death
in its
vastness
- terrible
death
to strike down so
small a being
I say to deathcoward
ah!
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Your Beauty's a flower in the morning that blows,
And withers the faster, the faster it grows:
But the
rapturous
charm o' the bonie green knowes,
Ilk spring they're new deckit wi' bonie white yowes.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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'To shelter
Rosamunde
from hate
borne her by the queen,
the king had a palace made
such as had ne'er been seen'.
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Appoloinaire |
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Listen not to that
seductive
murmur,
That only swells my pain.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Fortunately for us, however, two small but
incomparable
odes and a few
scintillating fragments have survived, quoted and handed down in the
eulogies of critics and expositors.
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Sappho |
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den sollt Ihr noch
verlieren!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Quoi dono lepidum novom libellum
Arida modo pumice
expolitum?
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Forgael was playing,
And they were
listening
there beyond the sail.
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Yeats |
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5 In mid-summer the emperor ritually presents
cherries
to his officials.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Here a great rumor of
trumpets
and horses, like the noise of a
king with his army, and the robbers shall take flight.
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Longfellow |
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How much better is it to be silent, or at least to speak
sparingly!
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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But
if I only am claimed by the Teucrians for combat, if that is your
pleasure, and I am the barrier to the public good, Victory does not so
hate and shun my hands that I should
renounce
any enterprise for so
great a hope.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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"
And there right suddenly Lord Raoul gave rein
And galloped
straightway
to the crowded square,
-- What time a strange light flickered in the eyes
Of the calm fool, that was not folly's gleam,
But more like wisdom's smile at plan well laid
And end well compassed.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Calais, the wind is come and heaven pales And
trembles
for the love of day to be.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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I brake thy
bracelet
'gainst my will, II.
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Robert Herrick |
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Keats |
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Thine is the
stillest
night,
Thine the securest fold;
Too near thou art for seeking thee,
Too tender to be told.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Yes, on an isle the air charges
With sight and not with visions
Every flower showed itself larger
Without
entering
our discussions.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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In golden dreams the sage duennas slept;
A female
sentinel
to watch was kept.
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La Fontaine |
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All now empty and vain, by breath of the breezes
bescattered!
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Catullus - Carmina |
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In what
attention
wrapt she paused to hear
My life's sad course, of which she bade me speak!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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I dried my tears, and armed my fears
With ten
thousand
shields and spears.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Quand' io mi fui
umilmente
disdetto
d'averlo visto mai, el disse: <>;
e mostrommi una piaga a sommo 'l petto.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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No marble bust, philosopher, nor stone,
But similar
sensation
would have shown.
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La Fontaine |
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Meek
daughter
in the family of Christ!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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O'er
Cambridge
set the yeomen's mark:
Climb, patriot, through the April dark.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Lose no time and attack the door with vigour, if you have the
courage of
Heracles
as well as his costume.
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Aristophanes |
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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Poems, by Rainer Maria Rilke
This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
almost no
restrictions
whatsoever.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Gainst
Charlemagne
I'll shew him strategy.
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Chanson de Roland |
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'T was not the Lord that sent you;
As an
incarnate
devil did you come!
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Longfellow |
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An
instance
of the kind I'll now detail:
The feeling bosom will such lots bewail!
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La Fontaine |
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er man; mychel
enpaired
I-wis.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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" Here we see both what he calls his "gangrened sensibility" and a
complete
abandonment
to the feelings of the moment.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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As she had no ideas of
distance
or steamboats,
her notions were somewhat erroneous.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Wild strain of Scalds, that in the sea-worn caves
Rehearsed
their war-spell to the winds and waves;
Or fateful hymn of those prophetic maids,
That call'd on Hertha in deep forest glades;
Or minstrel lay, that cheer'd the baron's feast;
Or rhyme of city pomp, of monk and priest,
Judge, mayor, and many a guild in long array,
To high-church pacing on the great saint's day.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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And the creeping mosses and clambering weeds,
And the willow-branches hoar and dank,
And the wavy swell of the soughing reeds,
And the wave-worn horns of the echoing bank,
And the silvery marish-flowers that throng
The
desolate
creeks and pools among,
Were flooded over with eddying song.
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Tennyson |
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The sober lav'rock, warbling wild,
Shall to the skies aspire;
The gowdspink, Music's gayest child,
Shall sweetly join the choir;
The
blackbird
strong, the lintwhite clear,
The mavis mild and mellow;
The robin pensive Autumn cheer,
In all her locks of yellow.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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There is a penny for thee;
remember
me in
thy prayers.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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_
_Josephine Preston Peabody_
MY SON
Here is his little cambric frock
That I laid by in
lavender
so sweet,
And here his tiny shoe and sock
I made with loving care for his dear feet.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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You've not
surprised
my secret yet
Already the cortege moves on
But left to us is the regret
of there being no connivance none
The rose floats at the water's edge
The maskers have passed by in crowds
It trembles in me like a bell
This heavy secret you ask now
?
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Appoloinaire |
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Compliance
requirements are not uniform and it takes a
considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up
with these requirements.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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It has been the custom of late to assign to Donne the
authorship of one
charming
lyric in the _Rhapsody_, 'Absence hear thou
my protestation.
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John Donne |
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PAUL'S
APRIL 20, 1917
Not since Wren's Dome has whispered with man's prayer
Have angels leaned to wonder out of Heaven
At such uprush of intercession given,
Here where to-day one soul two nations share,
And with accord send up thro'
trembling
air
Their vows to strive as Honour ne'er has striven
Till back to hell the Lords of hell are driven,
And Life and Peace again shall flourish fair.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Edward Lear, the artist, Author of "Journals of a Landscape Painter" in
various out-of-the-way countries, and of the delightful "Books of
Nonsense," which have amused successive
generations
of children, died on
Sunday, January 29, 1888, at San Remo, Italy, where he had lived for twenty
years.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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The British were repulsed with a loss of
two thousand; the
American
loss was trifling.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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He bought no ploughs and harrows, spades and shovels, and
such trifles;
But quietly to his rancho there came, by every train,
Boxes full of pikes and pistols, and his well-beloved Sharp's
rifles;
And
eighteen
other madmen joined their leader there again.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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"
"Nay, thou art not like me, O, Madman, for thou
shudderest
yet
before pain, and the song of the abyss terrifies thee.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Aboute hir eyen two a purpre ring
Bi-trent, in sothfast
tokninge
of hir peyne, 870
That to biholde it was a dedly thing,
For which Pandare mighte not restreyne
The teres from his eyen for to reyne.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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How fit for us, how even and how sweet, 55
How good in all her titles, and how meet,
To have reform'd this forward heresie,
That women can no parts of
friendship
bee;
How Morall, how Divine shall not be told,
Lest they that heare her vertues, thinke her old: 60
And lest we take Deaths part, and make him glad
Of such a prey, and to his tryumph adde.
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John Donne |
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Still, the
alacrity
with
which a Russian hostess will turn her house topsy-turvy for
the accommodation of forty or fifty guests would somewhat
astonish the mistress of a modern Belgravian mansion.
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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This both
Penelope
and I afford:
Then, prince!
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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Lift thine eyes which lingering see
The shadows on the foot-worn threshold fall,
Lift thine eyes slowly to the great dark tree
That stands against heaven, solitary, tall,
And thou hast visioned Life, its
meanings
rise
Like words that in the silence clearer grow;
As they unfold before thy will to know
Gently withdraw thine eyes--
THE NEIGHBOUR
Strange violin!
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Rilke - Poems |
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"
XXV
His right hand glove that
Emperour
holds out;
But the count Guenes elsewhere would fain be found;
When he should take, it falls upon the ground.
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Chanson de Roland |
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up the
earthwork
they
will swarm!
| Guess: |
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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STOUT SCIPIO, Cornelius Scipio
Africanus
(B.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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From the young corn the prick-eared leverets stare
At
strangers
come to spy the land--small sirs,
We bring less danger than the very breeze
Who in great zig-zag blows the bee, and whirs
In bluebell shadow down the bright green leas;
From whom in frolic fit the chopt straw darts and flees.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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He joined the Fourth Crusade in 1203 and was present at the siege of
Constantinople
in 1204.
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Troubador Verse |
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Byckerment
34
VI.
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Lewis Carroll |
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[Poems by William Blake 1789]
SONGS OF INNOCENCE AND OF EXPERIENCE
and THE BOOK of THEL
SONGS OF INNOCENCE
INTRODUCTION
Piping down the valleys wild,
Piping songs of pleasant glee,
On a cloud I saw a child,
And he
laughing
said to me:
"Pipe a song about a Lamb!
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blake-poems |
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Quare nec tales dignantur visere coetus,
Nec se
contingi
patiuntur lumine claro.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Divide ye bands
influence
by influence
Build we a Bower for heavens darling in the grizly deep
Build we the Mundane Shell around the Rock of Albion {Blake's rendering of this line is distinctly different from the surrounding text in form, though no indication of why is apparent.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Timotheus
placed on high
Amid the tuneful quire
With flying fingers touch'd the lyre:
The trembling notes ascend the sky
And heavenly joys inspire.
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Golden Treasury |
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But no such
everlastingness
for me!
| Guess: |
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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No more--no more--no more--
(Such
language
holds the solemn sea
To the sands upon the shore)
Shall bloom the thunder-blasted tree,
Or the stricken eagle soar!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Emily
Dickinson
appears to have written her first poems in the
winter of 1862.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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"
Such was the flow of that pure rill, that well'd
From forth the fountain of all truth; and such
The rest, that to my wond'ring
thoughts
I found.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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What pressure from the hands that
lifeless
lie?
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Longfellow |
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Besides, we observe ten vessels
Of our old enemies,
flaunting
their banners;
They have dared to approach the river-course.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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See to it that both act honourably,
Once over, bring the
conqueror
to me.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Or ask of yonder argent fields above,
Why Jove's
satellites
are less than Jove?
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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As for
Penelope, she told him of her intent to promise herself to the man who
could wield Ulysses' bow, knowing well that none had the
strength
and
skill.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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It is interesting also to compare Donne's series of
petitions
with
those in a Middle English Litany preserved in the Balliol Coll.
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John Donne |
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There are terrible
temptations
that it requires strength--strength and
courage--to yield to.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Thou that wert wrapt in peace, the haze
Of
loveliness
spread over thee!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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The Earl of
Leicester
here!
| Guess: |
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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At length along the flowery sward I saw
So sweet and fair a lady pensive move
That her mere thought inspires a tender awe;
Meek in herself, but haughty against Love,
Flow'd from her waist a robe so fair and fine
Seem'd gold and snow
together
there to join:
But, ah!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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at was so bryght,
to the
sexteyene
vppon a nyght.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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"
exclaimed
the old man,
"Happy are my eyes to see you.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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He wrote histories of the Revolution,
of
Napoleon
and of France.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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While the child laughs, beyond the bastion thick
Of that vast palace, Roman Catholic,
Whose every turret like a mitre shows,
Behind the lattice
something
dreadful goes.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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That little floweret's peaceful lot,
In yonder cliff that grows,
Which, save the linnet's flight, I wot,
Nae ruder visit knows,
Was mine, till Love has o'er me past,
And blighted a' my bloom;
And now, beneath the
withering
blast,
My youth and joy consume.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Anoon therwith whan I saw this, 500
He ferde thus evel ther he sete,
I wente and stood right at his fete,
And grette him, but he spak noght,
But argued with his owne thoght,
And in his witte disputed faste 505
Why and how his lyf might laste;
Him
thoughte
his sorwes were so smerte
And lay so colde upon his herte;
So, through his sorwe and hevy thoght,
Made him that he ne herde me noght; 510
For he had wel nigh lost his minde,
Thogh Pan, that men clepe god of kinde,
Were for his sorwes never so wrooth.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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It is a land of
poverty!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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This poem, with 236, exemplifies the peculiar skill with which Scott
employs proper names: nor is there a surer sign of high
poetical
genius.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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And the same may
possibly
be true of variants
in other poems.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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Baccio Valori and
Philippo
Strozzi,
Once the Duke's friends and intimates are with us,
And Cardinals Salvati and Ridolfi.
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
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Christina Rossetti |
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By
Richmond
I raised my knees
Supine on the floor of a narrow canoe.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Strange that the termagant winds should scold
The
Christmas
Eve so bitterly!
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Sidney Lanier |
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The night was wide, and
furnished
scant
With but a single star,
That often as a cloud it met
Blew out itself for fear.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Petrarch
answered
that he had nothing
more to say.
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Petrarch |
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replied in the _United Irishman_
with an
impassioned
letter.
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Yeats |
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" KAU}
Of his three daughters were encompassd by the twelve bright halls
Every hall surrounded by bright Paradises of Delight
In which are towns & Cities Nations Seas Mountains & Rivers {Minor
grammatical
changes, in tense ("were" mended to "are") and capitalization ("mountains" to "Mountains") KAU}
Each Dome opend toward four halls & the Three Domes Encompassd
The Golden Hall of Urizen whose western side glowd bright
With ever streaming fires beaming from his awful limbs
His Shadowy Feminine Semblance here reposd on a [bright] White Couch
Or hoverd oer his Starry head & when he smild she brightend
Like a bright Cloud in harvest.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Our neighboring gentry reared
The good old-fashioned crops,
And made old-fashioned boasts
Of what John Bull would do
If
Frenchman
Frog appeared,
And drank old-fashioned toasts,
And made old-fashioned bows
To my Lady at the Hall.
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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"
I could no more--askance the
creature
eyeing,
D'ye think, said I, this face was made for crying?
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Robert Forst |
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I love all that thou lovest,
Spirit of
Delight!
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Golden Treasury |
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Or accordiamo a tanto invito il piede;
procacciam
di salir pria che s'abbui,
che poi non si poria, se 'l di non riede>>.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Boccalini, in his "Advertisements from Parnassus," tells us that Zoilus
once presented Apollo a very caustic criticism upon a very admirable
book:--whereupon the god asked him for the
beauties
of the work.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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For seven pyres
devoured
young-limbed
Men.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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