Make all our Trumpets speak, giue the[m] all breath
Those
clamorous
Harbingers of Blood, & Death.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Or ni feriale
ni
astrale!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Charles
Alexander
Richmond:--"A Song.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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(See
_Poetical
Works_, 1898, i.
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Byron |
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In those eyes which maiden pride
Fain would hide,
Mark how passion's
lightnings
sleep!
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Hugo - Poems |
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les grands pres,
La grande
campagne
amoureuse!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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The earth does not exhibit itself nor refuse to exhibit itself,
possesses still underneath,
Underneath the ostensible sounds, the august chorus of heroes, the
wail of slaves,
Persuasions
of lovers, curses, gasps of the dying, laughter of young
people, accents of bargainers,
Underneath these possessing words that never fall.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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And if thou seest not how slippery
Is women's place in the world of men, 'tis like
Thou wilt
amazedly
the vision take,
When I have led thee up my tower of thought.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Emerson - Poems |
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In 1657, Marvell entered upon his duties as
Assistant Latin
Secretary
with Milton.
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Marvell - Poems |
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{As an item of
interest
to the reader, the following, which was at the
end of this edition, is included.
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Sara Teasdale |
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"You haven't stirred out since
the
beginning
of things.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Each sound is mute, each harsh
sensation
stilled.
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Hugo - Poems |
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E'en though the illusion cease,
In these dear haunts alone my
tortured
heart finds peace.
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Petrarch |
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enn steppe3 he in-to stirop, & stryde3 alofte;
His schalk schewed hym his schelde, on
schulder
he hit la3t,
Gorde3 to Gryngolet, with his gilt hele3,
[E] & he starte3 on ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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twelve months old: 'tis quite an age, and brings
Grave moments, though your soul to rapture clings,
You're at that hour of life most like to heaven,
When present joy no cares, no sorrows leaven
When man no shadow feels: if fond caress
Round parent twines,
children
the world possess.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Not so sicke my Lord,
As she is
troubled
with thicke-comming Fancies
That keepe her from her rest
Macb.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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It was a
fascinating
roll of fat.
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Kipling - Poems |
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XLVII
" `Long absence, seeing with a distant part,
Converse with
different
women, oft allay,
As it would seem, the troubles of a heart,
Whereof Love's angry passions make their prey.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Sott' esso giovanetti triunfaro
Scipione
e Pompeo; e a quel colle
sotto 'l qual tu nascesti parve amaro.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Half-past two,
The street-lamp said,
"Remark the cat which
flattens
itself in the gutter,
Slips out its tongue
And devours a morsel of rancid butter.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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The heart beats not, 250
Nor shall it beat hereafter, which shall come
An enemy to the
Phaeacian
shores,
So dear to the immortal Gods are we.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Light in the eyes again,
Strength in the hand,
A spirit dares, dies, forgives,
And can
understand!
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Elephants
do not gallop They move from places at
varying rates of speed.
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Kipling - Poems |
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In A New Night
Woman I've lived with
Woman I live with
Woman I'll live with
Always the same
You need a red cloak
Red gloves a red mask
And dark stockings
The reasons the proofs
Of seeing you quite naked
Nudity pure O ready finery
Breasts O my heart
Fertile Eyes
Fertile Eyes
No one can know me more
More than you know me
Your eyes in which we sleep
The two of them
Have cast a spell on my male orbs
Greater than worldly nights
Your eyes where I voyage
Have given the road-signs
Directions detached from the earth
In your eyes those that show us
Our
infinite
solitude
Is no more than they think exists
No one can know me more
More than you know me.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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An arm of reef half locks it in, and holds
The bottom of the bay deep strewn with seaweed,
A barn full of the harvesting of storms;
And at full tide, the little
hampered
waves
Lift up the litter, so that, against the light,
The yellow kelp and bracken of the sea,
Held up in ridges of green water, show
Like moss in agates.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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So he sends
imperial summons to [235-269]his high council, the
foremost
of his
people, and gathers them within his lofty courts.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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"
L
Here ends Rinaldo, and -- the parley done --
Rises and to his rest desires to go:
Awhile will he repose; and then be gone,
An hour or two before the
daylight
show.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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XC
Yet he who would excuse the sudden wheel,
Upon his courser might the blame bestow:
But, after, he so ill his strokes did deal,
Demosthenes
his cause might well forego.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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The Elegy on Miss
Bulstrode
lays stress on
her youth, her premature death.
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John Donne |
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Unto thy
judgment
my soul have I given!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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The same day, April 17, the Doge
dictated
his will to the
notary Piero de Compostelli, leaving the 2000 lire to his wife
Aluica.
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Byron |
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Bienheureux, j'allongeai les jambes sous la table
Verte: je
contemplai
les sujets tres naifs
De la tapisserie.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Outside the Court he reckoned himself one of
Ben Jonson's disciples, "Sons of Ben" as they were called, had friends
at the Inns of Court, knew the organist of Westminster Abbey and his
pretty daughters, and had every
temptation
to live an amusing and
expensive life.
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Robert Herrick |
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Mother whose heart hung humble as a button
On the bright
splendid
shroud of your son,
Do not weep.
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Stephen Crane |
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of receipt of the work.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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The sky smiled down upon the horror there
As on a flower that opens to the day;
So awful an
infection
smote the air,
Almost you swooned away.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Whose blood upon thy
threshold
lies?
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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[Sidenote: _While you read, see
conventions
of deer go by.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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And yet it need not be--(that object) hid
From us in life-but common-which doth lie
Each hour before us--but then only bid
With a strange sound, as of a harp-string broken
T' awake us--'Tis a symbol and a token
IV
Of what in other worlds shall be--and given
In beauty by our God, to those alone
Who otherwise would fall from life and Heaven
Drawn by their heart's passion, and that tone,
That high tone of the spirit which hath striven
Though not with Faith-with godliness--whose throne
With
desperate
energy 't hath beaten down;
Wearing its own deep feeling as a crown.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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"
Again he dreamed and saw another dream
and
reported
it unto his mother.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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'Statutes
merchant, statutes staple, and recognizances in the nature of
a statute staple were acknowledgements of debt made in writing
before
officers
appointed for that purpose, and enrolled of
record.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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2250
For queynt array,
withouten
drede,
Is no-thing proud, who takith hede;
For fresh array, as men may see,
Withouten pryde may ofte be.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Shelley
and
Sophocles
are of his company.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Richmond
and Kew
Undid me.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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The soul sees through the senses, imagines, hears,
Has from the body's powers its acts and looks:
The spirit once
embodied
has wit, makes books,
Matter makes it more perfect and more fair.
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Ronsard |
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"Shut, shut those
juggling
eyes, thou ruthless man!
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Keats - Lamia |
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O, to see him when anointed he is
plunging
in the flood!
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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It
perseveres
if grief be all its view,
And squanders gems for which no mortal thanks,
And blesses when self as sacrifice it burns.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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: niht-weorce gefeh, ellen-mǣrðum, 828;
secg weorce gefeh, 1570;
sǣlāce
gefeah, mægen-byrðenne þāra þe hē him mid
hæfde, _rejoiced at the gift of the sea, and at the great burden of that_
(Grendel's head and the sword-hilt) _which he had with him_, 1625.
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Beowulf |
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Each
glorious
chief of Greek or Latian line,
Or barb'rous race, adorn'd the Aonian shrine;
Each glorious name, e'er to the Muse endear'd.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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_The Book of Poverty and Death_
Her mouth is like the mouth of a fine bust
That cannot utter sound, nor breathe, nor kiss,
But that had once from Life received all this
Which shaped its subtle curves, and ever must
From fullness of past
knowledge
dwell alone,
A thing apart, a parable in stone.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Armour has got a warrant to throw me
in jail till I find security for an
enormous
sum.
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Robert Burns |
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They can be
understood
by kings.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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We have been
loitering
long and pleasantly,
And now for our dear homes.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Well paid for that
the
wrathful
prince!
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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_1611:_
Garretteir
_1649-69_]
[28 booke,] booke.
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John Donne |
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expressing
what is
granted.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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[44] A
quotation
from one of Hsieh's poems.
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Li Po |
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_Distant Hills_
What is there in those distant hills
My fancy longs to see,
That many a mood of joy
instils?
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John Clare |
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What epic
quality,
detached
from epic proper, do these poems possess, then, apart
from the mere fact that they take up a great many pages?
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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What a
flattering
idea, then,
is a world to come!
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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[B] Abof a launde, on a lawe, loken vnder bo3e3,
Of mony
borelych
bole, aboute bi ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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He admired Calderon,
both for his poetry and his dramatic genius; but it shows his
judgement and originality that, though greatly struck by his first
acquaintance with the Spanish poet, none of his
peculiarities
crept
into the composition of "The Cenci"; and there is no trace of his new
studies, except in that passage to which he himself alludes as
suggested by one in "El Purgatorio de San Patricio".
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Shelley |
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JUSTINA:
Saw you
A man go forth from my
apartment
now?
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Shelley |
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"
The God, dove-footed, glided silently
Round bush and tree, soft-brushing, in his speed,
The taller grasses and full-flowering weed,
Until he found a
palpitating
snake,
Bright, and cirque-couchant in a dusky brake.
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Keats - Lamia |
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My house is a decayed house,
And the jew squats on the window sill, the owner,
Spawned in some estaminet of Antwerp,
Blistered
in Brussels, patched and peeled in London.
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T.S. Eliot |
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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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218, Jonson says:
'my
braggart
in decimo sexto!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Will your
Excellency
permit me to say I think it may be
of ill consequence?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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The real
differentia
of the poet is his
command over the secret magic of words.
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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I think the Vessel, that with fugitive
Articulation
answer'd, once did live,
And merry-make; and the cold Lip I kiss'd
How many Kisses might it take--and give.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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_ I am
delighted
with your _conclusions_, but much
more with your _language_; so that fools may be ashamed of their
objections to the divine government.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Many a time his nurse, at
entering
found
That he had ris'n in silence, and was prostrate,
As who should say, "My errand was for this.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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true freedom is to share
All the chains our
brothers
wear
And, with heart and hand, to be
Earnest to make others free!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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It is at
once a consequence and an
indication
of his perennial existence.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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can I not save
_One_ from the
pitiless
wave?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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the book of life is made
A superstitious instrument, on which
We gabble o'er the oaths we mean to break;
For all must swear--all and in every place,
College and wharf, council and justice-court;
All, all must swear, the briber and the bribed,
Merchant
and lawyer, senator and priest,
The rich, the poor, the old man and the young;
All, all make up one scheme of perjury,
That faith doth reel; the very name of God
Sounds like a juggler's charm; and, bold with joy,
Forth from his dark and lonely hiding-place,
(Portentous sight!
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
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What heavenly particle
inspires
the clay?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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But I shall craue your pardon:
That which you are, my
thoughts
cannot transpose;
Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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A
worshipper
raised his arm.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
|
What storms then shook the ocean of my sleep,
Blotting that Moon, whose pale and waning lips
Then shrank as in the sickness of eclipse;-- _310
And how my soul was as a
lampless
sea,
And who was then its Tempest; and when She,
The Planet of that hour, was quenched, what frost
Crept o'er those waters, till from coast to coast
The moving billows of my being fell _315
Into a death of ice, immovable;--
And then--what earthquakes made it gape and split,
The white Moon smiling all the while on it,
These words conceal:--If not, each word would be
The key of staunchless tears.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
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is is
certeyne
q{uo}d.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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Then the Butcher contrived an
ingenious
plan
For making a separate sally;
And had fixed on a spot unfrequented by man,
A dismal and desolate valley.
| Guess: |
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Lewis Carroll |
|
]]
[Sidenote: Let him who seeks fame, thinking it to be the sovereign
good, look upon the broad universe and this
circumscribed
earth;
and he will then despise a glorious name limited to such a
confined space.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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And when we walked together, my Sorrow and I, people gazed at us
with gentle eyes and whispered in words of
exceeding
sweetness.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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The waters boiling and the burning plain;
While clang the giant
steeples
as they reel,
Unprompted, their own tocsin peal.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we
have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition
against accepting unsolicited
donations
from donors in such states who
approach us with offers to donate.
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Alexander Pope |
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Che col
peggiore
spirto di Romagna
trovai di voi un tal, che per sua opra
in anima in Cocito gia si bagna,
e in corpo par vivo ancor di sopra.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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The
Breosinga
men (Icel.
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Beowulf |
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iuuat, optime, tecum
degere cumque tuis uirtutibus omne per aeuum
carminibus certare meis:
sublimior
ibo,
si famae mihi pandis iter, si detrahis umbram.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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difficile
est, uerum hoc qua lubet efficias:
una salus haec est, hoc est tibi peruincendum, 15
hoc facias, siue id non pote siue pote.
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Latin - Catullus |
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Or will Pity, in line with all I ask here,
Succour a poor man, without
crushing?
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Villon |
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Listen here:
Wasn't antiquity young when those
fortunate
Ancients were living?
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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1610
`And
thenketh
wel, that som tyme it is wit
To spende a tyme, a tyme for to winne;
Ne, pardee, lorn am I nought fro yow yit,
Though that we been a day or two a-twinne.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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"Thrice in my arms I strove her shade to bind,
Thrice through my arms she slipp'd like empty wind,
Or dreams, the vain
illusions
of the mind.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Maria Godunov and her son Feodor
have
poisoned
themselves.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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God knows I view this compromise
With not the most
approving
eyes;
I gave up my unquestioned rights
For sake of quiet days and nights;
I offered then, you know 'tis true,
To cut the piece of land in two.
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James Russell Lowell |
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