Faith here's an Equiuocator, that could sweare in both
the Scales against eyther Scale, who
committed
Treason
enough for Gods sake, yet could not equiuocate to Heauen:
oh come in, Equiuocator.
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Their native fastnesses not more secure
Than they in
doubtful
time of troublous need:
Their wrath how deadly!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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If quicksilver were gold,
And troubled pools of it shaking in the sun
It were not such a fancy of
bickering
gleam
As Ryton daffodils when the air but stirs.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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(To Don Diegue)
You may speak next, I
sanction
her complaint.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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) The custom of throwing a little Wine on the ground before
drinking still
continues
in Persia, and perhaps generally in the East.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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if in that high sphere,
From whence the Eternal Ruler of the stars
In this excelling work declared his might,
All be as fair and bright,
Loose me from forth my darksome prison here,
That to so glorious life the passage bars;
Then, in the wonted tumult of my breast,
I hail boon Nature, and the genial day
That gave me being, and a fate so blest,
And her who bade hope beam
Upon my soul; for till then burthensome
Was life itself become:
But now, elate with touch of self-esteem,
High thoughts and sweet within that heart arise,
Of which the warders are those
beauteous
eyes.
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Li Po |
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but far more wretched yet
Is he who makes his meal on others' wit:
'Tis changed, no doubt, from what it was before;
His rank
digestion
makes it wit no more:
Sense, past through him, no longer is the same;
For food digested takes another name.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Bold and accursed are they who all this while
Have strove to isle this monarch from this isle,
And to improve
themselves
by false pretence.
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huld know his
countenance!
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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An' now, ye chosen Five-and-Forty,
May still your mither's heart support ye,
Then, though a
minister
grow dorty,
An' kick your place,
Ye'll snap your fingers, poor an' hearty,
Before his face.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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The Horse
Pegasus
'Pegasus'
Jacopo de' Barbari, 1509 - 1516, The Rijksmuseun
My harsh dreams knew the riding of you
My gold-charioted fate will be your lovely car
That for reins will hold tight to frenzy,
My verses, the
patterns
of all poetry.
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Appoloinaire |
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Latin - Catullus |
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How would, I say, mine eyes be blessed made
By looking on thee in the living day,
When in dead night thy fair imperfect shade
Through heavy sleep on
sightless
eyes doth stay!
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Then lord Anchises: 'Souls, for whom second bodies are destined
and due, drink at the wave of the Lethean stream the
heedless
water of
long forgetfulness.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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New
scintillating
rays extend
Through endless singing space and rise
Into an ecstasy that cries:
"Ascend, Leviathan, ascend!
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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This Collection will be edited in a
separate
volume some day for the E.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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th knowe,
ffor so naked was he;
And als a
straunge
man he went
To his fader wi?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Eternal Nymph, you're the grace
Of my
ancestral
place:
So, in this fresh, green view,
See your Poet, who brings
An un-weaned kid to you,
Whose horns, in offering,
Bud from its brow in youth.
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Ronsard |
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I brake thy
bracelet
'gainst my will, II.
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Robert Herrick |
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From this I make the following extract:--
"The Pictured Rocks may be described, in general terms, as a series
of sandstone bluffs extending along the shore of Lake Superior for
about five miles, and rising, in most places,
vertically
from the
water, without any beach at the base, to a height varying from fifty
to nearly two hundred feet.
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Longfellow |
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At the
beginning
of the period Sh?
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Li Po |
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uel poena in tempus mortis dilata fuisset,
uel
praecepisset
mors properata fugam.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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zip *****
This and all
associated
files of various formats will be found in:
http://www.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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It is a pity to doubt
this green hair legend;
presently
a man of genius will not be able to
enjoy an epileptic fit in peace--as does a banker or a beggar.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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And now the other maidens in the hall
Assembling, kindled on the hearth again
Th'
unwearied
blaze; then, godlike from his couch 150
Arose Telemachus, and, fresh-attired,
Athwart his shoulders his bright faulchion slung,
Bound his fair sandals to his feet, and took
His sturdy spear pointed with glitt'ring brass;
Advancing to the portal, there he stood,
And Euryclea thus, his nurse, bespake.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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A smile
suffused
Jehovah's face;
The cherubim withdrew;
Grave saints stole out to look at me,
And showed their dimples, too.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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The Emperor was so pleased with Po's talent that
whenever
he was
feasting or drinking he always had this poet to wait upon him.
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Li Po |
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de Crousaz, Professor of
Philosophy and Mathematics in the University of Lausanne, and defended by
Warburton, then
chaplain
to the Prince of Wales, in six letters published
in 1739, and a seventh in 1740, for which Pope (who died in 1744) was
deeply grateful.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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)
Nun
uberlass
es meinem Witze!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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If anybody's friend be dead,
It 's sharpest of the theme
The
thinking
how they walked alive,
At such and such a time.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Let vs seeke out some
desolate
shade, & there
Weepe our sad bosomes empty
Macd.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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'
But with walls blazoned, mourning, empty,
I've scorned the lucid horror of a tear,
When, deaf to the sacred verse he does not fear,
One of those passers-by, mute, blind, proud,
Transmutes himself, a guest in his vague shroud,
Into the virgin hero of
posthumous
waiting.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Pan first with wax taught reed with reed to join;
For sheep alike and
shepherd
Pan hath care.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Indi spiro: <
da te, la voglia tua discerno meglio
che tu
qualunque
cosa t'e piu certa;
perch' io la veggio nel verace speglio
che fa di se pareglio a l'altre cose,
e nulla face lui di se pareglio.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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haesit in amplexu consolatusque
iacentem
est,
cumque meis lacrimis miscuit usque suas.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Shall a
beardless
boy,
A cock'red silken wanton, brave our fields
And flesh his spirit in a warlike soil,
Mocking the air with colours idly spread,
And find no check?
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Shakespeare |
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MOERIS
O Lycidas,
We have lived to see, what never yet we feared,
An
interloper
own our little farm,
And say, "Be off, you former husbandmen!
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Those who
practice
poetry search for and love only the perfection that is God Himself.
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Appoloinaire |
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He warmed waters to bathe our feet, 32 and cut paper
streamers
to call back our souls.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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He
selected
his card and placed upon it his fresh stake.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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We gallop along
Alert and penetrating,
Roads open about us,
Housetops
keep at a distance.
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Imagists |
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All with
obedient
haste forsake the shores,
And, placed in order, spread their equal oars.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Against the
Teucrians
the forces of sky and sea are spent.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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The editors are confid ent that the magazine's year will be regarded as notable in
American
literature.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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'17'
The word "wit" has a number of different meanings in this poem, and the
student should be careful to
discriminate
between them.
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Alexander Pope |
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Now, that our friendly alliance may be ratified for all
eternity, we demand of you that you pull down those
bulwarks
of
slavery, the walls of your town, for even wild beasts lose their
spirit if you keep them caged: that you put to the sword every Roman
on your soil, since tyrants are incompatible with freedom; that all
the property of those killed form a common stock and no one be
allowed to conceal anything or to secure any private advantage.
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Tacitus |
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I am moved by fancies that are curled
Around these images, and cling:
The notion of some
infinitely
gentle
Infinitely suffering thing.
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T.S. Eliot |
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And he had learned to love,--I know not why,
For this in such as him seems strange of mood,--
The helpless looks of blooming infancy,
Even in its
earliest
nurture; what subdued,
To change like this, a mind so far imbued
With scorn of man, it little boots to know;
But thus it was; and though in solitude
Small power the nipped affections have to grow,
In him this glowed when all beside had ceased to glow.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Daylight
shone _370
At length upon that gloomy river's flow;
Now, where the fiercest war among the waves
Is calm, on the unfathomable stream
The boat moved slowly.
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Shelley |
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They set a vile
example!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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O wonder now
unfurled!
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Either from too early becoming his
own master, or from being betrayed into follies
to which his lively temperament and social quali-
ties readily exposed him, he became negligent of
his studies; and having absented himself from
certain " exercises," and otherwise been guilty of
sundry
unacademic
irregularities, he, with four
others, was adjudged by the masters and seniors
unworthy of *' receiving any further benefit from
the college," unless they showed just cause to the
* Another and more poetical version of the story is, that
Mr.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Go find it, faeries, go and find
That tiny pinch of priceless dust,
And bring a casket silver-lined,
And framed of gold that gems encrust;
And we will lay it safe therein,
And consecrate it to endless time;
For it inspired a bard to win
Ecstatic
heights in thought and rhyme.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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But O that colour's
rapturous
singing
And the answer in her lone heart ringing!
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Hutchinson
called the attention of Professor Dowden to the same
resemblance between the two pictures.
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William Wordsworth |
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'
Scarce had he spoken when the encircling cloud
suddenly
parts and melts
into clear air.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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"]
[Sidenote G: "By God," quoth Sir Gawayne, "I shall not
begrudge
thee thy
will.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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e snawe
snitered
ful snart, ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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* * * * *
NOTE: The Old English "yogh" characters have been
translated
both
upper and lower-case yoghs to digit 3's.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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on
previendra
les reflux d'incendie,
Voila les quais!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Mucius Scaevola held his hand in the fire to
illustrate
to Porsenna Roman
fearlessness; Cato is Cato Uticensis, the philosophic suicide; "high
Atilius" will be more easily recognised as the M.
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Robert Herrick |
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permission
for the use of the work and the
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Sudden the door flies open wide, and lets
Noisily in the dawn-light
scarcely
clear,
And the good fisher, dragging his damp nets,
Stands on the threshold, with a joyous cheer.
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Hugo - Poems |
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On the occasion, too, of the Duke of Tarento
being announced at the Austrian Ambassador's ball, February, 1827, as
plain "Marshal Macdonald," Victor became the mouthpiece of indignant
Bonapartists in his "Ode to the
Napoleon
Column" in the Place Vendome.
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Victor Hugo - 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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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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But belief is utterly
distinct
from and
unconnected with volition: it is the apprehension of the agreement or
disagreement of the ideas that compose any preposition.
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Shelley |
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He
regards the _Alcestis_ simply as a triumph of pathos,
especially
of
"that peculiar sort of pathos which comes most home to us, with our views
and partialities for domestic life.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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They sat down together, she lay beside him and kissed his feet as if in
the deepest
reverence
and love.
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Tennyson |
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Approving all, she faded at self-will,
And shut the chamber up, close, hush'd and still,
Complete
and ready for the revels rude,
When dreadful guests would come to spoil her solitude.
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Keats - Lamia |
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of
Replacement
or Refund" described in paragraph 1.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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A washed-out
smallpox
cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone With all the old nocturnal smells
That cross and cross across her brain.
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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Fourth Self: I, amongst you all, am the most miserable, for naught
was given me but odious hatred and
destructive
loathing.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Lean penury within that pen doth dwell
That to his subject lends not some small glory;
But he that writes of you, if he can tell
That you are you, so
dignifies
his story,
Let him but copy what in you is writ,
Not making worse what nature made so clear,
And such a counterpart shall fame his wit,
Making his style admired every where.
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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"Begin, my flute, with me
Maenalian
lays.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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" The friends of Petrarch shed tears
of joy, and Stefano Colonna, his
favourite
hero, addressed the assembly
in his honour.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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CHORUS
To my
blessing
now give ear.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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Too weak to win, too fond to shun
The tyrants of his doom,
The much
deceived
Endymion
Slips behind a tomb.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Emerson - Poems |
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She went that evening from the abbey gray,
Her task
committing
to another's hand;
-- Left it to Fraud to feed, till her return,
The war, and make the fires she kindled burn;
XXVII
And she believed, that she with greater power
Should go, did Pride with her as well repair;
And she (for all were guested in one bower)
In search of her had little way to fare.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Vast clouds of spears and stones rise from the ground;
But every dart flies past and rocks rebound
To the
disheartened
angels falling around.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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MOPSUS
"For Daphnis cruelly slain wept all the Nymphs-
Ye hazels, bear them witness, and ye streams-
When she, his mother,
clasping
in her arms
The hapless body of the son she bare,
To gods and stars unpitying, poured her plaint.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Not now are we one of these spacious and haughty States, (nor any five, nor
ten;)
Nor market nor depot are we, nor money-bank in the city;
But these, and all, and the brown and spreading land, and the mines below,
are ours;
And the shores of the sea are ours, and the rivers great and small;
And the fields they moisten are ours, and the crops, and the fruits are
ours;
Bays and channels, and ships sailing in and out, are ours--and we over all,
Over the area spread below, the three
millions
of square miles--the
capitals,
The thirty-five millions of people--O bard!
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Whitman |
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Finery,
haughtiness
do not entice me.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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er be a
blisfulnesse
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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_First
published
in_ 1869.
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Lewis Carroll |
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I have no host in battle him to prove,
Nor have I
strength
his forces to undo.
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Chanson de Roland |
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the raskall routes appall,
Men into stones
therewith
he could transmew,
And stones to dust, and dust to nought at all;
And when him list the prouder lookes subdew,
He would them gazing blind, or turne to other hew.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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But a cup of wine levels life and death
And a thousand things
obstinately
hard to prove.
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Li Po |
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" we cry, and lo, apace
Pleasure
appears!
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Hugo - Poems |
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XXIV
If that blind fury that
engenders
wars,
Fails to rouse the creatures of a kind,
Whether swift bird aloft or fleeting hind,
Whether equipped with scales or sharpened claws,
What ardent Fury in her pincers' jaws
Gripped your hearts, so poisoned the mind,
That intent on mutual cruelty, we find,
Into your own entrails your own blade bores?
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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point this day, leaving all the rest, to us over all--and
yet we know not why;
For what are we, mere strips of cloth,
profiting
nothing,
Only flapping in the wind?
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Whitman |
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Cease that proud temper: Venus loves it not:
The rope may break, the wheel may backward turn:
Begetting
you, no Tuscan sire begot
Penelope the stern.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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The
coursers
at their master's threat
With quicker steps the sounding champaign beat.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Jonson not
infrequently
refers to contemporary actors.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Mahony)_
The
Favorite
Sultana
The Pasha and the Dervish
The Lost Battle--_W.
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Hugo - Poems |
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nē his līf-dagas lēoda
ǣnigum nytte tealde (_nor did he count his life useful to any man_), 795;
þæt ic mē ǣnigne under swegles begong ge-sacan ne tealde (_I
believed
not
that I had any foe under heaven_), 1774; cwæð hē þone gūð-wine gōdne tealde
(_said he counted the war-friend good_), 1811; hē ūsic gār-wīgend gōde
tealde (_deemed us good spear-warriors_), 2642; pl.
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Beowulf |
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