Already with the pangs of a new birth
Strain the hot spheres of his convulsed eyes,
And in his
writhings
awful hues begin
To wander down his sable sheeny sides,
Like light on troubled waters: from within
Anon he rusheth forth with merry din,
And in him light and joy and strength abides;
And from his brows a crown of living light
Looks through the thickstemmed woods by day and night.
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Ah, woeful one,
with sorrows unending distraught, Erycina sows thorny cares deep in thy
bosom, since that time when Theseus fierce in his vigour set out from the
curved bay of Piraeus, and gained the
Gortynian
roofs of the iniquitous
ruler.
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Will men not say
That
insolently
we made of sacred things
A worldly instrument?
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'T is these that early taint the female soul,
Instruct the eyes of young
Coquettes
to roll,
Teach Infant-cheeks a bidden blush to know,
And little hearts to flutter at a Beau.
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Alexander Pope |
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How should thy friend fear the
seasons?
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Sappho |
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beorhte frætwe, 214, 897;
beorhte randas, 231;
bordwudu
beorhtan, 1244; n.
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To guess it puzzles scholars;
To gain it, men have shown
Contempt of generations,
And
crucifixion
known.
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The magicians pass them from father to son and keep them imprisoned in a box where they are invisible, ready to fly out in a swarm and torment thieves, sounding out magic words, so they
themselves
are immortal.
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Appoloinaire |
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Along the reaches of the street
Held in a lunar synthesis,
Whispering lunar incantations
Disolve the floors of memory
And all its clear relations,
Its
divisions
and precisions,
Every street lamp that I pass
Beats like a fatalistic drum,
And through the spaces of the dark
Midnight shakes the memory
As a madman shakes a dead geranium.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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pointedly
implicated Mr.
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The 'Essay
on Man' was built up on the precepts of Bolingbroke's philosophy; the
'Imitations of Horace' were undertaken at Bolingbroke's suggestion; and
the whole tone of Pope's political and social satire during the years
from 1731 to 1738 reflects the spirit of that opposition to the
administration of Walpole and to the growing influence of the commercial
class, which was at once
inspired
and directed by Bolingbroke.
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Stephen Crane |
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She mentioned, and forgot;
Then lightly as a reed
Bent to the water,
shivered
scarce,
Consented, and was dead.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Flesh painted with marrow
Contributes
a coverlet,
A coverlet for his contented slumber.
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Stephen Crane |
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As when high Jove denouncing future woe,
O'er the dark clouds extends his purple bow,
(In sign of tempests from the troubled air,
Or from the rage of man, destructive war,)
The drooping cattle dread the impending skies,
And from his half-till'd field the
labourer
flies:
In such a form the goddess round her drew
A livid cloud, and to the battle flew.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Thou visor'd, vast,
unspeakable
show and lesson!
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"Sleep on, I lie at heaven's high oriels Over the stars that mumur as they go
Lighting
your lattice window (ar b low;
And every star some of the glory spells Whereof I know.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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He was a great killer not
only of
malefactors
but of "keres" or bogeys, such as "Old Age" and "Ague"
and the sort of "Death" that we find in this play.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Lassie, say thou lo'es me;
Or if thou wilt no be my ain,
Say na thou'lt refuse me:
If it winna, canna be,
Thou, for thine may choose me,
Let me, lassie, quickly die,
Trusting
that thou lo'es me.
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Robert Burns |
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Poe, annoyed at some
misprints
in this issue, shortly
afterwards caused a corrected copy to be inserted in the "Home Journal.
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Poe - 5 |
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But in Scottish poetry he
achieved
triumphs of
a quite extraordinary kind.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Since Theocritus, a
perverse
kind of pleasure has often been obtained by
putting some of the peculiarities of epic--peculiarities really required
by a very long poem--into the compass of a very short poem.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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_
Although
a bastard brother received only a small
portion of the inheritance, he was commonly very well treated.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Protect me always from like excess,
Virgin, who bore, without a cry,
Christ whom we
celebrate
at Mass.
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Villon |
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Pagett's mildest questions on these points, and he
returned
to vague
generalities, leaving the M.
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Kipling - Poems |
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You may believe me when I say the
father and I were already
prepared
to die the death of martyrs.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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The latter
is a history of the Reformation written from the
Protestant
point of
view, to which Surius' work is a reply.
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John Donne |
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It was not frost, for on my flesh
I felt
siroccos
crawl, --
Nor fire, for just my marble feet
Could keep a chancel cool.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Whan I
remembre
me of my wo,
Ful nygh out of my wit I go.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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'Tis not so great, by a long way,
As if you first, with tender twaddle,
And every sort of fiddle-faddle,
Your little doll should mould and knead,
As one in French
romances
may read.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Of scenes of Nature, fields and mountains,
Of skies so beauteous after a storm, and at night the moon so
unearthly bright,
Shining sweetly, shining down, where we dig the
trenches
and
gather the heaps,
I dream, I dream, I dream.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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But as a summer wave
Serenely for a while
Will lift a crest to the sun,
Then sink again, so he
Back to the bright heavens gave
An answering smile;
Then quietly, having run
His course, bowed down his head,
And sank unmurmuringly,
Sank back into the sea,
The silent, the
unfathomable
sea
Of all the happy dead.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Hast
vanished
in that radiance, clear for thee,
But still for us obscure?
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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She is dead who never lived,
She who made
pretence
of being:
From her hands the book has slipped
In which her eyes read nothing.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Two forms are slowly shadowed on my sight--
Two
insulated
phantoms of the brain:
It is not so: I see them full and plain--
An old man, and a female young and fair,
Fresh as a nursing mother, in whose vein
The blood is nectar:--but what doth she there,
With her unmantled neck, and bosom white and bare?
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
|
It is but thirty dawns and twilights since
He left his
playmates
back of the eclipse,
It cannot be he has so soon forgot.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Tu contiens, mer d'ebene, un
eblouissant
reve
De voiles, de rameurs, de flammes et de mats:
Un port retentissant ou mon ame peut boire
A grands flots le parfum, le son et la couleur;
Ou les vaisseaux, glissant dans l'or et dans la moire,
Ouvrent leurs vastes bras pour embrasser la gloire
D'un ciel pur ou fremit l'eternelle chaleur.
| Guess: |
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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LXX
That thou art blam'd shall not be thy defect,
For slander's mark was ever yet the fair;
The ornament of beauty is suspect,
A crow that flies in heaven's
sweetest
air.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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While beneath plunder'd Saints, in
outraged
fanes
Plots Faction, and Revenge the altar stains;
And, contrast sad and wide,
The very bells which sweetly wont to fling
Summons to prayer and praise now Battle's tocsin ring!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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'O long ago,' she said, 'betwixt these two
Division
smoulders hidden; 'tis my mother,
Too jealous, often fretful as the wind
Pent in a crevice: much I bear with her:
I never knew my father, but she says
(God help her) she was wedded to a fool;
And still she railed against the state of things.
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Tennyson |
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Unto the hero whose countenance was turned away,
unto
Gilgamish
like a god
he became for him a fellow.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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2
Of seeds dropping into the ground, of births,
Of the steady concentration of America, inland, upward, to
impregnable and swarming places,
Of what Indiana, Kentucky, Arkansas, and the rest, are to be,
Of what a few years will show there in Nebraska, Colorado, Nevada,
and the rest,
(Or afar, mounting the Northern Pacific to Sitka or Aliaska,)
Of what the feuillage of America is the
preparation
for--and of what
all sights, North, South, East and West, are,
Of this Union welded in blood, of the solemn price paid, of the
unnamed lost ever present in my mind;
Of the temporary use of materials for identity's sake,
Of the present, passing, departing--of the growth of completer men
than any yet,
Of all sloping down there where the fresh free giver the mother, the
Mississippi flows,
Of mighty inland cities yet unsurvey'd and unsuspected,
Of the new and good names, of the modern developments, of
inalienable homesteads,
Of a free and original life there, of simple diet and clean and
sweet blood,
Of litheness, majestic faces, clear eyes, and perfect physique there,
Of immense spiritual results future years far West, each side of the
Anahuacs,
Of these songs, well understood there, (being made for that area,)
Of the native scorn of grossness and gain there,
(O it lurks in me night and day--what is gain after all to savageness
and freedom?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Poor
thoughtless
wench!
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John Clare |
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'
The Priest sat by and heard the child;
In trembling zeal he seized his hair,
He led him by his little coat,
And all admired his
priestly
care.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Who rescued Una from
Sansloy?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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THE FLOWN SOUL
(FRANCIS HAWTHORNE LATHROP)
FEBRUARY
6, 1881
Come not again!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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The poem tells of the troubles of two lovers: Blancheflour, or Blancheflor ('white flower') being a Christian princess
abducted
by Saracens and raised with the pagan prince Flores or Floris or Floire ('belonging to the flower') The Muslim/Christian tale is often set in Andalusia where there is a famous Granadan variant.
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Troubador Verse |
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e
Emperour
he ede,
and tolde ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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They shine with
radiance
from God's face.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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compressed, marked up,
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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bull,"
Said a movie news reel camera man,
Said a Washington
newspaper
correspondent,
Said a baggage handler lugging a trunk,
Said a two-a-day vaudeville juggler,
Said a hanky-pank selling jumping-jacks.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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I do not think
we have a right to
withhold
from the world a word or
a thought any more than a deed which might help a
single soul.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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'"
VIII
Now the
wilderness
is passed;
Now the first hut reached, at last.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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But then we first must make the journey
thither?
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Wiglaf's shield is
consumed
by the
dragon's fiery breath, and he is compelled to seek shelter under Bēowulf's
shield of iron.
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Beowulf |
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Is there that owre his French ragout
Or olio that wad staw a sow,
Or
fricassee
wad make her spew
Wi' perfect sconner,
Looks down wi' sneering, scornfu' view
On sic a dinner?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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No longer delay, let us hasten away in the
track of the sea-gull's call,
The sea is our mother, the cloud is our brother,
the waves are our
comrades
all.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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And all the people who went up to let
Their hearts out to that Duke, as has been told--
Where guess ye that the living people met,
Kept tryst, formed ranks, chose leaders, first unrolled
Their
banners?
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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"What are you
thinking
of?
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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He
explained
this afterwards.
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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" The commentators do not seem quite agreed
whether "den Alten" (the old one) is an entirely
reverential
phrase here,
like the "ancient of days," or savors a little of profane pleasantry, like
the title "old man" given by boys to their schoolmaster or of "the old
gentleman" to their fathers.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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One wing was feathered with facts of the uttermost Past,
And one with the dreams of a prophet; and both sailed fast
And met where the
sorrowful
Soul on the earth was cast.
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Sidney Lanier |
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O thou field of my delight so fair and
verdant!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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I dream of you to wake: would that I might
Dream of you and not wake but slumber on;
Nor find with dreams the dear
companion
gone,
As Summer ended Summer birds take flight.
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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To ensure the plot, Prance must her legions
lend,
Rome to restore, and to
enthrone
Rome's friend.
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Marvell - Poems |
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"
So the hand of the child, automatic,
Slipped out and
pocketed
a toy that was running along
the quay.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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You have no
employment
for me?
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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The wave--there is a
movement
there!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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Atqui putate: namque totius vobis
Frontem tabernae
scorpionibus
scribam.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Hitherto he has
lamented
the
insecurity of a man's hold upon the beautiful, though he has never
doubted the reality of beauty and the worth of its worship to man.
| Guess: |
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Keats |
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And I answered coldly too,
When you met me at the door;
And I only _heard_ the dew
Dripping
from me to the floor:
And the flowers, I bade you see,
Were too withered for the bee,--
As my life, henceforth, for me.
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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Bro:
Unmuffle
ye faint stars, and thou fair Moon
That wontst to love the travailers benizon,
Stoop thy pale visage through an amber cloud,
And disinherit Chaos, that raigns here
In double night of darknes, and of shades;
Or if your influence be quite damm'd up
With black usurping mists, som gentle taper
Though a rush Candle from the wicker hole
Of som clay habitation visit us
With thy long levell'd rule of streaming light.
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Milton |
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Mie lorde, & husbande, syke a joie ys myne; 35
Botte mayden modestie moste ne soe saie,
Albeytte thou mayest rede ytt ynn myne eyne,
Or ynn myne harte, where thou shalte be for aie;
Inne sothe, I have botte meeded oute thie faie[15];
For twelve tymes twelve the mone hathe bin yblente[16], 40
As manie tymes hathe vyed the Godde of daie,
And on the grasse her lemes[17] of sylverr sente,
Sythe thou dydst cheese mee for thie swote to bee,
Enactynge
ynn the same moste faiefullie to mee.
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Painting
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Then spake Eupithes' son,
Antinous, and the
assembly
thus address'd.
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have
thousandes
bie mie anlace bledde,
And muste I nowe for safetie flie awaie?
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THE CONTRIBUTORS
Scudder Middleton's poem, 'The Clerk," published in the June number of Contemporary Verse, is ranked in "An
Anthology
of Magazine Verse" as one of the thirty most distinguished poems published in the United States in 1916.
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We must not pluck death from the Maker's hand,
As erst we plucked the apple: we must wait
Until he gives death as he gave us life,
Nor murmur faintly o'er the primal gift
Because we spoilt its
sweetness
with our sin.
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Are you
persecuting
her, my lord, indeed?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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O
STELLIFERI
CONDITOR ORBIS.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Have I told how you attributed to
yourself
the male child
your slave had just borne and gave her your little daughter?
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Aristophanes |
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There is no mancas yn mie
loverdes
ente[163];
The hus dyspense[164] unpaied doe appere; 150
The laste receivure[165] ys eftesoones[166] dispente[167].
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Though now secure yet bear I on my face
Of the amorous
encounter
signal trace.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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And so Tattiana was her name,
Nor by her sister's brilliancy
Nor by her beauty she became
The
cynosure
of every eye.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Full of passages which rivet the
attention
of the reader.
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they were living things,
Most
terrible
to see.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Prescott
tells us that
Charles V found 10,000 Christians in Tunis at its capture in 1535.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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This would make her an exact or close contemporary of Thais,
beautiful
Athenian courtesan and mistress of Alexander the Great (356-323BC).
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Villon |
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Of the Earl
Politian?
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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The king of this country was then at war with
a neighbouring prince, and Magalhaens, on condition of his
conversion
to
Christianity, became his auxiliary.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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'Master,' they answered, 'once we
believed
that men had souls; but,
thanks to your teaching, we believe so no longer.
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But whanne he hadde a space fro his care, 505
Thus to him-self ful ofte he gan to pleyne;
He sayde, `O fool, now art thou in the snare,
That whilom Iapedest at loves peyne;
Now artow hent, now gnaw thyn owene cheyne;
Thou were ay wont eche lovere
reprehende
510
Of thing fro which thou canst thee nat defende.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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"
The Great Longing
Here I sit between my brother the
mountain
and my sister the sea.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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