Around both urns we piled a noble tomb,
(We warriors of the sacred Argive host)
On a tall promontory shooting far
Into the
spacious
Hellespont, that all
Who live, and who shall yet be born, may view
Thy record, even from the distant waves.
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" Shyly then she said--
"Our
neighbor
died last night; it must have been
When you were gone.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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As I have been all along a miserable dupe to love, and have
been led into a thousand weaknesses and follies by it, for that reason
I put the more
confidence
in my critical skill, in distinguishing
foppery and conceit from real passion and nature.
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Robert Forst |
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Discobbolos
said,
"Oh!
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Lear - Nonsense |
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The inmates of the
Pyramids
assume
The hue of Rhamesis, black with the gloom.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Had I but
pardoned
you--
RUY BLAS: I should have drunk the poison all the same.
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Keats |
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Andrew,
translated
from the
Old English, with an Introduction.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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In 1080 Sung Min-ch'iu
published
the works in thirty _chuan_, the form
in which they still exist.
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Li Po |
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O'Sullivan_
Noormahal
the Fair
The Djinns--_John L.
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Hugo - Poems |
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And the King bids me say, Rise from thy feast;
For thou must be to-night thyself a feast:
The vision of thy loveliness must now
Feed with
astonishment
my vassals' hearts.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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on
previendra
les reflux d'incendie,
Voila les quais!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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She was busy winding thread,
which a little, old, one-eyed man in an officer's uniform was holding on
his
outstretched
hands.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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er as
claterande
fro ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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The muses must not be offended when I tell them, the
concerns
of my
wife and family will, in my mind, always take the _pas_; but I assure
them their ladyships will ever come next in place.
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Robert Burns |
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Then might you see the wild things of the wood,
With Fauns in
sportive
frolic beat the time,
And stubborn oaks their branchy summits bow.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right
of
Replacement
or Refund" described in paragraph 1.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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100
And even if my pride could be
sweetened
more,
Would I choose Aricia as my conqueror?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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--Me voila libre et
solitaire!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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The son's
destruction
waits the mother's fame:
For, till she leaves thy court, it is decreed,
Thy bowl to empty and thy flock to bleed.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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and fatal to my friends
"Then first a fire we kindle, and prepare
For his return with
sacrifice
and prayer;
The loaden shelves afford us full repast;
We sit expecting.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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In every cry of every man,
In every infant's cry of fear,
In every voice, in every ban,
The mind-forged manacles I hear:
How the chimney-sweeper's cry
Every
blackening
church appals,
And the hapless soldier's sigh
Runs in blood down palace-walls.
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blake-poems |
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fyrndagum
(_in old
times_), 1452.
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Beowulf |
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And first,
One oft may see that objects which are light
And made of tiny bodies are the swift;
In which class is the sun's light and his heat,
Since made from small primordial elements
Which, as it were, are forward knocked along
And through the
interspaces
of the air
To pass delay not, urged by blows behind;
For light by light is instantly supplied
And gleam by following gleam is spurred and driven.
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Lucretius |
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' This account was in the best
Rowleian manner, with strange spelling and uncouth words, but for
the most part quite intelligible to the
ordinary
reader.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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As the revellers came back from
Viceregal
Lodge in the mists of the
evening, they met a temporarily insane woman, on a temporarily mad
horse, swinging round the corners, with her eyes and her mouth open, and
her head like the head of the Medusa.
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Kipling - Poems |
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The
art of war was too laborious for their delicacy, and the generous warmth
of heroism and
patriotism
was incompatible with their effeminacy.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Laughs at the holy
writings
and the text divine,
O'er which the humble dervish prays and venerates.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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" Shyly then she said--
"Our
neighbor
died last night; it must have been
When you were gone.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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XIX
TO AN ATHLETE DYING YOUNG
The time you won your town the race
We chaired you through the market-place;
Man and boy stood
cheering
by,
And home we brought you shoulder-high.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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For, after all the murders of your eye, 145
When, after millions slain, yourself shall die:
When those fair suns shall set, as set they must,
And all those tresses shall be laid in dust,
This Lock, the Muse shall consecrate to fame,
And 'midst the stars
inscribe
Belinda's name.
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Alexander Pope |
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hir derke hornes
approche?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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There
happiness
attends
With inbred joy until the heart oerflow,
Of which the world's rude friends,
Nought heeding, nothing know.
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John Clare |
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Winters that
withered
all the green
Have froze the beating heart.
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John Clare |
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We gallop along
Alert and penetrating,
Roads open about us,
Housetops
keep at a distance.
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Imagists |
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Unheeded Night has
overcome
the vales,
On the dark earth the baffl'd vision fails,
If peep between the clouds a star on high,
There turns for glad repose the weary eye;
The latest lingerer of the forest train,
The lone-black fir, forsakes the faded plain;
Last evening sight, the cottage smoke no more,
Lost in the deepen'd darkness, glimmers hoar;
High towering from the sullen dark-brown mere,
Like a black wall, the mountain steeps appear,
Thence red from different heights with restless gleam
Small cottage lights across the water stream,
Nought else of man or life remains behind
To call from other worlds the wilder'd mind,
Till pours the wakeful bird her solemn strains
[viii] Heard by the night-calm of the watry plains.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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THE LITTLE BLACK BOY
My mother bore me in the
southern
wild,
And I am black, but oh my soul is white!
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blake-poems |
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E io a lui: <
ti travio si fuor di Campaldino,
che non si seppe mai tua
sepultura?
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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It was playing in the great alley of poplars whose leaves, even in spring, seem
mournful
to me since Maria passed by them, on her last journey, lying among candles.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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440
What blazours then, what glorie shall he clayme,
What
doughtie
Homere shall hys praises synge,
That lefte the bosome of so fayre a dame
Uncall'd, unaskt, to serve his lorde the kynge?
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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XLV
So fiersly, when these knights had
breathed
once,
They gan to fight returne, increasing more
Their puissant force, and cruell rage attonce.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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We walked in so pure and bright a light, gilding the withered
grass and leaves, so softly and
serenely
bright, I thought I had never
bathed in such a golden flood, without a ripple or a murmur to it.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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registered
trademark.
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Sara Teasdale |
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FIGHTING
Last year we were
fighting
at the source of the San-kan;
This year we are fighting at the Onion River road.
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Li Po |
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And so many
children
poor?
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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(Indessen haben die jungen
Meerkatzchen
mit einer grossen Kugel gespielt und
rollen sie hervor.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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The Curve Of Your Eyes
The curve of your eyes embraces my heart
A ring of
sweetness
and dance
halo of time, sure nocturnal cradle,
And if I no longer know all I have lived through
It's that your eyes have not always been mine.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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And thus
Began the
loathing
of the acorn; thus
Abandoned were those beds with grasses strewn
And with the leaves beladen.
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Lucretius |
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The armed men more weighty were for that,
Many of them down to the bottom sank,
Downstream
the rest floated as they might hap;
So much water the luckiest of them drank,
That all were drowned, with marvellous keen pangs.
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Chanson de Roland |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Herman
received
it and at once left
the table.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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The sentries sheltered their
guilt under the general's disgrace, pretending that they had orders to
keep quiet and not disturb him: so they had dispensed with the
bugle-call and the
challenge
on rounds, and dropped off to sleep
themselves.
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Tacitus |
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Keats - Lamia |
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--I only
interposed
between my brother and his
impending fate by the loan of so much.
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Robert Burns |
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Note:
Bellerie
was situated on his family estate La Possonniere.
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Ronsard |
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Indulgence
bids the dropsy grow;
Who fain would quench the palate's flame
Must rescue from the watery foe
The pale weak frame.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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'Tis possible, besides,
That a big bulk of piled sand may bar
His mouths against his onward waves, when sea,
Wild in the winds, tumbles the sand to inland;
Whereby the river's outlet were less free,
Likewise less headlong his
descending
floods.
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Lucretius |
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A Fan
(Of Mademoiselle Mallarme's)
With nothing of
language
but
A beating in the sky
From so precious a place yet
Future verse will rise.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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But here, where murder
breathed
her bloody steam;
And here, where buzzing nations choked the ways,
And roared or murmured like a mountain-stream
Dashing or winding as its torrent strays;
Here, where the Roman million's blame or praise
Was death or life, the playthings of a crowd,
My voice sounds much--and fall the stars' faint rays
On the arena void--seats crushed, walls bowed,
And galleries, where my steps seem echoes strangely loud.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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_Lighten
my candle_, etc.
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Robert Herrick |
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In the meadow ground the frogs
With their
deafening
flutes begin,--
The old madness of the world 15
In their golden throats again.
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Sappho |
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--
I think it's
fiendish
to have killed so many.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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THE HUMAN ABSTRACT
Pity would be no more
If we did not make
somebody
poor,
And Mercy no more could be
If all were as happy as we.
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blake-poems |
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Her eye
proclaims
her of the Briton-Line:
Her lion-port, her awe-commanding face
Attemper'd sweet to virgin-grace.
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Golden Treasury |
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His last dread
pleasure!
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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den sollt Ihr noch
verlieren!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Has not the god of the green world, 5
In his large
tolerant
wisdom,
Filled with the ardours of earth
Her twenty summers?
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Sappho |
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Buckingham, "had no reference to your age
at the period of
interment
(I am willing to grant, in fact, that you are
still a young man), and my illusion was to the immensity of time during
which, by your own showing, you must have been done up in asphaltum.
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Poe - 5 |
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Quest' ultima gia mai non si cancella
se non servata; e intorno di lei
si preciso di sopra si favella:
pero
necessitato
fu a li Ebrei
pur l'offerere, ancor ch'alcuna offerta
si permutasse, come saver dei.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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The third most
glorious
of these majesties
Give aid, O sapphires of th' eternal see, And by your light illume pure verity.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Keats - Lamia |
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These Grendel-deeds
I heard in my home-land
heralded
clear.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Nancy,
presumably
Mrs.
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James Russell Lowell |
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The idea of Fate 'arose from the
observation
of the
regularity of the sidereal movements'.
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John Donne |
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For his Aunt Jobiska said, "No harm
Can come to his toes if his nose is warm;
And it's
perfectly
known that a Pobble's toes
Are safe--provided he minds his nose.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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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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| Source: |
Villon |
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Nothing - not even old gardens mirrored by eyes -
Can restrain this heart that drenches itself in the sea,
O nights, or the
abandoned
light of my lamp,
On the void of paper, that whiteness defends,
No, not even the young woman feeding her child.
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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FAUST:
Werd ich den Jammer
uberstehen!
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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I wat she was a sheep o' sense,
An' could behave hersel' wi' mense:
I'll say't, she never brak a fence,
Thro'
thievish
greed.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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zip *****
This and all
associated
files of various formats will be found in:
http://www.
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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'
_'Tresvolontiers;' _and he
proceeded
to his library, brought me a Dr.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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You know the
councils
of the ever-living,
And all the tossing of your wings is joy,
And all that murmuring's but a marriage song;
But if it be reproach, I answer this:
There is not one among you that made love
By any other means.
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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I love all that thou lovest,
Spirit of
Delight!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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My father could not believe it possible that I
should be mixed up in a
disgraceful
revolt, of which the object was the
downfall of the throne and the extermination of the race of "_boyars_.
| Guess: |
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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It is interesting also to compare Donne's series of
petitions
with
those in a Middle English Litany preserved in the Balliol Coll.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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I see his messengers
attending
thee.
| Guess: |
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In golden dreams the sage duennas slept;
A female
sentinel
to watch was kept.
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La Fontaine |
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This is the end of human beauty:
Shrivelled arms, hands warped like feet:
The
shoulders
hunched up utterly:
Breasts.
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Villon |
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I might not be so anguisshous,
That I mote glad and Ioly be,
Whan that I
remembre
me.
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No chapter met, howe'er, when morrow came;
Another day arrived, and still the same;
The sages of the convent thought it best,
In fact, to let the mystick
business
rest.
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La Fontaine |
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International donations are
gratefully
accepted, but we cannot make
any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from
outside the United States.
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Rilke - Poems |
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THUBASCUM, a town of
Mauritania
in Africa.
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Tacitus |
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AS I CAME DOWN IN THE HARBOR By Louis Ginsberg
As I came down in the harbor, I saw ships careening — Tall ships with taut sails, bulging slowly away;
As I came down in the harbor, like far
swallows
flying, Delicate were the sails I saw, poised faint and dim !
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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He joined the Fourth Crusade in 1203 and was present at the siege of
Constantinople
in 1204.
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Troubador Verse |
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Canst hear me through the water-bass,
Cry: "To the Shore,
Sweetheart?
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Sidney Lanier |
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I have
searched
all day for a grain of some sort, and
there is none to be found.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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The
helmsman
steerd, the ship mov'd on;
Yet never a breeze up-blew;
The Marineres all 'gan work the ropes,
Where they were wont to do:
They rais'd their limbs like lifeless tools--
We were a ghastly crew.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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