"O thou of primal love the prime
delight!
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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"
He
straight
replied: "That spirit, from whose cheek
The beard sweeps o'er his shoulders brown, what time
Graecia was emptied of her males, that scarce
The cradles were supplied, the seer was he
In Aulis, who with Calchas gave the sign
When first to cut the cable.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Victor and
vanquished
are a-one in death:
Coward and brave: friend, foe.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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There is a
movement
there,
A blind one--nothing yet.
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Elle endort les plus cruels maux
Et
contient
toutes les extases;
Pour dire les plus longues phrases,
Elle n'a pas besoin de mots.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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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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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Note: Ronsard plays on the
identification
of Helen with Helen of Troy, born of Leda, and Jupiter disguised as a swan.
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Ronsard |
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Round eastward
slanteth
the mast;
As the sleep-walker waked with pain,
White-clothed in the midnight blast,
Doth stare and quake, and stride again
To houseward all aghast.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Praised by Dante in the De vulgari eloquentia, he is, in the Purgatorio of The Divine Comedy, made the type of patriotic pride, bemoaning the state of Italy, as partially
substantiated
by the planh below.
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Troubador Verse |
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THE counsel was by ev'ry one approved,
And
commendation
through the circle moved.
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La Fontaine |
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When you have reached the borders of your quest,
Homesick at last, by many a devious way,
Winding the
wonderlands
circuitous,
By foot and horse will trace the long way back!
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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And thrustles, terins, and mavys, 665
That songen for to winne hem prys,
And eek to
sormounte
in hir song
These other briddes hem among.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Erhabner
Geist, du gabst mir, gabst mir alles,
Warum ich bat.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Enter_ TONY, _booted and spurred,
meeting_
HASTINGS.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Despite being
fragments
the pieces communicate some part of the loss suffered, and the thoughts engendered, by the child's death, and therefore any child's death, any such tragedy.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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the thick black cloud is cleft,
And the Moon is at its side:
Like waters shot from some high crag,
The
lightning
falls with never a jag
A river steep and wide.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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But I a private person, whom my Countrey
As a league-breaker gave up bound, presum'd
Single
Rebellion
and did Hostile Acts.
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Milton |
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formed to eat, and be despised, and die,
Even as the beasts that perish, save that thou
Hadst a more
splendid
trough, and wider sty:
HE!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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how many infants on the breast
By Heaven's
indulgence
sink to endless rest!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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_("Nous
emmenions
en esclavage.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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The coming age is
shadowed
on the Past _805
As on a glass.
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Shelley |
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I, weary, slept profound, and they my goods
Forth heaving from the bark, beside me placed
The
treasures
on the sea-beach where I slept,
Then, reimbarking, to the populous coast
Steer'd of Sidonia, and me left forlorn.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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If they'd take
elsewhere
the honours they send me!
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Racine - Phaedra |
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XXIV
If that blind fury that engenders wars,
Fails to rouse the creatures of a kind,
Whether swift bird aloft or
fleeting
hind,
Whether equipped with scales or sharpened claws,
What ardent Fury in her pincers' jaws
Gripped your hearts, so poisoned the mind,
That intent on mutual cruelty, we find,
Into your own entrails your own blade bores?
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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E come suono al collo de la cetra
prende sua forma, e si com' al pertugio
de la sampogna vento che penetra,
cosi, rimosso d'aspettare indugio,
quel
mormorar
de l'aguglia salissi
su per lo collo, come fosse bugio.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Convene the tribes the
murderous
plot reveal,
And to their power to save his race appeal.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Her looks are like the vernal May,
When evening Phoebus shines serene,
While birds rejoice on every spray--
An' she has twa
sparkling
roguish een.
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Robert Forst |
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Highbury
bore me.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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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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Dhorme _Choix de Textes
Religieux_
198, 33.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Seek honest gains, without
pretence!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Presumptuous
maid!
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Golden Treasury |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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CHORUS
Nay, the law is sternly set--
Blood-drops shed upon the ground
Plead for other
bloodshed
yet;
Loud the call of death doth sound,
Calling guilt of olden time,
A Fury, crowning crime with crime.
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Aeschylus |
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Then
suddenly
the tune went false,
The dancers wearied of the waltz,
The shadows ceased to wheel and whirl.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Half-past one,
The street lamp sputtered,
The street lamp muttered,
The street lamp said,
"Regard that woman
Who
hesitates
toward you in the light of the door
Which opens on her like a grin.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Under the sod and the dew,
Waiting the
judgment
day;
Love and tears for the Blue;
Tears and love for the Gray.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Canens laments that Picus could not 'scape
The dire enchantress; he in Italy
Was once a king, now a pied bird; for she
Who made him such, changed not his clothes nor name,
His
princely
habit still appears the same.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Thus gentle Lamia judg'd, and judg'd aright,
That Lycius could not love in half a fright,
So threw the goddess off, and won his heart
More
pleasantly
by playing woman's part,
With no more awe than what her beauty gave,
That, while it smote, still guaranteed to save.
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Keats - Lamia |
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The deuce take friends, my friends, amends
I've had to make for having
friends!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Ennius speaks of verses which the
Fauns and the Bards were wont to chant in the old time, when none
had yet studied the graces of speech, when none had yet climbed
the peaks sacred to the
Goddesses
of Grecian song.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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O'BRIEN
Boston
(To be
published
by Henry Holt fit Co.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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though
youthful
ardour fire thy breast,
The gods have loved thee, and with arts have bless'd;
Neptune and Jove on thee conferr'd the skill
Swift round the goal to turn the flying wheel.
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Iliad - Pope |
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70
Nor did we fail to see within ourselves
What need there is to be reserved in speech,
And temper all our
thoughts
with charity.
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William Wordsworth |
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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A holy,
heavenly
chime
Rings fulness in of time,
And on His Mother's breast
Our Lord God ever-Blest
Is laid a Babe at rest.
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Christina Rossetti |
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And as no fire, nor rust can spend or waste 35
One dramme of gold, but what was first shall last,
Though it bee forc'd in water, earth, salt, aire,
Expans'd in infinite, none will impaire;
So, to your selfe you may
additions
take,
But nothing can you lesse, or changed make.
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John Donne |
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He has drawn all the ideas of his stanzas from the early morning
phenomena
of
those critical weeks when the loud plantation-horn is blown before daylight,
in order to rouse all hands for a long day's fight against the common enemy
of cotton-planting mankind.
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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Timely wise accept the terms,
Soften the fall with wary foot;
A little while
Still plan and smile,
And,--fault of novel germs,--
Mature the
unfallen
fruit.
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Emerson - Poems |
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What then at last avail to me those sighs,
Which from my sorrows flow,
And in my
semblance
show
The life of anguish and despair I lead?
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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OSWALD When next
inclined
to sleep, take my advice,
And put your head, good Woman, under cover.
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William Wordsworth |
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LINES TO ELLEN
Tell me, maiden, dost thou use
Thyself thro' Nature to
diffuse?
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Emerson - Poems |
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Son looks
surprised
to see me end a lie
We'd kept up all these years between ourselves
So as to have it ready for outsiders.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Ah me, one summer in the cool of day,
I saw the Nereids on the sandy bay,
With lovely Thetis from the wave, advance
In
mirthful
frolic, and the naked dance.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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1916
The Jig of Forslin The Four Seas Company 1916
Nocturne of Remembered Spring The Four Seas Company 1917
The Charnel Rose The Four Seas Company 1918
The House of Dust The Four Seas Company 1920
Punch: the
Immortal
Liar Alfred A.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Then comes the positive declaration,
"rather they are warriors
marching
whose armor gleams in the moonlight.
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Beowulf |
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When the group of people arose at last
And laughed and talked in a merry tone,
As lingeringly through the rooms they passed
I saw that she
followed
alone.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Up, lad: thews that lie and cumber
Sunlit pallets never thrive;
Morns abed and
daylight
slumber
Were not meant for man alive.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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There were few memorials connected with
Wordsworth
more worthy of
preservation than this "upright mural block of stone.
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William Wordsworth |
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Tenderly will I use you curling grass,
It may be you transpire from the breasts of young men,
It may be if I had known them I would have loved them,
It may be you are from old people, or from
offspring
taken soon out
of their mothers' laps,
And here you are the mothers' laps.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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the Heaven
And Enion
desolate
where art though Tharmas O return
Three days she waild & three dark nights sitting among the Rocks
While the bright spectre hid himself among the ?
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Blake - Zoas |
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All waits for the right voices;
Where is the
practised
and perfect organ?
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Whitman |
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His war
writings
include _Battle_, etc.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Digitized by VjOOQIC
106 THE POEMS
Well might thou scorn thy readers to allure
With
tinkling
rhyme, of thy own sense secure.
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Marvell - Poems |
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The fact is, the public make use of the classics of a
country as a means of checking the
progress
of Art.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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I believe you can do
anything
you turn yourself to do.
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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Quant j'oi ung poi avant ale,
Si vi ung vergier grant et le, 130
Tot clos d'ung haut mur bataillie,
Portrait
defors et entaillie
A maintes riches escritures.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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The wood, the tiger, at thy call
Have follow'd: thou canst rivers stay:
The monstrous guard of Pluto's hall
To thee gave way,
Grim Cerberus, round whose Gorgon head
A hundred snakes are hissing death,
Whose triple jaws black venom shed,
And
sickening
breath.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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, 1861]
_This war-song was written to the tune of "John Brown's Body,"--a
tune to which many thousands of
Volunteers
were marching to the
front.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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It should not alter the content in any
meaningful
sense.
| Guess: |
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Sidney Lanier |
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where is he
Whose gentle head ye sheltered, that pure soul
Whose gracious days of uncrowned majesty
Through
lowliest
conduct touched the lofty goal
Where love and duty mingle!
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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And similarly, if we cannot accept the current estimate of Li Po,
we have at least the satisfaction of knowing that some of China's
most
celebrated
writers are on our side.
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Li Po |
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I'll feed thee, O beloved, on milk and wild red honey,
I'll bear thee in a basket of rushes, green and white,
To a palace-bower where golden-vested maidens
Thread with mellow
laughter
the petals of delight.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Hear then, my friends: If Jove this arm succeed,
And give yon impious revellers to bleed,
My care shall be to bless your future lives
With large possessions and with faithful wives;
Fast by my palace shall your domes ascend,
And each on young
Telemachus
attend,
And each be call'd his brother and my friend.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Forever and forever shalt thou be
To some the
gravestone
of a dead delight,
To some the landmark of a new domain.
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Longfellow |
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He had a habit of getting his mind possessed with some strange opinion,
or what seemed so to his parishioners, and of
preaching
it while the
notion lasted in the most startling way.
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Yeats |
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Yong fry of
Treachery?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Thou needst never die;
Thou canst find alway
somewhere
some fond wife
To die for thee.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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The sonnets of Les
Antiquites
provide a fascinating comment on the Classical Roman world as seen from the viewpoint of the French Renaissance.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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That
throughout the whole visible world, an universal order and
gradation
in
the sensual and mental faculties is observed, which cause is a
subordination of creature to creature, and of all creatures to Man.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Give way, ye lofty billows, low subside,
Smooth as the level plain, your
swelling
pride,
Lo, Venus comes!
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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His
wretched
body was
dominated by a high and eager mind, and he combined in an unparalleled
degree the fiery energy of the born poet with the tireless patience of
the trained artist.
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In the modern stress of competition and struggle for place, such
sympathy is naturally rare, and is also very much stifled by the immoral
ideal of
uniformity
of type and conformity to rule which is so prevalent
everywhere, and is perhaps most obnoxious in England.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Over the pallid margin of dim seas breaking,
Over the thickening in the
darkness
that is land,
They fly.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Back the iron hoofs did grind on the
battlement
behind
Whence a hundred feet went down:
LXXXIX.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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And if at whiles, for the lost balm of sleep,
I
medicine
my soul with melody
Of trill or song--anon to tears I turn,
Wailing the woe that broods upon this home,
Not now by honour guided as of old.
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Aeschylus |
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effort to identify, do copyright
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Thus will this latter, as the former World,
Still tend from bad to worse, till God at last
Wearied with their iniquities, withdraw
His presence from among them, and avert
His holy Eyes; resolving from thenceforth
To leave them to thir own polluted wayes; 110
And one
peculiar
Nation to select
From all the rest, of whom to be invok'd,
A Nation from one faithful man to spring:
Him on this side Euphrates yet residing,
Bred up in Idol-worship; O that men
(Canst thou believe?
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Milton |
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Orpheus
invented
all the sciences, all the arts.
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Appoloinaire |
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circumsistite
eam, et reflagitate, 10
'moecha putida, redde codicillos,
redde, putida moecha, codicillos.
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Latin - Catullus |
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My crime once known, if you keep the flame,
What will envy and falsehood not
proclaim!
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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He even
thought of resigning his
commission
and going to Paris to force a
fortune from conquered fate.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Rowlandson's
capture, and of other events in the Indian wars, but from this July
afternoon, and under that mild exterior, those times seemed as remote
as the
irruption
of the Goths.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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