Sometime let gorgeous Tragedy
In sceptr'd pall come sweeping by
Presenting Thebes, or Pelops' line,
Or the tale of Troy divine;
Or what (though rare) of later age
Ennobled
hath the buskin'd stage.
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Golden Treasury |
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(also published as "Poems, chiefly of Early and Late Years"),
and in
subsequent
editions.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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2 One should clear the
imperial
way in Qin?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Farm hands from the terraces of the blest
Danced on the mists with their ladies fine;
And Johnny
Appleseed
laughed with his dreams,
And swam once more the ice-cold streams.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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"
'If the Post maintains the converse of this proposition, it can hardly
be considered as a safe guide-post for the moral and religious portions
of its party, however many other excellent
qualities
of a post it may be
blessed with.
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James Russell Lowell |
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BUT as to you:--decline Love's choice
pursuit!
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La Fontaine |
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" 1645
`For in this world ther liveth lady noon,
If that ye were untrewe, as god
defende!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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)
No dainty dolce affettuoso I,
Bearded, sun-burnt, gray-neck'd, forbidding, I have arrived,
To be wrestled with as I pass for the solid prizes of the universe,
For such I afford whoever can
persevere
to win them.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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She had arranged in one corner the spears, and in the other the
brushwood and
branches
used for the fire, and spread upon the ground
the skins, and now began pulling vainly at the great stone pitcher of
the Fomorians.
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Yeats |
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For Man's grim Justice goes its way,
And will not swerve aside:
It slays the weak, it slays the strong,
It has a deadly stride:
With iron heel it slays the strong,
The monstrous
parricide!
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Wilde - Poems |
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NOTE TO TITLE-PAGE
It will not have escaped the attentive eye, that I have, on the
title-page, omitted those honorary appendages to the
editorial
name
which not only add greatly to the value of every book, but whet and
exacerbate the appetite of the reader.
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James Russell Lowell |
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thou roamest now the hills,
While on soft hyacinths he, his snowy side
Reposing, under some dark ilex now
Chews the pale herbage, or some heifer tracks
Amid the
crowding
herd.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Silvero
With
caressing
hands, at Limoges
Who walked all night in the next room;
By Hakagawa, bowing among the Titians;
By Madame de Tornquist, in the dark room
Shifting the candles; Fraulein von Kulp
Who turned in the hall, one hand on the door.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Who hears these daughters of
almighty
Jove,
For him they mediate to the throne above
When man rejects the humble suit they make,
The sire revenges for the daughters' sake;
From Jove commission'd, fierce injustice then
Descends to punish unrelenting men.
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Iliad - Pope |
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An old woman,
standing on a doorstep, holding in her hand a trough, was calling to
some pigs, the pigs replying by
amicable
grunts.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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True Image of the Father whether thron'd
In the bosom of bliss, and light of light
Conceiving, or remote from Heaven, enshrin'd
In fleshly Tabernacle, and human form,
Wandring the Wilderness, whatever place, 600
Habit, or state, or motion, still expressing
The Son of God, with Godlike force indu'd
Against th' Attempter of thy Fathers Throne,
And Thief of Paradise; him long of old
Thou didst debel, and down from Heav'n cast
With all his Army, now thou hast aveng'd
Supplanted Adam, and by vanquishing
Temptation, hast regain'd lost Paradise,
And frustrated the conquest fraudulent:
He never more henceforth will dare set foot 610
In
Paradise
to tempt; his snares are broke:
For though that seat of earthly bliss be fail'd,
A fairer Paradise is founded now
For Adam and his chosen Sons, whom thou
A Saviour art come down to re-install.
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Milton |
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With Freedom's soil beneath our feet,
And Freedom's banner
streaming
o'er us!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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'Tis but to know how little can be known;
To see all others' faults, and feel our own;
Condemned in
business
or in arts to drudge,
Without a second or without a judge;
Truths would you teach or save a sinking land,
All fear, none aid you, and few understand.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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The ploughman he talked of his skill as divine,
How he could plough
thurrows
as straight as a line;
And the blacksmith he swore, had he but the command,
He could shoe the king's hunter the best in the land;
And the cobbler declared, was his skill but once seen,
He should soon get an order for shoes from the queen.
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John Clare |
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The Portuguese prince even visited the Kingdoms of Prester John and
returned
to his own country after three years and four months.
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Appoloinaire |
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I thought I should have fainted, but I did not faint;
I stood stunned at the moment, scarcely sad,
Till I raised my wail of
desolate
complaint
For you, my cousin, brother, all I had.
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Christina Rossetti |
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With not even one blow
landing?
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Villon |
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Not alone
A freezing, formal visit didst thou grant;
Deep down into her breast
invitedst
me
To look, as if she were a bosom-friend.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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But take it: if the smack is sour,
The better for the
embittered
hour;
It should do good to heart and head
When your soul is in my soul's stead;
And I will friend you, if I may,
In the dark and cloudy day.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Alway me lyked for to dwelle, 1635
To seen the cristal in the welle,
That shewed me ful openly
A
thousand
thinges faste by.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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_Quail's Nest_
I wandered out one rainy day
And heard a bird with merry joys
Cry "wet my foot" for half the way;
I stood and wondered at the noise,
When from my foot a bird did flee--
The rain flew
bouncing
from her breast
I wondered what the bird could be,
And almost trampled on her nest.
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John Clare |
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How warm they were on such a day:
You almost feel the date,
So short way off it seems; and now,
They 're
centuries
from that.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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If you try the nature of amber by
the application of fire, it kindles like a torch; and feeds a thick and
unctuous flame very high scented, and presently becomes
glutinous
like
pitch or rosin.
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Tacitus |
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"
[Illustration]
There was a Young Lady whose nose
Was so long that it reached to her toes;
So she hired an Old Lady, whose conduct was steady,
To carry that
wonderful
nose.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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He has
published
a group of his war poems under
the title _Sing-Songs of the War_.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Not proven, who swept the dust of ruined Rome
From off the
threshold
of the realm, and crushed
The Idolaters, and made the people free?
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Tennyson |
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Musing on the roaring ocean,
Which divides my love and me;
Wearying
heaven in warm devotion,
For his weal where'er he be.
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Robert Forst |
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Heav'n left to men the
moulding
of their fate:
To live as wolves or pile the pillar'd State--
Like boars and bears to grunt and growl in mire,
Or dwell aloft, effulgent gods, elate.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Two lovers murmur and are still In mutual oblivion
Of any soul that
saunters
by
Or smiles and blesses and is gone.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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THE TURN
He entered well, by virtuous parts,
Got up, and thrived with honest arts;
He purchased friends, and fame, and honours then,
And had his noble name
advanced
with men:
But weary of that flight,
He stooped in all men's sight
To sordid flatteries, acts of strife,
And sunk in that dead sea of life,
So deep, as he did then death's waters sup,
But that the cork of title buoyed him up.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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You may copy it, give it away or
re-use it under the terms of the Project
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
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So shall one coveting no higher plane
Than nature clothes in color and flesh and tone,
Even from the grave put upward to attain
The dreams youth cherished and missed and might have known;
And that strong need that strove unsatisfied
Toward earthly beauty in all forms it wore,
Not death itself shall utterly divide
From the beloved shapes it
thirsted
for.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Flushed and decided, he assaults at once;
Exploring
hands encounter no defence; 240
His vanity requires no response,
And makes a welcome of indifference.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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There, through the summer day
Cool streams are laving:
There, while the
tempests
sway,
Scarce are boughs waving;
There thy rest shalt thou take,
Parted for ever,
Never again to wake
Never, O never!
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Golden Treasury |
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Elle se repand dans ma vie
Comme un air
impregne
de sel,
Et dans mon ame inassouvie,
Verse le gout de l'eternel.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Keats |
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[Illustration]
There was an old man of Boulak,
Who sate on a Crocodile's back;
But they said, "Towr'ds the night he may
probably
bite,
Which might vex you, old man of Boulak!
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Lear - Nonsense |
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You doors and
ascending
steps!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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The raven, wolf, and eagle are the
regular epic
accompaniments
of battle and carnage.
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Beowulf |
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How seems it you, of Arrabits and Franks,
Shall we from hence
victorious
go back?
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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As you set it down it broke,--
Broke, but I did not wince;
I smiled at the speech you spoke,
At your
judgment
that I heard:
But I have not often smiled
Since then, nor questioned since,
Nor cared for corn-flowers wild,
Nor sung with the singing bird.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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Summer Sadness
The sun, on the sand, O
sleeping
wrestler,
Warms a languid bath in the gold of your hair,
Melting the incense on your hostile features,
Mixing an amorous liquid with the tears.
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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The house
trembles
and creaks.
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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Then thus
Telemachus
rebuked the deed.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Keats - Lamia |
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His "Satires," in
declamatory indignation, form a powerful
contrast
to the genial mockery
of Horace (p.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Howe'er, this care he thought was somewhat hard,
But not a thing
impossible
to guard;
And if he had not got a hundred eyes,
Thank heav'n, his wife, though cunning to devise,
He could defy:--her thoughts so well he knew,
That these intrigues she never would pursue.
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La Fontaine |
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|| _exspui_ scripsi: _expui tussim_ Scaliger:
_expulsus
sim_ ?
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Latin - Catullus |
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Explicit
Liber Primus
BOOK II.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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That chosen heroes consecrate,
Friends of the sons of every land,
Exist--that their
immortal
band
Shall surely, be it soon or late,
Pour on this orb a dazzling light
And bless mankind with full delight.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Mehus,
daughter
of Ninkasi, 144.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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This way my Lord, the Castles gently rendred:
The Tyrants people, on both sides do fight,
The Noble Thanes do brauely in the Warre,
The day almost it selfe
professes
yours,
And little is to do
Malc.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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For lapsed years and
infinite
age must else
Have eat all shapes of mortal stock away:
But be it the Long Ago contained those germs,
By which this sum of things recruited lives,
Those same infallibly can never die,
Nor nothing to nothing evermore return.
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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The
earthwork
is manned by
warriors clad in hides.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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As for me, I was
absorbed
in a deeply interesting occupation.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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I never take care, yet I've taken great pain
To acquire some goods, but have none by me:
Who's nice to me is one I hate: it's plain,
And who speaks truth deals with me most falsely:
He's my friend who can make me believe
A white swan is the
blackest
crow I've known:
Who thinks he's power to help me, does me harm:
Lies, truth, to me are all one under the sun:
I remember all, have the wisdom of a stone,
Welcomed gladly, and spurned by everyone.
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| Source: |
Villon |
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It is an honorable thought,
And makes one lift one's hat,
As one encountered gentlefolk
Upon a daily street,
That we've immortal place,
Though pyramids decay,
And kingdoms, like the orchard,
Flit
russetly
away.
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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LXV
Gualter del Hum he calls, that Count Rollanz;
"A thousand Franks take, out of France our land;
Dispose them so, among ravines and crags,
That the
Emperour
lose not a single man.
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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Circumstanced as I am, I could never have got a female partner for
life, who could have entered into my
favourite
studies, relished my
favourite authors, &c.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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And as Moses
Uplifted the serpent in the wilderness,
So must the Son of Man be lifted up;
That
whosoever
shall believe in Him
Shall perish not, but have eternal life.
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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Of these is one, a very
favourite
one, from his "Alfred:"
"Attach thee firmly to the virtuous deeds
And offices of life; to life itself,
With all its vain and transient joys, sit loose.
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Robert Forst |
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How could they find out in Lorenzo's eye
A
straying
from his toil?
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| Source: |
Keats |
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Es-tu le fruit d'automne aux saveurs
souveraines?
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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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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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Oh father and mother, if buds are nipped,
And
blossoms
blown away;
And if the tender plants are stripped
Of their joy in the springing day,
By sorrow and care's dismay, --
How shall the summer arise in joy,
Or the summer fruits appear?
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blake-poems |
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The foe himself recoiled aghast,
When,
striking
where he strongest lay,
We swooped his flanking batteries past,
And, braving full their murderous blast,
Stormed home the towers of Monterey.
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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This
reasoning
will tell thee why.
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Strike us they will with lances and with spears:
Battle with them we'll have,
prolonged
and keen;
Never has man beheld such armies meet.
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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Or haue we eaten on the insane Root,
That takes the Reason
Prisoner?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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could I thus my Laura's
presence
share,
How would my patient heart its sorrows bear!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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age caede terga cauda, tua uerbera patere,
face cuncta
mugienti
fremitu loca retonent,
rutilam ferox torosa ceruice quate iubam.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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He bids them all good day, as he thought, for
evermore
(ll.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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VI
As in her chariot the
Phrygian
goddess rode,
Crowned with high turrets, happy to have borne
Such quantity of gods, so her I mourn,
This ancient city, once whole worlds bestrode:
On whom, more than the Phrygian, was bestowed
A wealth of progeny, whose power at dawn
Was the world's power, her grandeur, now shorn,
Knowing no match to that which from her flowed.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Oh father and mother, if buds are nipped,
And blossoms blown away;
And if the tender plants are stripped
Of their joy in the
springing
day,
By sorrow and care's dismay, --
How shall the summer arise in joy,
Or the summer fruits appear?
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blake-poems |
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Lo, what huge heaps of
littleness
around!
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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--Plus belle que Venus se
dressant
sur le monde
Et versant les tresors de sa serenite
Et le rayonnement de sa jeunesse blonde
Sur le vieil Ocean de sa fille enchante;
Plus belle que Venus se dressant sur le monde!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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In 1594 Parsons' tract, _A Conference about the
next
Succession
to the Crown of England.
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John Donne |
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Lord of Argos,
hearken!
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Aeschylus |
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O lullaby, with your daughter, and the innocence
Of your cold feet, greet a terrible new being:
A voice where
harpsichords
and viols linger,
Will you press that breast, with your withered finger,
From which Woman flows in Sibylline whiteness to
Those lips starved by the air's virgin blue?
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Mallarme - Poems |
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She saw me not--she heard me not--alone _4225
Upon the mountain's dizzy brink she stood;
She spake not,
breathed
not, moved not--there was thrown
Over her look, the shadow of a mood
Which only clothes the heart in solitude,
A thought of voiceless depth;--she stood alone, _4230
Above, the Heavens were spread;--below, the flood
Was murmuring in its caves;--the wind had blown
Her hair apart, through which her eyes and forehead shone.
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Shelley |
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Verse-nous ton poison pour qu'il nous
reconforte!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Now to Alpheus he had driven all
The broad-foreheaded oxen of the Sun;
They came unwearied to the lofty stall
And to the water-troughs which ever run
Through the fresh fields--and when with rushgrass tall, _130
Lotus and all sweet herbage, every one
Had pastured been, the great God made them move
Towards the stall in a
collected
drove.
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Shelley |
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Halifax offered to
pay the expenses of his funeral and
contribute
five hundred pounds for a
monument, and Pope not unreasonably suggests that some of this bounty
might have been bestowed on Dryden in his lifetime.
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Alexander Pope |
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They're
contrary
brutes, and they do things without any reason.
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Kipling - Poems |
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THE SINGING LEAVES
A BALLAD
I
'What
fairings
will ye that I bring?
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Mine eyes that are weary of bliss
As of light that is
poignant
and strong
O silence my lips with a kiss,
My lips that are weary of song!
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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uellit nam saepius aurem
inuida
Paupertas
et dicit: 'ouilia cura!
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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thy prison is a holy place
And thy sad floor an altar, for 'twas trod
Until his very steps have left a trace
Worn as if thy cold
pavement
were a sod,
By Bonnivard!
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Golden Treasury |
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'
The weeping child could not be heard,
The weeping parents wept in vain:
They
stripped
him to his little shirt,
And bound him in an iron chain,
And burned him in a holy place
Where many had been burned before;
The weeping parents wept in vain.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Those
which were then
jestingly
called bean-poles are to-day far the most
beautiful objects noticeable in our streets.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Yea, have heart
To tear the darkness of sin apart;
And find, beyond, our
comforted
sight
Flash full of a glee of fiery light,--
The gods the heathen know through sin,
The gods who give them the world to win!
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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(2) The
introduction
of the _rhetor_ synchronizes with the transition
from the private patron to the patron-as-government-official.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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