And he hath kissed the lips of Proserpine,
And sung the Galilaean's requiem,
That wounded
forehead
dashed with blood and wine
He hath discrowned, the Ancient Gods in him
Have found their last, most ardent worshipper,
And the new Sign grows grey and dim before its conqueror.
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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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And all that life
preserved
did detest: 435
Yet he is oft adventur'd to invade.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Il nous
est difficile de savoir pourquoi
Verlaine
a corrige <> en <
voile>>, ou s'agit-il d'un moment d'inattention?
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Il nous semble, d'ailleurs, qu'il est des cas ou la publicite
n'est pas seulement un encouragement, ou elle peut avoir l'influence
d'un conseil utile et appeler le vrai talent a se degager, a se
fortifier, en elargissant ses voies, en
etendant
son horizon.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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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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But this, at best, tells as
much one way as another; nay, the Sufi, who may be considered the
Scholar and Man of Letters in Persia, would be far more likely than
the
careless
Epicure to interpolate what favours his own view of the
Poet.
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hir derke hornes
approche?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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I see the wild flowers, in their summer morn
Of beauty, feeding on joy's luscious hours;
The gay convolvulus, wreathing round the thorn,
Agape for honey showers;
And slender kingcup, burnished with the dew
Of morning's early hours,
Like gold yminted new;
And mark by rustic bridge, oer shallow stream,
Cow-tending boy, to toil unreconciled,
Absorbed as in some vagrant summer dream;
Who now, in gestures wild,
Starts dancing to his shadow on the wall,
Feeling self-gratified,
Nor fearing human thrall:
Then thread the sunny valley laced with streams,
Or forests rude, and the oershadowed brims
Of simple ponds, where idle
shepherd
dreams,
And streaks his listless limbs;
Or trace hay-scented meadows, smooth and long,
Where joy's wild impulse swims
In one continued song.
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John Clare |
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The pigeons from the dove cote cooed over the old lane,
The crow flocks from the oakwood went flopping oer the grain;
Like lots of dear old
neighbours
whom I shall see no more
They greeted me that morning I left the English shore.
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John Clare |
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A smile
suffused
Jehovah's face;
The cherubim withdrew;
Grave saints stole out to look at me,
And showed their dimples, too.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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But under one name I'd have thee yoke them both;
And when, for instance, I shall speak of soul,
Teaching
the same to be but mortal, think
Thereby I'm speaking also of the mind--
Since both are one, a substance inter-joined.
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Lucretius |
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a8
DOWN AND OUT By
Fullerton
L.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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FUZZY-WUZZY
(Soudan
Expeditionary
Force)
We've fought with many men acrost the seas,
An' some of 'em was brave an' some was not:
The Paythan an' the Zulu an' Burmese;
But the Fuzzy was the finest o' the lot.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Now men say "They are not":
But in the dusk
Ere the white sun comes--
A gay child that bears a white candle--
I am afraid of their rustling,
Of their
terrible
silence,
The menace of their secrecy.
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Imagists |
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_
Speak but so loud as doth a wasted moon
To
Tyrrhene
waters.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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_ Revere, pray, flatter each
successive
ruler.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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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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The _Chanson d'Antioche_ contains
perhaps the most illuminating
admission
of this difficulty.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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What
business
have I in the woods, if I am thinking of
something out of the woods?
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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"
"There up aloft," I answer'd, "in the life
Serene, I wander'd in a valley lost,
Before mine age had to its
fullness
reach'd.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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From the
forgotten
you call forth dreams; the
child
Reposing on the ground in the corn-clad fields,
In harvest-glow beside the naked mowers.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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The Cat
The Large Cat
'The Large Cat'
Cornelis
Visscher
(II), 1657, The Rijksmuseun
I wish there to be in my house:
A woman possessing reason,
A cat among books passing by,
Friends for every season
Lacking whom I'm barely alive.
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Appoloinaire |
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When guilt goes forth, let
lapwings
shrill,
And dogs and foxes great with young,
And wolves from far Lanuvian hill,
Give clamorous tongue:
Across the roadway dart the snake,
Frightening, like arrow loosed from string,
The horses.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Amorous Prince, the
greatest
lover,
I want no evil that's of your doing,
But, by God, all noble hearts must offer
To succour a poor man, without crushing.
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Villon |
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Je l'ai dit tout a
l'heure et je sais que je ne suis pas le seul a le penser: Rimbaud en
prose est peut-etre
superieur
a celui en vers.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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XLV
So fiersly, when these knights had
breathed
once,
They gan to fight returne, increasing more
Their puissant force, and cruell rage attonce.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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You have not known what you are--you have
slumbered
upon yourself all your
life;
Your eyelids have been the same as closed most of the time;
What you have done returns already in mockeries;
Your thrift, knowledge, prayers, if they do not return in mockeries, what
is their return?
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Whitman |
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An' now, ye chosen Five-and-Forty,
May still your mither's heart support ye,
Then, though a
minister
grow dorty,
An' kick your place,
Ye'll snap your fingers, poor an' hearty,
Before his face.
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Robert Burns |
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_Nam præcipue quidem apud Ciceronem,
frequenter tamen apud Asinium etiam, et cæteros, qui sunt proximi,
vidimus ENNII, ACCII, PACUVII, TERENTII et aliorum inseri versus,
summâ non eruditionis modò gratiâ, sed etiam jucunditatis; cum
poeticis
voluptatibus
aures a forensi asperitate respirent, quibus
accedit non mediocris utilitas, cum sententiis eorum, velut quibusdam
testimoniis, quæ proposuere confirmant.
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Tacitus |
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--
Castera justly
observes
the happiness with which Camoens introduces the
name of this truly great man.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Adored with caution, as a brittle heaven,
To reach
Were
hopeless
as the rainbow's raiment
To touch,
Yet persevered toward, surer for the distance;
How high
Unto the saints' slow diligence
The sky!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Canst thou give to a frame
tremblingly
alive as the tortures of
suspense, the stability and hardihood of the rock that braves the
blast?
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Robert Forst |
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Hence "Notre Dame" long stood
unique: it was
translated
in all languages, and plays and operas were
founded on it.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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The
security
of society will not depend, as it
does now, on the state of the weather.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Enfin la verite froide se revela:
J'etais mort sans surprise, et la
terrible
aurore
M'enveloppait.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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) 338
As 'twere with a percussion cap
The trouble's climax capping;
It seemed a party dried and grim
Of mummies had come to visit him,
Each getting off from every limb
Its
multitudinous
wrapping;
Scratchings sometimes the walls ran round,
The merest penny-weights of sound;
Sometimes 'twas only by the pound
They carried on their dealing,
A thumping 'neath the parlor floor,
Thump-bump-thump-bumping o'er and o'er, 350
As if the vegetables in store
(Quiet and orderly before)
Were all together peeling;
You would have thought the thing was done
By the spirit of some son of a gun,
And that a forty-two-pounder,
Or that the ghost which made such sounds
Could be none other than John Pounds,
Of Ragged Schools the founder.
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James Russell Lowell |
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THE QUEEN: With a pure, steady,
honourable
love,
Working and waiting with a patient heart
Till I am free to marry you.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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at herest my bone,
whi
helestou
my leoue sone
So long in my house, 477
?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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)
The ghosts of dead loves everyone
That make the stark winds reek with fear
Lest love return with the foison sun And slay the memories that me cheer (Such as I drink to mine
fashion)
Wincing the ghosts of yester-year.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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There is another thinning of the fruit, commonly near the end of
August or in September, when the ground is strewn with windfalls; and
this happens
especially
when high winds occur after rain.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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There is the despot who
tyrannises
over the soul.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Long as the wild boar
Shall love the mountain-heights, and fish the streams,
While bees on thyme and
crickets
feed on dew,
Thy name, thy praise, thine honour, shall endure.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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I wot the
stranger
worketh woe within--
For lo!
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Aeschylus |
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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th knowe,
ffor so naked was he;
And als a
straunge
man he went
To his fader wi?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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"Begin, my flute, with me
Maenalian
lays.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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ir swiche men
ben frendes at nede as ben
conseiled
by fortune {and} nat by vertue.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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This was in the white of the year,
That was in the green,
Drifts were as
difficult
then to think
As daisies now to be seen.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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The hour went by, we rose and turned to go,
The somber street received us from the glare,
And once more on your
shoulders
fell the snow.
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Sara Teasdale |
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New
scintillating
rays extend
Through endless singing space and rise
Into an ecstasy that cries:
"Ascend, Leviathan, ascend!
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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And now the other maidens in the hall
Assembling, kindled on the hearth again
Th'
unwearied
blaze; then, godlike from his couch 150
Arose Telemachus, and, fresh-attired,
Athwart his shoulders his bright faulchion slung,
Bound his fair sandals to his feet, and took
His sturdy spear pointed with glitt'ring brass;
Advancing to the portal, there he stood,
And Euryclea thus, his nurse, bespake.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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* * * * *
NOTE: The Old English "yogh" characters have been
translated
both
upper and lower-case yoghs to digit 3's.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Hunchbacked
and broken, crooked though they be,
Let us still love them, for they still have souls.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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LXXI
No longer mourn for me when I am dead
Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell
Give warning to the world that I am fled
From this vile world with vilest worms to dwell:
Nay, if you read this line,
remember
not
The hand that writ it, for I love you so,
That I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot,
If thinking on me then should make you woe.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Those gods you
endlessly
weep will return!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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tanto opere officerent quid aues Stymphala colentes,
et Diomedis equi
spirantes
naribus ignem
Thracis Bistoniasque plagas atque Ismara propter?
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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[43]
Mistaking
the oar for a corn-van.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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VIII
With arms and vassals Rome the world subdued,
So that one might judge this single city
Had found her
grandeur
held in check solely
By earth and ocean's depth and latitude.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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But when he saw the evening star above
Leucadia's far-projecting rock of woe,
And hailed the last resort of
fruitless
love,
He felt, or deemed he felt, no common glow:
And as the stately vessel glided slow
Beneath the shadow of that ancient mount,
He watched the billows' melancholy flow,
And, sunk albeit in thought as he was wont,
More placid seemed his eye, and smooth his pallid front.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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And so many
children
poor?
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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But heaven in thy
creation
did decree
That in thy face sweet love should ever dwell;
Whate'er thy thoughts, or thy heart's workings be,
Thy looks should nothing thence, but sweetness tell.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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The person or entity that
provided
you with
the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a
refund.
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Imagists |
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FIGHTING
Last year we were
fighting
at the source of the San-kan;
This year we are fighting at the Onion River road.
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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LIV
With rue my heart is laden
For golden friends I had,
For many a rose-lipt maiden
And many a
lightfoot
lad.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Division
into
Act and Scene referring chiefly to the Stage (to which this work never
was intended) is here omitted.
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Milton |
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[Footnote: 3:
Poseidon]
DANAUS
This next is Hermes, carved in Grecian wise.
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Aeschylus |
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We verily,
that Turnus [371-406]may have his royal bride, must lie scattered on
the plains,
worthless
lives, a crowd unburied and unwept.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Her face, sad and worn,
was in perfect keeping with the deep
mourning
in which she was dressed.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
|
ou hast
seuentene
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Anne had a
conscience
pure as holy fire;
But how could she abstain from soft desire?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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There came a day - at Summer's full -
Entirely for me -
I thought that such were for the Saints -
Where Resurrections - be -
The sun - as common - went abroad -
The flowers - accustomed - blew,
As if no soul - that solstice passed -
Which maketh all things - new -
The time was scarce
profaned
- by speech -
The falling of a word
Was needless - as at Sacrament -
The _Wardrobe_ - of our Lord!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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And within the grave there is no pleasure,
for the blindworm battens on the root,
And Desire
shudders
into ashes, and the tree
of Passion bears no fruit.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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But no, go slowly as you will,
I should not bid you hasten so,
For while I wait for love to come,
Some other girl is
standing
dumb,
Fearing her love will go.
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Now at sixty-four fathom a conger may come,
And nose at the bones of a drowned submarine;
But late in the evening
_Kilmeny_
came home,
And nobody knew where _Kilmeny_ had been.
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Painting
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Appoloinaire |
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This both
Penelope
and I afford:
Then, prince!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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6550
And right thus were men wont to teche;
And in this wyse wolde it preche
The
maistres
of divinitee
Somtyme in Paris the citee.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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He
returned
to the stage for a
short time through necessity, but found his best friends in the best of
the young poets of the day.
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' This account was in the best
Rowleian manner, with strange spelling and uncouth words, but for
the most part quite intelligible to the
ordinary
reader.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Births have brought us
richness
and variety,
And other births will bring us richness and variety.
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XXIV
If that blind fury that
engenders
wars,
Fails to rouse the creatures of a kind,
Whether swift bird aloft or fleeting hind,
Whether equipped with scales or sharpened claws,
What ardent Fury in her pincers' jaws
Gripped your hearts, so poisoned the mind,
That intent on mutual cruelty, we find,
Into your own entrails your own blade bores?
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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THE SONG OF PRINCESS ZEB-UN-NISSA
IN PRAISE OF HER OWN BEAUTY
(From the Persian)
When from my cheek I lift my veil,
The roses turn with envy pale,
And from their pierced hearts, rich with pain,
Send forth their
fragrance
like a wail.
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XLIX
" `I say this, since to strive against our ten,
It seems, that one
imprisoned
here will dare:
Who, if he stands against so many men,
By Heaven, deserves that we should hear his prayer;
But if he rashly boasts himself, again
As worthily due the punishment should bear.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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that woe, the blood of many beasts,
And victims
manifold
to many gods,
Alone can cure.
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Aeschylus |
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I will leave all, and come and make the hymns of you;
None have understood you, but I understand you;
None have done justice to you--you have not done justice to yourself;
None but have found you imperfect--I only find no
imperfection
in you;
None but would subordinate you--I only am he who will never consent to
subordinate you;
I only am he who places over you no master, owner, better, God, beyond what
waits intrinsically in yourself.
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Whitman |
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The bridal-songs and cradle-songs have cadences of sorrow,
The
laughter
of the sun to-day, the wind of death to-morrow.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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XXIX
Agramant
recognized this truth; but thought
That ill his royal word could be repealed;
Yet Mandricardo and the Child besought
That they the right, conferred by him, would yield:
More; that the question was a thing of nought,
Nor worthy to be tried in martial field;
And prayed them -- would they not obey his hest
At least somewhile, to let their quarrel rest.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Therefore, ye living, rejoice that love keeps you warm for a while yet,
Until cold Lethe anoints,
captures
your foot in its flight.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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