Picture is the
invention
of heaven, the most
ancient and most akin to Nature.
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We might just see how
horrible
they are.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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--Yet
sometimes
my heart was trammelled
With fear, evader!
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Let Tragedy's stern muse be mute
Awhile; and when your order'd page
Has told Rome's tale, that buskin'd foot
Again shall mount the Attic stage,
Pollio, the pale defendant's shield,
In deep debate the senate's stay,
The hero of
Dalmatic
field
By Triumph crown'd with deathless bay.
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Yeats |
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To enjoy
a thing exclusively is
commonly
to exclude yourself from the true
enjoyment of it.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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But a cup of wine levels life and death
And a thousand things
obstinately
hard to prove.
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Li Po |
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I lost six brothers in the flower of their youth,
And the hopes of an
illustrious
house in truth!
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Ma ficca li occhi a valle, che s'approccia
la riviera del sangue in la qual bolle
qual che per
violenza
in altrui noccia>>.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Pero disse 'l maestro: <
qualche
fraschetta
d'una d'este piante,
li pensier c'hai si faran tutti monchi>>.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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I tell the day, to please him thou art bright,
And dost him grace when clouds do blot the heaven:
So flatter I the swart-complexion'd night,
When
sparkling
stars twire not thou gild'st the even.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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As when to warn proud Cities warr appears
Wag'd in the troubl'd Skie, and Armies rush
To Battel in the Clouds, before each Van
Pric forth the Aerie Knights, and couch thir spears
Till
thickest
Legions close; with feats of Arms
From either end of Heav'n the welkin burns.
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Milton |
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For me, for years, here,
Forever, your
dazzling
smile prolongs
The one rose with its perfect summer gone
Into times past, yet then on into the future.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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diua quibus
retinens
in summis urbibus arces,
ipsa leui fecit uolitantem flamine currum,
pinea coniungens inflexae texta carinae.
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Latin - Catullus |
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Keats |
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A blood-red thing that writhes from out
The scenic
solitude!
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Poe - 5 |
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Three youths of ours, ere yet he climbed the steep,
He are alive, or rather
swallowed
clean;
Then moved the stone, which closed that cavern deep,
And lodged us there.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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America,
superiorities
of, 220-224.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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An of a goat-stink damned from armpits fusty one suffer,
Or if a
crippling
gout worthily any one rack,
'Tis that rival o' thine who lief in loves of you meddles,
And, by a wondrous fate, gains him the twain of such ills.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Is it not
strange?
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Arias
Bend your pride to the king's authority:
He takes an interest, and his irritation
Will be
displayed
in no uncertain fashion.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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But thou thyself, looking upon them,
Didst weaken the
Assyrians
mortally.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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816 the poet Po
Chu-i wrote as follows (he is discussing Tu Fu as well as Li Po): "The
world
acclaims
Li Po as its master poet.
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Li Po |
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XXXIV
Why didst thou promise such a
beauteous
day,
And make me travel forth without my cloak,
To let base clouds o'ertake me in my way,
Hiding thy bravery in their rotten smoke?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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His brother,
slipping
down from the
chariot, pitiably outstretched helpless hands: 'Ah, by the parents who
gave thee birth, great Trojan, spare this life and pity my prayer.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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And you are stupid enough not to
understand
the meaning of such an
answer?
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Aristophanes |
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Till even the little dark men of the south,
Who feared neither God nor man,
Those fierce, wild fighters of Afric's steppes,
Broke their
battalions
and ran:--
Ran as they never had run before,
Gasping, and fainting for breath;
For they knew 't was no human foe that slew;
And that hideous smoke meant death.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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- What have you done, O you there
Who
endlessly
cry,
Say: what have you done, there
With youth gone by?
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19th Century French Poetry |
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How can I say
If there were poets in the paths of
Atlantis?
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Philosophy
will clip an Angel's wings,
Conquer all mysteries by rule and line,
Empty the haunted air, and gnomed mine--
Unweave a rainbow, as it erewhile made
The tender-person'd Lamia melt into a shade.
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Keats - Lamia |
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'
'Dermott's
daughter
will not come to you, for her father has set women
to watch her, but she bid me tell you that this day sennight will be
the eve of St.
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Yeats |
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faces
Aureas
quatiunt
comas:
prodeas noua nupta.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Bayes," under
which name the Duke of Buckingham had ridi-
culed Dryden in the well-known play of the
Rehearsal ; from the title of which Marvell de-
signated his book, The
Rehearsal
Transprosed.
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Marvell - Poems |
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"What cheer, Ben
Bunting?
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Byron |
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When my eyes are closed
Faces fragile, pale, yet flushed a little, like petals of roses :
If these things have confused my
memories
of her So that I could not draw her face
Even if I had skill and the colours,
Yet because her face is so like these things
They but draw me nearer unto her in my thought
And thoughts of her come upon my mind gently, As dew upon the petals of roses.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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With these appear the
Salaminian
bands,
Whom the gigantic Telamon commands;
In twelve black ships to Troy they steer their course,
And with the great Athenians join their force.
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Iliad - Pope |
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In the lair (the form) of the female hare superfetation (second
conception
during gestation) is possible.
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Appoloinaire |
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I began to dream of Provence and
the Troubadours, and of places and things which have no
existence
on
the earth.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Have you done this, by the appliance
And aid of
doctors?
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Longfellow |
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The swaddled thing
Hath nought of speech, whate'er discomfort come--
Hunger or thirst or lower
weakling
need,--
For the babe's stomach works its own relief.
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Aeschylus |
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polygonic
In their amazing fructifying hard subdued course in the vast deep
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And Los & Enitharmon were drawn down by their desires
Descending sweet upon the wind among soft harps & voices [Laughing and mocking ?
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Blake - Zoas |
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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I shall do so:
But I must also feele it as a man;
I cannot but remember such things were
That were most
precious
to me: Did heauen looke on,
And would not take their part?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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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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T.S. Eliot |
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This national and universal interest which the story
produces
and has
produced for two centuries and among all ranks of people in a great
City, where the imagination is kept for ever active and awake, first
suggested to me the conception of its fitness for a dramatic purpose.
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Shelley |
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Wenn die Natur des Fadens ew'ge Lange,
Gleichgultig drehend, auf die Spindel zwingt,
Wenn aller Wesen unharmon'sche Menge
Verdriesslich
durcheinander
klingt-
Wer teilt die fliessend immer gleiche Reihe
Belebend ab, dass sie sich rhythmisch regt?
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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He grips the tankard of brown ale
That spills a generous foam:
Oft-times he drinks, they say, and winks
At drunk men
lurching
home.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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So high that he shall hector the
parliament^
And all wholesome laws for the public prevent,
IX.
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Marvell - Poems |
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NOTES
NOTE
PRECEDENT
TO "LA FRAISNE"
" When the soul is exhausted of fire, then doth the spirit return unto its primal nature and there is upon it a peace great and of the
woodland
"
magna pax et silvestrts.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Royalty payments
must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you
prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your
periodic
tax
returns.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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]
[362] ["Square talked in a very
different
strain.
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Byron |
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The low
December
vault in June be lifted high,
And largest clouds be flakes of down in that enormous sky.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Ramsay an' famous Fergusson
Gied Forth an' Tay a lift aboon;
Yarrow an' Tweed, to monie a tune,
Owre
Scotland
rings;
While Irwin, Lugar, Ayr, an' Doon
Naebody sings.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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)
_insert_
your _after_ to.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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since you will have it, Baron Herbert;
He who will gain his
Seignory
when Idonea
Hath become Clifford's harlot--is _he_ living?
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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The magic hand that
comforts
and annoys
Can hope, and fell despair, and life, and death bestow!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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iam, iam legibus obrutis
mundo cum ueniet dies,
australis polus obruet
quicquid
per Libyam iacet
et sparsus Garamas tenet;
arctous polus obruet
quicquid subiacet axibus
et siccus Boreas ferit.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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And there the lady views, with
wondering
eye,
What she had scarce believed from other's lips,
A feathered courser, sailing through the rack,
Who bore an armed knight upon his back.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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I'm thinking, wi' sic a braw fellow,
In
poortith
I might mak a fen;
What care I in riches to wallow,
If I maunna marry Tam Glen!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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]
[493] {482}[These were not the expressions
employed
by Lord Eldon.
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Byron |
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Vanished
quite
Is all that tender vision now;
And, like lost snow-flakes in the night,
Mute are the lovers as their vow.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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God grew to love
The tsar's humility; in his good days
Russia was blest with glory undisturbed,
And in the hour of his decease was wrought
A miracle unheard of; at his bedside,
Seen by the tsar alone, appeared a being
Exceeding bright, with whom Feodor 'gan
To commune, calling him great Patriarch;--
And all around him were possessed with fear,
Musing upon the vision sent from Heaven,
Since at that time the
Patriarch
was not present
In church before the tsar.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Edward Dickinson, was the
leading lawyer of Amherst, and was
treasurer
of the well-known
college there situated.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Scared at the grizzly forms, I sweat, I fly,
And shake all o'er, like a
discovered
spy.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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This group of erased lines, which appeared in pencil under lines 2-4 and, partially obscured by a note by Ellis, in the right margin, are written here with Erdman's suppositions and unrecoverable sections so marked EJC}
To plant divisions in the Soul of Urizen & Ahania
To conduct the Voice of Enion to Ahanias midnight pillow
Urizen saw & envied & his imagination was filled
Repining he contemplated the past in his bright sphere
Terrified with his heart & spirit at the visions of futurity
That his dread fancy formd before him in the unformd void
For Now Los & Enitharmon walkd forth on the dewy Earth
Contracting or expanding their all flexible senses
At will to murmur in the flowers small as the honey bee
At will to stretch across the heavens & step from star to star
Or standing on the Earth erect, or on the stormy waves
Driving the storms before them or delighting in sunny beams
While round their heads the Elemental Gods kept harmony
Thus livd Los driving Enion far into the deathful infinite {According to Erdman, there is some partially
recoverable
erased material written above this line and in the margin: '?
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Blake - Zoas |
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Less grim, though, that terror,
e'en as terror of woman in war is less,
might of maid, than of men in arms
when, hammer-forged, the
falchion
hard,
sword gore-stained, through swine of the helm,
crested, with keen blade carves amain.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Even what I thought before;--
What Butler boasts though Butler may deplore,
Still I repeat, words lead me not astray
When the shown feeling points a
different
way.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Thus from the tents the fervent legion swarms,
So loud their clamours, and so keen their arms:
Their rising rage Patroclus' breath inspires,
Who thus inflames them with heroic fires:
"O warriors,
partners
of Achilles' praise!
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Iliad - Pope |
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The spirit of the Middle Ages with its religious fervour and
superstitious fanaticism is symbolized in several poems, the most
important among which are _The Cathedral_, _God in the Middle Ages_,
_Saint Sebastian_
personifying
martyrdom, and _The Rose Window_, whose
glowing magic is compared to the hypnotic power of the tiger's eye.
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Rilke - Poems |
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el songe3,
As
coundutes
of kryst-masse, & carole3 newe,
1656 With alle ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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CXII cum CXI
continuant
?
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Latin - Catullus |
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Ballade: Du
Concours
De Blois
I'm dying of thirst beside the fountain,
Hot as fire, and with chattering teeth:
In my own land, I'm in a far domain:
Near the flame, I shiver beyond belief:
Bare as a worm, dressed in a furry sheathe,
I smile in tears, wait without expectation:
Taking my comfort in sad desperation:
I rejoice, without pleasures, never a one:
Strong I am, without power or persuasion,
Welcomed gladly, and spurned by everyone.
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Villon |
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'
'One I saw, a poor old fool with ashes on his head,
Whimpering because a girl had
snatched
his crust of bread:
Then he dropped; when some one raised him, it turned out he was dead.
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Christina Rossetti |
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He added not, for Adam at the newes
Heart-strook with
chilling
gripe of sorrow stood,
That all his senses bound; Eve, who unseen
Yet all had heard, with audible lament
Discover'd soon the place of her retire.
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| Source: |
Milton |
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Ye
Jacobites
By Name
Ye Jacobites by name, give an ear, give an ear,
Ye Jacobites by name, give an ear,
Ye Jacobites by name,
Your fautes I will proclaim,
Your doctrines I maun blame, you shall hear.
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Where's my smooth brow gone:
My arching lashes, yellow hair,
Wide-eyed glances, pretty ones,
That took in the cleverest there:
Nose not too big or small: a pair
Of
delicate
little ears, the chin
Dimpled: a face oval and fair,
Lovely lips with crimson skin?
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Villon |
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"
From the wood a sound is gliding,
Vapours dense the plain are hiding,
Cries the Dame in anxious measure:
"Stay, I'll wash thy head, my
treasure!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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For not the whispering south-wind on its way
So much
delights
me, nor wave-smitten beach,
Nor streams that race adown their bouldered beds.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Rodrigue
Chasing the harsh course of my
wretched
fate.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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No, I am ill content with them; thyself
I shall
despatch
to take command of them;
I give authority not to birth, but brains.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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But, as I said, Zaretski mine
Beneath acacias, cherry-trees,
From storms
protection
having sought,
Lived as a really wise man ought,
Like Horace, planted cabbages,
Both ducks and geese in plenty bred
And lessons to his children read.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Muffle the sound of bells,
Mournfully
human, that cries from the darkening valley;
Close, with your leaves, about the sound of water:
Take me among your hearts as you take the mist
Among your boughs!
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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SHCHELKALOV, Russian
Minister
of State.
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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It was but a drinker's joke, an old
juggling
feat, to pass the time.
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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--Societe, tout est retabli:--les orgies
Pleurent leur ancien rale aux anciens lupanars:
Et les gaz en delire aux murailles rougies
Flambent
sinistrement
vers les azurs blafards!
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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[Footnote 1: This, I think, is the true
explanation
of slokes.
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Are we then
As
Holofernes
to thee?
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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What
treachery
was us'd?
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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Could she have guessed that it would be;
Could but a crier of the glee
Have climbed the distant hill;
Had not the bliss so slow a pace, --
Who knows but this
surrendered
face
Were undefeated still?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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So
suddenly
I flung the door wide on him.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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The apron's vertical long flow
Warped grandly outwards to display
His hale, round belly hung midway,
Whose apex was
securely
bound
With apron-strings wrapped round and round.
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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CXIV
Or whether doth my mind, being crown'd with you,
Drink up the monarch's plague, this
flattery?
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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The
_Diuell_
is an _A?
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Copyright infringement
liability
can be quite severe.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
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