OSWALD Action is transitory--a step, a blow,
The motion of a muscle--this way or that--
'Tis done, and in the after-vacancy
We wonder at
ourselves
like men betrayed:
Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark,
And shares the nature of infinity.
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[Ill health, poverty, a sense of dependence, with the much he had
deserved of his country, and the little he had obtained, were all at
this time
pressing
on the mind of Burns, and inducing him to forget
what was due to himself as well as to the courtesies of life.
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Robert Forst |
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Matzner
suggests
brayn-wod.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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They may be modified and printed and given
away--you may do practically
ANYTHING
in the United States with eBooks
not protected by U.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Has Sanche's blade such art
It works on your
indomitable
heart?
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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What are the roots that clutch, what
branches
grow
Out of this stony rubbish?
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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The
immutable
calm of this white burning,
O my fearful kisses, makes you say, sadly,
'Will we ever be one mummified winding,
Under the ancient sands and palms so happy?
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Mallarme - Poems |
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The earth is wedded to the shower;
Darkness
and awe gird round the bridal hour!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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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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Cool upon his brow
The quiet
darkness
brooded, as he scanned
The starry sky.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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attached
to a vehicle driven by
J.
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James Russell Lowell |
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In 2001, the Project
Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation was created to provide a secure
and
permanent
future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations.
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Imagists |
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80
Guest--wilt thou trouble us
throughout
the night
Ranging the house?
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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By what mean hast thou render'd thee so drunken,
To the clay that thou bowest down thy figure,
And the grass and the windel-straws art
grasping?
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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So may the lustre of your days
Outshine
the deeds Firdusi sung,
Your name within a nation's prayer,
Your music on a nation's tongue.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Free of his
youthful
errors now, returning,
No unworthy obstacle would there delay him:
Ending his fatal inconstancy by her prayers, 25
Phaedra no longer has any such rival to fear.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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qu'il fait doux danser quand pour vous se declare
Un mirage ou tout chante et que les vents d'horreur
Feignent d'etre le rire de la lune hilare
Et d'effrayer les fantomes avants-coureurs
J'ai fait des gestes blancs parmi les solitudes
Des lemures couraient peupler les cauchemars
Mes tournoiements exprimaient les beatitudes
Qui toutes ne sont rien qu'un pur effet de l'Art
Je n'ai jamais cueilli que la fleur d'aubepine
Aux printemps finissants qui voulaient defleurir
Quand les oiseaux de proie proclamaient leurs rapines
D'agneaux mort-nes et d'enfants-dieux qui vont mourir
Et j'ai vieilli vois-tu pendant ta vie je danse
Mais j'eusse ete tot lasse et l'aubepine en fleurs
Cet avril aurait eu la pauvre confidence
D'un corps de vieille morte en mimant la douleur
Et leurs mains s'elevaient comme un vol de colombes
Clarte sur qui la nuit fondit comme un vautour
Puis Merlin s'en alla vers l'est disant Qu'il monte
Le fils de ma Memoire egale de l'Amour
Qu'il monte de la fange ou soit une ombre d'homme
Il sera bien mon fils mon ouvrage immortel
Le front nimbe de feu sur le chemin de Rome
Il marchera tout seul en regardant le ciel
La dame qui m'attend se nomme Viviane
Et vienne le printemps des nouvelles douleurs
Couche parmi la marjolaine et les pas-d'ane
Je m'eterniserai sous l'aubepine en fleurs
SALTIMBANQUES
A Louis Dumur
Dans la plaine les baladins
S'eloignent au long des jardins
Devant l'huis des auberges grises
Par les villages sans eglises
Et les enfants s'en vont devant
Les autres suivent en revant
Chaque arbre fruitier se resigne
Quand de tres loin ils lui font signe
Ils ont des poids ronds ou carres
Des tambours des cerceaux dores
L'ours et le singe animaux sages
Quetent des sous sur leur passage
LE LARRON
CHOEUR
Maraudeur etranger malheureux malhabile
Voleur voleur que ne demandais-tu ces fruits
Mais puisque tu as faim que tu es en exil
Il pleure il est barbare et bon pardonnez-lui
LARRON
Je confesse le vol des fruits doux des fruits murs
Mais ce n'est pas l'exil que je viens simuler
Et sachez que j'attends de moyennes tortures
Injustes si je rends tout ce que j'ai vole
VIEILLARD
Issu de l'ecume des mers comme Aphrodite
Sois docile puisque tu es beau Naufrage
Vois les sages te font des gestes socratiques
Vous parlerez d'amour quand il aura mange
CHOEUR
Maraudeur etranger malhabile et malade
Ton pere fut un sphinx et ta mere une nuit
Qui charma de lueurs Zacinthe et les Cyclades
As-tu feint d'avoir faim quand tu volas les fruits
LARRON
Possesseurs de fruits murs que dirai-je aux insultes
Ouir ta voix ligure en nenie o maman
Puisqu'ils n'eurent enfin la pubere et l'adulte
De pretexte sinon de s'aimer nuitamment
Il y avait des fruits tout ronds comme des ames
Et des amandes de pomme de pin jonchaient
Votre jardin marin ou j'ai laisse mes rames
Et mon couteau punique au pied de ce pecher
Les citrons couleur d'huile et a saveur d'eau froide
Pendaient parmi les fleurs des citronniers tordus
Les oiseaux de leur bec ont blesse vos grenades
Et presque toutes les figues etaient fendues
L'ACTEUR
Il entra dans la salle aux fresques qui figurent
L'inceste solaire et nocturne dans les nues
Assieds-toi la pour mieux ouir les voix ligures
Au son des cinyres des Lydiennes nues
Or les hommes ayant des masques de theatre
Et les femmes ayant des colliers ou pendaient
La pierre prise au foie d'un vieux coq de Tanagre
Parlaient entre eux le langage de la Chaldee
Les autans langoureux dehors feignaient l'automne
Les convives c'etaient tant de couples d'amants
Qui dirent tour a tour Voleur je te pardonne
Recois d'abord le sel puis le pain de froment
Le brouet qui froidit sera fade a tes levres
Mais l'outre en peau de bouc maintient frais le vin blanc
Par ironie veux-tu qu'on serve un plat de feves
Ou des beignets de fleurs trempes dans du miel blond
Une femme lui dit Tu n'invoques personne
Crois-tu donc au hasard qui coule au sablier
Voleur connais-tu mieux les lois malgre les hommes
Veux-tu le talisman heureux de mon collier
Larron des fruits tourne vers moi tes yeux lyriques
Emplissez de noix la besace du heros
Il est plus noble que le paon pythagorique
Le dauphin la vipere male ou le taureau
Qui donc es-tu toi qui nous vins grace au vent scythe
Il en est tant venu par la route ou la mer
Conquerants egares qui s'eloignaient trop vite
Colonnes de clins d'yeux qui
fuyaient
aux eclairs
CHOEUR
Un homme begue ayant au front deux jets de flammes
Passa menant un peuple infime pour l'orgueil
De manger chaque jour les cailles et la manne
Et d'avoir vu la mer ouverte comme un oeil
Les puiseurs d'eau barbus coiffes de bandelettes
Noires et blanches contre les maux et les sorts
Revenaient de l'Euphrate et les yeux des chouettes
Attiraient quelquefois les chercheurs de tresors
Cet insecte jaseur o poete barbare
Regagnait chastement a l'heure d'y mourir
La foret precieuse aux oiseaux gemmipares
Aux crapauds que l'azur et les sources murirent
Un triomphe passait gemir sous l'arc-en-ciel
Avec de blemes laures debout dans les chars
Les statues suant les scurriles les agnelles
Et l'angoisse rauque des paonnes et des jars
Les veuves precedaient en egrenant des grappes
Les eveques noir reverant sans le savoir
Au triangle isocele ouvert au mors des chapes
Pallas et chantaient l'hymne a la belle mais noire
Les chevaucheurs nous jeterent dans l'avenir
Les alcancies pleines de cendre ou bien de fleurs
Nous aurons des baisers florentins sans le dire
Mais au jardin ce soir tu vins sage et voleur
Ceux de ta secte adorent-ils un signe obscene
Belphegor le soleil le silence ou le chien
Cette furtive ardeur des serpents qui s'entr'aiment
L'ACTEUR
Et le larron des fruits cria Je suis chretien
CHOEUR
Ah!
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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And only inwardly inclines,
As we are wont if there draws nigh
A
stranger
on his final round.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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And an astonishing
complexity
disengages
itself from this complexity of tender or brilliant
lines and colours.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Wythe syke an eyne shee swotelie[137] hymm dydd view,
Dydd foe ycorvenn[138] everrie shape to joie, 170
Hys spryte dydd chaunge untoe anodherr hue,
Hys armes, ne spoyles, mote anie
thoughts
emploie.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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A public domain book is one that was never subject to
copyright
or whose legal copyright term has expired.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Hence, further, every creature--any one
From out them all--compounded is the same
Of bones, blood, veins, heat, moisture, flesh, and thews--
All
differing
vastly in their forms, and built
Of elements dissimilar in shape.
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Lucretius |
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Aye, closer; clasp my body well,
And let thy sorrow loose, and shed,
As o'er the grave of one new dead,
Dead evermore, thy last
farewell!
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Euripides - Electra |
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Replied the Tsar, our country's hope and glory:
Of a truth, thou little lad, and peasant's
bantling!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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ou In my sones man,
ffor
seuentene
?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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The stars which gleamed in the empyrean dome,
Under the
thousand
arches in heaven's space
Shone as through meshes of the blackest lace.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Du musst
sterben!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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In a smart, ache, tingle,
Lizzie went her way;
Knew not was it night or day;
Sprang up the bank, tore through the furze,
Threaded
copse and dingle,
And heard her penny jingle
Bouncing in her purse,--
Its bounce was music to her ear.
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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SHAW
I
Beneath the trees,
My
lifelong
friends in this dear spot,
Sad now for eyes that see them not,
I hear the autumnal breeze
Wake the dry leaves to sigh for gladness gone,
Whispering vague omens of oblivion,
Hear, restless as the seas,
Time's grim feet rustling through the withered grace
Of many a spreading realm and strong-stemmed race,
Even as my own through these.
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James Russell Lowell |
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I find flame in the dust, a word once uttered that will stir again,
And a wine-cup
reflecting
Sirius in the water held in my hands.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Sprung from Pirithous of
immortal
race,
The fruit of fair Hippodame's embrace,
(That day, when hurl'd from Pelion's cloudy head,
To distant dens the shaggy Centaurs fled)
With Polypoetes join'd in equal sway
Leonteus leads, and forty ships obey.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Nor sit out late at night,
Lest horrid
Cummerbunds
should come,
And swollow you outright.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Have not I seen the fallen
Balclutha?
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Contents
Translator's Introduction
Mallarme's Preface of 1897
The French Text
The French Text - Compressed, and Punctuated
The English Translation
The English Translation - Compressed, and Punctuated
Translator's Introduction
The French text
displayed
here is as close as I could achieve to that printed in the edition of July 1914, which produced a definitive version superseding the original publication of 1897.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Somebody
may come by.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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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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I would not be a worm to crawl
A
writhing
suppliant in thy way;
For love is life, is heaven, and all
The beams of an immortal day.
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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Fame est plus cointe et plus mignote
En
sorquanie
que en cote:
La sorquanie qui fu blanche,
Senefioit que douce et franche
Estoit cele qui la vestoit.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Il prete des serments, dicte des lois sublimes,
Terrasse
les mechants, releve les victimes,
Et sous le firmament comme un dais suspendu
S'enivre des splendeurs de sa propre vertu.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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None felt stern Nature rocking at his feet,
And yawning forth a grave for those who lay
Upon their bucklers for a winding-sheet;
Such is the
absorbing
hate when warring nations meet.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Doth he hear me send out in my sorrow the pitiful,
manifold
cry,
The sobbing lament and appeal?
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Aeschylus |
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On montrera mon cenotaphe
Aux cotes
brulantes
de Mozambique.
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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Nay, to their
husbands
and sons whilst engaged in
battle, they administer meat and encouragement.
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Tacitus |
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But that Empire, so grand, so
glorious
a prize, 575
Is not the dearest gift of all, to my eyes.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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(_b_) linque metum leti; nam stultum est tempore in omni,
dum mortem metuas,
amittere
gaudia uitae.
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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An
elderly waiter with
trembling
hands was hurriedly
spreading a pink and white checked cloth over the rusty
green iron table, saying: "If the lady and gentleman
wish to take their tea in the garden, if the lady and
gentleman wish to take their tea in the garden.
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T.S. Eliot |
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saepe pater diuum templo in fulgente reuisens,
annua cum festis uenissent sacra diebus,
conspexit terra centum
procumbere
tauros.
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Latin - Catullus |
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He retired to a house in the Bank-vennel of
Dumfries, and
commenced
a town-life: he commenced it with an empty
pocket, for Ellisland had swallowed up all the profits of his poems:
he had now neither a barn to produce meal nor barley, a barn-yard to
yield a fat hen, a field to which he could go at Martinmas for a mart,
nor a dairy to supply milk and cheese and butter to the table--he had,
in short, all to buy and little to buy with.
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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Amongst
other
valuable
matter, this letter 49 contains a long account of her
brother by Mary Chatterton.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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our 55
The
_Cutpur?
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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I
had as lief they would put
ratsbane
in my mouth as offer to stop
it with security.
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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What inn is this
Where for the night
Peculiar
traveller
comes?
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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XXII
When this brave city, honouring the Latin name,
Bounded on the Danube, in Africa,
Among the tribes along the Thames' shore,
And where the rising sun ascends in flame,
Her own nurslings stirred, in mutinous game
Against her very self, the spoils of war,
So dearly won from all the world before,
That same world's spoil
suddenly
became:
So when the Great Year its course has run,
And twenty six thousand years are done,
The elements freed from Nature's accord,
Those seeds that are the source of everything,
Will return in Time to their first discord,
Chaos' eternal womb their presence hiding.
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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I was that
Northern
tree and, in the South,
Amalia.
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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' quoth Love:
"`For lakes of pain, yon
pleasant
plain
Of woods and grass and yellow grain
Doth ravish the soul and sense:
And never a sigh beneath the sky,
And folk that smile and gaze above --'
`But saw'st thou here, with thine own eye,
Hell?
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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By some historians it is said that this prelate died
of the plague; but Petrarch thought that he sank under grief brought on
by the
disasters
of his family.
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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But never mind, dear
mother, some day you will come to see Enid and then she will wear the
golden, flowered
birthday
dress which you gave her three years ago.
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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Nick, Nick, iron
nightcap!
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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VIII
With arms and vassals Rome the world subdued,
So that one might judge this single city
Had found her
grandeur
held in check solely
By earth and ocean's depth and latitude.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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e guode man
grantede
his bone,
ffor al his blod gan menge sone
Ope his owene fode.
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Haste--delay not--far within
This hallow'd cave's recess place we at once
Thy precious stores, that they may thine remain,
Then muse
together
on thy wisest course.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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And in this state she 'gallops night by night
Through lovers' brains, and then they dream of love;
O'er courtiers' knees, that dream on cursies straight;
O'er lawyers' fingers, who straight dream on fees;
O'er ladies' lips, who straight on kisses dream,
Which oft the angry Mab with
blisters
plagues,
Because their breaths with sweetmeats tainted are.
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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Art thou, indeed, to
ravening
wolf a prize,
Without thy faithful Roland's succour found?
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Prince, why wilt thou smite
The
smitten?
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Updated
editions
will replace the previous one--the old editions
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Imagists |
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Honestly
He looked me in the eyes; he questioned me
Closely, and I repeated to his face
The foolish tale himself had
whispered
to me.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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And far away across the
lengthening
wold,
Across the willowy flats and thickets brown,
Magdalen's tall tower tipped with tremulous gold
Marks the long High Street of the little town,
And warns me to return; I must not wait,
Hark!
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Wilde - Poems |
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Thel answerd, O thou little virgin of the
peaceful
valley.
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blake-poems |
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For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project
Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of
volunteer
support.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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you are growing old, and still
You
struggle
to look fair;
You drink, and dance, and trill
Your songs to youthful Love, in accents weak
With wine, and age, and passion.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Now Dick lies long in the churchyard,
And Ned lies long in jail,
And I come home to Ludlow
Amidst the
moonlight
pale.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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>>
Immediatement
sa raison s'en alla.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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The whole was edited in
its present form from the
Boscombe
manuscript by Mr.
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Shelley |
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According to the
chronicles
which Livy
and Dionysius followed, Horatius had two companions, swam safe to
shore, and was loaded with honors and rewards.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Not mine such themes, Agrippa; no, nor mine
To chant the wrath that fill'd Pelides' breast,
Nor dark Ulysses'
wanderings
o'er the brine,
Nor Pelops' house unblest.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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And on the wall, by the seat,
Break the
entangled
ivy,
Scatter buds for a carpet,
Let all be balmy and sweet.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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With not even one blow
landing?
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Villon |
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Now lady, ful of mercy, I you preye,
Sith he his mercy mesured so large,
Be ye not skant; for alle we singe and seye 175
That ye ben from
vengeaunce
ay our targe.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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If at the first great
outbreak
I rejoiced
Less than might well befit my youth, the cause 245
In part lay here, that unto me the events
Seemed nothing out of nature's certain course,
A gift that was come rather late than soon.
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William Wordsworth |
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SILENCE
THERE are some qualities--some
incorporate
things,
That have a double life, which thus is made
A type of that twin entity which springs
From matter and light, evinced in solid and shade.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Auto-da-fe and judgment
Are nothing to the bee;
His
separation
from his rose
To him seems misery.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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In later
editions
he altered it to
'leaflets'.
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Keats |
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The aim of all
Is how to shine: e'en they, whose office is
To preach the Gospel, let the gospel sleep,
And pass their own
inventions
off instead.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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With
doubling
Voices & loud Horns wound round wounding
Cavernous dwellers fill'd the enormous Revelry, Responsing!
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Blake - Zoas |
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It exists
because of the efforts of hundreds of
volunteers
and donations from
people in all walks of life.
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Keats - Lamia |
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She wol not maken peple nycely
Gaure on hir, whan she comth; but softely
By nighte in-to the toun she
thenketh
ryde.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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When a guest arrives
She gives up all to be with him; while I
Must be the drudge, make ready the guest-chamber,
Prepare the food, set
everything
in order,
And see that naught is wanting in the house.
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Longfellow |
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Canto XXXIV
<
prodeunt
inferni
verso di noi; pero dinanzi mira>>,
disse 'l maestro mio, <>.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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A washed-out smallpox cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone With all the old
nocturnal
smells
That cross and cross across her brain.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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His account of the matter is this: "The first discovery of certain MSS
having been deposited in Redclift church, above three centuries ago,
was made in the year 1768, at the time of opening the new bridge at
Bristol, and was owing to a publication in _Farley's Weekly Journal_,
1 October 1768,
containing
an _Account of the ceremonies observed at
the opening of the old bridge_, taken, as it was said, from a very
antient MS.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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So much I fear to
encounter
her bright eye.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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For I wol never
dispeired
be.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Little {38a} kept back
of the tidings new, but told them all,
the herald that up the
headland
rode.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Nevertheless
they spoke only of mirth, and, though joyless themselves,
made many a joke to cheer the good Sir Gawayne (ll.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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For me no mother bore within her womb,
And, save for wedlock evermore eschewed,
I vouch myself the
champion
of the man,
Not of the woman, yea, with all my soul,--
In heart, as birth, a father's child alone.
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Aeschylus |
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Le Testament: Epitaph et Rondeau
Epitaph
Here there lies, and sleeps in the grave,
One whom Love killed with his scorn,
A poor little scholar in every way,
He was named
Francois
Villon.
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Villon |
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But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To know that for
destruction
ice
Is also great,
And would suffice.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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How vain the word to
Menelaus
given
By Jove's great daughter and the queen of heaven,
Beneath his arms that Priam's towers should fall,
If warring gods for ever guard the wall!
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Iliad - Pope |
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