Greek sang and Tcherkass for his pleasure,
And
Kergeesian
captive is dancing;
In the eyes of the first heaven's azure,
And in those black of Eblis is glancing.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Meredith - Poems |
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Leonor
What can you work, if a father's merit
Rouses no discord between their
spirits?
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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The
presence
of thy guest shall best reward
(If long thy stay) the absence of my lord.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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The pale
sunshine
of winter flickered
on his path.
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Yeats |
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Yet, do not do so: for what then would I be
Other than an empty phantom after death,
Bodiless on that shore where love is surely less
(Pardon me Dis) than our idlest
fantasy?
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Ronsard |
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The slave was
afterwards
killed.
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Tacitus |
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I went to thank her,
But she slept;
Her bed a
funnelled
stone,
With nosegays at the head and foot,
That travellers had thrown,
Who went to thank her;
But she slept.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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But if 'twere possible,
Much rather might this very power of mind
Be in the head, the
shoulders
or the heels,
And, born in any part soever, yet
In the same man, in the same vessel abide.
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Lucretius |
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why wilt thou
affright
a feeble soul?
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Keats |
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)
To all our joy a sweet-fac'd child was born,
More tender than the
childhood
of the morn.
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Robert Herrick |
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Doubt is fled, and clouds of reason,
Dark
disputes
and artful teazing.
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blake-poems |
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Me, too, Orion's mate, the Southern blast,
Whelm'd in deep death beneath the
Illyrian
wave.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Leaves of day and moss of dew,
Reeds of breeze, smiles perfumed,
Wings covering the world of light,
Boats charged with sky and sea,
Hunters of sound and sources of colour
Perfume
enclosed
by a covey of dawns
that beds forever on the straw of stars,
As the day depends on innocence
The whole world depends on your pure eyes
And all my blood flows under their sight.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Yet there is something round thy lips
That
prophesies
the coming doom,
The soft, gray herald-shadow ere the eclipse
Notches the perfect disk with gloom;
A something that would banish thee,
And thine untamed pursuer be,
From men and their unworthy fates,
Though Florence had not shut her gates,
And Grief had loosed her clutch and let thee free.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Beating the
cliffs and circling the rocks, they thunder in a
thousand
valleys.
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Li Po |
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But you are
nothing!
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Se mo
sonasser
tutte quelle lingue
che Polimnia con le suore fero
del latte lor dolcissimo piu pingue,
per aiutarmi, al millesmo del vero
non si verria, cantando il santo riso
e quanto il santo aspetto facea mero;
e cosi, figurando il paradiso,
convien saltar lo sacrato poema,
come chi trova suo cammin riciso.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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It may only be
used on or associated in any way with an
electronic
work by people who
agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement.
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Byron |
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15, spurium rati
sunt Statius
Scaliger
L.
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Latin - Catullus |
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"An evil day," cry Franks, "ye saw
Rollant!
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Chanson de Roland |
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Then look out for the little brook in March,
When the rivers overflow,
And the snows come
hurrying
from the hills,
And the bridges often go.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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90
The Normans kept aloofe, at
distaunce
stylle,
The Englysh nete but short horse-spears could welde;
The Englysh manie dethe-sure dartes did kille,
And manie arrowes twang'd upon the sheelde.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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These
circumstances
I've minutely told,
To show, our tale was known in days of old.
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La Fontaine |
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What have I to fear in life or death
Who have known three things: the kiss in the night,
The white flying joy when a song is born,
And meadowlarks
whistling
in silver light.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Like
some poor labourer, whose night's sleep has but
imperfectly
refreshed his
overwearied frame, I have sate in drowsy uneasiness, and doing nothing have
thought what a deal I have to do.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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XLII
Tho when he saw no power might prevaile, 370
His trustie sword he cald to his last aid,
Wherewith he fiercely did his foe assaile,
And double blowes about him stoutly laid,
That glauncing fire out of the yron plaid;
As sparckles from the Andvile use to fly, 375
When heavy hammers on the wedge are swaid;
Therewith at last he forst him to unty
One of his
grasping
feete, him to defend thereby.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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n[62]
Bow to the throne like
courtiers
of earthly kings?
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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This
bridge was rotten as well as small and slippery, being stripped of
bark, and I was obliged to seize a moment to pass when the falling
water did not surge over it, and midway, though at the expense of wet
feet, I looked down
probably
more than a hundred feet, into the mist
and foam below.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Phlaccus, at Professor Channing-Cheetah's
He laughed like an
irresponsible
foetus.
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T.S. Eliot |
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For if naught else we can extort a blush on thy
brazened
bitch's
face.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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veil your
deathless
tree, --
Him you chasten, that is he!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Do the corpulent
sleepers
sleep?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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GD} Los now repented that he had smitten Enitharmon he felt love
Arise in all his Veins he threw his arms around her loins To heal the wound of his smiting
They eat the fleshly bread, they drank the nervous [bloody] wine *
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Blake - Zoas |
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Redistribution is subject to the
trademark license,
especially
commercial redistribution.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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is rather like Flaxman, lines strait and severe,
And a
colorless
outline, but full, round, and clear;--
To the men he thinks worthy he frankly accords
The design of a white marble statue in words.
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James Russell Lowell |
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ah, ne'er again
Shall they return unto our eyes,
Car-borne, 'neath silken
canopies!
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Aeschylus |
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535), in
which 'Sodden Mead' appears among the items of diet
supplied
by the
Emperor to the English Ambassador.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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, are also
mentioned
by
Harsnet (pp.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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heu, uirginalem me ore
ploratum
edere,
quem uidit nemo ulli ingemescentem malo!
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Ah, but I fear thee, Queen: this
dreadful
mood
Will break the pleasantness of friendship thou
Hast kept for me, as a ship in a gale is broken.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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" There was
something
very like an oath
from Bessie's lips.
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Kipling - Poems |
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*
Alluding
to the barbarity acted on Sir John Ck>ventry.
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Marvell - Poems |
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HAVING ONCE
SURRENDERED
HIMSELF, HE IS COMPELLED EVER TO ENDURE THE
PANGS OF LOVE.
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Petrarch |
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>>
LE VIN DES CHIFFONNIERS
Souvent, a la clarte rouge d'un reverbere
Dont le vent bat la flamme et
tourmente
le verre.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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I drink your lips,
I eat the
whiteness
of your hands and feet.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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The whole, a laboured quarry above ground;
Two Cupids squirt before; a lake behind
Improves the
keenness
of the northern wind.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Ne serait-ce donc que pour des pretres, des inspires, des metaphysiciens
que serait reservee la
conviction
de l'existence d'un Dieu, que l'on dit
neanmoins si necessaire a tout le genre humain?
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Shelley |
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Oneguine's
speeches
I abhorred
At first, but soon became inured
To the sarcastic observation,
To witticisms and taunts half-vicious
And gloomy epigrams malicious.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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"My purpose went not to develop
Such insight in Earthland;
Such potent
appraisements
affront me,
And sadden my reign!
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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He
discovers
she's tame, playful and tender and sweet.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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org
CASSELL'S
NATIONAL
LIBRARY.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Note:
Cassandra
of Troy refused Phoebus Apollo's love.
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Ronsard |
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One of us, pierced in the flank,
dragged himself across the marsh,
he tore at the bay-roots,
lost hold on the
crumbling
bank--
Another crawled--too late--
for shelter under the cliffs.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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speak again,
"Thy soft
response
renewing--
"What makes that ship drive on so fast?
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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I have seen
A pine in Italy that cast its shadow
Athwart a cataract; firm stood the pine--
The
cataract
shook the shadow.
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Tennyson |
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" The first syllable was
always more than she could manage, and she made funny little gestures
with her rose-leaf hands, as one
throwing
the name away, and then,
kneeling before Trejago, asked him, exactly as an Englishwoman would do,
if he were sure he loved her.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Their breath
Swept the foeman like a blade,
Though ten thousand men were paid
To the hungry purse of Death,
Though the field was wet with blood,
Still the bold
defences
stood,
Stood!
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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And we
sometimes
walked together in the pleasant summer weather;
--"Please to tell us what his name was?
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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The names of the
deserving
shall be carved on the Cloud Terrace.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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It is consoling to
discover
that on some Germans (Lilienkron, for
example) Schiller makes precisely the same impression as he does on
us.
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Li Po |
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7 and any additional
terms imposed by the
copyright
holder.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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In the contemplation
of Beauty we alone find it possible to attain that pleasurable
elevation, or excitement _of the soul, _which we
recognize
as the Poetic
Sentiment, and which is so easily distinguished from Truth, which is the
satisfaction of the Reason, or from Passion, which is the excitement of
the heart.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Then farther, fainter, till she is lost, Forging to
westward
through the night;
Westward her deep-voiced tones are tossed,
And the ghostly glare of her great searchlight.
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Check thy
climbing
step, elate,
Evils lurk in felon wait:
Dangers, eagle-pinion'd, bold,
Soar around each cliffy hold,
While cheerful peace, with linnet song,
Chants the lowly dells among.
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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The fourth (to the
Earl of Burlington) was first published in 1731, its title then being "Of
Taste;" the third (to Lord Bathurst) followed in 1732, the year of the
publication of the first two
Epistles
on the "Essay on Man.
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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org/dirs/2/4/2/2428
Updated editions will replace the
previous
one--the old editions
will be renamed.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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' The glittering
feathers
had now
covered me completely, and I knew that I had struggled for hundreds of
years, and was conquered at last.
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Yeats |
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"It has been said that a good
critique
on a poem may be written by
one who is no poet himself.
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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Will there really be a
morning?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Madden reads slaked horlote3, instead of slaked hor lote3,
which, according to his glossary,
signifies
drunken vagabonds.
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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154
And he has me nowe for-sakyng,
To Iesu cryst I wyll me takyne;
Page 40
156
Sorowe and morenyng may I well make,
As the turtell dothe
withowten
his make.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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I give thee back thy false,
ephemeral
vow;
But, O beloved comrade, ere we part,
Upon my mournful eyelids and my brow
Kiss me who hold thine image in my heart.
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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"
THE KISS
BEFORE YOU kissed me only winds of heaven
Had kissed me, and the
tenderness
of rain--
Now you have come, how can I care for kisses
Like theirs again?
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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XII
NOT in any wise would the earls'-defence {12a}
suffer that slaughterous
stranger
to live,
useless deeming his days and years
to men on earth.
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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"Begin, my flute, with me
Maenalian
lays.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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And when the settlers wake they stare
On woods half-buried, white and green,
A
smothered
world, an empty air:
Never had such deep drifts been seen!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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The truth is, as Sir Henry Taylor--himself a poet and critic of
no mean order--remarked [17],
"In these days, when a great man's path to
posterity
is likely to be
more and more crowded, there is a tendency to create an obstruction,
in the desire to give an impulse.
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
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women's] lips and cheeks,
Lillies their
whiteness
stain.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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The ethie
ringletts
of her notte-browne hayre
What ne a manne should see dyd swotelie hyde, 50
Whych on her milk-white bodykin so fayre
Dyd showe lyke browne streemes fowlyng the white tyde,
Or veynes of brown hue yn a marble cuarr,
Whyche by the traveller ys kenn'd from farr.
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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He thanks you not, his pride is in piquet,
Newmarket-fame, and
judgment
at a bet.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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From all the sons of earth unrivall'd praise
I justly claim; but yield to better days,
To those famed days when great Alcides rose,
And Eurytus, who bade the gods be foes
(Vain Eurytus, whose art became his crime,
Swept from the earth, he perish'd in his prime:
Sudden the
irremeable
way he trod,
Who boldly durst defy the bowyer god).
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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no tongue
Their beauty might declare:
A spring of love gusht from my heart,
And I bless'd them
unaware!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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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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But they are few, and all romance has flown,
And men can
prophesy
about the sun,
And lecture on his arrows--how, alone,
Through a waste void the soulless atoms run,
How from each tree its weeping nymph has fled,
And that no more 'mid English reeds a Naiad shows her head.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Firmly builded with rafters of oak, the house of the farmer
Stood on the side of a hill
commanding
the sea; and a shady
Sycamore grew by the door, with a woodbine wreathing around it.
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
Project Gutenberg volunteers and
employees
expend considerable
effort to identify, do copyright research on, transcribe and proofread
public domain works in creating the Project Gutenberg-tm
collection.
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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DE
PROFUNDIS
CLAMAVI
J'implore ta pitie.
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Wenn ich ihn spure,
Er soll mir nicht
lebendig
gehn!
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at were
enbrauded
abof, wyth bryddes & fly3es,
With gay gaudi of grene, ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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{a}t is
acordynge
2764
{and} propre to hym // ryht as thinges ?
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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--my
thoughts
do twine and bud
XXX I see thine image through my tears to-night
XXXI Thou comest!
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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O
grievous
the tale is,
And grievous their fall,
To the house, to the land,
And to me above all!
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Aeschylus |
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no beauty to be had but
in wresting and
writhing
our own tongue!
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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_Ma Boheme_, la plus gentille sans doute de ces gentilles choses:
_Comme des lyres je tirai les elastiques
De mes
souliers
blesses, un pied pres de mon coeur_.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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The serpent too shall die,
Die shall the
treacherous
poison-plant, and far
And wide Assyrian spices spring.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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"
"Once when I was out in the Soudan I went over some ground that we had
been
fighting
on for three days.
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Kipling - Poems |
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