A thick
coating of the latter was
accordingly
plastered upon the coating of tar.
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As Life is on each paddle's flight to-day,
And more than Life or lives to Neuha: Love
Freights
the frail bark and urges to the cove;
And now the refuge and the foe are nigh--
Yet, yet a moment!
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Byron |
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The
Diluter gives us first a few notes of some well-known Air, then a dozen
bars of his own, then a few more notes of the Air, and so on alternately:
thus saving the listener, if not from all risk of
recognising
the melody
at all, at least from the too-exciting transports which it might produce
in a more concentrated form.
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Lewis Carroll |
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There, on
thoughts
that once were mine,
Day looks down the eastern steep,
And the youth at morning shine
Makes the vow he will not keep.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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"
"For every vein and pulse
throughout
my frame
She hath made tremble.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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The Vizier was
generous
and
kept his word.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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VAGRANCY
When the slow year creeps hay-ward, and the skies
Are warming in the summer's mild surprise,
And the still breeze disturbs each leafy frond
Like hungry fishes dimpling in a pond,
It is a
pleasant
thing to dream at ease
On sun-warmed thyme, not far from beechen trees.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Thou therefore rise: vanish thy weariness
By the mind's effort, in each struggle form'd
To vanquish, if she suffer not the weight
Of her
corporeal
frame to crush her down.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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būend are the
compounds
ceaster-, fold-, grund-,
lond-būend.
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Beowulf |
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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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Lovely And Lifelike
A face at the end of the day
A cradle in day's dead leaves
A bouquet of naked rain
Every ray of sun hidden
Every fount of founts in the depths of the water
Every mirror of mirrors broken
A face in the scales of silence
A pebble among other pebbles
For the leaves last
glimmers
of day
A face like all the forgotten faces.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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" But
(speak-ing to Jesus) he says, "What beautiful or
admirable
thing have
you said or done, though you was (sp) called upon in the temple to give
some manifest sign that you were the son of God?
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Tacitus |
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Certe ego te in medio versantem turbine leti
Eripui, et potius germanum
amittere
crevi, 150
Quam tibi fallaci supremo in tempore dessem.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Note: Dante Gabriel Rossetti took
Archipiades
to be Hipparchia (see Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Philosophers, Book VI 96-98) who loved Crates the Theban Cynic philosopher (368/5-288/5BC) and of whom various tales are told suggesting her beauty, and independence of mind.
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Villon |
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Thou wanton baggage with
unblushing
face,
Thee on the spot I'll instantly chastise,
And then thy husband of the fact advise.
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La Fontaine |
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What else is the Palladium (with Homer) that kept Troy so long
from
sacking?
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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But they, placed high on the top of all
virtue, looked down on the stage of the world and
contemned
the play of
fortune.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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I love to see the shaking twig
Dance till the shut of eve,
The sparrow on the cottage rig,
Whose chirp would make believe
That Spring was just now
flirting
by
In Summer's lap with flowers to lie.
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John Clare |
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[PHERES _is now out of sight;_ ADMETUS _drops his
defiance
and
seems like a broken man.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Degas and Zuloaga seem to have combined their
art on one canvas to give to this dancer the abundant
elasticity
of
grace and the splendid fantasy of colour.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Ere a week was over Minnie
weepingly
returned his ring,
Told him his "unhappy weakness" stopped all thought of marrying.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Et, comme des chevaux, en
soufflant
des narines
Nous allions, fiers et forts, et ca nous battait la.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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He starts in
revulsion
on
seeing_ APOLLO.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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s father, Guo Zhiyun, had been
military
commissioner of Longyou.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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The silver, Sallust, shows not fair
While buried in the greedy mine:
You love it not till
moderate
wear
Have given it shine.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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An lack a land thy sacring rite,
The perfect rule we ne'er shall see
Reach Earth's far bourne; yet such we sight,
Thou willing:--with such Deity
Whoe'er shall dare
compare?
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Catullus - Carmina |
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org/dirs/2/0/0/2002
Updated editions will replace the
previous
one--the old editions will
be renamed.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Thel answerd, O thou little virgin of the
peaceful
valley.
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blake-poems |
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Ye
recording
angels,
Open your books and read?
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Longfellow |
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Depressed,
depressed
the scholar in the narrow street:
Clasping a shadow, he dwells in an empty house.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Thus loaded with a feast the tables stood,
Each
shrining
in the midst the image of a God.
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Keats - Lamia |
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The compressed and punctuated
translation
is offered as an aid to grasping the poem as a whole, in a swift reading.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Half-past three,
The lamp sputtered,
The lamp
muttered
in the dark.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Donne like Marvell seems to have been
influenced
by Ronsard and his peers.
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Ronsard |
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He seized upon
it, dashed off his first sketch in less than a fortnight, and published
it
anonymously
in a 'Miscellany' issued by Lintot in 1712.
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Alexander Pope |
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The truth is, I found it a very
convenient
business to
have ?
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| Question: |
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Robert Burns |
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Come, outfence him with
some
wheelwright
slang?
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Aristophanes |
|
II
The
Babylonian
praises his high wall,
And gardens high in air; Ephesian
Forms the Greek will praise again;
The people of the Nile their Pyramids tall;
And that same Greek still boasting will recall
Their statue of Jove the Olympian;
The Tomb of Mausolus, some Carian;
Cretans their long-lost labyrinthine hall.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Expand, being than which none else is perhaps more
spiritual!
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Whitman |
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But the crime's
wrought!
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Hugo - Poems |
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16
THE CONTRIBUTORS
Scudder Middleton's poem, 'The Clerk," published in the June number of
Contemporary
Verse, is ranked in "An Anthology of Magazine Verse" as one of the thirty most distinguished poems published in the United States in 1916.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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And HoBACE
patiently
its strokes does take.
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Marvell - Poems |
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With not even one blow
landing?
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Villon |
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Particularly
I remark
An English countess goes upon the stage.
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T.S. Eliot |
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She Who Was the Helmet-Maker's
Beautiful
Wife
'She Who Was the Helmet-Maker's Beautiful Wife'
Auguste Rodin (France, 1840 - 1917)
LACMA Collections
That's how the bon temps we regret
Among us, poor old idiots,
Squatting on our haunches, set
All in a heap like woollen lots
Round a hemp fire men forgot,
Soon kindled, and soon dust,
Once so lovely, that cocotte.
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Villon |
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I will not ask thee what strange anger sent
That blaze of proud
contempt
in the King's face:
But ere the voice of the King seals up thy life
In an unalterable judgment, I
Am granted now to come as his last message:
And, as I will, to speak.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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The person or entity that provided you with
the
defective
work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a
refund.
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Aeschylus |
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_insert_
to _after_ need; B.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Even as to Bacchus and to Ceres, so
To thee the swain his yearly vows shall make;
And thou thereof, like them, shalt
quittance
claim.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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When the living leave us, moved, I gaze,
For to enter death, is
entering
the temple;
And when a man dies, and goes his way,
I see my own ascent, clear, like crystal.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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"
(See 'The Life and
Correspondence
of Robert Southey', vol.
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William Wordsworth |
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I had hoped to see
A scene of wondrous glory, as was told
Of some great God who in a rain of gold
Broke open bars and fell on Danae:
Or a dread vision as when Semele
Sickening for love and unappeased desire
Prayed to see God's clear body, and the fire
Caught her brown limbs and slew her utterly:
With such glad dreams I sought this holy place,
And now with
wondering
eyes and heart I stand
Before this supreme mystery of Love:
Some kneeling girl with passionless pale face,
An angel with a lily in his hand,
And over both the white wings of a Dove.
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Wilde - Poems |
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About twelve by the moon-dial
One, more filmy than the rest
(A kind which, upon trial,
They have found to be the best)
Comes down--still down--and down
With its centre on the crown
Of a mountain's eminence,
While its wide circumference
In easy drapery falls
Over hamlets, over halls,
Wherever
they may be--
O'er the strange woods--o'er the sea--
Over spirits on the wing--
Over every drowsy thing--
And buries them up quite
In a labyrinth of light--
And then, how deep!
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Poe - 5 |
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`Santa Maria', well thou
tremblest
down the wave,
Thy `Pinta' far abow, thy `Nina' nigh astern:
Columbus stands in the night alone, and, passing grave,
Yearns o'er the sea as tones o'er under-silence yearn.
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Sidney Lanier |
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HE BLESSES ALL THE
CIRCUMSTANCES
OF HIS PASSION.
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Petrarch |
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I am as lovely as a dream in stone,
And this my heart where each finds death in turn,
Inspires
the poet with a love as lone
As clay eternal and as taciturn.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Num gravis
horrisono
polus obruit omnia lapsu,.
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Marvell - Poems |
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ankeden god, & glade were,
And
avoweden
in ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Ah, by no wind are stirred those trees
That
palpitate
like the chill seas
Around the misty Hebrides!
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Poe - 5 |
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_ If two beings have the same end in view--and one
of them accomplishes his purpose by the use of natural means,
while the other not using
legitimate
means does not attain his
end--which of these two is the most powerful?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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How grown men raged at Austria's wickedness,
And smoked,--while fifty striplings in a row
Marched straight to
Piedmont
for the wrong's redress!
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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Once having found the beloved,
However sorry or woeful,
However
scornful
of loving, 15
Little it matters.
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Sappho |
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It were fitting she should see
In that hour thine artistry,
And her husband's speechless corse
In the garment of
remorse!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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unless a
copyright
notice is included.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Why a Nostril wide inhaling terror trembling & affright
Why a tender curb upon the
youthful
burning boy?
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blake-poems |
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darkning
in the West
Lost!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Blake - Zoas |
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Yet I feel that I shall stand
Henceforward
in thy shadow.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Her face was of
the colour of earth, and more
wrinkled
than the face of any old hag
that was ever seen, and her grey hair was hanging in wisps, and the
rags she was wearing did not hide her dark skin that was roughened by
all weathers.
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Yeats |
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Between these two
different
opinions, a true poet
may be allowed to decide.
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Tacitus |
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: _timete Galliae, hunc time
Britannia_
Haupt: _et
huicne Gallia et metet Britannia?
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Latin - Catullus |
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Yet, Sire, you'll pardon my temerity
If I
commanded
without authority.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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what
tortures
are yours!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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Do you fear to lose
yourself
on Hercules' track?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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The comedy
is at the same time full of humor,
particularly
in the entire character
of Fitzdottrel.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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No, no, by
Aphrodite!
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Aristophanes |
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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And
presently
we oblige you to make peace.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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" And she writes again, with deeper
significance: "I too have learnt the subtle
philosophy
of living from
moment to moment.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Our age absolutely
lacks a standard of literary criticism; and of all standards the one
least likely to be
accepted
is that of Pope and his fellow-believers.
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Alexander Pope |
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Air from deep in her breast
penetrates
mine and there burns.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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The invalidity or
unenforceability
of any
provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions.
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Tennyson |
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Lear - Nonsense |
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These lines
appeared
first in 'The Friend', No.
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William Wordsworth |
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VII
When smoke stood up from Ludlow,
And mist blew off from Teme,
And blithe afield to ploughing
Against the morning beam
I strode beside my team,
The blackbird in the coppice
Looked out to see me stride,
And hearkened as I whistled
The
tramping
team beside,
And fluted and replied:
"Lie down, lie down, young yeoman;
What use to rise and rise?
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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The grim-eyed lioness pursues the wolf,
The wolf the she-goat, the she-goat herself
In wanton sport the
flowering
cytisus,
And Corydon Alexis, each led on
By their own longing.
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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The sky is
changed!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
|
Unauthenticated
Download Date | 10/1/17 7:36 AM Seeing Off Attendant Censor Fan (23) on his Way to a Post 289 Troops massed beneath Mounts Qi and Liang, 8 having crossed over back from the desert?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Hold me, my love — I know the answer now, O wayward, ever
wandering
feet of man— Always the journey ends where it began !
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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And when such a
wondrous
wife was gone!
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Heavenly hurt it gives us;
We can find no scar,
But
internal
difference
Where the meanings are.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Allegory
is a beautiful way of inculcating and asserting some
special significance in life; but epic has a severer task, and a more
impressive one.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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CLXXXV
Still in that
sepulchre
she dwelt, and worn
By weary penance, praying night and day,
It was not long, ere by the Parcae shorn
Was her life's thread: already on their way
Were the three Christian warriors, homeward borne,
Sorrowing and afflicted sore in mind
For their fourth comrade who remained behind.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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" which
appeared
in
the _Nineteenth Century_ (August, 1899, vol.
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Byron |
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Were he my brother, why then I 'd have
murdered
poor Werther.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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why, oh why
Dost waste thy West in
unthrift
mystery?
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Sidney Lanier |
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Now know I what Love is: 'mid savage rocks
Tmaros or Rhodope brought forth the boy,
Or
Garamantes
in earth's utmost bounds-
No kin of ours, nor of our blood begot.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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See there a mound of
powdered
stones, all flattened,
smashed, and torn,
Gone black with damp and green with slime?
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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