When riseth Lacedaemon's hardihood,
When Thebes
Epaminondas
rears again,
When Athens' children are with hearts endued,
When Grecian mothers shall give birth to men,
Then mayst thou be restored; but not till then.
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The Ship Starting
Lo, the
unbounded
sea,
On its breast a ship starting, spreading all sails, carrying even
her moonsails.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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The_ PEASANT _is
discovered
in front of the hut_.
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Euripides - Electra |
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Cease now, my flute, now cease
Maenalian
lays.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Quali per vetri trasparenti e tersi,
o ver per acque nitide e tranquille,
non si profonde che i fondi sien persi,
tornan d'i nostri visi le postille
debili si, che perla in bianca fronte
non vien men forte a le nostre pupille;
tali vid' io piu facce a parlar pronte;
per ch'io dentro a l'error
contrario
corsi
a quel ch'accese amor tra l'omo e 'l fonte.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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e wynde was good,
And
saileden
ouer ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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XCVII
As deputy, the sainted land he swayed,
Conferred on him by Charlemagne, in trust,
To him the English duke a present made
Of that so sturdy and
unmeasured
beast,
That it ten draught horse burdens had conveyed;
So monstrous was the giant, and next gave
The net, in which he took the unwieldy slave.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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The work is a hasty
and unrevised
production
of its author's earlier days of literary labor;
and, beyond the scenes already known, scarcely calculated to enhance
his reputation.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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From no other book of his, not excepting _The Book of Hours_, can we
deduce so
accurate
a conception of Rilke's philosophy of Life and Art as
we can draw from his comparatively short monograph on Auguste Rodin.
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Rilke - Poems |
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How shall we fill a library with wit,
When Merlin's cave is half
unfurnished
yet?
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Not for this
Faint I, nor mourn nor murmur: other gifts
Have followed, for such loss, I would believe,
Abundant
recompence.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Till
stratagem
was used I naught could gain,
But looks and darts from eyes, for all my pain.
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La Fontaine |
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We are no other than a moving row
Of Magic Shadow-shapes that come and go
Round with the Sun-illumined Lantern held
In
Midnight
by the Master of the Show;
LXIX.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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A marriage
deferred
does not affect the laws
That, regardless of time, make him yours.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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immortal
daughter
of the skies,
Too lyttle known to wryters of these daies,
Teach me, fayre Saincte!
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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--
That they might fall again,
So they could once more see
That burst to
liberty!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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claterande
fro ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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_) But you have not
finished?
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Aristophanes |
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Chor: In seeking just occasion to provoke
The Philistine, thy
Countries
Enemy,
Thou never wast remiss, I hear thee witness:
Yet Israel still serves with all his Sons.
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Milton |
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Do not forget these asters that remain,
The scarlet leafage round the tendrils twining,
And all the rests of verdant life combining,
Resolve them in the soft
autumnal
vein.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Near at hand to you a throat is now inflating itself and
joyfully
singing.
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Whitman |
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Is there a sky
overhead?
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Ye shall watch while nations strive
With the bloodhounds, die or survive,
Drop faint from their jaws,
Or throttle them
backward
to death;
And only under your breath
Shall favour the cause.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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THE VOICE OF THE ANCIENT BARD
Youth of
delight!
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blake-poems |
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The prospect widens, cuts all bounds of blue
Where horizontal limits bend, and spreads
Into a curious-hill'd and curious-valley'd Vast,
Endless before, behind, around; which seems
Th'
incalculable
Up-and-Down of Time
Made plain before mine eyes.
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Sidney Lanier |
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The hillside vines dear memories of Thee bring:
A bird at evening flying to its nest
Tells me of One who had no place of rest:
I think it is of Thee the
sparrows
sing.
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Wilde - Poems |
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She had
wandered
long,
Hearing wild birds' song.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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THE VOICE OF THE ANCIENT BARD
Youth of
delight!
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Art thou poor, yet hast thou golden
slumbers?
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Golden Treasury |
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Converse and love mankind might
strongly
draw,
When love was liberty, and Nature law.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Rowland
Thirlmere
and the _Poetry Review_:--"Jimmy Doane.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Half-past two,
The street-lamp said,
"Remark the cat which
flattens
itself in the gutter,
Slips out its tongue
And devours a morsel of rancid butter.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Where have you been by it most
annoyed?
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Lewis Carroll |
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Between the tree-stems, marbled plain at first,
Came jasper pannels; then, anon, there burst
Forth
creeping
imagery of slighter trees,
And with the larger wove in small intricacies.
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Keats - Lamia |
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Freaware
and the Dane.
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Beowulf |
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He went up to the summit, where were the
confines
of
heaven, and there prayed.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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But since there's void in all
begotten
things,
All solid matter must be round the same;
Nor, by true reason canst thou prove aught hides
And holds a void within its body, unless
Thou grant what holds it be a solid.
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Lucretius |
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The pent-up anguish of the loyal wife,
The sobs of those who, nearest in this life,
Still hold him closely in the life beyond;--
These first, with
threnody
of memories fond.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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And home each
philotadpole
hopped,
In faith rewarded to exult,
And wait the beautiful result.
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James Russell Lowell |
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The chants
of the Welsh harpers preserved, through ages of darkness, a faint
and
doubtful
memory of Arthur.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Just as the
Intellect
concerns
itself with Truth, so Taste informs us of the Beautiful, while the Moral
Sense is regardful of Duty.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Well, if Albert won't leave you alone, there it is, I said,
What you get married for if you don't want
children?
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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To give away yourself, keeps
yourself
still,
And you must live, drawn by your own sweet skill.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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THE FLAMING CIRCLE
Though for fifteen years you have chaffed me across the table,
Slept in my arms and fingered my plunging heart,
I
scarcely
know you; we have not known each other.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Charme profond, magique, dont nous grise
Dans le present le passe
restaure!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Let all his
grandeur
seek my punishment,
If I meet ruin, the State's is imminent.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Gallants, now sing his song below:
Rondeau
Oh, grant him now eternal peace,
Lord, and
everlasting
light,
He wasn't worth a candle bright,
Nor even a sprig of parsley.
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Villon |
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The
mountain
at a given distance
In amber lies;
Approached, the amber flits a little, --
And that 's the skies!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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ASSENCIOR
INQ{UA}M
CUNCTA.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Mine by the right of the white
election!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Of the editious of
MarvelFs
collected works,
that of 1726, in two volumes duodecimo, contains
only his poems and some of his private letters.
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Marvell - Poems |
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XXIV
Mine eye hath play'd the painter and hath stell'd,
Thy beauty's form in table of my heart;
My body is the frame wherein 'tis held,
And
perspective
it is best painter's art.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Nullam, attamen, ex agro illo meo parvulo segetem
demessui
praeter
gaudium vacuum bene de Republica merendi.
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James Russell Lowell |
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even as this instant fled,
Was it not thou, O vision bright,
That
glimmered
through the radiant night
And gently hovered o'er my head?
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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--
When utter beauty must come closer to thee
Than even anger or fear could be;
When thou, like metal in a kiln, must lie
Seized by beauty's mightily able flame;
Enjoyed by beauty as by the
ruthless
glee
Of an unescapable power;
Obeying beauty as air obeys a cry;
Yea, one thing made of beauty and thee,
As steel and a white heat are made the same!
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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For who would trust the seeming sighs
Of wife or
paramour?
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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His heart
reciprocated
still
When Friendship smiled or Love caressed.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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145
Fro which these misbileved pryved been,
To you my soule
penitent
I bringe.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Some
ostentation
ever is with grief
Those who weep most the soonest gain relief.
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La Fontaine |
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Planted firm on the rock,
With foreheads stern and defiant,
Loud they shout to the winds,
Loud to the tempest they call;
Naught but
Olympian
thunders,
That blasted Titan and Giant,
Them can uproot and o'erthrow,
Shaking the earth with their fall.
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Longfellow |
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Subitamente
questo suono uscio
d'una de l'arche; pero m'accostai,
temendo, un poco piu al duca mio.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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300
Each piece appeared to do its chilly best
To seem an utter stranger to the rest,
As if
acquaintanceship
were deadly sin,
Like Britons meeting in a foreign inn.
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James Russell Lowell |
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The
groaning
trencher there ye fill,
Your hurdies like a distant hill,
Your pin was help to mend a mill
In time o'need,
While thro' your pores the dews distil
Like amber bead.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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IV
For wonderfully to live I now begin:
So that the darkness which accompanies
Our being here, is fasten'd up within
The power of light that holdeth me;
And from these shining chains, to see
My joy with bold
misliking
eyes,
The shrouded figure will not dare arise.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Theie batten[21] onne her fleshe, her hartes bloude dryncke,
And all ys
graunted
from the roieal honde.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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_
Riccardianus
2242
Lachm.
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Latin - Catullus |
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Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without the words,
And never stops at all,
And
sweetest
in the gale is heard;
And sore must be the storm
That could abash the little bird
That kept so many warm.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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They were to meet at the Isle of Batavia, which was chosen
for its easy landing, for its convenience to receive the forces, and
thence to
transport
them to the war.
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Tacitus |
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"Begin, my flute, with me
Maenalian
lays.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Note: The Rose
tremiere
is the hollyhock.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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190
An herald, then, to Phemius' hand consign'd
His
beauteous
lyre; he through constraint regaled
The suitors with his song, and while the chords
He struck in prelude to his pleasant strains,
Telemachus his head inclining nigh
To Pallas' ear, lest others should his words
Witness, the blue-eyed Goddess thus bespake.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Henceforth I flie not Death, nor would prolong
Life much, bent rather how I may be quit
Fairest and easiest of this combrous charge,
Which I must keep till my
appointed
day
Of rendring up, Michael to him repli'd.
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| Source: |
Milton |
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IV
Yet when within my heart I gaze
Upon my fair beyond the waters, Meseems my soul within me prays
To pass
straightway
beyond the waters.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Do you take it I would
astonish?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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"
My guide, then laying hold on me, by words
And
intimations
given with hand and head,
Made my bent knees and eye submissive pay
Due reverence; then thus to him replied.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Þā hē him of dyde īsern-byrnan,
helm of hafelan, sealde his hyrsted sweord,
īrena cyst ombiht-þegne,
675 and
gehealdan
hēt hilde-geatwe.
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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The mind is like a bow, the
stronger
by being unbent.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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My home, cried she, 'tis
requisite
I leave:
To ruin me, your cousin, I perceive,
Is still resolved, for presents now he sends;
But he mistakes, and blindly wealth expends;
I'm clearly not the woman he suspects:
See here, what jewels rare to please the sex!
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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>>
Et les moins sots, hardis amants de la Demence,
Fuyant le grand troupeau parque par le Destin,
Et se
refugiant
dans l'opium immense!
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Ho for the women, their beauty and my
pleasure!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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They left the
peaceful
river,
The cricket-field, the quad,
The shaven lawns of Oxford,
To seek a bloody sod--
They gave their merry youth away
For country and for God.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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***END OF THE PROJECT
GUTENBERG
EBOOK SONGS OF INNOCENCE AND SONGS OF
EXPERIENCE***
******* This file should be named 1934-0.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Certitude
If I speak it's to hear you more clearly
If I hear you I'm sure to
understand
you
If you smile it's the better to enter me
If you smile I will see the world entire
If I embrace you it's to widen myself
If we live everything will turn to joy
If I leave you we'll remember each other
In leaving you we'll find each other again.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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_
Constable
& Co.
| Guess: |
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Imagists |
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Nay, and if it were,
What
likeness
could there be?
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Euripides - Electra |
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Mere trifles these; you need not heed 'em,
If he, on his part, not o'er-nice,
Winked at, in you, an
occasional
freedom.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Renowned
Titus, more than half my soul-
LUCIUS.
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Shakespeare |
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Laughing at their guile,
And crying, "Why tie the
fetters?
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Than I, no lonely hermit plac'd
Where never human
footstep
trac'd,
Less fit to play the part,
The lucky moment to improve,
And just to stop, and just to move,
With self-respecting art:
But ah!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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teque adeo eximie taedis
felicibus
aucte, 25
Thessaliae columen Peleu, cui Iuppiter ipse,
ipse suos diuum genitor concessit amores.
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Latin - Catullus |
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And twice
victorious
crossed Acheron:
Plucking from Orpheus' lyre one by one
The saintly sighs and the faerie cries.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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And as you left,
suspired
confused and jaded
In sighful accents the deserted glade.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of
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particular state visit www.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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To learn more about the Project
Gutenberg
Literary Archive Foundation
and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4
and the Foundation web page at http://www.
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Stephen Crane |
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Omnia qui magni
dispexit
lumina mundi,
Qui stellarum ortus comperit atque obitus,
Flammeus ut rapidi solis nitor obscuretur,
Vt cedant certis sidera temporibus,
Vt Triviam furtim sub Latmia saxa relegans 5
Dulcis amor gyro devocet aerio,
Idem me ille Conon caelesti in lumine vidit
E Beroniceo vertice caesariem
Fulgentem clare, quam cunctis illa deorum
Levia protendens brachia pollicitast, 10
Qua rex tempestate novo auctus hymenaeo
Vastatum finis iverat Assyrios,
Dulcia nocturnae portans vestigia rixae,
Quam de virgineis gesserat exuviis.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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