Thus, Woman, Principle of Life, Speaker of the Ideal
Would you see
The dark form of the sun
The contours of life
Or be truly dazzled
By the fire that fuses all
The flame conveyer of modesties
In flesh in gold that fine gesture
Error is as unknown
As the limits of spring
The temptation prodigious
All touches all travels you
At first it was only a thunder of incense
Which you love the more
The fine praise at four
Lovely motionless nude
Violin mute but palpable
I speak to you of seeing
I will speak to you of your eyes
Be faceless if you wish
Of their unwilling colour
Of luminous stones
Colourless
Before the man you conquer
His blind enthusiasm
Reigns naively like a spring
In the desert
Between the sands of night and the waves of day
Between earth and water
No ripple to erase
No road possible
Between your eyes and the images I see there
Is all of which I think
Myself inderacinable
Like a plant which masses itself
Which simulates rock among other rocks
That I carry for certain
You all entire
All that you gaze at
All
This is a boat
That sails a sweet river
It carries playful women
And patient grain
This is a horse descending the hill
Or perhaps a flame rising
A great barefooted laugh in a wretched heart
An autumn height of soothing verdure
A bird that persists in folding its wings in its nest
A morning that scatters the reddened light
To waken the fields
This is a parasol
And this the dress
Of a lace-maker more seductive than a bouquet
Of the bell-sounds of the rainbow
This thwarts immensity
This has never enough space
Welcome is always elsewhere
With the lightning and the flood
That accompany it
Of medusas and fires
Marvellously obliging
They destroy the scaffolding
Topped by a sad coloured flag
A bounded star
Whose fingers are paralysed
I speak of seeing you
I know you living
All exists all is visible
There is no fleck of night in your eyes
I see by a light
exclusively
yours.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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But whether or not the
Phrygian
Faun was
silent, I cannot be.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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'
"'Swear first (she cried), ye
sailors!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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*
Eternity groand & was troubled at the Image of Eternal Death
The Wandering Man bow'd his faint head and Urizen descended
And the one must have murderd the other if he had not descended *
Indignant muttering low thunders; Urizen descended
Gloomy sounding, Now I am God from
Eternity
to Eternity
Sullen sat Los plotting Revenge.
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Blake - Zoas |
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----'Tis true
Your fathers were mine enemies, as bitter
As their son e'er can be, and I no less
Was theirs; but I was _openly_ their foe: 230
I never worked by plot in Council, nor
Cabal in commonwealth, nor secret means
Of
practice
against life by steel or drug.
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Byron |
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O, nymph divine
Of virgin springs, with
sunniest
flowers
A chaplet for my Lamia twine,
Pimplea sweet!
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the
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and reported to you within 90 days
of receipt of the work.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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In the course of the evening, you find chance for certain
Soft
speeches
to Anne, in the shade of the curtain:
You tell her your heart can be likened to _one_ flower,
'And that, O most charming of women, 's the sunflower,
Which turns'--here a clear nasal voice, to your terror, 270
From outside the curtain, says, 'That's all an error.
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James Russell Lowell |
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You who consoled me in funereal night,
Bring me Posilipo, the sea of Italy,
The flower that pleased my
grieving
heart,
And the trellis where the vine entwines the rose.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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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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II
When I was in a
northern
town awhile ago I had a long talk with a man
who had lived in a neighbouring country district when he was a boy.
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Yeats |
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But, however
some Portuguese or other
governors
may stand accused, much was left for
the humanity of the more exalted policy of an Albuquerque, or a Castro.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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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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Sara Teasdale |
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"
II
--"O not at being here;
But that our future second death is drear;
When, with the living, memory of us numbs,
And blank
oblivion
comes!
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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"
That
mendacious
Old Person of Gretna.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Immediately in close cabal they join,
And all applaud the
glorious
design.
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Marvell - Poems |
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For I will tell thee;
therefore
mark.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Some do but scratch us:
Slow and
insidious
these poison our hearts over years.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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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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Keats - Lamia |
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And it grew both day and night,
Till it bore an apple bright,
And my foe beheld it shine,
And he knew that it was mine,--
And into my garden stole
When the night had veiled the pole;
In the morning, glad, I see
My foe
outstretched
beneath the tree.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Our
operations
were now
directed against the great toe of the right foot.
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Poe - 5 |
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THE MIRRHE, the Arabian myrtle, which exudes a bitter but
fragrant
gum.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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That were not fruitless: but the Soul resents
Such short-lived service, as if blind events
Ruled without her, or earth could so endure; 300
She claims a more divine investiture
Of longer tenure than Fame's airy rents;
Whate'er she touches doth her nature share;
Her
inspiration
haunts the ennobled air,
Gives eyes to mountains blind,
Ears to the deaf earth, voices to the wind,
And her clear trump slugs succor everywhere
By lonely bivouacs to the wakeful mind;
For soul inherits all that soul could dare:
Yea, Manhood hath a wider span 310
And larger privilege of life than man.
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James Russell Lowell |
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To break their long sleeping
No voice may avail:
They hear not our weeping--
Our
famished
love's wail.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Half their
strength
has been wasted in
friction.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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here is the coming autumn, though it also
suggests
the violence of the times.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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From the Ruler-of-Man no wrath shall seize me,
when life from my frame must flee away,
for killing of
kinsmen!
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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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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In sooth, 'twere sad to thwart their noble aim
Who strike, blest
hirelings!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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My reader noble,
Are all your
relatives
quite well?
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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She crossed the Forum shining with stalls in alleys gay,
And just had reached the very spot whereon I stand this day,
When up the varlet Marcus came; not such as when erewhile
He crouched behind his patron's heels with the true client smile:
He came with
lowering
forehead, swollen features, and clenched
fist,
And strode across Virginia's path, and caught her by the wrist.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Think you the wrist that fashioned you in clay,
The thumb that set the hollow just that way
In your full throat and lidded the long eye
So roundly from the forehead, will let lie
Broken, forgotten, under foot some day
Your unimpeachable body, and so slay
The work he most had been
remembered
by?
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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On Zutphen's plain; or where, with soften'd gaze,
The old grey stones the plaided chief surveys;
Can guess the high resolve, the
cherished
pain
Of him whom passion rivets to the plain, 1820.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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The Foundation's
principal
office is located at 4557 Melan Dr.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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]]
[Sidenote:
Pleasure
leaves a pain behind it.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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I
wondered
at you.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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I never saw a man who looked
With such a wistful eye
Upon that little tent of blue
Which
prisoners
call the sky,
And at every drifting cloud that went
With sails of silver by.
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Wilde - Poems |
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The rich will feast on
Christmas
Day;
The poor will fast on Christmas Day.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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They burn with an unquenched and smothered fire
Consumed by longings over which they brood,
Oblivious
of time, without desire,
Alone and lost in their great solitude.
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Rilke - Poems |
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a-cower in coverts dark,
'Gainst proud supplanting Summer sing thy plea,
And move the mighty woods through mailed bark
Till mortal heart-break
throbbed
in every tree; --
Or (grievous `if' that may be `yea' o'er-soon!
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Sidney Lanier |
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One of us, pierced in the flank,
dragged himself across the marsh,
he tore at the bay-roots,
lost hold on the
crumbling
bank--
Another crawled--too late--
for shelter under the cliffs.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Nearly all the
individual
works in the
collection are in the public domain in the United States.
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Keats - Lamia |
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So grievous is the spell, the trance so deep,
Loud though we call, my hope is faint that e'er
She yet will waken from her heavy sleep:
But not, methinks, without some better end
Was this our Rome
entrusted
to thy care,
Who surest may revive and best defend.
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Petrarch |
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Then, bathed and fresh attired,
Penelope
ascended with her train
The upper palace, and a basket stored
With hallow'd cakes off'ring, to Pallas pray'd.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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[Illustration]
There was an Old Man of the Hague,
Whose ideas were
excessively
vague;
He built a balloon to examine the moon,
That deluded Old Man of the Hague.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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So him and Tom they hitched up the mules,
Pertestin' that folks was mighty big fools
That 'ud stay in Georgy ther
lifetime
out,
Jest scratchin' a livin' when all of 'em mought
Git places in Texas whar cotton would sprout
By the time you could plant it in the land.
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Sidney Lanier |
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are my Emanations Enion [Come Forth,] O Enion
We are become a Victim to the Living We hide in secret*
I have hidden thee Enion, in Jealous Despair Jerusalem in Silent Contrition O Pity Me
I will build thee a Labyrinth also O pity me O Enionwhere we may remain for ever alone
Why hast thou taken sweet Jerusalem from my inmost Soul
Let her Lay secret in the Soft recess of
darkness
& silence
It is not Love I bear to Enitharmon [Jerusalem?
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Blake - Zoas |
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Unauthenticated Download Date | 10/1/17 7:36 AM A
Companion
Piece For Drafter Jia Zhi?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Revivd her Soul with lives of beasts & birds
Slain on the Altar up ascending into her cloudy bosom
Of terrible
workmanship
the Altar labour of ten thousand Slaves
One thousand Men of wondrous power spent their lives in its formation
It stood on twelve steps namd after the names of her twelve sons
And was Erected at the chief entrance of Urizens hall
When Urizen descended returnd from his immense labours & travels
Descending She reposd beside him folding him around
In her bright skirts.
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Blake - Zoas |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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How long, O Lord, how long in my
desperate
pain
Shall I weep and watch, shall I weep and long for Thee?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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If thou lovest me then,
Steal forth thy father's house to-morrow night;
And in the wood, a league without the town,
Where I did meet thee once with Helena
To do
observance
to a morn of May,
There will I stay for thee.
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Shakespeare |
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Eftsoones
he perced through his chaufed chest 375
With thrilling point of deadly yron brand,
And launcht his Lordly hart: with death opprest
He roar'd aloud, whiles life forsooke his stubborne brest.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Note: The ballade was written for Robert to present to his wife
Ambroise
de Lore, as though composed by him.
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Villon |
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Seals in all periods
frequently
represent Enkidu in combat
with a lion.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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[Within] A pox o' your
throats!
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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E'en chilly Albion admires,
The grand example Europe fires;
America shall clap her hands,
When swiftly o'er the
Atlantic
wave,
Fame sounds the news of how the brave,
In three bright days, have burst their bands!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Jonathan
Cape, Chatto and Windus, R.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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" KAU}
His billows roll where monsters wander in the foamy paths
On clouds the Sons of Urizen beheld Heaven walled round {Irretrievable word
following
"beheld.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Max Ernst
In one corner agile incest
Turns round the
virginity
of a little dress
In one corner sky released
leaves balls of white on the spines of storm.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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This is the day, when from the dead
Our Lord arose; and everywhere,
Out of their
darkness
and despair,
Triumphant over fears and foes,
The hearts of his disciples rose,
When to the women, standing near,
The Angel in shining vesture said,
"The Lord is risen; he is not here!
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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What, are your hands still
nerveless?
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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_--Confucius
inculcated
the duty of public service.
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Thus lies the sea-shell
Under the rustling
twilight
of the sea;
No gods remember it, no understanding
Cleaves the long darkness with a sword of light.
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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It is perhaps the only translation
of the _Odes_ which retains what Dryden calls their 'noble and bold
purity' and at the same time keeps the friendly and
familiar
strokes of
style which lighten Horace's graver moods.
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Tu contiens, mer d'ebene, un eblouissant reve
De voiles, de rameurs, de flammes et de mats:
Un port
retentissant
ou mon ame peut boire
A grands flots le parfum, le son et la couleur;
Ou les vaisseaux, glissant dans l'or et dans la moire,
Ouvrent leurs vastes bras pour embrasser la gloire
D'un ciel pur ou fremit l'eternelle chaleur.
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Where chiefly shall I look
To feel thy
presence
near?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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He has outsoared the envy of gods and men,
False fortune and the dark and
treacherous
way,
--Scatheless: he never lived to pray for death,
Nor sinned--to fear her, nor deserved to die.
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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That thou mayst mark more clearly what I trace,
My hand shall stretch forth to inform the lines
With
livelier
colouring.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Can the spice-rose
drip such acrid fragrance
hardened
in a leaf?
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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the lotus-buds upon the stream
Are
stirring
like sweet maidens when they dream.
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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"
"What will all the
courtiers
say
When in the place of her they find two men?
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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Thou giv'st the word: Thy creature, man,
Is to
existence
brought;
Again thou say'st, "Ye sons of men,
Return ye into nought!
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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It exists
because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and
donations
from
people in all walks of life.
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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and they meant the word,
Not as with us 'tis heard,
Not a mere party shout:
They gave their spirits out;
Trusted the end to God,
And on the gory sod
Rolled in
triumphant
blood.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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We would prefer to send you this
information
by email.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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620
Lat not this
wrecched
wo thin herte gnawe,
But manly set the world on sixe and sevene;
And, if thou deye a martir, go to hevene.
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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And with the gipsies there will be a king
And a thousand
desperadoes
just his style,
With all their rags dyed in the blood of roses,
Splashed with the blood of angels, and of demons.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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Guerrier of Paris has
exploded
a darling superstition about De Quincey's
opium-eating.
| Guess: |
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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And Old Brown,
Osawatomie
Brown,
May trouble you more than ever, when you've nailed his coffin
down!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Therefore he
dissolved
himself like a mist and returned to his
gas-plugs without a word of apology.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Elle saigna du nez,
Et se sentant bien chaste et pleine de faiblesse,
Pour
savourer
en Dieu son amour revenant,
Elle eut soif de la nuit ou s'exalte et s'abaisse
Le coeur, sous l'oeil des cieux doux, en les devinant;
De la nuit, Vierge-Mere impalpable qui baigne
Tous les jeunes emois de ses silences gris;
Elle eut soif de la nuit forte ou le coeur qui saigne
Ecoute sans temoin sa revolte sans cris.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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But the dead branch spoke from the sod,
And the eggs answered me again: 20
Because we failed dost thou
complain?
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Christina Rossetti |
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Yet still her heart, which
torments
tear,
Guards fondly hope's uncertain dream.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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And now I go--as others already
crucified
have gone.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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'And we are put on earth a little space,
That we may learn to bear the beams of love;
And these black bodies and this
sunburnt
face
Are but a cloud, and like a shady grove.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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We do not solicit
donations
in locations
where we have not received written confirmation of compliance.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Of sackcloth was thy wedding garment made:
Thy bridal's fruit is ashes; in the dust
The fair-haired Daughter of the Isles is laid,
The love of
millions!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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In the Greek poets, as also in Plautus, we shall see the
economy and
disposition
of poems better observed than in Terence; and the
latter, who thought the sole grace and virtue of their fable the sticking
in of sentences, as ours do the forcing in of jests.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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They who are at work abroad are not cold,
but rather it is they who sit
shivering
in houses.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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His shrapnel helmet set atilt,
His bombing
waistcoat
sagging low,
His rifle slung across his back:
Poised in the very act to throw.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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The variation in printed characters between the dominant motif, a secondary one and those adjacent, marks its importance for oral
utterance
and the scale, mid-way, at top or bottom of the page will show how the intonation rises or falls.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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To Gammer Gurton if it give the bays,
And yet deny the
careless
husband praise.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Difficult
is it, alas, to conceal the shame of a monarch;
Hide it can neither his crown, nor a tight Phrygian cap:
Midas has asses ears!
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Blessed are you whose
worthiness
gives scope,
Being had, to triumph; being lacked, to hope.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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- What have you done, O you there
Who
endlessly
cry,
Say: what have you done, there
With youth gone by?
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19th Century French Poetry |
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And, with nor pretext nor occasion,
Its wooing redoubles;
And pounds the ground, and bubbles
In
sputtering
spray,
Flinging itself in a fury
Of flashing white away;
Till the dusty road,
Dank-perfumed, is o'erflowed;
And the grass, and the wide-hung trees,
The vines, the flowers in their beds,--
The virid corn that to the breeze
Rustles along the garden-rows,--
Visibly lift their heads,
And, as the quick shower wilder grows,
Upleap with answering kisses to the rain.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Another feature is the
excessive
use of historical allusions.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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"Project Gutenberg" is a
registered
trademark.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Toward God a mighty hymn,
A song of collisions and cries,
Rumbling
wheels, hoof-beats, bells,
Welcomes, farewells, love-calls, final moans,
Voices of joy, idiocy, warning, despair,
The unknown appeals of brutes,
The chanting of flowers,
The screams of cut trees,
The senseless babble of hens and wise men--
A cluttered incoherency that says at the
stars;
"O God, save us!
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Stephen Crane |
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