And yet they seem alive and quivering
Against my
tremulous
hands which loose the string
And let them drop down on my knee to-night.
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Here the sad mother rends her hoary hair,
While hope's fond
whispers
struggle with despair:
The weeping spouse to Heaven extends her hands:
And, cold with dread, the modest virgin stands,
Her earnest eyes, suffus'd with trembling dew,
Far o'er the plain the plighted youth pursue:
And prayers, and tears, and all the female wail,
And holy vows, the throne of Heaven assail.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Party spirit ran high; and the republic seemed to be in danger of
falling under the dominion either of a narrow
oligarchy
or of an
ignorant and headstrong rabble.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without the words,
And never stops at all,
And
sweetest
in the gale is heard;
And sore must be the storm
That could abash the little bird
That kept so many warm.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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2 That is, the extravagance of Sui Yangdi can been seen in the ornament of the ruins, which serve as
evidence
of why the Sui fell.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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CXV
Those lines that I before have writ do lie,
Even those that said I could not love you dearer:
Yet then my
judgment
knew no reason why
My most full flame should afterwards burn clearer.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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II
You are useless,
O grave, O beautiful,
the
landsmen
tell it--I have heard--
you are useless.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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There are who joy them in the Olympic strife
And love the dust they gather in the course;
The goal by hot wheels shunn'd, the famous prize,
Exalt them to the gods that rule mankind;
This joys, if rabbles fickle as the wind
Through triple grade of honours bid him rise,
That, if his granary has stored away
Of Libya's thousand floors the yield entire;
The man who digs his field as did his sire,
With honest pride, no Attalus may sway
By proffer'd wealth to tempt Myrtoan seas,
The
timorous
captain of a Cyprian bark.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Now is the sun upon the
highmost
hill
Of this day's journey, and from nine till twelve
Is three long hours; yet she is not come.
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grassy |
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why do birds sing? |
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because it pleases them |
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Shakespeare |
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The
onlookers
exclaimed,
and the host was visibly disturbed.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Soft
sauntered
through the village,
Sauntered as soft away!
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breeze |
| Question: |
What? |
| Answer: |
Confused |
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Admetus, seeing what way my
fortunes
lie,
I fain would speak with thee before I die.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Ye too, ye Fates, whose righteous doom,
Declared
but once, is sure as heaven,
Link on new blessings, yet to come,
To blessings given!
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Flit, flit, o'er the fertile land
'Mid hovering insects' hums;
Fall into the sower's hand:
Then, when his harvest comes,
The seed and the song shall have
flowered
together.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Continued
use of this site implies consent to that usage.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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And how many women have been
victims of your
cruelty!
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Appoloinaire |
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My
windowes
weren shet echon, 335
And through the glas the sunne shon
Upon my bed with brighte bemes,
With many glade gilden stremes;
And eek the welken was so fair,
Blew, bright, clere was the air, 340
And ful atempre, for sothe, hit was;
For nother cold nor hoot hit nas,
Ne in al the welken was a cloude.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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O
helpless
soul of me!
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Whitman |
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It can be
approached
through 9?
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Like-Water-or-Clouds-The-Tang-Dynasty |
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Nothing could
compensate for this
irreparable
loss.
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Abelous - Gustavus Adolphus - Hero of the Reformation |
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e
prophete
went for?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Canto XXV
Se mai continga che 'l poema sacro
al quale ha posto mano e cielo e terra,
si che m'ha fatto per molti anni macro,
vinca la crudelta che fuor mi serra
del bello ovile ov' io dormi' agnello,
nimico ai lupi che li danno guerra;
con altra voce omai, con altro vello
ritornero poeta, e in sul fonte
del mio
battesmo
prendero 'l cappello;
pero che ne la fede, che fa conte
l'anime a Dio, quivi intra' io, e poi
Pietro per lei si mi giro la fronte.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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My heart, for fear, gaed sough for sough,
To hear the thuds, and see the cluds,
O' clans frae woods, in tartan duds,
Wha glaum'd at
kingdoms
three, man.
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me |
| Question: |
What color were the horsemen's duds? |
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Robert Forst |
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th so forto do;--
his shankes semeden al blood rede;
Myne herte wop for grete drede; 64
Als a
pilgryme
he rood to Rome,
And ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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ei
preceden
euere ner & nerre,
fforto comen to ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Gat ye me, O gat ye me,
O gat ye me wi'
naething?
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Robert Burns |
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Replied the Tsar, our country's hope and glory:
Of a truth, thou little lad, and peasant's
bantling!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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on my soul
breathes
yet a harmony,
From realms of ageless powers, and strong to save!
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Aeschylus |
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Well, your
imprisonment
shall not be long;
I will deliver or else lie for you.
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Shakespeare |
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How warm they were on such a day:
You almost feel the date,
So short way off it seems; and now,
They 're
centuries
from that.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Imagists |
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The
invalidity
or unenforceability of any
provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Diegue
Yes, see, she's fainting, and from perfect love,
In this swoon, Sire, see how her
passions
move.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Meane you his
Maiestie?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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þæt hē þrīttiges manna
mægencræft
on his mundgripe hæbbe, 381.
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Beowulf |
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son of the
wondrous
sire!
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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UPON THE HILL
A hundred miles of
landscape
spread before me like a fan;
Hills behind naked hills, bronze light of evening on them shed;
How many thousand ages have these summits spied on man?
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Display me Aeolus above
Reviewing
the insurgent gales
Which tangle Ariadne's hair
And swell with haste the perjured sails.
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T.S. Eliot |
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I never
followed
her, nor lifted high
My hand to bless her; never said good-bye.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Of Spanish men, whose backs are turned their way,
Franks one and all
continue
in their chase.
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| Question: |
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Chanson de Roland |
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Now is he vanished: the bewildered skies
Flame out a
desperate
and last surmise;
Then yield to Night, their sudden conqueror.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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also is
shrewednesse
it self
torment to shrewes ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Northward the length of Follansbee we rowed,
Under low mountains, whose
unbroken
ridge
Ponderous with beechen forest sloped the shore.
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Emerson - Poems |
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FAUST:
Des
Liebchens
Kummer tut mir leid.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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The dice betwixt them must the fate divide,
As chance does still in
multitudes
decide.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Have you got a brook in your little heart,
Where bashful flowers blow,
And
blushing
birds go down to drink,
And shadows tremble so?
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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, but its
volunteers
and employees are scattered
throughout numerous locations.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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The
portrait
of Mr.
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Whitman |
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There in the
gathering
night and noise
A group of Galilean boys
Crowding to see
Gray Joseph toiling with his son,
Saw Jesus, when the task was done,
Turn wearily.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Now my
judgment
hear and mark.
| Guess: |
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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V
Rome's mighty column, by your valiant hand
Taken and kept entire, more praise has shed
On you, than if the predatory band
Had routed by your single valour bled,
Of all who flocked to fat Ravenna's land,
Or masterless, without a banner fled,
Of Arragon, Castile, or of Navarre;
When vain was lance or cannon's
thundering
car.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Erkennst
du deinen Herrn und Meister?
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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And as the few fishes
who remained uneaten complained of the cold, as well as of the difficulty
they had in getting any sleep on account of the extreme noise made by the
arctic bears and the tropical turnspits, which
frequented
the neighborhood
in great numbers, Violet most amiably knitted a small woollen frock for
several of the fishes, and Slingsby administered some opium-drops to them;
through which kindness they became quite warm, and slept soundly.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Daedalus the void air tried
On wings, to humankind by Heaven denied;
Acheron's bar gave way with ease
Before the arm of
labouring
Hercules.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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" Then as cranes,
That part towards the Riphaean mountains fly,
Part towards the Lybic sands, these to avoid
The ice, and those the sun; so hasteth off
One crowd,
advances
th' other; and resume
Their first song weeping, and their several shout.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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'
So Sir
Bedivere
departed and by the way he beheld that noble sword,
that the pommel and the haft were all of precious stones, and then he
said to himself, 'If I throw this rich sword in the water, thereof
shall never come to good but harm and loss'.
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Tennyson |
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No portion where the maidens throng to praise
Castor--my Castor, whom in ancient days,
Ere he passed from us and men worshipped him,
They named my
bridegroom!
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Euripides - Electra |
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The host took from one of the shelves
of the press a jug and a glass,
approached
him, and, having looked him
well in the face--
"Well, well," said he, "so here you are again in our part of the world.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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who would have
believed
it?
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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12:
_arcius_
O: _arctius_ BLa1ACDh
et Bod.
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Latin - Catullus |
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Copyright laws in most
countries
are in
a constant state of change.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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The
smallest
"robe" will fit me,
And just a bit of "crown;"
For you know we do not mind our dress
When we are going home.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Wings from the wind to please her mind,
Notes from the lark I'll borrow;
Bird, prune thy wing,
nightingale
sing,
To give my Love good-morrow;
To give my Love good-morrow
Notes from them both I'll borrow.
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Golden Treasury |
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Look back on time with kindly eyes,
He doubtless did his best;
How softly sinks his
trembling
sun
In human nature's west!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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An
innocent
life, yet far astray!
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Golden Treasury |
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"
Towns and countries woo together,
Forelands
beacon, belfries call;
Never lad that trod on leather
Lived to feast his heart with all.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Carjat lui-meme, par trop juge et partie, ni celui des
encore assez nombreux survivants d'une scene assurement peu glorieuse
pour Rimbaud, mais
demesurement
grossie et denaturee jusqu'a la plus
complete calomnie.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Compare Keats's use of
the form with that of either of his contemporaries, and notice how he
avoids the
epigrammatic
close, telling in satire and mock-heroic, but
inappropriate to a serious and romantic poem.
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Keats |
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Will he return when the Winter
Huddles the sheep, and Orion
Goes to his
hunting?
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Sappho |
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Far away
The dim waves rise and wrestle with each other
And fall down
headlong
on the beach.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Hence
horrible
shadow,
Vnreall mock'ry hence.
| Guess: |
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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[HERACLES _signs to the Attendants to take_
ALCESTIS
_away again.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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upsprang
the aboriginal name.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Such as are pleasant company, then,
Refined and
courteous
men.
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Troubador Verse |
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Rilke - Poems |
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'Tis clear as the moon (by the
argument
drawn
From Design) that the world should retire at dawn.
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Sidney Lanier |
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N, THE HERMIT
At Ch'ang-an--a full foot of snow;
A levee at dawn--to bestow
congratulations
on the Emperor.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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It
is also
uncertain
whether he knew, when he entered the service of Lin,
that this prince was about to take up arms against the Emperor.
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Li Po |
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Yes, here within thy
sanctified
walls there's a soul in each object,
ROMA eternal.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Generously
trust
Thy fortune's web to the beneficent hand
That until now has put his world in fee
To thee.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Yo' are right in that, _Madame_, 20
Of which race, I
encountred
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Keats - Lamia |
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Vengeance
soon should come,
Had Ghent and Douay, Lille and Bruges power;
And vengeance I of heav'n's great Judge implore.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Note: Ronsard's later tributes to 'Marie' were written for the Duke of Anjou (the future Henri III) whose
mistress
Marie de Cleves died in 1574.
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Ronsard |
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THE PIOUS EDITOR'S CREED
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instance
of Mr.
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fauo{ur}
to sustene ?
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you window-pierc'd
facades!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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The mingled fate my love should give
In these mute emblems shone,
That more
intensely
burn and live--
While I am turned to stone.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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" Pope thinks of
these animals as in the
unformed
stage, part "kindled into life, part a
lump of mud.
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Alexander Pope |
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It was
impossible
to hesitate.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Ere my steel leap, and
compassed
round with death
Low he shall lie: and thus, full-fed with doom,
The Fury of the house shall drain once more
A deep third draught of rich unmingled blood.
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Aeschylus |
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Keats - Lamia |
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Greift nur hinein ins volle
Menschenleben!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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But
wickedly
we say this.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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A little
distance
from the prow
Those crimson shadows were:
I turn'd my eyes upon the deck--
O Christ!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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It is certain, from the
Register
of the Bishop of Worcester,
that Mr.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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