How can you
understand
that this my heart
Is but a sparrow in an eagle's nest?
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Begluckt, wer Treue rein im Busen tragt,
Kein Opfer wird ihn je
gereuen!
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I know you step within mine house 32
'Tis not wise until the latest hour 32
The hill where o'er we wander lies in shadow 33
Needs must thou be upon the
wastelands
yearning .
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XCVI
But the wise king, Sobrino, who was by,
Him from the quest endeavoured to dissuade,
And that with his exalted majesty
Such enterprize were ill
assorted
said:
Although firm hope, nay full security,
He had to overcome that martial maid,
If he with pain subdued a woman, shame,
Rather than honour, would pursue his name.
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"
He could not answer yea or nay:
He
faltered
"Gifts may pass away.
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The eyes are drowned in opium
In
universal
licence
The clownish mouth bewitched
A singular geranium.
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Would you learn at full
How passion rose thro'
circumstantial
grades
Beyond all grades develop'd?
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Nor went Eumaeus from his home unmark'd
By Pallas, who in semblance of a fair
Damsel, accomplish'd in
domestic
arts, 190
Approaching to the cottage' entrance, stood
Opposite, by Ulysses plain discern'd,
But to his son invisible; for the Gods
Appear not manifest alike to all.
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Genealogiques
sur les Familles Genevoises_, iv.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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The civilized nations--Greece, Rome, England--have been
sustained
by
the primitive forests which anciently rotted where they stand.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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_ A telling
expression
for the dread of loss
which haunts so many wealthy people.
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Keats |
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--
But I am now another's bride--
For ever
faithful
will abide.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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The rest of them are
mounted on old Acestes'
Sicilian
horses.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Instead of going out
therefore
to spend the evening as I had proposed,
it occurred to me that I could not do a wiser thing than just eat a
mouthful of supper and go immediately to bed.
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Poe - 5 |
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Grass was not likely to grow there so long
as it
remained
the fashionable place to drive.
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Alexander Pope |
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CHORUS
Gods of our city, see me not
enslaved!
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Aeschylus |
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And I, the unknown son of a famous father, 945
Lag far behind even the
footsteps
of my mother.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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There's never a moment's rest allowed:
Now here, now there, the
changing
breeze
Swings us, as it wishes, ceaselessly,
Beaks pricking us more than a cobbler's awl.
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Villon |
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Gainst four
assaults
easily did they fare,
But then the fifth brought heavy griefs to bear.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Imagists |
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Therein the Patient
Must
minister
to himselfe
Macb.
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Thus, like an eel, outstretch'd at length he steer'd,
Gath'ring the air up with
retractile
claws.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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'Here indeed the battle is fiercest, as if all the rest of the fighting
were nowhere, and no
slaughter
but here throughout the city, so do we
descry the war in full fury, the Grecians rushing on the building, and
their shielded column driving up against the beleaguered threshold.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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+ Keep it legal Whatever your use, remember that you are responsible for
ensuring
that what you are doing is legal.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Man's life is like a sojourning,
His
longevity
lacks the firmness of stone and metal.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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230
He, the young man carbuncular, arrives,
A small house agent's clerk, with one bold stare,
One of the low on whom
assurance
sits
As a silk hat on a Bradford millionaire.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Miss
Thompson
lets her say her say:
'So chilly for the time of year.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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All summarised, the soul,
When slowly we breathe it out
In several rings of smoke
By other rings wiped out
Bears witness to some cigar
Burning skilfully while
The ash is
separated
far
From its bright kiss of fire
Should the choir of romantic art
Fly so towards your lips
Exclude from it if you start
The real because it's cheap
Meaning too precise is sure
To void your dreamy literature.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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If I be clear from thought,
Why do you then
complain?
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Petrarch - Poems |
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hoc ne ipsi accideret, patrui perdepsuit ipsam
uxorem et patruum
reddidit
Harpocratem.
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Latin - Catullus |
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I see it plain, Telemachus intends
Our slaughter; either he will aids procure
From sandy Pylus, or will bring them arm'd 430
From Sparta; such is his
tremendous
drift.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Thus, too, in other things,
Whilst many germs common to many things
There are, yet they,
combined
among themselves,
Can form new wholes to others quite unlike.
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Lucretius |
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The pow'rs above could
PRUDENCE
ne'er design;
For those who fondly court the SISTERS NINE.
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La Fontaine |
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This is, of course, no
argument
against the poems
now-we mean it only as against the poets _thew.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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And now a gusty shower wraps
The grimy scraps
Of
withered
leaves about your feet
And newspapers from vacant lots;
The showers beat
On broken blinds and chimney-pots,
And at the corner of the street
A lonely cab-horse steams and stamps.
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T.S. Eliot |
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(The poem has been wrongly
attributed
to Han W?
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Fetch a log, then; coax the ember;
Fill your hearts with old-time cheer;
Heaven be thanked for one more year,
And our
Thanksgiving
turkey!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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William Wordsworth |
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But we neo-pagans may not after all be
abandoned
entirely:
Yet there is speeding a god mercifully over the earth,
Quick and assiduous.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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luniuersalite
de Raison.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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There is no room to think that Cicero used it in a
worse sense, since we find him in a letter to Atticus declaring, that
the oratorical style of Brutus was, in
language
as well as sentiment,
elegant to a degree that nothing could surpass.
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Tacitus |
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And
A boy
Blew west
And with prayers and incantations,
And with "Yankee Doodle Dandy,"
Crossed the Appalachians,
And was "young John Chapman,"
Then
"Johnny Appleseed, Johnny Appleseed,"
Chief of the fastnesses, dappled and vast,
In a pack on his back,
In a deer-hide sack,
The
beautiful
orchards of the past,
The ghosts of all the forests and the groves--
In that pack on his back,
In that talisman sack,
To-morrow's peaches, pears and cherries,
To-morrow's grapes and red raspberries,
Seeds and tree souls, precious things,
Feathered with microscopic wings,
All the outdoors the child heart knows,
And the apple, green, red, and white,
Sun of his day and his night--
The apple allied to the thorn,
Child of the rose.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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| Question: |
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Beowulf |
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And then the
lighting
of the lamps.
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T.S. Eliot |
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We bring thee our songs and our
garlands
for tribute,
The gold of our fields and the gold of our fruit;
O giver of mellowing radiance, we hail thee,
We praise thee, O Surya, with cymbal and flute.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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for the air rustles
With the soft
rippling
of wings.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Tapestries
were hung on
the walls, and willing hands prepared the banquet.
| Guess: |
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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But when thy glance rests on me then my whole
Being
quickens
and blooms like trees in May.
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Rilke - Poems |
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WATERS OF BABYLON
What presses about us here in the evening
As you open a window and stare at a stone-gray sky,
And the streets give back the jangle of
meaningless
movement
That is tired of life and almost too tired to die.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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There they routed the Vitellian
auxiliaries
and killed all who
offered resistance, the rest taking flight to Cremona.
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Tacitus |
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I have tiding,
Glad tiding, behold how in duty
From far
Lehistan
the wind, gliding.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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DOTH still before thee rise the beauteous image
Of him who high the cliff for roses scales,
Who nigh forgets the day amidst the scrimmage,
Who fullest honey from the bunch
inhales?
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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The unappeasable loveliness
is calling to me out of the wind,
And because your name
is written upon the ivory doors,
The wave in my heart is as a green wave, unconfined, Tossing the white foam toward you;
And the lotus that pours
Her
fragrance
into the purple cup
Is more to be gained with the foam Than are you with these words of mine.
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Christina Rossetti |
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XXXVI
The brand
discharged
by him, hit either brow,
But most severely on the left did smite;
For that ill feature perished by the blow,
Which was the thief's sole minister of light.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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He had probably
observed
our mutual attraction, and was trying to detach
us one from another.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Thou art Lord
Of an
extended
plain, where copious springs
The lotus, herbage of all savours, wheat,
Pulse, and white barley of luxuriant growth.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Kipling - Poems |
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But the robin might have said,
"To the
farthest
West he has followed the sun,
His life and his empire just begun.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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But
meantime
voices from far away had reached him.
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Emerson - Poems |
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With
associate
step the bards
Drew near the plant; and from amidst the leaves
A voice was heard: "Ye shall be chary of me;"
And after added: "Mary took more thought
For joy and honour of the nuptial feast,
Than for herself who answers now for you.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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In the
editions
1815 to 1832, the title given to this poem was 'Extract
from the conclusion of a Poem, composed upon leaving School'.
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Wilde - Poems |
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'
"Thus fierce he said: we sighing went our way,
And with
desponding
hearts put off to sea.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Who'ld be fuel for fire
And not the quickening touch that sets it
flaming?
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Bring forth Men-Children onely:
For thy
vndaunted
Mettle should compose
Nothing but Males.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Ye terrible Towns, ne'er claim the trembling soul
That,
craftless
all to buy or hoard or sell,
From out your deadly complex quarrel stole
To company with large amiable trees,
Suck honey summer with unjealous bees,
And take Time's strokes as softly as this morn
Takes waving of the corn.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Of his good horn remembers him the peer,
Whose
clangours
helpful aye in peril are,
And deems his bugle were the fittest mean
To free the monarch from those birds unclean;
CXXIV
And first to fill their ears, to king and train,
With melted wax, Astolpho gives command;
That every one who hears the deafening strain
May not in panic terror fly the land.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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irrah, has beene in
_Spaine_!
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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P
[Illustration]
P was a polly,
All red, blue, and green,--
The most
beautiful
polly
That ever was seen.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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" Along the cross I saw,
At the repeated name of Joshua,
A splendour gliding; nor, the word was said,
Ere it was done: then, at the naming saw
Of the great Maccabee, another move
With
whirling
speed; and gladness was the scourge
Unto that top.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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If, like a tower upon a headland rock,
Thou hadst been made to stand or fall alone,
Such scorn of man had helped to brave the shock;
But men's thoughts were the steps which paved thy throne,
THEIR admiration thy best weapon shone;
The part of Philip's son was thine, not then
(Unless aside thy purple had been thrown)
Like stern
Diogenes
to mock at men;
For sceptred cynics earth were far too wide a den.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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My auld schoolfellow, preacher Willie,
The manly tar, my mason Billie,
An' Auchenbay, I wish him joy;
If he's a parent, lass or boy,
May he be dad, and Meg the mither,
Just five-and-forty years
thegither!
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Robert Forst |
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TO
ROSEMARY
AND BAYS.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Robert Herrick |
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According
to
the ancient belief, no lion would attack a true virgin or one of royal
blood.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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I said to my heart, my feeble heart;
Haven't we had enough of
sadness?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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And how should I
presume?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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If it is said that he
aggrandized the enemies of his country, the Spaniards, and introduced
them to a dangerous rivalship with the Portuguese settlements; let the
sentence of Faria on this subject be remembered: "Let princes beware,"
says he, "how by neglect or injustice they force into
desperate
actions
the men who have merited rewards.
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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Swiftly and quietly down she slips,
A lighthouse to starboard, and one to port,
The colored
lanterns
of passing ships, A tow of barges, an old gray fort;
And we aboard her are lulled to rest
By the rhythmic beat of her mighty heart,
By the song of the winds from the salt southwest And the wash of the waters her great prows part.
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Sara Teasdale |
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"
And Beatrice: "Some more
pressing
care
That oft the memory 'reeves, perchance hath made
His mind's eye dark.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Deep pity she with
graceful
grief applies--
Warm feelings ever gentle bosoms fill--
While captived equally my fond ears thrill
With her sweet accents and seraphic sighs.
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Petrarch |
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Who bade you arise from your
darkness?
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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The jew is
underneath
the lot.
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T.S. Eliot |
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TOOKS COURT,
CHANCERY
LANE,
LONDON.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Mahony)_
Battle of the
Norsemen
and the Gaels
Madelaine
The Fay and the Peri--_Asiatic Journal_
LES ORIENTALES.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Let us now consider the liberty which the Author
has assumed in cutting into the property of others as well as his own,
without making
exception
even to the best known stories, none of which
he scruples to tamper with.
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La Fontaine |
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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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Hugo - Poems |
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Let whoso hath been With
worthier
works concerned, display his wares !
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Nurse, where's my
daughter?
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Shakespeare |
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So sweetly shines reveal'd
The amorous thought within your soul which dwells,
That other joys it from my heart expels:
Hence I aspire to frame
Lays whereon Hope may build a
deathless
name,
When in the tomb my dust shall lie conceal'd.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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The quiet
nonchalance
of death
No daybreak can bestir;
The slow archangel's syllables
Must awaken her.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Þā wæs winter scacen,
"fæger foldan bearm; fundode wrecca,
"gist of geardum; hē tō gyrn-wræce
1140 "swīðor þōhte, þonne tō sǣ-lāde,
"gif hē torn-gemōt
þurhtēon
mihte,
"þæt hē Eotena bearn inne gemunde.
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Beowulf |
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Orpheus
invented
all the sciences, all the arts.
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Appoloinaire |
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