Eternal Nymph, you're the grace
Of my
ancestral
place:
So, in this fresh, green view,
See your Poet, who brings
An un-weaned kid to you,
Whose horns, in offering,
Bud from its brow in youth.
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day — perhaps more than ever in her
history—is
in the minds and hearts of other nations, these two poetic and romantic episodes of her past are timely.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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merciful
dedes:
Who ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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him beo, 465
he fel in
swounyng
on ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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'Twas wrath that laid
Thyestes
low;
'Tis wrath that oft destruction calls
On cities, and invites the foe
To drive his plough o'er ruin'd walls.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Ye
avengers
of Liberty's wrongs!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Taking up the fight, they
repulsed
the enemy, only to
be repulsed in their turn.
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Tacitus |
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In 2001, the Project
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and permanent future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Though Fate's severe decrees remove
Her gladsome beauties from my sight,
Yet, urged by pity, friendly Love
Bids fond
reflection
yield delight;
If lavish spring with flowerets strews the mead,
Her lavish beauties all to fancy are displayed!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Shall she verily see Sparta and her native Mycenae
unscathed, and depart a queen and
triumphant?
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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AUTOR:
Wer mag wohl
uberhaupt
jetzt eine Schrift
Von massig klugem Inhalt lesen!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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That the English-
speaking public may gain at any rate some faint idea
of his genius, it has been my joyous task to translate
the following small
selection
of his works.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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For the son is brought with the father;
In the
foremost
ranks of the fierce assault they fell;
Two veterans, son and father, dropped together,
And the double grave awaits them.
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Whitman |
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No wonder then, when all was love and sport,
The willing Muses were debauched at court:
On each
enervate
string they taught the note
To pant, or tremble through an eunuch's throat.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Drown his
outrageous
desires in his own blood.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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darkning
in the West
Lost!
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Blake - Zoas |
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O thou field of my delight so fair and
verdant!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Tanto si da quanto trova d'ardore;
si che,
quantunque
carita si stende,
cresce sovr' essa l'etterno valore.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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What is that sound high in the air
Murmur of
maternal
lamentation
Who are those hooded hordes swarming
Over endless plains, stumbling in cracked earth 370
Ringed by the flat horizon only
What is the city over the mountains
Cracks and reforms and bursts in the violet air
Falling towers
Jerusalem Athens Alexandria
Vienna London
Unreal
A woman drew her long black hair out tight
And fiddled whisper music on those strings
And bats with baby faces in the violet light 380
Whistled, and beat their wings
And crawled head downward down a blackened wall
And upside down in air were towers
Tolling reminiscent bells, that kept the hours
And voices singing out of empty cisterns and exhausted wells.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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I know your face, for now 'twill do;
A
distinguished
lady is visiting you.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Jewelled scabbards lie twisted and defaced:
The stones that were set in them, thieves have carried away,
The ancestral temples are hummocks in the ground:
The walls that went round them are all
levelled
flat.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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CHOICE OF THEME
Examine well, ye writers, weigh with care,
What suits your genius, what your
strength
can bear;
For when a well-proportioned theme you choose,
Nor words, nor method shall their aid refuse.
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Aire, and ye
Elements
the eldest birth 180
Of Natures Womb, that in quaternion run
Perpetual Circle, multiform; and mix
And nourish all things, let your ceasless change
Varie to our great Maker still new praise.
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Milton |
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Vrbis deliciae
salesque
Nili,
ars et gratia, lusus et uoluptas,
Romani decus et dolor theatri
atque omnes Veneres Cupidinesque
hoc sunt condita, quo Paris, sepulcro.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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And then the bray of brazen horns 5
Arose above their
clanking
march,
As the long waving column filed
Into the odorous purple dusk.
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Sappho |
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The king that
trampled
Troy
Knoweth his son Orestes.
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Euripides - Electra |
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She 's gien me mony a jirt an' fleg,
Sin' I could
striddle
owre a rig;
But, by the Lord, tho' I should beg
Wi' lyart pow,
I'll laugh an' sing, an' shake my leg,
As lang's I dow!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Whereat, I now
Made
mediator
in my room^ said why ?
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Marvell - Poems |
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She turns and looks a moment in the glass,
Hardly aware of her
departed
lover; 250
Her brain allows one half-formed thought to pass:
"Well now that's done: and I'm glad it's over.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Till, looking on us with strange eyes, man finds
We are not his desire: it was but sex
Inflamed, so that it roused the breaking forth
Of secret fury in him,
consuming
life,
Yea, even the life that would reach up to know
The heaven of gods above it.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Note: The young English king was the charismatic Henry
Plantagenet
(1155-1183) an elder brother to Richard Coeur de Lion, and twice crowned king in his father Henry II's lifetime, a Capetian custom.
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Troubador Verse |
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Gentile or Jew
O you who turn the wheel and look to windward, 320
Consider Phlebas, who was once
handsome
and tall as you.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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In the End
All that could never be said,
All that could never be done,
Wait for us at last
Somewhere
back of the sun;
All the heart broke to forego
Shall be ours without pain,
We shall take them as lightly as girls
Pluck flowers after rain.
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Sara Teasdale |
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What is your
tidings?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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in their own blood they lie--
Ill-omened the concent that hails our
victory!
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Aeschylus |
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You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose
such as creation of
derivative
works, reports, performances and
research.
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Robert Herrick |
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{
{_The
Canavans_
(new version), by Lady Gregory.
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Yeats |
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She has seen that the tears are not dry on
These cheeks, where the worm never dies,
And has come past the stars of the Lion,
To point us the path to the skies--
To the Lethean peace of the skies--
Come up, in despite of the Lion,
To shine on us with her bright eyes--
Come up, through the lair of the Lion,
With love in her
luminous
eyes.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Mournful
gibbons give a single cry, 12 and the traveler?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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The four tall poplar-trees before the door;
The house, the barn, the orchard, and the well,
With its moss-covered bucket and its trough;
The garden, with its hedge of currant-bushes;
The woods, the harvest-fields; and, far beyond,
The
pleasant
landscape stretching to the sea.
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Longfellow |
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)
You will be likely to regard as sacred
Anything
she may say.
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Robert Forst |
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--La graisse sous la peau parait en feuilles plates;
Et les rondeurs des reins
semblent
prendre l'essor.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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It might have been the
lighthouse
spark
Some sailor, rowing in the dark,
Had importuned to see!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Protect me always from like excess,
Virgin, who bore, without a cry,
Christ whom we
celebrate
at Mass.
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Villon |
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I would not have this wind lift my golden hair,
or bare my white bosom in this air, or let the light
disclose
my
sacred nakedness.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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"
Then they followed
Where the vision led,
And saw their
sleeping
child
Among tigers wild.
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blake-poems |
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For in a people pledged to idleness,
Like swollen tumour in diseased flesh,
Ambition is
engendered
readily.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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As a spider he creeps and he
clutches
his prey,
And he hales me away.
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Aeschylus |
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Gliddon, and, in a
peremptory
tone, demanded in general terms
what we all meant.
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Poe - 5 |
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Let the glad lark-song
Over the meadow, 30
That melting lyric
Of molten silver,
Be for a signal
To
listening
mortals,
How I adore thee.
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Sappho |
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the
happiest
of mortals.
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Robert Burns |
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Together
we hastened.
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Stephen Crane |
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If thou shalt meet a lassie,
In grace and beauty charming,
That e'en thy chosen lassie,
Erewhile
thy breast sae warming,
Had ne'er sic powers alarming;
O that's the lassie, &c.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Bid me to live, and I will live
Thy
Protestant
to be,
Or bid me love, and I will give
A loving heart to thee.
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Robert Herrick |
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And with the gipsies there will be a king
And a
thousand
desperadoes just his style,
With all their rags dyed in the blood of roses,
Splashed with the blood of angels, and of demons.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Whose
multitudes
are these?
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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It was
invented
in Portugal during the reign of John
II.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Royalty payments
must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you
prepare (or are legally
required
to prepare) your periodic tax
returns.
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Keats - Lamia |
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I, like Matine bee,
In act and guise,
That culls its sweets through toilsome hours,
Am roaming Tibur's banks along,
And fashioning with puny powers
A
laboured
song.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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"
"By these pearls whose
spotless
chain,
Oh, my gentle sovereign,
Clasps thy neck of ivory,
Aught thou askest I will be,
If that necklace pure of stain
Thou wilt give for rosary.
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Hugo - Poems |
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this strange man has left me
Troubled
with wilder fancies, than the moon
Breeds in the love-sick maid who gazes at it,
Till lost in inward vision, with wet eye
She gazes idly!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Please do not assume that a book's
appearance
in Google Book Search means it can be used in any manner anywhere in the world.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Protect your honour from
shameful
reproach, 1335
And ensure your father's vow is revoked.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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London:
documents
at sight,
Asked me in demotic French
To luncheon at the Cannon Street Hotel
Followed by a weekend at the Metropole.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Outrageous
lengths of sleep I take,
And oft refuse at nine to wake.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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($1 to $5,000) are particularly
important
to maintaining tax exempt
status with the IRS.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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outen strijf,
Rome forto gouerne; 954
we
defenden
holy chirche
A?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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IV
If my praise her grace effaces,
Then 't is not my heart that showeth, But the
skilless
tongue that soweth Words unworthy of her graces.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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[Illustration]
There was a Young Lady of Hull,
Who was chased by a
virulent
Bull;
But she seized on a spade, and called out, "Who's afraid?
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Lear - Nonsense |
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"My good fool," said a learned bystander,
"Your
operations
are mad.
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Stephen Crane |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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They might (were Harpax not too wise to spend)
Give Harpax' self the blessing of a friend;
Or find some doctor that would save the life
Of
wretched
Shylock, spite of Shylock's wife:
But thousands die, without or this or that,
Die, and endow a college, or a cat.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Though cold it grows,
I will not freeze forever,
In whom love rose
That will my heart deliver
I'll not shiver,
Love hides me from head to toe,
Brings
strength
rather
And tells me which way to go.
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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By Dilettantes it is given;
'Twas by a
Dilettante
writ.
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Go, horse these traitors on your fiery backs,
And mount aloft with them as high as Heaven;
Thence pitch them
headlong
to the lowest hell.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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"
Mark yonder pomp of costly fashion
Round the wealthy, titled bride:
But when compar'd with real passion,
Poor is all that
princely
pride.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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--So the green-gowned faeries say
Living over
Blackmoor
way.
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Gracious
at our pray'r vouchsafe
Unveil to him thy cheeks: that he may mark
Thy second beauty, now conceal'd.
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Her I invoke who
gracious
still replies
To all who ask in faith,
Virgin!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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My heart doth plead that thou in him dost lie,--
A closet never pierc'd with crystal eyes--
But the
defendant
doth that plea deny,
And says in him thy fair appearance lies.
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Ce ne fut mie grant morie
S'ele morust, ne grans pechies,
Car tous ses cors estoit sechies 350
De viellece et anoiantis:
Moult estoit ja ses vis fletris,
Qui jadis fut soef et plains;
Mes or est tous de fronces plains,
Les oreilles avoit mossues,
Et
trestotes
les dents perdues,
Si qu'ele n'en avoit neis une.
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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"Now wenches listen, and let lovers lie,
Ye'll hear a story ye may profit by;
I'm your age treble, with some oddments to't,
And right from wrong can tell, if ye'll but do't:
Ye need not giggle
underneath
your hat,
Mine's no joke-matter, let me tell you that;
So keep ye quiet till my story's told,
And don't despise your betters cause they're old.
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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450
LI
True
sympathy
the Sailor's looks expressed,
His looks--for pondering he was mute the while.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Hither stalks Capaneus, with vaunt and threat
Defying god-like powers, equipt to act,
And, mortal though he be, he strains his tongue
In folly's ecstasy, and casts aloft
High
swelling
words against the ears of Zeus.
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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know'st thou not her secret yet, her vainly veiled deficience,
Whence it comes that all
unwittingly
she wounds the lives she
loves?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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The watercourses were my guide;
I
travelled
grateful by their side,
Or through their channel dry;
They led me through the thicket damp,
Through brake and fern, the beavers' camp,
Through beds of granite cut my road,
And their resistless friendship showed.
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Emerson - Poems |
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When the last
sacramental
words are said;
And beneath grass and flowers that lovely face
Moulders among the dead.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Nay, why
external
for internal given?
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Your whole empire now lies open to him;
There all's allowed him, beneath your sway;
He
triumphs
over me, as the Moors today.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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The chill air comes around me oceanly,
From bank to bank the waterstrife is spread;
Strange birds like
snowspots
oer the whizzing sea
Hang where the wild duck hurried past and fled.
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John Clare |
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HERBERT Fallen am I, and worn out, a useless Man;
Kindly have you protected me to-night,
And no return have I to make but prayers;
May you in age be blest with such a
daughter!
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William Wordsworth |
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She was two and twenty, and he was
thirty-three, with pay and allowances of nearly
fourteen
hundred rupees
a month.
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Kipling - Poems |
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I could, with sense illumined thus,
Clear
doubtful
texts in AEeschylus!
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James Russell Lowell |
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She's coming, and must not be seen by the
neighbor!
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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For the other divisions of Gaul on this side of the Alps,
into the _Gallia Belgica, Celtica, Aquitanica_, further
subdivided
by
Augustus, see the Manners of the Germans, s.
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Tacitus |
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ACT IV
SCENE--A
desolate
prospect--a ridge of rocks--a Chapel on the summit of
one--Moon behind the rocks--night stormy--irregular sound of a
bell--HERBERT enters exhausted.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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"
That
Sarrazin
says, "Hostages he'll show;
Ten shall you take, or fifteen or a score.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Or ask of yonder argent fields above,
Why Jove's
satellites
are less than Jove?
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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