all the day, among the Caves of Tharmas
Twisting in fearful forms & hoisting howling harsh shrieking
Howling harsh shrieking, mingling their bodies pain in burning anguish
Mingling his horrible brightness with her tender limbs; then high she soar'd *
ShriekingAbove the ocean; a bright wonder that Beulah shudder'd atNature *
Half Woman & half Spectre, all his lovely changing colours mix *
With her fair crystal clearness; in her lips & cheeks his poisons rose *
In blushes like the morning, and his scaly armour softening *
A monster lovely in the heavens or wandering on the earth, *
With Spectre voice incessant waiting, in incessant thirst>
Beauty all blushing with desire mocking her fell despair>
Wandering desolate, a wonder abhorr'd by Gods & Men
PAGE 8 Till with fierce pain she brought forth on the rocks her sorrow & woe
Behold two [little Infants
wept]upon
the desolate wind.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Note: Dante Gabriel
Rossetti
took Archipiades to be Hipparchia (see Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Philosophers, Book VI 96-98) who loved Crates the Theban Cynic philosopher (368/5-288/5BC) and of whom various tales are told suggesting her beauty, and independence of mind.
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Villon |
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The
artisans
gathered about him.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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And then he drank a dew
From a
convenient
grass,
And then hopped sidewise to the wall
To let a beetle pass.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Les
Silhouettes
135
II.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Well may'st thou pause, and gloom, and stare,
A visible conscience: I arraign
Thee, criminal Cloud, of rare
Contempts on Mercy, Right, and Prayer, --
Of murders, arsons, thefts, -- of
nameless
stain.
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Sidney Lanier |
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O marriage-bells, your clamor tells
Two
weddings
in one breath.
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Sidney Lanier |
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A best
disgrace
a brave man feels,
Acknowledged of the brave, --
One more "Ye Blessed" to be told;
But this involves the grave.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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" With such fiery
question
burned his glance,
That to quiet him in haste I answered,
"All that you have said is doubtless so;
"But, pray, calm yourself, my dear, good fellow, Let it be, and let it go at that.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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com in Word format,
Mobipocket
Reader
format, eReader format and Acrobat Reader format.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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>>
Et puis, Quelqu'un parait, que tous avaient nie,
Et qui leur dit,
railleur
et fier: << Dans mon ciboire,
Vous avez, que je crois, assez communie,
A la joyeuse Messe noire?
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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the only sound,
The dripping of the oar
suspended!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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"
[Illustration]
There was an Old Man of Whitehaven,
Who danced a quadrille with a Raven;
But they said, "It's absurd to
encourage
this bird!
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Lear - Nonsense |
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He is the warrior's bird of battle, exults in
slaughter
and carnage;
his joy here is a compliment to the sunrise.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Mallarme
left a series of fragments for a four-part poetic memorial, a 'tomb'.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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[Sidenote: If a _moment_ be
compared
with 10,000 years, there is a
proportion between them, though a very small one.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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How have mine eyes out of their spheres been fitted,
In the
distraction
of this madding fever!
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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But
it would not be impossible, by pointing out certain
qualities
of each,
to enable a reader to distinguish between the two styles.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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_ 811, 812:--
fessae date serta carinae:
Contigimus
portum, quo mihi cursus erat.
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Robert Herrick |
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but others move
In
intricate
ways biquadrate.
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Blake - Zoas |
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"Does spring hide its joy,
When buds and
blossoms
grow?
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blake-poems |
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Please do not assume that a book's
appearance
in Google Book Search means it can be used in any manner anywhere in the world.
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Meredith - Poems |
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)
Here is no let or
hindrance
to thy weapon-
Strike home.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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This
affected
phrase was
altered to the present reading in 1845.
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Tennyson |
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II
Its boughs, which none but darers trod,
A child may step on from the sod,
And twigs that
earliest
met the dawn
Are lit the last upon the lawn.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Still,
there can be no material
objection
to two.
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Poe - 5 |
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Drank, and sang songs, and revelled, my head hot
With wine and
flowers!
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Shall I say
What made my heart beat with
exulting
love
A few weeks back?
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Elizabeth Browning |
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In
uniuersum
uere mihi uidetur de _R_ iudicasse qui eum anno 1896 primus
in lucem protulit, Americanus, Gulielmus Gardner Hale.
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Latin - Catullus |
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He gaz'd into her eyes, and not a jot
Own'd they the lovelorn piteous appeal:
More, more he gaz'd: his human senses reel:
Some hungry spell that
loveliness
absorbs;
There was no recognition in those orbs.
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Keats |
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They have
many faults, but are seen at their worst when
Chatterton
is trying
to exhibit some eternal truth.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Elles
assoient
l'enfant devant une croisee
Grande ouverte ou l'air bleu baigne un fouillis de fleurs,
Et dans ses lourds cheveux ou tombe la rosee
Promenent leurs doigts fins, terribles et charmeurs.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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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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Another from the
bitterness
of clay
Falls calm as storms drop on an autumn day,
With noiseless speed as swift as summer light
Death slays and keeps her weapons out of sight.
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John Clare |
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'Let the great world bustle on
With war and trade, with camp and town;
A
thousand
men shall dig and eat;
At forge and furnace thousands sweat;
And thousands sail the purple sea,
And give or take the stroke of war,
Or crowd the market and bazaar;
Oft shall war end, and peace return,
And cities rise where cities burn,
Ere one man my hill shall climb,
Who can turn the golden rhyme.
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Emerson - Poems |
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O Love, I err, and I mine error own,
As one who burns, whose fire within him lies
And aggravates his grief, while reason dies,
With its own
martyrdom
almost o'erthrown.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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It can ne be I should behight the rest, 355
That by the myghtie arme of Alfwolde felle,
Paste bie a penne to be counte or expreste,
How manie Alfwolde sent to heaven or helle;
As leaves from trees shook by derne Autumns hand,
So laie the
Normannes
slain by Alfwold on the strand.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Thus, we do not necessarily
keep eBooks in compliance with any
particular
paper edition.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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For I have revell'd, when the sun was bright
In the summer sky; in dreamy fields of light,
And left
unheedingly
my very heart
In climes of mine imagining--apart
From mine own home, with beings that have been
Of mine own thought--what more could I have seen?
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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The early
tinkling
of the bells
Which of approaching labour tells
Aroused Tattiana from her bed.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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To
captivate
her how devoted!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Thou
For whose path the Atlantic's level powers
Cleave
themselves
into chasms, while far below
The sea-blooms and the oozy woods which wear
The sapless foliage of the ocean, know _40
Thy voice, and suddenly grow gray with fear,
And tremble and despoil themselves: oh, hear!
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Shelley |
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Whilst, forming plans of death, Ulysses stay'd,
In counsel secret with the martial maid,
Attendant nymphs in
beauteous
order wait
The queen, descending from her bower of state.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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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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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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She'd no
recourse
to that nobility,
Who by their exploits won themselves glory.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Vowel Equivalents in
Different
Versions:
Orig.
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Beowulf |
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VIII
But ere he could his armour on him dight,
Or get his shield, his
monstrous
enimy 65
With sturdie steps came stalking in his sight,
An hideous Geant,?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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And so it chanced, for envious pride,
That no peer or
superior
could abide,
Made Pompey Caesar's fated enemy.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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You scorn me, Alexis, who or what I am
Care not to ask- how rich in flocks, or how
In snow-white milk abounding: yet for me
Roam on Sicilian hills a
thousand
lambs;
Summer or winter, still my milk-pails brim.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Art thou greater than great Babylon,
Which lies
overthrown?
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Christina Rossetti |
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Si come l'occhio nostro non s'aderse
in alto, fisso a le cose terrene,
cosi
giustizia
qui a terra il merse.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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"
A light frost lay white on the
shoulder
of Dick's ulster.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Far over hill and valley
Their mighty host was spread;
And with their
thousand
watch-fires
The midnight sky was red.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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7 and any additional
terms imposed by the
copyright
holder.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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what eyes hath love put in my head
Which have no correspondence with true sight:
Or if they have, where is my judgment fled
That
censures
falsely what they see aright?
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Golden Treasury |
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And round this hayrick
stood a crowd of men--a
positive
crowd!
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Kipling - Poems |
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I rushed everywhere,
encouraging
our men,
Making these advance, supporting them.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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O but you've had such
practice
in being caught,
You'll break away quite easily when you want.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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No sleep that night the old man cheereth,
No prayer throughout next day he pray'd
Still, still, against his wish, appeareth
Before him that
mysterious
maid.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Such
prohibitions
binde not.
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Milton |
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In what
condition, mental and physical, is the Knight when
liberated?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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As thou didst, men do to thee; and heap the measure,
And heat the furnace
sevenfold
hot:
As thou once, now these to thee--who pitieth thee
From sea to sea?
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Christina Rossetti |
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Or even at times, when days are dark,
GAROTTE?
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Thy beauty
brightens
with the evening sun
Across the long-lit meads and distant spire:
So sleep thou well--like his thy labour done;
Rest in thy glory as he rests in fire.
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Quick, boy, the
chaplets
and the nard,
And wine, that knew the Marsian war,
If roving Spartacus have spared
A single jar.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Nearly all the
individual
works in the
collection are in the public domain in the United States.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Aricia,
princess
of the royal blood of Athens.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Know the stars yonder,
The stars everlasting,
Are
fugitive
also,
And emulate, vaulted,
The lambent heat lightning
And fire-fly's flight.
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Emerson - Poems |
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God burnt this sad, sterile champaign;
Naught living was left of this people destroyed,
And the unknown wind which blew over the void,
Each
mountain
changed into a plain.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Thus, we do not necessarily
keep eBooks in compliance with any
particular
paper edition.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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He
departed
for Paris at the end of August 1557.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Or suppose, besides,
We feign some thing, one of its kind and sole
With body born, to which is nothing like
In all the lands: yet now unless shall be
An
infinite
count of matter out of which
Thus to conceive and bring it forth to life,
It cannot be created and--what's more--
It cannot take its food and get increase.
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Lucretius |
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You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary,
compressed, marked up,
nonproprietary
or proprietary form, including any
word processing or hypertext form.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Great grief it was, when that
Archbishop
fell.
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Chanson de Roland |
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If an
individual
Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived
from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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His olde wo, that made his herte swelte,
Gan tho for Ioye wasten and to-melte,
And al the
richesse
of his sykes sore
At ones fledde, he felte of hem no more.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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_
_In the space between each toe,
Kingdoms
rise and saviours go;
Epochs fall and causes die
In the lifting of his eye.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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O'er the face of the hills, o'er the face of the seas,
O'er
streamlets
of silver, and forests that ring
With a dirge for the dead, chanted low by the breeze;
The face of the waters, the brow of the mounts
Deep scarred but not shrivelled, and woods tufted green,
Their youth shall renew; and the rocks to the founts
Shall yield what these yielded to ocean their queen.
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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'
And when I hear him at this daring task,
'Peace, little bird,' I say, 'and take some rest;
Stop that wild,
screaming
fire of angry song,
Before it makes a coffin of your nest.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Let us exchange shields, and
accoutre
ourselves in Grecian
suits; whether craft or courage, who will ask of an enemy?
| Guess: |
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Didst thou at first, to flatter us withal,
Make us
partakers
of a little gain
That now our loss might be ten times so much?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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Orpheus
The Death of Orpheus
'The Death of Orpheus'
Nicolaes de Bruyn, 1594, The Rijksmuseun
The female of the Halcyon,
Love, the
seductive
Sirens,
All know the fatal songs
Dangerous and inhuman.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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Lastly, he is very young, and is swept away by his
sister's
intenser
nature.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
|
]
[Footnote 64: The banks of Garpal Water is one of the few places in the
West of Scotland, where those fancy-scaring beings, known by the name
of Ghaists, still continue
pertinaciously
to inhabit.
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
Today, without presuming anything about what will emerge from this in future, nothing, or almost a new art, let us readily accept that the
tentative
participates, with the unforeseen, in the pursuit, specific and dear to our time, of free verse and the prose poem.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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There rode the
Volscian
succors:
There, in the dark stern ring,
The Roman exiles gathered close
Around the ancient king.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
|
Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth
in
paragraph
1.
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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HWith your aid indiffeis
laughter
was submarine and profound
Like the old man of the sea's
Hidden under coral islands
Where worried bodies of drowned men drift down in the green silence,
Dropping from fingers of surf.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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Now times are changed, and one poetic itch
Has seized the court and city, poor and rich:
Sons, sires, and grandsires, all will wear the bays,
Our wives read Milton, and our
daughters
plays,
To theatres, and to rehearsals throng,
And all our grace at table is a song.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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The last of the crew needs
especial
remark,
Though he looked an incredible dunce:
He had just one idea--but, that one being "Snark,"
The good Bellman engaged him at once.
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Lewis Carroll |
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Still it cry'd, Sleepe no more to all the House:
Glamis hath murther'd Sleepe, and
therefore
Cawdor
Shall sleepe no more: Macbeth shall sleepe no more
Lady.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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They sought it with thimbles, they sought it with care;
They pursued it with forks and hope;
They
threatened
its life with a railway-share;
They charmed it with smiles and soap.
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Lewis Carroll |
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Mountains
mourn & Rivers faint & fail
There is no City nor Corn-field nor Orchard!
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Blake - Zoas |
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How much awaits him
of lief and of loath, who long time here,
through days of warfare this world
endures!
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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And yet this voice itself,
In passing through shut
chambers
of a house,
Is dulled, and in a jumble enters ears,
And sound we seem to hear far more than words.
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Lucretius |
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We wish it to be clearly understood that we do not
represent
an exclusive
artistic sect; we publish our work together because of mutual artistic
sympathy, and we propose to bring out our coöperative volume each year for
a short term of years, until we have made a place for ourselves and our
principles such as we desire.
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Imagists |
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could I thus my Laura's
presence
share,
How would my patient heart its sorrows bear!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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To
Aufidius
thus
I will appear, and fight.
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Shakespeare |
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These nymphs, I would
perpetuate
them.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Cheetah
I
remember
a slice of lemon, and a bitten macaroon.
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T.S. Eliot |
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