XXIII
So long in secret cabin there he held
* * * * *
Then home he suffred her for to retyre,
For ransome leaving him the late borne childe;
Whom till to ryper yeares he gan aspire, 200
He
noursled
up in life and manners wilde,
Emongst wild beasts and woods, from lawes of men exilde.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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And
fiercely
by the arm he took her,
And by the arm he held her fast,
And fiercely by the arm he shook her,
And cried, "I've caught you then at last!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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nocte uagae ferimur, nox clausas liberat umbras,
errat et abiecta
Cerberus
ipse sera.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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They were sold in the market as dwarf slaves and yearly sent to
Court;
Described as "an offering of natural
products
from the land of
Tao-chou.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Agreed to, this, the day fled on through all
Its range of duties to the
appointed
hour.
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Tennyson |
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His sister, wife, and children yawned,
With a long, slow, and drear ennui,
All human
patience
far beyond; _715
Their hopes of Heaven each would have pawned,
Anywhere else to be.
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Shelley |
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" As the master hears,
Well pleas'd, and then enfoldeth in his arms
The servant, who hath joyful tidings brought,
And having told the errand keeps his peace;
Thus benediction uttering with song
Soon as my peace I held, compass'd me thrice
The
apostolic
radiance, whose behest
Had op'd lips; so well their answer pleas'd.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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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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LXXXII
The images below them in their hand
Long scrolls and of an ample size contain,
Which of the
worthiest
figures of that band
The several names with mickle praise explain
As well their own at little distance stand,
Inscribed upon that scroll, in letters plain,
Rinaldo, by the help of blazing lights,
Marked, one by one, the ladies and their knights.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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(*)
[Note: Stanza left
unfinished
by the author.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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"Not you," sighed I, "but my own
inconstancy!
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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We were all huddled
together
close to the trembling horses, with the
thunder clattering overhead, and the lightning spurting like water from
a sluice, all ways at once.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Let me
question
Oenone a second time.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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When the false swain was
hurrying
o'er the deep
His Spartan hostess in the Idaean bark,
Old Nereus laid the unwilling winds asleep,
That all to Fate might hark,
Speaking through him:--"Home in ill hour you take
A prize whom Greece shall claim with troops untold,
Leagued by an oath your marriage tie to break
And Priam's kingdom old.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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'
(For your dear departed wife, his friend) 2
November
1877
- 'Over the lost woods when dark winter lowers
You moan, O solitary captive of the threshold,
That this double tomb which our pride should hold's
Cluttered, alas, only with absent weight of flowers.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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"The giant then: 'Our promis'd grace receive,
The hospitable boon we mean to give:
When all thy
wretched
crew have felt my power,
Noman shall be the last I will devour.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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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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I'm
downright
dizzy wi' the thought,
In troth I'm like to greet!
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Golden Treasury |
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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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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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Diegue
How enviable, yes,
On losing strength to swiftly meet with death,
See how old age
prepares
for noble spirits
After long careers, miserable exits!
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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It may only be
used on or
associated
in any way with an electronic work by people who
agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement.
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Rilke - Poems |
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XCVII
And as he
fastened
his on her fair eyes,
His Bradamant he called to mind again.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Straggling
shapes:
Afterwards none are seen.
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Imagists |
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Ripe apples drop about my head;
The
luscious
clusters of the vine
Upon my mouth do crush their wine;
The nectarine and curious peach
Into my hands themselves do reach;
Stumbling on melons, as I pass,
Ensnared with flowers, I fall on grass.
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Golden Treasury |
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But no, go slowly as you will,
I should not bid you hasten so,
For while I wait for love to come,
Some other girl is
standing
dumb,
Fearing her love will go.
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Sara Teasdale |
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The edible part
of most fruits is, as the
physiologist
says, "the parenchyma or fleshy
tissue of the leaf," of which they are formed.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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To learn more about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation
and how your efforts and
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Li Po |
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Ballantyne
does not choose to
interfere more in the business.
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Robert Burns |
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Now it
rejoices my heart to have met with such a fellow as you, who, though
you are not just such a hopeless fool as I, yet I trust you will never
listen so much to the temptations of the devil as to grow so very wise
that you will in the least
disrespect
an honest follow because he is a
fool.
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Robert Burns |
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Wherefore
his ridges are not curls
And ripples of an inland mere?
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Tennyson |
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He "never deviates into
sense;" but those who
appreciate
him never feel the need of such deviation.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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•
Many and many a day he had been failing, And I knew the end must come at last—
The poor
fellow—I
had loved him dearly, It was hard for me to see him go.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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To Gammer Gurton if it give the bays,
And yet deny the
careless
husband praise.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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The Spanish and Portuguese
historians
differ widely in their
accounts of the parentage of this gallant stranger.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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>>
PAUL DE CASSAGNAC _(Le Pays)_
Morts de quatre-vingt-douze et de quatre-vingt-treize
Qui, pales du baiser fort de la liberte,
Calmes, sous vos sabots, brisiez le joug qui pese
Sur l'ame et sur le front de toute humanite;
Hommes extasies et grands dans la tourmente,
Vous dont les coeurs sautaient d'amour sous les haillons,
O soldats que la Mort a semes, noble Amante,
Pour les regenerer, dans tous les vieux sillons;
Vous dont le sang lavait toute grandeur salie,
Morts de Valmy, Morts de Fleurus, Morts d'Italie,
O Million de Christs aux yeux sombres et doux;
Nous vous laissions dormir avec la Republique,
Nous, courbes sous les rois comme sous une trique:
--Messieurs de Cassagnac nous
reparlent
de vous!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Equitone,
Tell her I bring the
horoscope
myself:
One must be so careful these days.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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I alone am
faithful!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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1
Qingzhou
and Xuzhou were two prefectures in the east, deep in An Lushan?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Edward Lear, the artist, Author of "Journals of a Landscape Painter" in
various out-of-the-way countries, and of the delightful "Books of
Nonsense," which have amused successive
generations
of children, died on
Sunday, January 29, 1888, at San Remo, Italy, where he had lived for twenty
years.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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'Twas once & _only_ once & the wild hour
From my rememberance shall not pass--some power
Or spell had bound me--'twas the chilly wind
Came o'er me in the night & left behind
Its image on my spirit, or the moon
Shone on my
slumbers
in her lofty noon
Too coldly--or the stars--howe'er it was
That dream was as that night wind--let it pass.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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The seruice, and the
loyaltie
I owe,
In doing it, payes it selfe.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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CHORUS
To my
blessing
now give ear.
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Aeschylus |
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I have seen eyes in the street
Trying to peer through lighted shutters,
And a crab one afternoon in a pool,
An old crab with
barnacles
on his back,
Gripped the end of a stick which I held him.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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But the other name of
_Desperati_ they rejected as a calumny, retorting it back upon their
adversaries, who more justly
deserved
it.
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Tacitus |
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A window opens like a pod,
Abrupt, mechanically;
Somebody flings a
mattress
out, --
The children hurry by;
They wonder if It died on that, --
I used to when a boy.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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_The
Beautiful
Stranger_
I cannot know what country owns thee now,
With France's forest lilies on thy brow.
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John Clare |
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CHORUS
Queen, it stands not with my purpose to abet these fears of thine,
Nor to speak with glazing
comfort!
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Aeschylus |
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I brake thy
bracelet
'gainst my will, II.
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Robert Herrick |
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"
Seven queens shone round her ivory bed,
Like seven soft gems on a silken thread,
Like seven fair lamps in a royal tower,
Like seven bright petals of Beauty's flower
Queen Gulnaar sighed like a
murmuring
rose
"Where is my rival, O King Feroz?
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Still would her touch the strain prolong;
And from the rocks, the woods, the vale
She call'd on Echo still through all the song;
And, where her sweetest theme she chose,
A soft responsive voice was heard at every close:
And Hope enchanted smiled, and waved her golden hair;--
And longer had she sung:--but with a frown Revenge
impatient
rose:
He threw his blood-stain'd sword in thunder down;
And with a withering look
The war-denouncing trumpet took
And blew a blast so loud and dread,
Were ne'er prophetic sounds so full of woe!
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Golden Treasury |
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Methinks
he cometh late and tarries long.
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Byron |
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As I have been all along a miserable dupe to love, and have
been led into a thousand weaknesses and follies by it, for that reason
I put the more
confidence
in my critical skill, in distinguishing
foppery and conceit from real passion and nature.
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied
warranties or the exclusion or
limitation
of certain types of damages.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Man's ancient arms
Were hands, and nails and teeth, stones too and boughs--
Breakage
of forest trees--and flame and fire,
As soon as known.
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Lucretius |
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188 ||
_rustica_ Turnebus: _et
trirustice_
Munro || _Post 3 reuocaui
uersum qui extat apud Porphynonem ad Hor.
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Latin - Catullus |
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For thee old legends
breathed
historic breath;
Thou sawest Poseidon in the purple sea,
And in the sunset Jason's fleece of gold!
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Longfellow |
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Yes, out of impious Babylon I'm flown,
Whence flown all shame, whence banish'd is all good,
That nurse of error, and of guilt th' abode,
To lengthen out a life which else were gone:
There as Love prompts, while
wandering
alone,
I now a garland weave, and now an ode;
With him I commune, and in pensive mood
Hope better times; this only checks my moan.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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If
consequence
do but approve my dream,
My boat sails freely, both with wind and stream.
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Shakespeare |
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Email
contact links and up to date contact information can be found at the
Foundation's web site and
official
page at www.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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[Till they had drawn the Spectre quite away from Enion]
And drawing in the Spectrous life in pride and haughty joy
Thus Enion gave them all her
spectrous
life in dark despair.
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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Il nous semble, d'ailleurs, qu'il est des cas ou la publicite
n'est pas seulement un encouragement, ou elle peut avoir l'influence
d'un conseil utile et appeler le vrai talent a se degager, a se
fortifier, en elargissant ses voies, en
etendant
son horizon.
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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PORTRAIT OF A MACHINE
What nudity is beautiful as this
Obedient monster purring at its toil;
These naked iron muscles
dripping
oil
And the sure-fingered rods that never miss.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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For books they follow
fashions
new
And throw all old esteems away,
In crowded streets flowers never grew,
But many there hath died away.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
|
Nearly all the
individual
works in the
collection are in the public domain in the United States.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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_"
CORPORAL
ALEXANDER
ROBERTSON: To an Old Lady
Seen at a Guest-House for Soldiers
LIEUTENANT GILBERT WATERHOUSE: The Casualty
Clearing Station
LANCE-CORPORAL MALCOLM HEMPHREY: Hills of Home
XVI.
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Modern Paris is often the background of the _New Poems_, and the crass
play of light and shadow upon the waxen masks of Life's disillusioned in
the Morgue is caught with the same intense
realistic
vision as the
flamingos and parrots spreading their vari-coloured soft plumage in the
warmth of the sun in the Avenue of the Jardin des Plantes.
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Rilke - Poems |
|
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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His massy spear with matchless fury sent,
Through Amphius' belt and heaving belly went;
Amphius Apaesus' happy soil possess'd,
With herds abounding, and with treasure bless'd;
But fate
resistless
from his country led
The chief, to perish at his people's head.
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Iliad - Pope |
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What weight, and what
authority
in thy speech!
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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We feel so grateful, when to soft discourses
Of tree-tops,
slanting
rays towards us travel,
And only look, and listen when in pauses,
The ripened fruit resounds upon the gravel.
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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And I affirm, the
spacious
North
Exists to draw thy virtue forth.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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Nothing - not even old gardens mirrored by eyes -
Can restrain this heart that drenches itself in the sea,
O nights, or the
abandoned
light of my lamp,
On the void of paper, that whiteness defends,
No, not even the young woman feeding her child.
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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Is not yon
lingering
orange after-glow
That stays to vex the moon more fair than all
Rome's lordliest pageants!
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Wilde - Poems |
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HIS BRIGHT DEAW-BURNING BLADE, his bright blade
flashing
with the
"holy water dew" in which it had been hardened (l.
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Thee, Furius, and Fabricius, thee,
Rough Curius too, with untrimm'd beard,
Your sires' transmitted poverty
To
conquest
rear'd.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Her
brothers
William and John, with
Coleridge, were all at Dove Cottage at that time.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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_
Et la Mere, fermant le livre du devoir,
S'en allait
satisfaite
et tres fiere sans voir,
Dans les yeux bleus et sous le front plein d'eminence,
L'ame de son enfant livree aux repugnances.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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an so 3428
as bounte {and}
prowesse
ben ?
| Guess: |
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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"
My mother went to find my commission, which she kept in a box with my
christening clothes, and gave it to my father with, a
trembling
hand.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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, _war-might, fierce
strength
in battle_: dat.
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Beowulf |
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Here is no sap for seed,
No ferment for your need--
Ungrateful
ground!
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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But when the torch is lit
All that is
impossible
is certain,
I plunge in the abyss.
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Yeats |
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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here is the wisdom
Alembicked out of dust, or out of nothing;
Choose now the weightiest word, most golden page,
Most
somberly
musicked line; hold up these lanterns,--
These paltry lanterns, wisdoms, philosophies,--
Above your eyes, against this wall of darkness;
And you'll see--what?
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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What
historical
Authority has Mons.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
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Imagists |
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[77] As soon as they saw
the enemy, they at once sprang at him without ever
counting
his strength.
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Aristophanes |
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Timotheus
placed on high
Amid the tuneful quire
With flying fingers touch'd the lyre:
The trembling notes ascend the sky
And heavenly joys inspire.
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Golden Treasury |
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Even from his own paternal roof expell'd,
Some stranger ploughs his
patrimonial
field.
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Iliad - Pope |
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If you
received the work on a
physical
medium, you must return the medium
with your written explanation.
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Wilde - Poems |
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I bring an
unaccustomed
wine
To lips long parching, next to mine,
And summon them to drink.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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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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For shelter he gave them, sword-death came,
the blade's fell blow, to bairn of Hygelac;
but the son of
Ongentheow
sought again
house and home when Heardred fell,
leaving Beowulf lord of Geats
and gift-seat's master.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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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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"
So they ate and drank, talked and laughed about Mark with his long
crane-like legs, and Sir
Tristram
took a harp and sang a song.
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Tennyson |
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Death only is the lot which none can miss,
And all is
possible
to Heaven but this.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Far off he stands
In sunset land, and on his shoulder bears
The pillar'd mountain-mass whose base is earth,
Whose top is heaven, and its
ponderous
load
Too great for any grasp.
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Aeschylus |
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