Mine arms enfold
That, which
unswayed
by me grew up and bloomed
To other worlds:
Mine own, and yet so infinitely far.
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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Objections now are out of date,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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Eufeniens
bad he shulde be
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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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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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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40
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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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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6
Land of lands and bards to
corroborate!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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While the hot sun blazed in his tower of blue
A cooling wind crept from the land of snows,
And the warm south with tender tears of dew
Drenched
its white leaves when Hesperos up-rose
Amid those sea-green meadows of the sky
On which the scarlet bars of sunset lie.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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[42] The
children
of Julia and Agrippa.
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Tacitus |
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t
arctur{us}
saw ben
waxen hey[e] cornes whan ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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* * * * *
Therefore of Europe now I will not doubt,
For the broad
foreheads
surely win the day, 60
And brains, not crowns or soul-gelt armies, weigh
In Fortune's scales: such dust she brushes out.
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James Russell Lowell |
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ome true
politique
wife
Would be: who hauing match'd with ?
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Lilacs,
False blue,
White,
Purple,
Color of lilac,
You have forgotten your Eastern origin,
The veiled women with eyes like panthers,
The swollen,
aggressive
turbans of jeweled Pashas.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Nor need there be for men
Astonishment that yonder sun so small
Can yet send forth so great a light as fills
Oceans and all the lands and sky aflood,
And with its fiery
exhalations
steeps
The world at large.
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Lucretius |
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Alfred Prufrock
S'io credesse che mia risposta fosse
A persona che mai
tornasse
al mondo,
Questa fiamma staria senza piu scosse.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Beowulf |
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O father and mother if buds are nipped,
And
blossoms
blown away;
And if the tender plants are stripped
Of their joy in the springing day,
By sorrow and care's dismay,--
How shall the summer arise in joy,
Or the summer fruits appear?
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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When you announced your
departure
so soon, 16 a hundred cares again beset me.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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They are used and
accustomed
to things and men.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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This little
volume, which is throughout in MarvelFs vein, is
now extremely scarce, is not
included
in any edi-
Digitized by VjOOQIC
XXXVlll NOTICE OF THE AUTHOR.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Lucretius, nobler than his mood,
Who dropped his plummet down the broad
Deep
universe
and said "No God--"
Finding no bottom: he denied
Divinely the divine, and died
Chief poet on the Tiber-side
By grace of God: his face is stern
As one compelled, in spite of scorn,
To teach a truth he would not learn.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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CHANNING
I do not come to weep above thy pall,
And mourn the dying-out of noble powers,
The poet's clearer eye should see, in all
Earth's seeming woe, seed of
immortal
flowers.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Copyright laws in most
countries
are in
a constant state of change.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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The marble brow of youth was cleft
With care; and in those eyes where once hope shone,
Desire, like a lioness bereft _525
'Of her last cub, glared ere it died; each one
Of that great crowd sent forth incessantly
These shadows,
numerous
as the dead leaves blown
'In autumn evening from a poplar tree.
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Shelley |
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" I said, "when I shall con,"
we find, in the latest text, the lines--first adopted in 1827:
I stood, of simple shame the blushing Thrall;
So narrow seemed the brooks, the fields so small,
while the early edition of 1807
contains
the far happier lines:
To see the Trees, which I had thought so tall,
Mere dwarfs; the Brooks so narrow, Fields so small.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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New
scintillating
rays extend
Through endless singing space and rise
Into an ecstasy that cries:
"Ascend, Leviathan, ascend!
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Let your line be the finest adventure
Afloat on the tense dawn wind
That goes
wakening
thyme and mint.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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`For wel I woot, thou menest wel, parde;
Therfore
I dar this fully undertake.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Meantime
on Ilion's tower Apollo stood,
And calling Mars, thus urged the raging god:
"Stern power of arms, by whom the mighty fall;
Who bathest in blood, and shakest the embattled wall,
Rise in thy wrath!
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Iliad - Pope |
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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May is a full light wind of lilac
From Canada to
Narragansett
Bay.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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"
The stranger
vanished
.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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1400
`And if he wolde ought by his sort it preve
If that I lye, in certayn I shal fonde
Distorben
him, and plukke him by the sleve,
Makinge his sort, and beren him on honde,
He hath not wel the goddes understonde.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Nevertheless
he admitted that his
apprentice was always to be found at his desk, for he often sent the
footman in to see.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Spenser's essay on _A View of the Present State of Ireland_ shows that, far
from shutting himself up in a fool's
paradise
of fancy, he was fully awake
to the social and political condition of that turbulent island, and that it
furnished him with concrete examples of those vices and virtues, bold
encounters and hair-breadth escapes, strange wanderings and deeds of
violence, with which he has crowded the allegory of the _Faerie Queene_.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Double, double, toyle and trouble,
Fire burne, and
Cauldron
bubble
2 Coole it with a Baboones blood,
Then the Charme is firme and good.
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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Whosoe termes Love a fire, may like a poet
Faine what he will, for
certaine
cannot showe it.
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John Donne |
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) can copy and distribute it in the United States without
permission and without paying
copyright
royalties.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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The eternal gates terrific porter lifted the
northern
bar:
Thel enter'd in & saw the secrets of the land unknown;
She saw the couches of the dead, & where the fibrous roots
Of every heart on earth infixes deep its restless twists:
A land of sorrows & of tears where never smile was seen.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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'Tis not the surging billow's roar,
'Tis not that fatal, deadly shore;
Tho' death in ev'ry shape appear,
The
wretched
have no more to fear:
But round my heart the ties are bound,
That heart transpierc'd with many a wound;
These bleed afresh, those ties I tear,
To leave the bonie banks of Ayr.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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The royal
chambers
to a cell of prayer
He turned, wherein the heavy cares of state
Vexed not his holy soul.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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"
This, this the saving doctrine,
preached
to all,
From low St.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Death was in that
poisonous
wave,
And in its gulf a fitting grave
For him who thence could solace bring
To his lone imagining--
Whose solitary soul could make
An Eden of that dim lake.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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King
Since you wish it, I will grant permission:
But thousands will view it as their mission,
The prize Chimene would award their blows
Would make of all my
warriors
his foes.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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le larron de gauche dans la bourrasque
Rira de toi comme
hennissent
les chevaux
FEMME
Larron des fruits tourne vers moi tes yeux lyriques
Emplissez de noix la besace du heros
Il est plus noble que le paon pythagorique
Le dauphin la vipere male ou le taureau
CHOEUR
Ah!
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Happy old man, who 'mid
familiar
streams
And hallowed springs, will court the cooling shade!
| Guess: |
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Le Testament: Rondeau
Death, I cry out at your harshness,
That stole my girl away from me,
Yet you're not satisfied I see
Until I
languish
in distress.
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| Source: |
Villon |
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The
Countess
Anna Fedorovna was seated before her mirror in her
dressing-room.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Come, I adjure you;
perchance
I shall recover my steers.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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Thou scene of all my
happiness
and pleasure!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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MELIBOEUS
I grudge you not the boon, but marvel more,
Such wide
confusion
fills the country-side.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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But eyes met eyes, and Joss, well pleased, was fain
By nod of head to make
approval
plain.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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permission
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Lucretius |
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Round they roll till dark is light,
Sex to sex, and even to odd;--
The over-god
Who marries Right to Might,
Who peoples, unpeoples,--
He who exterminates
Races by stronger races,
Black by white faces,--
Knows to bring honey
Out of the lion;
Grafts
gentlest
scion
On pirate and Turk.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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"
The hostess doth interrogate:
"He hath
neglected
us of late.
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Cupid will hold out his hand:
O, and
entrusting
myself to the rascal, I beg you please may I
Do so in pleasure with no danger or worry or fear.
| Guess: |
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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_Dodici donne
onestamente
lasse.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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And when they brought him
one, taken in the very act of sin and showed him her
sentence
written in
the law, and asked him what was to be done, he wrote with his finger on
the ground as though he did not hear them, and finally, when they pressed
him again, looked up and said, 'Let him of you who has never sinned be
the first to throw the stone at her.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Tomb (Of Verlaine)
Anniversary - January 1897
The black rock enraged that the north wind rolls it on
Will not halt itself, even under pious hands, still
Testing its
resemblance
to human ill,
As if to bless some fatal cast of bronze.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Marquise
of Monroy--and your other names, Don Juan?
| Guess: |
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Heron carried
the election, but was unseated by the
decision
of a Committee of the
House of Commons: a decision which it is said he took so much to heart
that it affected his health, and shortened his life.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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_
[284] The Gascons or Basques, a very ancient and
singular
people.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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Hear how learn'd Greece her useful rules indites,
When to repress, and when indulge our flights:
High on Parnassus' top her sons she show'd,
And pointed out those arduous paths they trod; 95
Held from afar, aloft, th'
immortal
prize,
And urg'd the rest by equal steps to rise.
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Von Hammer (according to
Sprenger's Oriental Catalogue) speaks of Omar as "a Free-thinker, and
a great opponent of Sufism;" perhaps because, while holding much of
their Doctrine, he would not pretend to any inconsistent
severity
of
morals.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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This grasp of the
deeper
significance
of all art gives to the book on Rodin its well-nigh
religious aspect of thought and its hymnlike rhythm of expression.
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Rilke - Poems |
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O so dear
O so dear from far and near and white all
So deliciously you, Mery, that I dream
Of what
impossibly
flows, of some rare balm
Over some flower-vase of darkened crystal.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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I was
evidently
in the
house of the Commandant, as Marya Ivanofna could thus come and see me!
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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More odious than those rags which the French
youth
At
ordinaries
after dinner show'th,
When they compare their chancres and poulains !
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Marvell - Poems |
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Meredith - Poems |
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AUTUMN SONG
Like a joy on the heart of a sorrow,
The sunset hangs on a cloud;
A golden storm of glittering sheaves,
Of fair and frail and
fluttering
leaves,
The wild wind blows in a cloud.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Spices we carried,
Laid them upon his breast;
Tenderly
buried
Him whom we loved the best;
Cleanly to bind him
Took we the fondest care,
Ah!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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He is read, if at all, in preference to the combined and
established
wit
of the world.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Few roods of ground the piles we raise
Will leave to plough; ponds wider spread
Than Lucrine lake will meet the gaze
On every side; the plane unwed
Will top the elm; the violet-bed,
The myrtle, each delicious sweet,
On olive-grounds their scent will shed,
Where once were fruit-trees
yielding
meat;
Thick bays will screen the midday range
Of fiercest suns.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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He thereat was stung,
Perverse, with stronger fancy to reclaim
Her wild and timid nature to his aim:
Besides, for all his love, in self despite,
Against his better self, he took delight
Luxurious
in her sorrows, soft and new.
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Keats |
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They built huge fires 29
of wood all round the ramparts and sat
drinking
by them; then, as the
wine warmed their hearts, one by one they dashed into the fight with
blind courage.
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Tacitus |
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* Shortly
after receiving his charge, he addressed a let-
ter to the Protector, from which we extract one
or two • sentences
characteristic
of his caution,
* This Mr.
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Marvell - Poems |
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how unlike those late
terrific
sleeps!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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THE little white clouds are racing over the sky,
And the fields are strewn with the gold of the flower of March,
The
daffodil
breaks under foot, and the tasselled larch
Sways and swings as the thrush goes hurrying by.
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Wilde - Poems |
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The task is
obviously
not one of translation or of paraphrasing,
but of imaginative and, at the same time, interpretive construction.
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Sappho |
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The troubled plumes of
midnight
were
The plumes upon a hearse:
And bitter wine upon a sponge
Was the savour of Remorse.
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Wilde - Poems |
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"My purpose went not to develop
Such insight in Earthland;
Such potent
appraisements
affront me,
And sadden my reign!
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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