LXIII
On the other side, where'er the foe is seen
To
threaten
stroke in vain, or make good,
He seems an Alpine wind, two hills between,
That in the month of March shakes leafy wood;
Which to the ground now bends the forest green.
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XXVII
Not that great
Champion?
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The
cherubim
are winged oxen, but in no way monstrous.
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how few,
Since but the
fleeting
of a day
Had thinned it; but this wreck was true
And chivalrous: upon the clay
Each sate him down, all sad and mute,
Beside his monarch and his steed; 50
For danger levels man and brute,
And all are fellows in their need.
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Byron |
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To Charles the old, with his great
blossoming
beard,
Day shall not dawn but brings him rage and grief,
Ere a year pass, all France we shall have seized,
Till we can lie in th' burgh of Saint Denise.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Luvah
breaking
in the woes of Vala] {Erdman suggests that 'breaking' is a word from an unrelated layer of ms, and 'woes of Vala' as previously misrecognised in Ellis' transcription as 'womb of Vala' EJC}
[But soon ?
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Blake - Zoas |
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"It is a dull,
heavy,
lifeless
poem," he says, "and the only beauty it possesses, in
my estimation, is, that it is a sort of family picture of the poet's
family.
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Robert Burns |
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_]
[11 Nascanturque _1607_:
Nascunturque
_1616_, _1650-69_]
To M^r _George Herbert_, with one of my
Seal(s), of the Anchor and Christ.
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John Donne |
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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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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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My former Speeches,
Haue but hit your Thoughts
Which can interpret farther: Onely I say
Things haue bin
strangely
borne.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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"To heal his heart of long-time pain
One day Prince Love for to travel was fain
With
Ministers
Mind and Sense.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied
warranties or the
exclusion
or limitation of certain types of damages.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Lady, for whom I sing and whistle,
Your lovely gaze, like sharpened bristle,
So
chastens
me with joy, no trace
Dare I own of low desire or base.
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Troubador Verse |
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Porter
And on her daughter 200
They wash their feet in soda water
Et O ces voix d'enfants, chantant dans la
coupole!
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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In right and truth, as they begun,
Guide them, with favouring hand, until
Thou dost their
blameless
wish fulfil!
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Aeschylus |
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Longfellow |
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The
delights
of love I never may
Enjoy, if not joy of my love afar,
No finer, nobler comes my way,
From any quarter: near or far.
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Troubador Verse |
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We cannot hale Utopia on by force;
But better, almost, be at work in sin,
Than in a brute
inaction
browse and sleep.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Uncarved and unhewn,
Screened
by nature with a roof of clouds.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Les Amours de Cassandre: CXXXV
Sweet beauty,
murderess
of my life,
Instead of a heart you've a boulder:
Living, you make me waste and shudder,
Impassioned by amorous desire.
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Ronsard |
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How seldom, Rome, dost thou permit
Us by such joys to
benefit?
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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inges scholde be moeued
by
fortunouse
fortune.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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The hills untied their bonnets,
The
bobolinks
begun.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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CLI
So Rollant's friend is dead whom when he sees
Face to the ground, and biting it with's teeth,
Begins to mourn in
language
very sweet:
"Unlucky, friend, your courage was indeed!
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Chanson de Roland |
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Who
assisted
thee to ravage and to plunder;
I trow thou hadst full many wicked comrades.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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An hour behind the fleeting breath,
Later by just an hour than death, --
Oh, lagging
yesterday!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Apres se tenoit Courtoisie,
Qui moult estoit de tous prisie,
Si n'ere
orguilleuse
ne fole.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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This seraph-band, each wav'd his hand:
It was a
heavenly
sight:
They stood as signals to the land,
Each one a lovely light:
This seraph-band, each wav'd his hand,
No voice did they impart--
No voice; but O!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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And still within a summer's night
A
something
so transporting bright,
I clap my hands to see;
Then veil my too inspecting face,
Lest such a subtle, shimmering grace
Flutter too far for me.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Chimene
You should rather take part in all this joy,
Blessing the grace the Heavens employ,
Madame, no one but me
deserves
to suffer.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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How far, since then, the ocean streams
Have swept us from that land of dreams,
That land of fiction and of truth,
The lost
Atlantis
of our youth!
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Longfellow |
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Already my spirit, longing for better ways,
Paces through my flesh, rebelliously,
And already brings the victim fuel to feed
His
immolation
in your vision's rays.
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Ronsard |
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John's self (great Dryden's friends before)
With open arms
received
one poet more.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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who was also a writer of fluent verse: and
his influence and instruction
doubtless
confirmed Miss Barrett in her
poetical aspirations.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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If ears are porches, mouth, nose, and eyes had better be doors and windows; yet the concept of micromacrocosm is better expressed in "infinite orb immoveable," with its matching of the
oxymoron
in "primum mobile.
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Blake - Zoas |
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LXVI
And, lifting his bare hand, in sign affied,
From ancient times, of treaty and of truce,
Repenting
him, he to Sir Gryphon cried,
"It grieves me sorely, and I cannot choose
But own my sin: let counsels which misguide,
And my own little wit, such fault excuse.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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A noble
convent!
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Longfellow |
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STRENGTH
Lo, the earth's bound and
limitary
land,
The Scythian steppe, the waste untrod of men!
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Aeschylus |
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He would have
troubled that
admiring
audience by making a self-indulgent sympathy
more difficult.
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Yeats |
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Simms, an
intellectual
giant, twin-birth with Maury (which see).
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James Russell Lowell |
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Why are Eyelids stord with arrows ready drawn,
Where a
thousand
fighting men in ambush lie!
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blake-poems |
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Whither he went I may not come, it seems
He is become
estranged
from all the rest,
And all the sea is now his wonder-house.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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e
p{ro}pre
manere of euery ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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" Having been
published
without his usual
elaborate revision, Poe may have wished to _hide _his hasty work
under an assumed name.
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Poe - 5 |
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We're dead: the souls let no man harry,
But pray that God
absolves
us all.
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Villon |
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The
harlot commands him to eat and drink also:
"It is the
conformity
of life,
Of the conditions and fate of the Land.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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sans clefs, la grande armoire
On
regardait
souvent sa porte brune et noire.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Places of life and of death,
Numbered and named as streets,
What, through your
channels
of stone,
Is the tide that unweariedly beats?
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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My plan for retiring and going back to the hills
Must now be
postponed
for fifteen years!
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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--The character
which I have here
introduced
speaking is sufficiently common.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Really any one would take us
(Any one that did not know us)
For the most
unpleasant
people!
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Lewis Carroll |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Thus took he purpos loves craft to suwe,
And thoughte he wolde werken prively, 380
First, to hyden his desir in muwe
From every wight y-born, al-outrely,
But he mighte ought recovered be therby;
Remembring
him, that love to wyde y-blowe
Yelt bittre fruyt, though swete seed be sowe.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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He is said to have originated the title of
the
celebrated
tract from the pen of the latter.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Back to my heart in frozen fear I feel
My waning life-blood run--
The blood that round the
wounding
steel
Ebbs slow, as sinks life's parting sun--
Swift, swift and sure, some woe comes pressing on!
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Aeschylus |
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To whom the Tempter
murmuring
thus reply'd.
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Milton |
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270
When Edelward perceevd Erle
Cuthbert
die,
On Hubert strongest of the Normanne crewe,
As wolfs when hungred on the cattel flie,
So Edelward amaine upon him flewe.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Flushed and decided, he assaults at once;
Exploring hands
encounter
no defence; 240
His vanity requires no response,
And makes a welcome of indifference.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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I say that the real and permanent
grandeur
of these States must be their
religion;
Otherwise there is no real and permanent grandeur;
Nor character, nor life worthy the name, without religion;
Nor land, nor man or woman, without religion.
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Whitman |
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"
CXXIX
All night about the forest roved the count,
And, at the break of daily light, was brought
By his unhappy fortune to the fount,
Where his
inscription
young Medoro wrought.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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'
PRINCESS
OF FRANCE.
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Shakespeare |
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O
wandering
graves!
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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Reeds in a trice are
sprouting
and rustling in murmuring breezes:
"Midas, o Midas the King--bears the ears of an ass!
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Holy Satyr _151_
Lais _153_
Heliodora _156_
Toward the Piraeus _161_
_Slay with your eyes, Greek_
_You would have broken my wings_
_I loved you_
_What had you done_
_If I had been a boy_
_It was not chastity that made me cold_
CONRAD AIKEN
Seven Twilights _171_
_The ragged pilgrim on the road to nowhere_
_Now by the wall of the ancient town_
_When the tree bares, the music of it changes_
_"This is the hour," she says, "of transmutation"_
_Now the great wheel of darkness and low clouds_
_Heaven, you say, will be a field in April_
_In the long silence of the sea_
Tetelestai
_184_
EDNA ST.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Round the decay
Of that
colossal
wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
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Golden Treasury |
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Stephen Crane |
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"
LXXIII
The sun on the tide, the peach on the bough,
The blue smoke over the hill,
And the shadows
trailing
the valley-side,
Make up the autumn day.
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Sappho |
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Enter several strange SHAPES,
bringing in a banquet; and dance about it with
gentle actions of salutations; and
inviting
the
KING, etc.
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Shakespeare |
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The
sentiment
is not original with Dekker.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Posthumius turned
round to the multitude, and held up the gown, as if appealing to
the
universal
law of nations.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we
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solicitation
requirements, we know of no prohibition
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approach us with offers to donate.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Its
business
office is located at
809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email
business@pglaf.
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Lucretius |
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PIETROCOLA
ROSSETTI--with
TENNIEL'S Illustrations.
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Lewis Carroll |
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And here and there, anear, afar,
Streams skyward many a beacon-star,
Conjur'd and charm'd and kindled well
By pure oil's soft and
guileless
spell,
Hid now no more
Within the palace' secret store.
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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I do not
remember
.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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"
She replied--"Ulalume--Ulalume--
'T is the vault of thy lost
Ulalume!
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Poe - 5 |
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[Burns did not shine in prologues: he produced some vigorous lines,
but they did not come in harmony from his tongue, like the songs in
which he recorded the
loveliness
of the dames of Caledonia.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
Take the following from
'The Dying Swan':--
Some blue peaks in the
distance
rose,
And white against the cold-white sky,
Shone out their crowning snows.
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Tennyson |
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If she wants me not, I'd rather
I'd died the day my service
commenced!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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Their
reflections
fell on the eye
like a clash of cymbals on the ear.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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" The lady's cheek
Trembled; she nothing said, but, pale and meek,
Arose and knelt before him, wept a rain
Of sorrows at his words; at last with pain
Beseeching
him, the while his hand she wrung,
To change his purpose.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
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Moonlight
It will not hurt me when I am old,
A running tide where
moonlight
burned
Will not sting me like silver snakes;
The years will make me sad and cold,
It is the happy heart that breaks.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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More than I, if truth were told,
Have stood and sweated hot and cold,
And through their reins in ice and fire
Fear
contended
with desire.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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On thy return
The work
appointed
for thee shalt thou learn.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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Was never wight yit half so wo
As that hir semed for to be,
Nor so
fulfilled
of ire as she.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Finch in the front, and
Thurland
in the rear.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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So, in the man who sings,
All of the
voiceless
horde
From the cold dawn of things
Have their reward;
All in whose pulses ran
Blood that is his at last,
From the first stooping man
Far in the winnowed past.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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Hemlock, through your
fragrant
boughs
There moves no anger and no doubt,
No envy of immortal things.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
|
'
And they crowned me with flowers, and then to their harps sate playing,
Solemn and clear;
And magical cakes and goblets were spread on the table;
And at window the birds came in;
Hopping along with bright eyes, pecking crumbs from the platters,
And sipped of the wine;
And splashing up--up to the roof tossed
fountains
of crystal;
And Princes in scarlet and green
Shot with their bows and arrows, and kneeled with their dishes
Of fruits for the Queen;
And we walked in a magical garden with rivers and bowers,
And my bed was of ivory and gold;
And the Queen breathed soft in my ear a song of enchantment--
And I never grew old.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Que j'ai l'air d'emprunter aux plus fiers monuments,
Consumeront
leurs jours en d'austeres etudes;
Car j'ai, pour fasciner ces dociles amants,
De purs miroirs qui font toutes choses plus belles:
Mes yeux, mes larges yeux aux clartes eternelles!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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It has
survived
long enough for the copyright to expire and the book to enter the public domain.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Is this how the
presumptuous
subject
Shows his consideration, and respect?
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Hard by, a cottage chimney smokes
From betwixt two aged oaks,
Where Corydon and Thyrsis, met
Are at their savoury dinner set
Of herbs, and other country messes,
Which the neat-handed Phyllis dresses;
And then in haste her bower she leaves
With
Thestylis
to bind the sheaves;
Or, if the earlier season lead,
To the tann'd haycock in the mead.
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Golden Treasury |
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,
_bestowing
of gifts_ or _treasures_: gen.
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Beowulf |
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It is cast in the form of a
dialogue
between the poet himself and
Arbuthnot.
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Alexander Pope |
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Can I pour thy wine
While my hands
tremble?
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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And fate hath blown me hither, bound me too
With bitter
obligation
to the Count--
Have I not fought it out?
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Tennyson |
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Addressed
to R.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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"
"If you well know the poniard worn
Without edge-dulling cover--
Look on it now--here, plain,
upborne!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Wharton, the scorn and wonder of our days,
Whose ruling passion was the lust of praise:
Born with whate'er could win it from the wise,
Women and fools must like him or he dies;
Though
wondering
senates hung on all he spoke,
The club must hail him master of the joke.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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