Strange ghostly banners o'er them float,
Strange bugles sound an awful note,
And all their faces and their eyes
Are lit with
starlight
from the skies.
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Charles the great in vain your aid will seek--
None such as he till God His Judgement speak;--
Here must you die, and France in shame be steeped;
Here
perishes
our loyal company,
Before this night great severance and grief.
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Chanson de Roland |
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My heart was fill'd with wonder and amaze,
As one struck dumb, in silence stands at gaze
Expecting
counsel, when my friend drew near,
And said: "What do you look?
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Owneth thy sire one third, one third is right of thy mother,
Only the third is thine: stint thee to strive with the others,
Who to the
stranger
son have yielded their dues with a dower!
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Catullus - Carmina |
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And indeed there will be time
For the yellow smoke that slides along the street,
Rubbing its back upon the window panes;
There will be time, there will be time
To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet
There will be time to murder and create,
And time for all the works and days of hands
That lift and drop a
question
on your plate;
Time for you and time for me,
And time yet for a hundred indecisions,
And for a hundred visions and revisions,
Before the taking of a toast and tea.
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ergo iam multos nimium
temerarius
annos,
improba, qui tulerim teque tuamque domum?
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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His locked, letter'd, braw brass collar
Shew'd him the
gentleman
an' scholar;
But though he was o' high degree,
The fient a pride, nae pride had he;
But wad hae spent an hour caressin,
Ev'n wi' al tinkler-gipsy's messin:
At kirk or market, mill or smiddie,
Nae tawted tyke, tho' e'er sae duddie,
But he wad stan't, as glad to see him,
An' stroan't on stanes an' hillocks wi' him.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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O
Camerado
close!
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Whitman |
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Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or
redistribute
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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[Footnote 19:
Tributary
of the River Ural.
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A story born out of the dreaming eyes
And crazy brain and
credulous
ears of famine.
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Yeats |
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An idea that is not dangerous is
unworthy
of being called an idea at
all.
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It levelled strong Euphrates in its course;
Supreme yet weightless as an idle mote
It seemed to tame the waters without force
Till not a murmur swelled or billow beat:
Lo, as the purple shadow swept the sands,
The prudent crocodile rose on his feet
And shed
appropriate
tears and wrung his hands.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Her throat was serpent, but the words she spake
Came, as through
bubbling
honey, for Love's sake,
And thus; while Hermes on his pinions lay,
Like a stoop'd falcon ere he takes his prey.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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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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Silius neatly
translates
it,
"Turpe duci totam somno consumere noctem.
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Iliad - Pope |
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[103] It is to him
that Rome's attention turns, while you, Sire,
careless
who is friend
or foe, cherish in your bosom a rival, who sits feasting at his table
and watches his emperor in pain.
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Tacitus |
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'
And drawing
somewhat
backward she replied,
'Can he be wronged who is not even his own,
But save for dread of thee had beaten me,
Scratched, bitten, blinded, marred me somehow--Mark?
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Tennyson |
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I was
imprisoned
in your days and
nights--and I sought a door into larger days and nights.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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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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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Autolycus, Sisyphus,
Thersites
are all Satyr-play
heroes and congenial to the Satyr atmosphere; but the most congenial of
all, the one hero who existed always in an atmosphere of Satyrs and the
Komos until Euripides made him the central figure of a tragedy, was
Heracles.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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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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A strange
choice to our mind, but
apparently
the poem was greatly admired as
a masterpiece of wit.
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John Donne |
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Close by the
straight
Larissa road.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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This terror then, this
darkness
of the mind,
Not sunrise with its flaring spokes of light,
Nor glittering arrows of morning can disperse,
But only nature's aspect and her law.
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Lucretius |
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Five score
thousand
Franks swooned on the earth and fell.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Half-past two,
The street-lamp said,
"Remark the cat which
flattens
itself in the gutter,
Slips out its tongue
And devours a morsel of rancid butter.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Fresh breezes, bowery lawns, and innocent floods, 970
Ripe fruits, and lonely couch, contentment gave;
But ever since I heedlessly did lave
In thy
deceitful
stream, a panting glow
Grew strong within me: wherefore serve me so,
And call it love?
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Keats |
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And the shy stars grew bold and scattered gold,
And chanting voices ancient secrets told,
And an acclaim of angels
earthward
rolled.
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Sidney Lanier |
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I gave up my
part of the farm to my brother; in truth it was only
nominally
mine;
and made what little preparation was in my power for Jamaica.
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Robert Forst |
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'
"Such be the plea, and by the plea deceive:
For Jove
infatuates
all, and all believe.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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)
During the four succeeding years he made numerous
excursions
amid
the beautiful countries which from the basin of the Euxine--and
amongst these the Crimea and the Caucasus.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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You yourself, condemning your unjust intent,
Urged our hands to prepare you for this instant:
You yourself,
recalling
your former strength, 165
Wished to rise again, and see the light at length.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Now see what good turns eyes for eyes have done:
Mine eyes have drawn thy shape, and thine for me
Are windows to my breast, where-through the sun
Delights
to peep, to gaze therein on thee;
Yet eyes this cunning want to grace their art,
They draw but what they see, know not the heart.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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to the place where the
dead
Bēowulf
lay), 3115.
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Beowulf |
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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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So God is spoken against, I am never,
And I have a better terror in the world;
And chiefly for the
happiness
built round me
Divinely firm.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Remember
Tchaplitzky, who, thanks to
you, was able to pay his debts.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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1157-1170)
A townsman's son from the Bishopric of Clermont-Ferrand, Peire d'Alvernhe was a
professional
troubadour.
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Troubador Verse |
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Mallarme's spiritual position is taken to be atheistic, and therefore religious assumptions should not be made in
interpreting
these fragments.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Here glows the Spring, here earth
Beside the streams pours forth a
thousand
flowers;
Here the white poplar bends above the cave,
And the lithe vine weaves shadowy covert: come,
Leave the mad waves to beat upon the shore.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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The music has been thus harmonized for four voices by
Professor
C.
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John Donne |
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)
I harbour, for good or bad--I permit to speak, at every hazard--
Nature now without check, with
original
energy.
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Whitman |
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but when Urizen frownd She wept
In mists over his carved throne & when he turnd his back
Upon his Golden hall & sought the Labyrinthine porches
Of his wide heaven Trembling, cold in paling fears she sat
A Shadow of Despair therefore toward the West Urizen formd
A recess in the wall for fires to glow upon the pale
Females limbs in his absence & her
Daughters
oft upon
A Golden Altar burnt perfumes with Art Celestial formd
Foursquare sculpturd & sweetly Engravd to please their shadowy mother {"Pleasd" mended to "please.
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Blake - Zoas |
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While Laura smiles, all-conscious of that love
Which from this
faithful
breast no time can e'er remove.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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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 do not affirm what you see beyond is futile--I do not advise you to stop;
I do not say
leadings
you thought great are not great;
But I say that none lead to greater than those lead to.
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Whitman |
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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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Christina Rossetti |
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Continued
use of this site implies consent to that usage.
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Appoloinaire |
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CANTO XIII
We reach'd the summit of the scale, and stood
Upon the second
buttress
of that mount
Which healeth him who climbs.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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"Or has the sudden frost
disturbed
its bed?
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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This both
Penelope
and I afford:
Then, prince!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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'Whylom I thinke how Love to me
Seyde he wolde taken atte gree
My servise, if
unpacience
4575
Caused me to doon offence.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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MARMADUKE That such a One,
So pious in
demeanour!
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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In these lines as they stand in the
editions
and most of the
MSS.
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John Donne |
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LIV
An elder, in the shining entrance-hall
Of that glad house, towards Astolpho prest;
Crimson his
waistcoat
was, and white his pall;
Vermillion seemed the mantle, milk the vest:
White was that ancient's hair, and white withal
The bushy beard descending to his breast;
And from his reverend face such glory beamed,
Of the elect of Paradise he seemed.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Cold be the fierce winds,
Treacherous
round him.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Her cheeks a mair celestial hue,
A crimson still
diviner!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Who will say that he saw--or the dusk
deceived
him--
A mist with hands of mist blow down from the tree
And open the door and enter and close it after?
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Far thee well Lord,
I would not be the
Villaine
that thou think'st,
For the whole Space that's in the Tyrants Graspe,
And the rich East to boot
Mal.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Theories
are poor things at the best, and the bulk of
mine have perished long ago.
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Yeats |
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They sat
together
in knots and
talked--God only knows what they found to discuss--in low equable tones,
curiously in contrast to the strident babble with which natives are
accustomed to make day hideous.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Poebel, who also copied this text, has shown that
_Nin-lil_ is an
erroneous
reading for _Nin-sun_.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Rilke - Poems |
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and wrings her hands,
Blinded her eyes,
bleeding
her breast,
Nor pardon finds, nor balm of rest.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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But
presently
he felt upon his back
The falc'ner's cudgel vigorously thwack,
Who soundly basted him as on he ran,
To gain the house, with terror, pale and wan.
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La Fontaine |
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He did not feel the need of pity; he
was too anxious to get to the front once more, and
explained
his desire.
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Kipling - Poems |
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_
HE ACKNOWLEDGES THE WISDOM OF HER PAST
COLDNESS
TO HIM.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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To achieve a swift
departure
was his only aim!
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Therefore like her, I
sometime
hold my tongue:
Because I would not dull you with my song.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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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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That he'll pity my
troubles?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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But Sir, you meane not to make him
_Feoffee_?
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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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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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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It is embarrassed by the unexpected
appearance of the
consequences
of its past sins, but makes a manly
confession.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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She snuffs and barks if any passes bye
And swings her tail and turns
prepared
to fly.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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But never more will any see
The old secure felicity,
The
kindnesses
that made us glad
Before the world went mad.
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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In 1831
he married a beautiful lady of the
Gontchareff
family and settled
in the neighbourhood of St.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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There is, however, one part of your public conduct which
our feelings will not permit us to pass in silence: our gratitude must
trespass on your modesty; we mean, worthy Sir, your whole
behaviour
to
the Scots Distillers.
| Guess: |
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Robert Burns |
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Nusch
The
sentiments
apparent
The lightness of approach
The tresses of caresses.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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I do confess thee sweet, but find
Thou art so
thriftless
o' thy sweets,
Thy favours are the silly wind
That kisses ilka thing it meets.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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But Summer swiftly fades away
And golden Autumn draweth nigh,
And pallid nature
trembling
grieves,
A victim decked with golden leaves;
Dark clouds before the north wind fly;
It blew: it howled: till winter e'en
Came forth in all her magic sheen.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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He
could have
borrowed
money and gone back to Bristol, but there are many
precedents for beaten generalissimos falling on their swords rather
than return home defeated and disgraced.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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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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Now pay ye the heed that is fitting,
Whilst I sing ye the Iran adventure;
The Pasha on sofa was sitting
In his harem's
glorious
centre.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Who, that is clean, shall see
And hate not the blood-red hand,
His mother's
murderer?
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Euripides - Electra |
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II
Tell me ye stones and give me O
glorious
palaces answer.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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This and the fellow poem _Upon
Absence_
may be compared with Donne's
poems on the same theme.
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John Donne |
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"
To this the king: "Our
daughter
but express'd
Her cares imperfect to our godlike guest.
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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"Or has the sudden frost
disturbed
its bed?
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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the tyrant whom I sing, descried
Ere long his error, that, till then, his dart
Not yet beneath the gown had pierced my heart,
And brought a
puissant
lady as his guide,
'Gainst whom of small or no avail has been
Genius, or force, to strive or supplicate.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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N'es-tu pas l'oasis ou je reve, et la gourde
Ou je hume a longs traits le vin du
souvenir?
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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my father, Petr'
Andrejitch!
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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LXXI
A void was at the bottom, where a wide
Portal conducted to an inner room:
From thence a light shone out on every side,
As of a torch
illumining
the gloom.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Your orders are vain breath--
That
stranger
enters to be known as Death--
Or merely Exile--clothed in alien guise--
Death drags away--with _his_ prey Exile flies!
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Hugo - Poems |
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