_("Ho,
guerriers!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Once we met at the
Southern
end of Wei Bridge, but scattered again to
the north of the Tso Terrace.
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Li Po |
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Now the streets are
swarming
with people.
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Imagists |
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Her
evenings
then were dull and dead;
Sad case it was, as you may think,
For very cold to go to bed,
And then for cold not sleep a wink.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Since he sends word, that King Marsiliun,
Homage he'll do, by finger and by thumb;
Throughout
all Spain your writ alone shall run
Next he'll receive our rule of Christendom
Who shall advise, this bidding be not done,
Deserves not death, since all to death must come.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Aid for them each woman prayed for them,
Treading
back slowly the track of their march.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Hectora tot fratres, tot defleuere sorores
et pater et coniux
Astyanaxque
puer
et longaeua parens: nec et ille redemptus ab igne:
nulla super Stygias umbra renauit aquas.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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The effects Homer
produced
with his methods
were as great as any effects produced by later and more elaborate
methods, after poetry began to be read as well as heard.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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O City city, I can sometimes hear
Beside a public bar in Lower Thames Street, 260
The pleasant whining of a mandoline
And a clatter and a chatter from within
Where fishmen lounge at noon: where the walls
Of Magnus Martyr hold
Inexplicable
splendour
of Ionian white and gold.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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"I love my love" the
ploughman
sung,
And all the fields with music rung.
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John Clare |
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My mother taught me
underneath
a tree,
And, sitting down before the heat of day,
She took me on her lap and kissed me,
And, pointed to the east, began to say:
"Look on the rising sun: there God does live,
And gives His light, and gives His heat away,
And flowers and trees and beasts and men receive
Comfort in morning, joy in the noonday.
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blake-poems |
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Have I done
anything
to offend you?
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Kipling - Poems |
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They were
afterwards
incorporated in full in the edition of
1857, issued by Mr.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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And as the meteor's
midnight
flame
Startles the dreamer, sun-like truth
Flashed on his visionary youth,
And filled him, not with love, but faith, _620
And hope, and courage mute in death;
For love and life in him were twins,
Born at one birth: in every other
First life then love its course begins,
Though they be children of one mother; _625
And so through this dark world they fleet
Divided, till in death they meet;
But he loved all things ever.
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Shelley |
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The
subsequent
course of events, as gathered from hints of
this epic, is partly told in Scandinavian legend.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Not for
increase
to himself
Of good, which may not be increas'd, but forth
To manifest his glory by its beams,
Inhabiting his own eternity,
Beyond time's limit or what bound soe'er
To circumscribe his being, as he will'd,
Into new natures, like unto himself,
Eternal Love unfolded.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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PROKTOPHANTASMIST:
Verfluchtes
Volk!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Did chosen chiefs across the gulfy main
Attend his voyage, or
domestic
train?
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Odyssey - Pope |
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We
wandered
from pine-hills
through oak and scrub-oak tangles,
we broke hyssop and bramble,
we caught flower and new bramble-fruit
in our hair: we laughed
as each branch whipped back,
we tore our feet in half buried rocks
and knotted roots and acorn-cups.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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"
He felt his very
whiskers
glow,
And frankly owned "I do not know.
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Lewis Carroll |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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And Betty's most
especial
charge,
Was, "Johnny!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Qui desponsa tua firmes conubia flamma,
Quae pepigere viri,
pepigerunt
ante parentes
Nec iunxere prius quam se tuus extulit ardor.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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This is clear--
you fell on the downward slope,
you dragged a bruised thigh--you limped--
you
clutched
this larch.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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The Horse
Pegasus
'Pegasus'
Jacopo de' Barbari, 1509 - 1516, The Rijksmuseun
My harsh dreams knew the riding of you
My gold-charioted fate will be your lovely car
That for reins will hold tight to frenzy,
My verses, the
patterns
of all poetry.
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Appoloinaire |
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you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a
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exporting
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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We Have Created the Night
We have created the night I hold your hand I watch
I sustain you with all my powers
I engrave in rock the star of your powers
Deep furrows where your body's goodness fruits
I recall your hidden voice your public voice
I smile still at the proud woman
You treat like a beggar
The madness you respect the simplicity you bathe in
And in my head which gently blends with yours with the night
I wonder at the stranger you become
A stranger resembling you resembling
everything
I love
One that is always new.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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50
In the faint
fragrance
of flowers,
On the sweet draft of the sea-wind,
Linger strange hints now that loosen
Tears for thy gay gentle spirit,
O Lityerses!
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Sappho |
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Note: Dante Gabriel Rossetti took Archipiades to be Hipparchia (see Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Philosophers, Book VI 96-98) who loved Crates the Theban Cynic
philosopher
(368/5-288/5BC) and of whom various tales are told suggesting her beauty, and independence of mind.
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Villon |
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ealo
drincende
ōðer sǣdan (_ale drinkers
said other things_), 1946; acc.
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Beowulf |
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Quick, 'neath the spiral round
Of the deep
staircase
fly!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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28
theye were allwaye blythe and hende,
In hope that god shollde hem sende
[folio 145b] Some maydyn chyllde, or some man,
That theyre
herytages
myght hane;
So long theye prayed with good entent, 33
that a man chyllde god hem sent;
Page 24
whan they wyst ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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XXIX
Do you have hopes that posterity
Will read you, my Verse, for
evermore?
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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_Glaumed_, grasped,
snatched
at eagerly.
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Robert Burns |
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--"I wish I had feathers, a fine
sweeping
gown,
And a delicate face, and could strut about Town!
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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The geographer Guyot, himself a European, goes
farther,--farther than I am ready to follow him; yet not when he says:
"As the plant is made for the animal, as the
vegetable
world is made
for the animal world, America is made for the man of the Old World.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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e he3e felle;
724 [F] Nade he ben du3ty & dry3e, & dry3tyn had serued,
Douteles
he hade ben ded, & dreped ful ofte.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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And what do you think will ensure their
happiness?
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Aristophanes |
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Tao and Tang were the fiefs of Yao, hence
referring
to that sage-king.
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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You have cast off the chains
That fettered your
nobility
of mind--
Delivered heart and head!
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William Wordsworth |
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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The
daughter
of beauty wip'd her pitying tears with her white veil,
And said, Alas!
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blake-poems |
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Who with thy leaves shall wipe, at need,
The place where
swelling
piles do breed;
May every ill that bites or smarts
Perplex him in his hinder parts.
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Robert Herrick |
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And here comes
Clifford
to deny their bail.
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| Question: |
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Shakespeare |
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However, this transcription may be
compared
with the edited
version in the main text to get a flavor of the changes made
in these early editions.
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| Question: |
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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[For the date of
composition
see Editor's Note.
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Shelley |
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Indeed, I've heard it hinted as a truth,
(And very probable for such a youth,)
That Hispal, while on board, his flame revealed;
And what chagrin she felt was then concealed,
The passage
thinking
an improper time,
To shew a marked displeasure at his crime.
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La Fontaine |
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The Phoenix was the
mythical
bird that rose again from the ashes of its own immolation.
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Ronsard |
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Thou art not thyself;
For thou exists on many a
thousand
grains
That issue out of dust.
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Shakespeare |
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We Americans especially have patronized this happy
idea, and we Bostonians very especially have
developed
it in full.
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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dream of mine
Wherein I dreamed that time was like a vine,
A creeping rose, that clomb a height of dread
Out of the sea of Birth, all filled with dead,
Up to the
brilliant
cloud of Death o'erhead.
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Sidney Lanier |
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30
Or, if such faith [3] must needs deceive--
Then, Spirits of beauty and of grace, [A]
Associates
in that eager chase;
Ye, who within the blameless mind
Your favourite seat of empire find--35
Kind Spirits!
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William Wordsworth |
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Easy
Easy and beautiful under
your eyelids
As the meeting of pleasure
Dance and the rest
I spoke the fever
The best reason for fire
That you might be pale and luminous
A thousand fruitful poses
A thousand ravaged embraces
Repeated move to erase themselves
You grow dark you unveil yourself
A mask you
control it
It deeply resembles you
And you seem nothing but lovelier naked
Naked in shadow and dazzlingly naked
Like a sky shivering with flashes of lightning
You reveal yourself to you
To reveal yourself to others
Talking of Power and Love
Between all my torments between death and self
Between my despair and the reason for living
There is injustice and this evil of men
That I cannot accept there is my anger
There are the blood-coloured fighters of Spain
There are the sky-coloured fighters of Greece
The bread the blood the sky and the right to hope
For all the innocents who hate evil
The light is always close to dying
Life always ready to become earth
But spring is reborn that is never done with
A bud lifts from dark and the warmth settles
And the warmth will have the right of the selfish
Their atrophied senses will not resist
I hear the fire talk lightly of coolness
I hear a man speak what he has not known
You who were my flesh's sensitive conscience
You I love forever you who made me
You will not tolerate oppression or injury
You'll sing in dream of earthly happiness
You'll dream of freedom and I'll continue you
The Beloved
She is standing on my eyelids
And her hair is wound in mine,
She has the form of my hands,
She has the colour of my eyes,
She is
swallowed
by my shadow
Like a stone against the sky.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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), for that gift of thine
Certes I'd hate thee with
Vatinian
hate.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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If
business
is battle, name it so:
War-crimes less will shame it so,
And widows less will blame it so.
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Sidney Lanier |
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I glide on the surface of seas
I have grown sentimental
I no longer know the guide
I no longer move silk over ice
I am
diseased
flowers and stones
I love the most chinese of nudes
I love the most naked lapses of wings
I am old but here I am beautiful
And the shadow that flows from the deep windows
Each evening spares the dark heart of my stare.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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The windmills on the outermost
Verge of the landscape in the haze,
To him are towers on the Spanish coast,
With
whiskered
sentinels at their post,
Though this is the river Maese.
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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e,
And my
blessynge
y-wis.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Heaven and Earth and the Sun on his
indefatigable
journey
Over that infinite path never did witness the like!
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Take thou these songs that owe their birth to thee,
And deign around thy temples to let creep
This ivy-chaplet 'twixt the
conquering
bays.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Draw pictures of the Plum-pudding flea, and the Moppsikon
Floppsikon Bear, and state by whom
waterproof
tubs
were first used.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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She knew the dread thing coming, but her clear
Cheek never changed: till
suddenly
she fled
Back to her own chamber and bridal bed:
Then came the tears and she spoke all her thought.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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But the poetess occupies a place
of considerable importance in the first four centuries of our era,
though the
classical
period (T'ang and Sung) produced no great woman
writer.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Ils prennent en songeant les nobles attitudes
Des grands sphinx allonges au fond des solitudes,
Qui semblent s'endormir dans un reve sans fin;
Leurs reins feconds sont pleins d'etincelles magiques,
Et des
parcelles
d'or, ainsi qu'un sable fin,
Etoilent vaguement leurs prunelles mystiques.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Then, how the partners of his voyage slew
The Sun's own beeves, and how the Thund'rer Jove
Hurl'd down his smoky bolts into his bark,
Depriving
him at once of all his crew,
Whose dreadful fate he yet, himself, escaped.
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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If thy foot in scorn
Could tread them out to
darkness
utterly,
It might be well perhaps.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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You know what
qualification
throws
The casting vote and the true man shows.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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--
And all the more since he was wont to give,
Concerning the immortal gods themselves,
Many
pronouncements
with a tongue divine,
And to unfold by his pronouncements all
The nature of the world.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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I mean that is hard by and next them, which
they will utter
unretarded
without any shamefastness.
| Guess: |
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Upon the glazen shelves kept watch
Matthew and Waldo,
guardians
of the faith,
The army of unalterable law.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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Pretty
friendship
'tis to rhyme
Your friends to death before their time
Moping melancholy mad:
Come, pipe a tune to dance to, lad.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Then fared another
year to men's dwellings, as yet they do,
the
sunbright
skies, that their season ever
duly await.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Gives too late
What's not believed in, or if still believed,
In memory only,
reconsidered
passion.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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T.S. Eliot |
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That's why I'll never have a child,
Never shut up a
chrysalis
in a match-box
For the moth to spoil and crush its bright colours,
Beating its wings against the dingy prison-wall.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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know him by
The ecstasy-dilated eye,
Not uncharged with tears that ran
Upward from his heart of man;
By the cheek, from hour to hour,
Kindled bright or sunken wan
With a sense of lonely power;
By the brow
uplifted
higher
Than others, for more low declining
By the lip which words of fire
Overboiling have burned white
While they gave the nations light:
Ay, in every time and place
Ye may know the poet's face
By the shade or shining.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
|
XXXI
On Wenlock Edge the wood's in trouble;
His forest fleece the Wrekin heaves;
The gale, it plies the
saplings
double,
And thick on Severn snow the leaves.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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A foolish
damnable
advised bird,
Yon heron!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
He created for this
youth a woman such as he delighted to imagine--full of enthusiasm for
the same objects; and they both, with will unvanquished, and the
deepest sense of the justice of their cause, met
adversity
and death.
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If you received the work electronically, the person or entity
providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to
receive the work
electronically
in lieu of a refund.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Vansuythen
turned scarlet and dropped
the reins.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Damned Fact,
How it did greeue
Macbeth?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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{39a}
Then
Ongentheow
with edge of sword,
the hoary-bearded, was held at bay,
and the folk-king there was forced to suffer
Eofor's anger.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Why laugh'st thou not
thereat?
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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ou hem
chastise
& lere; 41
Wite ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right
of Replacement or Refund"
described
in paragraph 1.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Hee's heere in double trust;
First, as I am his Kinsman, and his Subiect,
Strong both against the Deed: Then, as his Host,
Who should against his
Murtherer
shut the doore,
Not beare the knife my selfe.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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So they two went
together
in glowing August weather,
The honey-breathing heather lay to their left and right;
And dear she was to doat on, her swift feet seemed to float on
The air like soft twin pigeons too sportive to alight.
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awake, awake, utter a song: Arise Barak, and
lead
captivity
captive, thou Son of Abinoam.
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Or if, though like you we've
trembled
for his safety,
The hero, hiding some new love affair, may be 20
Merely waiting till his betrayed lover, as yet.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Praised by Dante in the De vulgari eloquentia, he is, in the Purgatorio of The Divine Comedy, made the type of
patriotic
pride, bemoaning the state of Italy, as partially substantiated by the planh below.
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Troubador Verse |
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Comfort his ears with song,
Lest his pride the gods with their
laughter
wrong,
Seeing, huddled as beasts held by a fearful night
Full of lions and hunger, his folk crouch to the heathen might.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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The Sounds, and Seas with all their finny drove
Now to the Moon in
wavering
Morrice move,
And on the Tawny Sands and Shelves,
Trip the pert Fairies and the dapper Elves;
By dimpled Brook, and Fountain brim,
The Wood-Nymphs deckt with Daisies trim, 120
Their merry wakes and pastimes keep:
What hath night to do with sleep?
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The Tibetan Goat
Hilly
Landscape
with Two Goats
'Hilly Landscape with Two Goats'
Reinier van Persijn, Jacob Gerritsz Cuyp, Nicolaes Visscher (I), 1641, The Rijksmuseun
The fleece of this goat and even
That gold one which cost such pain
To Jason's not worth a sou towards
The tresses with which I'm taken.
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Appoloinaire |
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We pray, an' haply irk it not when prayed,
Show us where
shadowed
hidest thou in shade!
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Catullus - Carmina |
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"
(5)
In the north-west there is a high house,
Its top level with the
floating
clouds.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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His labor is a chant,
His
idleness
a tune;
Oh, for a bee's experience
Of clovers and of noon!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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By the mighty word thus spoken
Both for living and for dying,
We our homage-oath, once broken,
Fasten back again in sighing,
And the
creatures
and the elements renew their covenanting.
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