Grosart have slightly misrepresented the
relation of _Hesperides_ to the
anthology
known as _Witts Recreations_:
Mr.
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or,
Your
_Sutlers_
wife, i' the leaguer, of two blanks!
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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I have seen
A pine in Italy that cast its shadow
Athwart a cataract; firm stood the pine--
The
cataract
shook the shadow.
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Tennyson |
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For
southern
wind and east wind meet
Where, girt and crowned by sword and fire,
England with bare and bloody feet
Climbs the steep road of wide empire.
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Wilde - Poems |
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May," and
"Garmison,"
referred
to in places as "Jerry" or "Jack.
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Kipling - Poems |
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What would I give for a heart of flesh to warm me through,
Instead of this heart of stone ice-cold
whatever
I do;
Hard and cold and small, of all hearts the worst of all.
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Christina Rossetti |
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LFS}
A shadowy human form winged & in his depths
The dazzlings as of gems shone clear, rapturous in joy fury
Glorying in his own eyes Exalted in terrific Pride
[ Searching for glory wishing that the heavens had eyes to See
And courting that the Earth would ope her Eyelids & behold
Such wondrous beauty
repining
in the midst of all his glory
That nought but Enion could be found to praise adore & love
Three days in self admiring raptures on the rocks he flamd
And three dark nights repind the solitude.
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Blake - Zoas |
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He knows of nothing but the
football
match,
And where hens lay, and when the duck will hatch.
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John Clare |
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The Ball no
Question
makes of Ayes and Noes,
But Right or Left as strikes the Player goes;
And He that toss'd Thee down into the Field,
He knows about it all--HE knows--HE knows!
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Ma conveniesi a quella pietra scema
che guarda 'l ponte, che
Fiorenza
fesse
vittima ne la sua pace postrema.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Adored with caution, as a brittle heaven,
To reach
Were
hopeless
as the rainbow's raiment
To touch,
Yet persevered toward, surer for the distance;
How high
Unto the saints' slow diligence
The sky!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Wrong,
followed
by a deeper wrong!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Compare it with an
Irishman's, above all a poor Irishman's, reckless
abandonment
and
naturalness, or compare it with the only fragment that has come down
to us of Shakespeare's own conversation.
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Yeats |
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I burned
Hot and cold, in a lasting fever, well-earned
By the mortal wound of your glance's
piercing
flight.
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Ronsard |
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XIII
And there he sets him to fulfil
His frustrate first intent:
And lay upon her bed, at last,
The offering earlier meant:
When, on his
stooping
figure, ghast
And haggard eyes are bent.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Hush, call no echo up in further proof
Of
desolation!
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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'
OUT OF THE ROSE
ONE winter evening an old knight in rusted chain-armour rode slowly
along the woody southern slope of Ben Bulben,
watching
the sun go down
in crimson clouds over the sea.
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Yeats |
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Study the Dragon as a type of the
conventional monster of romance,
contrasting
his brutal nature with the
intellectuality and strategy of the Knight.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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This hath beautiful Proserpine
ordained
to be borne to her for
her proper gift.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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King
You lack respect; I'll allow for your age,
Excuse the ardour of your
youthful
courage.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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2
_demostres_
D et cod.
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Latin - Catullus |
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I
sense you
so
strongly
- and that you
always feel
well with us,
the parents - but
free, child
eternal, and at once
everywhere -
57.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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A Negress
Possessed by some demon now a negress
Would taste a girl-child
saddened
by strange fruits
Forbidden ones too under the ragged dress,
This glutton's ready to try a trick or two:
To her belly she twins two fortunate tits
And, so high that no hand knows how to seize her,
Thrusts the dark shock of her booted legs
Just like a tongue unskilled in pleasure.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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V
The council ends, and that King Marsilie
Calleth aside Clarun of Balaguee,
Estramarin and
Eudropin
his peer,
And Priamun and Guarlan of the beard,
And Machiner and his uncle Mahee,
With Jouner, Malbien from over sea,
And Blancandrin, good reason to decree:
Ten hath he called, were first in felony.
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Chanson de Roland |
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_ Evidently, in the
exercise
of her
magic, power had gone out of her.
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Keats |
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e
deboneire
wynde
bringe?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Honoured
father, long
Have I desired to ask thee of the death
Of young Dimitry, the tsarevich; thou,
'Tis said, wast then at Uglich.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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(Note: The septet may
indicate
the constellation of Ursa Major in the north.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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180
XXI
The faithfull knight now grew in litle space,
By hearing her, and by her sisters lore,
To such perfection of all
heavenly
grace,
That wretched world he gan for to abhore,
And mortall life gan loath, as thing forlore, 185
Greevd with remembrance of his wicked wayes,
And prickt with anguish of his sinnes so sore,
That he desirde to end his wretched dayes:
So much the dart of sinfull guilt the soule dismayes.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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When Fate hath taunted last
And thrown her furthest stone,
The maimed may pause and breathe,
And glance
securely
round.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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It is a land of
poverty!
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blake-poems |
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at al lyke3,
I schal ware my whyle wel, quyl hit laste3,
1236 with tale;
[M] 3e ar welcum to my cors,
Yowre awen won to wale,
Me be-houe3 of fyne force,
1240 [N] Your
seruaunt
be & schale.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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The man who was war
commander
of the armies of the Republic
rides down Pennsylvania Avenue--
The man who is peace commander of the armies of the Republic
rides down Pennsylvania Avenue--
for the sake of the Boy, for the sake of the Republic.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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) This
Relation
of Pot and Potter to Man and his Maker
figures far and wide in the Literature of the World, from the time of
the Hebrew Prophets to the present; when it may finally take the name
of "Pot theism," by which Mr.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Where is my little
Princess?
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Euripides - Electra |
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XCVIII
Oft with desire was good Rinaldo stung
To ask that sorrow's cause, and the request
Was almost on the gentle warrior's tongue,
And there by
courteous
modesty represt.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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On the other side
Old King Latinus, seated by his child
Lavinia, and that Brutus I beheld,
Who Tarquin chas'd, Lucretia, Cato's wife
Marcia, with Julia and
Cornelia
there;
And sole apart retir'd, the Soldan fierce.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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For how do I hold thee but by thy
granting?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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SEMYON
NIKITICH
GODUNOV, secret agent of Boris Godunov.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Vainly shall you, in Venus' favour strong,
Your tresses comb, and for your dames divide
On peaceful lyre the several parts of song;
Vainly in chamber hide
From spears and
Gnossian
arrows, barb'd with fate,
And battle's din, and Ajax in the chase
Unconquer'd; those adulterous locks, though late,
Shall gory dust deface.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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1090
But let us now, as in bad plight, devise
What best may for the present serve to hide
The Parts of each from other, that seem most
To shame obnoxious, and
unseemliest
seen,
Some Tree whose broad smooth Leaves together sowd,
And girded on our loyns, may cover round
Those middle parts, that this new commer, Shame,
There sit not, and reproach us as unclean.
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Milton |
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Fand þā þǣr inne
æðelinga
gedriht
swefan æfter symble; sorge ne cūðon,
120 won-sceaft wera.
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Beowulf |
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Finally down from its shelf he dragged the
ponderous
Roman,
Seated himself at the window, and opened the book, and in silence
Turned o'er the well-worn leaves, where thumb-marks thick on the margin,
Like the trample of feet, proclaimed the battle was hottest.
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Longfellow |
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To think thus, to feel thus much, and then to cease
thinking
and
feeling when a certain star rises above yonder horizon.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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For gods
infernal
bury deep, and cast
The blood into a trench.
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John Donne |
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Omens
inspired
her soul with fear,
Mysteriously all objects near
A hidden meaning could impart,
Presentiments oppressed her heart.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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2444
{and} graunte [hym] to
enviroune
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Live, and
forgive!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Mon ame
resplendit
de toutes vos vertus!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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I ask thee for no meaner pelf
Than that I may not disappoint myself;
That in my action I may soar as high
As I can now discern with this clear eye;
And next in value, which thy kindness lends,
That I may greatly disappoint my friends,
Howe'er they think or hope it that may be,
They may not dream how thou 'st distinguished me;
That my weak hand may equal my firm faith,
And my life practice more than my tongue saith;
That my low conduct may not show,
Nor my relenting lines,
That I thy purpose did not know,
Or
overrated
thy designs.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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With mine own weakness, being best acquainted,
Upon thy part I can set down a story
Of faults conceal'd, wherein I am attainted;
That thou in losing me shalt win much glory:
And I by this will be a gainer too;
For bending all my loving thoughts on thee,
The
injuries
that to myself I do,
Doing thee vantage, double-vantage me.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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What a tale their terror tells
Of
Despair!
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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But all the virtues are means and
uses; and, if we hinder their tendency to growth and expansion, we
both destroy them as virtues, and degrade them to that rankest
species of
corruption
reserved for the most noble organizations.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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John Donne |
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DESIGN
I found a dimpled spider, fat and white,
On a white heal-all, holding up a moth
Like a white piece of rigid satin cloth--
Assorted
characters of death and blight
Mixed ready to begin the morning right,
Like the ingredients of a witches' broth--
A snow-drop spider, a flower like froth,
And dead wings carried like a paper kite.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Your languid
beauties
now would move me not
Did not your gentle heart and body cast
The old spell of those happy days forgot.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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'"
And the old man, looking sadly
Across the garden-lawn,
Where here and there a dew-drop
Yet
glittered
in the dawn,
Said "Go to the Adelphi,
And see the 'Colleen Bawn.
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Lewis Carroll |
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And since I've neither heart nor might,
How should I sing or find
delight?
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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Can he make
deathless
Death?
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| Source: |
Milton |
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Abel had loftier views than
alliance
with a
civil servant's child; Eugene was in love elsewhere; but Victor had fallen
enamored with Adele Foucher.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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The
difference
this betwixt the evil pair,
Faithless to God--for laws without a care--
One was the claw, the other one the will
Controlling.
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Hugo - Poems |
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The man
was totally unknown to her, and as she was not accustomed to coquetting
with the
soldiers
she saw on the street, she hardly knew how to explain
his presence.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Gifford
believes
these lines to be taken from a contemporary
posture-book, but there is no evidence of quotation in the case
of _Underwoods_.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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nam gemina est sedes turpem sortita per amnem,
turbaque
diuersa remigat omnis aqua.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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In 1553 he went to Rome as one of the secretaries of
Cardinal
Jean du Bellay, his first cousin.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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SAS}
Whence is this Voice of Enion that soundeth in my ears Porches
Take thou
possession!
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Blake - Zoas |
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Heaven's boughs bent down with their alchemy,
Perfumed airs, and
thoughts
of wonder.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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XXXVII
As a decrepit father takes delight
To see his active child do deeds of youth,
So I, made lame by Fortune's dearest spite,
Take all my comfort of thy worth and truth;
For whether beauty, birth, or wealth, or wit,
Or any of these all, or all, or more,
Entitled in thy parts, do crowned sit,
I make my love engrafted, to this store:
So then I am not lame, poor, nor despis'd,
Whilst that this shadow doth such
substance
give
That I in thy abundance am suffic'd,
And by a part of all thy glory live.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Till with sound of trumpet,
Far, far off the
daybreak
call--hark!
| Guess: |
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Whitman |
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Except for the limited right of
replacement
or refund set forth
in paragraph 1.
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| Question: |
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Rilke - Poems |
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The eldest first began,
Echeneus sage, a
venerable
man!
| Guess: |
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Odyssey - Pope |
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THE NIZAM OF HYDERABAD
(Presented at the Ramzan Durbar)
Deign, Prince, my tribute to receive,
This lyric offering to your name,
Who round your jewelled scepter bind
The lilies of a poet's fame;
Beneath whose sway concordant dwell
The peoples whom your laws embrace,
In brotherhood of diverse creeds,
And harmony of diverse race:
The
votaries
of the Prophet's faith,
Of whom you are the crown and chief
And they, who bear on Vedic brows
Their mystic symbols of belief;
And they, who worshipping the sun,
Fled o'er the old Iranian sea;
And they, who bow to Him who trod
The midnight waves of Galilee.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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It seems, said he, I'm not alone in name,
And since a prince so handsome is the same,
Although a valet has
supplied
my place,
Yet see, the queen prefers a dwarf's embrace.
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La Fontaine |
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after
expressions
of limit,
etc.
| Guess: |
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Beowulf |
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Her war poetry appears in the volume
entitled
_A Chant of
Love for England, and other Poems_.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Horribly
loud unlike the former shout.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
|
Then he
would with the help of an English-Rowley and Rowley-English Dictionary
(which he had laboriously compiled for himself out of the vocabulary
to Speght's _Chaucer_, Bailey's _Universal Etymological Dictionary_,
and Kersey's _Dictionarium Anglo-Britannicum_) translate the work
into what he probably thought was a very fair
imitation
of fifteenth
century language.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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"
She thrust a dimpled finger
In each ear, shut eyes and ran:
Curious Laura chose to linger
Wondering
at each merchant man.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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Even When We Sleep
Even when we sleep we watch over each other
And this love heavier than a lake's ripe fruit
Without
laughter
or tears lasts forever
One day after another one night after us.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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THIRD,
suggested
changes, written by the Poet on a copy of the
stereotyped edition of 1836-7--long kept at Rydal Mount, and bought,
after Mrs.
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From amber platters, the smells ascend
Of
overripe
peaches mingled with dust and heated oils.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Qual sovra 'l ventre e qual sovra le spalle
l'un de l'altro giacea, e qual carpone
si
trasmutava
per lo tristo calle.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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With her small tablets in her hand, and her satchel on her arm,
Home she went bounding from the school, nor dreamed of shame or
harm;
And past those dreaded axes she innocently ran,
With bright frank brow that had not learned to blush at gaze of
man;
And up the Sacred Street she turned, and, as she danced along,
She warbled gayly to herself lines of the good old song,
How for a sport the princes came
spurring
from the camp,
And found Lucrece, combing the fleece, under the midnight lamp.
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It may still be objected that these Tales are unfounded or
that they have
everywhere
a foundation easy to destroy; in short that
they are absurdities and have not the least tinge of probability.
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La Fontaine |
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Diegue
Yes, see, she's fainting, and from perfect love,
In this swoon, Sire, see how her
passions
move.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Jia Zhi was a Drafter in the
Secretariat
(zhongshu sheren ?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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And if as a lad grows older
The
troubles
he bears are more,
He carries his griefs on a shoulder
That handselled them long before.
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Nothing particular occurred for some days after these events, except that,
as the travellers were passing a low tract of sand, they perceived an
unusual and gratifying spectacle; namely, a large number of Crabs and
Crawfish--perhaps six or seven hundred--sitting by the water-side, and
endeavoring to disentangle a vast heap of pale pink worsted, which they
moistened at
intervals
with a fluid composed of lavender-water and
white-wine negus.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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And, notwithstanding his
desperate effort to realize Poe's idea, he only proved Poe correct, who
had said that no man can bare his heart quite naked; there always will
be
something
held back, something false ostentatiously thrust forward.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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"
So they
followed
the man back to the court.
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And after three and thirty years, during which my mother, and the
nurse, and the priest have all died, (the shadow of God be upon
their spirits) the
soothsayer
still lives.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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The well-beloved are
wretched
then.
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Appoloinaire |
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For now, O morning chosen of all days, on thee
A wondrous duty lies:
There was an evening that did
loveliness
foretell;
Thence upon thee, O chosen morn, it fell
To fashion into perfect destiny
The radiant prophecy.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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M uch better
elsewhere
to search for
A id: it would have been more to my honour:
R etreat I must, and fly with dishonour,
T hough none else then would have cast a lure.
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Villon |
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Pleasure for the
beautiful
body, but
pain for the beautiful soul.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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When I gaze on her hair's golden glow
And her body's fresh
delicate
fires,
I love her more than all else beside.
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Troubador Verse |
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Listen not to that
seductive
murmur,
That only swells my pain.
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