CCIX
"Rollant, my friend, fair youth that bar'st the bell,
When I arrive at Aix, in my Chapelle,
Men coming there will ask what news I tell;
I'll say to them:
`Marvellous
news and fell.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Your hour has sounded, nothing now indeed
Can change for you the destiny decreed,
Irrevocable
quite.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Ils auront vu la Suisse et
traverse
la France.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Much-more
provides
and hoards up like an ant, 379.
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Robert Herrick |
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It is all in keeping that he should arrive tired,
should feast and drink and sing; should be
suddenly
sobered and should go
forth to battle with Death.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Everywhere
the dark
blood flows; they deal death with the sword in battle, and seek a noble
death by wounds.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Un orchestre guerrier, au milieu du jardin,
Balance ses schakos dans la Valse des fifres:
On voit, aux premiers rangs, parader le gandin,
Les notaires montrent leurs breloques a chiffres:
Des rentiers a lorgnons soulignent tous les couacs;
Les gros bureaux bouffis trainent leurs grosses dames,
Aupres
desquelles
vont, officieux cornacs,
Celles dont les volants ont des airs de reclames;
Sur les bancs verts, des clubs d'epiciers retraites
Qui tisonnent le sable avec leur canne a pomme,
Fort serieusement discutent des traites,
Puis prisent en argent, mieux que monsieur Prud'homme!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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The Net
I made you many and many a song,
Yet never one told all you are--
It was as though a net of words
Were flung to catch a star;
It was as though I curved my hand
And dipped sea-water eagerly,
Only to find it lost the blue
Dark
splendor
of the sea.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Shivering
with woe, chaste Elvira the while,
Near him untrue to all but her till now,
Seemed to beseech him for one farewell smile
Lit with the sweetness of the first soft vow.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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"Begin, my flute, with me
Maenalian
lays.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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I could not bear the bees should come,
I wished they 'd stay away
In those dim
countries
where they go:
What word had they for me?
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Virtuous
and vicious every man must be,
Few in th' extreme, but all in the degree,
The rogue and fool by fits is fair and wise;
And even the best, by fits, what they despise.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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I showed the priests' families how
to make aprons of the degrees, but for Dravot's apron the blue border
and marks was made of
turquoise
lumps on white hide, not cloth.
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Kipling - Poems |
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org
For
additional
contact information:
Dr.
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Keats - Lamia |
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Hap, a wrap, a
covering
against cold.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Some Imagist Poets, by
Richard
Aldington
and H.
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Imagists |
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]
IX
My poor
Vladimir!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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quare nunc animos saltem committite uestros,
dicere iam incipient, iam
respondere
decebit.
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Latin - Catullus |
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But still it is
not
possible
for me to give you a battalion and fifty Cossacks.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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The relation of Fate or Destiny to God or
Divine Providence is
discussed
by Boethius, _De Cons.
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John Donne |
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XXII
Whom when the Prince, to battell new addrest, 190
And threatning high his dreadfull stroke did see,
His sparkling blade about his head he blest,
And smote off quite his right leg by the knee,
That downe he tombled; as an aged tree,
High growing on the top of rocky clift, 195
Whose
hartstrings
with keene steele nigh hewen be,
The mightie trunck halfe rent, with ragged rift
Doth roll adowne the rocks, and fall with fearefull drift.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Gosson's
_Pleasant
Quippes_ (1595) speaks of 'these
naked paps, the Devils ginnes.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Judith, our fates are closer to one another's
Than one might think, seeing my face and yours:
The whole divine abyss is present in your eyes,
And I feel the starry gulf within my soul;
We are both
neighbours
of the silent skies.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Beneath these fruit-tree boughs that shed
Their snow white blossoms on my head,
With
brightest
sunshine round me spread
Of Spring's unclouded weather,
In this sequester'd nook how sweet
To sit upon my orchard-seat!
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Golden Treasury |
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Yet let thy people bind thee to the mast 60
Erect,
encompassing
thy feet and arms
With cordage well-secured to the mast-foot,
So shalt thou, raptur'd, hear the Sirens' song.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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So far it is from both the sky and land,
It cannot rise, it dare not fall, so lives apart
From fear of
conquest
and from hope of rest.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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From windows in my father's house,
Dreaming
my dreams on winter nights,
I watched Orion as a girl
Above another city's lights.
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Sara Teasdale |
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He stops--he starts--disdaining to decline:
Slowly he falls, amidst triumphant cries,
Without a groan, without a
struggle
dies.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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I
savoured
it slowly and did not throw a coin through the window for fear of troubling my spirit and discovering that not only the instrument was playing.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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He was conscious how
inadequate
one man
was to bear the weight of that Titan and too vast orb.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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But what do all these insults
betoken?
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Aristophanes |
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The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Piangendo
mi sgrido: <
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Io fui de li agni de la santa greggia
che
Domenico
mena per cammino
u' ben s'impingua se non si vaneggia.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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The only house
Beyond where they were was a
shattered
seedpod.
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Robert Forst |
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Her way may lie thro' rough
distress!
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Robert Burns |
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Rodrigue
Be not
offended
if in your presence, Sire,
Loving respect makes me kneel before her.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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E io a l'ombra che parea piu vaga
di ragionar, drizza'mi, e cominciai,
quasi com' uom cui troppa voglia smaga:
<
di vita etterna la
dolcezza
senti
che, non gustata, non s'intende mai,
grazioso mi fia se mi contenti
del nome tuo e de la vostra sorte>>.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Perhapshedidnotjest;
theysaysomesimpleshave
More wide-spanned power than old wives draw
from them.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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"Is it beautiful," he cried, "my
brother?
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Prosperity
and decay each have their season.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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ECLOGUE IV
POLLIO
Muses of Sicily, essay we now
A
somewhat
loftier task!
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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I mention this
circumstance
with regret rather
than pride.
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James Russell Lowell |
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At mating time the hippo's voice
Betrays
inflexions
hoarse and odd,
But every week we hear rejoice
The Church, at being one with God.
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T.S. Eliot |
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" To Coleridge, whatever appealed vitally
to his imagination was real; and he defended his belief philosophically,
disbelieving from
conviction
in that sharp marking off of real from
imaginary which is part of the ordinary attitude of man in the presence of
mystery.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Villon
presumably
means that they were 'near cousins' in spirit.
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Villon |
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somewhat
gifted though by nature,
And we make a point of asking him,--of being very kind.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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I
have
explained
my changing imaginations of him in 'Fergus and the
Druid,' and in a little song in the second act of 'The Countess
Kathleen,' and in 'Deirdre.
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Yeats |
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The
fragment
has some of the sombre power which De Quincey attributes
to it, but on the whole one must confess it is a failure.
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John Donne |
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Nice little
thimble!
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Siqua recordanti
benefacta
priora voluptas
Est homini, cum se cogitat esse pium,
Nec sanctam violasse fidem, nec foedere in ullo
Divom ad fallendos numine abusum homines,
Multa parata manent in longa aetate, Catulle, 5
Ex hoc ingrato gaudia amore tibi.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Time
consumes
words, like love.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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The gods, it was added, vouchsafed the
clearest
signs
of the favor with which they regarded the enterprise, and of the
high destinies reserved for the young colony.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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7 (of 8), by William Butler Yeats
This eBook is for the use of anyone
anywhere
in the United States and most
other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions
whatsoever.
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Yeats |
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Robert Forst |
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'Tis life to guide the fiery barb
Across the
moonlight
plain;
'Tis life to feel the night-wind
That lifts his tossing mane.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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My sister Kate cam up the gate
Wi' crowdie unto me, man;
She swoor she saw some rebels run
To Perth unto Dundee, man;
Their left-hand general had nae skill;
The Angus lads had nae gude will
That day their neibors' blude to spill;
For fear, for foes, that they should lose
Their cogs o' brose; they scar'd at blows,
And
hameward
fast did flee, man.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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I have seen eyes in the street
Trying to peer through lighted shutters,
And a crab one afternoon in a pool,
An old crab with
barnacles
on his back,
Gripped the end of a stick which I held him.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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that thy heart 540
Were as my own, and that
distinct
as I
Thou could'st articulate, so should'st thou tell,
Where hidden, he eludes my furious wrath.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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si-iz-ba sa[na-ma-]as-[te]-e
i-te- en- ni- ik
ka-ia-na i-na [libbi] Uruk-(ki) kak-ki-a-tum [46]
id-lu-tum u-te-el-li- lu
sa-ki-in ip-sa- nu [47]
a-na idli sa i-tu-ru zi-mu-su
a-na iluGilgamis ki-ma i-li-im
sa-ki-is-sum [48] me-ih-rum
a-na ilatIs-ha-ra ma-ia-lum
na- [di]-i- ma
iluGilgamish
id-[ ]na-an(?
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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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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"
_Behemot, sweating blood,
Uses for his daily food
All the fodder, flesh and juice
That twelve tall
mountains
can produce.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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His spirit
suddenly
/ has taken flight
And left me behind / far away.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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294 Milton has rivalled this passage
describing
the descent of Gabriel,
"Paradise Lost," bk.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Two we were, with one heart blessed:
If heart's dead, yes, then I foresee,
I'll die, or I must
lifeless
be,
Like those statues made of lead.
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Villon |
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The soul sees through the senses, imagines, hears,
Has from the body's powers its acts and looks:
The spirit once
embodied
has wit, makes books,
Matter makes it more perfect and more fair.
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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what profit me the
flowering
vales?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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" KAU}
The heavens were closd & and spirits mournd their bondage night and day
And the Divine Vision appeard in Luvahs robes of blood {This line written over an erased line,
possibly
ending "within.
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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A hidden pity
afflicts
me, stuns my mind.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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The Curve Of Your Eyes
The curve of your eyes embraces my heart
A ring of sweetness and dance
halo of time, sure
nocturnal
cradle,
And if I no longer know all I have lived through
It's that your eyes have not always been mine.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Time
consumes
words, like love.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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To learn the
transport
by the pain,
As blind men learn the sun;
To die of thirst, suspecting
That brooks in meadows run;
To stay the homesick, homesick feet
Upon a foreign shore
Haunted by native lands, the while,
And blue, beloved air --
This is the sovereign anguish,
This, the signal woe!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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old men leaning on young men's
shoulders!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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or mi diletta e piace 251
Conobbi, quanto il ciel gli occhi m' aperse 296
Cosi potess' io ben chiuder in versi 92
Da' piu begli occhi e dal piu chiaro viso 302
Datemi pace, o duri mici pensieri 240
Deh porgi mano all' affannato ingeguo 317
Deh qual pieta, qual angel fu si presto 297
Del cibo onde 'l signor mio sempre abbonda 298
Dell' empia Babilonia, ond' e fuggita 105
Del mar Tirreno alla sinistra riva 65
Dicemi spesso il mio fidato speglio 312
Dicesett' anni ha gia rivolto il cielo 112
Di di in di vo cangiando il viso e 'l pelo 176
Di pensier in pensier, di monte in monte 127
Discolorato hai, Morte, il piu bel volto 246
Di tempo in tempo mi si fa men dura 145
Dodici donne onestamente lasse 201
Dolce mio, caro e prezioso pegno 297
Dolci durezze e placide repulse 315
Dolci ire, dolci sdegni e dolci paci 182
Donna che lieta col Principio nostro 302
Due gran nemiche insieme erano aggiunte 257
Due rose fresehe, e colte in paradiso 215
D' un bel, chiaro, polito e vivo ghiaccio 181
E' mi par d' or in ora udire il messo 303
E questo 'l nido in che la mia Fenice 275
Era 'l giorno ch' al sol si scoloraro 3
Erano i capei d' oro all' aura sparsi 88
Far potess' io vendetta di colei 222
Fera stella (se 'l cielo ha forza in noi) 162
Fiamma dal ciel su le tue treccie piova 135
Fontana di dolore, albergo d' ira 137
Fresco, ombroso, fiorito e verde colle 213
Fu forse un tempo dolce cosa amore 299
Fuggendo la prigione ov' Amor m' ebbe 88
Gentil mia donna, i' veggio 74
Geri, quando talor meco s' adira 165
Gia desiai con si giusta querela 195
Gia fiammeggiava l' amorosa stella 36
Giovane donna sott'un verde lauro 34
Giunto Alessandro alla famosa tomba 170
Giunto m' ha Amor fra belle e crude braccia 161
Gli angeli eletti e l' anime beate 301
Gli occhi di ch' io parlai si caldamente 253
Gloriosa Colonna, in cui s' appoggia 9
Grazie ch' a pochi 'l ciel largo destina 192
I begli occhi, ond' i' fui percosso in guisa 78
I di miei piu leggier che nessun cervo 274
I dolci colli ov' io lasciai me stesso 190
I' ho pien di sospir quest' aer tutto 250
I' ho pregato Amor, e nel riprego 212
Il cantar novo e 'l pianger degli augelli 197
Il figliuol di Latona avea gia nove 45
Il mal mi preme, e mi
spaventa
il peggio 214
Il mio avversario, in cui veder solete 46
Il successor di Carlo, che la chioma 26
I' mi soglio accusare, ed or mi scuso 257
I' mi vivea di mia sorte contento 204
In dubbio di mio stato, or piango, or canto 219
In mezzo di duo amanti onesta altera 106
In nobil sangue vita umile e queta 194
In qual parte del cielo, in quale idea 153
In quel bel viso, ch' i' sospiro e bramo 222
In quella parte dov' Amor mi sprona 121
In tale stella duo begli occhi vidi 224
Io amai sempre, ed amo forte ancora 86
Io avro sempre in odio la fenestra 86
Io canterei d' Amor si novamente 130
Io mi rivolgo indietro a ciascun passo 12
Io non fu' d' amar voi lassato unquanco 84
Io pensava assai destro esser sull' ale 265
Io sentia dentr' al cor gia venir meno 48
Io son dell' aspettar omai si vinto 93
Io son gia stanco di pensar siccome 78
Io son si stanco sotto 'l fascio antico 83
Io temo si de' begli occhi l' assalto 43
I' piansi, or canto; che 'l celeste lume 204
I' pur ascolto, e non odo novella 221
Italia mia, benche 'l parlar sia indarno 124
Ite, caldi sospiri, al freddo core 148
Ite, rime dolenti, al duro sasso 290
I' vidi in terra angelici costumi 150
I' vo pensando, e nel pensier m' assale 226
I' vo piangendo i miei passati tempi 314
La bella donna che cotanto amavi 89
La donna che 'l mio cor nel viso porta 104
L' aere gravato, e l' importuna nebbia 64
La gola, e 'l sonno, e l' oziose piume 6
La guancia che fu gia piangendo stanca 59
L' alma mia fiamma oltra le belle bella 250
L' alto e novo miracol ch' a di nostri 266
L' alto signor, dinanzi a cui non vale 212
L' arbor gentil ohe forte amai molt' anni 61
L' ardente nodo ov' io fui, d' ora in ora 239
Lasciato hai, Morte, senza sole il mondo 295
La sera desiar, odiar l' aurora 221
L' aspettata virtu che 'n voi fioriva 98
L' aspetto sacro della terra vostra 66
Lassare il velo o per sole, o per ombra 9
Lasso!
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Say thou dost love me, love me, love me--toll
The silver
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Quantos illa tulit languenti corde
timores!
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Descend, ye chilly,
smothering
snows!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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As he looked down it seemed to him that
the rigid face
returned
his glance mockingly, closing one eye.
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In the same work will be inserted _A
Discorse
on
Bristowe_, and the other historical pieces in prose, which Chatterton
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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REVOLT
AGAINST THE CREPUSCULAR SPIRIT IN MODERN POETRY
WOULD shake off the
lethargy
of this our time, I and give
For shadows shapes of power, For dreams men.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Say, do thy
subjects
in bold faction rise,
Or priests in fabled oracles advise?
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Odyssey - Pope |
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The more of kindly
strength
is in the soil,
So much doth evil seed and lack of culture
Mar it the more, and make it run to wildness.
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The evening, =erev=, of Genesis signifies a
"mingling," and
approaches
the meaning of our "twilight" analytically.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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" The Hindoos
dreamed that the earth rested on an elephant, and the elephant on a
tortoise, and the
tortoise
on a serpent; and though it may be an
unimportant coincidence, it will not be out of place here to state,
that a fossil tortoise has lately been discovered in Asia large enough
to support an elephant.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Years of the
unperformed!
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Whitman |
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We should be wanting in our duty as the conductor of that tremendous
engine, a public press, as an American, and as a man, did we allow such
an
opportunity
as is presented to us by 'The Biglow Papers' to pass by
without entering our earnest protest against such attempts (now, alas!
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James Russell Lowell |
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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And thus
addressed
the fair with ev'ry grace:--
How blithe that look!
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There, obedient to her praying, did I read aloud the poems
Made to Tuscan flutes, or
instruments
more various of our own;
Read the pastoral parts of Spenser, or the subtle interflowings
Found in Petrarch's sonnets--here's the book, the leaf is folded down!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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There are many
chimaeras
that exist today, and before combating one of them, the greatest enemies of poetry, it is necessary to bridle Pegasus and even yoke him.
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Appoloinaire |
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Notes:
504, 505 hospitable Dores Yielded thir
Matrons]
the hospitable
door Expos'd a Matron 1674.
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Milton |
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How shall a blind man dare
Venture along the roaring crowded street,
Or
branching
roads where I may never hit
The way he has gone?
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Dream yields to dream, strife follows strife,
And Death
unweaves
the webs of Life.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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The fountain rears up in long
broken spears of
disheveled
water and flattens into the earth.
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Imagists |
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THE BURIAL OF THE DEAD
April is the
cruellest
month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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