" And with that I givd the flipper a big squaze, and a big
squaze it was, by the powers, that her
leddyship
giv'd to me back.
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Herman thought she might be deaf, so he put his lips close to her
ear and
repeated
his remark.
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Yea, the lines hast thou laid unto me
in
pleasant
places, And the beauty of this thy Venice
hast thou shown unto me Until is its loveliness become unto me
a thing of tears.
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--But, as
Quintilian
saith, there is a briefness of the parts
sometimes that makes the whole long: "As I came to the stairs, I took a
pair of oars, they launched out, rowed apace, I landed at the court gate,
I paid my fare, went up to the presence, asked for my lord, I was
admitted.
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The genuine remedy lies in
knowledge
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We have
mistaken
Judith.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Hang out our Banners on the outward walls,
The Cry is still, they come: our Castles strength
Will laugh a Siedge to scorne: Heere let them lye,
Till Famine and the Ague eate them vp:
Were they not forc'd with those that should be ours,
We might haue met them darefull, beard to beard,
And beate them
backward
home.
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A simple
emendation
of _maie_ to _meynte_ would give very good sense.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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THIS is just the kind of morning;
Balmy breaths o'er brook and tree
Make thine ear more keen and tender
Unto vows I hid for thee;
Sweet
petitions
softly dawning.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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To them that have it shall be given; For him that hath
not—all
is well.
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What a fine natural
courtesy
was his!
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fies
nobilium
tu quoque fontium,
me dicente cauis inpositam ilicem
saxis, unde loquaces
lymphae desiliunt tuae.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Or why was the
substance
not made more sure
That formed the brave fronts of these palaces?
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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♦ In this respect he constantly reminds one of Butler, and
in proof of his literary catholicity, wo quote the
following
from tlie Uehearsal Trunsprosed.
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Marvell - Poems |
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The verdant turf, and flowers of every hue,
Clustering beneath yon aged holm-oak's gloom,
For the sweet pressure of her fair feet sue;
The orbs of fire that stud yon beauteous sky,
Cheer'd by her
presence
and her smiles, assume
Superior lustre and serenity.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Beyond the first green hills, beyond the nearest valleys,
Nelly dwells at home beneath her mother's eyes:
Her home is neat and homely, not a cot and not a palace,
Just the home where love sets up his
happiest
memories.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Elvire
One way or the other, you're satisfied,
You are avenged, or Rodrigue has not died;
And
whatever
destiny ordains for you
You've honour, glory and a husband too.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Ye'll
catechise
him, every quirk,
An' shore him weel wi' hell;
An' gar him follow to the kirk--
Aye when ye gang yoursel.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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I wish,
Eurynome!
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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The Cat
The Large Cat
'The Large Cat'
Cornelis
Visscher
(II), 1657, The Rijksmuseun
I wish there to be in my house:
A woman possessing reason,
A cat among books passing by,
Friends for every season
Lacking whom I'm barely alive.
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Appoloinaire |
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Thus would the men of former times, I say,
Treat the
degenerate
minions of to-day.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Wenn Ihr mir die
Erlaubnis
gebt,
Ihn meine Strasse sacht zu fuhren.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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I imagine that, when he wrote
his earlier poems he allowed the
subconscious
life to lay its hands so
firmly upon the rudder of his imagination, that he was little conscious
of the abstract meaning of the images that rose in what seemed the
idleness of his mind.
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Yeats |
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shrink you not from crime whose punishment
Falls on your innocent
children?
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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do not charge anything for copies of this eBook,
complying
with the
rules is very easy.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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' 2060
'Sire, if thee list to undirstande,
I
merveile
thee asking this demande.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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II
INDIAN SUMMER
LYRIC night of the
lingering
Indian Summer,
Shadowy fields that are scentless but full of singing,
Never a bird, but the passionless chant of insects,
Ceaseless, insistent.
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Sara Teasdale |
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And we
probably
never shall see her more.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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- You provide, in accordance with
paragraph
1.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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But he has to
express not simply the sense of human existence
occurring
in destiny;
that brings in destiny only mediately, through that which is destined.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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'
Egregium narras mira pietate parentem,
Qui ipse sui gnati
minxerit
in gremium.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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And would that I, of your own fellowship,
Or dresser of the ripening grape had been,
Or
guardian
of the flock!
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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And even the Abstract Entities
Circumambulate her charm;
But our lot crawls between dry ribs
To keep our
metaphysics
warm.
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T.S. Eliot |
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I'll stride out with only my thought in sight,
Seeing nothing beyond, without hearing a sound,
Alone and unknown, back bowed, folded hands,
Sad, since
daylight
to me will seem night.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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whether it was care that spurred him 225
God only knows, but to the very last
He had the lightest foot in Ennerdale:
His pace was never that of an old man:
I almost see him
tripping
down the path
With his two grandsons after him:--but you, 230
Unless our Landlord be your host to-night,
Have far to travel,--and on [26] these rough paths
Even in the longest day of midsummer--
_Leonard_.
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William Wordsworth |
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It is a light that kills
Shadows and ghosts
haunting
about the mind.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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He really was a man of
extraordinary
talent, an affectionate husband,
and a good father.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Either way, the Result is sad
enough: saddest perhaps when most
ostentatiously
merry: more apt to
move Sorrow than Anger toward the old Tentmaker, who, after vainly
endeavoring to unshackle his Steps from Destiny, and to catch some
authentic Glimpse of TO-MORROW, fell back upon TO-DAY (which has
outlasted so many To-morrows!
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Thirst, the necessary concomitant of a flesh diet' (perhaps of all
diet vitiated by culinary preparation), 'ensued; water was resorted to,
and man forfeited the inestimable gift of health which he had received
from heaven: he became diseased, the
partaker
of a precarious existence,
and no longer descended slowly to his grave.
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Shelley |
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We do not solicit donations in locations
where we have not received written
confirmation
of compliance.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Left undisturbed to snatch, and clog his brambled den,
With sleepers' bones and plumes of daunted doves,
And other spoil of beasts as timid as the men,
Who shrank when he mock-roared, from glens and groves--
He begged his fellows view the crannies crammed with pelf
Sordid and tawdry, stained and
tinselled
things,
As ample proof he was the Royal Tiger's self!
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Hugo - Poems |
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--
Not marking how the
knighthood
mock thee, fool--
"Fear God: honour the King--his one true knight--
Sole follower of the vows"--for here be they
Who knew thee swine enow before I came,
Smuttier than blasted grain: but when the King
Had made thee fool, thy vanity so shot up
It frighted all free fool from out thy heart;
Which left thee less than fool, and less than swine,
A naked aught--yet swine I hold thee still,
For I have flung thee pearls and find thee swine.
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Tennyson |
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I ended by feeling certain that he and
Pugatchef
were one and
the same man, and I then understood why he had shown me mercy.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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[in Anhui], poured a
libation
on his grave and
forbade the woodmen to cut down the trees which grew there.
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Li Po |
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Des lors il fut
semblable
aux betes de la rue,
Et, quand il s'en allait sans rien voir, a travers
Les champs, sans distinguer les etes des hivers,
Sale, inutile et laid comme une chose usee,
Il faisait des enfants la joie et la risee.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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And there at midnight sick with faring,
He will stoop down in his desire
To slake the thirst grown past all bearing
In
stagnant
water keen as fire.
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Sara Teasdale |
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And one time he was resting he
took notice of a wild briar bush, with
blossoms
on it, that was growing
beside a rath, and it brought to mind the wild roses he used to bring
to Mary Lavelle, and to no woman after her.
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Yeats |
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One day, as
Lisaveta
was standing on the pavement about to enter the
carriage after the Countess, she felt herself jostled and a note was
thrust into her hand.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Oh 1 why did he sing me that song,
I threw him the ring from my hand
Bitter and
treacherous
wrong
That sought me with fetters to brand.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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'
The goddess fled away on her golden shell,
Her adored image
returning
to us on the swell,
And the sky shone beneath the scarf of Iris.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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This is a kind of
energy that springs from
weariness
and reverie; and those in whom it
manifests so stubbornly are in general, as I have said, the most
indolent and dreamy beings.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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There is
poetry in her, because poetry comes unconsciously out of deep feeling, but
there is no
artistic
eloquence.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Fair now the brows old Pain had
erewhile
wrinkled,
And peace and strength about the calm mouth dwell.
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Sidney Lanier |
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A
DREADFULL
DRAGON, Fallen Pride.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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RORLUND: I do not
understand
what you mean by
great things.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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'Twas in no scorn, no
bitterness
to thee,
I hid my wife's death and my misery.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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As from mie towre I kende the commynge foe,
I spied the crossed shielde, & bloddie swerde,
The furyous AElla's banner;
wythynne
kenne
The armie ys.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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The air is full of
whistlings
bland;
What was that I heard
Out of the hazy land?
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Emerson - Poems |
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Fair cities, gallant mansions, castles old,
And forests, where beside his leafy hold
The sullen boar hath heard the distant horn,
And whets his tusks against the gnarled thorn;
Palladian palace with its storied halls;
Fountains, where Love lies listening to their falls;
Gardens, where flings the bridge its airy span,
And Nature makes her happy home with man;
Where many a
gorgeous
flower is duly fed
With its own rill, on its own spangled bed,
And wreathes the marble urn, or leans its head,
A mimic mourner, that with veil withdrawn
Weeps liquid gems, the presents of the dawn;--
Thine all delights, and every muse is thine;
And more than all, the embrace and intertwine
Of all with all in gay and twinkling dance!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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As the carriage traversed the wood he bade the driver draw up in the
neighbourhood of a
shooting
gallery, saying that he would like to have a
few shots to kill time.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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erpe_;
_Porcelletto
marino_;
Oyles of _Lenti?
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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So might we talk of the old
familiar
faces,
How some they have died, and some they have left me,
And some are taken from me; all are departed;
All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.
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Golden Treasury |
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5 The Cave of the Moon was
supposed
to be in the far west.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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An ear to my
confession
lend;
To thy decree my will I bend.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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TO DIANEME
Dear, though to part it be a hell,
Yet, Dianeme, now
farewell!
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Robert Herrick |
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Lone in the light of that magical grove,
I felt the stars of the spirits of Love
Gather and gleam round my
delicate
youth,
And I heard the song of the spirits of Truth;
To quench my longing I bent me low
By the streams of the spirits of Peace that flow
In that magical wood in the land of sleep.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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A censorship
created in the
eighteenth
century by Walpole, because somebody had
written against election bribery, has been distorted by a puritanism,
which is not the less an English invention for being a pretended hatred
of vice and a real hatred of intellect.
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Yeats |
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Why should you be so cruel to your self,
And to those dainty limms which nature lent 680
For gentle usage, and soft
delicacy?
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Milton |
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that love-prompted strain,
('Twixt thee and thine a never-failing bond)
Thrills not the less the bosom of the plain:
Yet might'st thou seem, proud
privilege!
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William Wordsworth |
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Nought that he saw his sadness could abate:
Yet once he struggled 'gainst the demon's sway,
And as in Beauty's bower he pensive sate,
Poured forth this
unpremeditated
lay,
To charms as fair as those that soothed his happier day.
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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I breathe forth
Poison and breath of
frenzied
ire.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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From the root
Of toil and pain and brave endurance
Has sprung at last the perfect fruit,
The treasure of a rich assurance
That men who nobly work and live
A greater gift than life may give;
Yielding
a promise for all time,
Which other men of newer date
Surely redeem in deeds sublime.
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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And the
foremost
said: "Behold me!
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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He answered her he knew not what:
Like shaft from bow at random shot,
He spoke, but she
regarded
not.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
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Why didst render not
Back unto us, the
children
of the dead,
Our father's portion?
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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If I should ever lose thee--
Horrible
thought!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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For some it may radiate from the
Shropshire
life he so finely
etches; for others, in the vivid artistic simplicity and unity of
values, through which Shropshire lads and landscapes are presented.
| Guess: |
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Metaphorically, _to draw a
straight
furrow_ is to
live uprightly or decorously.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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'Twould wake sad
thoughts
in me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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Oh, Power that rulest and
inspirest!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
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Our king and his lord
chamberlain
have lost their reason.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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I am
inclined
to keep to
the reading of the MS.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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The angel host withdraws
With empty boasts
throughout
its sullen files.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Or
cormorants
plunging one by one, cutting
The flood, pearls flying from their wings?
| Guess: |
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19th Century French Poetry |
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And there, as
darkness
gathers 5
In the rose-scented garden,
The god who prospers music
Shall give me skill to play.
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Sappho |
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To whom are our misfortunes grief
And who is not a
tiresome
thief?
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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The future is
sometimes
expressed by willan + inf.
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Beowulf |
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that you were with me by the
fireside
of my
study here, that I might talk it over with you to the tune of this night-
wind that pipes its thin, doleful, climbing, sinking notes, like a child
that has lost its way, and is crying aloud, half in grief, and half in the
hope to be heard by its mother.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Thus he urges and eggs him all the time
with keenest words, till
occasion
offers
that Freawaru's thane, for his father's deed,
after bite of brand in his blood must slumber,
losing his life; but that liegeman flies
living away, for the land he kens.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Note: It may
interest
some to know that Georges d'Anthes was tried
by court-martial for his participation in the duel in which Pushkin
fell, found guilty, and reduced to the ranks; but, not being a
Russian subject, he was conducted by a gendarme across the frontier
and then set at liberty.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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O think how this dry palate would
rejoice!
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Keats |
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If you
received the work on a
physical
medium, you must return the medium with
your written explanation.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Some
Egyptian
royal love-lilt, 5
Some Sidonian refrain,
Vows of Paphos or of Tyre,
Mount against the silver sun.
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Sappho |
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Poetry in
Translation
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Francois Villon
Poems
Francois
Villon
'Francois Villon'
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern (p329, 1902)
LACMA Collections
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Translated by A.
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Villon |
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The muse must have been strong
within him, when, in spite of the rains and sleets of the
"ever-dropping west"--when in defiance of the hot and sweaty brows
occasioned by reaping and thrashing--declining markets, and showery
harvests--the clamour of his laird for his rent, and the tradesman for
his account, he
persevered
in song, and sought solace in verse, when
all other solace was denied him.
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Robert Forst |
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In gret mischeef and sorwe sonken
Ben hertis, that of love arn dronken,
As thou peraventure knowen shal, 5115
Whan thou hast lost [thy] tyme al,
And spent [thy youthe] in ydilnesse,
In waste, and woful lustinesse;
If thou maist live the tyme to see
Of love for to
delivered
be, 5120
Thy tyme thou shall biwepe sore
The whiche never thou maist restore.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Note: The ballade was written for Robert to present to his wife Ambroise de Lore, as though
composed
by him.
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Villon |
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"
THE SCHOOLBOY
I love to rise on a summer morn,
When birds are singing on every tree;
The distant huntsman winds his horn,
And the skylark sings with me:
Oh what sweet
company!
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blake-poems |
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