The roses weren assured alle,
Defenced
with the stronge walle.
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is 2952
souereyne
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Will it never cease to
torture, this
iteration!
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Imagists |
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Or else, because in certain parts the air
Under the lands is denser, the tremulous
Bright beams of fire do waver tardily,
Nor easily can
penetrate
that air
Nor yet emerge unto their rising-place:
For this it is that nights in winter time
Do linger long, ere comes the many-rayed
Round Badge of the day.
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My
compliments
to sister Beckie,
And eke the same to honest Lucky;
I wat she is a daintie chuckie,
As e'er tread clay;
And gratefully, my gude auld cockie,
I'm yours for aye.
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" The
following
four lines were written over lines erased by Blake; they cannot now be retrieved.
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Accursed
be that tongue that tels mee so;
For it hath Cow'd my better part of man:
And be these Iugling Fiends no more beleeu'd,
That palter with vs in a double sence,
That keepe the word of promise to our eare,
And breake it to our hope.
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--No; 'twas but the wind,
Or the car
rattling
o'er the stony street;
On with the dance!
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She laid her docile crescent down,
And this
mechanic
stone
Still states, to dates that have forgot,
The news that she is gone.
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org/about/contact
For
additional
contact information:
Dr.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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All are ingrate, naught benign doth avail to aught, but
rather it doth irk and prove the greater ill: so with me, whom none doth
o'erpress more heavily nor more
bitterly
than he who a little while ago
held me his one and only friend.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Enchanting
vision, too, displayed,
That of a sweet and radiant maid,
Who knows not why she is afraid,--
Love's yet unseen!
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Hugo - Poems |
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Miltonic
construction
and phraseology.
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I said to my heart, my feeble heart;
Haven't we had enough of
sadness?
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So thou, and
pleasant
happy life 5
Lead wi' thy parent's wooden wife.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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_An Essay on
Chatterton_
by S.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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When it is day with thee, my friend, it is night with me; yet even
then I speak of the
noontide
that dances upon the hills and of
the purple shadow that steals its way across the valley; for thou
canst not hear the songs of my darkness nor see my wings beating
against the stars--and I fain would not have thee hear or see.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Many men on their release carry their prison about with them into the
air, and hide it as a secret
disgrace
in their hearts, and at length,
like poor poisoned things, creep into some hole and die.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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= Wittipol is 'wooing in
language
of the pleas and bench.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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The crew had gone,
By one and one, to pale oblivion; 670
And I was gazing on the surges prone,
With many a scalding tear and many a groan,
When at my feet emerg'd an old man's hand,
Grasping
this scroll, and this same slender wand.
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Keats |
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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He had
obtained
for him a canonicate at Verona.
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Petrarch |
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85
And founde his fadre
steppeynge
from the bryne.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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From thy blue throne, now filling all the air,
Glance but one little beam of temper'd light
Into my bosom, that the dreadful might
And tyranny of love be
somewhat
scar'd!
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Keats |
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Comfort, content, delight--
The ages' slow-bought gain--
They
shrivelled
in a night,
Only ourselves remain
To face the naked days
In silent fortitude,
Through perils and dismays
Renewed and re-renewed.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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The
narcissus
has copied the arch
of your slight breast:
your feet are citron-flowers,
your knees, cut from white-ash,
your thighs are rock-cistus.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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He only did not fulfil his law;
something
that was not
he, that was not nature, that was not God, had made him and her he
loved its tools.
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Yeats |
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My Lord, I have seen your
unfortunate
son
Dragged by the horses nourished by his hand.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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405
XLVI
A ruefull sight, as could be seene with eie;
Of whom he learned had in secret wise
The hidden cause of their captivitie,
How mortgaging their lives to Covetise,
Through
wastfull
Pride and wanton Riotise, 410
They were by law of that proud Tyrannesse,
Provokt with Wrath, and Envies false surmise,
Condemned to that Dongeon mercilesse,
Where they should live in woe, and die in wretchednesse.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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che non mi
lascerebbe
ire a' martiri
l'angel di Dio che siede in su la porta.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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If she I long for grants me her shift,
I'll cease to envy you, fair
brother!
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Troubador Verse |
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O Rose of the crimson beauty,
Why hast thou awakened the
sleeper?
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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XVII
So long as Jove's great eagle was in flight,
Bearing the fire of Heaven's menaces,
Heaven feared not the dire audaciousness,
That so stoked the Giants'
reckless
might.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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SET CUM
RACIONU{M}
IAM IN TE.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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et la resurrection de la _petite
morte_, l'entree dans le village ou _ca
sentirait
le laitage_, une
etable pleine d'un rhythme lent d'haleine, et de grands dos, un
interieur a la Teniers:
_Les lunettes de la grand-mere
Et son nez long
Dans son missel.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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[299] The Panathenaea were dedicated to Athene, the
Mysteries
to Demeter,
the Dipolia to Zeus, the Adonia to Aphrodite and Adonis.
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Aristophanes |
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) hide in what things Allius sent me
Aid, forbear to declare what was the aidance he deigned:
Neither shall
fugitive
Time from centuries ever oblivious
Veil in the blinds of night friendship he lavisht on me.
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Lewis Carroll |
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Out spake the Consul roundly:
"The bridge must
straight
go down;
For, since Janiculum is lost,
Nought else can save the town.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Into the earth for
safekeeping
the servant must bury the story,
Easing in this way the king: earth must conceal the tale.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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We lay beneath a
spreading
oak,
Beside a mossy seat;
And from the turf a fountain broke
And gurgled at our feet.
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Golden Treasury |
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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But when the sun shines in the Square,
And multitudes are swarming in the street,
Children are always
gathered
there,
Laughing and playing round the hero's feet.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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I dare say I have
scarcely
touched upon the secret of Mr.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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[_Comes before CONCHUBAR'S chair, and strikes out with
his sword, as if
CONCHUBAR
was sitting upon it.
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Yeats |
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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These are Thy
Honours!
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Alexander Pope |
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Li Po |
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Solitude, silence, the
incomparable chastity of the azure--a little sail trembling upon the
horizon, by its very
littleness
and isolation imitating my irremediable
existence--the melodious monotone of the surge--all these things
thinking through me and I through them (for in the grandeur of the
reverie the Ego is swiftly lost); they think, I say, but musically and
picturesquely, without quibbles, without syllogisms, without deductions.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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I will not make
believe!
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Longfellow |
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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The
comparison
is to Suzong.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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But thou
forgotten
and far off shalt dwell,
By great Alpheus' waters, in a dell
Of Arcady, where that gray Wolf-God's wall
Stands holy.
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Euripides - Electra |
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O Hymen
Hymenaeus
io, 140
O Hymen Hymenaeus!
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Catullus - Carmina |
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MARMADUKE Would it were
possible!
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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And only
inwardly
inclines,
As we are wont if there draws nigh
A stranger on his final round.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Tell no one thou hast been with
Margery!
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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All but the Sylph--with careful thoughts opprest,
Th'
impending
woe sat heavy on his breast.
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Alexander Pope |
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Tyrwhitt
was
Chatterton's first editor and in his edition many of the poems
were printed for the first time.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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HYPOLITO
plays
and sings.
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Longfellow |
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AELLA, the wardenne of thys[66] castell[67] stede,
Whylest Saxons dyd the Englysche sceptre swaie,
Who made whole troopes of Dacyan men to blede, 10
Then seel'd[68] hys eyne, and seeled hys eyne for aie,
Wee rowze hym uppe before the
judgment
daie,
To saie what he, as clergyond[69], can kenne,
And howe hee sojourned in the vale of men.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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The
harlot commands him to eat and drink also:
"It is the conformity of life,
Of the
conditions
and fate of the Land.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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The occasion was one likely to excite the strongest
feelings
of
national pride.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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But those dark demons, shrouded by the bridge,
Cried "Here the hallow'd visage saves not: here
Is other
swimming
than in Serchio's wave.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Ill
LOVE calls not worthy him whoe'er
renounced
.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no
principles better than
anything
else in the world.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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He lifted his high cap and
remained
near the door.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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We must
dethrone
him.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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The disappointment doubtless was severe,
But consolation certainly was near;
It proved to Reynold wonderfully kind,
For scarcely had our traveller resigned,
And groaned aloud, but, tender as her dame,
In haste the confidential servant came,
And to the widow said:--I hear below
Some poor
unfortunate
o'ercome with woe;
'Tis piercing cold, and he perhaps will die
Some place, pray grant, where he to-night may lie.
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La Fontaine |
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Sir Walter, restless as a veering wind,
Calls to the few tired dogs that yet remain:
Blanch, [2] Swift, and Music, noblest of their kind,
Follow, and up the weary
mountain
strain.
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William Wordsworth |
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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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"
XXV
This time of year a
twelvemonth
past,
When Fred and I would meet,
We needs must jangle, till at last
We fought and I was beat.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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O wild and
whirling
words, that sweep in gloom
Down to dark waves of doom!
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Aeschylus |
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Leaves, black leaves and smoke, are blown on the wind;
Mount upward past my window; swoop again;
In a sharp silence, loudly, loudly falls
The first cold drop, striking a
shriveled
leaf.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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There is practically no evidence that Lady Hatton
was the Venus of 1608, or that
_Charis_
is addressed to any particular
lady.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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_Over my bed a strange tree gleams
And there a
nightingale
is loud.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Golden Treasury |
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[hr] {521}_He
therefore
was content to cite a few_.
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Byron |
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Very well; you being then, if you be rememb'red, cracking
the stones of the
foresaid
prunes-
FROTH.
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Shakespeare |
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Devant la splendide etendue ou l'on sente
Souffler la ville enormement
florissante!
| Guess: |
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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See their
diseases
and those of grammarians.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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My heart replied: It's never enough
We'll never have had enough of sadness:
And don't you see that changeableness
Makes past pain dearer to us, and
sweeter?
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19th Century French Poetry |
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But it is
threaded
with gold and powdered with scarlet beads.
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Imagists |
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Is the old man at it again,
escaping
through some loophole?
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Aristophanes |
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And as a sleep is broken and dispers'd
Through sharp encounter of the nimble light,
With the eye's spirit running forth to meet
The ray, from membrane on to the membrane urg'd;
And the upstartled wight loathes that he sees;
So, at his sudden waking, he misdeems
Of all around him, till
assurance
waits
On better judgment: thus the saintly came
Drove from before mine eyes the motes away,
With the resplendence of her own, that cast
Their brightness downward, thousand miles below.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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First from this spot toward the sunrise turn,
And cross the steppe that knoweth not the plough:
Thus to the nomad
Scythians
shalt thou come,
Who dwell in wattled homes, not built on earth
But borne along on wains of sturdy wheel--
Equipped, themselves, with bows of mighty reach.
| Guess: |
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Aeschylus |
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þūhte him eall tō rūm, wongas and
wīc-stede (_fields and
dwelling
seemed to him all too broad_, i.
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Beowulf |
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Thou art a trouble here;
Seest thou not how all these feasting women
Pause, and the
pleasure
is distrest in them?
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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MEPHISTOPHELES (der auf einmal sehr alt erscheint):
Zum
Jungsten
Tag fuhl ich das Volk gereift,
Da ich zum letztenmal den Hexenberg ersteige,
Und weil mein Fasschen trube lauft,
So ist die Welt auch auf der Neige.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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So great was Summer's glow:
Thy shadows lay upon the dials' faces
And o'er wide spaces let thy
tempests
blow.
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Rilke - Poems |
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XXII
My glass shall not
persuade
me I am old,
So long as youth and thou are of one date;
But when in thee time's furrows I behold,
Then look I death my days should expiate.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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[_The
Soldiers
assault_ ARNOLD.
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Byron |
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Other than this sweet nothing shown by their lip, the kiss
That softly gives assurance of treachery,
My breast, virgin of proof, reveals the mystery
Of the bite from some
illustrious
tooth planted;
Let that go!
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Mallarme - Poems |
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and John Gould
Fletcher
and F.
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Imagists |
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Some take it for a
different
kind
of cap or helmet, others for the rim, others for the cone, of the
helmet.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Round about a delicate neck curled short little ringlets;
Up from the crown of her head crinkled the
unbraided
hair.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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