Yet would your powers in vain our
strength
oppose.
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Bestows one final
patronising
kiss,
And gropes his way, finding the stairs unlit .
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"No," said he, "the day of
repentance
is past and gone; they will not
give me grace.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Forthwith from Councel to the work they flew,
None arguing stood, innumerable hands
Were ready, in a moment up they turnd
Wide the Celestial soile, and saw beneath 510
Th'
originals
of Nature in thir crude
Conception; Sulphurous and Nitrous Foame
They found, they mingl'd, and with suttle Art,
Concocted and adusted they reduc'd
To blackest grain, and into store conveyd:
Part hidd'n veins diggd up (nor hath this Earth
Entrails unlike) of Mineral and Stone,
Whereof to found thir Engins and thir Balls
Of missive ruin; part incentive reed
Provide, pernicious with one touch to fire.
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Milton |
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She told her
husband of the debt, but he refused
outright
to pay it.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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*** There is cultivated in the king's garden at Paris, a
species of serpentine aloes without prickles, whose large
and
beautiful
flower exhales a strong odour of the vanilla,
during the time of its expansion, which is very short.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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States without
permission
and without paying copyright
royalties.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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(The
Pretender
reflects; those around him glance at
one another.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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He wills that, side by side, with him shall go
The knight, when homeward he shall take his way;
And him such favour shows, intent to please,
As might have
honoured
Mars or Hercules.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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No
gracious
weight of golden fruits to sell
Have I, nor any wise and wintry thing;
And I have loved you all too long and well
To carry still the high sweet breast of spring.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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CHORUS
Yea, and
eftsoons
indeed my rights shalt know.
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Aeschylus |
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Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth
in
paragraph
1.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Basmanov
in the council of the tsar
Now sits.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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My soul burns with the
quenchless
fire
That lit my lover's funeral pyre:
Alas!
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Down plumbed the shuttled ledger, and the quill
On the
quicksilver
water lay dead still.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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[2]
Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They
stretched
in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay: 10
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
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William Wordsworth |
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'134 Mill':
the mill in which cakes of chocolate were ground up
preparatory
to
making the beverage.
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Alexander Pope |
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XIII
"For thee no
treasure
ripens
In the Tartessian mine;
For thee no ship brings precious bales
Across the Libyan brine;
Thou shalt not drink from amber;
Thou shalt not rest on down;
Arabia shall not steep thy locks,
Nor Sidon tinge thy gown.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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received
the work electronically, the person or entity
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receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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To encourage your
melancholy
mood, he tells us, do
not look on the things counted sad, but on the most beautiful, which are
only quickly-fading manifestations of the everlasting principle of
beauty.
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Keats |
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Enough, enough that he whose life had been
A fiery pulse of sin, a splendid shame,
Could in the
loveless
land of Hades glean
One scorching harvest from those fields of flame
Where passion walks with naked unshod feet
And is not wounded,--ah!
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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"
Much I marvelled this ungainly fowl to hear discourse so plainly,
Though its answer little meaning--little relevancy bore;
For we cannot help
agreeing
that no living human being
Ever yet was blessed with seeing bird above his chamber door--
Bird or beast upon the sculptured bust above his chamber door,
With such name as "Nevermore.
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Poe - 5 |
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The Emperor was so pleased with Po's talent that
whenever
he was
feasting or drinking he always had this poet to wait upon him.
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Li Po |
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at haddest
haboundaunces
of rycchesses nat long
agon.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Give us a name to stir the blood
With a warmer glow and a swifter flood,--
A name like the sound of a trumpet, clear,
And silver-sweet, and iron-strong,
That calls three million men to their feet,
Ready to march, and steady to meet
The foes who
threaten
that name with wrong,--
A name that rings like a battle-song.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Peace to the ante-reign
Of Mary Morning,
blissful
mother mild,
Minded of nought but peace, and of a child.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Thou
wanderer
through the woods,
How often has my spirit turned to thee!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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465
But first thou must a season fast and pray,
Till from her bands the spright
assoiled
is,
And have her strength recur'd from fraile infirmitis.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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e
bisshopes
hem alle among
?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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So, in the man who sings,
All of the
voiceless
horde
From the cold dawn of things
Have their reward;
All in whose pulses ran
Blood that is his at last,
From the first stooping man
Far in the winnowed past.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Keepe you the land, S^r,
The
greatne?
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Meredith - Poems |
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The glad
completion
of the fate's decree,
Kind Heaven reserv'd, Emmanuel, for thee.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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'Tis the
securest
policy we have,
To make our sense our slave.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Biglow, I preface the
following
satire
with an extract from a sermon preached during the past summer, from
Ezekiel xxxiv.
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James Russell Lowell |
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But in the tiny
landscapes
of the Prose Poems there is
nothing rigid or artificial.
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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The very
metropolis
of this lyric
realm was Mitylene of Lesbos, where, amid the myrtle groves and temples,
the sunlit silver of the fountains, the hyacinth gardens by a soft blue
sea, Beauty and Love in their young warmth could fuse the most rigid forms
to fluency.
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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Poe - 5 |
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I have no ghosts,
An old man in a
draughty
house
Under a windy knob.
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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All with
obedient
haste forsake the shores,
And, placed in order, spread their equal oars.
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| Question: |
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Odyssey - Pope |
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49
Now let me call across the snow-clad meadows 50
There were no ruins, neither fragments 51
In sorrow day and night the disciple watched 52
Sunlight slantingly flows 53
The wild resplendence of the year
resolves
54
Doth live for thee again, Beloved that October?
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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The hours
Are
flitting
fast, and time is precious to me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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He prostrated himself on the
cold floor, and
remained
motionless for a long time.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Sweet moans,
dovelike
sighs,
Chase not slumber from thine eyes!
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blake-poems |
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"]
[455] [This statement is
strictly
historical.
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Byron |
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But let us hence to bed, there to enjoy 300
Tranquil
repose.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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_To th'only Health, to be
Hydroptique
so.
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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And thou, my last, best, only, friend,
That fillest an
untimely
tomb,
Accept this tribute from the Bard
Thou brought from Fortune's mirkest gloom.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Who, as a camel tall, yet easily can
The needle's eye thread without any stitch,
(His only
impossible
is to be rich,)
Lest his too subtle body, growing rare,
Should leave his soul to wander in tlie air,
He therefore circumscribes himself in rliymes.
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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'Thereupon, so soon as ocean may be trusted, and the winds leave the
seas in quiet, and the soft
whispering
south wind calls seaward, my
comrades launch their ships and crowd the shores.
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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" repeated he, while his eyes still
Relented
not, nor mov'd; "from every ill
Of life have I preserv'd thee to this day,
And shall I see thee made a serpent's prey?
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
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There is no
endowment
in man or woman that is not tallied in you;
There is no virtue, no beauty, in man or woman, but as good is in you;
No pluck, no endurance in others, but as good is in you;
No pleasure waiting for others, but an equal pleasure waits for you.
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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And thou, O land of Pherae,
hearken!
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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- You provide, in accordance with
paragraph
1.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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O Albuera,
glorious
field of grief!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Our Life
We'll not reach the goal one by one but in pairs
We know in pairs we will know all about us
We'll love everything our children will smile
At the dark history or mourn alone
Uninterrupted Poetry
From the sea to the source
From mountain to plain
Runs the phantom of life
The foul shadow of death
But between us
A dawn of ardent flesh is born
And exact good
that sets the earth in order
We advance with calm step
And nature salutes us
The day embodies our colours
Fire our eyes the sea our union
And all living resemble us
All the living we love
Imaginary the others
Wrong and defined by their birth
But we must struggle against them
They live by dagger blows
They speak like a broken chair
Their lips tremble with joy
At the echo of leaden bells
At the muteness of dark gold
A lone heart not a heart
A lone heart all the hearts
And the bodies every star
In a sky filled with stars
In a career in movement
Of light and of glances
Our weight shines on the earth
Glaze of desire
To sing of human shores
For you the living I love
And for all those that we love
That have no desire but to love
I'll end truly by barring the road
Afloat with enforced dreams
I'll end truly by finding myself
We'll take possession of earth
Index of First Lines
I speak to you over cities
Easy and beautiful under
Between all my
torments
between death and self
She is standing on my eyelids
In one corner agile incest
For the splendour of the day of happinesses in the air
After years of wisdom
Run and run towards deliverance
Life is truly kind
What's become of you why this white hair and pink
A face at the end of the day
By the road of ways
All the trees all their branches all of their leaves
Adieu Tristesse
Woman I've lived with
Fertile Eyes
I said it to you for the clouds
It's the sweet law of men
The curve of your eyes embraces my heart
On my notebooks from school
I have passed the doors of coldness
I am in front of this feminine land
We'll not reach the goal one by one but in pairs
From the sea to the source
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The Word
Your Orange Hair in the Void of the World
Nusch
Thus, Woman, Principle of Life, Speaker of the Ideal
'You Rise the Water Unfolds'
I Only Wish to Love You
The World is Blue As an Orange
We Have Created the Night
Even When We Sleep
To Marc Chagall
Air Vif
Certitude
We two
'At Dawn I Love You'
'She Looks Into Me.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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"But the good monk, in
cloistered
cell,
Shall gain it by his book and bell,
His prayers and tears;
And the brave knight, whose arm endures
Fierce battle, and against the Moors
His standard rears.
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Longfellow |
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He has lost her in
the City, where each man's house is as guarded and as
unknowable
as the
grave; and the grating that opens into Amir Nath's Gully has been walled
up.
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Kipling - Poems |
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My boy was by my side, so slim
And
graceful
in his rustic dress!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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It has
survived
long enough for the copyright to expire and the book to enter the public domain.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Earth, hide him,
thine
offspring!
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Aeschylus |
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Of not a hoarded
farthing
be possesst,
And when all's done, be shoved to hell at last!
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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The crows upon the
swelling
hills,
The cows upon the lea,
Sheep feeding by the pasture rills,
Are ever dear to me,
Because sweet freedom is their mate,
While I am lone and desolate.
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John Clare |
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Once you have allowed all the demands made on you, you
find, suitors (and suitors are gamblers), that the money you toiled
for has passed into other hands, the lands for which you urged your
rival claims has escaped you, as
Angelica
escaped while Ferrau and
Rinaldo fought for her.
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John Donne |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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"That Spectre left you on the Third--
Since then you've not been haunted:
For, as he never sent us word,
'Twas quite by
accident
we heard
That any one was wanted.
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
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An silent suns to meet the night descend ;
Tiic Htars that for him fought, had only power
Left to
determine
now his fatal hour.
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Marvell - Poems |
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'
Then came a
postscript
dashed across the rest.
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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But I believe most of the importance in the meaning of the word
epic, when it is
reasonably
used, will be found in what is written
above.
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Every such tree
becomes a nucleus of red, as it were, where, with the
declining
sun,
that color grows and glows.
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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I'll taste the unguent of your eyelids' shore,
To see if it can grant to the heart, at your blow,
The
insensibility
of stones and the azure.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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]
[Sidenote C: His saddle was
embroidered
with birds and flies.
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Can he contain the horror he's
displayed?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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"
O Magi of the east and of the west,
Your incense, gold and myrrh are
excellent!
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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Protogenes
and Apelles knew each
other by their line.
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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the
sanguinary
scheme suspend:
Your future thought let sable fate employ;
And give the present hour to genial joy.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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Anon she hears the clank of murd'rous arms,--
The
swordsmen
come once more to spread alarms!
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Hugo - Poems |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
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"
ECLOGUE III
MENALCAS
DAMOETAS
PALAEMON
MENALCAS
Who owns the flock, Damoetas?
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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My fields are No
Man's Land,
But the good God is
debonair
and holds us by the
hand.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Meredith - Poems |
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ECLOGUE VII
MELIBOEUS CORYDON THYRSIS
Daphnis beneath a
rustling
ilex-tree
Had sat him down; Thyrsis and Corydon
Had gathered in the flock, Thyrsis the sheep,
And Corydon the she-goats swollen with milk-
Both in the flower of age, Arcadians both,
Ready to sing, and in like strain reply.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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I reply in a few words that I have my authorities: and besides it is
neither truth nor
probability
which makes the beauty and the charm of
these Tales: it is only the manner of telling them.
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La Fontaine |
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The spreading clamour to their city flies,
And horse and foot in mingled tumults rise:
The reddening dawn reveals the hostile fields,
Horrid with bristly spears, and
gleaming
shields:
Jove thunder'd on their side: our guilty head
We turn'd to flight; the gathering vengeance spread
On all parts round, and heaps on heaps lay dead.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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'
MEDITATION IN LAMPLIGHT
What deaths men have died, not
fighting
but impotent.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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_ Thy doom, Prometheus, be my
teacher!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Quoi simul optatae finito tempore luces
Advenere, domum
conventu
tota frequentat
Thessalia, oppletur laetanti regia coetu:
Dona ferunt prae se, declarant gaudia voltu.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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"
So the hand of the child, automatic,
Slipped out and
pocketed
a toy that was running along
the quay.
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T.S. Eliot |
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quae de figura
etymologica
scripsit Reid ad Cic.
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Latin - Catullus |
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sed tibi subsidio
delphinum
currere uidi,
qui, puto, Arioniam uexerat ante lyram.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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"
CCLXXVIII
Before the King is come now Pinabel;
Great is he, strong, vassalous and nimble;
Who bears his blow has no more time to dwell:
Says to him: "Sire, on you this cause depends;
Command
therefore
this noise be made an end.
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Chanson de Roland |
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A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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The corpse of Rome lies here
entombed
in dust,
Her spirit gone to join, as all things must
The massy round's great spirit onward whirled.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Etienne Carjat, le photographe poete de qui le
recitateur
etait l'ami
litteraire et artistique, s'interposa trop vite et trop vivement a mon
gre, traitant l'interrupteur de gamin.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Flushed and decided, he assaults at once;
Exploring hands encounter no defence; 240
His vanity
requires
no response,
And makes a welcome of indifference.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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This high-toned and lovely
Madrigal
is quite in the style, and worthy
of, the "pure Simonides.
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Golden Treasury |
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