Thus vainly thinking that she thinks me young,
Although she knows my days are past the best,
Simply I credit her false-speaking tongue:
On both sides thus is simple truth suppressed:
But
wherefore
says she not she is unjust?
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Even as to Bacchus and to Ceres, so
To thee the swain his yearly vows shall make;
And thou thereof, like them, shalt
quittance
claim.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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THE BOHEMIAN HYMN
In many forms we try
To utter God's infinity,
But the
boundless
hath no form,
And the Universal Friend
Doth as far transcend
An angel as a worm.
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Emerson - Poems |
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_It was included in the
Collected
Edition of the author's
Poems published by Messrs.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Quindi
sentimmo
gente che si nicchia
ne l'altra bolgia e che col muso scuffa,
e se medesma con le palme picchia.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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He was a joglar at the court of the Countess of Burlatz, Azalais of Toulouse,
daughter
of Count Raimon V.
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Troubador Verse |
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It may only be
used on or associated in any way with an
electronic
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Porter
And on her
daughter
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They wash their feet in soda water
Et O ces voix d'enfants, chantant dans la coupole!
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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XLV
So fiersly, when these knights had
breathed
once,
They gan to fight returne, increasing more
Their puissant force, and cruell rage attonce.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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XIV
But full of fire and greedy hardiment,
The youthfull knight could not for ought be staide,
But forth unto the
darksome
hole he went, 120
And looked in: his glistring armor made
A litle glooming light, much like a shade,
By which he saw the ugly monster?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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nam tua non alio coluit penetralia ritu,
terrarum
dominos quam colis ipse deos.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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'
THRENODY
The South-wind brings
Life,
sunshine
and desire,
And on every mount and meadow
Breathes aromatic fire;
But over the dead he has no power,
The lost, the lost, he cannot restore;
And, looking over the hills, I mourn
The darling who shall not return.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Where is that wise girl Eloise,
For whom was gelded, to his great shame,
Peter Abelard, at Saint Denis,
For love of her
enduring
pain,
And where now is that queen again,
Who commanded them to throw
Buridan in a sack, in the Seine?
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Villon |
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GD}
They melt the bones of Vala, & the bones of Luvah into wedges
The
innumerable
sons & daughters of Luvah closd in furnaces
Melt into furrows.
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Blake - Zoas |
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There is no
blessing
in its charity!
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Longfellow |
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er amount, to
meruayle
hym ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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A Single Smile
A single smile disputes
Each star with the
gathering
night
A single smile for us both
And the blue of your joyful eyes
Against the mass of night
Finding its flame in my eyes
I have seen by needing to know
The deep night create the day
With no change in our appearance.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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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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Updated editions will replace the
previous
one--the old editions
will be renamed.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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I am yong, but something
You may
discerne
of him through me, and wisedome
To offer vp a weake, poore innocent Lambe
T' appease an angry God
Macd.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Sleepless nights,
I
remember
the initiates,
their gesture, their calm glance.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Yet does that burst of woe congeal my frame,
When the dark streets appeared to heave and gape,
While like a sea the
storming
army came,
And Fire from Hell reared his gigantic shape,
And Murder, by the ghastly gleam, and Rape
Seized their joint prey, the mother and the child!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Since thou dost give me pains,
Let me
remember
thee what thou hast promis'd,
Which is not yet perform'd me.
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Shakespeare |
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[Illustration]
The Obsequious
Ornamental
Ostrich,
who wore Boots to keep his
feet quite dry.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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My dear babe,
Who, capable of no articulate sound,
Mars all things with his
imitative
lisp,
How he would place his hand beside his ear,
His little hand, the small forefinger up,
And bid us listen!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Stories and jests from field and town and port,
And odd neglected scraps of history
From everywhere, for you were of the sort,
Cool and refined, who like rough company:
Carter and barmaid, hawker and bargee,
Wise
pensioners
and boxers
With whom you drank, and listened
To legends of old revelry and sport
And customs of the sea.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Thou that wert wrapt in peace, the haze
Of
loveliness
spread over thee!
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Who with the weight of years would wish to bend,
When Youth itself
survives
young Love and Joy?
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Like the doves voice, like
transient
day, like music in the air:
Ah!
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blake-poems |
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That the English-
speaking public may gain at any rate some faint idea
of his genius, it has been my joyous task to translate
the
following
small selection of his works.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Was my maternal
parent aware, in a word, of my absence from the domiciliary
residence?
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Poe - 5 |
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, but its
volunteers
and employees are scattered
throughout numerous locations.
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Keats - Lamia |
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She hurried at his words, beset with fears,
For there were sleeping dragons all around,
At glaring watch, perhaps, with ready spears--
Down the wide stairs a
darkling
way they found.
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Keats |
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NOVEMBER
As I walk the misty hill
All is languid, fogged, and still;
Not a note of any bird
Nor any motion's hint is heard,
Save from soaking thickets round
Trickle or water's rushing sound,
And from ghostly trees the drip
Of runnel dews or
whispering
slip
Of leaves, which in a body launch
Listlessly from the stagnant branch
To strew the marl, already strown,
With litter sodden as its own,
A rheum, like blight, hangs on the briars,
And from the clammy ground suspires
A sweet frail sick autumnal scent
Of stale frost furring weeds long spent;
And wafted on, like one who sleeps,
A feeble vapour hangs or creeps,
Exhaling on the fungus mould
A breath of age, fatigue, and cold.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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And the seven young Fishes, swimming with great and
uncomfortable
velocity,
plunged also into the mud quite against their will, and, not being
accustomed to it, were all suffocated in a very short period.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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It was playing in the great alley of poplars whose leaves, even in spring, seem
mournful
to me since Maria passed by them, on her last journey, lying among candles.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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My books closed again on Paphos' name,
It delights me to choose with solitary genius
A ruin, by foam-flecks in
thousands
blessed
Beneath hyacinth, far off, in days of fame.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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sans clefs, la grande armoire
On
regardait
souvent sa porte brune et noire.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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XXII
"Between Rogero and Gradasso, we
Deem there is little difference, rather none;
And wot
whichever
shall elected be.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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'T was Fultah Fisher's boarding-house,
Where sailor-men reside,
And there were men of all the ports
From
Mississip
to Clyde,
And regally they spat and smoked,
And fearsomely they lied.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Already would they pass their life, hedged round
By the strong towers; and
cultivate
an earth
All portioned out and boundaried; already
Would the sea flower and sail-winged ships;
Already men had, under treaty pacts,
Confederates and allies, when poets began
To hand heroic actions down in verse;
Nor long ere this had letters been devised--
Hence is our age unable to look back
On what has gone before, except where reason
Shows us a footprint.
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Lucretius |
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" He answered not: and then
From that red floor he ne'er had risen again,
For Lara's brow upon the moment grew
Almost to blackness in its demon hue;[281]
And fiercer shook his angry falchion now 720
Than when his foe's was levelled at his brow;
Then all was stern collectedness and art,
Now rose the unleavened hatred of his heart;
So little sparing to the foe he felled,[kj]
That when the
approaching
crowd his arm withheld,
He almost turned the thirsty point on those
Who thus for mercy dared to interpose;
But to a moment's thought that purpose bent;
Yet looked he on him still with eye intent,
As if he loathed the ineffectual strife 730
That left a foe, howe'er o'erthrown, with life;
As if to search how far the wound he gave
Had sent its victim onward to his grave.
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Byron |
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Alle these thinges, wel avysed, 475
As I have you er this devysed,
With gold and asure over alle
Depeynted
were upon the walle.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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What is this sudden cradle song
That
gradually
lulls my poor being?
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19th Century French Poetry |
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at a
comloker
kny3t neuer Kryst made,
hem ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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My lids were
moistened
as the woman knelt, 360
And--was it will, or some vibration faint
Of sacred Nature, deeper than the will?
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James Russell Lowell |
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I never heard of such as dare
Approach
the spot when she is there.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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7 and any additional
terms imposed by the
copyright
holder.
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Beowulf |
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[Illustration]
There was a young person of Bantry,
Who frequently slept in the pantry;
When disturbed by the mice, she appeased them with rice,
That
judicious
young person of Bantry.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Hard
fighting
gets no reward or praise;
Steadfastness and truth cannot be rightly known.
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Li Po |
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3, a full refund of any
money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the
electronic work is
discovered
and reported to you within 90 days
of receipt of the work.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Augustus returns in triumph_
HERCVLIS
ritu modo dictus, o plebs,
morte uenalem petiisse laurum
Caesar Hispana repetit penatis
uictor ab ora.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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The peril of the ruling house is
something
like banner tassels attached?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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_ Herrick's
rabbinical
lore (cp.
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Robert Herrick |
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and lo,
Debaucheries
and every breed of sloth!
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Lucretius |
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Fairest and
foremost
of all [56-93]is
Turnus, of long and lordly ancestry; but boding signs from heaven, many
and terrible, bar the way.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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, but its volunteers and employees are scattered
throughout
numerous
locations.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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The quiet nonchalance of death
No
daybreak
can bestir;
The slow archangel's syllables
Must awaken her.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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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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The speech of Clarissa
is a parody of a famous speech by
Sarpedon
in the 'Iliad', XII, 310-328.
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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My blindness, my deafness to others shows
That only her I see, and hear, and bless,
And I offer her no false flatteries so,
For the heart more than the mouth gives word;
That in field, plain, hill, vale, though I go everywhere
I'd not discern all
qualities
in one sole body,
Only hers, where God sets them all today.
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Troubador Verse |
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XXXIII
They had not ridden farre, when they might see
One
pricking
towards them with hastie heat, 290
Full strongly armd, and on a courser free,
That through his fiercenesse fomed all with sweat,
And the sharpe yron did for anger eat,
When his hot ryder spurd his chauffed side;
His looke was sterne, and seemed still to threat 295
Cruell revenge, which he in hart did hyde,
And on his shield _Sans loy_?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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{6}
husband, so as neither to be saved by her own
credulity
nor by divine
power?
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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Listen not to that
seductive
murmur,
That only swells my pain.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Imagination flowers and vanishes, swiftly, following the flow of the writing, round the
fragmentary
stations of a capitalised phrase introduced by and extended from the title.
| Guess: |
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Mallarme - Poems |
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With a broader and deeper background of experience
and environment, which by some divine special privilege belongs to
the poetic imagination, it is easier to set apart and
contrast
these
opposing words and sympathies in a poet; but here we find them evoked
in a restricted locale- an English county-where the rich, cool tranquil
landscape gives a solid texture to the human show.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Some hold that he hath
swallowed
infant flesh,
Monster!
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Tennyson |
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in the Greek) suggest
rather
strongly
that there was only _one_.
| Guess: |
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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The wasps
flourish
greenly
Dawn goes by round her neck
A necklace of windows
You are all the solar joys
All the sun of this earth
On the roads of your beauty.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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La
premiere
avoit non Orguex,
L'autre qui ne valoit pas miex,
Fu apelee Vilenie;
Icele fu de felonie
Toute tainte et envenimee.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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But had he already
declared
this guilty love
In Athens, this passion by which he's devoured?
| Guess: |
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Racine - Phaedra |
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And
something
1819.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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My
branches
weigh me down, frost cleans the air,
My sky is black with small birds bearing south;
Say what you will, confuse me with fine care,
Put by my word as but an April truth,--
Autumn is no less on me that a rose
Hugs the brown bough and sighs before it goes.
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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how unlike those late
terrific
sleeps!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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"Yes" I
whispered
"this, too, holy, Even this holy and divine,
Though to poets known and lovers only
The dear face that looks from meanest things
"And the majesty that moves about us,
The bright splendor what common guise.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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How hard
With an
unrounded
fortune to sit down!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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It is an honorable thought,
And makes one lift one's hat,
As one
encountered
gentlefolk
Upon a daily street,
That we've immortal place,
Though pyramids decay,
And kingdoms, like the orchard,
Flit russetly away.
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And now the other maidens in the hall
Assembling, kindled on the hearth again
Th'
unwearied
blaze; then, godlike from his couch 150
Arose Telemachus, and, fresh-attired,
Athwart his shoulders his bright faulchion slung,
Bound his fair sandals to his feet, and took
His sturdy spear pointed with glitt'ring brass;
Advancing to the portal, there he stood,
And Euryclea thus, his nurse, bespake.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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May I be slander's common speech;
A text for infamy to preach;
And lastly,
streekit
out to bleach
In winter snaw;
When I forget thee!
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6 _eterne_ O:
_aternum_
D m pr.
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Latin - Catullus |
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: SONNET
on the tally-board of wasted days
IF write me for They daily
proud idleness, Let high Hell summons me, and I confess,
No overt act the
preferred
charge allays.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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ne
ralentis
pas tes flammes;
Rechauffe mon coeur engourdi,
Volupte, torture des ames!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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The wind tapped like a tired man,
And like a host, "Come in,"
I boldly answered; entered then
My
residence
within
A rapid, footless guest,
To offer whom a chair
Were as impossible as hand
A sofa to the air.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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The stout
upstanders
say, All's well with us: ruers have nought to
rue!
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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I was
hurrying
down the street when I heard myself
called by someone.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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And this
reviving
Herb whose tender Green
Fledges the River-Lip on which we lean--
Ah, lean upon it lightly!
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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"
It was the desire of beauty that made her a poet; her "nerves of
delight" were always
quivering
at the contact of beauty.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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"
"The sound
appeared
to come from without," observed one of the
courtiers.
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Poe - 5 |
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Then
shepherds
took the badge of royalty,
And the stout labourer the sword did wield:
The Consuls' power was annually revealed,
Till six month terms won greater majesty,
Which, made perpetual, accrued such power
That the Imperial Eagle seized the hour:
But Heaven, opposing such aggrandisement,
Handed that power to Peter's successor,
Who, called a shepherd, fated to reign there,
Shows that all returns to its commencement.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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The long night ends, the day comes creeping in,
Showing the sorrows that the darkness hid,
The bended head of Christ, the blood, the thorns,
The wall's gray stains of damp, the pallet bed
Where little Sister Marta dreams of saints,
Waking with arms
outstretched
imploringly
That seek to stay a vision's vanishing.
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Sara Teasdale |
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= '_Pan_ is not
easily
distinguished
from _skirt_.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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They are not known to send the dead--
And not
disfigured
visibly.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Close, close to men,
Like
undulating
layer of air,
Right above their heads,
The potent plain of Daemons spreads.
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Emerson - Poems |
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I find my
pleasure
in it, too!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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If Rodrigue is essential to the State,
Must I pay for the
workings
of fate.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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There shall be read the woe, that he doth work
With his adulterate money on the Seine,
Who by the tusk will perish: there be read
The thirsting pride, that maketh fool alike
The English and Scot,
impatient
of their bound.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Time takes fresh start again,
On for a
thousand
years of genius more.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Meredith - Poems |
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