The
interval
is really 425 years.
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Whom his ain son of life bereft,
The grey-hairs yet stack to the heft;
Wi' mair of
horrible
and awfu',
Which even to name wad be unlawfu'.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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"
When coals to Newcastle are carried,
And owls sent to Athens, as wonders,
From his spouse when the Regent's unmarried,
Or
Liverpool
weeps o'er his blunders;
When Tories and Whigs cease to quarrel,
When Castlereagh's wife has an heir,
Then Rogers shall ask us for laurel,
And thou shalt have plenty to spare.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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I knew his perils from of old,
I know them now, when I behold
The bitter faring of my King,
Whose love is taken, and his life
Left
evermore
an empty thing.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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How condescending to descend,
And be of
buttercups
the friend
In a New England town!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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ei hym 1968
honorable
{and} reuerent.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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What pass'd at Aulis, Greece can witness bear,(89)
And all who live to breathe this
Phrygian
air.
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Iliad - Pope |
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But since fact teaches this is not the case,
'Tis thine to know things are not mixed with things
Thuswise; but seeds, common to many things,
Commixed
in many ways, must lurk in things.
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Lucretius |
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Now lady, from the fyr thou us defende 95
Which that in helle
eternally
shal dure.
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HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY
r
CONTEMPORARY VERSE
offers a
particularly
remarkable series of the year 1917.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Said the Duck to the Kangaroo,
"Good
gracious!
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***END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK
MISCELLANEOUS
APHORISMS; THE SOUL OF
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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"
Presently my soul grew stronger; hesitating then no longer,
"Sir," said I, "or Madam, truly your
forgiveness
I implore;
But the fact is I was napping, and so gently you came rapping,
And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door,
That I scarce was sure I heard you "--here I opened wide the door;----
Darkness there and nothing more.
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Poe - 5 |
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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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Askers embody
themselves
in me and I am embodied in them,
I project my hat, sit shame-faced, and beg.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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I brondeous[99] wulde hem slee[100];
Tare owte theyre sable harte bie
ryghtefulle
breme[101];
Theyre deathe a meanes untoe mie lyfe shulde bee, 70
Mie spryte shulde revelle yn theyr harte-blodde streme.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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I Said It To You
I said it to you for the clouds
I said it to you for the tree of the sea
For each wave for the birds in the leaves
For the pebbles of sound
For familiar hands
For the eye that becomes
landscape
or face
And sleep returns it the heaven of its colour
For all that night drank
For the network of roads
For the open window for a bare forehead
I said it to you for your thoughts for your words
Every caress every trust survives.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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"
The harbour-bay was clear as glass,
So
smoothly
it was strewn!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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He roar'd a horrid murder-shout,
In dreadfu'
desperation!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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"The voice of God whispers in the heart
"So softly
"That the soul pauses,
"Making no noise,
"And strives for these melodies,
"Distant, sighing, like
faintest
breath,
"And all the being is still to hear.
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Stephen Crane |
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Endymion
feels it, and no more controls
The burning prayer within him; so, bent low,
He had begun a plaining of his woe.
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Keats |
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To conclude the notes on this book, it may not be unnecessary to observe
that Camoens, in this episode, has happily adhered to a
principal
rule
of the Epopea.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Yon sun is naked, bare of satellite,
Unless our earth and moon that office hold;
Though his perpetual day feareth no night,
And his
perennial
summer dreads no cold.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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"
He said; the monarch issued his commands;
Straight
the loud heralds call the gathering bands
The chiefs inclose their king; the hosts divide,
In tribes and nations rank'd on either side.
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Iliad - Pope |
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By this the stars were almost gone,
The moon was setting on the hill,
So pale you
scarcely
looked at her:
The little birds began to stir,
Though yet their tongues were still.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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And joy I knew and sorrow at thy voice,
And the superb magnificence of love,--
The
loneliness
that saddens solitude, 10
And the sweet speech that makes it durable,--
The bitter longing and the keen desire,
The sweet companionship through quiet days
In the slow ample beauty of the world,
And the unutterable glad release 15
Within the temple of the holy night.
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Sappho |
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EJC}
At the first Sound the Golden sun arises from the Deep
And shakes his awful hair
The Eccho wakes the moon to unbind her silver locks
The golden sun bears on my song
And nine bright spheres of harmony rise round the fiery King
The joy of woman is the Death of her most best beloved
Who dies for Love of her
In torments of fierce jealousy & pangs of adoration
The Lovers night bears on my song
And the nine Spheres rejoice beneath my
powerful
controll
They sing unceasing to the notes of my immortal hand
The solemn silent moon
Reverberates the living harmony upon my limbs
The birds & beasts rejoice & play
And every one seeks for his mate to prove his inmost joy
Furious & terrible they sport & rend the nether deeps
The deep lifts up his rugged head
And lost in infinite huming wings vanishes with a cry
The fading cry is ever dying
The living voice is ever living in its inmost joy
Arise you little glancing wings & sing your infant joy
Arise & drink your bliss
For every thing that lives is holy for the source of life
Descends to be a weeping babe
For the Earthworm renews the moisture of the sandy plain
Now my left hand I stretch to earth beneath
And strike the terrible string
I wake sweet joy in dens of sorrow & I plant a smile
In forests of affliction
And wake the bubbling springs of life in regions of dark death
O I am weary lay thine hand upon me or I faint
I faint beneath these beams of thine
For thou hast touchd my five senses & they answerd thee
Now I am nothing & I sink
And on the bed of silence sleep till thou awakest me
Thus sang the Lovely one in Rapturous delusive trance
Los heard delighted reviving he siezd her in his arms delusive hopes
Kindling She led him into Shadows & thence fled outstretchd
Upon the immense like a bright rainbow weeping & smiling & fading
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I am made to sow the thistle for wheat; the nettle for a nourishing dainty
I have planted a false oath in the earth, it has brought forth a poison tree
I have chosen the serpent for a councellor & the dog
For a schoolmaster to my children
I have blotted out from light & living the dove & nightingale
And I have caused the earth worm to beg from door to door
I have taught the thief a secret path into the house of the just
I have taught pale artifice to spread his nets upon the morning
My heavens are brass my earth is iron my moon a clod of clay
My sun a pestilence burning at noon & a vapour of death in night
What is the price of Experience do men buy it for a song
Or wisdom for a dance in the street?
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Blake - Zoas |
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More
tolerable
are the lion-king's slaughters.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Must I battle with a
thousand
rivals,
To the earth's ends extend my labours,
Attack a camp alone, or rout an army,
Exceed the fame of heroes legendary?
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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we have turned against the mightiest of our young men
And in that denial we have taken on the Christ,
And the two thieves beside the Christ,
And the Magdalen at the feet of the Christ,
And the Judas with thirty silver pieces selling the Christ,--
And our twenty centuries in Europe have the shape of a Cross
On which we have hung in
disaster
and glory.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Dost thou forget, sham Monarch of the Waves,
Thy
scalding
in the seas?
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Keats |
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"
Startled at the stillness broken by reply so aptly spoken,
"Doubtless," said I, "what it utters is its only stock and store
Caught from some unhappy master whom unmerciful Disaster
Followed fast and
followed
faster till his songs one burden bore--
Till the dirges of his Hope that melancholy burden bore
Of "Never--nevermore.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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TO
MY DEAR AND MUCH
HONOURED
FRIEND, MRS.
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Robert Forst |
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The
reminiscence
comes
Of sunless dry geraniums
And dust in crevices,
Smells of chestnuts in the streets
And female smells in shuttered rooms
And cigarettes in corridors
And cocktail smells in bars.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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--faster
Shutting
indoors that crumb-outcaster
We used to see upon the lawn
Around the house.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Ye houlets, frae your ivy bow'r
In some auld tree, or eldritch tow'r,
What time the moon, wi' silent glow'r,
Sets up her horn,
Wail thro' the dreary
midnight
hour,
Till waukrife morn!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Yet who assumes the vaunt
forceful
as iron to be?
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Catullus - Carmina |
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But though my vigil constantly I keep
My God is dark--like woven texture flowing,
A hundred
drinking
roots, all intertwined;
I only know that from His warmth I'm growing.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Nightingales are singing from the wood — —
And the moonlight through the lattice
streaming
Silence —and deep midnight —and one face
"Like a moonlit land, desire's kingdom, Luring from the breast the homesick self!
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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For they both invent, feign and devise many things, and
accommodate
all
they invent to the use and service of Nature.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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230
This Willyam saw, and soundynge Rowlandes songe
He bent his yron interwoven bowe,
Makynge bothe endes to meet with myghte full stronge,
From out of mortals syght shot up the floe;
Then swyfte as fallynge starres to earthe belowe 235
It slaunted down on Alfwoldes payncted sheelde;
Quite thro the silver-bordurd crosse did goe,
Nor loste its force, but stuck into the feelde;
The Normannes, like theyr sovrin, dyd prepare,
And shotte ten
thousande
floes uprysynge in the aire.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Toi qui fais au
proscrit
ce regard calme et haut
Qui damne tout un peuple autour d'un echafaud,
O Satan, prends pitie de ma longue misere!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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For never Bacon studied nature more ;
But age,
allaying
now that youthful heat,
Fits him in France to play at cards, and cheat;
Draw no commission, lest the court should lie.
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Marvell - Poems |
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243, from which the following is abridged:
'Almanac-making had become an extensive and profitable trade
in this country at the beginning of the 17th century, and with
the
exception
of some fifteen or twenty years at the time of
the Rebellion continued to flourish until its close.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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The
frightened
rabbit scuttled.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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His ship farre come from watrie wildernesse,
He hurles out vowes, and Neptune oft doth blesse:
So forth they past, and all the way they spent 285
Discoursing
of her dreadful late distresse,
In which he askt her, what the Lyon ment:
Who told her all that fell in journey as she went.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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And I notice that many judges who display nothing but
a fierce
satisfaction
in sending other plays of that author to the block
or the treadmill, show a certain human weakness in sentencing the gentle
daughter of Pelias.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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And driven the
Hamadryad
from the wood
To seek a shelter in some happier star?
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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As by the
kindling
of the self-same fire
Harder this clay, this wax the softer grows,
So by my love may Daphnis; sprinkle meal,
And with bitumen burn the brittle bays.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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But not of solid body, as I've shown,
Exists the nature of the world, because
In things is intermingled there a void;
Nor is the world yet as the void, nor are,
Moreover, bodies lacking which, percase,
Rising from out the infinite, can fell
With fury-whirlwinds all this sum of things,
Or bring upon them other cataclysm
Of peril strange; and yonder, too, abides
The infinite space and the
profound
abyss--
Whereinto, lo, the ramparts of the world
Can yet be shivered.
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Lucretius |
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Whether a book is still in copyright varies from country to country, and we can't offer
guidance
on whether any specific use of any specific book is allowed.
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Meredith - Poems |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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[33] Written in Chinese with two
characters
very easy to distinguish.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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His locked, letter'd, braw brass collar
Shew'd him the
gentleman
an' scholar;
But though he was o' high degree,
The fient a pride, nae pride had he;
But wad hae spent an hour caressin,
Ev'n wi' al tinkler-gipsy's messin:
At kirk or market, mill or smiddie,
Nae tawted tyke, tho' e'er sae duddie,
But he wad stan't, as glad to see him,
An' stroan't on stanes an' hillocks wi' him.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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"
"Farewell,
handsome
prince," the queen answered.
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Tennyson |
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Ah, why
shouldst
thou be dead, when common men
Are busy with their trivial affairs,
Having and holding?
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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Starlight is a usual occurrence
Any
pleasant
night beside the sea.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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The Pentagram
disturbs
thee?
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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I love to hear her speak, yet well I know
That music hath a far more
pleasing
sound:
I grant I never saw a goddess go,--
My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground:
And yet by heaven, I think my love as rare,
As any she belied with false compare.
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Perhapshedidnotjest;
theysaysomesimpleshave
More wide-spanned power than old wives draw
from them.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Maudit soit a jamais le reveur inutile,
Qui voulut le premier dans sa stupidite,
S'eprenant d'un
probleme
insoluble et sterile,
Aux choses de l'amour meler l'honnetete!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Pretty friendship 'tis to rhyme
Your friends to death before their time
Moping
melancholy
mad:
Come, pipe a tune to dance to, lad.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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This refers to Consort Zheng; imperial son-in-laws were commonly
compared
to Xiaoshi.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Then soul, live thou upon thy servant's loss,
And let that pine to
aggravate
thy store;
Buy terms divine in selling hours of dross;
Within be fed, without be rich no more:
So shall thou feed on Death, that feeds on men,
And Death once dead, there's no more dying then.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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The warm touch of a soft and
tremulous
hand
Wakened me then; lo!
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Shelley |
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You'll do me
services
I can't express.
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La Fontaine |
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1190
Thanne seyde he thus, fulfild of heigh desdayn,
`O cruel Iove, and thou, Fortune adverse,
This al and som, that falsly have ye slayn
Criseyde, and sin ye may do me no werse,
Fy on your might and werkes so
diverse!
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| Question: |
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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361), we
find Baudelaire
defending
his friend from the accusation that his
pictures were pastiches of Goya.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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To fade away like morning beauty from her mortal day:
Down by the river of Adona her soft voice is heard;
And thus her gentle
lamentation
falls like morning dew.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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I can recognize
Prometheus
in this cunning trick.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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Gentle night, do thou
befriend
me,
Downy sleep, the curtain draw;
Spirits kind, again attend me,
Talk of him that's far awa!
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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There is a garden in her face
Where roses and white lilies blow;
A heavenly paradise is that place,
Wherein all
pleasant
fruits do grow;
There cherries grow that none may buy,
Till Cherry-Ripe themselves do cry.
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Yet do I curse thy pride that aye
So
tauntingly
aspires;
For my love was a gay knight's heir,
And my father was a squire's.
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John Clare |
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Don Arias, a
Castilian
gentleman
Don Alonso, a Castilian gentleman
Chimene, daughter of Don Gomes
Leonor, governess to the Infanta
Elvire, governess to Chimene
A Page, to the Infanta
Act I Scene I (Chimene, Elvire)
Chimene
Is the report you bring me now sincere?
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Therwith, whan he was war and gan biholde
How shet was every windowe of the place,
As frost, him thoughte, his herte gan to colde; 535
For which with chaunged deedlich pale face,
With-outen word, he forth bigan to pace;
And, as god wolde, he gan so faste ryde,
That no wight of his
contenance
aspyde.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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"
I should like to have
visitors
come and discuss philosophy
And not to have the tax-collector coming to collect taxes:
My three sons married into good families
And my five daughters wedded to steady husbands.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Those
heavenly
features make my bosom sigh,
To think from earthly praise they mean to fly.
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Men loved
unkindness
then, but lightless in the quarry
I slept and saw not; tears fell down, I did not mourn;
Sweat ran and blood sprang out and I was never sorry:
Then it was well with me, in days ere I was born.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Place me where on the ice-bound plain
No tree is cheer'd by summer breezes,
Where Jove
descends
in sleety rain
Or sullen freezes;
Place me where none can live for heat,
'Neath Phoebus' very chariot plant me,
That smile so sweet, that voice so sweet,
Shall still enchant me.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Himself who chose us
from all his army to aid him now,
urged us to glory, and gave these treasures,
because he counted us keen with the spear
and hardy 'neath helm, though this hero-work
our leader hoped
unhelped
and alone
to finish for us, -- folk-defender
who hath got him glory greater than all men
for daring deeds!
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Spend'st thou thy fury on some worthless song,
Darkening thy power to lend base
subjects
light?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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The loftiest place is that seat of grace
For which all
worldlings
try:
But who would stand in hempen band
Upon a scaffold high,
And through a murderer's collar take
His last look at the sky?
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Adjusting to his limbs the tatter'd vest,
His former seat received the stranger guest;
Whom thus with pensive air the queen addressed:
"Though night,
dissolving
grief in grateful ease,
Your drooping eyes with soft impression seize;
Awhile, reluctant to her pleasing force,
Suspend the restful hour with sweet discourse.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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She would lean at the window,
thinking
of him and hoping he would come back.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Redistribution
is
subject to the trademark license, especially commercial
redistribution.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER
WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED,
INCLUDING
BUT NOT LIMITED TO
WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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That little floweret's peaceful lot,
In yonder cliff that grows,
Which, save the linnet's flight, I wot,
Nae ruder visit knows,
Was mine, till Love has o'er me past,
And blighted a' my bloom;
And now, beneath the
withering
blast,
My youth and joy consume.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Nay, and if it were,
What
likeness
could there be?
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Euripides - Electra |
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Enow there are on earth to take in charge
Their wives, their children, and their virgin loves,
Or
whatsoever
else the heart holds dear; 155
Enow to stir for these; yea, will I say,
Contemplating in soberness the approach
Of an event so dire, by signs in earth
Or heaven made manifest, that I could share
That maniac's fond anxiety, and go 160
Upon like errand.
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William Wordsworth |
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For all so deare as life is to my hart,
I deeme your love, and hold me to you bound: 480
Ne let vaine feares procure your
needlesse
smart,
Where cause is none, but to your rest depart.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Lest these
enclasped
hands should never hold,
This mutual kiss drop down between us both
As an unowned thing, once the lips being cold.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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in mazes of delusive beauty
I have lookd into the secret soul of him I lovd
And in the Dark recesses found Sin & cannot return
Trembling & pale sat Tharmas weeping in his clouds
Why wilt thou Examine every little fibre of my soul *{This and the
following
4 lines are written down the top right hand edge of the page.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Wilt thou go dig a grave to find out war
And shame thine
honourable
age with blood?
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Shakespeare |
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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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Li Bai - Chinese |
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So by mine inner contemplation long,
By
thoughts
that need no speech nor oath nor song,
My spirit soars above the motley throng
Of days and nights, Nirvana.
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Sidney Lanier |
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'652
conquered
Nature:'
Aristotle was a master of all the knowledge of nature extant in his day.
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Alexander Pope |
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To
SEND
DONATIONS
or determine the status of compliance for any
particular state visit http://pglaf.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Under the firelight, under the brush, her hair
Spread out in fiery points
Glowed into words, then would be
savagely
still.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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