Saumarez
was a strange man, with few merits, so far as men
could see, though he was popular with women, and carried enough
conceit to stock a Viceroy's Council and leave a little over for the
Commander-in-Chief's Staff.
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They are all men of some
intellectual
power, and
consequently they all appreciate me.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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One, with low tones that decide,
And doubt and reverend use defied,
With a look that solved the sphere,
And stirred the devils everywhere,
Gave his
sentiment
divine
Against the being of a line.
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On Elphinstone's
Translation
Of Martial's Epigrams
O Thou whom Poetry abhors,
Whom Prose has turned out of doors,
Heard'st thou yon groan?
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The summer clouds lay pitched like tents
In meads of
heavenly
azure;
And each dread gun of the elements
Slept in its hid embrasure.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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l'automne l'automne a fait mourir l'ete
Dans le brouillard s'en vont deux
silhouettes
grises
L'EMIGRANT DE LANDOR ROAD
A Andre Billy.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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'T is an instant's play,
'T is a fond ambush,
Just to make bliss
Earn her own
surprise!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Or do these
workings
argue something within
us above the trodden clod?
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Robert Burns |
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Again,
ourselves
whatever in the dark
We touch, the same we do not find to be
Tinctured with any colour.
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I wished to follow them, but
Pugatchef
said--
"Stay there, I wish to speak to you!
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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3 Both Mount
Kongdong
and Qinghai (Kokonor and the surrounding area)�were the territory of the military commissioner of Hexi.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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The history of music in our day would satisfy the
philosopher
on one point at least.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Fear the gaze in the blind wall that watches:
There is a verb
attached
to matter itself.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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A careless shepherd once would keep
The flocks by
moonlight
there, (1)
And high amongst the glimmering sheep
The dead man stood on air.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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TO MAKE
CRUMBOBBLIOUS
CUTLETS.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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"
"I'll show the way,"
Blackmouth says; an' leads toward dawn of day,
Till they come straight out beside the brink
Of a
precipice
that seems to sink
Into everlasting gulfs below.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Bacchus on the wing,
A
conquering!
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Keats |
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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The sonnets of Les Antiquites provide a
fascinating
comment on the Classical Roman world as seen from the viewpoint of the French Renaissance.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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A great
Prophet?
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Longfellow |
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The mother said
gently, "Is that you,
darling?
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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For us no starlight stilled the April fields,
No birds awoke in darkling trees for us,
Yet where we walked the city's street that night
Felt in our feet the singing fire of spring,
And in our path we left a trail of light
Soft as the phosphorescence of the sea
When night
submerges
in the vessel's wake
A heaven of unborn evanescent stars.
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Sara Teasdale |
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scaðan =
_warriors_
(cf.
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Beowulf |
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)
9
_basiei_
O, et R m.
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Latin - Catullus |
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Wise Death, in token of his happy whim,
Wraps old and young in one
enfolding
sheet.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Instruct
thine eyes to keep their colours true,
And tell thy soul, their roots are left in mine.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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[Note 21: The poet was, on his mother's side, of African extraction,
a circumstance which perhaps
accounts
for the southern fervour of
his imagination.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Now know I what Love is: 'mid savage rocks
Tmaros or Rhodope brought forth the boy,
Or
Garamantes
in earth's utmost bounds-
No kin of ours, nor of our blood begot.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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And the instant force it has upon us, when
We think to use love as a
privilege!
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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For never rain or dew
Such
fragrance
drew
From plant or flower--the very doubt endears
My sadness ever new, _10
The sighs I breathe, the tears I shed for thee.
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Shelley |
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On being asked for an
Autograph
in Venice.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Safe in his excavated gallery
The
burrowing
mole groped on from year to year;
No harmless hedgehog curled because of me
His prickly back for fear.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Up, lad, up, 'tis late for lying:
Hear the drums of morning play;
Hark, the empty
highways
crying
"Who'll beyond the hills away?
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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1 THOU
Shepherd
that dost Israel keep
Give ear in time of need,
Who leadest like a flock of sheep
Thy loved Josephs seed,
That sitt'st between the Cherubs bright
Between their wings out-spread
Shine forth, and from thy cloud give light,
And on our foes thy dread.
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Milton |
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You must know I have just met with the Mirror and Lounger for the
first time, and I am quite in
raptures
with them; I should be glad to
have your opinion of some of the papers.
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Robert Burns |
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The water
caressed
the shore so gently!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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A dangerous stepmother, who scarcely saw you
Before she
signalled
her wish to banish you.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Du Fu never 1
Original
note: ?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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_15
But mine is the midnight of Death,
And Nature's morn
To my bosom forlorn
Brings but a gloomier night, implants a
deadlier
thorn.
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Shelley |
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Then she kissed my burning lips,
With her mouth like a scented flower,
And I
thrilled
to the finger-tips,
And I hadn't even the power
To say: "God bless you, dear!
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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But should the play
Prove piercing earnest,
Should the glee glaze
In death's stiff stare,
Would not the fun
Look too
expensive?
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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XXXVIII
"And, if in this fair enterprise arrayed,
No gain, no glory served you as a guide,
A common debt enjoins you mutual aid,
Militant
here upon one Church's side.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Rilke - Poems |
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molle Cupidineis nec
inexpugnabile
telis
cor mihi, quodque leuis causa moueret, erat.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Like rain it softly falls at that dim hour
When ghostly lanes turn toward the shadowy morn;
When bodies weighed with satiate passion's power
Sad, disappointed from each other turn;
When men with quiet hatred burning deep
Together
in a common bed must sleep--
Through the gray, phantom shadows of the dawn
Lo!
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Rilke - Poems |
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God love thee for the
sweetness
of thy word!
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Euripides - Electra |
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He's soft and tender, pray take heed,
With bands of
cowslips
bind him,
And bring him home;--but 'tis decreed
That I shall never find him.
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Robert Herrick |
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And overhead the curlews cry,
Where through the dusky upland grass
The young brown-throated reapers pass,
Like
silhouettes
against the sky.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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He
thenkith
parte it with no man; 5395
Certayn, no love is in him than.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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What would he
think of
Cezanne?
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Restrain
his bold career; at least, to attend
Our favour'd hero, let some power descend.
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Iliad - Pope |
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To do this fully we must
identify
ourselves in fancy with the soul
of the old cavalier:--
Then mounte!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Depuis huit jours, j'avais dechire mes bottines
Aux
cailloux
des chemins.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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In many guises didst thou come to me;
I saw thee by the maidens while they danced,
Phaon allured me with a look of thine,
In Anactoria I knew thy grace,
I looked at
Cercolas
and saw thine eyes;
But never wholly, soul and body mine,
Didst thou bid any love me as I loved.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Phaedra
He seems like some
terrible
monster to my glance.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Gives too late
What's not believed in, or if still believed,
In memory only,
reconsidered
passion.
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T.S. Eliot |
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He ceased, whom all
indignant
heard, and thus
Ev'n his own proud companions censured him.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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The blest to-day is as completely so,
As who began a
thousand
years ago.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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I haue giuen Sucke, and know
How tender 'tis to loue the Babe that milkes me,
I would, while it was smyling in my Face,
Haue pluckt my Nipple from his
Bonelesse
Gummes,
And dasht the Braines out, had I so sworne
As you haue done to this
Macb.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Live and love,--
Doing both nobly because
lowlily!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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That such a hideous Trumpet calls to parley
The
sleepers
of the House?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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She hath called me from mine old ways, She hath hushed my rancour of council, Bidding me praise
Naught but the wind that
flutters
in the leaves.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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EMPEROR: Oh,
wondrous
sight!
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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The Mariner tells how the ship sailed
southward
with a good wind and fair
weather, till it reached the Line.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Hence, thou suborned
informer!
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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but no, good faith, I will not have it:
For if he be the knight whom late I saw
Ride into that new fortress by your town,
White from the mason's hand, then have I sworn
From his own lips to have it--I am Geraint
Of Devon--for this morning when the Queen
Sent her own maiden to demand the name,
His dwarf, a vicious under-shapen thing,
Struck at her with his whip, and she returned
Indignant
to the Queen; and then I swore
That I would track this caitiff to his hold,
And fight and break his pride, and have it of him.
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Tennyson |
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Gracious
my Lord,
I should report that which I say I saw,
But know not how to doo't
Macb.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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And so more dear to me has grown
Than rarest tones swept from the lyre,
The minor
movement
of that moan
In yonder singing wire.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Another placed
The silver stands, with golden
flaskets
graced:
With dulcet beverage this the beaker crown'd,
Fair in the midst, with gilded cups around:
That in the tripod o'er the kindled pile
The water pours; the bubbling waters boil;
An ample vase receives the smoking wave;
And, in the bath prepared, my limbs I lave:
Reviving sweets repair the mind's decay,
And take the painful sense of toil away.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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The rat is the
concisest
tenant.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Africa, Spain, neither are you disgraced,
Nor that race that holds the English firth,
Nor, by the French Rhine, soldiers of worth,
Nor Germany with other
warriors
graced.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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"
PINE
By John Russell McCarthy
You must have dreamed a little every year For fifty years: you must have been a child, Shy and diffident with the violets, School-girlish with the daisies, or perhaps
A youthful Indian with the hickory tree;
You must have been a lover with the beech, A wise young father walking with your sons Beneath the maple; then have battled long Grim and defiant with the oak : all these
You must have been for fifty dreaming years Before you may hold
converse
with the pine.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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er a
stedfast
knowyng ystrenge?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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He was tall,
powerfully
built, and appeared to be about
forty-five.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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the bard--a great reward--
Has got a double
portion!
| Guess: |
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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I would have stood,
and watched and watched
and burned,
and when in the night,
from the many hosts, your slaves,
and warriors and serving men
you had turned
to the purple couch and the flame
of the woman, tall like cypress tree
that flames sudden and swift and free
as with crackle of golden resin
and cones and the locks flung free
like the cypress limbs,
bound, caught and shaken and loosed,
bound, caught and riven and bound
and
loosened
again,
as in rain of a kingly storm
or wind full from a desert plain.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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As such I wish to be
allowed to wait on you, and as I expect to remove in a few days a
little further off, and you, I suppose, will perhaps soon leave this
place, I wish to see or hear from you soon; and if an expression
should perhaps escape me, rather too warm for friendship, I hope you
will pardon it in, my dear Miss--(pardon me the dear
expression
for
once) * * * *
R.
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Robert Burns |
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The silver, Sallust, shows not fair
While buried in the greedy mine:
You love it not till
moderate
wear
Have given it shine.
| Guess: |
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Thou scene of all my happiness and
pleasure!
| Guess: |
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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May I rule my people
In glory, and like Thee be good and
righteous!
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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IV
Ask
whomever
you will but you'll never find out where I'm lodging,
High society's lords, ladies so groomed and refined.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Those gods you
endlessly
weep will return!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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Feeling and
character
grow out of habit;
A people's customs cannot be changed.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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They will confess they are
offended
with their manner of living
like enough; who is not?
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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How insupportable would be the days, if the night with its dews and
darkness did not come to restore the
drooping
world.
| Guess: |
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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The Curve Of Your Eyes
The curve of your eyes embraces my heart
A ring of sweetness and dance
halo of time, sure
nocturnal
cradle,
And if I no longer know all I have lived through
It's that your eyes have not always been mine.
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hic iuueni Ismario ne solum in limine caeli
ex Ariadneis aurea
temporibus
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fixa corona foret, sed nos quoque fulgeremus
deuotae flaui uerticis exuuiae,
uuidulum a fluctu cedentem ad templa deum me
sidus in antiquis diua nouum posuit.
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Latin - Catullus |
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penaunce
apert, of ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Age cannot Love destroy,
But perfidy can rend the shrine _20
In which its vermeil
splendours
shine.
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Shelley |
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Where the
resounding
power of water shakes 1820.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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So,
purposing
each moment to retire,
She linger'd still.
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Keats |
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('Tis while our army lines Carolina's sands and pines,
Forth from thy hovel door thou
Ethiopia
com'st to me,
As under doughty Sherman I march toward the sea.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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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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T.S. Eliot |
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Several
other nations have also claimed the honour of
affording
the idea of the
fields of the blessed.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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