BURGER:
Nein, er gefallt mir nicht, der neue
Burgemeister!
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The flaws in
his style are mainly due to
carelessness
in the rimes and some
questionable coining of words.
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"Who can have patience with a man
That's got no more
discretion
than
An idiotic goose?
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Lewis Carroll |
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In so
profound
abysm I throw all care
Of others' voices, that my adder's sense
To critic and to flatterer stopped are.
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exporting
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permission and without paying
copyright
royalties.
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In these affairs
We wish thee also well aware of this:
The atoms, as their own weight bears them down
Plumb through the void, at scarce
determined
times,
In scarce determined places, from their course
Decline a little--call it, so to speak,
Mere changed trend.
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Lucretius |
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Shatter the sky with
trumpets
above my grave.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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I my selfe haue all the other,
And the very Ports they blow,
All the
Quarters
that they know,
I'th' Ship-mans Card.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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The people in the
cottages
around come running
out in wild alarm.
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" Whatever interpretation the Rabbins and the Fathers may have put
upon this, I take the words as I find them, and reply, with Bishop
Watson[89] upon similar occasions, when the Fathers were quoted to him
as
Moderator
in the schools of Cambridge, "Behold the Book!
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Byron |
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Or heard him say- as knaves be such abroad,
Who having, by their own importunate suit,
Or voluntary dotage of some mistress,
Convinced or
supplied
them, cannot choose
But they must blab-
OTHELLO.
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Shakespeare |
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--But for thee, the band
Of Spirits dread, down, down, in very wrath,
Shall sink beside that Hill, making their path
Through a dim chasm, the which shall aye be trod
By
reverent
feet, where men may speak with God.
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Euripides - Electra |
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"
The
stranger
vanished .
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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"
"I am like thee, O, Night, patient and passionate; for in my breast
a
thousand
dead lovers are buried in shrouds of withered kisses.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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The
reference numbers in text and glossary, which are often wrong in 1778,
have been corrected; line-numbers have been
corrected
when wrong, and
added to one or two poems which are without them in 1778, and the text
has been collated throughout with that of 1777 and corrected from it
in many places where the 1778 printer was at fault.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Where the night-wind, like a lover, leans above
His jasmine-gardens and sirisha-bowers;
And on ripe boughs of many-coloured fruits
Bright parrots cluster like
vermilion
flowers.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Just then, as through one
cloudless
chink in a black stormy
sky
Shines out the dewy morning-star, a fair young girl came by.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth
in
paragraph
1.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Yit can it make a ful gret wounde, 965
But he may hope his sores sounde,
That hurt is with that arowe, y-wis;
His wo the bet
bistowed
is.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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46:
Purest lips, soft banks of blisses,
Self alone
deserving
kisses.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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`Nay' (so, dear Heart, thou
whisperest
in my soul),
`'Tis a half time, yet Time will make it whole.
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Sidney Lanier |
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65
The
thundering
tube the aged angler hears,
And swells the groaning torrent with his tears.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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XXI
She whom both Pyrrhus and Libyan Mars
Found no way to tame, this proud city,
That with a courage forged in adversity,
Sustained the shock of endless wars,
Though her ship, plagued at the source
By great waves, felt the world's enmity,
None ever saw the reefs of adversity
Wreak havoc on her
fortunate
course:
But, the object of her virtue failing,
Her power opposed its own flailing,
Like the voyager whom a cruel gale
Has long since separated from the shore,
Driven now by the storm's wild roar,
And shipwrecked there, when all efforts fail.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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in the Classic of Documents, praises the
achievements
of Yu.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Why not avoid the
scandal?
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When on that boy the kevil fell
To stay the
fearsome
noise,
"Gae in," they cried, "whate'er betide,
Thou prince of button-boys!
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Lewis Carroll |
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Triumphal arches, domes at heaven's doors,
That an
astonished
heaven sees full plain,
Alas, by degrees, turned to dust again.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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What has just been written will probably do for
the Heroic Age which produced Homer, and for that which produced the
_Nibelungenlied, Beowulf_, and the
Northern
Sagas.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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hoc misso in Syriam
requierant
omnibus aures:
audibant eadem haec leniter et leuiter,
nec sibi postilla metuebant talia uerba,
cum subito affertur nuntius horribilis, 10
Ionios fluctus, postquam illuc Arrius isset,
iam non Ionios esse, sed Hionios.
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Latin - Catullus |
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org/dirs/1/1/4/1141
Updated editions will replace the
previous
one--the old editions will
be renamed.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Have mercy on me, thou Herenus quene,
That you have sought so
tenderly
and yore;
Let som streem of your light on me be sene
That love and drede you, ay lenger the more.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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But who was to believe that
Teucrians
should
come to Hesperian shores?
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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[_He throws himself into a
leathern
chair by the bed_.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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In my jealous wings
I
evermore
will hold thee when though goest out or comest in
Tis thou hast darkend all My World O Woman lovely bare
Thus they contended?
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Blake - Zoas |
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--An hour-glass on the run,
A mist
retreating
from the morning sun,
A busy, bustling, still repeated dream;
Its length?
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John Clare |
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"
IV
Many an honest, virtuous burgher
Lives on earth in evil odour,
Whilst your princely people reek of
Lavender
and ambergris.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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So
perfectly
is the supernatural element welded
with the human, that it almost ceases to appear supernatural.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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"
Still he stood and eyed me hard,
An earnest and a grave regard:
"What, lad,
drooping
with your lot?
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Hence, when Audoin, after overcoming the Gepidae, was requested by the
Lombards
to dine with his son Alboin, his partner in the victory, he refused; for, says he, "you know it is not customary with us for a king's son to dine with his father, until he has received arms from the king of another country.
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Tacitus |
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Lord Byron's/ Tales:/
Consisting
of/ The Giaour, The Bride of Abydos,/
The Corsair, Lara;/ With all the Notes:/ Hebrew Melodies,/ and other
Poems.
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Byron |
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PANTHEA:
But see where through two openings in the forest
Which hanging branches overcanopy, _195
And where two runnels of a rivulet,
Between the close moss violet-inwoven,
Have made their path of melody, like sisters
Who part with sighs that they may meet in smiles,
Turning their dear disunion to an isle _200
Of lovely grief, a wood of sweet sad thoughts;
Two visions of strange radiance float upon
The ocean-like enchantment of strong sound,
Which flows intenser, keener, deeper yet
Under the ground and through the
windless
air.
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Shelley |
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As the little tiny swallow or the chaffinch,
Round their warm and cosey nest are seen to hover,
So hovers there the mother dear who bore him;
And aye she weeps, as flows a river's water;
His sister weeps as flows a streamlet's water;
His
youthful
wife, as falls the dew from heaven--
The Sun, arising, dries the dew of heaven.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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On wings of flame they went and came
With a
cadenced
clang,
Their silver wings tinkled,
Their golden wings rang,
The wind it whistled through their wings
Where in Heaven they sang.
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Christina Rossetti |
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The
supernatural
motion is retarded; the Mariner awakes, and his penance
begins anew.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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And woe to
Godunov!
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Max Ernst
In one corner agile incest
Turns round the
virginity
of a little dress
In one corner sky released
leaves balls of white on the spines of storm.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Imagists |
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3, a full refund of any
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Rilke - Poems |
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)
[516] An image of the penis,
drooping
in this case, instead of standing,
carried as a phallic emblem in the Dionysiac processions.
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Aristophanes |
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AUTUMN SONG
Like a joy on the heart of a sorrow,
The sunset hangs on a cloud;
A golden storm of glittering sheaves,
Of fair and frail and
fluttering
leaves,
The wild wind blows in a cloud.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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"
But
O O O O that
Shakespeherian
Rag--
It's so elegant
So intelligent 130
"What shall I do now?
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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"
II
Full Moon
(_Santa Barbara_)
I listened, there was not a sound to hear
In the great rain of moonlight pouring down,
The
eucalyptus
trees were carved in silver,
And a light mist of silver lulled the town.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Je sentis a l'aspect de tes membres flottants,
Comme un vomissement, remonter vers mes dents
Le long fleuve de fiel des douleurs anciennes;
Devant toi, pauvre diable au souvenir si cher,
J'ai senti tous les becs et toutes les machoires
Des corbeaux lancinants et des pantheres noires
Qui jadis aimaient tant a
triturer
ma chair.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Thou His image ever see,
Heavenly
face that smiles on thee!
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blake-poems |
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King
Sad news, and an
obsessive
sense of duty!
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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The Etudes
Critiques
of Edmond Scherer were collected in 1863.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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For we can never tell where they may be
Who, to make head against the tide and gale,
Between them and the starless,
soulless
sea
Have but one bit of plank, with one poor sail.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Joy to
humanity!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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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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They glided past, they glided fast,
Like travellers through a mist:
They mocked the moon in a rigadoon
Of
delicate
turn and twist,
And with formal pace and loathsome grace
The phantoms kept their tryst.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Why need I sigh far hills to see
If grass is their array,
While here the little paths go through
The
greenest
every day?
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John Clare |
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Yet for a wai- the parliament would squeeze ;
And fix to the revenue such a sum
Should
Goodrick
silence, and make Paston dumb,
Should pay land armies, should dissolve the vain
Commons, and ever such a court maintain,
Hyde's avarice, Bennet's luxury, should suffice,
And what can these defray but the excise,
Excise, a monster worse than e'er before
Frighted tiie midwife, and the mother tore ?
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Marvell - Poems |
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Even the woman we love may afford us uncertain enjoyment;
Nowhere can
feminine
lap safely encouch a man's head.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Lucretius |
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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For the
Commentary
Dr.
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John Donne |
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Now, in the heart of that city was a well, whose water was cool and
crystalline, from which all the
inhabitants
drank, even the king
and his courtiers; for there was no other well.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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The culture of the hop, with the
processes
of picking, drying in the
kiln, and packing for the market, as well as the uses to which it is
applied, so analogous to the culture and uses of the grape, may afford
a theme for future poets.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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As when the potent Rod
Of Amrams Son in Egypts evill day
Wav'd round the Coast, up call'd a pitchy cloud 340
Of Locusts, warping on the Eastern Wind,
That ore the Realm of impious Pharoah hung
Like Night, and darken'd all the Land of Nile:
So numberless were those bad Angels seen
Hovering on wing under the Cope of Hell
'Twixt upper, nether, and surrounding Fires;
Till, as a signal giv'n, th' uplifted Spear
Of their great Sultan waving to direct
Thir course, in even ballance down they light
On the firm brimstone, and fill all the Plain; 350
A multitude, like which the populous North
Pour'd never from her frozen loyns, to pass
Rhene or the Danaw, when her
barbarous
Sons
Came like a Deluge on the South, and spread
Beneath Gibraltar to the Lybian sands.
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Milton |
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Rilke - Poems |
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By that same hole an entrance darke and bace
With smoake and
sulphure
hiding all the place, 275
Descends to hell: there creature never past,
That backe returned without heavenly grace;
But dreadfull Furies which their chaines have brast,
And damned sprights sent forth to make ill men aghast.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Meredith - Poems |
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For if my mistress find me lying here
She will not ruth or gentle pity show,
But lay her boar-spear down, and with austere
Relentless fingers string the cornel bow,
And draw the
feathered
notch against her breast,
And loose the arched cord; aye, even now upon the quest
I hear her hurrying feet,--awake, awake,
Thou laggard in love's battle!
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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CCIII
In morning time, when the dawn breaks at last,
Awakened
is that Emperour Charles.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Whom see I
clenched
in rocky fetters drear
Unto the stormy crag?
| Guess: |
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Aeschylus |
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Ranged in three lines they view the
prostrate
band:
The horses yoked beside each warrior stand.
| Guess: |
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Iliad - Pope |
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Victory, union, faith, identity, time,
Yourself, the present and future lands, the
indissoluble
compacts, riches,
mystery,
Eternal progress, the kosmos, and the modern reports.
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Whitman |
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The Project Gutenberg eBook, Sonnets from the Portuguese, by Elizabeth
Barrett Browning
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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I, with none beside,
Save hoarse cicalas
shrilling
through the brake,
Still track your footprints 'neath the broiling sun.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Punctuated as the sentence is in modern editions 'so' must mean 'in
like manner',
referring
back to the statement about the river.
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John Donne |
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Dishonour
to deserve from age to age!
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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"Make some day a decent end,
Shrewder
fellows than your friend.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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XXXI
On Wenlock Edge the wood's in trouble;
His forest fleece the Wrekin heaves;
The gale, it plies the
saplings
double,
And thick on Severn snow the leaves.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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And now 'tis night, the guardian moon
Sails her allotted course on high,
And from the misty woodland nigh
The
nightingale
trills forth her tune;
Restless Tattiana sleepless lay
And thus unto her nurse did say:
XVII
"Nurse, 'tis so close I cannot rest.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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" and Hamish still dangles the child, with a
wavering
will.
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Sidney Lanier |
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But if I said not so, may she who first,
In life's green youth, my heart to hope so sweetly nursed,
Deign yet once more my weary bark to guide
With native
kindness
o'er the troublous tide;
And graceful, grateful, as her wont before,
When, for I could no more,
My all, myself I gave,
To be her slave,
Forget not the deep faith with which I still adore.
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Petrarch |
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And it grew both day and night,
Till it bore an apple bright,
And my foe beheld it shine,
And he knew that it was mine,--
And into my garden stole
When the night had veiled the pole;
In the morning, glad, I see
My foe
outstretched
beneath the tree.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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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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e and feede,
and bad his men heo
scholden
him lede
to his hous al sone.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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As the wave breaks to foam on shelves,
Then runs into a wave again,
So lovers melt their
sundered
selves,
Yet melted would be twain.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Picarda next I saw, who vainly tried
To pass her days on Arno's flowery side
In single purity, till force compell'd
The virgin to the
marriage
bond to yield.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Death frees from woe: but I before me see
In all my far
prevision
not a bound
To all I suffer, ere that Zeus shall fall
From being a king.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Don't listen to those cursed birds
But
Paradisial
Angels' words.
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Appoloinaire |
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There are (I scarce can think it, but am told),
There are, to whom my satire seems too bold:
Scarce to wise Peter
complaisant
enough,
And something said of Chartres much too rough.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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'You Rise the Water Unfolds'
You rise the water unfolds
You sleep the water flowers
You are water ploughed from its depths
You are earth that takes root
And in which all is grounded
You make bubbles of silence in the desert of sound
You sing nocturnal hymns on the arcs of the rainbow
You are everywhere you abolish the roads
You sacrifice time
To the eternal youth of an exact flame
That veils Nature to
reproduce
her
Woman you show the world a body forever the same
Yours
You are its likeness.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Here lie the loving husband's dear remains,
The tender father, and the gen'rous friend;
The pitying heart that felt for human woe,
The dauntless heart that fear'd no human pride;
The friend of man--to vice alone a foe;
For "ev'n his
failings
lean'd to virtue's side.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Then he fell
Into deep
dreamless
slumber.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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s politically stupid protest was
initially
forgiven on the grounds that one should not stifle protest.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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