The reminiscence comes
Of sunless dry geraniums
And dust in crevices,
Smells of
chestnuts
in the streets
And female smells in shuttered rooms
And cigarettes in corridors
And cocktail smells in bars.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Fabullus
XII, XIII, XXVIII, XLVII.
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Latin - Catullus |
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While Hope, that
ceaseless
leans on Pleasure's urn, 1820.
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William Wordsworth |
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He died spellbound by the
sorceress
Vivien
in a hollow oak.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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trenches
are scraped flat.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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But most I'll choose that subtler dusk that comes
Into the mind--into the heart, you say--
When, as we look bewildered at lovely things,
Striving to give their loveliness a name,
They are forgotten; and other things, remembered,
Flower in the heart with the
fragrance
we call grief.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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His war
writings
include _The Vale of Shadows, and
Other Verses of the Great War_, and _Italy in Arms, and Other Verses_.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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We will assault Olivier and Rollant,
The dozen peers from death have no warrant,
For these our swords are trusty and trenchant,
In
scalding
blood we'll dye their blades scarlat.
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Chanson de Roland |
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The
mountain
air is fresh at the dusk of day:
The flying birds two by two return.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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)
From Tweed to the Orcades was her domain,
To hunt, or to pasture, or do what she would:
Her heav'nly
relations
there fixed her reign,
And pledg'd her their godheads to warrant it good.
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Robert Burns |
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He smiled no more, he wept no more,
But
passionate
he spake--
"Oh, womanly she prayed in tent,
When none beside did wake!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Your
companions
all on this spot we'll keep,
I tell you news; death shall ye suffer here.
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Chanson de Roland |
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The
Chinese would call the sky "blue," "gray," or "cloudy,"
according
to
circumstances; but never "triumphant" or "terror-scourged.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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O my abandoned youth is dead
Like a garland faded
Here the season comes again
Of suspicion and disdain
The landscape's formed of canvasses
A false stream of blood flows down
And under the tree the stars glow fresh
The only passer by's a clown
The glass in the frame has cracked
An air defined uncertainly
Hovers between sound and thought
Between 'to be' and memory
O my abandoned youth is dead
Like a garland faded
Here the season comes again
Of suspicion and disdain
The Bestiary: or Orpheus's Procession
(Le Bestiaire ou Cortege d'Orphee)
Orpheus
Orpheus, Making Music for the Animals
'Orpheus, Making Music for the Animals'
Adriaen Collaert, 1570 - 1618, The Rijksmuseun
Admire the vital power
And nobility of line:
It's the voice that the light made us
understand
here
That Hermes Trismegistus writes of in Pimander.
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Appoloinaire |
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My emirs and my cavalry that shook the earth to-day;
My tent, my wide-extending camp, all dazzling to the sight,
Whose watchfires, kindled numberless beneath the brow of night,
Seemed oft unto the
sentinel
that watched the midnight hours,
As heaven along the sombre hill had rained its stars in showers?
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Hugo - Poems |
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Then as a licensed spy, whom nothing can
Silence or hurt, he libels the great man;
Swears every place entailed for years to come,
In sure
succession
to the day of doom;
He names the price for every office paid,
And says our wars thrive ill, because delayed;
Nay hints, 'tis by connivance of the Court,
That Spain robs on, and Dunkirk's still a port.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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The
mournful
wood waves round
Its garland on all sides, as round the wood
Spreads the sad foss.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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The hum of multitudes was there, but multitudes of lambs,
Thousands
of little boys and girls raising their innocent hands.
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blake-poems |
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Thou canst not ask me with thee here to roam
Over these hills and vales, where no joy is,--
Empty of
immortality
and bliss!
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Keats |
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"He," it began,
"Who turn'd his compass on the world's extreme,
And in that space so variously hath wrought,
Both openly, and in secret, in such wise
Could not through all the universe display
Impression of his glory, that the Word
Of his
omniscience
should not still remain
In infinite excess.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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VII
The face of all the world is changed, I think,
Since first I heard the
footsteps
of thy soul
Move still, oh, still, beside me, as they stole
Betwixt me and the dreadful outer brink
Of obvious death, where I, who thought to sink,
Was caught up into love, and taught the whole
Of life in a new rhythm.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Stopford Brooke, "at the foot of the Galtees, and bordered
to the north by the wild country, the scenery of which is frequently
painted in the _Faerie Queene_ and in whose woods and savage places such
adventures constantly took place in the service of
Elizabeth
as are
recorded in the _Faerie Queene_, the first three books of that great poem
were finished.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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EXPLICIT
LIBER PRIMUS.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Was itte for thys Norwegia's stubborn sede
Throughe
the black armoure dyd the anlace fele,
And rybbes of solid brasse were made to bleede?
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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XXXVI
Before the King's face Guenes drawing near
Says to him "Sire,
wherefore
this rage and fear?
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Chanson de Roland |
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Quintilian
has also recorded his prowess.
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Tacitus |
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I just happen to have a
complete
woman's
outfit.
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Aristophanes |
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* * * * *
THE
HIGHLAND
LASSIE O.
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Robert Burns |
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Y
[Illustration]
Y was a yew,
Which
flourished
and grew
By a quiet abode
Near the side of a road.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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The magic hand that
comforts
and annoys
Can hope, and fell despair, and life, and death bestow!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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And in this the
expressions of our poet are equally
applicable
to the Ptolemaic and
Copernican systems.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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[760] I want to imitate Cyclops and lead
your troop by
stamping
like this.
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Aristophanes |
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"Envious night-birds open wide
Their round eyes to gaze awhile,
Nymphs that lean their urns beside
From their grottoes softly smile,
"And exclaim, by fancy stirred,
'Hero and Leander they;
We in
listening
for a word
Let our water fall away.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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I
remember
so well the room,
And the lilac bloom
That beat at the dripping pane
In the warm June rain;
And the colour of your gown,
It was amber-brown,
And two yellow satin bows
From your shoulders rose.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Meredith - Poems |
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Critics have
inclined
to take for granted the supposition that an actual
battle was contemplated by Keats, but I do not believe that such was, at
least, his final intention.
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Keats |
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Say I: scarce
courteous
is he crowned,
The man who shall of Love despair.
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Troubador Verse |
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Now each
partakes
the feast, the wine prepares,
Portions the food, and each his portion shares.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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--That I at last
Might stamp the image of my glorious dream
Upon the world, even though it be wax
And the fires are
kindling
that must melt it out.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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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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"]
[Footnote 47:
Literally
the _raven-stone_.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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She gave them, and they drank,--
When, smiting each with her
enchanting
wand,
She shut them in her sties.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Until a few years ago, known only to a
relatively
small community on the
continent but commanding an ever increasing attention which has borne
his name far beyond the boundary of his country, the personality of
Rainer Maria Rilke stands to-day beside the most illustrious poets of
modern Europe.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Thou scene of all my
happiness
and pleasure!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Thou scene of all my
happiness
and pleasure!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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A prince to be pitied is before your eyes,
A
memorable
example of reckless pride.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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The reminiscence comes
Of sunless dry geraniums
And dust in crevices,
Smells of chestnuts in the streets
And female smells in
shuttered
rooms
And cigarettes in corridors
And cocktail smells in bars.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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But
these will soon occur; he that gathers the
greatest
quantity of fruit
will be envied by the less industrious.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Sometimes, as on the Western Railroad,
you are whirled over mountainous embankments, from which the scared
horses in the valleys appear
diminished
to hounds.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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e kyng 'fore; his men
bileueden
no?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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WHAT THE THUNDER SAID
After the torchlight red on sweaty faces
After the frosty silence in the gardens
After the agony in stony places
The shouting and the crying
Prison and palace and reverberation
Of thunder of spring over distant mountains
He who was living is now dead
We who were living are now dying
With a little patience 330
Here is no water but only rock
Rock and no water and the sandy road
The road winding above among the mountains
Which are mountains of rock without water
If there were water we should stop and drink
Amongst the rock one cannot stop or think
Sweat is dry and feet are in the sand
If there were only water amongst the rock
Dead
mountain
mouth of carious teeth that cannot spit
Here one can neither stand nor lie nor sit 340
There is not even silence in the mountains
But dry sterile thunder without rain
There is not even solitude in the mountains
But red sullen faces sneer and snarl
From doors of mudcracked houses
If there were water
And no rock
If there were rock
And also water
And water 350
A spring
A pool among the rock
If there were the sound of water only
Not the cicada
And dry grass singing
But sound of water over a rock
Where the hermit-thrush sings in the pine trees
Drip drop drip drop drop drop drop
But there is no water
Who is the third who walks always beside you?
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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this is not for
profaner
ears;
Let them drink molten pearls nor dream the cost.
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James Russell Lowell |
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It drops as
fiercely
down on us as if
We were to be its prey.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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130
XVI
From that day forth Duessa was his deare,
And highly honourd in his haughtie eye,
He gave her gold and purple pall to weare,
And triple crowne set on her head full hye,
And her endowd with royall majestye: 135
Then for to make her dreaded more of men,
And peoples harts with awfull terrour tye,
A
monstrous
beast?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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"Where shall I be sent," thought I, "if not to
Petersburg?
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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The facts, moreover, were
unknown to the other armies, nor was any report sent to their emperor,
although this
treacherous
outbreak could have been nipped in the bud
by the combined aid of all the provinces.
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Tacitus |
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Among the Poems which Wordsworth suppressed, in his final edition, is
the Latin
translation
of 'The Somnambulist' by his son.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Keats - Lamia |
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'tis a dull and endless strife,
Come, hear the
woodland
linnet,
How sweet his music; on my life
There's more of wisdom in it.
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Look now thy fill; I have for thee
Just such a jewel, and will lead thee to her;
And happy, whose good fortune it shall be,
To bear her home, a
prospered
wooer!
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Tout son
dandysme
fut fait de ce splendide isolement.
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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6
Land
tolerating
all, accepting all, not for the good alone, all good
for thee,
Land in the realms of God to be a realm unto thyself,
Under the rule of God to be a rule unto thyself.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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They wrought with their hands and wearied themselves;
and they rested from their toil and feasted and were merry; to-morrow
was not a burden to them, nor
yesterday
a thing which they would fain
forget; life shamed them not nor did death make them afraid.
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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If thus and thus I do,
Dazed by the thought of you,
Walking my sorrowful way in the early dew,
My heart cut through and through
In this despair of you,
Starved for a word or a look will my hope renew:
Give then a thought for me
Walking so miserably,
Wanting relief in the
friendship
of flower or tree;
Do but remember, we
Once could in love agree,
Swallow your pride, let us be as we used to be.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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My poor heart op'ning with his puissant hand,
Love planted there, as in its home, to dwell
A Laurel, green and bright, whose hues might well
In rivalry with proudest
emeralds
stand:
Plough'd by my pen and by my heart-sighs fann'd,
Cool'd by the soft rain from mine eyes that fell,
It grew in grace, upbreathing a sweet smell,
Unparallel'd in any age or land.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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98, 101; the
spelling
is
modernized: e.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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It is all I need
to make my life perfect, for the very 'Spirit of Delight' that
Shelley wrote of dwells in my little home; it is full of the
music of birds in the garden and
children
in the long arched
verandah.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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A Boredom, made desolate by cruel hope
Still
believes
in the last goodbye of handkerchiefs!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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She turns and looks a moment in the glass,
Hardly aware of her
departed
lover; 250
Her brain allows one half-formed thought to pass:
"Well now that's done: and I'm glad it's over.
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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--
Ah God, that such an irresistible fiend,
Pain, in the
beautiful
housing of man's flesh
Should sleep, light as a leopard in its hunger,
Beside the heavenly soul; and at a wound
Leap up to mangle her, the senses' guest!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
|
GD}
Over the joyful Earth & Sea, and
ascended
into the Heavens {It looks as though a strike line crossing out this line has been erased.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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Such tears become thine eye;
If I thy
guileless
bosom had,
Mine own would not be dry.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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--
The Eagle lives in
Solitude!
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
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The banquet done, the narrative old man,
Thus mild, the
pleasing
conference began:
"Now gentle guests!
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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Milton |
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And now the blossom of the village view,
With airy hat of straw, and apron blue,
And short-sleeved gown, that half to guess reveals
By fine-turned arms what beauty it conceals;
Whose cheeks health flushes with as sweet a red
As that which stripes the woodbine oer her head;
Deeply she blushes on her morn's employ,
To prove the fondness of some passing boy,
Who, with a smile that thrills her soul to view,
Holds the gate open till she passes through,
While turning nods beck thanks for
kindness
done,
And looks--if looks could speak-proclaim her won.
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I know they think me mad, for all night long
I haunt the sea-marge,
thinking
I may find
Some day the herb he offered unto me.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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CHORUS
Smitten!
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Aeschylus |
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To
Introduce
Myself.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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IN
MEMORIAM
F.
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Sara Teasdale |
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V
TO THE SPIRIT OF KEATS
Great soul, thou sittest with me in my room,
Uplifting me with thy vast, quiet eyes,
On whose full orbs, with kindly lustre, lies
The
twilight
warmth of ruddy ember-gloom:
Thy clear, strong tones will oft bring sudden bloom
Of hope secure, to him who lonely cries,
Wrestling with the young poet's agonies,
Neglect and scorn, which seem a certain doom:
Yes!
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James Russell Lowell |
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On summer evenings, they may
sometimes be observed near the Lake Pipple-Popple, standing on their heads,
and humming their
national
melodies.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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_Nescio qua
dulcedine
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James Russell Lowell |
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However, it is no use even to report to the
tsar about this; why
disquiet
our father sovereign?
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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This poem is printed as a
translation in Marvell's works: but the
original
Latin is obviously his
own.
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Golden Treasury |
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And it grew both day and night,
Till it bore an apple bright,
And my foe beheld it shine,
and he knew that it was mine, --
And into my garden stole
When the night had veiled the pole;
In the morning, glad, I see
My foe
outstretched
beneath the tree.
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blake-poems |
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To
SEND
DONATIONS
or determine the status of compliance for any
particular state visit http://www.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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My honour's mute, my duty
impotent!
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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utinam_ Nigra
94
_Hydrochoi_
ed.
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Latin - Catullus |
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With clank of
scabbards
and thunder of steeds,
And blades that shine like sunlit reeds,
And strong brown faces bravely pale
For fear their proud attempt shall fail,
Three hundred Pennsylvanians close
On twice ten thousand gallant foes.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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I have seen
beautiful
feet
but never beauty welded with strength.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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"Begin, my flute, with me
Maenalian
lays.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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No, I don't like at all this new-made
burgomaster!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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The principal distinction between the lay of Horatius and the lay
of the Lake Regillus is that the former is meant to be purely
Roman, while the latter, though
national
in its general spirit,
has a slight tincture of Greek learning and of Greek
superstition.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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When each bird in his sweet language,
In the
freshness
of the morn
Sings, joyful of his advantage,
At ease with his mate, at dawn.
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Troubador Verse |
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