Ben
discernea
in lor la testa bionda;
ma ne la faccia l'occhio si smarria,
come virtu ch'a troppo si confonda.
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Menagerie to me
My
neighbor
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In sleep I heard the northern gleams;
The stars, they were among my dreams; [1]
In
rustling
conflict through the skies, [2] 5
I heard, I saw the flashes drive, [3]
And yet they are upon my eyes,
And yet I am alive;
Before I see another day,
Oh let my body die away!
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Hither in
ancestral
fashion hath each borne the bodies of
his kin; the dark fire is lit beneath, and the vapour hides high heaven
in gloom.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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And they all dead did lie:
And a
thousand
thousand slimy things
Lived on; and so did I.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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ALCESTIS (_giving the
children
into his arms one after the other_).
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You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Had ye curled
The laurel for your
thousand
artists' brows,
If these Italian hands had planted none?
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Elizabeth Browning |
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What will your people, what will envy say,
If your
protection
cloaks him every way,
Preventing him from seeking to appear,
Where a noble death is sought by honour?
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Ich denke doch, das war recht klug gemacht:
Zum Brocken wandeln wir in der Walpurgisnacht,
Um uns
beliebig
nun hieselbst zu isolieren.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Him thoughte his
sorweful
herte braste a-two.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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The former
expression
has reference to style; the latter
to subject-matter.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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]
THE little white clouds are racing over the sky,
And the fields are strewn with the gold of the flower of March,
The
daffodil
breaks under foot, and the tasselled larch
Sways and swings as the thrush goes hurrying by.
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Wilde - Poems |
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anne parentum 15
Frustrantur
falsis gaudia lacrimulis,
Vbertim thalami quas intra lumina fundunt?
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Catullus - Carmina |
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His
companion
goes after, following,
The men of France their warrant find in him.
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Chanson de Roland |
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In
consideration
of a purse of gold which Leandre
gives him, Sganarelle introduces the young lover into M.
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The hierodule opened her mouth
speaking
unto Enkidu.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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That not one Trojan might be left alive,
And not a Greek of all the race survive:
Might only we the vast destruction shun,
And only we destroy the
accursed
town!
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Iliad - Pope |
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unless a
copyright
notice is included.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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If June with flowers has spangled all the ground,
Or winter bleak the flickering hearth around
Draws close the
circling
seat;
The child still sheds a never-failing light;
We call; Mamma with mingled joy and fright
Watches its tottering feet.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Thus you do wander,
uncomplaining
Stoics,
Through all the chaos of the living town:
Mothers with bleeding hearts, saints, courtesans,
Whose names of yore were on the lips of all;
Who were all glory and all grace, and now
None know you; and the brutish drunkard stops,
Insulting you with his derisive love;
And cowardly urchins call behind your back.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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associated
files of various formats will be found in:
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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"
From the wood a sound is gliding,
Vapours dense the plain are hiding,
Cries the Dame in anxious measure:
"Stay, I'll wash thy head, my
treasure!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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We are like
whirling
tops and rolling balls--
For even when the sleepy night-time falls,
Old Curiosity still thrusts us on,
Like the cruel Angel who goads forth the sun.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Thus, Woman, Principle of Life, Speaker of the Ideal
Would you see
The dark form of the sun
The contours of life
Or be truly dazzled
By the fire that fuses all
The flame conveyer of modesties
In flesh in gold that fine gesture
Error is as unknown
As the limits of spring
The temptation prodigious
All touches all travels you
At first it was only a thunder of incense
Which you love the more
The fine praise at four
Lovely
motionless
nude
Violin mute but palpable
I speak to you of seeing
I will speak to you of your eyes
Be faceless if you wish
Of their unwilling colour
Of luminous stones
Colourless
Before the man you conquer
His blind enthusiasm
Reigns naively like a spring
In the desert
Between the sands of night and the waves of day
Between earth and water
No ripple to erase
No road possible
Between your eyes and the images I see there
Is all of which I think
Myself inderacinable
Like a plant which masses itself
Which simulates rock among other rocks
That I carry for certain
You all entire
All that you gaze at
All
This is a boat
That sails a sweet river
It carries playful women
And patient grain
This is a horse descending the hill
Or perhaps a flame rising
A great barefooted laugh in a wretched heart
An autumn height of soothing verdure
A bird that persists in folding its wings in its nest
A morning that scatters the reddened light
To waken the fields
This is a parasol
And this the dress
Of a lace-maker more seductive than a bouquet
Of the bell-sounds of the rainbow
This thwarts immensity
This has never enough space
Welcome is always elsewhere
With the lightning and the flood
That accompany it
Of medusas and fires
Marvellously obliging
They destroy the scaffolding
Topped by a sad coloured flag
A bounded star
Whose fingers are paralysed
I speak of seeing you
I know you living
All exists all is visible
There is no fleck of night in your eyes
I see by a light exclusively yours.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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And were you lost, I would be,
Though my name
Rang loudest
On the
heavenly
fame.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Yet I, when young and lusty,
Have gone through
stirring
scenes,
For I went down with Carroll
To fight at New Orleans.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Aye, me
And this my brother, loveless,
solitary?
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Euripides - Electra |
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But ance, when in my wooing pride
I, like a blockhead, boost to ride,
The wilfu'
creature
sae I pat to,
(Lord pardon a' my sins, an' that too!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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By
that late learned and
Reverend
Divine John Donne, D^r in Divinity, and
Deane of S.
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John Donne |
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The influence of this "classicist" tradition has led to a timid and
unsatisfying treatment of the _Alcestis_, in which many of the most
striking and unconventional features of the whole composition were either
ignored or
smoothed
away.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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--If not, wouldst have me keep her in
The women's
chambers
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Amorous Prince, the
greatest
lover,
I want no evil that's of your doing,
But, by God, all noble hearts must offer
To succour a poor man, without crushing.
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Villon |
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The fine slender shoulder-blades:
The long arms, with
tapering
hands:
My small breasts: the hips well made
Full and firm, and sweetly planned,
All Love's tournaments to withstand:
The broad flanks: the nest of hair,
With plump thighs firmly spanned,
Inside its little garden there?
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Villon |
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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.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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But his friends
fell upon, fought for, and ultimately devoured the body; and, as it
seemed to me, sang their hymns of thanksgiving
afterward
with renewed
energy.
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Kipling - Poems |
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que vous etes bien dans le beau cimetiere
Vous bourgmestres vous bateliers
Et vous conseillers de regence
Vous aussi tziganes sans papiers
La vie vous pourrit dans la panse
La croix vous pousse entre les pieds
Le vent du Rhin ulule avec tous les hiboux
Il eteint les cierges que toujours les enfants rallument
Et les feuilles mortes
Viennent couvrir les morts
Des enfants morts parlent parfois avec leur mere
Et des mortes parfois
voudraient
bien revenir
Oh!
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Shakespeare |
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Isabella, who was present,
solemnly
protested that the earls of
Flanders were not obliged to do homage.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Public domain books are our gateways to the past,
representing
a wealth of history, culture and knowledge that's often difficult to discover.
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Meredith - Poems |
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For perfect strains may float
'Neath master-hands, from
instruments
defaced,--
And great souls, at one stroke, may do and doat.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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There is an imp hath
followed
me even there!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Besides, there, nightly, with
terrific
glare,
Love, jealous grown of so complete a pair,
Hover'd and buzz'd his wings, with fearful roar,
Above the lintel of their chamber door,
And down the passage cast a glow upon the floor.
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Keats - Lamia |
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Love is not love
Which alters when it
alteration
finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O, no!
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Yet to affirm, as utterly made sure,
That this
adornment
cometh of the hand
Of mine Orestes, brother of my soul,
I may not venture, yet hope flatters fair!
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Aeschylus |
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A good and vertuous Nature may recoyle
In an
Imperiall
charge.
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Keats - Lamia |
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There
seemed to come up from its waters and its vine-clad hills and valleys
a hushed music as of
Crusaders
departing for the Holy Land.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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And while the pony moves his legs,
In Johnny's left-hand you may see,
The green bough's
motionless
and dead;
The moon that shines above his head
Is not more still and mute than he.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Sometimes
humility o'ercomes disdain,
Sometimes inflames it to worse spite again;
This knew I, who so long was left in night,
That from such prayers had disappear'd my light;
Till I, who sought her still, nor found, alas!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Stephen Crane |
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Elvire
Beware lest Heaven
punishes
your pride
And sees you avenged, though he has died.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Now my song and
presence
you dismay,
Yet soon it will be dawn.
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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Rather hath this
astonisht
me, that we
Have not for ever lived in this high hour.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Him the Almighty Power
Hurld headlong flaming from th' Ethereal Skie
With hideous ruine and combustion down
To
bottomless
perdition, there to dwell
In Adamantine Chains and penal Fire,
Who durst defie th' Omnipotent to Arms.
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| Source: |
Milton |
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Thou comest forth in thy
awful beauty; the stars hide
themselves
in the sky; the moon, cold and
pale, sinks in the western wave.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Be where you list, your charter is so strong
That you
yourself
may privilage your time
To what you will; to you it doth belong
Yourself to pardon of self-doing crime.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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It is written with a running pen; so long as the verse keeps
going on, Morris seems satisfied, though it is very often going on
about unimportant things, and in an
uninteresting
manner.
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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"You were
too hasty in giving
Chvabrine
command of the fort, and now you are too
hasty in hanging him.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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oo dedes: 117
A son
conceyued
?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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C'est que la voix des mers, comme un immense rale,
Brisait ton sein d'enfant, trop humain et trop doux;
C'est qu'un matin d'avril, un beau
cavalier
pale,
Un pauvre fou s'assit, muet, a tes genoux!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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O
wherefore
did God grant me my request,
And as a blessing with such pomp adorn'd?
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Milton |
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And bound for the same bourn as I,
On every road I wandered by,
Trod beside me, close and dear,
The
beautiful
and death-struck year:
Whether in the woodland brown
I heard the beechnut rustle down,
And saw the purple crocus pale
Flower about the autumn dale;
Or littering far the fields of May
Lady-smocks a-bleaching lay,
And like a skylit water stood
The bluebells in the azured wood.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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As when some heifer, seeking for her steer
Through woodland and deep grove, sinks wearied out
On the green sedge beside a stream, love-lorn,
Nor marks the
gathering
night that calls her home-
As pines that heifer, with such love as hers
May Daphnis pine, and I not care to heal.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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What else is the Palladium (with Homer) that kept Troy so long
from
sacking?
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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You answered questions as
smoothly
as a rolling ball, 12 you explained, giving the gist of the texts.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Burroughs too
promiscuously
expresses it,
"sounded all experiences of life, with all their passions, pleasures, and
abandonments.
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Whitman |
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']
[Footnote 22: In citing this
collection
I use _TC_ for the two
groups _TCC_, _TCD_.
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John Donne |
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"--In gentler tone
He said, "Your longings in your looks are known;
You wish to learn the names of those behind
Who through the vale in long
procession
wind:
I grant your prayer, if fate allows a space,"
He said, "their fortunes, as they come, to trace.
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Petrarch |
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Enter
Macduffes
Wife, her Son, and Rosse.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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These
are
commonly
the off-scouring and dregs of men that do these things, or
calumniate others; yet I know not truly which is worse--he that maligns
all, or that praises all.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Bleed, bleed poore Country,
Great Tyrrany, lay thou thy basis sure,
For
goodnesse
dare not check thee: wear y thy wrongs,
The Title, is affear'd.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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When I had heard my sage
instructor
name
Those dames and knights of antique days, o'erpower'd
By pity, well-nigh in amaze my mind
Was lost; and I began: "Bard!
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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The people awaken
Which
godlessly
slept;
Their palaces shaken,
Their offences unwept!
| Guess: |
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Decayed
millennial
trunks, like moonlight flecks,
Lit with phosphoric crumbs the forest floor.
| Guess: |
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Emerson - Poems |
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Along a mountain's side secure they trod,
Steep on each hand, and rugged was the road;
When, as a bull, whose lustful veins betray
The madd'ning tumult of inspiring May;
If, when his rage with fiercest ardour glows,
When in the shade the fragrant heifer lows,
If then, perchance, his jealous burning eye
Behold a
careless
traveller wander by,
With dreadful bellowing on the wretch he flies,
The wretch defenceless, torn and trampled dies.
| Guess: |
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Threescore
and ten I can remember well,
Within the Volume of which Time, I haue seene
Houres dreadfull, and things strange: but this sore Night
Hath trifled former knowings
Rosse.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Replaced
anon,
Its cameo of the abjured one drew
Her musings thereupon.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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7 and any additional
terms imposed by the
copyright
holder.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Else
wherefore
sex?
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"Blest and thrice blest the Roman
Who sees Rome's
brightest
day,
Who sees that long victorious pomp
Wind down the Sacred Way,
And through the bellowing Forum,
And round the Suppliant's Grove,
Up to the everlasting gates
Of Capitolian Jove.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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I years had been from home,
And now, before the door,
I dared not open, lest a face
I never saw before
Stare vacant into mine
And ask my
business
there.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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At this day 570
I smile, in many a mountain solitude
Conjuring up scenes as
obsolete
in freaks
Of character, in points of wit as broad,
As aught by wooden images performed
For entertainment of the gaping crowd 575
At wake or fair.
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" In 1845 they were
transferred
to "Poems
written in Youth.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Our driver begins to lose
his load the moment he tries to
transport
them to where they do not
belong, that is, to any but the most beautiful.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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"
la la
To Carthage then I came
Burning burning burning burning
O Lord Thou
pluckest
me out
O Lord Thou pluckest me out 310
IV.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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city of hurried and
glittering
tides!
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Whitman |
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No help it were to us, the horn to blow,
But, none the less, it may be better so;
The King will come, with
vengeance
that he owes;
These Spanish men never away shall go.
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Chanson de Roland |
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And it grew both day and night,
Till it bore an apple bright,
And my foe beheld it shine,
and he knew that it was mine, --
And into my garden stole
When the night had veiled the pole;
In the morning, glad, I see
My foe
outstretched
beneath the tree.
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blake-poems |
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Lo, now that body is the song whereof
Spirit is mood, knoweth not our
delight?
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Copyright laws in most
countries
are in
a constant state of change.
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Keats - Lamia |
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There were the sordid
provincial
shops--
The grocer's, and the shops for women,
The shop where I bought transfers,
And the piano and gramaphone shop
Where I used to stand
Staring at the huge shiny pianos and at the pictures
Of a white dog looking into a gramaphone.
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Imagists |
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Austin, 'Old World Idylls,'
Receiving
a Copy of.
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James Russell Lowell |
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I saw its turrets in a blaze,
Their crackling battlements all cleft,
And the hot lead pour down like rain
From off the
scorched
and blackening roof,
Whose thickness was not vengeance-proof.
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Byron |
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The King of Aragon is James I, cousin of Count Raymond
Berenger
IV.
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Troubador Verse |
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In the _Alcestis_, as it stands, the
famous act of
hospitality
is a datum of the story.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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They blind all with their gleam,
Their loins encircled are by girdles bright,
Their robes are edged with bands
Of
precious
stones--the rarest earth affords--
With richly jeweled hands
They hold their slender, shining, naked swords.
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Rilke - Poems |
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A tranquil peace, alloy'd by no distress,
Such as in heaven eternally abides,
Moves from their lovely and
bewitching
smile.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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The outlines of his figure, exceedingly
lean, but much above the common height, were rendered
minutely
distinct,
by means of a faded suit of black cloth which fitted tight to the skin,
but was otherwise cut very much in the style of a century ago.
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Poe - 5 |
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