"
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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The rich will feast on
Christmas
Day;
The poor will fast on Christmas Day.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Unless you have removed all
references
to Project Gutenberg:
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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CI
And Otes strikes a pagan Estorgant
Upon the shield, before its
leathern
band,
Slices it through, the white with the scarlat;
The hauberk too, has torn its folds apart,
And his good spear thrusts clean through the carcass,
And flings it dead, ev'n as the horse goes past;
He says: "You have no warrant afterward.
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Chanson de Roland |
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That yvel is ful of curtesye
That [lauhwith] in his maladye;
For ever of love the
siknesse
2295
Is meynd with swete and bitternesse.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Among the
Africans
that squadron spurred,
That squadron, of whose doughty feats I tell,
Doing by them what wolf on woolly herd
Does where Galesus' limpid waters well,
Or lion by the bearded goat and rank,
That feeds on Cinyphus's barbarous bank.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Oh, 'twas strange for a pupil of Paul to recline
On
voluptuous
couch, while Falernian wine
Fill'd his cup to the brim!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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And God, like a father, rejoicing to see
His
children
as pleasant and happy as He,
Would have no more quarrel with the Devil or the barrel,
But kiss him, and give him both drink and apparel.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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These unrevised poems are not necessarily
exponents
of Mr.
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Sidney Lanier |
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His steed he spurs, gallops with great effort;
He goes, that count, to strike with all his force,
The shield he breaks, the hauberk's seam unsews,
Slices the heart, and
shatters
up the bones,
All of the spine he severs with that blow,
And with his spear the soul from body throws
So well he's pinned, he shakes in the air that corse,
On his spear's hilt he's flung it from the horse:
So in two halves Aeroth's neck he broke,
Nor left him yet, they say, but rather spoke:
"Avaunt, culvert!
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Chanson de Roland |
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On the other hand,
Rilke
achieves
at times a perfect surety of rapid stroke as in the poem
_The Spanish Dancer_, who rises luminously on the horizon of our inner
vision like a circling element of fire, flaming and blinding in the
momentum of her movements.
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Rilke - Poems |
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"What are you
thinking
of?
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Then, turning short, disdain'd a further stay;
But to the palace
measured
back the way.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Don't listen to those cursed birds
But
Paradisial
Angels' words.
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Appoloinaire |
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e whiche
te{m}peste
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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As one who stands in dewless asphodel,
Looks backward on the tedious time he had
In the upper life,--so I, with bosom-swell,
Make witness, here, between the good and bad,
That Love, as strong as Death,
retrieves
as well.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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But now a
wandering
land breeze came
And a far sound of feathery quires;
It seemed to blow from the dying flame,
They seemed to sing in the smouldering fires.
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Yeats |
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But take heed that in thy work
Naught
unbeautiful
may lurk.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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That, roughly, is what we see the epic poets doing, whether
they be "literary" or "authentic"; and if this can be agreed on, we
should now have come tolerably close to a
definition
of epic poetry.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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AT length, the second day she 'gan to feel,
And strong emotion
scarcely
could conceal.
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La Fontaine |
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[Sidenote A: With much mirth and
minstrelsy
they made merry,]
[Sidenote B: until the time came for them to part.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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" So these critics are
unfinished
things for which no proper
name can be found.
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Alexander Pope |
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So how should I
presume?
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T.S. Eliot |
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Et ses yeux et sa danse
superieurs
encore aux eclats precieux, aux
influences froides, au plaisir du decor et de l'heure uniques.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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"
Further than one might cast a rod that's peeled
Goes
Baligant
before his companies.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Whither dost thou loiter, by what murmuring hollows,
Where oleanders scatter their
ambrosial
fire?
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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See, see the patient moon;
How she her course keeps
Through cloudy
shallows
and across black deeps,
Now gone, now shines soon.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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yet here your homage do
Unto a gentler
conqueror
tlian you ;
Who, though he flies the music of iiis praise,
Would with you heaven's hallelujahs raise.
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Marvell - Poems |
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What mortal hath a prize, that other men
May be
confounded
and abash'd withal,
But lets it sometimes pace abroad majestical,
And triumph, as in thee I should rejoice
Amid the hoarse alarm of Corinth's voice.
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Keats - Lamia |
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Tippled he was, and
tippling
lisped withal;
And lisping reeled, and reeling like to fall.
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Robert Herrick |
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Botte yette ytte muste, ytte muste bee foe; I see, 1170
Shee wythe somme loustie
paramoure
ys gone;
Itte moste bee foe--oh!
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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_Moray Dalton_
THE PLAYERS
We
challenged
Death.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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'Tis thy
message?
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Euripides - Electra |
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Astride his cheese Sir Morgan might we meet;
And Worldly crying coals from street to street,
Whom with a wig so wild, and mien so mazed,
Pity mistakes for some poor
tradesman
crazed.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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My spirit not awak'ning, till the beam
Of an
Eternity
should bring the morrow:
Yes!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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What honours can a grateful Rome,
A grateful senate, Caesar, give
To make thy worth through days to come
Emblazon'd on our records live,
Mightiest of
chieftains
whomsoe'er
The sun beholds from heaven on high?
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Truth
and falsehood start from same point,
truth invulnerable to satire,
compared to a river,
of fiction
sometimes
truer than fact,
told plainly, _passim_.
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James Russell Lowell |
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The
passionate excitement of Love and the buoyancy of spirit
attendant upon intoxication are its less holy pleasures--
the price of which, to those souls who make choice of "Al
Aaraaf" as their
residence
after life, is final death and
annihilation.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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But O the ship, the
immortal
ship!
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Whitman |
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forming the counterpoint to this prosody, a work which lacks precedent, have been left in a primitive state: not because I agree with being timid in my attempts; but because it is not for me, save by a special pagination or volume of my own, in a Periodical so courageous, gracious and
accommodating
as it shows itself to be to real freedom, to act too contrary to custom.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Yes, I know that Earth in the depths of this night,
Casts a strange mystery with vast
brilliant
light
Beneath hideous centuries that darken it the less.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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And hurrying, stumbling through the street
Came the
hurrying
stumbling feet.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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I have heard the
mermaids
singing, each to each.
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T.S. Eliot |
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You
masquerader!
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Imagists |
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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"
"Thank
goodness
you haven't chosen a boy.
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Kipling - Poems |
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It would be an
interesting
task
for the student to compare the two forms printed in this edition, to
note exactly what has been added, and the reasons for its addition, and
to mark how Pope has smoothed the junctures and blended the old and the
new.
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Alexander Pope |
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"
The influence of the New
Learning
is clearly evident in Spenser's use of
_classical mythology_.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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With what do you hope to stir my
desolate
heart?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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'You must not think I
am an
ordinary
dancing-girl,' she said to him, 'I can recite Master Po's
"Everlasting Wrong.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Please do not assume that a book's
appearance
in Google Book Search means it can be used in any manner anywhere in the world.
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Meredith - Poems |
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All the
characters--the knights, ladies, dwarfs, magicians, dragons, nymphs,
satyrs, and giants--are the
conventional
figures of pastoral romance.
| Guess: |
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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"
A slant of sun on dull brown walls,
A
forgotten
sky of bashful blue.
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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It is the mind, and not the
event, that distinguisheth the
courtesy
from wrong.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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I send the lilies given to me;
Though long before thy hand they touch,
I know that they must withered be,
But yet reject them not as such;
For I have
cherished
them as dear,
Because they yet may meet thine eye,
And guide thy soul to mine e'en here,
When thou behold'st them drooping nigh,
And know'st them gathered by the Rhine,
And offered from my heart to thine!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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NURSE'S SONG
When the voices of
children
are heard on the green,
And laughing is heard on the hill,
My heart is at rest within my breast,
And everything else is still.
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blake-poems |
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How shall I behold the face
Henceforth
of God or Angel, erst with joy
And rapture so oft beheld?
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Out of these blake wawes for to sayle,
O wind, O wind, the weder ginneth clere;
For in this see the boot hath swich travayle,
Of my conning, that unnethe I it stere:
This see clepe I the tempestous matere 5
Of
desespeyr
that Troilus was inne:
But now of hope the calendes biginne.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Robert Herrick |
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They who got their living
by teaming were said
_vellaturam
facere_.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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L'echine est un peu rouge, et le tout sent un gout
Horrible etrangement,--on remarque surtout
Des
singularites
qu'il faut voir a la loupe.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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_ ap
75 _inceptam_ Turnebus:
_incepta_
?
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Latin - Catullus |
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From pest on land, or death on ocean,
When
hurricanes
its surface fan,
O object of my fond devotion!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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--she saw how the blood ran away
And
empurpled
the thigh, and, with wild hands flung out,
Said with sobs: "Stay, Adonis!
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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Liberty is poorly served by men whose good intent is
quelled from one failure or two failures or any number of failures, or from
the casual
indifference
or ingratitude of the people, or from the sharp
show of the tushes of power, or the bringing to bear soldiers and cannon or
any penal statutes.
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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Sweet smiles, mother's smiles,
All the
livelong
night beguiles.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Oh tarnish late on Wenlock Edge,
Gold that I never see;
Lie long, high
snowdrifts
in the hedge
That will not shower on me.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Mais je sais,
maintenant!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Born with Marlowe, it rose at once with
Shakespeare
to heights
inaccessible before and since and for ever, to sink through bright
gradations of glorious decline to its final and beautiful sunset in
Shirley: but the lyrical record that begins with the author of "Euphues"
and "Endymion" grows fuller if not brighter through a whole chain of
constellations till it culminates in the crowning star of Herrick.
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Robert Herrick |
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1600
His death gives me reason enough for tears,
Without my searching into other matters:
It won't restore him to me, in my grief, again:
Perhaps it would only serve to
increase
my pain.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Had_
Rowley _been a_
Londoner
_instead of a_ Bristowyan, _I could have
lived by_ copying _his works_.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Glorious
is the legacy of Taizong?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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His parents were obscure and vulgar
people; and he himself a
wretched
outcast:
with the emblem of [his] crooked mind
Marked on [his] back like Cain by God's own hand.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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And there shall rise to me
From that
consecrated
ground
The old dreams, the lost dreams
That years and cares have drowned;
Welling up within me
And above me and around
The song that I could never sing
And the face I never found.
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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But yet all is not don; Man disobeying,
Disloyal breaks his fealtie, and sinns
Against the high Supremacie of Heav'n,
Affecting God-head, and so loosing all,
To expiate his Treason hath naught left,
But to
destruction
sacred and devote,
He with his whole posteritie must die,
Die hee or Justice must; unless for him 210
Som other able, and as willing, pay
The rigid satisfaction, death for death.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
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--
When utter beauty must come closer to thee
Than even anger or fear could be;
When thou, like metal in a kiln, must lie
Seized by beauty's mightily able flame;
Enjoyed by beauty as by the
ruthless
glee
Of an unescapable power;
Obeying beauty as air obeys a cry;
Yea, one thing made of beauty and thee,
As steel and a white heat are made the same!
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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with the defective work may elect to provide a
replacement
copy in
lieu of a refund.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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At his command
On the fourth finger of her fair left hand
The Governor placed the ring; and that was all:
Martha was Lady
Wentworth
of the Hall!
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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O shadows vain
Except in outward
semblance!
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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And truly not the morning sun of heaven
Better becomes the grey cheeks of the east,
Nor that full star that ushers in the even,
Doth half that glory to the sober west,
As those two
mourning
eyes become thy face:
O!
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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The
neighbors
rustle in and out,
The doctor drives away.
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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TWO SONGS FOR SOLITUDE
I
~The Crystal Gazer~
I shall gather myself into myself again,
I shall take my scattered selves and make them one,
I shall fuse them into a polished crystal ball
Where I can see the moon and the
flashing
sun.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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And when they come into the land of Spain
All that country
lightens
and shines again:
Of their coming Marsile has heard the tale.
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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_Reprinted
January_
1909, 1913
"_Poems_, _Past and Present_": _First edition_ 1901 (dated 1902)
_Second Edition_ 1903.
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Aeschylus |
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Whatever absence from her must endure,
Sire, it is yet
happiness
to hope for more.
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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At the hour when this wood with gold and ashes heaves
A feast's excited among the
extinguished
leaves:
Etna!
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Mallarme - Poems |
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how he charm'd us with a flow of sense,
And won the heart with manly
eloquence!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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--But some night-wandering Man, whose heart was pierc'd
With the remembrance of a
grievous
wrong,
Or slow distemper or neglected love,
(And so, poor Wretch!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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None of my
ladyfriends
dare I confide in, for they would but chide me;
Nor any gentleman friend, lest he be rival to me.
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The Foundation makes no representations concerning
the
copyright
status of any work in any country outside the United
States.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Orpheus
Orpheus
'Orpheus'
Pierre -Cecile Puvis de Chavannes, French, 1824 - 1898, Yale
University
Art Gallery
His heart was the bait: the heavens were the pond!
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Appoloinaire |
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= 'This gate hath of long time been a gaol, or prison
for felons and trespassers, as
appeareth
by records in the reign of
King John, and of other kings.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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we wrong the noble dead
To vex their solemn slumber so;
Though childless, and with thorn-crowned head,
Up the steep road must England go,
Yet when this fiery web is spun,
Her watchmen shall descry from far
The young
Republic
like a sun
Rise from these crimson seas of war.
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Wilde - Poems |
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(A million faces a thousand miles from Pennsylvania Avenue
stay frozen with a look, a clocktick, a moment--
skeleton
riders on skeleton horses--the nickering high horse
laugh,
the whinny and the howl up Pennsylvania Avenue:
who?
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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" The answer must be that
China has no epic and no dramatic
literature
of importance.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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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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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Yet cruel one, if you still seek fresh glory
Attack some more
rebellious
enemy.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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O death of
bitterness!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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