The
pleasures
of Lucretilis
Tempt Faunus from his Grecian seat;
He keeps my little goats in bliss
Apart from wind, and rain, and heat.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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It was made from the shell of a tortoise, stuck round with leather, with two horns and a
sounding
board and strings made from sheep's gut.
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Appoloinaire |
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They are very much nearer than
he is to the mere epic material--to the moderate
accomplishment
of the
primitive ballad.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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REMEDIES
FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT
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This work may be freely reproduced, stored, and transmitted,
electronically
or otherwise, for any non-commercial purpose.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Return O
Wanderer
when the Day of Clouds is oer
So saying he sunk down into the sea a pale white corse*
{this and the following 2 lines appear written over an erased strata LFS} So saying In torment he sunk down & flowd among her filmy Wooft
His Spectre issuing from his feet in flames of fire
In dismal gnawing pain drawn out by her lovd fingers every nerve t
She counted.
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Blake - Zoas |
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His book on the five painters
at the artists' colony at Worpswede, where he remained for a time,
entirely given over to the observation of the atmosphere, the movement
of the sky and the play of light upon the far heath of this northern
landscape, is an
introduction
to every interpretation of the work of
landscape painters and a tender poem to a land whose solitary and
melancholy beauty entered into his own work.
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Rilke - Poems |
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From the sweet
thoughts
of home,
And from all hope I was forever hurled.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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But tell me this: they of the dull, fat pool,
Whom the rain beats, or whom the tempest drives,
Or who with tongues so fierce
conflicting
meet,
Wherefore within the city fire-illum'd
Are not these punish'd, if God's wrath be on them?
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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This stood while Hector and
Achilles
raged.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Will you always stand there
shivering?
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Imagists |
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Dick jested with Bessie, who
reminded
him that he
was "a drunken beast"; but the reproof did not move him.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Do but look on her eyes, they do light
All that Love's world
compriseth!
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Yet his end and parting
on that same day of this our life
woful should be, and his
wandering
soul
far off flit to the fiends' domain.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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" men shall ask
XXXV When the great pink mallow
XXXVI When I pass thy door at night
XXXVII Well I found you in the twilit garden
XXXVIII Will not men remember us
XXXIX I grow weary of the foreign cities
XL Ah, what detains thee, Phaon
XLI Phaon, O my lover
XLII O heart of
insatiable
longing
XLIII Surely somehow, in some measure
XLIV O but my delicate lover
XLV Softer than the hill-fog to the forest
XLVI I seek and desire
XLVII Like torn sea-kelp in the drift
XLVIII Fine woven purple linen
XLIX When I am home from travel
L When I behold the pharos shine
LI Is the day long
LII Lo, on the distance a dark blue ravine
LIII Art thou the topmost apple
LIV How soon will all my lovely days be over
LV Soul of sorrow, why this weeping?
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Sappho |
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Cease dreams, the images of day's desires,
To model forth the
passions
of the morrow;
Never let rising Sun approve you liars,
To add more grief to aggravate my sorrow.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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LXIII
Against my love shall be as I am now,
With Time's
injurious
hand crush'd and o'erworn;
When hours have drain'd his blood and fill'd his brow
With lines and wrinkles; when his youthful morn
Hath travell'd on to age's steepy night;
And all those beauties whereof now he's king
Are vanishing, or vanished out of sight,
Stealing away the treasure of his spring;
For such a time do I now fortify
Against confounding age's cruel knife,
That he shall never cut from memory
My sweet love's beauty, though my lover's life:
His beauty shall in these black lines be seen,
And they shall live, and he in them still green.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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He
commanded
where he spoke, and had his
judges angry and pleased at his devotion.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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The iron tears their flinty cheeks bedew;
See how unfurled the parchment ensigns fly,
And
Principal
and Interest all the cry!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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But he spoke to re-asure me,
And he kissed my pallid brow,
While a reverie came o're me,
And to the church-yard bore me,
And I sighed to him before me,
Thinking
him dead D'Elormie,
"Oh, I am happy now!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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I know how hard it is in Latian verse
To tell the dark
discoveries
of the Greeks,
Chiefly because our pauper-speech must find
Strange terms to fit the strangeness of the thing;
Yet worth of thine and the expected joy
Of thy sweet friendship do persuade me on
To bear all toil and wake the clear nights through,
Seeking with what of words and what of song
I may at last most gloriously uncloud
For thee the light beyond, wherewith to view
The core of being at the centre hid.
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Lucretius |
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The person or entity that
provided
you with
the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a
refund.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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1440
I moot my tonge stinten nede,
For I ne may,
withouten
drede,
Naught tellen you the beautee al,
Ne half the bountee therewithal.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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20
The four following sonnets were not published until 1694, and
then in a mangled form by Phillips, in his Life of Milton; they
are here printed from the
Cambridge
MS.
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Milton |
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XIX
The lover false, who,
hatching
treason lies,
Stole from his bed in silence, when he knew
She slept: his clothes he in a bundle ties,
Nor other raiment on his body threw.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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XL
He who hath lived and living, thinks,
Must e'en despise his kind at last;
He who hath suffered ofttimes shrinks
From shades of the
relentless
past.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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]
MAMMON:
I wonder that gray wizards _340
Like you should be so
beardless
in their schemes;
It had been but a point of policy
To keep Iona and the Swine apart.
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Shelley |
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Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this
electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without
prominently displaying the
sentence
set forth in paragraph 1.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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We
leave the harbour of Ortygia, and fly along the main, by the revel-trod
ridges of Naxos, by green Donusa, Olearos and snow-white Paros, and the
sea-strewn Cyclades, threading the racing
channels
among the crowded
lands.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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RUTH: OR THE
INFLUENCES
OF NATURE.
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Golden Treasury |
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Sing you, ye choirs, e'en now, the glad, consoling song,
That once, from angel-lips, through gloom
sepulchral
rung,
A new immortal covenant sealing?
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Till my returne, repaire
And recompact my
scattered
body so.
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John Donne |
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In helpless beauty I stand
Alone in the midst of
dreadful
adoration;
And, round me thronged, the fawning, fawning lusts
Open their throats upon me and whine and lick
My feet with dripping tongues, or gaze to pant
Hot hunger in my face.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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148
In
wildernesse
he woned; ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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The dust replaced in hoisted roads,
The birds jocoser sung;
The sunshine threw his hat away,
The orchards
spangles
hung.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Or, when anew all Nature teems,
Do we foresee in
troubled
dreams
The coming of life's Autumn drear.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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This is a digital copy of a book that was preserved for generations on library shelves before it was carefully scanned by Google as part of a project to make the world's books
discoverable
online.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Elvire
Reject, Madame, so tragic a design;
Reject this law,
tyrannical
and blind.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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"
la la
To Carthage then I came
Burning burning burning burning
O Lord Thou
pluckest
me out
O Lord Thou pluckest me out 310
IV.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Household names, which used to flutter
Through your laughter unawares,--
God's
Divinest
ye could utter
With less trembling in your prayers.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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One way out of the difficulty, 'bold souls repute,' appears in
Chambers' edition as an emendation, and before that in Tonson's
edition (1719), whence it was copied by all the
editions
to Chalmers'
(1810).
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John Donne |
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For "Is" and "Is-not" though with Rule and Line
And "UP-AND-DOWN" by Logic I define,
Of all that one should care to fathom, I
was never deep in
anything
but--Wine.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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And he sets out this story
and its
significance
in poetry as lofty and as elaborate as he can
compass.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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MARGARETE:
Das
ubermannt
mich so sehr,
Dass, wo er nur mag zu uns treten,
Mein ich sogar, ich liebte dich nicht mehr.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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cried he;
Yes, said the Frenchman, that was made with glee;
We found the first so pleasing to our mind,
That to another both were well inclined,
And
thoroughly
resolved more fun to seek.
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La Fontaine |
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" Lycius replied,
'Tis
Apollonius
sage, my trusty guide
And good instructor; but to-night he seems
The ghost of folly haunting my sweet dreams.
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Keats - Lamia |
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And at your door, you
discovered
me;
And at your heart, I sobbed .
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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I
don't suppose I shall be allowed to
circulate
in society for a month.
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Kipling - Poems |
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complying
with the laws regulating
charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United
States.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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If our value
per text is nominally
estimated
at one dollar then we produce $2
million dollars per hour this year as we release thirty-six text
files per month, or 432 more Etexts in 1999 for a total of 2000+
If these reach just 10% of the computerized population, then the
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Virgil, by dismissing Eneas through the ivory
gate of Elysium, has hinted that all his pictures of a future state were
merely dreams, and has thus
destroyed
the highest merit of the
compliment to his patron Augustus.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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If to remember deeds whilome well done be a pleasure
Meet for a man who deems all of his dealings be just,
Nor Holy Faith ever broke nor in whatever his compact
Sanction of Gods abused better to swindle mankind,
Much there remains for thee during length of living, Catullus, 5
Out of that Love ingrate further to solace thy soul;
For whatever of good can mortal declare of another
Or can avail he do, such thou hast said and hast done;
While to a thankless mind
entrusted
all of them perisht.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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what a torment wouldst thou prove,
Were it not thy sour leisure gave sweet leave,
To
entertain
the time with thoughts of love,
Which time and thoughts so sweetly doth deceive,
And that thou teachest how to make one twain,
By praising him here who doth hence remain.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived
from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is
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or charges.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Index of First Lines
I'd like to turn the deepest of yellows,
At the sorrow I'm made to feel by Love,
Now fearfulness, and now hopefulness
I'd like to be Ixion or Tantalus,
Whether her golden hair curls languidly,
Sweet beauty, murderess of my life,
Moon with dark eyes, goddess with horses black,
Now, when Jupiter, fired by his lusts,
I'd like to burn all the dross of my human clay,
Now when the sky and when the earth again
It was hot, and sleep, gently flowing,
Those twin pulses of thickly clotted milk
I'm sending you some flowers, that my hand
Marie, the man who'd change the letters of your name
Kiss me then Marie: no then, don't kiss me,
As in May month, on its stem we see the rose
Among love's pounding seas, for me there's no support,
The other day you saw me, as you passed by,
So often forging peace, so often fighting,
Though the human spirit gives itself noble airs
In these long winter nights when the idle Moon
When you are truly old, beside the evening candle,
That night Love drew you down into the ballroom
Sweetheart, let's see if the rose
O Fount of Bellerie,
Why like a
skittish
mare
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Ronsard |
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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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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
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Nay, the wild rocks and woods then voiced the roar
Of Afric lions
mourning
for thy death.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Once when the Emperor was sitting in the
Pavilion
of Aloes Wood, he had
a sudden stirring of heart, and wanted Po to write a song expressive of
his mood.
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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Fai come quei che la cosa per nome
apprende
ben, ma la sua quiditate
veder non puo se altri non la prome.
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Hail
venerable
guest!
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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Compliance
requirements
are not uniform and it takes a
considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up
with these requirements.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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We know
The joy of
sufferings
deep
That blend with a love divine,
And the hidden warmth of the snow!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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And she hadde on a cote of grene
Of cloth of Gaunt;
withouten
wene,
Wel semed by hir apparayle 575
She was not wont to greet travayle.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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I'd gayly spend of
toilsome
years a dozen--
A felon styled--
Oh!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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Hold the streets and
bridges!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Ready for death with parted lips he stood,
And well content at such a price to see
That calm wide brow, that terrible maidenhood,
The marvel of that
pitiless
chastity,
Ah!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Individual taste reigns supreme in this
democratic
age, and one man's
judgment is as good as, perhaps a little better than, another's.
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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Some
resemblance
the creative work of the critic will have to the work
that has stirred him to creation, but it will be such resemblance as
exists, not between nature and the mirror that the painter of landscape
or figure may be supposed to hold up to her, but between nature and the
work of the decorative artist.
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
|
Most fruits which we
prize and use depend
entirely
on our care.
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
|
A chaplain of Cortes, writing about thirty years
after the conquest of Mexico, in an age of
printing
presses,
libraries, universities, scholars, logicians, jurists, and
statesmen, had the face to assert that, in one engagement against
the Indians, St.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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--tell me--tell me, I
implore!
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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The maid announced the meal in tones
That I myself had taught her,
Meant to allay my sister's moans
Like oil on
troubled
water:
I rushed to Jones, the lively Jones,
And begged him to escort her.
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
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As old Toledos past their days of war
Are kept
mnemonic
of the strokes they bore,
So art thou with us, being good to keep
In our heart's sword-rack, though thy sword-arm
sleep.
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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The music for this sestina
survives
in manuscript.
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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This garment hath been an old tenant with me;
And a needle and thread with a little good skill
When I've leisure will make it stand more
weathers
still.
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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622 in the
Bodleian
library by F.
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Barons of France may not
forgetful
be
Whence comes the ensign "Monjoie," they cry at need;
Wherefore no race against them can succeed.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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Le chapeau a la main il entra du pied droit
Chez un tailleur tres chic et fournisseur du roi
Ce commercant venait de couper quelques tetes
De mannequins vetus comme il faut qu'on se vete
La foule en tous sens remuait en melant
Des ombres sans amour qui se trainaient par terre
Et des mains vers le ciel pleins de lacs de lumiere
S'envolaient quelquefois comme des oiseaux blancs
Mon bateau partira demain pour l'Amerique
Et je ne reviendrai jamais
Avec l'argent garde dans les prairies lyriques
Guider mon ombre aveugle en ces rues que j'aimais
Car revenir c'est bon pour un soldat des Indes
Les boursiers ont vendu tous mes crachats d'or fin
Mais habille de neuf je veux dormir enfin
Sous des arbres pleins d'oiseaux muets et de singes
Les mannequins pour lui s'etant deshabilles
Battirent leurs habits puis les lui essayerent
Le vetement d'un lord mort sans avoir paye
Au rabais l'habilla comme un millionnaire
Au dehors les annees
Regardaient la vitrine
Les mannequins victimes
Et passaient enchainees
Intercalees dans l'an c'etaient les journees neuves
Les vendredis sanglants et lents d'enterrements
De blancs et de tout noirs vaincus des cieux qui pleuvent
Quand la femme du diable a battu son amant
Puis dans un port d'automne aux feuilles indecises
Quand les mains de la foule y feuillolaient aussi
Sur le pont du vaisseau il posa sa valise
Et s'assit
Les vents de l'Ocean en soufflant leurs menaces
Laissaient dans ses cheveux de longs baisers mouilles
Des emigrants tendaient vers le port leurs mains lasses
Et d'autres en pleurant s'etaient agenouilles
Il regarda longtemps les rives qui moururent
Seuls des bateaux d'enfants tremblaient a l'horizon
Un tout petit bouquet flottant a l'aventure
Couvrit l'Ocean d'une immense floraison
Il aurait voulu ce bouquet comme la gloire
Jouer dans d'autres mers parmi tous les dauphins
Et l'on tissait dans sa memoire
Une tapisserie sans fin
Qui figurait son histoire
Mais pour noyer changees en poux
Ces tisseuses tetues qui sans cesse interrogent
Il se maria comme un doge
Aux cris d'une sirene moderne sans epoux
Gonfle-toi vers la nuit O Mer Les yeux des squales
Jusqu'a l'aube ont guette de loin avidement
Des cadavres de jours ronges par les etoiles
Parmi le bruit des flots et des derniers serments
ROSEMONDE
A Andre Derain
Longtemps au pied du perron de
La maison ou entra la dame
Que j'avais suivie pendant deux
Bonnes heures a Amsterdam
Mes doigts jeterent des baisers
Mais le canal etait desert
Le quai aussi et nul ne vit
Comment mes baisers retrouverent
Celle a qui j'ai donne ma vie
Un jour pendant plus de deux heures
Je la surnommai Rosemonde
Voulant pouvoir me rappeler
Sa bouche fleurie en Hollande
Puis lentement je m'en allai
Pour queter la Rose du Monde
LE BRASIER
A Paul-Napoleon Roinard
J'ai jete dans le noble feu
Que je transporte et que j'adore
De vives mains et meme feu
Ce Passe ces tetes de morts
Flamme je fais ce que tu veux
Le galop soudain des etoiles
N'etant que ce qui deviendra
Se meme au hennissement male
Des centaures dans leurs haras
Et des grand'plaintes vegetales
Ou sont ces tetes que j'avais
Ou est le Dieu de ma jeunesse
L'amour est devenu mauvais
Qu'au brasier les flammes renaissent
Mon ame au soleil se devet
Dans la plaine ont pousse des flammes
Nos coeurs pendent aux citronniers
Les tetes coupees qui m'acclament
Et les astres qui ont saigne
Ne sont que des tetes de femmes
Le fleuve epingle sur la ville
T'y fixe comme un vetement
Partant a l'amphion docile
Tu subis tous les tons charmants
Qui rendent les pierres agiles
Je flambe dans le brasier
Je flambe dans le brasier a l'ardeur adorable
Et les mains des croyants m'y rejettent multiple innombrablement
Les membres des intercis flambent aupres de moi
Eloignez du brasier les ossements
Je suffis pour l'eternite a entretenir le feu de mes delices
Et des oiseaux protegent de leurs ailes ma face et le soleil
O Memoire Combien de races qui forlignent
Des Tyndarides aux viperes ardentes de mon bonheur
Et les
serpents
ne sont-ils que les cous des cygnes
Qui etaient immortels et n'etaient pas chanteurs
Voici ma vie renouvelee
De grands vaisseaux passent et repassent
Je trempe une fois encore mes mains dans l'Ocean
Voici le paquebot et ma vie renouvelee
Ses flammes sont immenses
Il n'y a plus rien de commun entre moi
Et ceux qui craignent les brulures
Descendant des hauteurs
Descendant des hauteurs ou pense la lumiere
Jardins rouant plus haut que tous les ciels mobiles
L'avenir masque flambe en traversant les cieux
Nous attendons ton bon plaisir o mon amie
J'ose a peine regarder la divine mascarade
Quand bleuira sur l'horizon la Desirade
Au-dela de notre atmosphere s'eleve un theatre
Que construisit le ver Zamir sans instrument
Puis le soleil revint ensoleiller les places
D'une ville marine apparue contremont
Sur les toits se reposaient les colombes basses
Et le troupeau de sphinx regagne la sphingerie
A petits pas Il orra le chant du patre toute la vie
La-haut le theatre est bati avec le feu solide
Comme les astres dont se nourrit le vide
Et voici le spectacle
Et pour toujours je suis assis dans un fauteuil
Ma tete mes genoux mes coudes vain pentacle
Les flammes ont pousse sur moi comme des feuilles
Des acteurs inhumains claires betes nouvelles
Donnent des ordres aux hommes apprivoises
Terre
O Dechiree que les fleuves ont reprisee
J'aimerais mieux nuit et jour dans les sphingeries
Vouloir savoir pour qu'enfin on m'y devorat
RHENANES
Nuit rhenane
Mon verre est plein d'un vin trembleur comme une flamme
Ecoutez la chanson lente d'un batelier
Qui raconte avoir vu sous la lune sept femmes
Tordre leurs cheveux verts et longs jusqu'a leurs pieds
Debout chantez plus haut en dansant une ronde
Que je n'entende plus le chant du batelier
Et mettez pres de moi toutes les filles blondes
Au regard immobile aux nattes repliees
Le Rhin le Rhin est ivre ou les vignes se mirent
Tout l'or des nuits tombe en tremblant s'y refleter
La voix chante toujours a en rale-mourir
Ces fees aux cheveux verts qui incantent l'ete
Mon verre s'est brise comme un eclat de rire
Mai
Le mai le joli mai en barque sur le Rhin
Des dames regardaient du haut de la montagne
Vous etes si jolies mais la barque s'eloigne
Qui donc a fait pleurer les saules riverains?
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Not his the feaster's wine,
Nor land, nor gold, nor power,
By want and pain God
screeneth
him
Till his elected hour.
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Note: Ronsard's later tributes to 'Marie' were written for the Duke of Anjou (the future Henri III) whose
mistress
Marie de Cleves died in 1574.
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The stray ships passing spied a face
Upon the waters borne,
With eyes in death still begging raised,
And hands
beseeching
thrown.
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Not so, she, patient still as ever, dwells
Beneath thy roof, but all her cheerless days
Despairing
wastes, and all her nights in tears.
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Rapture
proclaim
to the grove, to the echoing cliffs perorate it?
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You stars and suns, Canopus, Deneb, Rigel,
Let me, as I lie down, here in this dust,
Hear, far off, your whispered
salutation!
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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no sleepers
must sleep in those beds,
No bargainers'
bargains
by day--no brokers or speculators--would
they continue?
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Theme of much thought, and muse of many a rhyme,
Believe me, life to me was far less sweet
Than thus a
merciful
mild death to meet,
The blessed hope, to mortals rarely given:
And such joy smooth'd my path from earth to heaven,
As from long exile to sweet home I turn'd,
While but for you alone my soul with pity yearn'd.
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Besides all these serious presentations of Chatterton there are a
number of burlesques--such as _Rowley and Chatterton in the Shades_
(1782) and _An Archaeological Epistle to Jeremiah Milles_ (1782),
which are clever and amusing, and three plays, two in English, and
one in French by Alfred de Vigny, which
represents
the love affair of
Chatterton and an apocryphal Mme.
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All
good that ys in ytt, your Lordship may be pleased to accept as yours;
and for the Errors I cannot
despayre
of your pardon since you have
long since pardond greater faults in mee.
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and with muffled oar
Silently rowed to the Charlestown shore,
Just as the moon rose over the bay,
Where swinging wide at her moorings lay
The Somerset, British man-of-war;
A phantom ship, with each mast and spar
Across the moon like a prison-bar,
And a huge black hulk, that was magnified
By its own
reflection
in the tide.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Since I have seen falling to my life's flood
The leaf of a rose
snatched
from out your days,
Now at last I can say to the fleeting years:
- Pass by!
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The
croupier
raked in the money while he looked on in stupid terror.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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"--think some:
Others--"How blest the
Paradise
to come!
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Of all the sounds despatched abroad,
There's not a charge to me
Like that old measure in the boughs,
That
phraseless
melody
The wind does, working like a hand
Whose fingers brush the sky,
Then quiver down, with tufts of tune
Permitted gods and me.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Note: The Scythians at the extreme end of the Empire in Roman times were
regarded
as living barbaric lives (See Ovid's Tristia and Ex Ponto).
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