Literature Network Forums - Blogs - title by mortalterror https://www.online-literature.com/forums/blog.php?46408-title The largest classic literature discussion forum on the Internet. Read Write Teach Share. en Thu, 04 Jun 2026 11:36:11 GMT vBulletin 10 https://www.online-literature.com/forums/images/misc/rss.jpg Literature Network Forums - Blogs - title by mortalterror https://www.online-literature.com/forums/blog.php?46408-title 25 best movie scenes https://www.online-literature.com/forums/entry.php?15172-25-best-movie-scenes Wed, 02 Nov 2016 04:28:06 GMT My personal favorite is the scene in The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly where Tuco meets his brother. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEDNuuCoZYk I... My personal favorite is the scene in The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly where Tuco meets his brother.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEDNuuCoZYk
I made a list, trying to think of the best scenes that weren't just car chases, shootouts, or endings and here's what I got.
1.Apocalypse Now- Ride of the Valkyrees
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKaYOW9zMoY
2.Deer Hunter- Russian Roulette
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kE_zqVPr4HI
3.Network- I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WINDtlPXmmE
4.Dirty Harry- Do you feel lucky?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Xjr2hnOHiM
5.Platoon- Sgt. Barne's Speech: I am reality.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cyXO5tO6kw
6.A Few Good Men- Code Red
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_frM44bBMfA
7.Tombstone- Doc Holiday talks Latin to Johnny Ringo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGH3888OUgg
8.Goodfellas- no more shines
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPHK6hRPqkU
9.No Country For Old Men- coin toss
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLCL6OYbSTw
10.The Princess Bride- My name is Inigo Montoya
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3W5GDkgf2w
11.Taxi Driver- You talkin' to me?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4e9CkhBb18E
12.Reservoir Dogs- ear scene
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGkXI6jRpvA
13.Ferris Bueller's Day Off- parade
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqQFTq2FIdY
14.Amadeus- God laughing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zc6kFrfMmoI
15.8 1/2- Harem scene
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7egw53YKEM
16.La Dolce Vita- balloon charmer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iC_UjMsYmJc
17.Spartacus- I'm Spartacus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8h_v_our_Q
18.City Lights- drowning scene
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wDBHIU_Wno
19.Rocky- Micky comes to Rocky's apartment
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKU5psYyG_U
20.The Miracle Worker- Folding a napkin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHwoRFe70jk
21.Alien- chest popper
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXG-e9gFJvE
22.Blade Runner- I've seen things
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTzA_xesrL8
23.Jaws- The Indianapolis
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nrvMNf-HEg
24.Pulp Fiction and Schindler's List- take your pick ]]> mortalterror https://www.online-literature.com/forums/entry.php?15172-25-best-movie-scenes The 58 Best Films from 2000-2016 https://www.online-literature.com/forums/entry.php?15166-The-58-Best-Films-from-2000-2016 Tue, 18 Oct 2016 08:23:05 GMT 1.Pan's Labyrinth
2.Downfall
3.Battle Royale
4.Infernal Affairs
5.City of God
6.I Saw the Devil
7.Lord of the Rings I-III
8.Band of Brothers
9.No Country For Old Men
10.Mad Max: Fury Road
11.Memento
12.The Good, The Bad, The Weird
13.The Raid I-II
14.Master and Commander
15.Inception
16.Tree of Life
17.Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
18.Cloud Atlas
19.Black Hawk Down
20.Django Unchained
21.Bowling for Columbine
22.28 Days Later
23.Requiem for a Dream
24.The Devil's Backbone
25.American Psycho
26.Devils on the Doorstep
27.City of Life and Death
28.Warriors of the Rainbow: Sediq Bale
29.The Aviator
30.The Revenant
31.The Yellow Sea
32.2046
33.Tai Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War
34.The Edge of Tomorrow
35.Traffic
36.Children of Men
37.Serenity
38.Birdman
39.The Secret in Their Eyes
40.Oldboy
41.The Fountain
42.Curse of the Golden Flower
43.Spirited Away
44.A Beautiful Mind
45.Hero
46.Confessions of A Dangerous Mind
47.Amelie
48.Sympathy For Mr Vengeance
49.Training Day
50.A History of Violence
51.In Bruges
52.The Man From Earth
53.Gone Girl
54.What We Do In the Shadows
55.The Fog of War ]]> mortalterror https://www.online-literature.com/forums/entry.php?15166-The-58-Best-Films-from-2000-2016 Religious Music https://www.online-literature.com/forums/entry.php?15069-Religious-Music Sun, 07 Feb 2016 21:48:19 GMT *Popular* 1925 Paul Robeson- Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yd1fxR3TtCg 1930 Blind Willie Johnson- John the... Popular
1925 Paul Robeson- Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yd1fxR3TtCg
1930 Blind Willie Johnson- John the Revelator https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hucTDV1Fvo
1937 Thomas A. Dorsey- Peace in the Valley https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_f5vEJV84l8
1940 Woody Guthrie- Jesus Christ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDS00Pnhkqk
1948 Hank Williams- I Saw the Light https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYKx2Xvnukg
1948 Sister Rosetta Tharpe- Didn't It Rain? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SR2gR6SZC2M
1953 The Orioles- Crying in the Chapel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEwcMvcWKgk
1955 Dorothy Love Coates- No Hiding Place Down Here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZbThGsOFa0
1956 The Pilgrim Travelers- How Jesus Died https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCCEbElE0hQ
1957 Sam Cooke- Touch the Hem of His Garment https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Iq2SNm1iFk
1958 Louis Armstrong- Go Down Moses https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JNCS27rtQ8
1959 The Staple Singers- I'm Coming Home https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rekp7rRcSFs
1960 Patsy Cline- Just a Closer Walk With Thee https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COT0JguzCnM
1961 Mahalia Jackson- How I Got Over https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l49N8U3d0Bw
1962 Five Blind Boys of Alabama- Too Close to Heaven https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5OnA6JOacE
1963 Judy Henske- Wade in the Water https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKjkUPzui7A
1964 The Animals- Bury My Body https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtFtwX4vCbM
1964 Five Blind Boys of Mississippi- Leaning on the Everlasting Arms https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yhHIqsOanI
1965 Curtis Mayfield- People Get Ready https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdKEbnS1eBE
1965 The Caravans feat. Shirley Caesar- Holy Boldness https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SoEA0MrwnJc
1965 Hollies- The Very Last Day https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AD0Avzol14I
1965 The Byrds- Turn Turn Turn https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4ga_M5Zdn4
1967 Elvis Presley- How Great Thou Art https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yQPce84RC8
1967 Edwin Hawkins Singers- Oh Happy Day https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfGDvDGE7zk
1968 Tommy James and the Shondells- Crystal Blue Persuasion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDl8ZPm3GrU
1969 Norman Greenbaum- Spirit in the Sky https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZQxH_8raCI
1969 Larry Norman- I Wish We'd All Been Ready https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1FcTKNXlO0
1969 Brother Joe May- Don't Let the Devil Ride https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdg7rcubbPc
1969 Janis Joplin- Work Me Lord https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qp-MVcIsWY
1969 Velvet Underground- Jesus https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6FIjp8nJV4
1969 Jefferson Airplane- Good Shepherd https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOWX2-l788A
1969 Deep Purple- Hallelujah https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28AAMe3hVJM
1970 Marvin Gaye- God is Love https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxlIkjUy7fI
1970 Johnny Rivers- Jesus is a Soul Man https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXxV6jhGhbA
1970 George Harrison- My Sweet Lord https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kNGnIKUdMI
1970 Andrew Lloyd Webber- Superstar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mq0a6GWY9vk
1970 Pacific Gas and Electric- Are You Ready? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20HmSomEHZ0
1971 John Denver- Gospel Changes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHUDnfmcgvY
1971 Ocean- Put Your Hand in the Hand https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulh5Y71Qwk0
1971 Cat Stevens- Morning Has Broken https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKoRp05L95c
1971 Stephen Schwartz- Day By Day https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWQEUzOACm4
1971 Black Sabbath- After Forever https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSF3HviqlPk
1971 Jethro Tull- My God https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Kmq9uM4Mq0
1971 The Who- Bargain https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ka_pPf7OqiE
1972 The Doobie Brothers- Jesus is Just Alright https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sEx_ibPriA
1972 Ray Charles- Heaven Help Us All https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2jPRvtnnZc
1972 Kris Kristofferson- Why Me, Lord? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2u_rEcWW8M
1973 Queen- Jesus https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0J_kuTib1w
1973 All Saved Freak Band- Daughter of Zion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWJoKjN2EGA
1973 ZZ Top- Jesus Just Left Chicago https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMjqgIZ1_YM
1973 Al Green- Jesus is Waiting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CslaDEc2PS8
1975 Led Zeppelin's- In My Time of Dying https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZgblTKscX0
1976 Alex Bradford- Your Arms Too Short to Box With God https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RltltQFIISY
1976 O'Jays- A Prayer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soCkpf5KRfY
1976 Stevie Wonder- Have a Talk With God https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbzcdG5FK3c
1977 Bob Marley- One Love https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdB-8eLEW8g
1977 Alice Cooper- My God https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saVmZfkp9_4&spfreload=1
1979 Bob Dylan- You Gotta Serve Somebody https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOK0v2QYy9Y
1980 The Clash- The Sound of Sinners https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8PBKhqRUrc
1980 Kansas- Hold On https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pt83ol6bcTU
1982 Hooters- All You Zombies https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LE0KpcP05I
1984 Leonard Cohen- Hallelujah https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIuCwnnDq8k
1985 Mr. Mister- Kyrie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NDjt4FzFWY
1987 Tom Waits- Down in the Hole https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wZZu93VsNA
1987 The Petshop Boys- It's a Sin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkwgMMNXjTc
1987 Helloweeen- Save Us https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcrnTloyLPI
1988 Nick Cave- City of Refuge https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJbCxNlYH28
1989 Elvis Costello- God’s Comic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0N6TfU54o8
1989 Dolly Parton- He's Alive https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbRPWUHM80M
1990 Steve Vai- For the Love of God https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiTXGswyAls
1990 Styx- Show Me the Way https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXf2PbEPQ-Y
1990 MC Hammer- Pray https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xNSgBkum7o
1990 Garth Brooks- Unanswered Prayers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GuA5PZx3K4
1991 Marc Cohn- Walking in Memphis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KK5YGWS5H84
1991 Kiss- God Gave Rock and Roll To You https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1yvQV7J47o
1993 Lenny Kravitz- Are You Gonna Go My Way https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5PZQMwL7iE
1993 Crash Test Dummies- God Shuffled His Feet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzNzCiZwk28
1993 Collective Soul- Shine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_m0bI82Rz_k
1995 Jewel- Who Will Save Your Soul https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wBDDAZkNtk
1995 DC Talk- Jesus Freak https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbB0QrBIs9k
1995 Iron Maiden- Sign of the Cross https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoxwjLdNmXc
1995 Jars of Clay- Flood https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfAhpX_wIBk
1995 Dishwalla- Counting Blue Cars https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Clxtg2pFTQM
1998 Whitney Houston- When You Believe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKaXY4IdZ40
2000 Alison Krauss- Down To the River to Pray https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSif77IVQdY
2000 Tupac- Who Do You Believe In https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbtz02uaGFc
2001 P.O.D.- Alive https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3ChrdJoBCk
2001 MercyMe- I Can Only Imagine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_lrrq_opng
2002 Moby- In This World https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wrwcEZ3Btw
2003 Live- Heaven https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_nImUzRv0w
2004 R. Kelly- U Saved Me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mr7zJw525U8
2003 Audioslave- Show Me How To Live https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVXIK1xCRpY
2004 Kanye West- Jesus Walks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYF7H_fpc-g
2004 Matisyahu- King Without a Crown https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChV5BZ8SmS0
2005 Bruce Springsteen- Jesus Was an Only Son https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlImsQz5rKU
2005 Carrie Underwood- Jesus Take the Wheel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lydBPm2KRaU
2006 Johnny Cash- God's Gonna Cut You Down https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJlN9jdQFSc
2006 Rascal Flatts- He Ain't the Leavin' Kind https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8s9GN9_P940
2010 Tom Jones- Don't Knock https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaghYy3_01g
2013 Vampire Weekend- Ya Hey https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-BznQE6B8U
2014 Pentatonix- Mary, Did You Know? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifCWN5pJGIE
2015 Yelawolf ft. Eminem- Best Friend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=it_04dk_97E
Hymns
1719 Isaac Watts- Joy to the World (hymn) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5hj518Iugk
1779 John Newton- Amazing Grace (hymn) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYMLMj-SibU
1841 Sarah Flower Adams- Nearer, My God, To Thee http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9UsDl5gSuo
1847 Adolphe Adam- O Holy Night (hymn) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5n6X9sUznI
1852 Frederick Oakeley- O Come All Ye Faithful (hymn) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcJYW1oN6fw
1855 William H. Cummings- Hark! The Herald Angels Sing (hymn) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKRC5Ikq44s
1855 Joseph M. Scriven- What a Friend We Have in Jesus (hymn) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XRmGEbH0qs
1859 John Freeman Young- Silent Night (hymn) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPamW-WUf50
1862 Wallis Willis- Swing Low, Sweet Chariot (hymn) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSb273c9tm4
1863 John Henry Hopkins, Jr.- We Three Kings (hymn) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lx35_DRIZ8g
1868 Philips Brooks- O Little Town of Bethlehem (hymn) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19rL_8W3oRU
1885 J.E. Clark- Away in a Manger (hymn) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQbLLowNgSI
1885 Carl Gustav Boberg- How Great Thou Art (hymn) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BL1vUY_qu-E
1889 Charles David Tillman- Old-Time Religion (gospel) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fx0peec84FI
1904 Mykola Dmytrovych Leontovych- Carol of the Bells (carol) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TFrO8c_kVQ
1905 Civilla D. Martin- His Eye Is On the Sparrow (gospel) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5P0Zc-oQb1Q
1912 George Bennard- The Old Rugged Cross (hymn) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4CgF_pyxVY
1916 Sir Hubert Parry- Jerusalem Hymn (hymn) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKRHWT6xdEU
Classical
1638 Allegri- Miserere http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36Y_ztEW1NE
1723 Bach- Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwWL8Y-qsJg
1754 Handel- Halleluah Chorus http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76RrdwElnTU
1825 Schubert- Ave Maria http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bosouX_d8Y
1874 Verdi- Dies Irae http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDbMzp86tOc
1936 Samuel Barber- Agnus Dei https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOwRW8ee4S8 ]]> mortalterror https://www.online-literature.com/forums/entry.php?15069-Religious-Music Great Action Movies https://www.online-literature.com/forums/entry.php?15061-Great-Action-Movies Tue, 26 Jan 2016 09:47:13 GMT 2017 Logan
2016 Hell or High Water *haven't seen yet
2015 Mad Max: Fury Road, The Revenant
2014 Edge of Tomorrow, Raid 2
2013 Lone Survivor, Generation War
2012 Django Unchained, The Avengers, Looper
2011 Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale, The Raid: Redemption, Sherlock Holmes Game of Shadows, War of the Arrows
2010 I Saw The Devil, Inception, The Yellow Sea, The Man From Nowhere, 13 Assassins
2009 City of Life and Death, Watchmen, Sherlock Holmes, Merantau
2008 The Good The Bad The Weird, Taken, Red Cliff, Rambo, Iron Man
2007 No Country For Old Men, The Bourne Ultimatum
2006 Children of Men, Curse of the Golden Flower, Crank
2005 Serenity, A History of Violence, A Bittersweet Life
2004 Downfall, Tai Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War, The Bourne Supremacy
2003 Master and Commander, LOTR Return of the King, Oldboy, Open Range, Ong Bak
2002 Infernal Affairs, City of God, 28 Days Later, LOTR: The Two Towers, Hero, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Sympathy For Mr. Vengeance, The Bourne Identity
2001 Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring, Band of Brothers, Black Hawk Down, Training Day
2000 Battle Royale, Memento, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Traffic, X-Men
1999 The Matrix, The Boondock Saints, Fight Club, Payback
1998 Saving Private Ryan, The Thin Red Line
1997 L.A. Confidential, Grosse Point Blank
1996 The Ghost and the Darkness
1995 The Usual Suspects, Se7en, Ghost in the Shell, Die Hard With a Vengeance
1994 Pulp Fiction, The Professional, Natural Born Killers, The Legend of Drunken Master
1993 The Fugitive, Sonatine, Stalingrad, Tombstone, In the Line of Fire
1992 Reservoir Dogs, Unforgiven, Hard Boiled
1991 The Silence of the Lambs, Terminator 2, Point Break
1990 Total Recall, Miller's Crossing, Dances With Wolves, The Hunt For Red October
1989 Lonesome Dove, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, The Killer
1988 Die Hard, Akira, They Live
1987 Full Metal Jacket, The Untouchables, Lethal Weapon, Robocop, The Princess Bride, Predator, A Better Tomorrow II
1986 Aliens, Platoon, Big Trouble in Little China,
1985 Ran, Back to the Future,
1984 The Terminator, Beverly Hills Cop, Romancing the Stone
1983 Scarface,
1982 Blade Runner, The Thing, The Wrath of Khan, First Blood, Conan the Barbarian
1981 Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Road Warrior, Das Boot, Escape From New York
1980 The Empire Strikes Back,
1979 Apocalypse Now, Alien,
1978 The Deer Hunter, Dawn of the Dead
1977 Star Wars,
1976
1975 Jaws,
1974 Chinatown,
1973 Enter the Dragon
1972 The Way of the Dragon, The Poseidon Adventure, The Chinese Connection
1971 A Clockwork Orange, The French Connection, Dirty Harry
1970 Patton, Kelly's Heroes
1969 The Wild Bunch, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,
1968 Once Upon a Time in the West
1967 In the Heat of the Night, Samurai Rebellion,
1966 The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly, Sword of Doom, The Battle of Algiers,
1965 For A Few Dollars More, The Flight of the Phoenix,
1964 Dr. Strangelove, A Fistful of Dollars, Zulu,
1963 The Great Escape
1962 Lawrence of Arabia, Harakiri, The Longest Day, Sanjuro
1961 Yojimbo, The Guns of the Navarone
1960 Spartacus,
1959 Rio Bravo
1958 Hidden Fortress
1957 Paths of Glory, Throne of Blood, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Kanal
1956 The Searchers,
1955 Kiss Me Deadly, The Big Combo
1954 Seven Samurai,
1953 The Wages of Fear,
1952 High Noon,
1951 The African Queen
1950 Asphalt Jungle, Winchester 73,
1949 Stray Dog, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
1948 Drunken Angel, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
1947 Out of the Past, The Lady From Shanghai
1946 The Big Sleep,
1945 Rome, Open City,
1944 Double Indemnity,
1943 Ossessione
1942 Casablanca
1941 The Maltese Falcon, ]]> mortalterror https://www.online-literature.com/forums/entry.php?15061-Great-Action-Movies Great Poets Plus Excerpts (51-77) https://www.online-literature.com/forums/entry.php?13633-Great-Poets-Plus-Excerpts-(51-77) Mon, 19 Jan 2015 20:41:34 GMT 51.Matsuo Basho- The Narrow Road to the Deep North The moon and sun are eternal travelers. Even the years wander on. A lifetime adrift in a boat,... 51.Matsuo Basho- The Narrow Road to the Deep North
The moon and sun are eternal travelers.
Even the years wander on.
A lifetime adrift in a boat, or in old age leading a tired horse into the years,
every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.

52.William Blake- Songs of Innocence and of Experience
"O little Cloud," the virgin said, "I charge thee tell to me,
Why thou complainest not when in one hour thou fade away:
Then we shall seek thee but not find; ah, Thel is like to Thee.
I pass away, yet I complain, and no one hears my voice."

The Cloud then shew'd his golden head & his bright form emerg'd,
Hovering and glittering on the air before the face of Thel.

"O virgin, know'st thou not our steeds drink of the golden springs
Where Luvah doth renew his horses? Look'st thou on my youth,
And fearest thou because I vanish and am seen no more,
Nothing remains? O maid, I tell thee, when I pass away,
It is to tenfold life, to love, to peace, and raptures holy:
Unseen descending, weigh my light wings upon balmy flowers,
And court the fair eyed dew, to take me to her shining tent:
The weeping virgin trembling kneels before the risen sun,
Till we arise link'd in a golden band, and never part,
But walk united, bearing food to all our tender flowers."

53.Robert Burns- A Red, Red Rose
O my Luve's like a red, red rose
That's newly sprung in June;
O my Luve's like the melodie
That's sweetly play'd in tune.

As fair art thou, my bonnie lass,
So deep in luve am I:
And I will luve thee still, my dear,
Till a' the seas gang dry:

Till a' the seas gang dry, my dear,
And the rocks melt wi' the sun:
I will luve thee still, my dear,
While the sands o' life shall run.

And fare thee well, my only Luve
And fare thee well, a while!
And I will come again, my Luve,
Tho' it were ten thousand mile.

54.Nguyen Du- The Tale of Kieu
West Lake flower garden: a desert, now.
Alone, at the window, I read through old pages.
A smudge of rouge, a sent of perfume, but
I still weep.
Is there a Fate for books?
Why mourn for a half-burned poem?
There is nothing, there is no one to question,
And yet this misery feels like my own.
Ah, in another three hundred years
Will anyone weep, remembering my Fate?

55.Byron- So We'll Go No More A'roving
So we'll go no more a-roving
So late into the night,
Though the heart be still as loving,
And the moon be still as bright.

For the sword outwears its sheath,
And the soul wears out the breast,
And the heart must pause to breathe,
And Love itself have rest.

Though the night was made for loving,
And the day returns too soon,
Yet we'll go no more a-roving
By the light of the moon.

56.Heinrich Heine- Book of Songs
I don't believe in Heaven,
Whose peace the preacher cites:
I only trust your eyes now,
They're my heavenly lights.

I don't believe in God above,
Who gets the preacher's nod:
I only trust your heart now,
And have no other god.

I don't believe in Devils,
In hell or hell's black art:
I only trust your eyes now,
And your devil's heart.

57.Lermontov- The Demon
A SPIRIT fallen from the realms of light
Above this dim world winged his weary flight,
For memories came crowding thick and fast
Of vanished splendours and delights long past. —
How erst, a Cherub bright, he loved to race
With fiery comets through the fields of space;
No mists could blind, no clouds his progress bar,
He followed knowledge on from star to star.
Creation's heir, the first-born of all time,
He loved, he trusted in that happy prime.

58.Poe- The Raven
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
`'Tis some visitor,' I muttered, `tapping at my chamber door -
Only this, and nothing more.'

Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December,
And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.
Eagerly I wished the morrow; - vainly I had sought to borrow
From my books surcease of sorrow - sorrow for the lost Lenore -
For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels named Lenore -
Nameless here for evermore.

59.Robert Browning- My Last Duchess and other dramatic Lyrics
She had
A heart—how shall I say?—too soon made glad,
Too easily impressed; she liked whate’er
She looked on, and her looks went everywhere.
Sir, ’twas all one! My favour at her breast,
The dropping of the daylight in the West,
The bough of cherries some officious fool
Broke in the orchard for her, the white mule
She rode with round the terrace—all and each
Would draw from her alike the approving speech,
Or blush, at least. She thanked men,—good! but thanked
Somehow—I know not how—as if she ranked
My gift of a nine-hundred-years-old name
With anybody’s gift. Who’d stoop to blame
This sort of trifling? Even had you skill
In speech—(which I have not)—to make your will
Quite clear to such an one, and say, “Just this
Or that in you disgusts me; here you miss,
Or there exceed the mark”—and if she let
Herself be lessoned so, nor plainly set
Her wits to yours, forsooth, and made excuse,
—E’en then would be some stooping; and I choose
Never to stoop.

60.Janos Arany- Toldi
Unbidden then, among the men,
There comes a dauntless third
With speech of fire he tunes his lyre,
And bitter is his word:

"Our bravest died to slake your pride -
Proud Edward, hear my lays!
No Welsh bards live who e'er will give
Your name a song a praise.

"Our harps with dead men's memories weep.
Welsh bards to you will sing
One changeless verse - our blackest curse
To blast your soul, O king!"

61.Dionysios Solomos- The Shark
Now downward and near wheels the golden-winged
that quickly left its branch for the rocky shore
and there takes in beauties of sea and sky,
and there heaves its voice with all its magic,
harmonizing sea with desolate stone,
and calls out the late night star that must rise.
Birdie, airing your voice of miracles,
if your marvelous song is not pure bliss,
nothing good has flowered here or in heaven.
Oh, if one stroke could get me where I'd go,
sea-foam, keep me afloat till my return,
with mother's kiss, native earth in my fist.

62.Elizabeth Barrett Browning- Sonnets from the Portuguese
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.
I love thee to the level of everyday's
Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.
I love thee freely, as men strive for Right;
I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise.
I love thee with a passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints, --- I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life! --- and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.

63.Gustavo Adolfo Becquer- Rhymes and Legends
When I behold the blue horizon merge
And lose itself afar within a gauze
Of restless, golden dust, my fancies urge,
That I could break all ordinary laws
And it seems possible to tear away
My eager spirit from this wretched clay,
To float with golden mists, dissolved in bright
And myriad atoms of celestial light.

When I behold, at night, the trembling stars
Within the dark recesses of the sky,
So that my fancy vividly compares
Their lustre with an ardent, burning eye,
It then seems possible to wing in flight
To where they shine and bathe within their light,
To kindle with them in a blazing sea
And in a kiss confound identity.

Although within a sea of doubt I plash
And spurn beliefs, which with my reason clash,
Yet they proclaim, these anxious doubts of mine,
A certain trace of origin divine.

64.Gerard Manley Hopkins- The Wreck of the Deutschland
Thou mastering me
God! giver of breath and bread;
World's strand, sway of the sea;
Lord of living and dead;
Thou hast bound bones & veins in me, fastened me flesh,
And after it almost unmade, what with dread,
Thy doing: and dost thou touch me afresh?
Over again I feel thy finger and find thee.

65.Arthur Rimbaud- The Drunken Boat
Where, suddenly dyeing the bluenesses, deliriums
And slow rhythms under the gleams of the daylight,
Stronger than alcohol, vaster than music
Ferment the bitter rednesses of love!

I have come to know the skies splitting with lightnings, and the waterspouts
And the breakers and currents; I know the evening,
And Dawn rising up like a flock of doves,
And sometimes I have seen what men have imagined they saw!

I have seen the low-hanging sun speckled with mystic horrors.
Lighting up long violet coagulations,
Like the performers in very-antique dramas
Waves rolling back into the distances their shiverings of venetian blinds!

66.Jose Hernandez- Martin Fierro
I waded amongst 'em
and began to tangle unafraid;
I stayed in a low crouch
as a pair of 'em came at me,
while along the ground I drew the tip
of my knife to lead 'em on.

The first glutton for punishment
came down on me with a slash;
I pushed it aside with my arm,
since if I hadn't, he'd 'uv killed my lice;
before he could take another step
I threw dirt in his two eyes.

67.Nguyen Gia Thieu- Sorrows of an Abandoned Queen
You were a fool, Old Man of the Moon,
to tie the knot making me an imperial concubine.
Still. . .such unspeakable delights that first night!
To what shall I compare it?
Sunlight gently sporting with the do-mi flower?
A peony unfolding to a long-awaited shower?
An apple blossom awakened to love on a spring night?
Or petals on a spring bough softly smiling
as the winter breeze turns away from the plum trees?
Ah, those rainbow dresses rustling in the wind,
those feather-coats dancing, glistening under the moon,
all in harmony with the music and song!
Mattresses stuffed with kingfisher down, exhaling perfume of musk,
jewels at my waist flashing with moonlight!
Only a few drops of rain: The peony swayed
in the Pavilion of Perfume.
Then the pure lute notes in the Green Hall,
the wailing flutes in the Red Floor Room,
each melody more intoxicating than the last,
more searing, more shattering to the mind!
Magnificent eyebrows beside a dragon figure:
What a beautiful couple we were!
The flower thanked Heaven for his grace;
willingly she accepted the name of Beauty.

68.Emily Dickinson- Poems
Because I could not stop for Death,
He kindly stopped for me;
The carriage held but just ourselves
And Immortality.

We slowly drove, he knew no haste,
And I had put away
My labor, and my leisure too,
For his civility.

We passed the school, where children strove
At recess, in the ring;
We passed the fields of gazing grain,
We passed the setting sun.

Or rather, he passed us;
The dews grew quivering and chill,
For only gossamer my gown,
My tippet only tulle.

We paused before a house that seemed
A swelling of the ground;
The roof was scarcely visible,
The cornice but a mound.

Since then 'tis centuries, and yet each
Feels shorter than the day
I first surmised the horses' heads
Were toward eternity.

69.Jose Marti- Simple Verses
My poems are like a dagger
Sprouting flowers from the hilt;
My poetry is like a fountain
Sprinkling streams of coral water.

My poems are light green
And flaming red;
My poetry is a wounded deer
Looking for the forest's sanctuary.

70.Edwin Arlington Robinson- Richard Cory
Whenever Richard Cory went down town,
We people on the pavement looked at him:
He was a gentleman from sole to crown,
Clean favored, and imperially slim.

And he was always quietly arrayed,
And he was always human when he talked;
But still he fluttered pulses when he said,
'Good-morning,' and he glittered when he walked.

And he was rich - yes, richer than a king -
And admirably schooled in every grace:
In fine, we thought that he was everything
To make us wish that we were in his place.

So on we worked, and waited for the light,
And went without the meat, and cursed the bread;
And Richard Cory, one calm summer night,
Went home and put a bullet through his head.

71.Carl Sandburg- Chicago
HOG Butcher for the World,
Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat,
Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler;
Stormy, husky, brawling,
City of the Big Shoulders:
They tell me you are wicked and I believe them, for I
have seen your painted women under the gas lamps
luring the farm boys.
And they tell me you are crooked and I answer: Yes, it
is true I have seen the gunman kill and go free to
kill again.
And they tell me you are brutal and my reply is: On the
faces of women and children I have seen the marks
of wanton hunger.
And having answered so I turn once more to those who
sneer at this my city, and I give them back the sneer
and say to them:
Come and show me another city with lifted head singing
so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning.
Flinging magnetic curses amid the toil of piling job on
job, here is a tall bold slugger set vivid against the
little soft cities;
Fierce as a dog with tongue lapping for action, cunning
as a savage pitted against the wilderness,

72.Rudyard Kipling- If
I have watched a thousand days
Push out and crawl into night
Slowly as tortoises.
Now I, too, follow these.
It is fever, and not the fight—
Time, not battle—that slays.

73.Gabriele D'Annunzio- The Rain in the Pinewood
Rain falls on the pine trees
Scaly and bristling,
Rain falls on the myrtles-
Divine,
On the broom-shrubs gleaming
With clustered flowers,
On the junipers thick
With fragrant berries,
Rain falls on our faces-
Sylvan,
Rain falls on our hands-
Naked,
On our clothes-
Light,
On the fresh thoughts
That our soul discloses-
Renewed,
On the lovely fable
That yesterday
Beguiled you, that beguiles me today,

74.Arnaut Daniel- On this gay and slender tune
On this gay and slender tune
I put and polish words and plane
and when I’ve passed the file they’ll be
precise and firm.
For Love himself pares down and gilds my song
which moves from her whose glances are
the firm light rails that guide all excellence.

I tell you frankly, she I adore and serve
‘s the loveliest in the world.
Because I’m hers from head to toe
I cleanse myself, and though wind blow in winter
the love flowing in my heart keeps ice
out of the stream the coldest weather.

75.Bernart de Ventadorn- When I See the Lark
When I see the lark beat his wings
for joy against the sun's ray,
until he forgets to fly and plummets down,
for the sheer delight which goes to his heart,
alas, great envy comes to me
of those whom I see filled with happiness,
and I marvel that my heart
does not instantly melt from desire.

Alas, I thought I knew so much about love,
and really I know so little,
for I cannot keep myself from loving her
from whom I shall have no favor.
She has stolen from me my heart, myself,
herself, and all the world.
When she took herself from me, she left me nothing
but desire and a longing heart.

76.Bertran de Born- The Joyful Springtime Pleases Me
It pleases me when outriders
Make labourers and cattle flee,
It pleases me when follow after
Crowds of well-armed soldiery,
And I am pleased at heart,
To see great castles forced by art
Their walls taken, rent apart,
To see a host at war,
Enclosed by moats in every part,
With close-knit palisades and more.

I’m also pleased to view some lord
Who leads the vanguard in attack,
On armoured horse, a fearless sword,
Who can inspire his men to hack
Away and bravely fight,
And when the conflict’s joined aright,
Each must in readiness delight,
And follow where he might,
For none attains to honour’s height
Till blows have landed left and right.

77.Francois Villon- Ballad of the Dead Ladies
TELL me now in what hidden way is
Lady Flora the lovely Roman?
Where ’s Hipparchia, and where is Thais,
Neither of them the fairer woman
Where is Echo, beheld of no man,
Only heard on river and mere,—
She whose beauty was more than human?…
But where are the snows of yester-year?

Where ’s Héloise, the learned nun,
For whose sake Abeillard, I ween,
Lost manhood and put priesthood on?
(From Love he won such dule and teen!)
And where, I pray you, is the Queen
Who will’d that Buridan should steer
Sew’d in a sack’s mouth down the Seine?…
But where are the snows o yester-year?

White Queen Blanche, like a queen of lilies,
With a voice like any mermaiden,—
Bertha Broadfoot, Beatrice, Alice,
And Ermengarde the lady of Maine,—
And that good Joan whom English-men
At Rouen doom’d and burn’d her there,—
Mother of God, where are they then?…
But where are the snows of yester-year?

Nay, never ask this week, fair lord,
Where they are gone, nor yet this year,
Save with thus much for an overword,—
But where are the snows of yester-year? ]]> mortalterror https://www.online-literature.com/forums/entry.php?13633-Great-Poets-Plus-Excerpts-(51-77) Greatest Poets Plus Excerpts (25-50) https://www.online-literature.com/forums/entry.php?13632-Greatest-Poets-Plus-Excerpts-(25-50) Mon, 19 Jan 2015 20:35:46 GMT 25.Tennyson- Ulysses Death closes all: but something ere the end, Some work of noble note, may yet be done, Not unbecoming men that strove with... 25.Tennyson- Ulysses
Death closes all: but something ere the end,
Some work of noble note, may yet be done,
Not unbecoming men that strove with Gods.
The lights begin to twinkle from the rocks:
The long day wanes: the slow moon climbs: the deep
Moans round with many voices. Come, my friends,
'Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
Push off, and sitting well in order smite
The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds
To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths
Of all the western stars, until I die.
It may be that the gulfs will wash us down:
It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles,
And see the great Achilles, whom we knew
Though much is taken, much abides; and though
We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven; that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

26.Ezra Pound- Make Strong Old Dreams
Make-strong old dreams lest this our wold lose heart.

For man is a skinfull of wine
But his soul is a hole full of God
And the song of all time blows thru him
As wind thru a knot-holed board.

Tho man be a skin full of wine
Yet his heart is a little child
That croucheth low beneath the wind
When the God-storm battereth wild.

27.Robert Frost- Mending Wall, The Road Less Taken
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

28.John Donne- Works
Go and catch a falling star,
Get with child a mandrake root,
Tell me where all past years are,
Or who cleft the devil's foot,
Teach me to hear mermaids singing,
Or to keep off envy's stinging,
And find
What wind
Serves to advance an honest mind.

If thou be'st born to strange sights,
Things invisible to see,
Ride ten thousand days and nights,
Till age snow white hairs on thee,
Thou, when thou return'st, wilt tell me,
All strange wonders that befell thee,
And swear,
No where
Lives a woman true, and fair.

If thou find'st one, let me know,
Such a pilgrimage were sweet;
Yet do not, I would not go,
Though at next door we might meet;
Though she were true, when you met her,
And last, till you write your letter,
Yet she
Will be
False, ere I come, to two, or three.

29.John Wilmot- The Farce of Sodom
Much wine had passed, with grave discourse
Of who ****s who, and who does worse
(Such as you usually do hear
From those that diet at the Bear),
When I, who still take care to see
Drunkenness relieved by lechery,
Went out into St. James's Park
To cool my head and fire my heart.
But though St. James has th' honor on 't,
'Tis consecrate to prick and ****.
There, by a most incestuous birth,
Strange woods spring from the teeming earth;
For they relate how heretofore,
When ancient Pict began to ****,
Deluded of his assignation
(Jilting, it seems, was then in fashion),
Poor pensive lover, in this place
Would frig upon his mother's face;
Whence rows of mandrakes tall did rise
Whose lewd tops ****ed the very skies.

30.Statius- The Thebaid
The horses match their masters' fire: eyes flash,
Teeth grind and bloody foam corrodes the bits.
Their pressure almost bursts the starting-gates
As in their thwarted rage they snort and steam.
To stand's such torture, countless steps are lost
Before the start and hooves pound down the course
That's still to come. The faithful grooms stand by,
Adjusting harness, smoothing tangled manes,
With words of courage, wealth of good advice.
The trumpet sounded and away they all
Hurtled. What sails at sea, what spears in war,
What clouds across the sky, can fly so fast?
Weaker are winter spates and forest fires,
Slower shoot stars, slower fall sheets of rain,
Slower rush cataracts from mountain peaks.

31.Ruben Dario- To Roosevelt
You think that life is fire,
that progress is eruption,
that wherever you shoot
you hit the future.

No.

The United States is potent and great.
When you shake there is a deep tremblor
that passes through the enormous vertebrae of the Andes.
If you clamor, it is heard like the roaring of a lion.
Hugo already said it to Grant: The stars are yours.
(The Argentine sun, ascending, barely shines,
and the Chilean star rises...) You are rich.
You join the cult of Hercules to the cult of Mammon,
and illuminating the road of easy conquest,
Liberty raises its torch in New York.

32.Constantine P. Cavafy- Ithaca, The Horses of Achilles
When they saw Patroklos dead
—so brave and strong, so young—
the horses of Achilles began to weep;
their immortal nature was upset deeply
by this work of death they had to look at.
They reared their heads, tossed their long manes,
beat the ground with their hooves, and mourned
Patroklos, seeing him lifeless, destroyed,
now mere flesh only, his spirit gone,
defenseless, without breath,
turned back from life to the great Nothingness.
*
Zeus saw the tears of those immortal horses and felt sorry.
“At the wedding of Peleus,” he said,
“I should not have acted so thoughtlessly.
Better if we hadn’t given you as a gift,
my unhappy horses. What business did you have down there,
among pathetic human beings, the toys of fate.
You are free of death, you will not get old,
yet ephemeral disasters torment you.
Men have caught you up in their misery.”
But it was for the eternal disaster of death
that those two gallant horses shed their tears.

33.John Keats- Endymion
A thing of beauty is a joy for ever:
Its loveliness increases; it will never
Pass into nothingness; but still will keep
A bower quiet for us, and a sleep
Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.
Therefore, on every morrow, are we wreathing
A flowery band to bind us to the earth,
Spite of despondence, of the inhuman dearth
Of noble natures, of the gloomy days,
Of all the unhealthy and o'er-darkened ways
Made for our searching: yes, in spite of all,
Some shape of beauty moves away the pall
From our dark spirits. Such the sun, the moon,
Trees old, and young, sprouting a shady boon
For simple sheep; and such are daffodils
With the green world they live in; and clear rills
That for themselves a cooling covert make
'Gainst the hot season; the mid-forest brake,
Rich with a sprinkling of fair musk-rose blooms:
And such too is the grandeur of the dooms
We have imagined for the mighty dead;
All lovely tales that we have heard or read:
An endless fountain of immortal drink,
Pouring unto us from the heaven's brink.

34.Bai Juyi- Song of Unending Sorrow, Song of the Lute Player
The flower of the pear-tree gathers and turns to fruit;
The swallows' eggs have hatched into young birds.
When the Seasons' changes thus confront the mind
What comfort can the Doctrine of Tao give?
It will teach me to watch the days and months fly
Without grieving that Youth slips away;
If the Fleeting World is but a long dream,
It does not matter whether one is young or old.
But ever since the day that my friend left my side
And has lived an exile in the City of Chiang-ling,
There is one wish I cannot quite destroy:
That from time to time we may chance to meet again.

35.Li Bai- T'ien-mu Mountain Ascended in a Dream
And the monkeys calling clearly over ripples of green water.
I wear his pegged boots
Up a ladder of blue cloud,
Sunny ocean half-way,
Holy ****-crow in space,
Myriad peaks and more valleys and nowhere a road.
Flowers lure me, rocks ease me. Day suddenly ends.
Bears, dragons, tempestuous on mountain and river,
Startle the forest and make the heights tremble.
Clouds darken with darkness of rain,
Streams pale with pallor of mist.
The Gods of Thunder and Lightning
Shatter the whole range.
The stone gate breaks asunder
Venting in the pit of heaven,
An impenetrable shadow.
...But now the sun and moon illumine a gold and silver terrace,
And, clad in rainbow garments, riding on the wind,
Come the queens of all the clouds, descending one by one,
With tigers for their lute-players and phoenixes for dancers.
Row upon row, like fields of hemp, range the fairy figures.
I move, my soul goes flying,
I wake with a long sigh,
My pillow and my matting
Are the lost clouds I was in.
...And this is the way it always is with human joy:

36.Omar Khayyam- The Rubaiyyat
'Tis all a Chequer-board of Nights and Days
Where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays:
Hither and thither moves, and mates, and slays,
And one by one back in the Closet lays.

37. Kabti-ilani-Marduk- Epic of Erra
When Anu, the king of the gods, sowed his seed in the earth, She bore him seven gods, he called them the Seven. They stood before him, that he ordain their destinies, He summoned the first to give his instructions,
"Wherever you go and spread terror, have no equal."
He said to the second, "Burn like fire, scorch like flame".
He commanded the third, "Look like a lion, let him who sees you be paralyzed with fear".
He said to the fourth, "Let a mountain collapse when you present your fierce arms".
He said to the fifth, "Blast like the wind, scan the circumference of the earth".
He said to the sixth. "Go out everywhere (like the deluge) and spare no one".
The seventh he charged with viperous venom," Slay whatever lives".

38.Victor Hugo- The Expiation
It snowed. Someone was defeated by his conquering.
For the first time, the eagle lowered its head.
Heavy days! The emperor came back slowly,
Letting Moscow in smoke burn behind him.
It snowed. The sharp winter came upon one, tumblingly.
After that white plain, another white plain.
Unrecognized now, chiefs and banners.
Yesterday la grande armée and now a flock of something.
Wings and centre were no longer told apart.
It snowed. The wounded hid themselves in the bellies
Of dead horses; at the edge of deserted encampments
You might see trumpeters frozen to their post,
Remaining upright, caparisoned and still, white in frost,
Sticking their stony mouths to trumpets of copper.
Bullets, grapeshot, shells, mixed with white flakes,
Fell down; grenadiers, surprised that they were trembling,
Marched in thought, ice at their grey moustaches.
It snowed. It snowed always! The cold wind
Whistled. A surface of frozen rain, in some dim place—
Men walked on this with bare feet and without food.
These were no longer living hearts, folk of war.
It was a dream wandering in cold haze, a mystery,
A procession of shades under a black sky.
The vast loneliness, fearful to look at,
Everywhere appeared: a mute avenger.

39.Goethe- Faust
All was void, and mute, and still,
God's first taste of solitude.
Then he made the rose of dawn,
Pity on the pain she strewed,
So inventing for the dark,
Of hues and harmonies a game,
And everything that fell apart
Now could fall in love again.

40.Walt Whitman- Leaves of Grass
Out of the cradle endlessly rocking,
Out of the mocking-bird's throat, the musical shuttle,
Out of the Ninth-month midnight,
Over the sterile sands and the fields beyond, where the child
leaving his bed wander'd alone, bareheaded, barefoot,
Down from the shower'd halo,
Up from the mystic play of shadows twining and twisting as if they
were alive,
Out from the patches of briers and blackberries,
From the memories of the bird that chanted to me,
From your memories sad brother, from the fitful risings and fallings I heard,
From under that yellow half-moon late-risen and swollen as if with tears,
From those beginning notes of yearning and love there in the mist,
From the thousand responses of my heart never to cease,
From the myriad thence-arous'd words,
From the word stronger and more delicious than any,
From such as now they start the scene revisiting,
As a flock, twittering, rising, or overhead passing,
Borne hither, ere all eludes me, hurriedly,
A man, yet by these tears a little boy again,
Throwing myself on the sand, confronting the waves,
I, chanter of pains and joys, uniter of here and hereafter,
Taking all hints to use them, but swiftly leaping beyond them,
A reminiscence sing.

41.Kabir- Songs
WHEN He Himself reveals Himself, Brahma brings into manifestation That which can never be seen.
As the seed is in the plant, as the shade is in the tree, as the void is in the sky, as infinite forms are in the void--
So from beyond the Infinite, the Infinite comes; and from the Infinite the finite extends.

The creature is in Brahma, and Brahma is in the creature: they are ever distinct, yet ever united.
He Himself is the tree, the seed, and the germ.
He Himself is the flower, the fruit, and the shade.
He Himself is the sun, the light, and the lighted.
He Himself is Brahma, creature, and Maya.
He Himself is the manifold form, the infinite space;
He is the breath, the word, and the meaning.
He Himself is the limit and the limitless: and beyond both the limited and the limitless is He, the Pure Being.
He is the Immanent Mind in Brahma and in the creature.

42.Ronsard- When You Are Truly Old
When you are truly old, beside the evening candle,
Sitting by the fire, winding wool and spinning,
Murmuring my verses, you’ll marvel then, in saying,
‘Long ago, Ronsard sang me, when I was beautiful.’

There’ll be no serving-girl of yours, who hears it all,
Even if, tired from toil, she’s already drowsing,
Fails to rouse at the sound of my name’s echoing,
And blesses your name, then, with praise immortal.

I’ll be under the earth, a boneless phantom,
At rest in the myrtle groves of the dark kingdom:
You’ll be an old woman hunched over the fire,

Regretting my love for you, your fierce disdain,
So live, believe me: don’t wait for another day,
Gather them now the roses of life, and desire.

43.Wyatt- They Flee From Me
They flee from me that sometime did me seek
With naked foot, stalking in my chamber.
I have seen them gentle, tame, and meek,
That now are wild and do not remember
That sometime they put themself in danger
To take bread at my hand; and now they range,
Busily seeking with a continual change.

Thanked be fortune it hath been otherwise
Twenty times better; but once in special,
In thin array after a pleasant guise,
When her loose gown from her shoulders did fall,
And she me caught in her arms long and small;
Therewithall sweetly did me kiss
And softly said, “Dear heart, how like you this?”

It was no dream: I lay broad waking.
But all is turned thorough my gentleness
Into a strange fashion of forsaking;
And I have leave to go of her goodness,
And she also, to use newfangleness.
But since that I so kindly am served
I would fain know what she hath deserved.

44.Alexander Pope- Essay on Man
Let Sporus tremble –"What? that thing of silk,
Sporus, that mere white curd of ***'s milk?
Satire or sense, alas! can Sporus feel?
Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?"
Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings,
This painted child of dirt that stinks and stings;
Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys,
Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er enjoys,

45.Judah Halevi- Ode to Zion
I rend the beauty of my locks, and cry
In bitter wrath against the cruel fate
That bids thy holy Nazarites to lie
In earth contaminate.
How can I make or meat or drink my care,
How can mine eyes enjoy
The light of day, when I see ravens tear
Thy eagles' flesh, and dogs thy lions' whelps destroy?

46.Joachim du Bellay- The Regrets
If I climb to the Palace, I find only pride,
Vice disguised, nothing but ceremony,
The noise of tambourines, strange harmony,
And red robes flowing in a crimson tide:

If I go down to the bank, I’m well supplied
With novelty, new faces, infinite usury,
Rich exiled Florentines, are there, in plenty,
And the poor Siennese, to grief allied:

If I wander, somewhere I’m bound to pass
The hordes of Venus, in lascivious mass,
Flaunting a thousand amorous charms the while:

If from new Rome I resolve to cross over
And enter the old Rome, there I discover
Only dead monuments, a vast stony pile.

47.Francois de Malherbe- Consolation for Mr. du Perier
I know that her childhood was full of charms,
and I have not undertaken,
furious friend, to relieve your pain
with scorn.

But she was of this world,
where the most beautiful things
have the worst fate;
and, a rose, she lived as roses live,
the space of a morning.

48.Aneirin- Y Gododdin
Man's mettle, youth's years, courage for combat:
Swift thick-maned stallions beneath a fine stripling's thighs,
Broad lightweight buckler on a slim steed's crupper,
Glittering blue blades, gold-bordered garments.
Never will there be bitterness between us:
Rather I make of you song that will praise you.
The blood-soaked field before the marriage-feast,
Foodstuff for crows before the burial.
A dear comrade, Owain; vile, his cover of crows.
Ghastly to me that ground, slain, Marro's only son.

49.George Herbert- The Temple
Lord, Who createdst man in wealth and store,
Though foolishly he lost the same,
Decaying more and more,
Till he became
Most poore:

With Thee
O let me rise,
As larks, harmoniously,
And sing this day Thy victories:
Then shall the fall further the flight in me.

My tender age in sorrow did beginne;
And still with sicknesses and shame
Thou didst so punish sinne,
That I became
Most thinne.

With Thee
Let me combine,
And feel this day Thy victorie;
For, if I imp my wing on Thine,
Affliction shall advance the flight in me.

50.Andrew Marvell- To His Coy Mistress
But at my back I always hear
Time's winged chariot hurrying near;
And yonder all before us lie
Deserts of vast eternity.
Thy beauty shall no more be found,
Nor, in thy marble vault, shall sound
My echoing song; then worms shall try
That long preserv'd virginity,
And your quaint honour turn to dust,
And into ashes all my lust.
The grave's a fine and private place,
But none I think do there embrace. ]]> mortalterror https://www.online-literature.com/forums/entry.php?13632-Greatest-Poets-Plus-Excerpts-(25-50) Greatest Poets Plus Excerpts (1-24) https://www.online-literature.com/forums/entry.php?13631-Greatest-Poets-Plus-Excerpts-(1-24) Mon, 19 Jan 2015 20:30:36 GMT 1.Dante- Paradiso In fashion then as of a snow-white rose Displayed itself to me the saintly host, Whom Christ in his own blood had made his... 1.Dante- Paradiso
In fashion then as of a snow-white rose
Displayed itself to me the saintly host,
Whom Christ in his own blood had made his bride,

But the other host, that flying sees and sings
The glory of Him who doth enamour it,
And the goodness that created it so noble,

Even as a swarm of bees, that sinks in flowers
One moment, and the next returns again
To where its labour is to sweetness turned,

Sank into the great flower, that is adorned
With leaves so many, and thence reascended
To where its love abideth evermore.

Their faces had they all of living flame,
And wings of gold, and all the rest so white
No snow unto that limit doth attain.

2.Shakespeare- Titus Andronicus
LUCIUS
Art thou not sorry for these heinous deeds?
AARON
Ay, that I had not done a thousand more.
Even now I curse the day--and yet, I think,
Few come within the compass of my curse,--
Wherein I did not some notorious ill,
As kill a man, or else devise his death,
Ravish a maid, or plot the way to do it,
Accuse some innocent and forswear myself,
Set deadly enmity between two friends,
Make poor men's cattle break their necks;
Set fire on barns and hay-stacks in the night,
And bid the owners quench them with their tears.
Oft have I digg'd up dead men from their graves,
And set them upright at their dear friends' doors,
Even when their sorrows almost were forgot;
And on their skins, as on the bark of trees,
Have with my knife carved in Roman letters,
'Let not your sorrow die, though I am dead.'
Tut, I have done a thousand dreadful things
As willingly as one would kill a fly,
And nothing grieves me heartily indeed
But that I cannot do ten thousand more.

3.Homer- The Iliad
Now the stout heart of Ajax cared no longer
to stay where others had withdrawn; he moved
with long strides on the ships' decks, making play
with his long polished pike, the sections joined
by rivets, long as twenty-two forearms.
Think of an expert horseman, who has harnessed
a double team together from his string
and rides them from the plain to a big town
along the public road, where many see him,
men and women both; with perfect ease,
he changed horses, leaping, at a gallup.
That was Ajax, going from deck to deck
of many ships with his long stride, his shout
rising to heaven, as in raging tones
he ordered the Danaans to defend them.

4.Ferdowsi- The Shahnameh
Both armies drew their swords and closed amid
The din of trump and drum, the sky was ebon,
Earth indigo, while swords and maces gleamed
Like lightning flashing from a murky cloud.
The air was crimson, black, and violet,
With spears and flags. The shouting of the divs,
The clouds of dust, the roar of kettledrums,
And neigh of steeds, rent earth and shook the mountains;
None e'er saw such a fight. Arose the din
Of arrow, mace, and sword, the plain became
A pool of heroes' blood, earth like a sea
Of pitch whose waves were maces, swords, and arrows.
Swift steeds sped on like ships upon the deep.
And thou hadst said of them :"They founder fast !

5.Vyasa- The Bhagavad Ghita
Then, O King! the God, so saying,
Stood, to Pritha's Son displaying
All the splendour, wonder, dread
Of His vast Almighty-head.
Out of countless eyes beholding,
Out of countless mouths commanding,
Countless mystic forms enfolding
In one Form: supremely standing
Countless radiant glories wearing,
Countless heavenly weapons bearing,
Crowned with garlands of star-clusters,
Robed in garb of woven lustres,
Breathing from His perfect Presence
Breaths of every subtle essence
Of all heavenly odours; shedding
Blinding brilliance; overspreading—
Boundless, beautiful—all spaces
With His all-regarding faces;
So He showed!

6.Virgil- The Aeneid
Truly we found here a prodigious fight,
As though there were none elsewhere, not a death
In the whole city: Mars gone berserk, Danaans
In a rush to scale the roof; the gate besieged
By a tortoise shell of overlapping shields.
Ladders clung to the wall, and men strove upward
Before the very doorposts, on the rungs,
Left hand putting the shield up, and the right
Reaching for the cornice. The defenders
Wrenched out upperworks and rooftiles: these
For missiles, as they saw the end, preparing
To fight back even on the edge of death.
And gilded beams, ancestral ornaments,
They rolled down on the heads below. In hall
Others with swords drawn held the entrance way,
Packed there, waiting. Now we plucked up heart
To help the royal house, to give our men
A respite, and to add our strength to theirs,
Though all were beaten. And we had for entrance
A rear door, secret, giving on a passage
Between the palace halls; in other days
Andromache, poor lady, often used it,
Going alone to see her husband's parents
Or taking Astyanax to his grandfather.
I climbed high on the roof, where hopeless men
Were picking up and throwing futile missiles.
Here was a tower like a promontory
Rising toward the stars above the roof:
All Troy, the Danaan ships, the Achaen camp,
Were visible from this. Now close beside it
With crowbars, where the flooring made loose joints,
We pried it from its bed and pushed it over.
Down with a rending crash in sudden ruin
Wide over the Danaan lines it fell;
But fresh troops moved up, and the rain of stones
With every kind of missile never ceased.

7.Ovid- The Heroides
Penelope to the tardy Ulysses:
do not answer these lines, but come, for
Troy is dead and the daughters of Greece rejoice.
But all of Troy and Priam himself
are not worth the price I've paid for victory.
How often I have wished that Paris
had drowned before he reached our welcoming shores.
If he had died I would not have been
compelled now to sleep alone in my cold bed
complaining always of the tiresome
prospect of endless nights and days spent working
like a poor widow at my tedious loom.
Imagining hazards more awful than real,
love has always been tempered by fear:
I was sure it was you the Trojans attacked
and the name of Hector made me pale;
if someone told the tale of Antilochus
I dreamed of you dead as he had died;
if they sang of the death of Menoetius' son,
slain in armour not his own, I wept,
because even clever tricks had failed

8.Tasso- Jerusalem Delivered
I sing the reverent armies, and that Chief
who set the great tomb of our Savior free;
much he performed with might and judgement, much
he suffered in the glorious victory;
in vain Hell rose athwart his path, in vain
two continents combined in mutiny.
Heaven graced him with it's favor, and restored
his straying men to the banner of the Lord.

O Muse, who do not string a garland of
the fading laurel fronds of Helicon,
but far in heaven among the blessed choirs
wreathe deathless stars into a golden crown
breathe into my heart the fire of Heavenly love,
illuminate my song and if I have sewn
embroideries of the truth in any place,
I ask forgiveness for their lesser grace.

9.Milton- Paradise Lost
horror and doubt distract
His troubl'd thoughts, and from the bottom stirr
The Hell within him, for within him Hell
He brings, and round about him, nor from Hell
One step no more then from himself can fly
By change of place:

10.Rumi- Masnavi
Yet ears are slow, and carnal eyes are blind.
Free through each mortal form the spirits roll,
But sight avails not. Can we see the soul?
Such notes breath'd gently from yon vocal frame:
Breath'd said I? no; 'twas all enliv'ning flame.
'Tis love, that fills the reed with warmth divine;
'Tis love, that sparkles in the racy wine.

11.Aeschylus-Agamemnon
Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget,
falls drop by drop upon the heart,
until in our own despair, against our will,
comes wisdom, through the awful grace of God.

12.Baudelaire- Flowers of Evil
Folly and error, stinginess and sin
Possess our spirits and fatigue our flesh.
And like a pet we feed our tame remorse
As beggars take to nourishing their lice.

Our sins are stubborn, our contrition lax;
We offer lavishly our vows of faitb
And turn back gladly to tbe path of filth,
Thinking mean tears will wash away our stains.

On evil's pillow lies the alchemist
Satan Thrice-Great, who lulls our captive soul,
And all the richest metal of our will
Is vaporized by his hermetie arts.

Truly tbe Devil pulls on all our strings!
In most repugnant objects we find charms;
Each day we're one step furtber into Hell,
Content to move across tbe stinking pit.

As a poor libertine will suck and kiss
The sad, tormented tit of some old whore,
We steal a furtive pleasure as we pass,
A shrivelled orange that we squeeze and press.

Close, swarming, like a million writhing worms,
A demon nation riots in our brains,
And, when we breathe, death flows into our lungs,
A secret stream of dull, lamenting cries.

13.Jayadeva- Gita Govinda
Fish! that didst outswim the flood;
Tortoise! whereon earth hath stood;
Boar! who with thy tusk held'st high
The world, that mortals might not die;
Lion! who hast giants torn;
Dwarf! who laugh'dst a king to scorn;
Sole Subduer of the Dreaded!
Slayer of the many-headed!
Mighty Ploughman! Teacher tender!
Of thine own the sure Defender!
Under all thy ten disguises
Endless praise to thee arises.

Endless praise arises,
O thou God that liest
Rapt, on Kumla's breast,
Happiest, holiest, highest!
Planets are thy jewels,
Stars thy forehead-gems,
Set like sapphires gleaming
In kingliest anadems;
Even the great gold Sun-God,
Blazing through the sky,
Serves thee but for crest-stone,
_Jai, jai!_ Hari, _jai!_
As that Lord of day
After night brings morrow,
Thou dost charm away
Life's long dream of sorrow.

14.Anonymous- Book of Job
Can an innocent man be punished?
Can a good man die in distress?
I have seen the plowers of evil
reaping the crimes they sowed.
One breath from God and they shrivel up;
one blast of his rage and they burn.
The lion may roar with fury,
but his teeth are cracked in his mouth.
The jackal howls and goes hungry;
the wolf is driven away.

15.Jean Racine- Andromache
PYLADES: What, is it true? Your soul a slave to love,
you are thrown upon its mercy? By what charm,
forgetting so much agony endured,
could you consent to wear those irons again?
Do you suppose Hermione, cold in Sparta,
waits burning in Epirus? Well ashamed
to have persisted in such useless prayers,
you hated her, you spoke no more of her.
Sir, you deceived me.
ORESTES: I deceived myself.

16.T.S. Eliot- The Lovesong of J Alfred Prufrock
I should have been a pair of ragged claws
Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.
. . . . .

And the afternoon, the evening, sleeps so peacefully!
Smoothed by long fingers,
Asleep . . . tired . . . or it malingers,
Stretched on the floor, here beside you and me.
Should I, after tea and cakes and ices,
Have the strength to force the moment to its crisis?
But though I have wept and fasted, wept and prayed,
Though I have seen my head (grown slightly bald) brought in upon a platter,
I am no prophet–and here's no great matter;
I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker,
And I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker,
And in short, I was afraid.

17.Du Fu- Song of the Wagons
"Where do you go to-day ?" a passer-by
Calls to the marching men.
A grizzled old veteran answers him,
Halting his swinging stride:
"At fifteen I was sent to the north
To guard the river against the Hun;
At forty I was sent to camp,
To farm in the west, far, far from home.
When I left, my hair was long and black;
When I came home, it was white and thin.
Today they send me again to the wars,
Back to the north frontier,
By whose gray towers our blood has flowed
In a red tide, like the sea--
And will flow again, for Wu Huang Ti
Is resolved to rule the world.

18.Leopardi- Infinitive
I've always loved this lonesome hill
And this hedge that hides
The entire horizon, almost, from sight.
But sitting here in a daydream, I picture
The boundless spaces away out there, silences
Deeper than human silence, an unfathomable hush
In which my heart is hardly a beat
From fear. And hearing the wind
Rush rustling through these bushes,
I pit its speech against infinite silence-
And a notion of eternity floats to mind,
And the dead seasons, and the season
Beating here and now, and the sound of it. So,
In this immensity my toughts all drown;
And it's easeful to be wrecked in seas like these.

19.Coleridge- The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Day after day, day after day,
We stuck, nor breath nor motion;
As idle as a painted ship
Upon a painted ocean.

Water, water, every where,
And all the boards did shrink;
Water, water, every where,
Nor any drop to drink.

The very deep did rot: O Christ!
That ever this should be!
Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs
Upon the slimy sea.

About, about, in reel and rout
The death-fires danced at night;
The water, like a witch's oils,
Burnt green, and blue and white.

And some in dreams assured were
Of the spirit that plagued us so:
Nine fathom deep he had followed us
From the land of mist and snow.

20.Lucan- Pharsalia
Tyrrhenus high
Upon the bulwarks of his ship was struck
By leaden bolt from Balearic sling
Of Lygdamus; straight through his temples passed
The fated missile; and in streams of blood
Forced from their seats his trembling eyeballs fell.
Plunged in a darkness as of night, he thought
That life had left him; yet ere long he knew
The living rigour of his limbs; and cried,
"Place me, O friends, as some machine of war
Straight facing towards the foe; then shall my darts
Strike as of old; and thou, Tyrrhenus, spend
Thy latest breath, still left, upon the fight:
So shalt thou play, not wholly dead, the part
That fits a soldier, and the spear that strikes
Thy frame, shall miss the living." Thus he spake,
And hurled his javelin, blind, but not in vain;
For Argus, generous youth of noble blood,
Below the middle waist received the spear
And falling drave it home. His aged sire
From furthest portion of the conquered ship
Beheld; than whom in prime of manhood none,
More brave in battle: now no more he fought,
Yet did the memory of his prowess stir
Phocaean youths to emulate his fame.
Oft stumbling o'er the benches the old man hastes
To reach his boy, and finds him breathing still.
No tear bedewed his cheek, nor on his breast
One blow he struck, but o'er his eyes there fell
A dark impenetrable veil of mist
That blotted out the day; nor could he more
Discern his luckless Argus.He, who saw
His parent, raising up his drooping head
With parted lips and silent features asks
A father's latest kiss, a father's hand
To close his dying eyes. But soon his sire,
Recovering from his swoon, when ruthless grief
Possessed his spirit, "This short space," he cried,
"I lose not, which the cruel gods have given,
But die before thee. Grant thy sorrowing sire
Forgiveness that he fled thy last embrace.
Not yet has passed thy life blood from the wound
Nor yet is death upon thee -- still thou may'st
Outlive thy parent." Thus he spake, and seized
The reeking sword and drave it to the hilt,
Then plunged into the deep, with headlong bound,
To anticipate his son: for this he feared
A single form of death should not suffice.

21.Wordsworth- I wandered lonely as a Cloud
I wandered lonely as a Cloud
That floats on high o'er Vales and Hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd
A host of dancing Daffodils;
Along the Lake, beneath the trees,
Ten thousand dancing in the breeze.

The waves beside them danced, but they
Outdid the sparkling waves in glee: --
A poet could not but be gay
In such a laughing company:
I gazed—and gazed—but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:

For oft when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude,
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the Daffodils.

22.Shelley- Ozymandias
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: `Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert... Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear --
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.'

23.Petrarch- The Secret
And what is life itself? A space of toil,
A wrestling, a stage-play, a labyrinth
Of errors, or a game of mountebanks,
A desert, a morass, a land of briers,
An unploughed valley, or a crest unclomb:
Sombre its caves, and what wild beasts dwell there!
There is the stream of tears, the sea of woes,
Rest ever anxious, labour all for naught,
Hope without fruit, false pleasure but true pain,
Full breadth of poverty but empty wealth,
Inglorious honour, waste of all desire,
Adversity with never-stayned complaint,
The sting in all enjoyment, and the sweet,
Alas, not seldom bitter; a brief halt
At wayside inns; a dirty prison; a ship
Without a rudder; a blind man unled;
A stormy sea, a dangerous coast, a port
All doubtful,--with no dearth of monstrous wreck;
Hate, lust, and anger, virtue aye assumed,
Successful fraud labelled with honour's name,
Innocence scoffed at, faith held up to scorn,
And puffed-up science that no science is;
A land of ghosts and spectres, 'neath the reign
Of Lucifer and demons; or a sleep
Death ends and every dream. But yet some way
Remains, thank heaven, to good life, and hereafter
Unto the eternal.

24.Yeats- The Second Coming
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: a waste of desert sand;
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Wind shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
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Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Edge of Tomorrow, Monuments Men

2013
12 Years a Slave, 42, All is Lost, American Hustle, Captain Philips, The Conjuring, Elysium, Ender's Game, Gangster Squad, Gravity, The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug, Inside Llewin Davis, The Last Stand, The Last of Us, The Lone Ranger, Lone Survivor, Man of Steel, Odd Thomas, Olympus has Fallen, Pacific Rim, Prisoners, Star Trek: Into Darkness, This is the End, Thor 2: The Dark World, White House Down, The World's End, World War Z

2012
Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter, The Act of Killing, Argo, The Avengers, The Bourne Legacy, The Cabin in the Woods, Cloud Atlas, A Company Man, Batman: The Dark Knight Rises, Dark Shadows, Django Unchained, Dredd 3D, Drug War, Expendables 2, The Hobbit, Jack Reacher, John Carter, John Dies at the End, Life of Pi, Lincoln, Looper, No, Prometheus, The Raid Redemption, Skyfall, We Have a Pope, Zero Dark Thirty

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2011
13 Assassins, Bullhead, Captain America, Conan The Barbarian, Cowboys and Aliens, Drive, The Flowers of War, Fright Night, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, The Guard, Headhunters, The Hunger Games, Limitless, The Lincoln Lawyer, The Mechanic, Moneyball, My Way, Red State, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Season of the Witch, A Separation, Sherlock Holmes A Game of Shadows, The Skin I Live In, Source Code, Take Shelter, Thor, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, Tree of Life, War of Arrows, Warrior, Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale, X-Men First Class

2010
2012, The Book of Eli, Centurion, Detective Dee: Mystery of the Phantom Flame, The Drawn Together Movie, Elite Squad: Enemy Within, Exit Through the Gift Shop, The Expendables, The Hammer, Haunters, Hot Tub Time Machine, Inception, Iron Man 2, I Saw the Devil, Jackass 3D, Kickass!, The Man From Nowhere, Muay Thai Warrior, The Other Guys, Predators, Red, Repeaters, Restrepo, The Secret Reunion, Shutter Island, The Social Network, The Sorcerer's Apprentice, Temple Grandin, The Town, Trollhunter, Tron Legacy, True Grit, Winter's Bone, The Yellow Sea

2009
Angels and Demons, Avatar, Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, Bodyguards and Assassins, Capitalism: A Love Story, The Cove, Crank 2 High Voltage, Daybreakers, Defiance, District 9, Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder, The Hangover, Harry Brown, The Horde, The Hurt Locker, Inglorious Basterds, Knowing, Law Abiding Citizen, The Men Who Stare at Goats, Merantau, Moon, Mother, Pandorum, Paranormal Activity, A Prophet, Public Enemies, Push, The Road, The Secret in Their Eyes, Sherlock Holmes, Sin Nombre, Solomon Kane, Surrogates, Star Trek, The Taking of Pelham 123, Terminator Salvation, This Is It, Tyson, Watchmen, The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia, X-Men Origins: Wolverine

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2008
Bangkok Dangerous, The Bank Job, Blindness, Body of Lies, Burn After Reading, The Chaser, Chocolate, The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, City of Ember, Cloverfield, Cocaine Cowboys 2, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Dark Knight, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Definitely Maybe, Doomsday, Doubt: A Parable, Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog, The End, Felon, Flame and Citron, Forbidden Kingdom, Frost/Nixon, Futurama: The Beast With a Billion Backs, Futurama: Benders Game, Gomorra, Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson, The Good, The Bad, The Weird, Hancock, The Happening, Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay, Hellboy 2, Hitman, In Bruges, The Incredible Hulk, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Iron Man, John Adams, Jumper, Man on Wire, Milk, The Mona Lisa Curse, Outlander, Pineapple Express, Pontypool, Punisher: War Zone, Quantum of Solace, Rambo, The Reader, Religulous, Slumdog Millionaire, Stanley Kubrick's Boxes, Street Kings, Taken, Tropic Thunder, Valkyrie, Vantage Point, W., WallE, Waltz With Bashir, Wanted, Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden, Zack and Miri Make a Porno

2007
4:Rise of the Silver Surfer, 30 Days of Night, 1408, Alien Vs Predator: Requiem, The Assassination of Jesse James, Before The Devil Knows You're Dead, Bernard and Doris, Charlie Wilson's War, The Counterfeiters, Darjeeling Limited, Death of a President, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, I'm Not There, Iran a Cinematographic Revolution, Jackass 2.5, Juno, Key to Reserva, The Lookout, Lust Caution, My Super Ex Girlfriend, National Treasure 2: Book of Secrets, The Number 23, The Rape of Europa, Rec, Shoot 'Em Up, Stardust, Superbad, Sweeney Todd, There Will Be Blood, War, Zeitgeist the movie

2006
16 Blocks, 300, Apocalypto, Blood Diamond, The Bridge, Bullets, Blood & A Fistful of Ca$h, Casino Royale, City of Violence, Cocaine Cowboys, Crank, Curse of the Golden Flower, Day Watch, Dragon, An Evening With Kevin Smith 2: Evening Harder, Goya's Ghosts, The History Boys, Inside Man, Little Miss Sunshine, The One Percent, Rescue Dawn, The Rise and Fall of the Slasher Film, Sculptures of the Louvre, Small Town Gay Bar, Southland Tales, Stranger Than Fiction, This Film Is Not Yet Rated, Ultraviolet, Who Killed the Electric Car?, The Wind that Shakes the Barley

2005
40 Year Old Virgin, A Bittersweet Life, The Brothers Grimm, Election, Ernest Hemingway: Rivers to the Sea, Grizzly Man, Guns, Germs, and Steel, King Kong, Lady Vengeance, Murderball, Night Watch, Proof, The Proposition, Riding Alone For Thousands of Miles, Serenity, Thank You For Smoking, Walk the Line, Walmart: The High Cost of Low Price, War of the Worlds, The Worlds Fastest Indian

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Religious Art
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Religious Music
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Literature and Philosophy
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Modern Christian Scientists
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Religion produces cool social activists
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Religious People Are More Charitable, Form Stronger Societies, And Have Better Mental Health
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The Bible is Great Literature
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Religion is Good For Children
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Common Criticisms and Misconceptions of Christianity Addressed

The Problem of Evil and a Benevolent God
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Atheists Don't Go To Hell
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Religious Thinking is a Natural Part of Human Biology
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The World is Growing More Religious Not Less
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Most Christians believe in Evolution and Atheists use Metaphors too
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The Middle Ages Were Full of Scientific Advances and Christian Scientists
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Biblical History is as Accurate as Other Ancient Histories of the Same Time Period
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Noah's Ark
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Priests Not Pedo, Church Money, Charities, Non-Overlapping Magisteria
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Secular Versions of Every Delusion or Error Atheists Say are Caused by Religion
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Criticisms of Atheism

Atheists are a homogenous culture
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Atheists have a lot in common
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Crimes by Atheists against Religious people
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Atheists May be Mentally Impaired
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Dawkins is a Bigot
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Science No Substitute

Science is Amoral, Can Cause Harm, and Needs Ethical Guidance
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Modern Science and Technology caused the Holocaust
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Scientists Disagree with Each Other, and Science is not always objective or clear
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Science is Flawed, subject to fraud, scandal, and perversion, not the source of absolute truth
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Science and religion not at odds, Scientists are as likely to be Religious as Atheist
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Scientists Not More Atheist than a Century Ago
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Uncertainty is a Prerequisit of all Knowledge and The Bible Evolves like the Constitution
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Reasons For Belief

Pascal's Wager, The Drake Equation, The Cosmological Argument, The Fine Tuned Universe
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Faith Can Be Rational and Science has Unproveable Theories
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2.All in the Family
3.Deadwood
4.Mad Men
5.The Wire
6.Seinfeld
7.South Park
8.Monty Python's Flying Circus
9.Chappell Show
10.Breaking Bad
11.X-Files
12.Law and Order
13.Band of Brothers
14.Brideshead Revisited
15.I Claudius
16.The Simpsons
17.The Twilight Zone
18.Deep Space Nine
19.The West Wing
20.Family Guy
21.Hill Street Blues
22.NYPD Blue
23.The Shield
24.Mash
25.Frasier
26.Firefly
27.The Daily Show
28.Real Time with Bill Maher
29.Married With Children
30.Mystery Science Theater 3000
31.Rome
32.Game of Thrones
33.Saturday Night Live
34.House
35.Dexter
36.True Blood
37.Futurama
38.Babylon 5
39.Star Trek: the Next Generation
40.Boardwalk Empire
41.Cheers
42.Roseanne
43.The Cosby Show
44.The Outer Limits
45.Aqua Teen Hunger Force
46.24
46.Oz
47.Star Trek
48.The Outer Limits
49.It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia
50.The Walking Dead ]]> mortalterror https://www.online-literature.com/forums/entry.php?13288-Best-Television-Shows Popular Music 1500-1900 https://www.online-literature.com/forums/entry.php?13183-Popular-Music-1500-1900 Thu, 21 Nov 2013 16:07:59 GMT 1549 Robert Wedderburn- Tam Lin (ballad) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jy3ihk205ew 1580 Richard Jones- Greensleeves (ballad)... 1549 Robert Wedderburn- Tam Lin (ballad) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jy3ihk205ew
1580 Richard Jones- Greensleeves (ballad) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twix9KfES9Y
1599 John Farmer- Fair Phyllis (madrigal) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eeVMEMxlkc
1602 William Shakespeare- Feste's Song (show tune) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhSfZplNbN0
1611 Thomas Ravencroft- The Three Ravens (ballad) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1JScWuKnI0
1719 Isaac Watts- Joy to the World (hymn) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5hj518Iugk
1740 James Thomson- Rule, Britannia! (anthem) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XPHL4Q86t4
1758 Richard Shuckburgh- Yankee Doodle (anthem) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwHvyqNDUvE
1770 Anonymous- The Sailor's Hornpipe (sea song) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_JeKZd9ecE
1779 John Newton- Amazing Grace (hymn) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYMLMj-SibU
1788 Robert Burns- Auld Lang Syne (folk) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acxnmaVTlZA
1792 Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle- The Marseillaise (anthem) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIQSEq6tEVs
1796 Anonymous- Spanish Ladies (sea shanty) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZfYtCLA23s
1800s
1814 Francis Scott Key- The Star-Spangled Banner (anthem) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRvVzaQ6i8A
1839 Anonymous- Drunken Sailor (sea shanty) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGyPuey-1Jw
1841 Sarah Flower Adams- Nearer, My God, To Thee (hymn) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9UsDl5gSuo
1841 Anonymous- The Bonnie Banks o' Loch Lomond (folk) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uZ-p-tN8Gs
1847 Adolphe Adam- O Holy Night (hymn) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5n6X9sUznI
1847 Stephen Foster- Oh Susannah (minstrel) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYRmsbEQXEg
1850 Daniel Decatur Emmett- Dixie (minstrel) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5mRk5M5qT8
1850 John Durnal- Finnegan's Wake (ballad) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7yR-U4m_dw
1852 Frederick Oakeley- O Come All Ye Faithful (hymn) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcJYW1oN6fw
1855 William H. Cummings- Hark! The Herald Angels Sing (hymn) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKRC5Ikq44s
1855 Joseph M. Scriven- What a Friend We Have in Jesus (hymn) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XRmGEbH0qs
1857 James Lord Pierpont- Jingle Bells (carol) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CBe74fAEEE
1858 Charles H. Brown- The Yellow Rose of Texas (folk) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpHiURKkY0Q
1859 John Freeman Young- Silent Night (hymn) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPamW-WUf50
1862 Julia Ward Howe- Battle Hymn of the Republic (hymn) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLun-Ca6b6s
1862 George F. Root- Battle Cry of Freedom (folk) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kWADI4umuM
1862 John Owen- Men of Harlech (march) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2Gxd9zhsag
1862 Wallis Willis- Swing Low, Sweet Chariot (hymn) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSb273c9tm4
1863 Patrick Gilmore- When Johnny Comes Marching Home (folk) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecIVIFLo0uE
1863 John Henry Hopkins, Jr.- We Three Kings (hymn) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lx35_DRIZ8g
1866 Mily Balakirev- Song of the Volga Boatmen (shanty) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tw3g88JtWA
1868 Philips Brooks- O Little Town of Bethlehem (hymn) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19rL_8W3oRU
1870 Colm O Lochlainn- Whiskey in the Jar (folk) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boanuwUMNNQ
1871 Eugene Pottier- The Internationale (anthem) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtAfIjRKUak
1873 Brewster M. Higley- Home on the Range (folk) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_YK7ebcZ2o
1874 Jesus Gonzalez Rubio- Jarabe Tapatio (mariachi) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-Rqdgna3Yw
1879 Gilbert and Sullivan- Major-General's Song (operetta) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1dy44jV8EM
1880 Luigi Denza- Funiculi, Funicula (Neapolitan) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaO1GrltxwM
1884 Percy Montrose- Oh My Darling, Clementine (ballad) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arL3QzNBc6A
1885 J.E. Clark- Away in a Manger (hymn) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQbLLowNgSI
1885 Carl Gustav Boberg- How Great Thou Art (hymn) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BL1vUY_qu-E
1889 Anonymous- Scarborough Fair(ballad) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYQaD2CAi9A
1889 Charles David Tillman- Old-Time Religion (gospel) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fx0peec84FI
1891 Young E. Allison- Dead Man's Chest (sea shanty) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzcv5TJkJBA
1894 Anonymous- I've Been Working on the Railroad (folk) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4e9Q4WVUOvQ
1896 John Philip Sousa- Stars and Stripes Forever (march) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mRn9chmRAY ]]> mortalterror https://www.online-literature.com/forums/entry.php?13183-Popular-Music-1500-1900 My H2H top Heavyweight boxers https://www.online-literature.com/forums/entry.php?13080-My-H2H-top-Heavyweight-boxers Thu, 22 Aug 2013 22:21:53 GMT 1.Muhammad Ali 2.Joe Louis 3.Larry Holmes 4.Lennox Lewis 5.George Foreman 6.Vitali Klitschko 7.Wladimir Klitschko 8.Riddick Bowe 9.Evander... 1.Muhammad Ali
2.Joe Louis
3.Larry Holmes
4.Lennox Lewis
5.George Foreman
6.Vitali Klitschko
7.Wladimir Klitschko
8.Riddick Bowe
9.Evander Holyfield
10.Mike Tyson
11.Joe Frazier
12.Ken Norton
13.Ike Ibeabuchi
14.Tim Witherspoon
15.Sonny Liston
16.Pinklon Thomas
17.Teofilo Stevenson
18.Felix Savon
19.Donovan Ruddock
20.Michael Dokes

Biggish guys with holes in their games
George Godfrey
David Haye
Fred Fulton
Max Baer
Ernie Terrell
Jess Willard
Tony Tucker
Harry Wills

Smaller guys who's skill might pose a problem
Floyd Patterson
Max Schmeling
Chris Byrd
Jack Dempsey
Michael Moorer
Michael Spinks
Gene Tunney
Jerry Quarry
Jimmy Ellis
Jack Johnson
Young Stribling
Mike Weaver
Jim Jeffries
Peter Jackson ]]> mortalterror https://www.online-literature.com/forums/entry.php?13080-My-H2H-top-Heavyweight-boxers Badass Throughout History https://www.online-literature.com/forums/entry.php?12843-Badass-Throughout-History Wed, 06 Feb 2013 14:52:35 GMT 1974-2013 Chris Kyle: US Navy Seal sniper Iraq War, 160 confirmed kills, 255 probable kills 1949-present Chuck Mawhinney: Vietnam marine sniper 103... 1974-2013 Chris Kyle: US Navy Seal sniper Iraq War, 160 confirmed kills, 255 probable kills
1949-present Chuck Mawhinney: Vietnam marine sniper 103 confirmed kills, 216 probable kills
1942-1999 Carlos Hathcock: Vietnam marine sniper 93 confirmed kills
1938-1979 Joe Hooper: Vietnam soldier credited with 115 enemy kills in ground combat, 22 the day he earned the MOH
1933-1995 Adelbert Waldron: Vietnam US Army sniper with 109 confirmed kills
1931-2007 Zhang Taofang: Chinese Korean War sniper, 214 kills in 32 days
1924-1999 Lloyd L. Burke: MOH Korean War, killed 100 men, 2 mortar, 3 machine gun nests
1924-1971 Audie Murphy: most decorated American ww2, fought off a company from a burning tank
1924-2004 Matthaus Hetzenauer- German ww2 sniper, 345 kills
1922-present Hiroo Onoda: guerrilla fighter surrendered 30 years after ww2 was over
1922-1993 Erich Hartmann: German ww2 ace, 352 aerial victories, 1,404 combat missions
1921-1945 Kurt Knispel: German ww2 tank ace, 168 destroyed enemy tanks
1921-2008 Leo Major: captured a city single handed in WW2
1919-1942 Hans-Joachim Marseille: German ww2 ace, 158 victories over western forces
1919-present Ivan Sidorenko: Russian ww2 sniper, 500 kills
1918-1991 Poon Lim: survived alone on a life raft for 133 days, ate sharks
1916-1982 Hans-Ulrich Rudel: ww2 german stuka pilot, 2,530 combat missions, 800 vehicles, 519 tanks, 150 artillery pieces, a destroyer, two cruisers, one Soviet battleship, 70 landing craft, 4 armored trains, several bridges and nine aircraft which he shot down.
1916-1974 Lyudmila Pavlichenko: Russian ww2 sniper, 309 confirmed kills
1915-1991 Vasily Zaytsev: Russian ww2 sniper, 242 verified kills
1914-1942 Michael Wittmann: German ww2 tank ace, 138 tanks, 132 anti-tank guns
1913-1994 Johannes Steinhoff: German ww2 ace 176 aerial victories
1908-1994 Charles Upham: New Zealand ww2, 2VCs, and some awesome escapes as a POW
1908-1975 Otto Skorzeny: German ww2, led a series of daring raids, rescued Mussolini
1906-1996 Jack Churchill: WW2 soldier fought with broadsword and bow
1905-2002 Simo Hayha: Winter War Finnish sniper 505 confirmed kills, +200 submachinegun
1898-1971 Chesty Puller: most decorated U.S. Marine in history 5 Navy Crosses
1892-1918 Manfred von Richthofen: Red Baron, German ww1, 80 air combat victories
1891-1952 Francis Pegamagabow: Canadian ww1 sniper, 378 kills, 300 captures
1887-1964 Alvin C. York: most decorated ww1 American, killed 28, captured 132, and 32 mchguns
1886-1943 Billy Sing: Australian ww1 sniper: 150 confirmed kills
1873-1937 Daniel Daly: 2MOH, killed 200 in Boxer Rebellion
1837-1876 Wild Bill Hickok: lawman, duelist, and gambler shot between 30 and 100 men
1824-1900 Liver-Eating Johnson: 12 year one man war against Crow Indians
1823-1887 John Prettyjohns: first VC recipient Cremea War, ran out of bullets, used rocks instead
1816-? Jonathan R. Davis: killed 11 bandits with 2 pistols and a bowie knife
1796-1836 James Bowie: knife fighter, frontiersman, soldier, died at the Alamo
1785-1865 Jean-Louis Michel: Napoleonic fencer, defeated 13 opponents in 40 minutes
1780-1833 Hugh Glass: killed bear with knife, left for dead, crawled 200 miles to safety
1763-1808 Lewis Wetzel: Indian Hunter, guerrilla sniper
1754-1834 Richard Martin: fought over 100 duels with swords, knives, and pistols, survived 2 shipwrecks
1664-1730 Donald McBane: swordsman, soldier, gambler, pimp, and author
1584-1645 Miyamoto Musashi: victor of 60 sword duels
1473-1524 Pierre Terrail: French soldier held off 200 Spanish soldiers at a bridge during the Battle of Garigliano
1147-1219 William Marshal: defeated 500 knights in tourneys
996-1031 Grettir Ásmundarson: Icelandic outlaw 20 years, fought multiple opponents at a time
910-990 Egill Skallagrimson: viking, pirate, mercenary, duelist, poet
48BC Marcus Cassius Scaeva: Caesar's greatest soldier
54BC Titus Pullo: Roman Centurion, played a great game of chicken with another soldier
d.479BC Aristodemos: Spartan survivor of Thermopylae, hero of the Battle of Plataea
508BC Horatius Cocles: held an army off at a bridge until it could be destroyed ]]> mortalterror https://www.online-literature.com/forums/entry.php?12843-Badass-Throughout-History My Favorite Boxing Fights https://www.online-literature.com/forums/entry.php?12835-My-Favorite-Boxing-Fights Sun, 03 Feb 2013 10:14:07 GMT Orlando Salido vs Terdsak Kokietgym (super featherweight) 2014 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTSOtYWhtbo Monty Meza Clay vs Alan Herrera... Orlando Salido vs Terdsak Kokietgym (super featherweight) 2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTSOtYWhtbo
Monty Meza Clay vs Alan Herrera (lightweight) 2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5J9mJL5Q90w
Marquez vs Pacquiao IV (welterweight) 2012
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxqQiXikM-o
Brandon Rios vs Mike Alvarado(junior welterweight) 2012
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLI8kFIKZIs
Robert Guerrero vs Andre Berto (welterweight) 2012
Roman Gonzalez vs Juan Francisco Estrada (Light Flyweight) 2012
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgi_ART_dw8
Pawel Wolak vs Delvin Rodriguez (junior middleweight) 2011
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4Wvt3GyVcA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4-ESwAnda8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFzuzrxOIKo
Ivan Calderon vs Giovani Segura I (straw weight) 2010
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iV5Z2wPGfok
Paul Williams vs Sergio Martinez I (middleweight) 2009
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnYGy9pdnEo
Bernard Dunne vs Ricardo Cordoba (super bantamweight) 2009
Israel Vazquez vs Rafael Marquez III (super bantamweight) 2008
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skk_POC3EHQ
Israel Vazquez vs Rafael Marquez II (super bantamweight) 2007
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEDt-rvpRvw
Corrales vs Castillo I (lightweight) 2005
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZZcaEE36go
Erik Morales vs Manny Pacquiao I (super featherweight) 2005
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_IqEZiJQWU
Marco Antonio Barrera vs Erik Morales III (super featherweight) 2004
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjbDvHXkdMg
Manny Pacquiao vs Juan Manuel Marquez I (featherweight) 2004
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwjGYxeCSpM
Gatti vs Ward III (light welterweight) 2003
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hh6vJC7XwOg
Gatti vs Ward I (light welterweight) 2002
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23kTQnI2dvM
Marco Antonio Barrera vs Erik Morales II (featherweight) 2002
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6Lc6svFS-M
Mickey Ward vs Emmanuel Augustus (junior welterweight) 2001
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxSN5JGsSxo
Morales vs Barrera 1 (super bantamweight) 2000
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8s8aLttUrk
Paulie Ayala vs Johnny Tapia (featherweight) 1999
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGbJQ7ONhFQ
Ivan Robinson vs Arturo Gatti I (lightweight) 1998
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5viZxQj4pjQ
David Tua vs Ike Ibeabuchi (heavyweight) 1997
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZ6w9I4I4T8
Bowe vs Golata II (heavyweight) 1996
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nha3JQOFjDo
Marco Antonio Barrera vs Kennedy McKinney (super bantamweight) 1996
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqy1AQ4ot94
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dncANfx4QkQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTUwVniicWs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6Qhr3xUjsQ
Nigel Benn vs Gerald McClellan (super middleweight) 1995
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMr24cH--0k
Merqui Sosa vs Prince Charles Williams I (light heavyweight)1995
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdXtDedOXws
Holyfield vs Bowe 1 (heavyweight) 1992
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPejZhE6cq0
Michael Moorer vs Bert Cooper (heavyweight) 1992
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNxjs-asU2g
Chris Eubank vs Michael Watson II (super middleweight) 1991
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWcWsCEtjc8
Robert Quiroga vs Kid Akeem Anifowoshi (super flyweight) 1991
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrIuJYibyaQ
Paul Banke vs Daniel Zaragoza II (super bantamweight) 1990
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3UNgXaO3Qo
Aaron Davis vs Mark Breland (welterweight) 1990
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pe1qPee_4t0
Roberto Duran vs Iran Barkley (middleweight) 1989
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRhq_m0C69o
Leonard vs Hagler (middleweight) 1987
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rz07y6FODRg
Holyfield vs Qawi I (cruiserweight) 1986
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYvsO1QZkUE
Hagler Vs Hearns (middleweight) 1985
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mILPqwesNE
Myung-Woo Yuh vs Oh Kon Son (light flyweight) 1985
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njikTdl8Q28
Tommy Cordova vs Freddie Roach (junior lightweight) 1984
http://www.myspace.com/video/brighto...rdova/62746722
Chang Jung Koo vs Katsuo Tokashiki (light flyweight) 1984
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6lUf_MNKwc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wwkqg6wK7yI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIg6d6jnNs0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLWH98ICYJE
Bobby Chacon vs Boza Edwards II (super featherweight) 1983
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9V1kBQIfCe4
Pryor vs Arguello 1 (light welterweight) 1982
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O39psaFgk_U
Bobby Chacon vs Rafael Bazooka Limon IV (super featherweight) 1982
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-3Uava8D-E
Leonard vs Hearns 1 (welterweight) 1981
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGLL0itOAe8
Last two rounds of William "Caveman" Lee vs John LoCicero (middleweight) 1981
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSRBfgfreiw
Matthew Saad Muhammad vs Yaqui Lopez II (light heavyweight) 1980
Larry Holmes vs Mike Weaver (heavyweight) 1979
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_6JxwBNk98
Danny Lopez vs Mike Ayala (featherweight) 1979
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXXSXyN1kkY
Matthew Saad Muhammad vs Marvin Johnson II (light heavyweight) 1979
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z94t81BkK0c
Larry Holmes vs Ken Norton (heavyweight) 1978
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LS8JXVpJDIk
Matthew Franklin vs Marvin Johnson I (light heavyweight) 1977
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UArIOikqodk
Carlos Zarate vs Alfonso Zamora (bantamweight) 1977
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEMGicT8UJY
Foreman vs Lyle (heavyweight) 1976
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96KfeAFakak
Ali vs Frazier III (heavyweight) 1975
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahEjU-BFS8c
Ali vs Foreman (heavyweight) 1974
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55AasOJZzDE
Ali vs Frazier I (heavyweight) 1971
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctKAGKVpCUU
Joe Frazier vs Jerry Quarry I (heavyweight) 1969
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXJjzuacmBQ
Jose Stable vs. Charley Scott (welterweight) 1963
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9llh_lVXjBI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6WDhC_fRP4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_2O6L4Kfos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDIffg0hWEA
Fighting Harada vs Pone Kingpetch (bantamweight) 1962
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GprRjCtuWHs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTfxU-Cacs0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuMLyv3NAXc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xOOtCMqvso
Archie Moore vs Yvon Durelle I (light heavyweight) 1958
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTtzltIK2ng
Rocky Marciano vs Ezzard Charles II (cruiserweight) 1954
Rocky Marciano vs Roland LaStarza II (cruiserweight) 1953
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qccyxaTeK0
Rocky Marciano vs Jersey Joe Walcott I (cruiserweight) 1952
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brprdmdLjhk
Willie Pep vs Sandy Saddler IV (featherweight) 1951
Ezzard Charles vs Jersey Joe Walcott III (light heavyweight) 1951
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFX0F0qUM-Q
Robinson vs Lamotta 6 (middleweight) 1951
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyxO1Raj_3M
Tony Zale vs Rocky Graziano 3 (middleweight) 1948
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opHSUGJEECI
Max Baer vs Primo Carnera (heavyweight) 1934
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cf67JevtNcc ]]> mortalterror https://www.online-literature.com/forums/entry.php?12835-My-Favorite-Boxing-Fights David Versus Goliath Matchups https://www.online-literature.com/forums/entry.php?12834-David-Versus-Goliath-Matchups Sat, 02 Feb 2013 11:01:59 GMT 1891-04-27 Bob Fitzsimmons vs Abe Coughle 160 lbs vs 230 lbs KO2 1892-04-26 Bob Fitzsimmons vs Charles Puff 155 lbs vs 230 lbs KO2 1892-09-07 James... 1891-04-27 Bob Fitzsimmons vs Abe Coughle 160 lbs vs 230 lbs KO2
1892-04-26 Bob Fitzsimmons vs Charles Puff 155 lbs vs 230 lbs KO2
1892-09-07 James J. Corbett vs John L. Sullivan 178 lbs vs 212 lbs KO21
1900-04-30 Bob Fitzsimmons vs Ed Dunkhorst 170lbs vs 260 lbs KO2
1900-08-10 Bob Fitzsimmons vs Gus Ruhlin 158 lbs vs 195 lbs KO6
1913-05-20 Gunboat Smith vs Jess Willard 180 lbs vs 230 lbs W20
1914-07-01 Joe Jeannette vs Battling Jim Johnson 197 lbs vs 240 lbs W10
1916-02-01 Jack Dillon vs Tom Cowler 170 lbs vs 205 lbs KO2
1916-06-29 Jack Dillon vs Frank Moran 169 lbs vs 204 lbs W10
1916-12-12 Sam Langford vs Battling Jim Johnson 191 lbs vs 224 lbs KO12
1917-05-01 Sam Langford vs Bill Tate KO5
1917-09-28 Billy Miske vs Carl Morris 178 lbs 228 lbs W10
1918-04-08 Billy Miske vs Tom Cowler 175 lbs vs 210 lbs KO7
1918-12-16 Jack Dempsey vs Carl Morris 185 lbs vs 220 lbs KO1
1919-04-02 Jack Dempsey vs Tony Drake 197 lbs vs 257 lbs KO1
1919-07-04 Jack Dempsey vs Jess Willard 187 lbs vs 245 KO3
1920-11-17 Sam Langford vs George Godfrey KO2
1921-03-18 Tommy Gibbons vs Al Reich 182 lbs vs 219 lbs KO1
1921-08-17 Sam Langford vs George Godfrey 185? lbs vs 220 lbs KO1
1922-09-26 Harry Greb vs Al Benedict 173 lbs vs 210 lbs TKO2
1924-03-31 Tommy Gibbons vs Soldier Lee 180 lbs vs 210 lbs TKO3
1925-01-30 Tommy Gibbons vs Tiny Jim Herman 179 lbs vs 225 lbs KO3
1930-11-28 Mickey Walker vs KO Christner 166 lbs vs 202 lbs KO1
1931-04-10 Mickey Walker vs Bearcat Wright 168 lbs vs 210 lbs W10
1931-08-17 Mickey Walker vs Jack Gagnon 167 lbs vs 209 lbs KO1
1931-10-21 Max Baer vs Jose Santa 204 lbs vs 244 lbs KO10
1932-07-25 Mickey Walker vs Salvatore Ruggirello 169 lbs vs 205 lbs KO1
1932-12-06 Mickey Walker vs Arthur De Kuh 175 lbs vs 223 lbs KO1
1933-11-22 Tommy Loughran vs Ray Impellittiere 185 lbs vs 255 W10
1934-06-14 Max Baer vs Primo Carnera 209 lbs vs 263 lbs KO11
1935-06-20 Tommy Loughran vs Ray Impellittiere 188 lbs vs 254 lbs UD10
1935-06-25 Joe Louis vs Primo Carnera 196 lbs vs 260 lbs KO6
1939-06-28 Joe Louis vs Tony Galento 200 lbs vs 233 lbs TKO4
1941-03-21 Joe Louis vs Abe Simon 202 lbs vs 254 lbs KO13
1942-01-09 Joe Louis vs Buddy Baer 206 lbs vs 250 lbs KO1
1942-01-28 Billy Conn vs Jay D Turner 183 lbs vs 227 W10
1942-03-13 Charley Burley vs Jay D Turner 151 lbs vs 219 lbs TKO7
1942-03-27 Joe Louis vs Abe Simon 207 lbs vs 255 TKO6
1946-03-04 Joey Maxim vs Panther Williams 184 lbs vs 220 lbs UD10
1948-03-09 Jimmy Bivins vs Turkey Thompson 185 lbs vs 222 lbs UD10
1948-05-07 Joey Maxim vs Francisco de la Cruz 189 lbs vs 238 lbs PTS10
1948-09-14 Rocky Marciano vs Humphrey Jackson 183 lbs vs 254 lbs KO1
1948-12-10 Ezzard Charles vs Joe Baksi 178 lbs vs 210 lbs TKO11
1950-09-18 Rocky Marciano vs Johnny Shkor 190 lbs vs 220 lbs KO6
1950-09-27 Ezzard Charles vs Joe Louis 184 lbs vs 218 lbs UD15
1950-12-18 Rocky Marciano vs Bill Wilson 190 lbs vs 229 lbs TKO1
1951-06-09 Archie Moore vs Abel Cestac 177 lbs vs 224 lbs RTD9
1952-02-01 Roland LaStarza vs Bill Wilson 190 lbs vs 220 lbs KO4
1952-11-24 Harold Johnson vs Nino Valdes 176 lbs vs 210 lbs UD10
1953-07-01 Bob Satterfield vs Bob Baker 180 lbs vs 214 lbs KO1
1955-08-17 Bob Satterfield vs Nino Valdes 183 lbs vs 215 lbs UD10
1956-04-04 Willie Pastrano vs Johnny Arthur 188 lbs vs 228 lbs UD10
1956-04-16 Archie Moore vs George Parmentier 193 lbs vs 233 lbs TKO3
1956-09-29 Joey Maxim vs Edgardo Romero 191 lbs vs 249 lbs PTS10
1957-12-17 Harold Johnson vs Sid Peaks 179 lbs vs 215 lbs KO5
1966-01-17 Joe Frazier vs Mel Turnbow 199 lbs vs 231 lbs KO1
1968-03-04 Joe Frazier vs Buster Mathis 204 lbs vs 243 lbs TKO11
1969-01-10 Jerry Quarry vs Charlie Reno 201 lbs vs 251 lbs TKO5
1969-03-24 Jerry Quarry vs Buster Mathis 196 lbs vs 234 lbs UD12
1976-04-30 Larry Holmes vs Roy Williams 205 lbs vs 238 lbs W10
1977-04-16 Gerry Coetzee vs Mike Schutte 210 lbs vs 266 lbs W12
1980-03-31 Larry Holmes vs Leroy Jones 211 lbs vs 254 lbs TKO8
1985-04-29 Tim Witherspoon vs James Broad 222 lbs vs 261 lbs KO2
1985-12-06 Mike Tyson vs Sammy Scaff 215 lbs vs 250 lbs TKO1
1987-06-15 Michael Spinks vs Gerry Cooney 208 lbs vs 238 lbs KO5
1988-04-26 Donovan Ruddock vs Larry Alexander 226 lbs vs 256 lbs KO2
1990-03-02 Ray Mercer vs Kimmuel Odum 213 lbs vs 246 lbs UD12
1990-10-25 Evander Holyfield vs James Douglas 208 lbs vs 246 lbs KO3
1991-04-19 Evander Holyfield vs George Foreman 208 lbs vs 257 lbs UD12
1992-02-01 Michael Moorer vs Mike White 225 lbs vs 275 lbs UD10
1992-11-13 Michael Moorer vs Billy Wright 224 lbs vs 257 TKO2
1993-06-07 Tommy Morrison vs George Foreman 226 lbs vs 256 lbs UD12
1994-01-29 Donovan Ruddock vs Anthony Wade 241 lbs vs 290 lbs W10
1998-07-14 Chris Byrd vs Ross Puritty 213 lbs vs 247 lbs UD10
2001-10-13 Ray Mercer vs Brian Scott 237 lbs vs 274 lbs KO2
2003-03-01 Roy Jones Jr vs John Ruiz 193 lbs vs 226 lbs UD12
2004-11-13 Chris Byrd vs Jameel McCline 214 lbs vs 270 lbs SD12
2005-05-17 Eddie Chambers vs Ross Puritty 217 lbs vs 253 lbs UD10
2005-12-15 Sultan Ibragimov vs Lance Whitaker 220 lbs vs 272 lbs TKO7
2007-04-14 Ruslan Chagaev vs Nikolay Valuev 228 lbs vs 319 lbs MD12
2007-05-26 Alexander Povetkin vs Patrice L'Heureux 223 lbs vs 270 lbs KO2
2007-06-02 Sultan Ibragimov vs Shannon Briggs 221 lbs vs 273 lbs UD12
2009-03-27 Eddie Chambers vs Samuel Peter 223 lbs vs 265 MD10
2009-10-24 Tomasz Adamek vs Andrew Golota 214 lbs vs 256 lbs TKO5
2009-11-07 David Haye vs Nikolay Valuev 217 lbs vs 316 lbs MD12
2010-03-13 Alexander Povetkin vs Javier Mora 223 lbs vs 257 lbs TKO5
2010-04-10 Evander Holyfield vs Frans Botha 220 lbs vs 250 lbs TKO8
2010-04-24 Tomasz Adamek vs Chris Arreola 217 lbs vs 250 MD12
2010-08-21 Tomasz Adamek vs Michael Grant 217 lbs vs 261 lbs UD12
2010-10-16 Alexander Povetkin vs Teke Oruh 227 lbs vs 264 lbs KO5
2012-07-14 David Haye vs Dereck Chisora 210 lbs vs 247 lbs TKO5 ]]> mortalterror https://www.online-literature.com/forums/entry.php?12834-David-Versus-Goliath-Matchups