Lustig, as the
Dutchman
says.
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m platz lo gais temps de pascor
The joyful
springtime
pleases me
Ai!
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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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Wilde - Poems |
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But near the casement wide to the north,
A gold is dying, in accord with the decor
Perhaps, those unicorns dashing fire at a nixie,
She who, naked and dead in the mirror, yet
In the oblivion enclosed by the frame, is fixed
As soon by
scintillations
as the septet.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Continued
use of this site implies consent to that usage.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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And next to the
invention
of speaking itself, the
most important invention for the poet has been the invention of writing
and reading; for this has added immensely to the scope of his mastery
over words.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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For his capacity, you are to be quicker and fuller of those reaches and
glances of wit or learning, as he is able to
entertain
them.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Parsifal
Parsifal has conquered the girls, their sweet
Chatter, amusing lust - and his inclination,
A virgin boy's, towards the Flesh, tempted
To love the little tits and gentle babble;
He's conquered lovely Woman, of subtle
Heart, showing her cool arms, provoking breast;
He's conquered Hell,
returned
to his tent,
With a weighty trophy on his boyish arm.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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"
LINES WRITTEN A FEW MILES ABOVE TINTERN ABBEY, ON
REVISITING
THE BANKS
OF THE WYE DURING A TOUR, July 13, 1798.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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LXXVI
Ye have heard how Marsyas,
In the folly of his pride,
Boasted of a
matchless
skill,--
When the great god's back was turned;
How his fond imagining 5
Fell to ashes cold and grey,
When the flawless player came
In serenity and light.
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Sappho |
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What
bursting
anguish tears my heart;
From thee, my Jeany, must I part!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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what conqueror hath
committed
this cruelty upon you?
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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PauPs, which
was
afterwards
laid aside, and the stones intended for that,
were bought by the Lord Cl;irendon to build his house with.
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Marvell - Poems |
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nē his līf-dagas lēoda
ǣnigum nytte tealde (_nor did he count his life useful to any man_), 795;
þæt ic mē ǣnigne under swegles begong ge-sacan ne tealde (_I
believed
not
that I had any foe under heaven_), 1774; cwæð hē þone gūð-wine gōdne tealde
(_said he counted the war-friend good_), 1811; hē ūsic gār-wīgend gōde
tealde (_deemed us good spear-warriors_), 2642; pl.
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Beowulf |
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Soon her consenting hand
was clasped in his: the shades of evening
favoured
their escape .
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Byron |
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children
small,
Blue-eyed, wailing through the city--
Our own babes cry in them all:
Let us take them into pity.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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How
fragrant
the perfume breathed forth in your words.
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Aristophanes |
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(C)
Copyright
2000-2016 A.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Et, des pieds jusques a la tete,
Un air subtil, un
dangereux
parfum
Nagent autour de son corps brun.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Creating the works from print
editions
not protected by U.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm
License as
specified
in paragraph 1.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Equitone,
Tell her I bring the
horoscope
myself:
One must be so careful these days.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Loud clanged beneath his horse-hoofs
The helmets of the dead,
And many a curdling pool of blood
Splashed
him heel to head.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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The soul sees through the senses, imagines, hears,
Has from the body's powers its acts and looks:
The spirit once
embodied
has wit, makes books,
Matter makes it more perfect and more fair.
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Ronsard |
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THE BLOSSOM
Merry, merry
sparrow!
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blake-poems |
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'twas too much;
Methought I fainted at the charmed touch,
Yet held my recollection, even as one
Who dives three fathoms where the waters run
Gurgling in beds of coral: for anon, 640
I felt upmounted in that region
Where falling stars dart their artillery forth,
And eagles struggle with the
buffeting
north
That balances the heavy meteor-stone;--
Felt too, I was not fearful, nor alone,
But lapp'd and lull'd along the dangerous sky.
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Keats |
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When their frenzy seemed
heightened
and her first task complete, the
purpose and all the house of Latinus turned upside down, the dolorous
goddess flies on thence, soaring on dusky wing, to the walls of the
gallant Rutulian, the city which Danae, they say, borne down on the
boisterous south wind, built and planted with Acrision's people.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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I
marvelled
at your height.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Mie friende, Syr Hughe, whatte
tydynges
brynges thee here?
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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+Inscribed
to a dear Child:
in memory of golden summer hours
and whispers of a summer sea.
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Lewis Carroll |
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Or why was the substance not made more sure
That formed the brave fronts of these
palaces?
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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When
besieged
by Don Alonzo, according to
some, it was garrisoned by an army of 200,000 men.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Copyright
laws in most countries are in
a constant state of change.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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--
why not
hitherto?
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Then the words
Proceeded, with voice, alter'd from itself
So clean, the
semblance
did not alter more.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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He
commanded
where he spoke, and had his
judges angry and pleased at his devotion.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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The argument of mine
afflicted
stile:?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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, _sudden,
unexpected
attack_: nom.
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Beowulf |
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A furious stream of lightning seems to flow
Like a long snake
uncoiling
its fell ring.
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Hugo - Poems |
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XXXVIII
First time he kissed me, he but only kissed
The fingers of this hand
wherewith
I write;
And ever since, it grew more clean and white.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Like leviathans afloat
Lay their
bulwarks
on the brine;
While the sign of battle flew
On the lofty British line:
It was ten of April morn by the chime:
As they drifted on their path
There was silence deep as death;
And the boldest held his breath
For a time.
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Golden Treasury |
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It seems I have lived for a hundred years
Among these things;
And it is useless for me now to make
complaint
against them.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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These bloody
garments!
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Longfellow |
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And yet we must
Beware, and mark the natural kiths and kins
Of
circumstance
and office, and distrust
The rich man reasoning in a poor man's hut,
The poet who neglects pure truth to prove
Statistic fact, the child who leaves a rut
For a smoother road, the priest who vows his glove
Exhales no grace, the prince who walks afoot,
The woman who has sworn she will not love,
And this Ninth Pius in Seventh Gregory's chair,
With Andrea Doria's forehead!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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To such a man since harbour you afford,
Relate the farther fortunes of your lord;
What cares his mother's tender breast engage,
And sire
forsaken
on the verge of age;
Beneath the sun prolong they yet their breath,
Or range the house of darkness and of death?
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Odyssey - Pope |
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But a smooth and
steadfast
mind,
Gentle thoughts, and calm desires,
Hearts with equal love combined,
Kindle never-dying fires:--
Where these are not, I despise
Lovely cheeks or lips or eyes.
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Golden Treasury |
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If not,
Upon his
soldiers
he hath lavisht her.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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To most Germans
Schiller
is still a great poet;
but to the rest of Europe hardly one at all.
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Li Po |
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Oh, swift as light they speed, The first light into
darkness
hurled, Each to his work, above, below,
The sons of God that make the world.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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"
exclaimed
the old man,
"Happy are my eyes to see you.
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Longfellow |
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I love my own fond lover,
Young Calais, son of Thurian Ornytus:
For him I'd die twice over,
Would Fate but spare the sweet
survivor
thus.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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765
I've passed the bounds of
cautious
modesty.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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In the ponds the ice cracks with a merry and
inspiriting din, and down the larger streams is whirled grating
hoarsely, and
crashing
its way along, which was so lately a highway
for the woodman's team and the fox, sometimes with the tracks of the
skaters still fresh upon it, and the holes cut for pickerel.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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And still in their
language
quack Vive le Roy !
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Marvell - Poems |
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But as if a magic lantern threw the nerves in patterns on a screen:
Would it have been worth while
If one, settling a pillow or
throwing
off a shawl,
And turning toward the window, should say:
"That is not it at all,
That is not what I meant, at all.
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T.S. Eliot |
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They fostered not my
childhood
nor mine age.
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Aeschylus |
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Songs of a Strolling Player
THROUGH the blossoms softly simmer
Drops
profound
and fair
Since the light-beams o'er them shimmer.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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But
Hawthorne
worked in his
laboratory of evil wearing mask and gloves; he never descended into the
mud and sin of the street.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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LXXVIII
Once in the shining street,
In the heart of a
seaboard
town,
As I waited, behold, there came
The woman I loved.
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Sappho |
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The only lights that in the shed appear
Spring from the table's giant chandelier
With seven iron branches--brought from hell
By Attila Archangel, people tell,
When he had
conquered
Mammon--and they say
That seven souls were the first flames that day.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Silent and
motionless
we lie;
And no one knoweth more than this.
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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To talk of anger and to treat with death;
Where the fond verses, where the happy rhyme
Welcomed
by gentle hearts with pensive joy?
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Cheveux bleus, pavillon de tenebres tendues,
Vous me rendez l'azur du ciel immense et rond;
Sur les bords duvetes de vos meches tordues
Je m'enivre
ardemment
des senteurs confondues
De l'huile de coco, du musc et du goudron.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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is obviously
necessary if we are to have _two_
temperate
regions.
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John Donne |
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"
This very hour 25
In Mitylene,
Will not a young girl
Say to her lover,
Lifting her moon-white
Arms to enlace him, 30
Ere the glad sigh comes,
"Lo, it is
lovetime!
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Sappho |
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subita voce disse; ond' io mi scossi
come fan bestie
spaventate
e poltre.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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All the outer world could see
Graved and sawn amazingly
Their love's
delighted
riotise,
Fixt in marble for all men's eyes;
But only these twain could abide
In the cool peace that withinside
Thrilling desire and passion dwelt;
They only knew the still meaning spelt
By Love's flaming script, which is
God's word written in ecstasies.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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But I have,
And I'm off now to
practise
with my notions.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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And he hath kissed the lips of Proserpine,
And sung the Galilaean's requiem,
That wounded
forehead
dashed with blood and wine
He hath discrowned, the Ancient Gods in him
Have found their last, most ardent worshipper,
And the new Sign grows grey and dim before its conqueror.
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Wilde - Poems |
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That the maker of cities grew faint
with the splendour of palaces,
paused while the incense-flowers
from the incense-trees
dropped on the marble-walk,
thought anew,
fashioned
this--
street after street alike.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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THE POET'S LOVE-SONG
In noon-tide hours, O Love, secure and strong,
I need thee not; mad dreams are mine to bind
The world to my desire, and hold the wind
A
voiceless
captive to my conquering song.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Jealously
she seeks me out, sweet secret love to expose.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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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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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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I'm to be turned out of the room like a
troublesome
child?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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A washed-out smallpox cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone With all the old
nocturnal
smells
That cross and cross across her brain.
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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--
"The glass rings low, the
charming
power that lives
Within it makes the music that it gives.
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Byron |
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But Venus pours gentle dew of slumber on
Ascanius' limbs, and lifts him lulled in her lap to the tall Idalian
groves of her deity, where soft amaracus folds him round with the
shadowed
sweetness
of its odorous blossoms.
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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the burial of Haki on a funeral-pyre ship,
_Inglinga
Saga;_
the burial of Balder, Sinfiötli, Arthur, etc.
| Guess: |
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Beowulf |
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E quella che vedea i pensier dubi
ne la mia mente, disse: <
t'hanno
mostrato
Serafi e Cherubi.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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"
Ah, distinctly I
remember
it was in the bleak December,
And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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"Sweet sleep, come to me
Underneath
this tree;
Do father, mother, weep?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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_
qui est d'un net et d'un vrai, quant a ce qui
concerne
un beau jour de
premier janvier.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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An epic
is not even a re-creation of old things; it is
altogether
a new
creation, a new creation in terms of old things.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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And look, where the narrow white streets of the town
Leap up from the blue water's edge to the wood, 15
Scant room for man's range between mountain and sea,
And the market where woodsmen from over the hill
May traffic, and sailors from far foreign ports
With
treasure
brought in from the ends of the earth.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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The sabbath bells, and their delightful chime;
The gambols and wild freaks at
shearing
time;
My hen's rich nest through long grass scarce espied;
The cowslip-gathering at May's dewy prime;
The swans, that, when I sought the water-side,
From far to meet me came, spreading their snowy pride.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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(_Yes, now the bargain's done; and I may wear,
Like a cheated savage, scarlet dyes and strings
Of beaded glass, all the
pleasure
of love_!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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'twas a
precious
flock to me,
As dear as my own children be;
For daily with my growing store
I loved my children more and more.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
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The
guardian
waited
ill-enduring till evening came;
boiling with wrath was the barrow's keeper,
and fain with flame the foe to pay
for the dear cup's loss.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Dripping
sleep and languor from his heavy haunches,
He turns from deep disdain and launches
Himself upon the thickening air,
And, with weird cries of sickening despair,
Flies at Leviathan.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Delville and the man who went by the
nickname
of
The Dancing Master.
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Kipling - Poems |
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I lie abstracted, and hear
beautiful
tales of things, and the reasons of
things;
They are so beautiful I nudge myself to listen.
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Whitman |
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Darker wast thou in the garden
yestermorn
by summer sun.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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If they'd take
elsewhere
the honours they send me!
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Racine - Phaedra |
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For thee old legends
breathed
historic breath;
Thou sawest Poseidon in the purple sea,
And in the sunset Jason's fleece of gold!
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Longfellow |
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My parents gave me their blessing, and my father said to me--
"Good-bye, Petr'; serve
faithfully
he to whom you have sworn fidelity;
obey your superiors; do not seek for favours; do not struggle after
active service, but do not refuse it either, and remember the proverb,
'Take care of your coat while it is new, and of your honour while it is
young.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Many nobles
sat assembled, and searched out counsel
how it were best for bold-hearted men
against
harassing
terror to try their hand.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Her
brothers
William and John, with
Coleridge, were all at Dove Cottage at that time.
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William Wordsworth |
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In the Deroy portrait he wears a beard; he is there what Catulle
Mendes nicknamed him: "His Excellence,
Monseigneur
Brummel!
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Meredith - Poems |
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Di magni, facite ut vere
promittere
possit,
Atque id sincere dicat et ex animo,
Vt liceat nobis tota producere vita 5
Alternum hoc sanctae foedus amicitae.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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