Her clothes spread wide
And, mermaid-like, awhile they bore her up;
Which time she chaunted snatches of old tunes,
As one incapable of her own distress,
Or like a
creature
native and indued
Unto that element; but long it could not be
Till that her garments, heavy with their drink,
Pull'd the poor wretch from her melodious lay
To muddy death.
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1 Has it a
speaking
virtue?
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Robert Herrick |
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After that day
Aegisthus thus decreed: whoso should slay
The old king's
wandering
son, should win rich meed
Of gold; and for Electra, she must wed
With me, not base of blood--in that I stand
True Mycenaean--but in gold and land
Most poor, which maketh highest birth as naught.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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"
These pictures of town and
landscape
are never separated from their
personal relation to the poet.
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Rilke - Poems |
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CCXXXVII
That even-tide is light as was the day;
Their armour shines beneath the sun's clear ray,
Hauberks
and helms throw off a dazzling flame,
And blazoned shields, flowered in bright array,
Also their spears, with golden ensigns gay.
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Chanson de Roland |
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" KAU}
For many a window ornamented with sweet ornaments
Lookd out into the World of Tharmas, where in ceaseless torrents
{Lowercase
"world" mended to "World.
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Blake - Zoas |
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I did heare
The
gallopping
of Horse.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Through this May night, if one great ghost should stray
With deep
remembering
eyes,
Where that old meadow of battle smiles away
Its blood-stained memories,
If Washington should walk, where friend and foe
Sleep and forget the past,
Be sure his unquenched heart would leap to know
Their souls are linked at last.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Because
reluctant
to part from the flesh.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Though once beloved and lovely, young and bright,
So
slighted
are we now, my sister sweet
Already plumes for flight
Her wings to bear her to her own old seat;
Myself am but a shadow thin and fleet;
Thus have I told you, in brief words, whate'er
You sought of us to find:
And now farewell!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Heav'n from all
creatures
hides the book of Fate,
All but the page prescrib'd, their present state:
From brutes what men, from men what spirits know:
Or who could suffer Being here below?
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Alexander Pope |
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Beneath two trees he climbed the hill and looked,
And Rollant's strokes on three
terraces
knew,
On the green grass saw lying his nephew;
`Tis nothing strange that Charles anger grew.
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Chanson de Roland |
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And thus from year to year, through hope and fear,
With many a curse and many a secret tear,
Striving
in vain his cloud of debt to clear,
At last
He woke to find his foolish dreaming past,
And all his best-of-life the easy prey
Of squandering scamps and quacks that lined his way
With vile array,
From rascal statesman down to petty knave;
Himself, at best, for all his bragging brave,
A gamester's catspaw and a banker's slave.
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Sidney Lanier |
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He does not know that
sickening
thirst
That sands one's throat, before
The hangman with his gardener's gloves
Slips through the padded door,
And binds one with three leathern thongs,
That the throat may thirst no more.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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As through the spirit paling,
The pathways--then across the weald
Caressing breezes sailing
Respond
themselves
o'er fence and field.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Sweet roses do not so;
Of their sweet deaths, are
sweetest
odours made:
And so of you, beauteous and lovely youth,
When that shall vade, by verse distills your truth.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Why a Nostril wide inhaling terror
trembling
& affright
Why a tender curb upon the youthful burning boy?
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blake-poems |
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Their long cries enter the blue clouds;
Their flapping wings
tirelessly
beat and throb.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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A thought went up my mind to-day
That I have had before,
But did not finish, -- some way back,
I could not fix the year,
Nor where it went, nor why it came
The second time to me,
Nor
definitely
what it was,
Have I the art to say.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Bouterwek
Scrēadunga, 24 _2_: wē hātað ǣnne dæg fram sunnan
upgange oð ǣfen): nom.
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Beowulf |
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Quand, ainsi qu'un poete, il descend dans les villes,
Il ennoblit le sort des choses les plus viles,
Et s'introduit en roi, sans bruit et sans valets,
Dans tous les
hopitaux
et dans tous les palais.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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But over them, lying there,
shattered
and mute,
What deep echo rolls?
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Where is the breath of Poseidon,
Cool from the sea-floor with
evening?
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Sappho |
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Then the Liars and
Swearers
are Fools: for there
are Lyars and Swearers enow, to beate the honest men,
and hang vp them
Wife.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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--but this word
commonly
means merely something which
they do not understand,--which they are abed and asleep to, however
much it may be worth their while to be up and awake to it.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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An
unpublished
_Problem_ shows his knowledge of
John of Salisbury.
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John Donne |
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Dripping sleep and languor from his heavy haunches,
He turns from deep disdain and launches
Himself upon the thickening air,
And, with weird cries of
sickening
despair,
Flies at Leviathan.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Bring die Begier zu ihrem sussen Leib
Nicht wieder vor die halb
verruckten
Sinnen!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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So from the root
Springs lighter the green stalk, from thence the leaves 480
More aerie, last the bright
consummate
floure
Spirits odorous breathes: flours and thir fruit
Mans nourishment, by gradual scale sublim'd
To vital Spirits aspire, to animal,
To intellectual, give both life and sense,
Fansie and understanding, whence the soule
Reason receives, and reason is her being,
Discursive, or Intuitive; discourse
Is oftest yours, the latter most is ours,
Differing but in degree, of kind the same.
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Milton |
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"
jubilation
and welcome.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Mighty subduer of cities, Discretion, O
princess
of nations,
Goddess whom I adore, safely you've led me thus far.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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A sovereign nature,--an exalted mind,--
A soul proud--sleepless--with a lynx's eye,--
An instant foresight,--thought as towering high,
E'en as the heart in which they are enshrined:
A bright assembly on that day combined
Each other in his honour to outvie,
When 'mid the fair his
judgment
did descry
That sweet perfection all to her resign'd.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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ANTOINETTA, to his clasp restored,
Our neighbour Stephen, who his wife adored,
Quite raw, howe'er, in this, exclaimed apart
Friend Giles has surely got some secret art,
For now my rib
displays
superior charms,
To what she had, before she left my arms.
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La Fontaine |
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Thus merrily the little noisy troop
Along the grass as rude
marauders
hie,
For ever noisy and for ever gay
While keeping in the meadows holiday.
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John Clare |
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Songs of a Strolling Player
THROUGH the
blossoms
softly simmer
Drops profound and fair
Since the light-beams o'er them shimmer.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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An exquisite sense
of the ridiculous
belonged
to the Greek character; and closely
connected with this faculty was a strong propensity to flippancy
and impertinence.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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" The bard obeyed;
And turning from his own sweet maid,
The aged knight, Sir Leoline,
Led forth the lady
Geraldine!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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About Project Gutenberg(TM) electronic
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Stephen Crane |
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What
recompense
can I presume to make?
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La Fontaine |
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Wondrous
seems
how to sons of men Almighty God
in the strength of His spirit sendeth wisdom,
estate, high station: He swayeth all things.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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You've not surprised my secret yet
Already the cortege moves on
But left to us is the regret
of there being no
connivance
none
The rose floats at the water's edge
The maskers have passed by in crowds
It trembles in me like a bell
This heavy secret you ask now
?
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Appoloinaire |
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--Off they fly in earnest chase; 10
Every dog is eager-hearted,
All the four are in the race:
And the hare whom they pursue,
Knows from
instinct
[1] what to do;
Her hope is near: no turn she makes; 15
But, like an arrow, to the river takes.
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William Wordsworth |
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A chantar m'er de so qu'ieu no volria
Now I must sing of what I would not do,
Complain of him I confess to loving true;
I love him more than any the world can view:
Yet my grace and courtesy own no value,
Nor my beauty, my worthiness, my mind;
I'm deceived, betrayed, as would be my due,
If the
slightest
charm in me he failed to find.
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Troubador Verse |
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The coming of the
first robin was a jubilee beyond crowning of monarch or
birthday
of
pope; the first red leaf hurrying through "the altered air," an
epoch.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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),
Was there a
footfall?
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Sappho |
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At last I saw the shadowed bars,
Like a lattice wrought in lead,
Move right across the whitewashed wall
That faced my three-plank bed,
And I knew that somewhere in the world
God's
dreadful
dawn was red.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Whitman |
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laissez-moi, mon front pose sur vos genoux,
Gouter, en
regrettant
l'ete blanc et torride,
De l'arriere-saison le rayon jaune et doux!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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But meet him now and be it in the morn,
When every one will give the time of day,
He knits his brow and shows an angry eye
And passeth by with stiff unbowed knee,
Disdaining
duty that to us belongs.
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Shakespeare |
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Did Heaven so grant
His spirit a sign of
covenant?
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Elizabeth Browning |
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About them frisking playd 340
All Beasts of th' Earth, since wilde, and of all chase
In Wood or Wilderness, Forrest or Den;
Sporting
the Lion rampd, and in his paw
Dandl'd the Kid; Bears, Tygers, Ounces, Pards
Gambold before them, th' unwieldy Elephant
To make them mirth us'd all his might, and wreathd
His Lithe Proboscis; close the Serpent sly
Insinuating, wove with Gordian twine
His breaded train, and of his fatal guile
Gave proof unheeded; others on the grass 350
Coucht, and now fild with pasture gazing sat,
Or Bedward ruminating: for the Sun
Declin'd was hasting now with prone carreer
To th' Ocean Iles, and in th' ascending Scale
Of Heav'n the Starrs that usher Evening rose:
When Satan still in gaze, as first he stood,
Scarce thus at length faild speech recoverd sad.
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Milton |
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"But forasmuch as holy church, herein
Dispensing, seems to contradict the truth
I have discover'd to thee, yet behooves
Thou rest a little longer at the board,
Ere the crude aliment, which thou hast taken,
Digested fitly to
nutrition
turn.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Copyright
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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' -- `For that thou
sholdest
never spede.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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I don't know when,
Pray do not ask me how, --
Indeed, I 'm too astonished
To think of
answering
you!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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]
In the editions 1815 to 1832, the title given to this poem was 'Extract
from the
conclusion
of a Poem, composed upon leaving School'.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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AELIVS
HADRIANVS
IMPERATOR
76-138 A.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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How glad she was to hear
My
footstep
on the threshold when I came back last year!
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Through his young woods how pleased Sabinus strayed,
Or sat delighted in the thickening shade,
With annual joy the reddening shoots to greet,
Or see the stretching
branches
long to meet!
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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But let my sin fall not on me, but thee,
Boris, the
regicide!
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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A
FLEETING
GLIMPSE OF A VILLAGE.
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Hugo - Poems |
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PANTHEA:
It is the
delicate
spirit
That guides the earth through heaven.
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Shelley |
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authors come;
Thou
printest
all--and sellest some--
My Murray.
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Byron |
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"He was to blame in wearing away his youth in contemplation with the end
of
poetizing
in his manhood.
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Poe - 5 |
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aeternum tibi Rhenus aret, tibi Nilus inundet,
altricemque
suam fertilis orbis alat.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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NA AUDIART
"QUE BE-M VOLS MAL"
Any one who has read anything of the troubadours knows well the tale of Bertran of Born and My Lady Maent of Mon- taignac, and knows also the song he made when she would none
her love-lit glance, of Aelis her speech free-running, of the Vicomp- tess of Chales her throat and her two hands, at
Roacoart
of Anhes her hair golden as Iseult's ; and even in this fashion of Lady Audiart, " although she would that ill come unto him" he sought
and praised the lineaments of the torse.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Stumbling upon this ill he'll learn
How
different
to govern and to serve.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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]
Footnote 2:
Imitated
apparently from the dance in Shelley's 'Triumph of
Life':--
The wild dance maddens in the van; and those
.
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Tennyson |
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Tonson wrote Pope a
respectful
letter asking for the honor of
being allowed to publish them.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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The boys are up the woods with day
To fetch the
daffodils
away,
And home at noonday from the hills
They bring no dearth of daffodils.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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testis erit magnis uirtutibus unda Scamandri,
quae passim rapido
diffunditur
Hellesponto,
cuius iter caesis angustans corporum aceruis
alta tepefaciet permixta flumina caede.
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Latin - Catullus |
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SAID he, what anxiously I wish to get,
You've plenty stored, and never wanted yet;
You surely know my
meaning?
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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How should I pay you
everything
you owe?
| Guess: |
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Close, close to men,
Like
undulating
layer of air,
Right above their heads,
The potent plain of Daemons spreads.
| Guess: |
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Emerson - Poems |
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And the conduct of Homer and Virgil has, in
this, not only
received
a fine imitation, but a masterly contrast.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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I'll be under the earth, a
boneless
phantom,
At rest in the myrtle groves of the dark kingdom:
You'll be an old woman hunched over the fire,
Regretting my love for you, your fierce disdain,
So live, believe me: don't wait for another day,
Gather them now the roses of life, and desire.
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These
leaves are not many dipped in one dye, as at the dye-house, but they
are dyed in light of infinitely various degrees of
strength
and left
to set and dry there.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Like Love and the Sirens, these birds sing so
melodiously
that even the life of those who hear them is not too great a price to pay for such music.
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Appoloinaire |
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Besides, I am anxious to
know who will be
President
in 2045.
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Poe - 5 |
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The Psalmist numbered out the years of man:
They are enough: and if thy tale be TRUE,
Thou, who didst grudge him e'en that fleeting span,
More than enough, thou fatal
Waterloo!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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All that, of old, Eurotas, happy stream,
Heard, as Apollo mused upon the lyre,
And bade his laurels learn, Silenus sang;
Till from Olympus, loth at his approach,
Vesper, advancing, bade the
shepherds
tell
Their tale of sheep, and pen them in the fold.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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It should
not be
confused
with the 1631-41 Edition of the second volume.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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What but design of
darkness
to appal?
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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This was in the last year of
the poet's life, and after the Museum had been
brightened
by so much
of his lyric verse.
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Robert Burns |
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LOUIS UNTERMEYER
MONOLOG FROM A MATTRESS
_Heinrich
Heine aetat 56, loquitur:_
Can that be you, _la mouche?
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Ay, to you
I doubt not I seem
admirable
now,
Worthy of being sung in loudest praise;
But to myself how seem I?
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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LE BALCON
Mere des souvenirs, maitresse des maitresses,
O toi, tous mes plaisirs, o toi, tous mes
devoirs!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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"All this to make 'Una dompna soiseubuda', a borrowed lady,
or as the
Italians
translated it 'Una donna ideale'"
Ezra Pound
Dompna, puois de mi no?
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Troubador Verse |
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In vain; for deafer than Icarian seas
He hears,
untainted
yet.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Is not yon lingering orange after-glow
That stays to vex the moon more fair than all
Rome's lordliest
pageants!
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Wilde - Poems |
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XVII
To eastward and to westward
Have spread the Tuscan bands;
Nor house, nor fence, nor dovecote
In
Crustumerium
stands.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Meredith - Poems |
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Well hast thou known proud Troy's
perfidious
land,
And well her natives merit at thy hand!
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Iliad - Pope |
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Thus Pegasus, a nearer way to take, 150
May boldly deviate from the common track;
From vulgar bounds with brave
disorder
part,
And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art,
Which without passing thro' the judgment, gains
The heart, and all its end at once attains.
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