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| 1. "But if thou live rememb'red not to be, Die single and thine image dies with thee." "Sonnet 3", Shakespeare, Lines 13-14. "Then the eyes of both were opened, and they knew that they were naked;" Genesis 3:7, The New Oxford Annotated Bible, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994. "And in the shadows the howling of spectral hounds", The Aeneid, Vergil, Book VI, Translated by Patric Dickinson, Page 127, New York: Mentor, 1961. "Or little pitted speck in garner'd fruit, That rotting inward slowly moulders all." Idylls of the King, "Merlin and Vivien", Tennyson, Lines 392-393. "And straight the Sun was flecked with bars," The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Part The Third, Coleridge, Line 35. "A dungeon horrible, on all sides round As one great furnace flamed, yet from those flames" Paradise Lost, Book I, Milton, Lines 61-62. "Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained; and the restrainer or reason usurps its place & governs the unwilling." The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, The Voice of the Devil, Blake. 2. "She, she herself, and only she, Shone through her body visibly." "Phantom", Coleridge, Lines 7-8. "A dancing Shape, an Image gay, To haunt, to startle, and way-lay." "She was a phantom of delight", Wordsworth, Lines 9-10. "And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes:" "She walks in beauty", Byron, Lines 3-4. "Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing," "Ode to the West Wind", Part I, Shelley, Lines 2-3. "All breathing human passion far above, That leaves a heart high-sorrowful and cloy'd, A burning forehead, and a parching tongue." "Ode on a Grecian Urn", Keats, Lines 28-20. "What immortal hand or eye could frame thy fearful symmetry?" "The Tyger", Blake, Lines 3-4. "And round about his home the glory That blushed and bloomed Is but a dim-remembered story Of the old time entombed." "The Haunted Place", Poe, Lines 37-40. 3. "Of arms I sing and the hero, destiny's exile," The Aeneid, Vergil, Book I, Translated by Patric Dickinson, Page 7, New York: Mentor, 1961. "When the Philistine looked and saw David, he disdained him, for he was only a youth, ruddy and handsome in appearance." 1 Samuel 17:42, The New Oxford Annotated Bible, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994. "and on the sea, his spirit suffered every adversity-to keep his life intact," The Odyssey, Homer, Book I, Translated by Allen Mandelbaum, Page 3, New York: Bantam Books, 1990. "Were frightened then and as he fought, exulting In blood and victory, I knocked him over" Metamporphosis, Ovid, Book XIII, Translated by Rolfe Humphries, Page 308, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1983. "Rushing to battle, and the gods came with him;" Metamporphosis, Ovid, Book XIII, Translated by Rolfe Humphries, Page 308, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1983. "He on the wings of cherub rode sublime On the crystalline sky, in sapphire throned." Paradise Lost, Book VI, Milton, Lines 771-772. "'Who reverenced his conscience as his king; Whose glory was, redressing human wrong;" Idylls of the King, "Dedication", Tennyson, Lines 8-9. "But brilliant Achilles strode along the surf, crying his piercing cry and roused Achaean warriors." The Iliad, Homer, Book Nineteenth, "The Champion Arms for Battle", Translated by Robert Fagles, Lines 46-47, New York: Penguin, 1990. Back to Poems Back to Index E-mail the Poet |
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