the girls?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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the thick black cloud is cleft,
And the Moon is at its side:
Like waters shot from some high crag,
The
lightning
falls with never a jag
A river steep and wide.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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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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T.S. Eliot |
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On reaching the northern
nook of the kirk-yard, where the grave was made, the mourners halted;
the coffin was divested of the mort-cloth, and silently lowered to its
resting-place, and as the first shovel-full of earth fell on the lid,
the volunteers, too
agitated
to be steady, justified the fears of the
poet, by three ragged volleys.
| Guess: |
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Robert Burns |
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Could we stand with that old Moses
Canaan denied, --
Scan, like him, the stately landscape
On the other side, --
Doubtless we should deem superfluous
Many sciences
Not pursued by learned angels
In
scholastic
skies!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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In Italy in Arms he is the true acolyte of Beauty,
worshipping
and tending at her immemorial shrine.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Too delicate is flesh to be
The shield that nations interpose
'Twixt red
Ambition
and his foes--
The bastion of Liberty.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Thoughts suggested by a College
Examination
p.
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Byron |
|
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Above the antique mantel was displayed
As though a window gave upon the sylvan scene
The change of Philomel, by the
barbarous
king
So rudely forced; yet there the nightingale 100
Filled all the desert with inviolable voice
And still she cried, and still the world pursues,
"Jug Jug" to dirty ears.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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And many a mother wept, pierced with
unnatural
pity.
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| Source: |
Shelley |
|
You may copy it, give it away or
re-use it under the terms of the Project
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Replied the Tsar, our country's hope and glory:
Of a truth, thou little lad, and peasant's
bantling!
| Guess: |
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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atque ita naue leui nitens ac lenibus auris
magnanimum ad Minoa uenit
sedesque
superbas.
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Latin - Catullus |
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Stealthily
I slipped away.
| Guess: |
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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2 His
excellent
nephew is an extraordinary talent?
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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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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The
marginal
analysis which Coleridge
added in reprinting the poem (from the _Lyrical Ballads_) in
_Sibylline Leaves_, has been transferred to this place, where it can
be read without interrupting the narrative in verse.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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'
You wrung your hands; while I like lead
Crushed
downwards
through the sodden earth:
You smote your hands but not in mirth,
And reeled but were not drunk with wine.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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And I, could I stand by
And see you freeze,
Without my right of frost,
Death's
privilege?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
|
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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These
ministers
in that same cedar sweet
Where thou art laid will lay me, feet to feet,
And head to head, oh, not in death from thee
Divided, who alone art true to me!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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How many shadows more
Darken my heart, their substance from these eyes
Hidden
forever!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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My mother taught me
underneath
a tree,
And, sitting down before the heat of day,
She took me on her lap and kissed me,
And, pointed to the east, began to say:
"Look on the rising sun: there God does live,
And gives His light, and gives His heat away,
And flowers and trees and beasts and men receive
Comfort in morning, joy in the noonday.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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Nor did Luna delay about kissing that
beautiful
dreamer--
Jealous Aurora had else hastily wakened the lad.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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This
projected
audience
is one hundred million readers.
| Guess: |
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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So with our
Tuscans!
| Guess: |
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Elizabeth Browning |
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In the
southern
clime,
Where the summer's prime
Never fades away,
Lovely Lyca lay.
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blake-poems |
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The country girls in Ayrshire, instead of the line--
"She me forsook for a great duke,"
say
"For Athole's duke she me forsook;"
which I take to be the
original
reading.
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Robert Burns |
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"I fear thee, ancient
Mariner!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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_l_) O sed Madano _Ge(l)lius_ potius
uisum est:
_Lelius_
GCDB Laurentiani || _solere_ Parthenius:
_flere_ ?
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Latin - Catullus |
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About the same time they
perceived
a large frog, spotted with green, and
with a sky-blue stripe under each ear.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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It look'd around, as eager to explore
If there were other with me; but perceiving
That fond
imagination
quench'd, with tears
Thus spake: "If thou through this blind prison go'st.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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What help was it for the
Trojans to escape war's doom and thread their flight through Argive
fires, to have exhausted all those perils of sea and
desolate
lands,
while they seek Latium and the towers of a Troy rebuilt?
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Oh the dismal care
That shakes the
blossoms
of my hoary hair!
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blake-poems |
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" I asked him,
restraining
with
difficulty my indignation.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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The bad will basely, good will bravely, do ;
And few, indeed, can parallel our climes,
For worth heroic, or heroic crimes^
The trial would, however, be too nice,
Which
stronger
were, a Scotch or English vice ;
Or whether the same virtue would reflect.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Have you no comfort for me
Cold-colored
flowers?
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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To prove the truth of what I state
Let me an
anecdote
relate:
A Gascon with his comrade sat
At tavern drinking.
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La Fontaine |
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