Since I have touched my lips to your brimming cup,
Since I have bowed my pale brow in your hands,
Since I have
sometime
breathed the sweet breath
Of your soul, a perfume buried in shadow lands;
Since it was granted to me to hear you utter
Words in which the mysterious heart sighs,
Since I have seen smiles, since I have seen tears
Your mouth on my mouth, your eyes on my eyes;
Since I have seen over my enraptured head
A light from your star shine, ah, ever veiled!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Great then was the joy of all; the king and queen kiss
their brave knight, and make many
enquiries
about his journey.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Such
thoughts
inly revolving in her kindled bosom, the goddess reaches
Aeolia, the home of storm-clouds, the land laden with furious southern
gales.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Strength
of limb I still possess to seek the rivers and hills;
Still my heart has spirit enough to listen to flutes and strings.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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auratasne trabis an Mauros undique postis
an picturata lucentia marmora uena
mirer, an emissas per cuncta cubilia
nymphas?
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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But ever the idiot sea-mouths foam and fill,
And never a wave doth good for man or ill,
And Blank is king, and Nothing hath his will;
And like as grim-beaked pelicans level file
Across the sunset toward their nightly isle
On solemn wings that wave but seldomwhile,
So leanly sails the day behind the day
To where the Past's lone Rock o'erglooms the spray,
And down its mortal
fissures
sinks away.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Its
business
office is located at
809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email
business@pglaf.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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it may hap
Imperious
Fate will make yourself repent.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Thee better fortunes wait,
Among the
virtuous
few--the truly great!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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you whose laughters strawberry-crammed
Are mingling with a flock of docile lambs
Everywhere grazing vows
bleating
joy the while,
Name me.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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I Tiresias, old man with wrinkled dugs
Perceived the scene, and foretold the rest--
I too awaited the
expected
guest.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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my heart is
yearning
for his woes,
I would I were his mother; but I'll give
If not his birth, at least the claim to live.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Who thou mayst be
I know not, nor how here below art come:
But
Florentine
thou seemest of a truth,
When I do hear thee.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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You're wanted by half a
dozen papers; you're wanted to
illustrate
books.
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Kipling - Poems |
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THE SCHOOLBOY
I love to rise in a summer morn,
When the birds sing on every tree;
The distant huntsman winds his horn,
And the skylark sings with me:
O what sweet
company!
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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There was a king reigned in the East:
There, when kings will sit to feast,
They get their fill before they think
With
poisoned
meat and poisoned drink.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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When I
implored
you, comrade, you were wrathful.
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Chanson de Roland |
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I will but
pleasure
thee.
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Euripides - Electra |
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5
And then I knew, past doubt or peradventure,
Our loved and mighty Eleusinian mother
Had taken thought of me for her pure worship,
And of her favour had
assigned
my comrade
For the Great Mysteries,--knew I should find you 10
When the dusk murmured with its new-made lovers,
And we be no more foolish but wise children,
And well content partake of joy together,
As she ordains and human hearts desire.
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Sappho |
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He ended his life as a monk in the abbey of Dalon, where his
presence
is recorded from 1197 to 1202.
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Troubador Verse |
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Once I saw thee idly rocking
--Idly rocking--
And
chattering
girlishly to other girls,
Bell-voiced, happy,
Careless with the stout heart of unscarred
womanhood,
And life to thee was all light melody.
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Stephen Crane |
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XI
Mars, now ashamed to have granted power
To his
offspring
who, with mortal frailty,
Engorged with pride in Rome's bravery,
Looked to infringe on Heaven's grandeur,
Cooling again from his initial ardour,
With which Roman hearts he'd filled completely,
Blew new fires, with ardent breath, and fiercely,
Warmed the chilly Goths with his hot valour.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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"
He ended: Arthur knew the voice; the face
Wellnigh was helmet-hidden, and the name
Went wandering
somewhere
darkling in his mind.
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Tennyson |
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Mirrour of grace and Majestie divine,
Great Lady of the
greatest
Isle, whose light 30
Like Phoebus lampe?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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With these full oft have I seen Moeris change
To a wolf's form, and hide him in the woods,
Oft summon spirits from the tomb's recess,
And to new fields transport the
standing
corn.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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James Russell Lowell |
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Grounded in magic he knew the future and
predicted
the Christian coming of the Saviour.
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Appoloinaire |
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Often
wandering Liber on topmost summit of
Parnassus
led his yelling Thyiads with
loosely tossed locks.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Songs of a Strolling Player
THROUGH the
blossoms
softly simmer
Drops profound and fair
Since the light-beams o'er them shimmer.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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thy
coldness
is warm
To the world's cold without thee!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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representations concerning the
copyright
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Dass Demut Niedrigkeit, die hochsten Gaben
Der liebevoll austeilenden Natur-
MARGARETE:
Denkt Ihr an mich ein
Augenblickchen
nur,
Ich werde Zeit genug an Euch zu denken haben.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Oh, in that blest, ecstatic hour,
I felt myself so small, so great;
Thou drovest me with cruel power
Back upon man's
uncertain
fate
What shall I do?
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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The chambre, ther as lay this fresshe quene, 85
Depeynted
was with whyte boles grete,
And by the light she knew, that shoon so shene,
That Phebus cam to brenne hem with his hete;
This sely Venus, dreynt in teres wete,
Enbraceth Mars, and seyde, "alas!
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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XXXVIII
Once more to idleness consigned,
He felt the
laudable
desire
From mere vacuity of mind
The wit of others to acquire.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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One day, mid others that her woeful case
The lady wept alone, to her drew near
The dame, who with that healing ring made sound
The bosom
rankling
with Alcina's wound.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Then, quoth the king,
"'T is
mournful
to hear
A man like a whimpering maiden cry.
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Longfellow |
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SESTINA: ALTAFORTE
LOQUITUR : En
Bertrans
de Born.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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They are
delighted
at how the capital is stirred, they take pity on the cries of those boys and girls.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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for
herdsman
and for herd!
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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My
sentence
hear: with stern distaste avow'd,
To their own districts drive the suitor-crowd;
When next the morning warms the purple east,
Convoke the peerage, and the gods attest;
The sorrows of your inmost soul relate;
And form sure plans to save the sinking state.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
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You
masquerader!
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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It is that distant years which did not take
Thy sovranty, recoiling with a blow,
Have forced my swimming brain to undergo
Their doubt and dread, and blindly to forsake
Thy purity of likeness and distort
Thy worthiest love to a
worthless
counterfeit.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Think of my little
sisters!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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Why were you born when the snow was
falling?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
|
"
The Commandant had intended to cross-examine his prisoner that same day,
but the "_ouriadnik_" had escaped, doubtless with the
connivance
of his
accomplices.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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_procliuit_ in
_procliuis_
mutatum, ut H.
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| Question: |
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Latin - Catullus |
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Let whoso knoweth now
announce
the cause.
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Aeschylus |
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Within a few years we have
witnessed the phenomenon of a southeastward migration, in the
settlement of Australia; but this affects us as a retrograde movement,
and, judging from the moral and physical character of the first
generation of Australians, has not yet proved a
successful
experiment.
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| Question: |
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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- You provide, in accordance with
paragraph
1.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
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"And I for truth, -- the two are one;
We
brethren
are," he said.
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Is yonder squalid peasant all
That this proud nursery could breed
For God's
vicegerency
and stead?
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| Question: |
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Emerson - Poems |
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It was no dream; or say a dream it was,
Real are the dreams of Gods, and smoothly pass
Their pleasures in a long
immortal
dream.
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Keats - Lamia |
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"
I see you are in for double postage, so I shall e'en
scribble
out
t'other sheet.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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O, a moon face in a shadowy place,
And a light touch and a winsome grace,
And a
thrilling
tender voice which says:
"Safe from waters that seek the sea,--
Cold waters by rugged ways,--
Safe with me.
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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A
Seneschal
and usher would appear,
And troops of servants many baskets bear.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Evening falls and in the garden
Women tell their histories
to Night that not without disdain
spills their dark hair's mysteries
Little
children
little children
Your wings have flown away
But you rose that defend yourself
Throw your unrivalled scents away
For now's the hour of petty theft
Of plumes of flowers and of tresses
Gather the fountain jets so free
Of whom the roses are mistresses
?
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
|
Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no
one owns a United States
copyright
in these works, so the Foundation
(and you!
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| Question: |
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Poe - 5 |
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By James and
Frederick
his realms are held;
Neither the better heritage obtains.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Awaking from her woes at last retriev'd Amina sings,
Copious as stars and glad as morning light the
torrents
of her joy.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Le Testament: Ballade: A S'amye
F alse beauty that costs me so dear,
R ough indeed, a hypocrite sweetness,
A mor, like iron on the teeth and harder,
N amed only to achieve my sure distress,
C harm that's murderous, poor heart's death,
O covert pride that sends men to ruin,
I
mplacable
eyes, won't true redress
S uccour a poor man, without crushing?
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Villon |
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You to your
beauteous
blessings add a curse,
Being fond on praise, which makes your praises worse.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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I should
certainly
have to be silent then.
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Aristophanes |
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Meantime, Jove thund'ring, hurl'd into the ship
His bolts; she, smitten by the fires of Jove,
Quaked all her length; with sulphur fill'd she reek'd,
And o'er her sides
headlong
my people plunged
Like sea-mews, interdicted by that stroke
Of wrath divine to hope their country more.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Or movi, e con la tua parola ornata
e con cio c'ha
mestieri
al suo campare,
l'aiuta si ch'i' ne sia consolata.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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It has been pointed out by the profoundest poetical critic of our time that
the perfection of Coleridge's style in poetry comes from an equal balance
of the clear, somewhat matter-of-fact qualities of the eighteenth century
with the remote,
imaginative
qualities of the nineteenth century.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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--
Tho' my lassie hae nae scarlets or silks to put on,
We envy not the greatest that sits upon the throne;
I wad rather hae my lassie, tho' she cam in her smock,
Than a
princess
wi' the gear and the blaithrie o't.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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No fine eulogium from my pen expect:
With you each air and grace appear correct
My first of Phillis's you ought to be;
My sole affection had been placed on thee;
Long since, had I
presumed
the truth to tell;
But he who loves would fain be loved as well.
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La Fontaine |
|
The variant has _ultaprid ki-is-su-su_,
"he shook his
murderous
weapon.
| Guess: |
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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For
suddenly a flash and peal comes
quivering
from heaven, and all seemed in
a moment to totter, and the Tyrrhene trumpet-blast to roar along the
sky.
| Guess: |
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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- To the Azure that October stirred, pale, pure,
That in the vast pools mirrors
infinite
languor,
And over dead water where the leaves wander
The wind, in russet throes dig their cold furrow,
Allows a long ray of yellow light to flow.
| Guess: |
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Half-past two,
The street-lamp said,
"Remark the cat which
flattens
itself in the gutter,
Slips out its tongue
And devours a morsel of rancid butter.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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49
Now let me call across the snow-clad meadows 50
There were no ruins, neither fragments 51
In sorrow day and night the
disciple
watched 52
Sunlight slantingly flows 53
The wild resplendence of the year resolves 54
Doth live for thee again, Beloved that October?
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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The new world's wounded
entrails
they had^ tore.
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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[12] This scene not improbably
illustrates
the
effort of Enkidu to rescue his friend from the goddess.
| Guess: |
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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How great thy debt to Nero's race,
O Rome, let red Metaurus say,
Slain Hasdrubal, and victory's grace
First granted on that glorious day
Which chased the clouds, and show'd the sun,
When
Hannibal
o'er Italy
Ran, as swift flames o'er pine-woods run,
Or Eurus o'er Sicilia's sea.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Cain said to Jabal (father of them that dwell
In tents): "Spread here the curtain of thy tent,"
And they spread wide the
floating
canvas roof,
And made it fast and fixed it down with lead.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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O gentle Lady,
'Tis not for you to heare what I can speake:
The
repetition
in a Womans eare,
Would murther as it fell.
| Guess: |
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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I have forged onwards in reverse,
Searching peaks, ravines and hills,
Like one tortured by frost and ice,
Whom the cold
torments
and stings,
So that no more would song or whistle
Rule me than lawless monks the bristle.
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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How they will then behold those radiant wounds,
The
splendid
testimonies of Thy love
To Adam's race!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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FINIS
Joachim du Bellay
'Joachim du Bellay'
Science and literature in the Middle Ages and the
Renaissance
- P.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Helas, Lui, comme
Mille anges blancs qui se
separent
sur la route,
S'eloigne par dela la montagne!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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To me of all men had been
given the chance to write the most
marvelous
tale in the world, nothing
less than the story of a Greek galley-slave, as told by himself.
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Kipling - Poems |
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THE
WANDERING
JEW'S SOLILOQUY.
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Shelley |
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Here, regarding the palace, and a testimony of the love that the King of England
possessed
for his mistress, is this quatrain from a poem whose Author I do not know.
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Appoloinaire |
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There were five
Dropt dead beside me in the trench--and three
Whispered their dying
messages
to me.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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The Foundation makes no
representations
concerning
the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United
States.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Certain of the
selections have appeared in recent magazines and these are reprinted by
permission of _The Century_, _The Yale Review_, _Poetry: A Magazine of
Verse_, _The New Republic_, _Harper's_, _Scribner's_, _The Bookman_,
_The Freeman_, _Broom_, _The Dial_, _The
Atlantic
Monthly_, _Farm and
Fireside_, _The Measure_, and _The Literary Review_.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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My excellent and
much-lamented friend, the late Basil, Lord Daer, happened to arrive at
Catrine the same day, and, by the
kindness
and frankness of his manners,
left an impression on the mind of the poet which was never effaced.
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Robert Forst |
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We passed the school where children played,
Their lessons
scarcely
done;
We passed the fields of gazing grain,
We passed the setting sun.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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It exists
because of the efforts of
hundreds
of volunteers and donations from
people in all walks of life.
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Golden Treasury |
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In "The Life of Agricola," I would mention the
simplicity
of the
treatment and the excellence of the taste.
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Tacitus |
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So blend the turrets and shadows there
That all seem pendulous in air,
While from a proud tower in the town
Death looks
gigantically
down.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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'Twixt kings and
subjects
there's this mighty odds, I.
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Robert Herrick |
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He aimed at raising poetry from the triviality into
which it had sunk and
restoring
it to its proper intellectual level.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Here in a calm retreat his life he spent,
With rural peace and
solitude
content.
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Petrarch |
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