The maidens lean them over
The waters, side by side,
And shun each other's
deepening
eyes,
And gaze adown the tide;
For each within a little boat
A little lamp hath put,
And heaped for freight some lily's weight
Or scarlet rose half shut.
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zip *******
This and all
associated
files of various formats will be found in:
http://www.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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The reminiscence comes
Of sunless dry geraniums
And dust in crevices,
Smells of chestnuts in the streets
And female smells in shuttered rooms
And cigarettes in corridors
And
cocktail
smells in bars.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Please consult the
manuscript
page.
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Blake - Zoas |
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And all the rocking beech-trees
Are bright with buds again,
And the green and open spaces
Are greener after rain,
And far to
southward
one can hear
The sullen, moaning rain.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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If any disclaimer or
limitation
set forth in this agreement violates the
law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be
interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by
the applicable state law.
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Imagists |
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At last came out
his Reproof to the Rehearsal Transprosedy in which
he urged the
Government
to crush the pestilent
wit, the servant of Cromwell, and the friend of
Milton.
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Marvell - Poems |
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I found the phrase to every thought
I ever had, but one;
And that defies me, -- as a hand
Did try to chalk the sun
To races
nurtured
in the dark; --
How would your own begin?
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Act III Scene II (Phaedra)
Phaedra
O you, who see the shame into which I fall,
Implacable Venus, am I
sufficiently
in thrall?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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The chariots first proceed, a shining train;
Then clouds of foot that smoke along the plain;
Next these the
melancholy
band appear;
Amidst, lay dead Patroclus on the bier;
O'er all the corse their scattered locks they throw;
Achilles next, oppress'd with mighty woe,
Supporting with his hands the hero's head,
Bends o'er the extended body of the dead.
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Iliad - Pope |
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To him, his love for his wife and
children
is a beautiful thing, a
subject to speak and sing about as well as an emotion to feel.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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[34] The Hebrew cognate of _masu_, to forget, is _nasa_, Arabic
_nasijia_, and occurs here in
Babylonian
for the first time.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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I would don my hose of
homespun
gray,
And my doublet of linen striped and gay;
Perhaps they will come; for they do not wed
Till to-morrow at seven o'clock, it is said!
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Longfellow |
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At the Tomb of Hector_
MARTIA progenies, Hector, tellure sub ima
(fas audire tamen si mea uerba tibi),
respira, quoniam uindex tibi contigit heres,
qui patriae famam
proferat
usque tuae.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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The breezes brought
dejected
lutes,
And bathed them in the glee;
The East put out a single flag,
And signed the fete away.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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no medelyng of goode in hys
solitarie
wrecchednesse.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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The
intervening
period
was devoted almost entirely to dramas, prose, fiction, essays, and
criticism.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Older than Saturn, 5
Older than Rhea,
That
mournful
music,
Falling and surging
With the vast rhythm
Ceaseless, eternal, 10
Keeps the long tally
Of all things mortal.
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Sappho |
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Thou know'st the errors of unripen'd age,
Weak are its counsels,
headlong
is its rage.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Projecting
my body
Across a street, in the face of all its traffic.
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Imagists |
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at it ne haue no
necessite
of hys
owen nature.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Resolved
am I
In the woods, rather, with wild beasts to couch,
And bear my doom, and character my love
Upon the tender tree-trunks: they will grow,
And you, my love, grow with them.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Rushing to empty spaces it
attacks the gateway,
scatters
the dust-heap, sends the cinders flying,
pokes among foul and rotting things, till at last it enters the tiled
windows and reaches the rooms of the cottage.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Nulli se dicit mulier mea nubere malle
Quam mihi, non si se
Iuppiter
ipse petat.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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He is read, if at all, in preference to the combined and
established
wit
of the world.
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Poe - 5 |
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Villon
presumably
means that they were 'near cousins' in spirit.
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Villon |
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But mark
How she
scatters
o'er the wool
Woven shapes, till it is full
Of men that struggle close, complex;
Short-clipp'd steeds with wrinkled necks
Arching high; spear, shield, and all
The panoply that doth recall
Mighty war; such war as e'en
For Helen's sake is waged, I ween.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Or quel che t'era dietro t'e davanti:
ma perche sappi che di te mi giova,
un
corollario
voglio che t'ammanti.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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The mother at home quietly placing the dishes on the supper-table,
The mother with mild words, clean her cap and gown, a wholesome
odor falling off her person and clothes as she walks by,
The father, strong, self-sufficient, manly, mean, anger'd, unjust,
The blow, the quick loud word, the tight bargain, the crafty lure,
The family usages, the language, the company, the furniture, the
yearning and swelling heart,
Affection
that will not be gainsay'd, the sense of what is real, the
thought if after all it should prove unreal,
The doubts of day-time and the doubts of night-time, the curious
whether and how,
Whether that which appears so is so, or is it all flashes and specks?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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What is that which I should turn to,
lighting
upon days like these?
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Tennyson |
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" In course of time the "noble youths" became a single noble
youth, whose name occurred in the annals, and the derivation or
evolution of the "verba ignominiosa,"
followed
by a natural
process.
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Byron |
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IN PRAISE OF LAURA'S EYES: THEY LEAD HIM TO
CONTEMPLATE
THE PATH OF
LIFE.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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In his arms he bore
Her, armed with sorrow sore;
Till before their way
A
couching
lion lay.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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And how many women have been
victims of your
cruelty!
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Appoloinaire |
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They knew his vengeance, and took holy heed
To us, the sister suppliants, who cry
To Zeus, the lord of purity:
Therefore
with altars pure they shall the gods revere.
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Aeschylus |
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Non molto ha corso, ch'el trova una lama,
ne la qual si
distende
e la 'mpaluda;
e suol di state talor essere grama.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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O Hymen
Hymenaeus
io, O Hymen
Hymenaeus.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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"They are not
watching
us any
more.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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5
I who am not great enough to
Love thee with this mortal body
So impassionate with ardour,
But oh, not too small to worship
While the sun shall shine,-- 10
I would build a
fragrant
temple
To thee, in the dark green forest,
Of red cedar and fine sandal,
And there love thee with sweet service
All my whole life long.
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Sappho |
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Oh what a
multitude
they seemed, these flowers of London town!
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Blake - Poems |
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" As
thus he said, Love,
leftwards
as before, with approbation rightwards
sneezed.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Many small donations
($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to
maintaining
tax exempt
status with the IRS.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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To the Iliad still greater
obligations are due; and those
obligations
have been contracted
with the less hesitation, because there is reason to believe that
some of the old Latin minstrels really had recourse to that
inexhaustible store of poetical images.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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--Ce petit fleuve,
Pauvre et triste miroir ou jadis resplendit
L'immense majeste de vos douleurs de veuve,
Ce Simois menteur qui par vos pleurs grandit,
A feconde soudain ma memoire fertile,
Comme je
traversais
le nouveau Carrousel.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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We do not solicit donations in locations
where we have not received written
confirmation
of compliance.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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this robe gives proof,
Imbrued with blood that bathed Aegisthus' sword;
Look, how the spurted stain combines with time
To blur the many dyes that once adorned
Its pattern
manifold!
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Aeschylus |
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"
'344 These:'
critics who care for the meter only in poetry insist on the proper
number of
syllables
in a line, no matter what sort of sound or sense
results.
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Alexander Pope |
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Troops
approach
the Frontier
KURBSKY.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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For-thy be glad, myn owene dere brother, 405
If she be lost, we shal
recovere
another.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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I give
you them, that as you have seen the original, you may guess whether
one or two alterations I have
ventured
to make in them, be any real
improvement.
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Robert Burns |
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CH'ANG-KAN
Soon after I wore my hair
covering
my forehead
I was plucking flowers and playing in front of the gate,
When _you_ came by, walking on bamboo-stilts
Along the trellis,[23] playing with the green plums.
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Li Po |
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For which no lenger mighte she restreyne
Hir teres, so they gonnen up to welle,
That yaven signes of the bitter peyne 710
In whiche hir spirit was, and moste dwelle;
Remembring hir, fro heven unto which helle
She fallen was, sith she forgoth the sighte
Of Troilus, and
sorowfully
she sighte.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Wollaston
nimmt deshalb vier
Grundfarben an: Roth, Grün, Blau, Violett.
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Helmholtz - 1851 - Theorie der zusammengesetzten Farben |
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And if you love me, as you say you do,
Let me
persuade
you to forbear awhile.
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Shakespeare |
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Not a
solitary
gun
Left to tell the fort had won,
Or lost the day!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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and Sarazins, which them had stayd, 355
And though they faultie were, yet well he wayd,
That God to us
forgiveth
every howre
Much more then that why they in bands were layd,
And he that harrowd?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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we must not stop here,
However sweet these laid-up stores, however convenient this dwelling
we cannot remain here,
However shelter'd this port and however calm these waters we must
not anchor here,
However welcome the
hospitality
that surrounds us we are permitted
to receive it but a little while.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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5
Ne let the man ascribe it to his skill,
That
thorough
grace hath gained victory.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Of that angelic smile the
lightening
grace,
Which wont to make this earth a heavenly place!
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Petrarch |
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(1)
Pronounced
Breedon.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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One of their reforms was the remodelling of the equestrian order;
and, having effected this reform, they
determined
to give to
their work a sanction derived from religion.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Who would such men heaven's
messengers
believe,
Who from the sacred pulpit dare deceive ?
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Marvell - Poems |
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[Illustration]
There was a Young Lady of Dorking,
Who bought a large bonnet for walking;
But its color and size so
bedazzled
her eyes,
That she very soon went back to Dorking.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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And a sweet
concurring
stream
Of all joys to join with them.
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Robert Herrick |
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This would make her an exact or close contemporary of Thais, beautiful Athenian courtesan and
mistress
of Alexander the Great (356-323BC).
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Villon |
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Woe, woe, and woe again,
AEgisthus
gone!
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Aeschylus |
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Vedi le triste che
lasciaron
l'ago,
la spuola e 'l fuso, e fecersi 'ndivine;
fecer malie con erbe e con imago.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Mannahatta
a-march--and it's O to sing it well!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Euery man had there plente
Of claret wyne and pymente; 72
There was many a riche wyne,
In sylluer and in golde fyne;
Many a coppe and many a pece,
with wyne wernage & eke of grece;
Page 28
And many A noder ryche vessell
with wyne of
gascoyne
and of rochell.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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'Twas then that her form on the whirlwind uprearing, _15
The dark ghost of the murdered Victoria strode,
Her right hand a blood reeking dagger was bearing,
She swiftly advanced to my
lonesome
abode.
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Shelley |
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It may only be
used on or
associated
in any way with an electronic work by people who
agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement.
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Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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It levelled strong Euphrates in its course;
Supreme yet weightless as an idle mote
It seemed to tame the waters without force
Till not a murmur swelled or billow beat:
Lo, as the purple shadow swept the sands,
The prudent
crocodile
rose on his feet
And shed appropriate tears and wrung his hands.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Beatrice here is probably Boniface's
daughter
Biatrix.
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Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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Orpheus
Orpheus
'Orpheus'
Pierre -Cecile Puvis de Chavannes, French, 1824 - 1898, Yale
University
Art Gallery
His heart was the bait: the heavens were the pond!
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Appoloinaire |
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Cette crapule invulnerable
Comme les
machines
de fer,
Jamais, ni l'ete ni l'hiver,
N'a connu l'amour veritable,
Avec ses noirs enchantements,
Son cortege infernal d'alarmes,
Ses fioles de poison, ses larmes,
Ses bruits de chaine et d'ossements!
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Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Some of the
soldiers
killed themselves beside the pyre,
not because they had harmed Vitellius or feared reprisals, but from
love of their emperor, and to follow his noble example.
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Tacitus |
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* Nor is our order yet so nice,
* Delight to banish as a vice : iw
< Here Pleasure Piety doth meet,
* One perfecting the other sweet ;
* So through the mortal fruit we boil
*The sugar's uncoiTupting oil,
'^ And that which
perished
while we pull, m
* Is thus preserved clear and full.
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Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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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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Happy old man, who 'mid familiar streams
And
hallowed
springs, will court the cooling shade!
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Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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"My patriot falls: but shall he lie unsung,
While empty greatness saves a
worthless
name?
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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But in the
desolate
hour of midnight, when
An ecstasy of starry silence sleeps
On the still mountains and the soundless deeps,
And my soul hungers for thy voice, O then,
Love, like the magic of wild melodies,
Let thy soul answer mine across the seas.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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how
goodly of
presence
he is!
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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Well then,
Now haue you consider'd of my speeches:
Know, that it was he, in the times past,
Which held you so vnder fortune,
Which you thought had been our
innocent
selfe.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Then I, long tried
By natural ills,
received
the comfort fast,
While budding, at thy sight, my pilgrim's staff
Gave out green leaves with morning dews impearled.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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As, in your field, I plant I lose no grain,
For the harvest
resembles
me, and ever
God orders me to plough, and sow again:
Even for this end are we come together.
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Source: |
Villon |
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Lush trees led me on as I went, joined mountains
suddenly
appeared to my gaze.
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Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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The reader need hardly be told that the officer was no other than
Herman, the would-be gambler, whose
imagination
had been strongly
excited by the story told by Tomsky of the three magic cards.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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CXIII
She spurred her courser, and with lance in rest,
Imperious
at the foolish rabble made,
And -- through the neck impaled or through the breast, --
Some pierced, some prostrate at the encounter layed.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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]
[Sidenote B: He has no
companion
but his horse.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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But to make an unyielding courage bend,
To make that
unfeeling
heart of his feel pain, 450
To fetter a captive astonished by his chains,
Fighting the yoke, that delights him so, in vain:
That's what I wish, that is what excites me.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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SOUTH-WIND
Soft-throated South,
breathing
of summer's ease
(Sweet breath, whereof the violet's life is made!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Have you marked but the fall o' the snow
Before the soil hath
smutched
it?
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Copyright
infringement
liability can be quite severe.
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Meredith - Poems |
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"
Do we want laurels for
ourselves
most,
Or most that no one else shall have any?
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Pope any need
to bring the case of Patroclus or Elpenor to
overthrow
her system.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Reeds and some discarded
garments
all hastily cobbled together--
I helped to make it myself: diligent in my own grief.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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While sacred Troy the warring hosts engaged;
But when her sons were slain, her city burn'd,
And what
survived
of Greece to Greece return'd;
Then Neptune and Apollo shook the shore,
Then Ida's summits pour'd their watery store;
Rhesus and Rhodius then unite their rills,
Caresus roaring down the stony hills,
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Iliad - Pope |
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Ah baby, my baby, too rough
Is my
lullaby?
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Nous
croyons, nous, que le poëte a voulu simplement dire qu'une beauté,
d'un
caractère
à la fois ténébreux et folâtre, faisait rêver à
l'association du _rose_ et du _noir_.
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regard |
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Baudelaire - Les Epaves |
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"Live in thy peace; as for myself,
When I am bruisèd on the shelf
Of Time, and _read
Eternal
daylight
o'er my head:_
When with the rheum,
_With_ cough _and_ ptisick, I consume
_Into an heap of cinders:_ then
The Ages fled I'll call again,
11.
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dawn |
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Why does the speaker use the imagery of "eternal daylight" when describing their eventual death and consumption? |
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The passage does not provide a clear answer to this question. |
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Robert Herrick - Hesperide and Noble Numbers |
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