Why could it not have been some
one less
important
to him?
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Shuttleworthy had
a sad habit of swearing, although he seldom went beyond "Od rot me," or
"By gosh," or "By the jolly golly,")--"Od rot me," says he, "if I don't
send an order to town this very
afternoon
for a double box of the best
that can be got, and I'll make ye a present of it, I will!
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Poe - 5 |
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Let no man in this cause consider Drusus's
tears; let none regard my sorrow, no more than the probable
fictions
of
calumny against us.
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Tacitus |
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Softened by Time's consummate plush,
How sleek the woe appears
That threatened childhood's citadel
And
undermined
the years!
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II
No wind fanned the flats of the ocean,
Or promontory sides,
Or the ooze by the strand,
Or the bent-bearded slope of the land,
Whose base took its rest amid
everlong
motion
Of criss-crossing tides.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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The brown waves of fog toss up to me
Twisted faces from the bottom of the street,
And tear from a passer-by with muddy skirts
An aimless smile that hovers in the air
And
vanishes
along the level of the roofs.
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T.S. Eliot |
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And first the
serpents twine in their double embrace his two little children, and bite
deep in their wretched limbs; then him likewise, as he comes up to help
with arms in his hand, they seize and fasten in their
enormous
coils;
and now twice clasping his waist, twice encircling his neck with their
scaly bodies, they tower head and neck above him.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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What wonder if those palms were all too hard
For nice distinctions,--if that maenad throng--
They whose thick atmosphere no bard
Had shivered with the lightning of his song,
Brutes with the memories and desires of men,
Whose chronicles were writ with iron pen,
In the crooked shoulder and the forehead low,
Set wrong to balance wrong, 20
And
physicked
woe with woe?
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James Russell Lowell |
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The creatures
chuckled
on the roofs
And whistled in the air,
And shook their fists and gnashed their teeth.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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"
CORYDON
"This bristling boar's head, Delian Maid, to thee,
With branching antlers of a
sprightly
stag,
Young Micon offers: if his luck but hold,
Full-length in polished marble, ankle-bound
With purple buskin, shall thy statue stand.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Summoning
spirits isn't "Button, button,
Who's got the button?
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Our Saviour meek and with untroubl'd mind
After his aerie jaunt, though hurried sore,
Hungry and cold betook him to his rest,
Wherever, under some concourse of shades
Whose branching arms thick intertwind might shield
From dews and damps of night his shelter'd head,
But shelter'd slept in vain, for at his head
The Tempter watch'd, and soon with ugly dreams
Disturb'd his sleep; and either Tropic now
'Gan thunder, and both ends of Heav'n, the Clouds 410
From many a horrid rift abortive pour'd
Fierce rain with lightning mixt, water with fire
In ruine reconcil'd: nor slept the winds
Within thir stony caves, but rush'd abroad
From the four hinges of the world, and fell
On the vext Wilderness, whose tallest Pines,
Though rooted deep as high, and sturdiest Oaks
Bow'd thir Stiff necks, loaden with stormy blasts,
Or torn up sheer: ill wast thou shrouded then,
O patient Son of God, yet only stoodst 420
Unshaken; nor yet staid the terror there,
Infernal
Ghosts, and Hellish Furies, round
Environ'd thee, some howl'd, some yell'd, some shriek'd,
Some bent at thee thir fiery darts, while thou
Sat'st unappall'd in calm and sinless peace.
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Milton |
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Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied
warranties or the
exclusion
or limitation of certain types of damages.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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1630 || _ex
Hiberis_
ed.
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Latin - Catullus |
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The
pedigree
of honey
Does not concern the bee;
A clover, any time, to him
Is aristocracy.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Whanne this was doon, this Pandare up a-noon,
To telle in short, and forth gan for to wende
To Troilus, as stille as any stoon;
And al this thing he tolde him, word and ende; 1495
And how that he
Deiphebus
gan to blende;
And seyde him, `Now is tyme, if that thou conne,
To bere thee wel to-morwe, and al is wonne.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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*
This world is [Mine] Thine in which thou dwellest that within thy soul*
That dark & dismal infinite where Thought roams up & down
Is [thine] Mine & there thou goest when with one Sting of my tongue
Envenomd thou rollst inwards to the place [of death & hell where] whence I emergd
She trembling answerd Wherefore was I born & what am I
[A sorrow & a fear a living torment & naked Victim]
I thought to weave a Covering [from his] for my Sins from wrath of Tharmas*
{This entire paragraph, internally revised, is marked for deleting, evidently, by two
diagonal
strike out lines.
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Blake - Zoas |
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"
As more and more toward us came, more bright
Appear'd the bird of God, nor could the eye
Endure his
splendor
near: I mine bent down.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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xv:
_europe_
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Latin - Catullus |
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Lucretius |
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here the forest ledge slopes--
rain has
furrowed
the roots.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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The thick
darkness
carries with it
Rain and a ravel of cloud.
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Imagists |
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Houghton
Mifflin Company, Boston, 1914.
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Imagists |
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er
In
pilerinage
fer & ner
wi?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Up, gird thee now to the steep Isthmian way,
Seeking Athena's blessed rock; one day,
Thy doom of blood
fulfilled
and this long stress
Of penance past, thou shalt have happiness.
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Euripides - Electra |
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By Indus' banks the holy prophet trod,
And Ganges heard him preach the Saviour-God;
Where pale disease erewhile the cheek consum'd,
Health, at his word, in ruddy fragrance bloom'd;
The grave's dark womb his awful voice obey'd,
And to the cheerful day restor'd the dead;
By
heavenly
power he rear'd the sacred shrine,
And gain'd the nations by his life divine.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Which through his surging breast do roar ;
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No day he saw but that which breaks
Through frighted clouds in forked streaks,
While round the
rattling
thunder hurled,
As at the funeral of the world.
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Marvell - Poems |
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[_Some
garlands
are brought out from the house to_ ELECTRA.
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Euripides - Electra |
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How else dispose of an
immortal
force
No longer needed?
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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TO HIS KINSWOMAN,
MISTRESS
SUSANNA HERRICK.
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Robert Herrick |
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And though respect be a part following this, yet now here,
and still I must
remember
it, if you write to a man, whose estate and
sense, as senses, you are familiar with, you may the bolder (to set a
task to his brain) venture on a knot.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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On this subject we had long and animated discussions--he
maintaining the utter groundlessness of faith in such matters,--I
contending that a popular sentiment arising with absolute spontaneity-
that is to say, without apparent traces of suggestion--had in itself the
unmistakable elements of truth, and was
entitled
to as much respect
as that intuition which is the idiosyncrasy of the individual man of
genius.
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Poe - 5 |
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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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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Sir Thomas Lovell, had the Cardinal
But half my lay
thoughts
in him, some of these
Should find a running banquet ere they rested
I think would better please 'em.
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Shakespeare |
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In his arms he bore
Her, armed with sorrow sore;
Till before their way
A
couching
lion lay.
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blake-poems |
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And as she sleep, anoon-right tho hir mette, 925
How that an egle,
fethered
whyt as boon,
Under hir brest his longe clawes sette,
And out hir herte he rente, and that a-noon,
And dide his herte in-to hir brest to goon,
Of which she nought agroos, ne no-thing smerte, 930
And forth he fleigh, with herte left for herte.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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A most
courteous
exposition.
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Shakespeare |
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The gander with his scarlet nose
When strife's at height will interpose;
And,
stretching
neck to that and this,
With now a mutter, now a hiss,
A nibble at the feathers too,
A sort of "pray be quiet do,"
And turning as the matter mends,
He stills them into mutual friends;
Then in a sort of triumph sings
And throws the water oer his wings.
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John Clare |
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The harmless rabbit gambols with its young
Across the trampled towing-path, where late
A troop of
laughing
boys in jostling throng
Cheered with their noisy cries the racing eight;
The gossamer, with ravelled silver threads,
Works at its little loom, and from the dusky red-eaved sheds
Of the lone Farm a flickering light shines out
Where the swinked shepherd drives his bleating flock
Back to their wattled sheep-cotes, a faint shout
Comes from some Oxford boat at Sandford lock,
And starts the moor-hen from the sedgy rill,
And the dim lengthening shadows flit like swallows up the hill.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Furnivall
in the notes to this
passage, pp.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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:
"We cannot argue _from the reason of the thing_ that death is the
destruction
of living agents because we know not at all what death is
in itself, but only some of its effects".
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Tennyson |
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And I, beholding how my consort stood
Beside my tomb, was moved with awe, and took
The gift of her
libation
graciously.
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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The many heard, and the loud revelry
Grew hush; the stately music no more breathes;
The myrtle sicken'd in a
thousand
wreaths.
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Keats - Lamia |
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could renew againe,
Of endlesse life he might him not deprive, 355
But unto hell did thrust him downe alive,
With flashing
thunderbolt
ywounded sore:
Where long remaining, he did alwaies strive
Himselfe with salves to health for to restore,
And slake the heavenly fire, that raged evermore.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Covetous
Babylon of wrath divine
By its worst crimes has drain'd the full cup now,
And for its future Gods to whom to bow
Not Pow'r nor Wisdom ta'en, but Love and Wine.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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omnium
antiquissima
_face furor animum
||_ an scribendum erat _ferocem feriat furor animum_?
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Latin - Catullus |
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The
unfeeling
heart can't know a pain so sweet:
Love reigns on earth above, not beneath our feet.
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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WHOis she coming, that the roses bend
Their
shameless
heads to do her honour ?
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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are,
he fond him redi
sittinge
?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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]
35 (return)
[ Mines both of gold and silver have since been
discovered
in Germany; the former, indeed, inconsiderable; but the latter, valuable.
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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Mes songes viennent en foule
Pour se desalterer a ces
gouffres
amers.
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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By it there stood the stoups and jars;
dishes lay there, and dear-decked swords
eaten with rust, as, on earth's lap resting,
a
thousand
winters they waited there.
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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All ye who honour love in poet strain,
To the good
minstrel
of the amorous lay
Return due praise, though once he went astray;
For greater glory is, in Heaven's blest reign,
Over one sinner saved, and higher praise,
Than e'en for ninety-nine of perfect ways.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Unto a heart filled with funereal things
That since old days hoar frosts have gathered on,
Naught is more sweet, O pallid, queenly springs,
Than the long pageant of your shadows wan,
Unless it be on
moonless
eves to weep
On some chance bed and rock our griefs to sleep.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Why, all the Saints and Sages who discuss'd
Of the Two Worlds so learnedly, are thrust
Like foolish
Prophets
forth; their Words to Scorn
Are scatter'd, and their Mouths are stopt with Dust.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Anecdotes of air in dungeons
Have
sometimes
proved deadly sweet!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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40
Thou arte all Norman,
nothynge
of mie blodde.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Oft as her angel face compassion wore,
With tears whose eloquence scarce fails to move,
With bland and courteous speech, I boldly strove
To soothe my foe, and in meek guise implore:
But soon her eyes inspire vain hopes no more;
For all my fortune, all my fate in love,
My life, my death, the good, the ills I prove,
To her are trusted by one
sovereign
power.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Si te fais aussi
requeste
70
Que ta pitie nu me veste,
Car je n'ay nulle autre rente.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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But Doris, towelled from the bath,
Enters padding on broad feet,
Bringing
sal volatile
And a glass of brandy neat.
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T.S. Eliot |
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YOUTH AND AGE
Verse, a breeze mid
blossoms
straying,
Where Hope clung feeding, like a bee--
Both were mine!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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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.
| Guess: |
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Wilde - Poems |
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FLINT
Trees 53
Lunch 55
Malady 56
Accident 58
Fragment
60
Houses 62
Eau-Forte 63
D.
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Imagists |
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Struggling in my father's hands,
Striving
against my swaddling-bands,
Bound and weary, I thought best
To sulk upon my mother's breast.
| Guess: |
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blake-poems |
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Nor over-marvellous must this be deemed
In these affairs that, though the films which strike
Upon the eyes cannot be singly seen,
The things
themselves
may be perceived.
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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Lovely And Lifelike
A face at the end of the day
A cradle in day's dead leaves
A bouquet of naked rain
Every ray of sun hidden
Every fount of founts in the depths of the water
Every mirror of mirrors broken
A face in the scales of silence
A pebble among other pebbles
For the leaves last
glimmers
of day
A face like all the forgotten faces.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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i
dyuynynge
of Tiresie ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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Here, shelter'd by a
friendly
tree,
In Teian measures you shall sing
Bright Circe and Penelope,
Love-smitten both by one sharp sting.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Or he, who bids thee face with steady view }
Proud fortune, and look shallow
greatness
through: }
And, while he bids thee, sets th' example too?
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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CHORUS
What cure couldst thou
discover
for this curse?
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Aeschylus |
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With Omar we see
something
more is
signified; the precious Liquor is not lost, but sinks into the ground
to refresh the dust of some poor Wine-worshipper foregone.
| Guess: |
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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And now I feel a long-unwonted yearning
For that calm, pensive spirit-realm, to-day;
Like an Aeolian lyre, (the breeze returning,)
Floats in
uncertain
tones my lisping lay;
Strange awe comes o'er me, tear on tear falls burning,
The rigid heart to milder mood gives way!
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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What strange guests has
Minnehaha?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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And every day for seven moons I
proclaimed
my Joy from the
house-top--and yet no one heeded me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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The Tibetan Goat
Hilly
Landscape
with Two Goats
'Hilly Landscape with Two Goats'
Reinier van Persijn, Jacob Gerritsz Cuyp, Nicolaes Visscher (I), 1641, The Rijksmuseun
The fleece of this goat and even
That gold one which cost such pain
To Jason's not worth a sou towards
The tresses with which I'm taken.
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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He spake of plants that hourly change
Their blossoms, through a
boundless
range
Of intermingling hues;
With budding, fading, faded flowers,
They stand the wonder of the bowers
From morn to evening dews,
He told of the Magnolia, spread
High as a cloud, high over head!
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Golden Treasury |
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1407 The British Library
This personal
selection
of Occitan poetry is of verse that I feel has true poetic merit, and nothing is included solely for its historic interest.
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Troubador Verse |
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impair the memory of that hour
Of thy
communion
with my nobler mind
By pity or grief, already felt too long!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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All causes sure concur, but most they think
Under
Herculean
labours he may sink.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Sure, sure, if
stedfast
meaning,
If single thought could save,
The world might end to-morrow,
You should not see the grave.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Then would we muse as in a trance,
Impressionable for an hour,
And breathe the balmy breath of night;
And like the prisoner's our delight
Who for the
greenwood
quits his tower,
As on the rapid wings of thought
The early days of life we sought.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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But surely, after the savage state has ceased, and men have set
out in the
glorious
career of discovery and invention, monopoly and
oppression cannot be necessary to prevent them from returning to a state
of barbarism.
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Shelley |
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His "Fair Ines" had always
for me an
inexpressible
charm:--
O saw ye not fair Ines?
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Poe - 5 |
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tenens in ore_ Birt
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_proicies_
CVen et cod.
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Latin - Catullus |
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A body that could never rest,
Since this ill spirit it
possessed
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Marvell - Poems |
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No, no, no, a
thousand
times no!
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Then Joss more homage sought to bring;
"If I were angel under heav'n," said he,
"Or girl or demon, I would seek to be
By you
instructed
in all art and grace,
And as in school but take a scholar's place.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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'
She paused, and added with a
haughtier
smile
'And as to precontracts, we move, my friend,
At no man's beck, but know ourself and thee,
O Vashti, noble Vashti!
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Tennyson |
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20
LII
Lo, on the distance a dark blue ravine,
A fold in the
mountainous
forests of fir,
Cleft from the sky-line sheer down to the shore!
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Sappho |
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Why wiltow me fro Ioye thus
depryve?
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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But into France demands he my departure;
He'll follow me to Aix, where is my Castle;
There he'll receive the law of our Salvation:
Christian
he'll be, and hold from me his marches.
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Chanson de Roland |
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--my thoughts do twine and bud
About thee, as wild vines, about a tree,
Put out broad leaves, and soon there's nought to see
Except the
straggling
green which hides the wood.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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The first edition of the poems was in ten _chuan_, and was
published
by
Li Yang-ping in the year of the poet's death.
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Li Po |
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Note: Russian proper names to be pronounced as in French (the nasal
sound of m and n
excepted)
in the following translation.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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To think thus, to feel thus much, and then to cease
thinking
and
feeling when a certain star rises above yonder horizon.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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And the brave city 10
With its
enchantment?
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Sappho |
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--"O maiden lithe and lone, what may
Thy name and lineage be,
Who so
resemblest
by this ray
My darling?
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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MAY DAY
THE shining line of motors,
The swaying motor-bus,
The
prancing
dancing horses
Are passing by for us.
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Sara Teasdale |
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