Whatever that
secret is, the charm of it never fails after all these years to keep the
poems preserved with a
freshness
and vitality, which are the qualities
of enduring genius.
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My thoughts on former pleasures ran;
I thought of Kilve's delightful shore,
My
pleasant
home, when spring began,
A long, long year before.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Say this becomes him-
As his
composure
must be rare indeed
Whom these things cannot blemish- yet must Antony
No way excuse his foils when we do bear
So great weight in his lightness.
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Shakespeare |
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It is
impossible
for the artist to live
with the People.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Yes, Time reigns; Time has
regained
his brutal mastery.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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'
DIRGE
CONCORD, 1838
I reached the middle of the mount
Up which the
incarnate
soul must climb,
And paused for them, and looked around,
With me who walked through space and time.
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Emerson - Poems |
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, _soul_ (the
immortal
principle as contrasted with līf,
the physical life): nom.
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Beowulf |
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440
What blazours then, what glorie shall he clayme,
What
doughtie
Homere shall hys praises synge,
That lefte the bosome of so fayre a dame
Uncall'd, unaskt, to serve his lorde the kynge?
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Secondo che ci
affliggono
i disiri
e li altri affetti, l'ombra si figura;
e quest' e la cagion di che tu miri>>.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Not such a fatal
stupefaction
reigned
At London flames, nor so the court complained.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Marks, notations and other marginalia present in the original volume will appear in this file - a
reminder
of this book's long journey from the publisher to a library and finally to you.
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Meredith - Poems |
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En combattant pour son Dieu chacun ne combattit en effet
que pour les
interets
de sa propra vanite, qui de toutes les passions
produites par la mal-organisation de la societe est la plus prompte a
s'alarmer, et la plus propre a produire de tres grandes folies.
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Shelley |
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or if those women you note
Reflect your
fabulous
senses' desire!
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Mallarme - Poems |
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'Tis double honour in a woman thought,
When by her charms a torpid heart is caught;
She, who in icy bosoms flame can raise,
Deserving
doubtless
is of treble praise.
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La Fontaine |
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While Laura smiles, all-conscious of that love
Which from this
faithful
breast no time can e'er remove.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Regarded
as god of light, 157,
1 ff.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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te, diua, adoro tuumque ego numen inuoco,
facilisque
praestes hoc mihi quod te rogo;
referamque, diua, gratias merito tibi.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Little Ellie sits alone,
And the smile she softly uses
Fills the silence like a speech
While she thinks what shall be done,
And the
sweetest
pleasure chooses
For her future within reach.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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" This must have been written about 1872, and after reading it
one would fancy that Poe and Baudelaire were rhapsodic
wrigglers
on the
poetic tripod, whereas their poetry is often reserved, even glacial.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Have you by any chance heard how that mystical, strange celebration
Followed
victorious
troops back from Eleusis to Rome?
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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There was such
intricate
clamor of tongues,
That still the reason was not.
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Stephen Crane |
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They shout and catch it and then off they start
And chase for
cowslips
merry as before,
And each one seems so anxious at the heart
As they would even get them all and more.
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John Clare |
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)
My menials, and
domestic
cares employ;
And, unattended by sincere repose,
The night assists my ever-wakeful woes;
When nature's hush'd beneath her brooding shade,
My echoing griefs the starry vault invade.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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CYPRIAN:
Now, since the fury
Of this earthquaking
hurricane
is still, _95
And the crystalline Heaven has reassumed
Its windless calm so quickly, that it seems
As if its heavy wrath had been awakened
Only to overwhelm that vessel,--speak,
Who art thou, and whence comest thou?
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Shelley |
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The feast of Apollo is
celebrated
by the people,
and the suitors banquet in the palace.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Index of First Lines
Under the Mirabeau flows the Seine
Brushed by the shadows of the dead
The anemone and flower that weeps
The angels the angels in the sky
I've gathered this sprig of heather
The strollers in the plain
My gipsy beau my lover
The gypsy knew in advance
I am bound to the King of the Sign of Autumn
An eagle descends from this sky white with archangels
Mellifluent moon on the lips of the maddened
Autumn ill and adored
The room is free
Our story's noble as its tragic
Love is dead within your arms
In the evening light that's faded
You've not surprised my secret yet
Evening falls and in the garden
You descended through the water clear
O my
abandoned
youth is dead
Admire the vital power
From magic Thrace, O delerium!
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Appoloinaire |
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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A white face, drooping, on a bending neck:
A tube-rose that with heavy petal curves
Her stem: a foam-bell on a wave that swerves
Back from the
undulating
vessel's deck.
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Sidney Lanier |
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It was
composed
for the volume of "Lyrical Ballads.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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originator
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Chanson de Roland |
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The pewit hollos "chewrit" as she flies
And flops about the
shepherd
where he lies;
But when her nest is found she stops her song
And cocks [her] coppled crown and runs along.
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John Clare |
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VARLAAM,
wandering
friar.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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It is no time to write fabulous epics when
cuckolds
connive at
a wife's dishonour, and when horse-racing ne'er-do-wells expect
commissions in the army.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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They may be
modified
and printed and given away--you may do
practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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And was not such daring
deserving
of death?
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Aristophanes |
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)
What, to
pavements
and homesteads here--what were those storms of the
mountains and sea?
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Whitman |
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You would have snared me,
and scattered the strands of my nest;
but the very fact that you saw,
sheltered
me, claimed me,
set me apart from the rest.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Many small donations
($1 to $5,000) are particularly
important
to maintaining tax exempt
status with the IRS.
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Imagists |
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Grosart thought this a
useful
description
of the letter: but a clear indication should have
been given that it was not Wordsworth's.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Madame, you must
remember
your promise.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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There are three hundred and seventy
churches
in
Moscow.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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So, when thou
Beneath
Sicanian
billows glidest on,
May Doris blend no bitter wave with thine,
Begin!
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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lh folha par
When fresh leaves and shoots appear,
Lo tems vai e ven e vire
Time comes, and goes, and runs away,
La douza votz ai auzida
The
sweetest
voice I have heard,
Chantars no pot gaire valer
Singing proves merely valueless
Peire d'Auvergne (fl.
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Troubador Verse |
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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4
THE SALVATION ARMY'S SONG By Phoebe Hoffman
"It's
Christmas
time, it's Christmas time," Echo the feet in the dusty street.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Barrett received from
Chatterton
as part of his original MSS.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Copyright
infringement liability can be quite severe.
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Meredith - Poems |
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She trapped him with one mesh of silken hair,
She
vanquished
him by wisdom of her wit,
And built her people's house that it should stand:--
If I might take my life so in my hand,
And for my love to Love put up my prayer,
And for love's sake by Love be granted it!
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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Ed ecco, quasi al
cominciar
de l'erta,
una lonza leggera e presta molto,
che di pel macolato era coverta;
e non mi si partia dinanzi al volto,
anzi 'mpediva tanto il mio cammino,
ch'i' fui per ritornar piu volte volto.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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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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He could
scarcely
believe his eyes.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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And then,
foreseeing
all thy life, I added:
But these thou wilt forget; and at the end
Of life the Lord will punish thee.
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Longfellow |
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But upon Padus' brink shall die Volusius his annals
And to the
mackerel
oft loose-fitting jacket afford.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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(gūð-byrne,
līc-syrce)
hondlocen
(because the shirts of mail consisted of interlaced
rings), 322, 551.
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Beowulf |
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"
Oh friend, oh comrade of the radiant days
Of love, of hope, of
passionate
surmise
When beauty throbbed like heat before the eyes And even sorrow wore a golden haze!
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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zip *****
This and all
associated
files of various formats will be found in:
http://www.
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Keats |
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Nicolas' Theory, there is
the
Biographical
Notice which he himself has drawn up in direct
contradiction to the Interpretation of the Poems given in his Notes.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Till
Darkness
and silence of the hill
Received her in their restful care
And stars came dropping through the air.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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A public domain book is one that was never subject to
copyright
or whose legal copyright term has expired.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Little poet people
snatching
ivy,
Trying to prevent one another from snatching ivy.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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And I wol yive him al that falles
To a chambre; and al his halles
I wol do peynte with pure golde,
And tapite hem ful many folde 260
Of oo sute; this shal he have,
If I wiste wher were his cave,
If he can make me slepe sone,
As did the
goddesse
Alcione.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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And I singing uselessly,
uselessly
all the night.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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The _reem_, those great beasts with
eighteen
horns,
Who mate but once in seventy years and die
In their own tears which flow ten stadia high.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Who shall stand godfather at the
christening
of
the wild apples?
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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But I, neither
belonging
to the kings
Nor to the people, only I may know
The golden fortune of light anointing kings.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
BIBLIOGRAPHY
(The
following
lists include poetical works only)
AMY LOWELL
A Dome of Many-Colored Glass Houghton Mifflin Co.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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His
expedition
to Italy was a turning-point in the history of the
world.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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The last stanza, 'The cocks did crow to-whoo,
to-whoo, and the sun did shine so cold,' was the
foundation
of the
whole.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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e wynne
worschip
&[1] he hym wayned hade,
As to honour his hous on ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Then one Tartar lifted up his voice and spoke to the other Tartars,
"_Your_ sorrows are none at all
compared
with _my_ sorrows.
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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_Ita ego quoque tibi veluti
corollarium
dabo.
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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Then
downward
.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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The
greatest
of these recluses was T'ao Ch'ien (A.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Up from the South at break of day,
Bringing to Winchester fresh dismay,
The affrighted air with a shudder bore,
Like a herald in haste, to the chieftain's door,
The terrible grumble, and rumble, and roar,
Telling the battle was on once more,
And
Sheridan
twenty miles away.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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The epigrams vary considerably from the
selection in the
previous
edition.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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LXXI cum LXX
continuant
codices, nullo spatio relicto
1 _Si qua_ (_quo_ Laur.
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Latin - Catullus |
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As the little tiny swallow or the chaffinch,
Round their warm and cosey nest are seen to hover,
So hovers there the mother dear who bore him;
And aye she weeps, as flows a river's water;
His sister weeps as flows a streamlet's water;
His
youthful
wife, as falls the dew from heaven--
The Sun, arising, dries the dew of heaven.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Living Rome, the
ornament
of the world,
Now dead, remains the world's monument.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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1195
I flew here only in hope his son might be rescued:
And tore myself from Oenone's
trembling
arms,
Yielding to that remorse that does me harm.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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But tell us, Queen, thy thought; for we have made
An end almost of eating; and it seems
It will be somewhat strange,
pleasing
our mood.
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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What says my
Aesculapius?
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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{16f}
Innocent
both
were the loved ones she lost at the linden-play,
bairn and brother, they bowed to fate,
stricken by spears; 'twas a sorrowful woman!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Thine is no
cheering
word.
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| Question: |
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Aeschylus |
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)
At early morn, the careful housewife, led
To cull her dinner from its garden bed,
Of weedless herbs a
healthier
prospect sees,
While hum with busier joy her happy bees;
In brighter rows her table wealth aspires,
And laugh with merrier blaze her evening fires; 1820.
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| Question: |
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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See them,
sounding
the flood that floats them on,
Moving their sides like human forms.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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Time bring back the order of classic days;
Earth has
shuddered
with prophetic breath.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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All faults may be
forgiven
of him who has perfect candour.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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[13] Here this late text includes both
variants
_pasaru_ and
_zakaru_.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Moncli (Monclis, Monclin, Mondis) and his lady, Audierna, are
presumed
to be characters in a lost romance.
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Troubador Verse |
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--whose love and life
together
fled,
Have left me here to love and live in vain--
Twined with my heart, and can I deem thee dead,
When busy memory flashes on my brain?
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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[THE first
following
version of the Life of St Alexius, from Laud 622, is the longest--and latest, no doubt*.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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--the black squadrons
wheeling
down to Death!
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It beseems us better
friends to avenge than
fruitlessly
mourn them.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Von dorther sendet er, fliehend, nur
Ohnmachtige Schauer kornigen Eises
In Streifen uber die grunende Flur;
Aber die Sonne duldet kein Weisses,
Uberall regt sich Bildung und Streben,
Alles will sie mit Farben beleben;
Doch an Blumen fehlt's im Revier
Sie nimmt geputzte
Menschen
dafur.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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[Composed in reference to a love
disappointment
of the poet's friend,
Alexander Cunningham, which also occasioned the song beginning,
"Had I a cave on some wild distant shore.
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Robert Burns |
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The former
suggests
that the next two lines are an expansion
or explanation of this statement.
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John Donne |
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Mais la
tristesse
en moi monte comme la mer,
Et laisse, en refluant, sur ma levre morose
Le souvenir cuisant de son limon amer.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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The
boastings
of my spirit still?
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Tennyson |
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