[632] _Here
Christian
Europe.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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May the contents thereof thy palate suit,
With its
mellifluous
and pleasing fruit:
For nought can more be sweetened to my mind
Than that this Pamphlet thy contentment find;
Which if it shall, my labour is sufficed,
In being by your liking highly prized.
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Robert Herrick |
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here the forest ledge slopes--
rain has
furrowed
the roots.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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November
The world is tired, the year is old,
The little leaves are glad to die,
The wind goes
shivering
with cold
Among the rushes dry.
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Sara Teasdale |
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I was always pleased with the motto placed under the figure
of the
rosemary
in old herbals:
'Sus, apage!
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William Wordsworth |
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PROKTOPHANTASMIST:
Ich sag's euch Geistern ins Gesicht:
Den
Geistesdespotismus
leid ich nicht;
Mein Geist kann ihn nicht exerzieren.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Bees sip not at one flower,
Spring comes not with one shower,
Nor shines the sun alone
Upon one favoured hour,
But with
unstinted
power
Makes every day his own.
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John Clare |
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For were a man for hir bistad,
She wolde ben right sore adrad
That she dide over greet outrage,
But she him holpe his harm to aswage; 1230
>>
Ou il ot faite por s'amie
Mainte jouste et mainte envaie,
Et percie maint escu boucle,
Maint hiaume i avoit dessercle,
Et maint
chevalier
abatu,
Et pris par force et par vertu.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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And with the evening cloud,
Showering thy gleaned wealth into my open breast,
(Those peerless flowers which in the rudest wind
Never grow sere,
When rooted in the garden of the mind,
Because they are the
earliest
of the year).
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Tennyson |
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Mussulmans and Giaours
Throw
kerchiefs
at a smile, and have no ruth
For any weeping.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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At this time the
progressive and
spiritually
minded young people used to meet for
discussion and help in Boston, among them George Ripley, Cyrus Bartol,
James Freeman Clarke, Alcott, Dr.
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Emerson - Poems |
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I wylle anente[85] hymm goe; mie squierr, mie shielde; 95
Orr onne orr odherr wyll doe myckle[86] scethe[87]
Before I doe departe the lissedd[88] fielde,
Mieselfe orr
Bourtonne
hereupponn wyll blethe[89].
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Project Gutenberg is a
TradeMark
and may not be
used in any sales of Project Gutenberg eBooks or other materials be
they hardware or software or any other related product without
express permission.
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Aristophanes |
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If you
do not charge anything for copies of this eBook,
complying
with the
rules is very easy.
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Keats - Lamia |
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what thy memory cannot contain,
Commit to these waste blanks, and thou shalt find
Those children nursed, deliver'd from thy brain,
To take a new
acquaintance
of thy mind.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Here it is used to
reinforce
the sense of a binding love.
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Troubador Verse |
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I yet myself console,
Though thou hast left me, mournful and alone,
For eagerly to heaven thy spirit has flown,
Free from the flesh which did so late enrol;
Thence, at one view,
commands
it either pole,
The planets and their wondrous courses known,
And human sight how brief and doubtful shown;
Thus with thy bliss my sorrow I control.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Lo, I make proclaim
To the Four Nations and all Thessaly;
A wondrous happiness hath come to be:
Therefore pray, dance, give
offerings
and make full
Your altars with the life-blood of the Bull!
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Sone after this, for that fortune it wolde,
I-comen was the blisful tyme swete,
That Troilus was warned that he sholde,
Ther he was erst, Criseyde his lady mete; 1670
For which he felte his herte in Ioye flete;
And
feythfully
gan alle the goddes herie;
And lat see now if that he can be merie.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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The eleven
thousand
maydens dere,
That beren in heven hir ciergis clere,
Of which men rede in chirche, and singe,
Were take in seculer clothing, 6250
Whan they resseyved martirdom,
And wonnen heven unto her hoom.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Were I to you as the boss
employing
and paying you, would that satisfy you?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Index of First Lines
Under the Mirabeau flows the Seine
Brushed by the shadows of the dead
The anemone and flower that weeps
The angels the angels in the sky
I've
gathered
this sprig of heather
The strollers in the plain
My gipsy beau my lover
The gypsy knew in advance
I am bound to the King of the Sign of Autumn
An eagle descends from this sky white with archangels
Mellifluent moon on the lips of the maddened
Autumn ill and adored
The room is free
Our story's noble as its tragic
Love is dead within your arms
In the evening light that's faded
You've not surprised my secret yet
Evening falls and in the garden
You descended through the water clear
O my abandoned youth is dead
Admire the vital power
From magic Thrace, O delerium!
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Appoloinaire |
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Along the reaches of the street
Held in a lunar synthesis,
Whispering
lunar incantations
Disolve the floors of memory
And all its clear relations,
Its divisions and precisions,
Every street lamp that I pass
Beats like a fatalistic drum,
And through the spaces of the dark
Midnight shakes the memory
As a madman shakes a dead geranium.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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The
smallest
scale upon his tail
Could hide six dolphins and a whale.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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But rage and mad thirst of
slaughter
drive him like fire on
the foe.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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" "Turn thyself round, and keep
Thy count'nance hid; for if the Gorgon dire
Be shown, and thou
shouldst
view it, thy return
Upwards would be for ever lost.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Who here
Dares to compare in beauty with my
mistress?
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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So when she was gone I said
In rather a dreary voice
To him of the
opposite
bed:
"Ah, friend, how you must rejoice!
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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701-762
BY ARTHUR WALEY
_A Paper read before the_ CHINA SOCIETY _at the School of Oriental
Studies on
November
21, 1918_
EAST AND WEST, LTD.
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Li Po |
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About Google Book Search
Google's mission is to organize the world's information and to make it universally
accessible
and useful.
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Meredith - Poems |
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: siððan him
scyppend forscrifen hæfde (_after the Creator had
proscribed
him_), 106;
so, 1473; or with pret.
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Beowulf |
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170
Some figures monstrous and mis-shap'd appear,
Consider'd singly, or beheld too near,
Which, but proportion'd to their light, or place,
Due distance
reconciles
to form and grace.
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Alexander Pope |
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Ne'er for his lip the purpling cup they fill,
That goblet passes him untasted still--
And for his fare--the rudest of his crew
Would that, in turn, have passed untasted too; 70
Earth's coarsest bread, the garden's homeliest roots,
And scarce the summer luxury of fruits,
His short repast in
humbleness
supply
With all a hermit's board would scarce deny.
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Byron |
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If eyes, corrupt by over-partial looks,
Be anchor'd in the bay where all men ride,
Why of eyes'
falsehood
hast thou forged hooks,
Whereto the judgment of my heart is tied?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Some with averted faces
shrieking
fled home amain;
Some ran to call a leech; and some ran to lift the slain;
Some felt her lips and little wrist, if life might there be
found;
And some tore up their garments fast, and strove to stanch the
wound.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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They may be
modified
and printed and given away--you may do
practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks.
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Sara Teasdale |
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My father pulled him up by the collar of his coat, kicked him out of the
room, and
dismissed
him the same day, to the inexpressible joy of
Saveliitch.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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What valley echoed the
response
of Jove?
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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voici la nuit de joie aux
profonds
spasmes
Qui descend dans la rue, o buveurs desoles,
Buvez.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Poor people say she's good
And has an open hand
As any in the land,
And she's the comforter
Of many sick and sad; 70
My nurse once said to me
That everything she had
Came of my Lady's bounty:
'Though she's
greatest
in the county
She's humble to the poor,
No beggar seeks her door
But finds help presently.
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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But if your selfe, Sir knight, ye faultie find,
Or wrapped be in loves of former Dame,
With crime do not it cover, but
disclose
the same.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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19
From a gully of the jaded city
Drunken
laughter
filtered through the night
Where I knelt, and toward the open window Reached my hands before me as in prayer.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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And deemest thou as those who pore,
With aged eyes, short way before,--
Think'st Beauty
vanished
from the coast
Of matter, and thy darling lost?
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Emerson - Poems |
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Nō þȳ ǣr fēa-sceafte findan meahton
2375 æt þām æðelinge ǣnige þinga,
þæt hē Heardrēde hlāford wǣre,
oððe þone cyne-dōm cīosan wolde;
hwæðre
hē him on folce frēond-lārum hēold,
ēstum mid āre, oð þæt hē yldra wearð,
2380 Weder-Gēatum wēold.
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Beowulf |
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When this was now laid open,
the general hate and animosities long since
conceived
against him, broke
violently out, and had he not offered to make a discovery, he had been
instantly condemned to death.
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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For all I may devise or find
To
pleasure
thee is nothing: all things are
The same forever.
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Lucretius |
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But no one was there only the waves
breaking
in
among the dead faces.
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Tennyson |
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By vapours, through whose threatening ominous veil
Darting his altered influence he has gained
This height of noon--from which he must decline _50
Amid the darkness of
conflicting
storms,
To dank extinction and to latest night.
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| Source: |
Shelley |
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Night is worn,
And the morn
Rises from the
slumbrous
mass.
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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The east wind blows on the
springtime
ice, 24 far and wide the holy soil is wet.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Many a dream is with him,
Fresh from fairyland,
Spangled
o'er with diamonds
Seems the ocean sand;
Suns are flaming there,
Troops of ladies fair
Souls of infants bear
In each charming hand.
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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TEUTOBURGIUM, a forest in Germany,
rendered
famous by the slaughter of
Varus and his legions.
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Tacitus |
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It appears
with the same heading in _O'F_, but in _W_ it is
entitled
simply _To
L.
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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Series
For the splendour of the day of
happinesses
in the air
To live the taste of colours easily
To enjoy loves so as to laugh
To open eyes at the final moment
She has every willingness.
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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No
messenger
from him!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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Mighty sea,
Can we dwarf thy magnitude
And fit it to our
straitest
mood?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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Why, untamed do you scare
At any
approach
you see?
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
|
Among recent contributors to
CONTEMPORARY
have been :
Max Eastman
William Rose Benet Witter Bynner
Hermann Hagedorn Maxwell Struthers Burt
Salomon de la Selva
NO OTHER MAGAZINE IN THE UNITED STATES IS DEVOTED WHOLLY TO THE PUBLICATION OF POETRY.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Nor less, to feed
voluptuous
thought,
The beauteous forms of Nature wrought,--
Fair trees and gorgeous flowers;
The breezes their own languor lent;
The stars had feelings, which they sent
Into those favour'd bowers.
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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And prayer-book next, much worn though
strongly
bound,
Proves him a churchman orthodox and sound.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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The Full Project
Gutenberg
License
_Please read this before you distribute or use this work.
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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And he -- he followed close behind;
I felt his silver heel
Upon my ankle, -- then my shoes
Would
overflow
with pearl.
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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LET us
surround
the silent pool
Wherein the water ways commingle,
You seek my chary soul to kindle:
A breeze o'erwafts us chaste and cool.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Mark how one string, sweet husband to another,
Strikes each in each by mutual ordering;
Resembling
sire and child and happy mother,
Who, all in one, one pleasing note do sing:
Whose speechless song being many, seeming one,
Sings this to thee: 'Thou single wilt prove none.
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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But when a prince governs them,
so as they have still need of his
administrations
(for that is his art),
he shall ever make and hold them faithful.
| Guess: |
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Les soirs
illumines
par l'ardeur du charbon,
Et les soirs au balcon, voiles de vapeurs roses;
Que ton sein m'etait doux!
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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The boy and man an
individual
makes,
Yet sighest thou now for apples and for cakes?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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I thought by following him
I should grow like him; but the unclean spirit
That from my childhood up hath
tortured
me
Hath been too cunning and too strong for me,
Am I to blame for this?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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Here is that very
Lithuanian
frontier which you so wished to reach.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Thus shines the
wretched
butterfly,
With iridescent wing doth flap
When captured in a schoolboy's cap;
Thus shakes the hare when suddenly
She from the winter corn espies
A sportsman who in covert lies.
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Of
Sarraguce
ye'll carry him the keys,
He'll go not hence, say, if he trusts in me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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_
For some wood-daemon
has
lightened
your steps.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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"Stout be the heart, nor slow
The foot to follow the
impetuous
will,
Nor the hand slack upon the loom of deeds.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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"
The
following
is a sample of Sung Yu's prose:
MASTER T?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Is Heaven an
exchequer?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Meantime the bard, alternate to the strings,
The loves of Mars and Cytherea sings:
How the stern god, enamour'd with her charms
Clasp'd the gay panting goddess in his arms,
By bribes seduced; and how the sun, whose eye
Views the broad heavens,
disclosed
the lawless joy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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This victim, hell, to thee was
necessary!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Mine arms enfold
That, which
unswayed
by me grew up and bloomed
To other worlds:
Mine own, and yet so infinitely far.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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'
'_Your_ rights,' says tother, 'well, that's funny,
_I_ bought the land'--
'_I_ paid the money;'
'That,' answered South, 'is from the point,
The ownership, you'll grant, is joint;
I'm sure my only hope and trust is
Not law so much as
abstract
justice,
Though, you remember, 'twas agreed
That so and so--consult the deed;
Objections now are out of date,
They might have answered once, but Fate
Quashes them at the point we've got to;
_Obsta principiis_ that's my motto.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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Eufeniens
bad he shulde be
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
|
Those
which lately even I tasted only to repent of it,--for I am
semicivilized,--which the farmer willingly left on the tree, I am now
glad to find have the
property
of hanging on like the leaves of the
young oaks.
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Hast thou no passion nor pity
For thy
deserted
companions?
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Sappho |
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This is a cursed flat way of telling you these truths, but let me hear
no more of your
sheepish
timidity.
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Robert Forst |
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What prayers and dreams of
youthful
genius feign,
I daily dwell in, and am not so blind
But I can see the elastic tent of day
Belike has wider hospitality
Than my few needs exhaust, and bids me read
The quaint devices on its mornings gay.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Time
consumes
words, like love.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Erewhile 'twas corn resplendent and unstained,
Or crystal, that through morning radiance shone,
Now flowing agate, deep and sombre-veined,
Then like a crimson
sparkling
precious stone.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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For since neither by fate did she perish, nor as one who had
earned her death, but
woefully
before her day, and fired by sudden
madness, not yet had Proserpine taken her lock from the golden head, nor
sentenced her to the Stygian under world.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Stephen Crane |
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' In a very
short time from this he appears to have
devoured
eagerly the contents
of every volume he could lay his hands on.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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A league and a league of marsh-grass, waist-high, broad in the blade,
Green, and all of a height, and
unflecked
with a light or a shade,
Stretch leisurely off, in a pleasant plain,
To the terminal blue of the main.
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Sidney Lanier |
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[339]
Nam'd from her woods,[340] with
fragrant
bowers adorn'd,
From fair Madeira's purple coast we turn'd:[340]
Cyprus and Paphos' vales the smiling loves
Might leave with joy for fair Madeira's groves;
A shore so flow'ry, and so sweet an air,
Venus might build her dearest temple there.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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"Country of me, Creatress mine, O born to thee and bred, 50
By hapless me
abandoned
as by thrall from lordling fled,
When me to Ida's groves and glades these vaguing footsteps bore
To tarry 'mid the snows and where lurk beasts in antres frore
And seek the deeply hidden lairs where furious ferals meet!
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Prague, the city in which Rilke was born in 1875, with its sinister
palaces and crumbling towers that rose in the early Middle Ages and have
reached out into our time like the threatening fingers of mighty hands
which have wielded swords for generations and which are stained with the
blood of many wounds of many races; the city where amid grey old ruins
blonde maidens are at play or are lost in reverie in the green cool
parks and shady gardens with which the
Bohemian
capital abounds, this
Prague of mingled grotesqueness and beauty gave to the young boy his
first impressions.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Will her sweet seraph face again e'er bring
Their former light to these
despairing
eyes.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Pass that; then
suppliant
clasp my mother's knees,
So shalt thou quickly win a glad return
To thy own home, however far remote.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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e
exilynge
of anaxogore.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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It is our garden,
All black and
blossomless
this winter night,
But we bring April with us, you and I;
We set the whole world on the trail of spring.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Wilde - Poems |
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Land of lands and bards to
corroborate!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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