charming fair, said he, be not distressed;
No savage of the woods nor giant 's nigh,
A wand'ring knight alone you now descry,
Delighted thus to meet a
beauteous
belle
Such charms divine, what angel can excel!
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La Fontaine |
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Nicolas)
in order to excite himself to that
pitch of Devotion which others reached by cries and "hurlemens.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Li Po |
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Meredith - Poems |
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Women played a
commanding
role in his life.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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I am
eternally
young, and as teacher I still love the young ones.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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In
action the principal amusement of the scene (exclusive of the admirable
burlesque of witchery in the conclusion) was
probably
derived from the
mortification of poor Pug, whose stupid stare of amazement at finding
himself made an _ass_ of on every possible occasion must, if portrayed
as some then on the stage were well able to portray it, have been
exquisitely comic.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Something
o' that, I said.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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My wars, the copious theme of every tongue,
To you your fathers have
recorded
long.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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_aspen-malady_,
trembling
like the leaves of the aspen-poplar.
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Keats |
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Signor Lazzarino suggests that the name Gisello, or
Girello, which has been
substituted
for that of Israel Bertuccio, is a
corruption of Isarello.
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Byron |
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Up to the time of
discovery
Rush is popular
and successful.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Overcome by their feelings, the four little travellers
instantly
jumped
into the tea-kettle, and fell fast asleep.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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And thou, King, for the rest
Of time, be true; be
righteous
to thy guest,
As he would have thee be.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Militant
England (Prince Arthur) is assisted
by the clergy (Squire) with his horn (Bible) and is guided by Truth and
Common Sense (Dwarf).
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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And, by the Lord,
Katrina!
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Balefire
devoured,
greediest spirit, those spared not by war
out of either folk: their flower was gone.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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For when the
favouring
shades of night arise,
And peaceful slumbers close my mother's eyes,
Me from our coast shall spreading sails convey,
To seek Ulysses through the watery way.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Spenser borrows the story in this stanza from that of Tages, son of Earth,
who was
similarly
found and brought up.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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You're as white as I turned once down by the mill,
When one told me you and ship and crew were lost:
Philip my playfellow, when we were boy and girl
(It was the Miller's Nancy told it to me),
Philip with the merry life in lip and curl,
Philip my
playfellow
drowned in the sea!
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Christina Rossetti |
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This Tyrant, whose sole name
blisters
our tongues,
Was once thought honest: you haue lou'd him well,
He hath not touch'd you yet.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Rude is the tent this
architect
invents,
Rural the place, with cart ruts by dyke side.
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John Clare |
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And where the light fully
expresses
all its colour.
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Appoloinaire |
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Chimene
Still you speak, what more,
Vile
murderer
of that hero I adore!
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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XXIII
The lads in their
hundreds
to Ludlow come in for the fair,
There's men from the barn and the forge and the mill and the fold,
The lads for the girls and the lads for the liquor are there,
And there with the rest are the lads that will never be old.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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A wyfe he had, she hyght a gales,
An holey woman
withowten
lees; 20
She louyd god with all her myght,
And seruyd hym bothe daye and nyght;
She was of gode wyll, and hart Free
To all ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Where now is fled that Power whose frown severe
Tamed "sober Reason" till she
crouched
in fear?
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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In his own hills each labours down the day,
Teaching
the vine to clasp the widow'd tree:
Then to his cups again, where, feasting gay,
He hails his god in thee.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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At all events, it is not presented as poetry, and it is in no
way
connected
with the Author's judgment concerning poetic diction.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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But only one of these poems, namely the
poem of Amriolkais, could have
immediately
influenced him.
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Tennyson |
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Spotless the oilcloth on the floor,
Limpid as water each glass case,
Each thing
precisely
in its place.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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"
thou well dost wish me ill," Audiart, Audiart,
THOUGH
Where thy bodice laces start
As ivy fingers clutching through Its crevices,
Audiart, Audiart, Stately, tall and lovely tender
Who shall render,
Audiart, Audiart, Praises meet unto thy
fashion?
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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And when Pope had once done a good piece of
work, he had all an artist's
reluctance
to destroy it.
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Alexander Pope |
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As I
commence
farmer at Whit-Sunday, you will easily guess
I must be pretty busy; but that is not all.
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Robert Forst |
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And Faith shall come forth the finer,
From
trampled
thickets of fire,
And the orient open diviner
Before her, the heaven rise higher.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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A purer Sappho_
OMNES
Sulpiciam
legant puellae,
uni quae cupiunt uiro placere;
omnes Sulpiciam legant mariti,
uni qui cupiunt placere nuptae.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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on either hand the list'ning Bard,
The clanging sugh of whistling wings is heard;
Two dusky forms dart thro' the midnight air,
Swift as the gos[62] drives on the
wheeling
hare;
Ane on th' Auld Brig his airy shape uprears,
The ither flutters o'er the rising piers:
Our warlock Rhymer instantly descry'd
The Sprites that owre the brigs of Ayr preside.
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Robert Forst |
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You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary,
compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or
proprietary
form, including any
word processing or hypertext form.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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But the victor
deigned not to bring down Orodes with the blind wound of his flying
lance as he fled; full face to face he meets him, and engages man with
man,
conqueror
not by stealth but armed valour.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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From murderous
Epigrams
flee,
Cruel Wit and Laughter impure
That brings tears to the high Azure,
And all that base garlic cuisine!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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"
"Never," says Guene, "so long as lives Rollanz,
From hence to the East there is no such vassal;
And proof also, Oliver his comrade;
The dozen peers he cherishes at hand,
These are his guard, with twenty
thousand
Franks.
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Chanson de Roland |
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e
styffest
to start bi stounde3 he made,
1568 Til at ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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The reason why a poet is
said that he ought to have all knowledges is, that he should not be
ignorant of the most,
especially
of those he will handle.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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I
wondered
who it was the man thought ground--
The one who held the wheel back or the one
Who gave his life to keep it going round?
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Where lambs have nibbled, silent move
The feet of angels bright;
Unseen they pour blessing,
And joy without ceasing,
On each bud and blossom,
And each
sleeping
bosom.
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blake-poems |
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A Maiden
Oh if I were the velvet rose
Upon the red rose vine,
I'd climb to touch his window
And make his
casement
fine.
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Sara Teasdale |
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348
Frizzi, Antonio,
_Memorie
per la Storia di Ferrara_, _iii.
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Byron |
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Rob not the god; and so
propitious
gales
Attend thy voyage, and impel thy sails:
But, if his herds ye seize, beneath the waves
I see thy friends o'erwhelm'd in liquid graves!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Now I feel it; naught can give us peace
Mid worldly cares, nothing save only
conscience!
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Each eBook is in a subdirectory of the same number as the eBook's
eBook number, often in several formats
including
plain vanilla ASCII,
compressed (zipped), HTML and others.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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So do thou, fair ship, that ow'st
Virgil, thy
precious
freight, to Attic coast,
Safe restore thy loan and whole,
And save from death the partner of my soul!
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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TO SIR
CLIPSEBY
CREW.
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Robert Herrick |
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And we, so small on the swift immense hillside,
Stood tranced, until our souls arose uplifted
On those far-sweeping, wide,
Strong curves of flight,--swayed up and hugely drifted,
Were washed, made strong and
beautiful
in the tide
Of sun-bathed air.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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The Loir is a
tributary
of the larger Loire, in the Vendomois.
| Guess: |
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Ronsard |
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his own train
Of slaves and
hirelings?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
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| Question: |
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Copyright
laws in most countries are in
a constant state of change.
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| Question: |
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Seid nicht so
ungezogen!
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Yea, such clean fire in man and such in woman
To mingle wonderfully, that the twain
Become a moment of one blazing flame
Infinitely upward towering, far beyond
The
boundless
fate of spirit in the world.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Let others Rhodes or
Mytilene
sing,
Or Ephesus, or Corinth, set between
Two seas, or Thebes, or Delphi, for its king
Each famous, or Thessalian Tempe green;
There are who make chaste Pallas' virgin tower
The daily burden of unending song,
And search for wreaths the olive's rifled bower;
The praise of Juno sounds from many a tongue,
Telling of Argos' steeds, Mycenaes's gold.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Therefore
it should not have been committed; and the god
who enjoined it _did_ command evil, as he had done in a hundred other
cases!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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Then for an hour the water wore a mantle
Of tawny gold and mauve and misted turquoise
Under the tall and
darkened
arches bearing
Gray, high-flung bridges.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Some of them, as if conscious where their weakness lay, had, when
filling the highest magistracies, taken
internal
administration
as their department of public business, and left the military
command to their colleagues.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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now what Fortune wills I see full sure:
That
loathing
life, yet living I should see
How few its joys, how little they endure!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Memory faileth, as the lotus-loved chimes
Sink into
fluttering
of wind, But we grow never weary For we are old.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Why do I want this,
when even last night
you
startled
me from sleep?
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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* * * * * *
"And--you--mean--to--say that it is
absolutely
Platonic on both sides?
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Kipling - Poems |
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And yet, because I love thee, I obtain
From that same love this
vindicating
grace
To live on still in love, and yet in vain,--
To bless thee, yet renounce thee to thy face.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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On the car with all his might
He struck, whence, staggering like a ship, it reel'd,
At random driv'n, to
starboard
now, o'ercome,
And now to larboard, by the vaulting waves.
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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go forth in my might
For I am weary, & must sleep in the dark sleep of Death {According to Erdman's notes this line was crossed out in pencil for deletion and a replacement was written in the right margin, then the deleting lines and the replacement were
thoroughly
erased.
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Blake - Zoas |
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London Bridge is falling down falling down falling down
Poi s'ascose nel foco che gli affina
Quando fiam ceu chelidon-- O swallow swallow
Le Prince d'Aquitaine a la tour abolie 430
These
fragments
I have shored against my ruins
Why then Ile fit you.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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From the Prelude ix
SEEK not to know which song or saying yields
The palm of praise or garland at the feast,
What yester tempest blew through arid fields,
Now lies 'mid laurels in the
hallowed
Bast.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Werejeweledtales An opiate meet to quell the malady
Oflifeunlived?
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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[9]
At the end of Book I in the
Assyrian
text and at the end of Col.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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A poor man
determines
to go out into the world and make his fortune.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Some lowly cot in the rough fields our home,
Shoot down the stags, or with green osier-wand
Round up the
straggling
flock!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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The old man arises, and draws on
his body raiment, and ties the Tyrrhene shoe
latchets
about his feet;
then buckles to his side and shoulder his Tegeaean sword, and swathes
himself in a panther skin that droops upon his left.
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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XXXI
"Me on the distant bank of Euxine's flood
(I Guido am yclept) Constantia bare,
Conceived of the
illustrious
seed and good
Of generous Aymon, as ye likewise are.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Ed ecco a un ch'era da nostra proda,
s'avvento un
serpente
che 'l trafisse
la dove 'l collo a le spalle s'annoda.
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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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.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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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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| Question: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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Or will Pity, in line with all I ask here,
Succour a poor man, without
crushing?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
|
There we saw, standing
on a white rock, a man holding a
bejeweled
box, from which he took
sugar and threw it into the sea.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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He sang:
Tchirek River
Lies under the Dark Mountains:
Where the sky is like the sides of a tent
Stretched
down over the Great Steppe.
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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In these first two volumes the poet is satisfied with
painting
in words,
full of sonorous beauty, the surrounding world.
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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From the
Alexandrians
come
many of the stock themes of Roman Satire, many of its stock characters,
much of its moral sentiment.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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)
Bestows one final
patronising
kiss,
And gropes his way, finding the stairs unlit .
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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(_I
remember
the time when_.
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Beowulf |
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_ GO
12 _impotente amore_ a et
Charisius
133.
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Latin - Catullus |
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But I, grown shrewder, scan the skies
With a suspicious air, --
As children,
swindled
for the first,
All swindlers be, infer.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Yet--do he what
extremes
he may--
He cannot crush my life away!
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Aeschylus |
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keen-eyed towering science,
As from tall peaks the modern overlooking,
Successive
absolute
fiats issuing.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Tis eight o'clock,--a clear March night,
The moon is up--the sky is blue,
The owlet in the
moonlight
air,
He shouts from nobody knows where;
He lengthens out his lonely shout,
Halloo!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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There's a certain slant of light,
On winter afternoons,
That oppresses, like the weight
Of
cathedral
tunes.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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A trick
Of posture in a girl, and see the alms
Of
generous
love man will enrich her with!
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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And when wild and rough,
The north wind blows, the tower
exultant
cries
"Behold me!
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Hugo - Poems |
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With a charmed life you passed before us,
Helped by the Helper
watching
o'er us.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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,
_decision
of the battle_: dat.
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Beowulf |
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And other
withered
stumps of time
Were told upon the walls; staring forms
Leaned out, leaning, hushing the room enclosed.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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