And those who pass that way as he plays the tune,
Suddenly
stop and cannot raise their feet.
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Is your cause against us
legitimate?
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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insanam autem esse aiunt, quia atrox incerta instabilis siet:
caecam ob eam rem esse iterant, quia nil cernat quo sese adplicet:
brutam, quia dignum atque
indignum
nequeat internoscere.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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[Sidenote E: The knight thinks of his
adventure
at the Green Chapel.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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In hot summer have I great rejoicing
When the tempests kill the earth's foul peace, And the lightnings from black heav'n flash crimson, And the fierce
thunders
roar me their music
And the winds shriek through the clouds mad, op-
posing,
And through all the riven skies God's swords clash.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Out of my nature has come
wild despair; an
abandonment
to grief that was piteous even to look at;
terrible and impotent rage; bitterness and scorn; anguish that wept
aloud; misery that could find no voice; sorrow that was dumb.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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He certainly made a
pilgrimage
to the Holy Land but perhaps before the Crusade.
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Troubador Verse |
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The chill air comes around me oceanly,
From bank to bank the
waterstrife
is spread;
Strange birds like snowspots oer the whizzing sea
Hang where the wild duck hurried past and fled.
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John Clare |
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{33c} From the barrow's keeper
no
footbreadth
flee I.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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EPITAPH
Bethink, poor heart, what bitter kind of jest
Mad Destiny this tender
stripling
played;
For a warm breast of maiden to his breast,
She laid a slab of marble on his head.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Les Amours de Cassandre: CLXXIV
Now when the sky and when the earth again
Fill with ice: cold hail scattered everywhere,
And the horror of the worst months of the year
Makes the grass bristle across the plain:
Now when the wind mutinously prowling,
Cracks the boulders, and uproots the trees,
When the redoubled roaring of the seas
Fills all the
shoreline
with its wild surging:
Love burns me, and winter's bitter cold
That freezes all, cannot freeze the old
Ardour in my heart that lasts forever.
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Ronsard |
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VII
"You dance divinely,
stranger
swain,
Such grace I've never known.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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But more, if frankly fondly I could say,
"My lady asks, I
therefore
wake the lay.
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Petrarch |
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But all such fanciful thoughts as these
Were strange to a practical man like Burns,
Who minded only his own concerns,
Troubled
no more by fancies fine
Than one of his calm-eyed, long-tailed kine,--
Quite old-fashioned and matter-of-fact,
Slow to argue, but quick to act.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Grosart
is right in
regarding
the names of the fairy saints as quite imaginary.
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Robert Herrick |
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"
"It's very fine to throw the blame
On _me_ in such a
fashion!
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Lewis Carroll |
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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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Le Testament: Epitaph et Rondeau
Epitaph
Here there lies, and sleeps in the grave,
One whom Love killed with his scorn,
A poor little scholar in every way,
He was named
Francois
Villon.
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Villon |
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I remember a man, though, who told me, the night after
Amdheran, when we were
picketed
under Jagai, and he'd left his sword--by
the way, did you ever pay Ranken for that sword?
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Kipling - Poems |
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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It was believed that the Genoese fleet were in
the roads; and the Doge took all
possible
precautions to secure the
safety of the State.
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Petrarch |
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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I was running to help
him, when several strong
Cossacks
seized me, and bound me with their
"_kuchaks_,"[54] shouting--
"Wait a bit, you will see what will become of you traitors to the Tzar!
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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our country's hope and glory,
I'll tell thee all the truth, without a falsehood:
Thou must know that I had comrades, four in number;
Of my
comrades
four the first was gloomy midnight;
The second was a steely dudgeon dagger;
The third it was a swift and speedy courser;
The fourth of my companions was a bent bow;
My messengers were furnace-harden'd arrows.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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But for this
defection
Arnold might have
triumphed in his assault on Quebec.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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_Piu volte gia dal bel
sembiante
umano.
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Petrarch |
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I
answered
him at once,
"Old, old man, it is the wisdom of the age.
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Stephen Crane |
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Certitude
If I speak it's to hear you more clearly
If I hear you I'm sure to understand you
If you smile it's the better to enter me
If you smile I will see the world entire
If I embrace you it's to widen myself
If we live
everything
will turn to joy
If I leave you we'll remember each other
In leaving you we'll find each other again.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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This date, which accompanies the
reference
number of
the footnote, indicates the year in which the reading finally retained
was first adopted by Wordsworth.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Clasp, Wife, and kiss, and lift the head:
Harrington
lies at his doorstep dead.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Your
apparition
cannot satisfy me:
Since I myself entombed you in porphyry.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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* * * * *
In the above
criticisms
I feel that I may have done what critics are so
apt to do.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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--C'est que les vents tombant des grands monts de Norwege
T'avaient parle tout bas de l'apre
liberte!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Whose seats the weary
traveller
repose?
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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As for me, I give nothing to any one, except I give the like
carefully
to
you;
I sing the songs of the glory of none, not God, sooner than I sing the
songs of the glory of you.
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Whitman |
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Something
in her bosom wrings,
For relief a sigh she brings:
And oh!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Meshed and starred
With precious stones, there struts the shattering _ziz_
Whose groans are
wrinkled
thunder.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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" He traced these lines with his diamond, and said, "That
will be a
companion
to 'The Toast.
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Robert Forst |
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After having vied with
returned
favours squandered treasure
More than a red lip with a red tip
And more than a white leg with a white foot
Where then do we think we are?
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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But that your
trespass
now becomes a fee;
Mine ransoms yours, and yours must ransom me.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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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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Miss Nancy
Ellicott
smoked
And danced all the modern dances;
And her aunts were not quite sure how they felt about it,
But they knew that it was modern.
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T.S. Eliot |
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The reason 's plain enough:--she 's
something
new.
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La Fontaine |
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Yet, are we not for one brief day,
While the sun sleeps on the mountain, 10
Wild-hearted lover and loved one,
Safe in Pan's
keeping?
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Sappho |
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For
southern
wind and east wind meet
Where, girt and crowned by sword and fire,
England with bare and bloody feet
Climbs the steep road of wide empire.
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Wilde - Poems |
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A Boredom, made
desolate
by cruel hope
Still believes in the last goodbye of handkerchiefs!
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Mallarme - Poems |
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And there, as
darkness
gathers 5
In the rose-scented garden,
The god who prospers music
Shall give me skill to play.
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Sappho |
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NOT quite so fast,
rejoined
our smart gallant,
First know the plan, before consent you grant;
There is an ill attends the whole affair;
But what below, alas!
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La Fontaine |
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"While to the shore the rapid vessel flies,
Our swift
approach
the Siren choir descries;
Celestial music warbles from their tongue,
And thus the sweet deluders tune the song:
"'Oh stay, O pride of Greece!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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For in the geting he hath such wo,
And in the keping drede also,
And set evermore his
bisynesse
5595
For to encrese, and not to lesse,
For to augment and multiply.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Among those who will forthcoming numbers a
volumes for contribute to
Scudder Middleton Marguerite Wilkinson John Russell McCarthy Phoebe Hoffman Ellwood Lindsay Haines Esther Morton Smith Howard Buck
Mary Humphreys Samuel Roth
John Hall
Wheelock
Laura Benet
Fullerton L.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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I am a fiddler to my trade,
An' a' the tunes that e'er I play'd,
The
sweetest
still to wife or maid,
Was whistle owre the lave o't.
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Robert Forst |
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Bright was the morn,--the
waveless
bay
Shone like a mirror to the sun;
'Mid greenwood shades and meadows gay,
The matin birds their lays begun:
While swelling o'er the gloomy wood
Was heard the faintly-echoed roar,--
The dashing of the foaming flood,
That beat on Erie's distant shore.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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copyright law (does not
contain a notice indicating that it is posted with permission of the
copyright holder), the work can be copied and
distributed
to anyone in
the United States without paying any fees or charges.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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recalled
From bodings that have well-nigh wearied me,
I find myself upon the brow, and pause
Startled!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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With this just-sustain'd note I
announce
myself to you,
This gentle call is for you my love, for you.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Thou
shouldst
know
There were a heart in Egypt.
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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Though
frankincense
the deities require,
_We must not give all to the hallowed fire_.
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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L'Apres-midi d'un Faune
Eclogue
The Faun
These nymphs, I would
perpetuate
them.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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But say,
If thou yet other cords within thee feel'st
That draw thee towards him; so that thou report
How many are the fangs, with which this love
Is
grappled
to thy soul.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Three times
circling
beneath heaven's veil,
In devotion, round your tombs, I hail
You, with loud summons; thrice on you I call:
And, while your ancient fury I invoke,
Here, as though I in sacred terror spoke,
I'll sing your glory, beauteous above all.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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_God's deathless
plaything
rolls an eye
Five hundred thousand cubits high.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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The village maid, with hand on brow
The level ray to shade,
Upon the footpath watches now
For Colin's
darkening
plaid.
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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_Fortune
did never favour one.
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Robert Herrick |
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When Orpheus played and sang, the wild animals
themselves
came to hear his singing.
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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'
And he fled from them
groaning
with agony, for he saw that none
believed, and how then could his soul be saved?
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Yeats |
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Before, behind, around the queen, her sight
Encounters
but the same blank void of night.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Overcome by self-laudation,
Now he calls on deeds to witness
That he is no
wretched
boaster,
That he's really great at dancing.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Virgil's
celebrated
description of
Fame is in his eye, but he copies it, as Virgil, in his best imitations,
copies after Homer.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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If they know nothing of victory they
are at least spared the
knowledge
of defeat.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Little Air
I
Any solitude
Without a swan or quai
Mirrors its disuse
In the gaze I abdicate
Far from that pride's excess
Too high to enfold
In which many a sky paints itself
With the twilight's gold
But languorously flows beside
Like white linen laid aside
Such fleeting birds as dive
Exultantly at my side
Into the wave made you
Your
exultation
nude.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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]
[Footnote 24: Under
Catherine
II.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Wordsworth
was a poet.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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LUSTIGE PERSON:
Wenn ich nur nichts von
Nachwelt
horen sollte.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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The
Corporal
was not
jocular either.
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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Now glows the Ethiop maiden's sire;
Now Procyon rages all ablaze;
The Lion maddens in his ire,
As suns bring back the sultry days:
The shepherd with his weary sheep
Seeks out the
streamlet
and the trees,
Silvanus' lair: the still banks sleep
Untroubled by the wandering breeze.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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I pray you first to make the
difficult
choice;
Will you the necklace wear of pearls, or else
The emerald half-moon?
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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The absurdity of conceiting himself the
final cause of the Creation, or expecting that
perfection
in the moral
world, which is not in the natural, v.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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--
or fancy I'm
lonesome?
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Before the arrival of Titus both armies had sworn
allegiance
to 6
Otho.
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Tacitus |
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For I have seen the purplest shadows stand Alway with reverent chere that looked on her, Silence himself is grown her worshipper
And ever doth attend her in that land
Wherein she reigneth,
wherefore
let there stir Naught but the softest voices, praising her.
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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[To
BARDOLPH]
Let me
see thee froth and lime.
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Shakespeare |
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He hath eaten and lives,
And knows, and speaks, and reasons, and discerns,
Irrational
till then.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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each his center basement finds; suspended there they stand
{According
to Erdman, the word "center" was originally deleted by Blake with a strong ink stroke and therefore not easily erased.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Your Muse shall tell of public sports,
And holyday, and votive feast,
For Caesar's sake, and
brawling
courts
Where strife has ceased.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Infanta
My
sweetest
hope's to lose all hope, I fear.
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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Noi
divenimmo
intanto a pie del monte;
quivi trovammo la roccia si erta,
che 'ndarno vi sarien le gambe pronte.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Meredith - Poems |
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altars four,
Twain to thee, Daphnis, and to Phoebus twain
For sacrifice, we build; and I for thee
Two beakers yearly of fresh milk afoam,
And of rich olive-oil two bowls, will set;
And of the wine-god's bounty above all,
If cold, before the hearth, or in the shade
At harvest-time, to glad the festal hour,
From flasks of
Ariusian
grape will pour
Sweet nectar.
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Now begin;
For look where
Beatrice
like a lapwing runs
Close by the ground, to hear our conference.
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Shakespeare |
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"
TORU DUTT
THE
TRUMPETS
OF THE MIND.
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Hugo - Poems |
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(Er hebt einen
Bettvorhang
auf.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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It is literature that shows us the
body in its
swiftness
and the soul in its unrest.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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And few
attentive
readers of this play can doubt that he has
found them.
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Euripides - Electra |
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It is descriptive of the first manifestation of
doubt and
cynicism
in his youthful mind, allegorically as the
visits of a "demon.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Sara Teasdale |
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As regards one of these
foibles, I should not even have
mentioned
it in this history but for the
remarkable prominency--the extreme _alto relievo_--in which it jutted
out from the plane of his general disposition.
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Poe - 5 |
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