Undue
significance
a starving man attaches
To food
Far off; he sighs, and therefore hopeless,
And therefore good.
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Those fruits, nor winter's cold nor summer's heat 140
Fear ever, fail not, wither not, but hang
Perennial, whose unceasing zephyr breathes
Gently on all,
enlarging
these, and those
Maturing genial; in an endless course
Pears after pears to full dimensions swell,
Figs follow figs, grapes clust'ring grow again
Where clusters grew, and (ev'ry apple stript)
The boughs soon tempt the gath'rer as before.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Would that the Khan again
Would come upon us, or
Lithuania
rise
Once more in insurrection.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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FAIR
Isabella
now the abbess sent,
Who straight obeyed, and to her tears gave vent,
Which overspread those lily cheeks and eyes,
A roguish youth so lately held his prize.
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La Fontaine |
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And here's a song of flowers to suit such hours:
A song of the last lilies, the last flowers,
Amid my
withering
bowers.
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Christina Rossetti |
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sez he, "I guess
There's human blood," sez he,
"By fits an' starts, in Yankee hearts,
Though 't may
surprise
J.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Like Love and the Sirens, these birds sing so
melodiously
that even the life of those who hear them is not too great a price to pay for such music.
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Appoloinaire |
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She
prefaced
half a hint of this
With, "God forbid it should be true!
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speed thy deathful ebon dart,
And cure the pangs of this
convulsive
heart.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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'Tis excellent, cried they: things well you frame;
And at the
promised
hour, the heroes came.
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La Fontaine |
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It's true, though your enemy,
I cannot blame you for fleeing infamy;
And, however strong my
outburst
of pain
I do not accuse you, I only weep again.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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His five-flower horse and thousand-guilder coat--
Let him call his boy to take them along and sell them for good wine,
That drinking
together
we may drive away the sorrows of a thousand
years.
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Li Po |
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Where lambs have nibbled, silent move
The feet of angels bright;
Unseen they pour blessing,
And joy without ceasing,
On each bud and blossom,
And each
sleeping
bosom.
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blake-poems |
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and som ma{n}
habunde?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Just gods, who see the grief that overwhelms me, 1165
How could I ever
engender
a child so guilty?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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At this moment a
pleasant
woman's voice
said--
"Do not be afraid; he will not hurt you.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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While Laura smiles, all-conscious of that love
Which from this
faithful
breast no time can e'er remove.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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His medical adviser, also,
besought
him to abstain from all
salted meats, and raw fruits, or herbs.
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Petrarch |
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"
Seven queens shone round her ivory bed,
Like seven soft gems on a silken thread,
Like seven fair lamps in a royal tower,
Like seven bright petals of Beauty's flower
Queen Gulnaar sighed like a
murmuring
rose
"Where is my rival, O King Feroz?
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Now the swift sail of straining life is furled,
And through the stillness of my soul is whirled
The
throbbing
of the hearts of half the world.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Nay;
He is my lord;
therefore
I hold my peace.
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Euripides - Electra |
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Despite the anguish of this sad affair,
When Chimene
Rodrigue
has secured
All my hopes are dead, my spirit cured.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Puddings should be
Full of currants, for me:
Boiled in a pail,
Tied in the tail
Of an old
bleached
shirt:
So hot that they hurt,
So huge that they last
From the dim, distant past
Until the crack o' doom
Lift the roof off the room.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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that
dwellest
where,
In the deep sky,
The terrible and fair,
In beauty vie!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Emerson - Poems |
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Over sea, over shore, where the cannons loudly roar,
He still was a
stranger
to fear;
And nocht could him quail, or his bosom assail,
But the bonie lass he lo'ed sae dear.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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--Me voila libre et
solitaire!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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)
During the four succeeding years he made numerous
excursions
amid
the beautiful countries which from the basin of the Euxine--and
amongst these the Crimea and the Caucasus.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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UN VOYAGE A CYTHERE
Mon coeur, comme un oiseau, voltigeait tout joyeux
Et planait
librement
a l'entour des cordages;
Le navire roulait sous un ciel sans nuages,
Comme un ange enivre du soleil radieux.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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It levelled strong Euphrates in its course;
Supreme yet weightless as an idle mote
It seemed to tame the waters without force
Till not a murmur swelled or billow beat:
Lo, as the purple shadow swept the sands,
The prudent crocodile rose on his feet
And shed
appropriate
tears and wrung his hands.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Rilke - Poems |
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DONATIONS
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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THE VOICE OF THE ANCIENT BARD
Youth of
delight!
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blake-poems |
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) _flush_, in the
latter case probably to avoid
confusion
with _flesh_.
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James Russell Lowell |
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And what for waste de vittles, now, and th'ow away de bread,
Jes' for to
strength
dese idle hands to scratch dis ole bald head?
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Sidney Lanier |
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The sultan lord knew not her name;
But to the door that fair shape came:
The hour had struck, the way was right,
Traced by her lamp's pale,
flickering
light.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Harmless and silent as the
pestilence!
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Longfellow |
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This meant that the
opponent
took the stake and the ombre had to replace
it for the next hand.
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Alexander Pope |
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There in the self-same marble were engrav'd
The cart and kine, drawing the sacred ark,
That from
unbidden
office awes mankind.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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how unlike those late
terrific
sleeps!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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10
" the
breaking
of six ribs.
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James Russell Lowell |
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La Fontaine |
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Each word which
reminded
him of the alleged
crime of his son was to him a keen reproach.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Rilke - Poems |
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The old man stood
dressing
his sunny vine: _110
'Halloo!
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Shelley |
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That soul will hate the ev'ning mist,
So often lovely, and will list
To the sound of the coming
darkness
(known
To those whose spirits hearken) as one
Who, in a dream of night, _would_ fly
But _cannot_ from a danger nigh.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Hence it behov'd, the law should be a curb;
A sovereign hence behov'd, whose
piercing
view
Might mark at least the fortress and main tower
Of the true city.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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It was playing in the great alley of poplars whose leaves, even in spring, seem
mournful
to me since Maria passed by them, on her last journey, lying among candles.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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We two
We two take each other by the hand
We believe everywhere in our house
Under the soft tree under the black sky
Beneath the roofs at the edge of the fire
In the empty street in broad daylight
In the wandering eyes of the crowd
By the side of the foolish and wise
Among the grown-ups and children
Love's not
mysterious
at all
We are the evidence ourselves
In our house lovers believe.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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I wat she was a sheep o' sense,
An' could behave hersel' wi' mense:
I'll say't, she never brak a fence,
Thro'
thievish
greed.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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King
Yet Love, far from registering this protest,
If
Rodrigue
wins, true justice will attest.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Daphnis me malus urit, ego hanc in
Daphnide
laurum.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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And
standing
on the altar high,
"Lo, what a fiend is here!
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Theories
are poor things at the best, and the bulk of
mine have perished long ago.
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Yeats |
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The
invalidity
or unenforceability of any
provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Sappho |
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A procession of priests, in their robes, sang anthems and
offered up
invocations
to heaven.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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I'm
downright
dizzy wi' the thought,
In troth I'm like to greet!
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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Now we have come to the
temporary
capital, 4 in the king?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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They look upon his eyes,
Filled with deep surprise;
And
wondering
behold
A spirit armed in gold.
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blake-poems |
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)
Note
Not
meaningless
flurries like
Those that frequent the street
Subject to black hats in flight;
But a dancer shown complete
A whirlwind of muslin or
A furious scattering of spray
Raised by her knee, she for
Whom we live, to blow away
All, beyond her, mundane
Witty, drunken, motionless,
With her tutu, and refrain
From other mark of distress,
Unless a light-hearted draught of air
From her dress fans Whistler there.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Then, then will we unbind,
Fling free on wafting wind
Of joy, the woman's voice that waileth now
In piercing accents for a chief laid low;
And this our song shall be--
_Hail to the commonwealth
restored!
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Aeschylus |
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" He in few
Thus
answering
spake: "Thou deemest thou art still
On th' other side the centre, where I grasp'd
Th' abhorred worm, that boreth through the world.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Ronsard's Cassandra, was Cassandra Salviati, the
daughter
of an Italian banker.
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Ronsard |
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The maiden at her casement sits
As
daylight
glimmers, darkness flits,
But ah!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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_ O ||
_conuiu?
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Latin - Catullus |
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I shall know why, when time is over,
And I have ceased to wonder why;
Christ will explain each
separate
anguish
In the fair schoolroom of the sky.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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"
But I, grown shrewder, scan the skies
With a suspicious air, --
As children, swindled for the first,
All
swindlers
be, infer.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Nothing - not even old gardens mirrored by eyes -
Can restrain this heart that drenches itself in the sea,
O nights, or the
abandoned
light of my lamp,
On the void of paper, that whiteness defends,
No, not even the young woman feeding her child.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Long
conversations
she could rarely get,
And various obstacles the lovers met;
No interviews where they might be at ease,
But ev'ry thing conspired to fret and teaze.
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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Artemis
The
thirteenth
returns.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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"You will be
laughing
now, remembering
We called you once Dead World, and barren thing.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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nō hē wiht fram
mē flōd-ȳðum feor
flēotan
meahte.
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Beowulf |
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When sense from spirit files away,
And
subterfuge
is done;
When that which is and that which was
Apart, intrinsic, stand,
And this brief tragedy of flesh
Is shifted like a sand;
When figures show their royal front
And mists are carved away, --
Behold the atom I preferred
To all the lists of clay!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Oure mowynge swerdes shalle plonge hem downe to helle;
Theyre throngynge corses shall
onlyghte
the starres;
The barrowes brastynge wythe the sleene schall swelle,
Brynnynge[92] to commynge tymes our famous warres; 680
Inne everie eyne I kenne the lowe of myghte,
Sheenynge abrode, alyche a hylle-fyre ynne the nyghte.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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"We see an instance of Coleridge's liability to err, in his 'Biographia
Literaria'--professedly his
literary
life and opinions, but, in fact, a
treatise _de omni scibili et quibusdam aliis.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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For so at his departure
Aeneas the great captain had enjoined; were aught to chance meanwhile,
they should not venture to range their line or trust the plain, but keep
their camp and the safety of the
entrenched
walls.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Then with eyes to the front all,
And with guns horizontal,
Stood our sires;
And the balls
whistled
deadly,
And in streams flashing redly
Blazed the fires;
As the roar
On the shore,
Swept the strong battle-breakers o'er the green-sodded acres
Of the plain;
And louder, louder, louder cracked the black gunpowder,
Cracking amain!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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I know one or two
Lines that would do,
Literature
that might stand
All over the land,
Which a man could remember
Till next December,
And read again in the spring,
After the thawing.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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No chapter met, howe'er, when morrow came;
Another day arrived, and still the same;
The sages of the convent thought it best,
In fact, to let the mystick
business
rest.
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La Fontaine |
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The reminiscence comes
Of sunless dry geraniums
And dust in crevices,
Smells of chestnuts in the streets
And female smells in shuttered rooms
And
cigarettes
in corridors
And cocktail smells in bars.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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--Not a
thousand
prayers can gain
A man's bare bread, save an he work amain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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Remember
Tchaplitzky, who, thanks to
you, was able to pay his debts.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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XII
A year: and he is
travelling
back
To her who wastes in clay;
From day-dawn until eve he fares
Along the wintry way,
From day-dawn until eve repairs
Unto her mound to pray.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Some few there from the common road did stray;
Laelius and Socrates, with whom I may
A longer progress take: Oh, what a pair
Of dear
esteemed
friends to me they were!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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They might (were Harpax not too wise to spend)
Give Harpax' self the blessing of a friend;
Or find some doctor that would save the life
Of
wretched
Shylock, spite of Shylock's wife:
But thousands die, without or this or that,
Die, and endow a college, or a cat.
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Hereafter let him fall, as Fates design,
That spun so short his life's illustrious line:(262)
But lest some adverse god now cross his way,
Give him to know what powers assist this day:
For how shall mortal stand the dire alarms,
When heaven's
refulgent
host appear in arms?
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The azure vault in silver
shimmers
soft,
A dewy breeze with fragrance soars aloft.
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The old owls might have hallooed if they durst,
But joy just then was up and
whistled
bye
A merry tune which I had known full long,
But could not to my memory wake it back,
Until the ploughman changed it to the song.
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at I haue wel
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And sleeps he then the heavy sleep of death,
Quintilius?
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He wrote histories of the Revolution,
of
Napoleon
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In
metamorphoses
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Les Amours de Cassandre: CLII
Moon with dark eyes, goddess with horses black,
That steer you up and down, and high and low,
Never remaining long, when once they show,
Pulling your chariot endlessly there and back:
My desires and yours are never a match,
Because the passions that pierce your soul,
And the ardours that inflame mine so,
Court
different
desires to ease their lack.
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Chanson de Roland |
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"For Annie" was first
published
in the "Flag of our Union," in the
spring of 1849.
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