And thus to Betty's question, he
Made answer, like a
traveller
bold,
(His very words I give to you,)
"The cocks did crow to-whoo, to-whoo,
"And the sun did shine so cold.
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the
Standard
in Cheap.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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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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_ A telling
expression
for the dread of loss
which haunts so many wealthy people.
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Among the old Germans, an estate
was separated by a fence from the
property
of others.
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Beowulf |
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Equitone,
Tell her I bring the
horoscope
myself:
One must be so careful these days.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Monzaida offered to be interpreter for the
admiral, and to serve him in whatever besides he might
possibly
befriend
him.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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`And al thonour that men may doon yow have, 120
As
ferforth
as your fader dwelled here,
Ye shul han, and your body shal men save,
As fer as I may ought enquere or here.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Happy then be your life, too: in it
antiquity
lives.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Keats - Lamia |
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They were subborned,
Malcolme, and
Donalbaine
the Kings two Sonnes
Are stolne away and fled, which puts vpon them
Suspition of the deed
Rosse.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Foundation
makes no representations concerning
the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United
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Golden Treasury |
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) A very
mysterious
Line in the Original:
O danad O danad O danad O--
breaking off something like our Wood-pigeon's Note, which she is said
to take up just where she left off.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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--Now the
initiate
youths, having followed this tale, all astonished,
Turned and beckoned their loves--love, do you comprehend?
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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IV
Often an early King or Queen,
And storied hero onward, knew his sheen;
'Twas
glimpsed
by Wolfe, by Ney anon,
And Nelson on his blue demesne.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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The reminiscence comes
Of sunless dry geraniums
And dust in crevices,
Smells of
chestnuts
in the streets
And female smells in shuttered rooms
And cigarettes in corridors
And cocktail smells in bars.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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at it was a
necessarie
cause wyse men to taken {and} desire ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Who wishes to receive
visitations
often,
Mustn't load with too many flowers the stone
My finger raises with a dead power's boredom.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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You see it, mistress, and start to hide once more:
Do you hate the
daylight
you were searching for?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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[_The Attendant leads_
HERACLES
_into the house_.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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In short, Pierre Bon-Bon
not only saw plainly that his Majesty had no eyes whatsoever, but
could
discover
no indications of their having existed at any previous
period--for the space where eyes should naturally have been was, I am
constrained to say, simply a dead level of flesh.
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Poe - 5 |
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THIS speech so well succeeded to inspire,
That
scarcely
could the men retain their ire.
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La Fontaine |
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My
insatiate
eyes
Meanwhile to heav'n had travel'd, even there
Where the bright stars are slowest, as a wheel
Nearest the axle; when my guide inquir'd:
"What there aloft, my son, has caught thy gaze?
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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One thing there is alone, that doth deform thee;
In the midst of thee, O field, so fair and
verdant!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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"
[Illustration]
There was an old man of Port Grigor,
Whose actions were noted for vigour;
He stood on his head till his waistcoat turned red,
That
eclectic
old man of Port Grigor.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Your castle has a hundred quiet halls,
A hundred chambers, where the shadows lie
On things put by,
forgotten
long ago.
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Sara Teasdale |
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XLVII
It was my chance (my chance was faire and good) 410
There for to find a fresh unproved knight,
Whose manly hands imbrew'd in guiltie blood
Had never bene, ne ever by his might
Had throwne to ground the unregarded right:
Yet of his prowesse proofe he since hath made 415
(I witnesse am) in many a cruell fight;
The groning ghosts of many one dismaide
Have felt the bitter dint of his
avenging
blade.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Chatterton had moved upon her husband's
death there was still a sufficient number of these old manuscripts to
make a considerable trove for the boy who, then nine or ten years old,
had first learnt to read in black-letter and was in a few years to
produce poetry which should pass for
fifteenth
century with many
well-reputed antiquaries.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Now right across proud Tarquin
A corpse was Julius laid;
And Titus groaned with rage and grief,
And at
Valerius
made.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Then where are your
feathers?
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Aristophanes |
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If any
disclaimer
or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the
law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be
interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by
the applicable state law.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Ah, who will stay these hungry tears,
Or still the want of
famished
years,
And crown with love my marriage-bed?
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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LXXI
No longer mourn for me when I am dead
Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell
Give warning to the world that I am fled
From this vile world with vilest worms to dwell:
Nay, if you read this line,
remember
not
The hand that writ it, for I love you so,
That I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot,
If thinking on me then should make you woe.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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"
"We sing old Sagas, songs of weal and woe,
Mystic because too cheaply understood;
Dark sayings are not ours; men hear and know,
See Evil weak, see
strength
alone in Good,
Yet hope to stem God's fire with walls of tow.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Leonor
Madame, pardon me,
If I'm at fault for censuring this folly,
A great princess so
strangely
to forget
Herself, and love a simple knight as yet!
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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' they cried, 'The world is wide,
But
fettered
limbs go lame!
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Wilde - Poems |
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To
gratulate
with mee!
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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I wot 'twere shame
on the law of our land if alone the king
out of Geatish
warriors
woe endured
and sank in the struggle!
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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brandished pikes are thick,6 the mansions of
meritorious
officials rise high.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Far the calling bugles hollo,
High the
screaming
fife replies,
Gay the files of scarlet follow:
Woman bore me, I will rise.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Centuries
ago--in the Dark Ages, before I
ever met you, dear.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied
warranties or the exclusion or
limitation
of certain types of
damages.
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Wilde - Poems |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Unto his horse, that's feeding free,
He seems, I think, the rein to give;
Of moon or stars he takes no heed;
Of such we in
romances
read,
--'Tis Johnny!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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"Not you," sighed I, "but my own
inconstancy!
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Here the forest contracts, there the mead extends,
Of all that was ours, there is little left--
Like the ashes that wildly are whisked by winds,
Of all
souvenirs
is the place bereft.
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Hugo - Poems |
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And there
Aegisthus
stayed,
The omens in his hand, dividing slow
This sign from that; till, while his head bent low,
Up with a leap thy brother flashed the sword,
Then down upon his neck, and cleft the cord
Of brain and spine.
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Euripides - Electra |
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XCIII
When in the spring the swallows all return,
And the bleak bitter sea grows mild once more,
With all its thunders
softened
to a sigh;
When to the meadows the young green comes back,
And swelling buds put forth on every bough, 5
With wild-wood odours on the delicate air;
Ah, then, in that so lovely earth wilt thou
With all thy beauty love me all one way,
And make me all thy lover as before?
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Sappho |
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that
such a stinking
creature
can have gone to the gods.
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Aristophanes |
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But the danger was past--they had landed at last,
With their boxes, portmanteaus, and bags:
Yet at first sight the crew were not pleased with the view,
Which
consisted
of chasms and crags.
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Lewis Carroll |
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Bernard, "you will
find more in the woods than in books; the forests and rocks will teach
you more than you can learn from the
greatest
Masters.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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What, to
passions
I witness around me to-day, was the sea risen?
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Whitman |
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Round the laps of their mothers
Many sisters and brothers,
Like birds in their nest,
Are ready for rest,
And sport no more seen
On the
darkening
green.
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blake-poems |
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He warmed waters to bathe our feet, 32 and cut paper
streamers
to call back our souls.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Steamer,
straining
at your ropes
Lift your anchor towards an exotic rawness!
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Mute the first echo that so
grateful
rung!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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More than for any work your guild adjureth,
Am I
ordained
to labour for my Lord,
Thus I will prosper, for my Lord endureth,
I ever serve my kindly Lord.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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33
THE RETURN By Scudder Middleton
Hold me, O hold me,
love—your
lips are life!
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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I cannot breathe such an
atmosphere!
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Longfellow |
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Erlaub, dass ich ein
Irrlicht
bitte!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Since I have touched my lips to your brimming cup,
Since I have bowed my pale brow in your hands,
Since I have sometime
breathed
the sweet breath
Of your soul, a perfume buried in shadow lands;
Since it was granted to me to hear you utter
Words in which the mysterious heart sighs,
Since I have seen smiles, since I have seen tears
Your mouth on my mouth, your eyes on my eyes;
Since I have seen over my enraptured head
A light from your star shine, ah, ever veiled!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Her women
removed her wraps and
proceeded
to get her in readiness for the night.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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The mother dreads you for her son,
The thrifty sire, the new-wed bride,
Lest, lured by you, her
precious
one
Should leave her side.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Southey addresses his
declamation against
impurity!
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Byron |
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Don Sanche caused me ill, in my defence,
And that ill-dealing arm I must
recompense!
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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"Begin, my flute, with me
Maenalian
lays.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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In many cases these
verses will seem to the reader like poetry torn up by the roots, with
rain and dew and earth still clinging to them, giving a freshness and
a fragrance not
otherwise
to be conveyed.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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how venture to smooth the tale to the
frenzied
queen?
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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the thought of such a cruel death
Has
overwhelmed
him.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find
Thee sitting careless on a granary floor,
Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind;
Or on a half-reap'd furrow sound asleep,
Drows'd with the fume of poppies, while thy hook
Spares the next swath and all its twined flowers:
And sometimes like a gleaner thou dost keep
Steady thy laden head across a brook; 20
Or by a cyder-press, with patient look,
Thou
watchest
the last oozings hours by hours.
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Keats |
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The
greatest
of these recluses was T'ao Ch'ien (A.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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To the
Honorable
Mr.
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| Source: |
Byron |
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Let this
pernitious
houre,
Stand aye accursed in the Kalender.
| Guess: |
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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As, in your field, I plant I lose no grain,
For the harvest
resembles
me, and ever
God orders me to plough, and sow again:
Even for this end are we come together.
| Guess: |
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Villon |
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e folk of Rome were,
godus seruise forte here,
&
biddynge
of holy bede,
Page 57
348
And seide ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Havynge wythe mouche
attentyonn
redde
Whatt you dydd to mee sende,
Admyre the varses mouche I dydd,
And thus an answerr lende.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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325
Cum seruos fueris proprios mercatus in usus 311, vi
Cum socios nostros mandisset impius Cyclops 6, ix
Cura, labor, meritum, sumpti pro munere honores 300
Curantes magna cum cura tum cupientes 15
Cursu uolucri pendens, cum nouacula 226
Custodes ouium tenerae propaginis, agnum 49
Cynthia prima suis miserum me cepit ocellis 165
Dea sancta Tellus, rerum naturae parens 229
Debilem facito manu, debilem pede, coxa 108, ii
Deficiunt magico torti sub carmine rhombi 170
Deinde pollens sagittis inclutus Arquitenens 8, v
Denique si uocem rerum natura repente 70
De numero uatum si quis seponat Homerum 322, i
Desine de quoquam quisquam bene uelle mereri 89
Desine, Paulle, meum lacrimis urgere sepulcrum 179
Desinite, o ueteres, Calpurnia nomina, Frugi 339, ii
Dianae sumus in fide 74
Dicebam tibi uenturos, irrisor, amores 167
Dicebas quondam solum te nosse Catullum 91, a
Difficilis facilis, iucundus acerbus es idem 279
Diffugere niues, redeunt iam gramina campis 152, ii
Di meliora ferant, nec sint mihi somnia uera 184
Diuitias
alius fuluo sibi congerat auro 154
Diuom templa cante 1, i
Donec gratus eram tibi 126
Dum dubitat natura marem faceretne puellam 350
Dum lasciuiam nobilium et laudes fucosas petit 50
Dum tibi Cadmeae dicuntur, Pontice, Thebae 168
Dum tu forsitan inquietus erras 268, ii
Ede tuos tandem populo, Faustine, libellos 283
Ego cum genui tum morituros sciui et ei rei sustuli 27
Ego deum genus esse semper dixi et dicam caelitum 26
Ego semper pluris feci 9, iv
Ego tui memini 3, i
Eheu fugaces, Postume, Postume 134
Enni poeta, salue, qui mortalibus 33
Enos, Lases, iuuate 2
Eripitur nobis iam pridem cara puella 174
Esse quid hoc dicam, quod tam mihi dura uidentur 210
Est locus in primo felix oriente remotus 310
Estne tibi, Cerinthe, tuae pia cura puellae 188
Est quod mane legas, est et quod uespere.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Oldfield
with more than harpy throat endued,
Cries "Send me, gods!
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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HAIL native Language, that by sinews weak
Didst move my first endeavouring tongue to speak,
And mad'st imperfect words with childish tripps,
Half unpronounc't, slide through my infant-lipps,
Driving dum silence from the portal dore,
Where he had mutely sate two years before:
Here I salute thee and thy pardon ask,
That now I use thee in my latter task:
Small loss it is that thence can come unto thee,
I know my tongue but little Grace can do thee: 10
Thou needst not be ambitious to be first,
Believe me I have thither packt the worst:
And, if it happen as I did forecast,
The
daintest
dishes shall be serv'd up last.
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II
So was I bound to sing, but I begun
Another song, Rinaldo crossed my way,
And then those deeds by savage Guido done,
Kept me employed and caused no small delay;
And so from subject I to subject run,
That I forgot of
Bradamant
to say.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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In short, in the
space of about eighteen months, from October 1768 to April 1770,
besides the Poems now published, he
produced
as many compositions,
in prose and verse, under the names of Rowley, Canynge, &c.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Di mia semente cotal paglia mieto;
o gente umana, perche poni 'l core
la 'v' e mestier di
consorte
divieto?
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Seven years, the traitor rich Mycenae sway'd,
And his stern rule the
groaning
land obey'd;
The eighth, from Athens to his realm restored,
Orestes brandish'd the avenging sword,
Slew the dire pair, and gave to funeral flame
The vile assassin and adulterous dame.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Black day he chose for planting thee,
Accurst he rear'd thee from the ground,
The bane of
children
yet to be,
The scandal of the village round.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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840
Ynne honnoure, & a greater love, be dreste;
Botte I wylle call the mynstrelles roundelaie;
Perchaunce
the swotie sounde maie chafe your wiere[99] awaie.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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He said, "My friends have wended forth
With farewells smooth and kind;
Mine oldest friend, my
plighted
bride,
Ye need not stay behind:
Friend, wed my fair bride for my sake,
And let my lands ancestral make
A dower for Rosalind.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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This school has been widely discussed by those
interested
in new
movements in the arts, and has already become a household word.
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Imagists |
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o,
So
chaunged
was his chere; 780
(66)
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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The
selfsame
moment I could pray;
And from my neck so free
The Albatross fell off, and sank
Like lead into the sea.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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And it was the
princess
at the
place Jack was had to be given to it that time, and the king had been
feeding a bully underground for seven years, and you may believe he got
the best of everything, to be ready to fight it.
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Yeats |
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[a]]
[Variant 6: This and the
previous
line were added in 1827.
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William Wordsworth |
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Say, is it Love, that was divinity,
Who hath left his godhead that his home might be The
shameless
rose of her unclouded heart?
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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She, bereav'd
Of her first husband,
slighted
and obscure,
Thousand and hundred years and more, remain'd
Without a single suitor, till he came.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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_ SALTABADIL _goes out, and seeing_ TRIBOULET,
_approaches
him with an air of mystery.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Se Giove stanchi 'l suo fabbro da cui
crucciato prese la folgore aguta
onde l'ultimo di percosso fui;
o s'elli stanchi li altri a muta a muta
in Mongibello a la focina negra,
chiamando
"Buon Vulcano, aiuta, aiuta!
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Even whilst we speak
The
ministers
of justice wait below: _65
They grant me these brief moments.
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Shelley |
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Marlow, and I were
directed
hither by a
young fellow----
MISS NEVILLE: One of my hopeful cousin's tricks.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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, and
I have adopted it in
preference
to 'But scarce a Poet', which is an
awkward phrase and does not express what the writer means.
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John Donne |
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