And bound for the same bourn as I,
On every road I wandered by,
Trod beside me, close and dear,
The beautiful and death-struck year:
Whether in the woodland brown
I heard the beechnut rustle down,
And saw the purple crocus pale
Flower about the autumn dale;
Or littering far the fields of May
Lady-smocks a-bleaching lay,
And like a skylit water stood
The
bluebells
in the azured wood.
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The Dungeon of thy self; thy Soul
(Which Men enjoying sight oft without cause complain)
Imprison'd now indeed,
In real
darkness
of the body dwells,
Shut up from outward light 160
To incorporate with gloomy night;
For inward light alas
Puts forth no visual beam.
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Milton |
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The uncommonly deep snow has made him think
Of his old song, _The Wild
Colonial
Boy_,
He always used to sing along the tote-road.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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They'll live or die wi' fame, Willie;
They'll live or die wi' fame;
But sune, wi'
sounding
victorie,
May Kenmure's lord come hame!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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A
detachment
of these going to drink
at a lake in Lycia, a crowd of peasants endeavoured to prevent them.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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And, when I pause, still groves among,
(Such loveliness is mine) a throng
Of
nightingales
awake and strain
Their souls into a quivering song.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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What knighthood asks the proud accusers yield,
And, dare the damsels'
champions
to the field.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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God help thee in this
wildness!
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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[_He vanishes with_ FAUST, _the
companions
start back from each
other_.
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Elle croit trouver du pain aux
Tuileries!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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arua iuuentus
nuda fodit tardoque puer
domifactus
aratro
miratur patriis pendentem sedibus ensem.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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The invalidity or
unenforceability
of any
provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions.
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Keats |
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Continually
in the midst of Erech weapons
the heroes purified.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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iste modum statuit signis, hic rebus honorem
infundit, tenebris hic
interlabitur
aethrae,
uiscera et aetherios animans genitabilis artus.
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Imagists |
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Be no
unpleasing
melancholy mine:
Me, let the tender office long engage,
To rock the cradle of reposing age,
With lenient arts extend a mother's breath,
Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death,
Explore the thought, explain the asking eye,
And keep a while one parent from the sky!
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Neither does he drift into fatalism or indifferentism; the energy
of his temperament, and ever-fresh sympathy with national and other
developments, being an
effectual
bar to this.
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Whitman |
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So they began to sing, voice answering voice
In strains alternate- for
alternate
strains
The Muses then were minded to recall-
First Corydon, then Thyrsis in reply.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Surely there is
something
more in each of the trees--some living soul.
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Whitman |
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Chvabrine
become master of the place!
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Now, down here, in this unknown angle,
A
glimmering
furrow of melancholy ruby,
A sweetly twinkling sun-spark trembles:
A patriarchal guide leads his family.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Never fear for your legs if they're broken to-day;
Winds only blow straws, dust, and
feathers
away.
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John Clare |
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Allor puose la mano a la mascella
d'un suo
compagno
e la bocca li aperse,
gridando: <
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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O
children
of the light, now in our grief Give us again the solace of belief.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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"
Then thus the hoary chief: "My victor arms
Have awed the realms around with dire alarms:
A sure
memorial
of my dreaded fame
The boy shall bear; Ulysses be his name!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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To what kingdom he
belonged
knew none
there, nor knew they from whence he had come.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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"
XVII
Tattiana's eyes with tender gleam
On everything around her gaze,
Of priceless value all things seem
And in her languid bosom raise
A pleasure though with sorrow knit:
The table with its lamp unlit,
The pile of books, with carpet spread
Beneath the window-sill his bed,
The landscape which the moonbeams fret,
The twilight pale which softens all,
Lord Byron's
portrait
on the wall
And the cast-iron statuette
With folded arms and eyes bent low,
Cocked hat and melancholy brow.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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trenches
are scraped flat.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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I'll pu' the budding rose, when Phoebus peeps in view,
For it's like a baumy kiss o' her sweet, bonie mou;
The hyacinth's for constancy wi' its
unchanging
blue,
And a' to be a Posie to my ain dear May.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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622 in the
Bodleian
library by F.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Meredith - Poems |
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20 and the
remaining
spawn still rage at will.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Thus far no harm I've wrought to him your son;
But now I give you notice--when night's done,
I will make entry at your city-gate,
Bringing
the prince alive; and those who wait
To see him in my jaws--your lackey-crew--
Shall see me eat him in your palace, too!
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Hugo - Poems |
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THE PASSION OF LOVE
This craving 'tis that's Venus unto us:
From this, engender all the lures of love,
From this, O first hath into human hearts
Trickled
that drop of joyance which ere long
Is by chill care succeeded.
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Lucretius |
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Here is an
extract from his preface:-
"'Those who have been accustomed to the phraseology of modem writers, if
they persist in reading this book to a
conclusion
_(impossible!
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Poe - 5 |
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Herman
regarded
her in
silence.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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"To-day be wise and great,
And put off hesitation and go forth 5
With
cheerful
courage for the diurnal need.
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Sappho |
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-- He would not hear of this (the monarch said,
With cheers with fury swolen) nor would refrain
From
pressing
Lydia's king with armed band,
So long as he possessed a palm of land;
XXXIV
"And if the knight, when a vile woman sues,
His purpose shift, let him the evil bear:
He will not, for the warrior's asking, lose
What he has hardly conquered in a year.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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I clasp thy knees,
Ulysses!
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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+ Keep it legal Whatever your use, remember that you are
responsible
for ensuring that what you are doing is legal.
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Meredith - Poems |
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I would, when I compose my solemn verse,
Sleep near the heaven as do astrologers,
Near the high bells, and with a
dreaming
mind
Hear their calm hymns blown to me on the wind.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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how I shook myself, when he
Seiz'd me, and cried, "Thou haply thought'st me not
A
disputant
in logic so exact.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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those
heretics
who are equally erroneous with yourselves,
and who do not lament a dead body in the same manner as you
do.
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Tacitus |
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But right is might through all the world;
Province to province
faithful
clung,
Through good and ill the war-bolt hurled,
Till Freedom cheered and joy-bells rung.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Shows how even
Radicalism
can fall into academic
grooves and miss the essential truths of its own creed.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Under the arm a trusty dagger rests,
Each spiked knee-piece its
murderous
power attests.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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e han south
euerichon!
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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[202] Nor have I
forgotten
how
Cleon treated me because of my comedy last year;[203] he dragged me
before the Senate and there he uttered endless slanders against me; 'twas
a tempest of abuse, a deluge of lies.
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Aristophanes |
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Great Nature spoke; observant men obeyed;
Cities were built,
societies
were made:
Here rose one little state: another near
Grew by like means, and joined, through love or fear.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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And if the sufferer loves the malady,
There's
scarcely
call for any remedy!
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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" It is
doubtful
whether one can
call it a tragedy at all.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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>
majestic
progressions of chords.
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Sidney Lanier |
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And then, not to mislead,
I give you an
adversary
to fear indeed.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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'Happy at conquering these treacherous fears
My crime's to have parted the dishevelled tangle
Of kisses that the gods kept so well mingled:
For I'd scarcely begun to hide an ardent laugh
In one girl's happy depths (holding back
With only a finger, so that her
feathery
candour
Might be tinted by the passion of her burning sister,
The little one, naive and not even blushing)
Than from my arms, undone by vague dying,
This prey, forever ungrateful, frees itself and is gone,
Not pitying the sob with which I was still drunk.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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They have sent us five
thousand
troops, and driven along ten thousand horses.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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And note, besides, that liquor of honey or milk
Yields in the mouth
agreeable
taste to tongue,
Whilst nauseous wormwood, pungent centaury,
With their foul flavour set the lips awry;
Thus simple 'tis to see that whatsoever
Can touch the senses pleasingly are made
Of smooth and rounded elements, whilst those
Which seem the bitter and the sharp, are held
Entwined by elements more crook'd, and so
Are wont to tear their ways into our senses,
And rend our body as they enter in.
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Lucretius |
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'
There swelled a tumult at the gate, high voices waxing higher; 91
A flash of red reflected light lit the
cathedral
spire;
I heard a cry for faggots, then I heard a yell for fire.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Sir, can you tell
Where he
bestowes
himselfe?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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we have learnt
A different lore: we may not thus profane
Nature's sweet voices, always full of love
And
joyance!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Phlaccus, and
Professor
and Mrs.
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T.S. Eliot |
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6 Qua{m}uis
fluenter
diues.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Du Fu was a friend and strong
supporter
of Fang Guan, and he spoke up in Fang Guan?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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O, so
unnatural
Nature,
You whose ephemeral flower
Lasts only from dawn to dusk!
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Ronsard |
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I blush my
rudeness
to confess,
And answer all he says with yes.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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The Peacock
Juno and the Peacock
'Juno and the Peacock'
Magdalena van de Passe, Peter Paul Rubens, 1617 - 1634, The Rijksmuseun
In
spreading
out his fan, this bird,
Whose plumage drags on earth, I fear,
Appears more lovely than before,
But makes his derriere appear.
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Appoloinaire |
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Shame of this secret so weighs, Midas
unburdens
his heart.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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quid numerem euersas urbis regumque ruinas
inque rogo Croesum
Priamumque
in litore truncum,
cui nec Troia rogus?
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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The
civilized
nations--Greece, Rome, England--have been sustained by
the primitive forests which anciently rotted where they stand.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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[The
occasion
of the oration was this.
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Tacitus |
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Oh,
miserable
men!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Or the
glistening
Eye to the poison of a smile!
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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For was I not,
At that last sunset seen in Paradise,
When all the westering clouds flashed out in throngs
Of sudden angel-faces, face by face,
All hushed and solemn, as a thought of God
Held them suspended,--was I not, that hour,
The lady of the world, princess of life,
Mistress
of feast and favour?
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Elizabeth Browning |
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65
The thundering tube the aged angler hears,
And swells the
groaning
torrent with his tears.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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Sweet moan, sweeter smile,
All the
dovelike
moans beguile.
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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CHORUS
Here in this Argive land--so runs the tale--
Io was
priestess
once of Hera's fane.
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Aeschylus |
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And I saw it was filled with graves,
And
tombstones
where flowers should be;
And priests in black gowns were walking their rounds,
And binding with briars my joys and desires.
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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Every traveller I've ever known has
complained
of poor treatment:
He whom I recommend treatment delicious receives.
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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CHORUS:
Breathe low, low
The spell of the mighty
mistress
now!
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Shelley |
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Much madness is divinest sense
To a
discerning
eye;
Much sense the starkest madness.
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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A power of butterfly must be
The
aptitude
to fly,
Meadows of majesty concedes
And easy sweeps of sky.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Would you cast your jewels all to the breezes
blowing?
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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The battle rages with many a loud alarm, and
frequent
advance and retreat,
The infidel triumphs--or supposes he triumphs,
The prison, scaffold, garrote, handcuffs, iron necklace and anklet, lead-
balls, do their work,
The named and unnamed heroes pass to other spheres,
The great speakers and writers are exiled--they lie sick in distant lands,
The cause is asleep--the strongest throats are still, choked
with their own blood,
The young men drop their eyelashes toward the ground when they meet;
But, for all this, Liberty has not gone out of the place, nor the infidel
entered into possession.
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Whitman |
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"
A lake was near; the shore was steep;
There never foot had been; 50
They ran, and with a desperate leap
Together
plunged into the deep, [3]
Nor ever more were seen.
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William Wordsworth |
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Then too the body rarefies, and air,
Forsooth as ever of such nimbleness,
Comes on and penetrates aboundingly
Through opened pores, and thus is sprinkled round
Unto all
smallest
places in our frame.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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"
Before she was fifteen the great
struggle
of her life began.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Nor will we
hide ourselves unseen in a horse's belly; in daylight and unconcealed
are we
resolved
to girdle their walls with flame.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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Up in a sudden burning flares
The dark tent of nature pitched about our souls;
And light, like a stound of golden din,
A
shadowless
light like weather of infinite plains,
Light not narrowed into place,
Amazes the naked nerves of the soul;
And like the pouring of immortal airs
Out of a flowery season,
Over us blows the inordinate desire.
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And woe to
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Li Po |
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MY
HONOURED
FRIEND,
I would not write you till I could have it in my power to give you
some account of myself and my matters, which, by the by, is often no
easy task.
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A perfect Judge will read each work of Wit
With the same spirit that its author writ:
Survey the WHOLE, nor seek slight faults to find 235
Where nature moves, and rapture warms the mind;
Nor lose, for that
malignant
dull delight,
The gen'rous pleasure to be charm'd with Wit.
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O how gladly
Would I
exchange
ye, and my fields and forests,
Mine ancient name, mine ancient rank, my ruins--
My ancestors, with whom I soon shall lie,
For _his_ thatched cottage and his youthful brow!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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If I lay here dead
XXIV Let the world's sharpness like a clasping knife
XXV A heavy heart, Beloved, have I borne
XXVI I lived with visions for my company
XXVII My own Beloved, who hast lifted me
XXVIII My
letters!
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with
Chambers
and the later editions, connected 'for hearing him' with
what follows.
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Thus, Woman, Principle of Life, Speaker of the Ideal
Would you see
The dark form of the sun
The contours of life
Or be truly dazzled
By the fire that fuses all
The flame conveyer of modesties
In flesh in gold that fine gesture
Error is as unknown
As the limits of spring
The temptation prodigious
All touches all travels you
At first it was only a thunder of incense
Which you love the more
The fine praise at four
Lovely motionless nude
Violin mute but palpable
I speak to you of seeing
I will speak to you of your eyes
Be faceless if you wish
Of their unwilling colour
Of
luminous
stones
Colourless
Before the man you conquer
His blind enthusiasm
Reigns naively like a spring
In the desert
Between the sands of night and the waves of day
Between earth and water
No ripple to erase
No road possible
Between your eyes and the images I see there
Is all of which I think
Myself inderacinable
Like a plant which masses itself
Which simulates rock among other rocks
That I carry for certain
You all entire
All that you gaze at
All
This is a boat
That sails a sweet river
It carries playful women
And patient grain
This is a horse descending the hill
Or perhaps a flame rising
A great barefooted laugh in a wretched heart
An autumn height of soothing verdure
A bird that persists in folding its wings in its nest
A morning that scatters the reddened light
To waken the fields
This is a parasol
And this the dress
Of a lace-maker more seductive than a bouquet
Of the bell-sounds of the rainbow
This thwarts immensity
This has never enough space
Welcome is always elsewhere
With the lightning and the flood
That accompany it
Of medusas and fires
Marvellously obliging
They destroy the scaffolding
Topped by a sad coloured flag
A bounded star
Whose fingers are paralysed
I speak of seeing you
I know you living
All exists all is visible
There is no fleck of night in your eyes
I see by a light exclusively yours.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Illius egregias virtutes
claraque
facta
Saepe fatebuntur gnatorum in funere matres,
Cum in cinerem canos solvent a vertice crines 350
Putridaque infirmis variabunt pectora palmis.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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