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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His own parents, he that had father'd him and she that had conceiv'd
him in her womb and birth'd him,
They gave this child more of
themselves
than that,
They gave him afterward every day, they became part of him.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Cut it into the shape of
ordinary
cutlets, and serve up in a clean
table-cloth or dinner-napkin.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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All this time, and at all times, wait the words of poems;
The greatness of sons is the exuding of the greatness of mothers and
fathers;
The words of poems are the tuft and final
applause
of science.
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Whitman |
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This refers to Consort Zheng; imperial son-in-laws were commonly
compared
to Xiaoshi.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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He holds him with his
glittering
eye
The Wedding-Guest stood still,
And listens like a three years' child:
The Mariner hath his will.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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So many
hurrying
home--
And thou still away.
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Sappho |
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SAXA RUBRA, a place on the
Flamminian
road in Etruria, nine miles from
Rome.
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Tacitus |
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--Not how shrines of gods
And idols crack
outworn?
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Lucretius |
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Nevertheless it seems
impossible
to doubt that it was largely
moulded under his personal influence, and that he has left upon it the
impress of his own masterful and imperial temper.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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As nature's curtain fell
The one who bore him
tottered
in,
For this was woman's son.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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But say who
Art thou, that standest musing on the rock,
Haply so
lingering
to delay the pain
Sentenc'd upon thy crimes?
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Oh, never the mast-high run of the seas
Of traffic shall hide thee,
Never the hell-colored smoke of the factories
Hide thee,
Never the reek of the time's fen-politics
Hide thee,
And ever my heart through the night shall with
knowledge
abide thee,
And ever by day shall my spirit, as one that hath tried thee,
Labor, at leisure, in art, -- till yonder beside thee
My soul shall float, friend Sun,
The day being done.
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Sidney Lanier |
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X
Much as brave Jason by the Colchian shore,
Through magic arts won the Golden Fleece,
Sowing the plain with the old serpent's teeth,
To engender soldiers from the furrow's store,
This city, that in youthful season bore
A Hydra's nest of warriors, raised a yeast
Of brave nurslings, who their proud glory saw
Fill the Sun's mansions, to the west and east:
But in the end, lacking a Hercules
To vanquish so fecund a progeny,
Arming themselves in civil enmity,
Mowed each other down, a cruel harvest,
Reliving thus the
fraternal
harsh unrest
Which had blinded that proud seeded army.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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All
attempts
that are new in
this kind, are dangerous, and somewhat hard, before they be softened with
use.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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And in the nights it seemed a jar
Cut in the substance of a star,
Wherein a wine, that will be poured
Some time for
feasting
Heaven, was stored.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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The
versification
although
carrying the fanciful to the very verge of the
fantastic, is nevertheless admirably adapted to the wild insanity which
is the thesis of the poem.
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Poe - 5 |
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_Henry Newbolt_
THOMAS OF THE LIGHT HEART
Facing the guns, he jokes as well
As any Judge upon the Bench;
Between the crash of shell and shell
His
laughter
rings along the trench;
He seems immensely tickled by a
Projectile which he calls a "Black Maria.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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"
He's taken Guenes by his right finger-ends,
And through the orchard
straight
to the King they wend.
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Chanson de Roland |
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" I decided that
if the shaking of her breasts could be stopped, some of the fragments
of the afternoon might be collected, and I concentrated my attention
with careful
subtlety
to this end.
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T.S. Eliot |
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If you received the work electronically, the person or entity
providing it to you may choose to give you a second
opportunity
to
receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Sam: I know no Spells, use no
forbidden
Arts;
My trust is in the living God who gave me 1140
At my Nativity this strength, diffus'd
No less through all my sinews, joints and bones,
Then thine, while I preserv'd these locks unshorn,
The pledge of my unviolated vow.
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Milton |
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Be not, my son,
Too
positive
again.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Before all my tinder
Dies away into coals, coals then to ashes decline,
She will be back and new faggots as well as big logs will be blazing,
Making a
festival
where lovers will warm up the night.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Nigh on the Plain in many cells prepar'd, 700
That underneath had veins of liquid fire
Sluc'd from the Lake, a second multitude
With
wondrous
Art founded the massie Ore,
Severing each kinde, and scum'd the Bullion dross:
A third as soon had form'd within the ground
A various mould, and from the boyling cells
By strange conveyance fill'd each hollow nook,
As in an Organ from one blast of wind
To many a row of Pipes the sound-board breaths.
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Milton |
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XLI
Phaon, O my lover,
What should so detain thee,
Now the wind comes walking
Through the leafy
twilight?
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Sappho |
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si-iz-ba sa[na-ma-]as-[te]-e
i-te- en- ni- ik
ka-ia-na i-na [libbi] Uruk-(ki) kak-ki-a-tum [46]
id-lu-tum u-te-el-li- lu
sa-ki-in ip-sa- nu [47]
a-na idli sa i-tu-ru zi-mu-su
a-na iluGilgamis ki-ma i-li-im
sa-ki-is-sum [48] me-ih-rum
a-na ilatIs-ha-ra ma-ia-lum
na- [di]-i- ma
iluGilgamish
id-[ ]na-an(?
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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What myriad
righteous
errands high
Thy flames MIGHT run on!
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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_ 'Sophist and sage'
suggests
the philosophers
of ancient Greece.
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Keats |
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Poetry is reality's essence visioned and made
manifest
by one endowed
with a perception acutely sensitive to sound, form, and colour, and
gifted with a power to shape into rhythmic and rhymed verbal symbols the
reaction to Life's phenomena.
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Rilke - Poems |
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And Trouble, knocking at my window-pane
And at my closet door, shall knock in vain;
I will not heed him with his
stealthy
tread,
Nor from my reverie uplift my head;
For I will plunge deep in the pleasure still
Of summoning the spring-time with my will,
Drawing the sun out of my heart, and there
With burning thoughts making a summer air.
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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" It was always upon some
not less solid foundation that Coleridge built these
delicate
structures.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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No mercy now can clear her brow
From this world's peace to pray
For as love's wild prayer
dissolved
in air,
Her woman's heart gave way!
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Poe - 5 |
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Love led them on, and Faith who knew them best
Thy hand-maids, clad them o're with purple beams 10
And azure wings, that up they flew so drest,
And speak the truth of thee on
glorious
Theams
Before the Judge, who thenceforth bid thee rest
And drink thy fill of pure immortal streams.
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Milton |
|
]
And
brandish
round the deep-dyed steel,
In sturdy blows;
While, back-recoiling, seem'd to reel
Their Suthron foes.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Robert Burns |
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There I see the young tsarevich
Lie slaughtered: the queen mother in a swoon
Bowed over him, his nurse in her despair
Wailing; and then the maddened people drag
The godless,
treacherous
nurse away.
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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So humbly craving the
continuance of your
honourable
favour towards me, and th' eternall
establishment of your happines, I humbly take leave.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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The four children then entered into conversation with the
Blue-Bottle-Flies, who
discoursed
in a placid and genteel manner, though
with a slightly buzzing accent, chiefly owing to the fact that they each
held a small clothes-brush between their teeth, which naturally occasioned
a fizzy, extraneous utterance.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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How now you secret, black, &
midnight
Hags?
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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[I have not hesitated to insert all letters which show what Burns was
musing on as a poet, or
planning
as a man.
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Robert Forst |
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They
subscribed
for half-a-hundred copies of the Kilmarnock
edition of his works, and befriended him when friends were few.
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Robert Forst |
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You must see that
your various
departments
are set in order.
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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For the first time the sun
kissed my own naked face and my soul was
inflamed
with love for
the sun, and I wanted my masks no more.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Etymology is
sometimes
indicated by an apostrophe,
not always correctly: e.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Dread Sire and
Guardian
of man's race,
To Thee, O Jove, the Fates assign
Our Caesar's charge; his power and place
Be next to Thine.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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_Perhaps
omit_
to.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Copyright laws in most countries are in
a
constant
state of change.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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I'd be sadder
Should we part ever,
Sorrowful, my Beautiful Warrior,
For my heart never
Seems to deliver
Me from desire
Nor slakes it further;
Gives
pleasure
only to the slanderer
He, my lady, who finds no other
Joy, the man there
Who'd feel my utter
Loss, and thanks would offer,
And consider
Insolent starer
You, the one from whom I suffer.
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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For neither do the gods,
Without the august Graces,
Rule the dance,
Nor feasts; but stewards
Of all works in heaven,
Having placed their seats
By golden-bowed Pythian Apollo,
They reverence the eternal power
Of the
Olympian
Father.
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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He
expressed
a desire to be buried there, but when he
died they buried him at Tung-lin.
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Li Po |
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"
The great symbols of
Solitude
and of Death enter into the poet's work.
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Rilke - Poems |
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" Now the rich sound of leaves,
Turning in air to sway their heavy boughs,
Burns in his heart, sings in his veins, as spring
Flowers in veins of trees;
bringing
such peace
As comes to seamen when they dream of seas.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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"
Fiercely the orderly rode down the slope of the
corn-field--scarred and forlorn,
Rutted by violent wheels, and scathed by the
shot that had plowed it in scorn;
Fiercely, and burning with wrath for the sight
of his comrades crushed at a blow,
Flung in broken shapes on the ground like
ruined
memorials
of woe:
These were the men whom at daybreak he knew,
but never again could know.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Del vecchio ponte guardavam la traccia
che venia verso noi da l'altra banda,
e che la ferza
similmente
scaccia.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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And seven high
chieftains
of war,
with spear and with panoply bold,
Are set, by the law of the lot,
to storm the seven gates of our hold!
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Aeschylus |
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Mine by the right of the white
election!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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She was
thinking
of all this
and a great deal more when the door of her apartment suddenly opened,
and Herman stood before her.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Thou scene of all my
happiness
and pleasure!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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The Men have recieved their death wounds & their Emanations are fled
To me for refuge & I cannot turn them out for Pitys sake
*{inserted
vertically, up the left side of the page.
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Blake - Zoas |
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When You and I behind the Veil are past,
Oh, but the long, long while the World shall last,
Which of our Coming and
Departure
heeds
As the Sea's self should heed a pebble-cast.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Attendants bring out the bodies of_
CLYTEMNESTRA
_and_
AEGISTHUS.
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Euripides - Electra |
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Indeed, the poet's
deliberate
attitude of
artificiality is dropped.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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[End of the Second Night]
Ahania heard the
Lamentation
& a swift Vibration
Spread thro her Golden frame.
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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It has already been remarked that the ultimate
significance
of great
drama is the same as that of epic.
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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O rustle not, ye verdant oaken
branches!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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A seer he was, from great
Melampus
sprung,
Melampus, who in Pylos flourish'd long,
Till, urged by wrongs, a foreign realm he chose,
Far from the hateful cause of all his woes.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Nor did Israel scape
Th'
infection
when their borrow'd Gold compos'd
The Calf in Oreb: and the Rebel King
Doubl'd that sin in Bethel and in Dan,
Lik'ning his Maker to the Grazed Ox,
Jehovah, who in one Night when he pass'd
From Egypt marching, equal'd with one stroke
Both her first born and all her bleating Gods.
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| Source: |
Milton |
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Or why was the substance not made more sure
That formed the brave fronts of these
palaces?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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The
following short account of the
Christians
of the East may perhaps be
acceptable.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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LFS}
Spreading them out before the Sun like Stalks of flax to dry
The infant joy is beautiful but its anatomy
Horrible Ghast & Deadly nought shalt thou find in it
But Death Despair & Everlasting brooding Melancholy
Thou wilt go mad with horror if thou dost Examine thus * {added on center right margin, 90 degrees rotated LFS}
Every moment of my secret hours Yea I know
That I have sinnd & that my Emanations are become harlots
I am already distracted at their deeds & if I look
Upon them more Despair will bring self murder on my soul
O Enion thou art thyself a root growing in hell
Tho thus heavenly beautiful to draw me to
destruction
Sometimes I think thou art a flower expanding *{This and the following four lines are added evidently in light pencil in the top margin.
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Blake - Zoas |
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'361 Japhet':
Japhet Crooke, a
notorious
forger of the time.
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| Question: |
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Alexander Pope |
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Peeped up daisies here and there,
Here, there, and everywhere;
Rose a hopeful lark in the air,
Spreading
out towards the sun his breast;
While the moon set solemn and fair
Away in the west.
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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Car c'est vraiment, Seigneur, le meilleur temoignage
Que nous puissions donner de notre dignite
Que cet ardent sanglot qui roule d'age en age
Et vient mourir au bord de votre
eternite!
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Glaucus alone swims through the
dangerous
seas,
And missing her who should his fancy please,
Curseth the cruel's Love transform'd her shape.
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
|
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Sur ce teint fauve et brun le fard etait
superbe!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
|
CV
In wall and roof and pavement
scattered
are
Full many a pearl, full many a costly stone.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Having this mournful document
Perused, Eugene in
postchaise
went
And hastened to his uncle's side,
But in his heart dissatisfied,
Having for money's sake alone
Sorrow to counterfeit and wail--
Thus we began our little tale--
But, to his uncle's mansion flown,
He found him on the table laid,
A due which must to earth be paid.
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Disgrace
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Nicolas
carefully
annotates "Dieu," "La Divinite,"
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For measurd out in orderd spaces the Sons of Urizen
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In cups of gold that shed a yellow light,
In silver, shining as the moon of night,
Amid the banquet flow'd the sparkling wine,
Nor gave Falernia's fields the parent vine:
Falernia's vintage, nor the fabled power
Of Jove's ambrosia in th' Olympian bower
To this compare not; wild, nor frantic fires,
Divinest
transport
this alone inspires.
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"
So the hand of the child, automatic,
Slipped out and
pocketed
a toy that was running along
the quay.
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Indeed,
Professor
J.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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The priest-like Father reads the sacred page,
How Abram was the friend of God on high;
Or, Moses bade eternal warfare wage
With Amalek's ungracious progeny;
Or how the royal bard did groaning lie
Beneath the stroke of Heaven's avenging ire;
Or Job's pathetic plaint, and wailing cry;
Or rapt Isaiah's wild,
seraphic
fire;
Or other holy seers that tune the sacred lyre.
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Robert Burns |
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Quare agite optatos animi
coniungite
amores.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Adam, by sad experiment I know
How little weight my words with thee can finde,
Found so erroneous, thence by just event
Found so unfortunate; nevertheless, 970
Restor'd by thee, vile as I am, to place
Of new acceptance, hopeful to regaine
Thy Love, the sole contentment of my heart,
Living or dying from thee I will not hide
What
thoughts
in my unquiet brest are ris'n,
Tending to som relief of our extremes,
Or end, though sharp and sad, yet tolerable,
As in our evils, and of easier choice.
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Milton |
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Says to Rollant: "Fool,
wherefore
art so wrathful?
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Chanson de Roland |
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See, Lovers, how I'm treated, in what ways
I die of cold through summer's
scorching
days:
Of heat, in the depths of icy weather.
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Ronsard |
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Joyful are the
thoughts
of home,
Now I'm ready for my chair,
So, till morrow-morning's come,
Bill and mittens, lie ye there!
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Imagists |
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