And
Lucretius
designs a whole book in his sixth:--
"Quod in primo quoque carmine claret.
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For you, on Latmos,
fondling
your sleeping boy,
Would always wish some languid ploy
As restraint for your flying chariot:
But I whom Love devours all night long,
Wish from evening onwards for the dawn,
To find the daylight that your night forgot.
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Ronsard |
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The selfsame moment I could pray;
And from my neck so free
The
Albatross
fell off, and sank
Like lead into the sea.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Then again he dips his wing
In the
wrinkles
of the spring,
Then oer the rushes flies again,
And pearls roll off his back like rain.
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John Clare |
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Now on the moth-time of that evening dim
He would return that way, as well she knew,
To Corinth from the shore; for freshly blew
The eastern soft wind, and his galley now
Grated the quaystones with her brazen prow
In port Cenchreas, from Egina isle
Fresh anchor'd; whither he had been awhile
To
sacrifice
to Jove, whose temple there
Waits with high marble doors for blood and incense rare.
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Keats - Lamia |
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Ils ecoutent le bon pain cuire
Le
boulanger
au gras sourire
Chante un vieil air.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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les colliers
tinteront
cherront les masques
Va-t'en va-t'en contre le feu l'ombre prevaut
Ah!
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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REYNOLDS
THE THREE
GLORIOUS
DAYS.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Nothing: but not so art thou,
Soul of my
thought!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Howe'er great is pharaoh, the magi, king,
Encompassed by an
idolizing
ring,
None is so high as Tiglath Pileser.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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XXXV
Full many mischiefes follow cruell Wrath;
Abhorred
bloodshed and tumultuous strife,
Unmanly murder, and unthrifty scath,?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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With great enterprise he had
transported
his
gladiators across the Po, and suddenly flung them on to the opposite
bank.
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Tacitus |
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The birds are silent in their dim retreat,
Nor any note is heard in wood or grass,
Save the bough perched Cicala's
wearying
cry,
Which deafens hill and dale, and sea and sky.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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" he said, "with what you do,
For
business
calls me, I must not delay.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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"But often it happens on skiey hills" thou sayest,
"That neighbouring tops of lofty trees are rubbed
One against other, smote by the blustering south,
Till all ablaze with
bursting
flower of flame.
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Lucretius |
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Who but himself--himself anticipating the but too
probable
termination
of his own course?
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Robert Forst |
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Both show a
survival
of
a past interest, of which the dramatist himself realizes the obsolete
character.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Three days in the
cathedral
did I visit
His corpse, escorted thither by all Uglich.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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He gave
These opals to the woman whom he loved;
And now, like glinting
sunbeams
through the rain,
The rays of thought that through his spirit moved
Leap out from these mysterious forms again.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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[87] The subject of personal satire
was a favorite one with him, and in _The Magnetic Lady_ he makes the
sufficiently explicit statement: 'A play, though it apparel and present
vices in general, flies from all
particularities
in persons'.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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It must be frankly
confessed
that these lines do not ring true.
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Alexander Pope |
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To
SEND
DONATIONS
or determine the status of compliance for any
particular state visit http://pglaf.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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You dropped a purple
ravelling
in,
You dropped an amber thread;
And now you 've littered all the East
With duds of emerald!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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The horrid crags, by toppling convent crowned,
The cork-trees hoar that clothe the shaggy steep,
The mountain moss by
scorching
skies imbrowned,
The sunken glen, whose sunless shrubs must weep,
The tender azure of the unruffled deep,
The orange tints that gild the greenest bough,
The torrents that from cliff to valley leap,
The vine on high, the willow branch below,
Mixed in one mighty scene, with varied beauty glow.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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ou art welcome nou vs tille,
here-in
schaltou
wone.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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"
He,
gathering
fury, still made sign to draw.
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Marvell - Poems |
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XVI
AND the lord of earls, to each that came
with Beowulf over the briny ways,
an
heirloom
there at the ale-bench gave,
precious gift; and the price {16a} bade pay
in gold for him whom Grendel erst
murdered, -- and fain of them more had killed,
had not wisest God their Wyrd averted,
and the man's {16b} brave mood.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Meredith - Poems |
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[2] Omar
himself alludes to his name in the following
whimsical
lines:--
"'Khayyam, who stitched the tents of science,
Has fallen in grief's furnace and been suddenly burned;
The shears of Fate have cut the tent ropes of his life,
And the broker of Hope has sold him for nothing!
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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SEA LONGING
A THOUSAND miles beyond this sun-steeped wall
Somewhere the waves creep cool along the sand,
The ebbing tide
forsakes
the listless land
With the old murmur, long and musical;
The windy waves mount up and curve and fall,
And round the rocks the foam blows up like snow,--
Tho' I am inland far, I hear and know,
For I was born the sea's eternal thrall.
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Sara Teasdale |
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If I should die,
And you should live,
And time should gurgle on,
And morn should beam,
And noon should burn,
As it has usual done;
If birds should build as early,
And bees as
bustling
go, --
One might depart at option
From enterprise below!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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And I, could I stand by
And see you freeze,
Without my right of frost,
Death's
privilege?
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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grudge not the wheat
Which hunger forces birds to eat:
Your blinded eyes, worst foes to you,
Can't see the good which
sparrows
do.
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John Clare |
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Lycius to all made eloquent reply,
Marrying
to every word a twinborn sigh;
And last, pointing to Corinth, ask'd her sweet,
If 'twas too far that night for her soft feet.
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Keats - Lamia |
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A LITTLE GIRL LOST
Children
of the future age,
Reading this indignant page,
Know that in a former time
Love, sweet love, was thought a crime.
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blake-poems |
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The ancient Mariner
earnestly
entreateth the Hermit to shrieve him; and the
penance of life falls on him.
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While we cannot and do not solicit
contributions
from states where we
have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition
against accepting unsolicited donations from donors in such states who
approach us with offers to donate.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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non mihi mille placent, non sum desultor amoris:
tu mihi, siqua fides, cura perennis eris;
tecum, quos dederint annos mihi fila sororum,
uiuere contingat, te
moriente
mori;
te mihi materiem felicem in carmina praebe:
prouenient causa carmina digna sua.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Now it is seen, if there be likelihood,
That king who reigns in so remote a land,
Followed by such a mighty multitude,
Should set his foot on warlike Africk's strand;
Traversing
sands, to which in evil hour
Cambyses trusted his ill-omened power.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Then live we
mirthful
while we should,
And turn the iron age to gold.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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If the
cathedral
still shall have its isles.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Ne'er have my house so cursed an indweller--
Heaven send me, rather,
childless
to be slain!
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Aeschylus |
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Yet must I now lament that lips so pure of the purest
Damsel, thy slaver foul soiled with
filthiest
kiss.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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"Then
carelessly
remark 'Old coon!
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Lewis Carroll |
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The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating
charities and charitable
donations
in all 50 states of the United
States.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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And you, even you, will be like this drear thing,
A vile
infection
man may not endure;
Star that I yearn to!
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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She would not, for no words of ours, unveil,
And
something
held us back from handling her.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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There is a
blessing
in the air,
Which seems a sense of joy to yield
To the bare trees, and mountains bare,
And grass in the green field.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Of the dead, Michael Angelo
appealed
chiefly to him there;
Landor among the living.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Joie
Des
chantiers
riverains a l'abandon, en proie
Aux soirs d'aout qui faisaient germer ces pourritures!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Living Rome, the
ornament
of the world,
Now dead, remains the world's monument.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Nearly all the individual
works in the
collection
are in the public domain in the United
States.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Fair fall the
freighted
boats which gold and stone
And spices bear to sea:
Slim, gleaming maidens swell their mellow notes,
Love-promising, entreating-- 10
Ah!
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Christina Rossetti |
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No
pleasure
in point-lace collars take then,
Nor for the dance thy person deck then!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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"Why," said another, "Some there are who tell
Of one who threatens he will toss to Hell
The
luckless
Pots he marr'd in making--Pish!
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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of all unparallel'd, alone,
Who with thy beauties hast enamour'd Heaven,
Whose like has never been, nor e'er shall be;
For holy
thoughts
with chaste and pious acts
To the true God a sacred living shrine
In thy fecund virginity have made:
By thee, dear Mary, yet my life may be
Happy, if to thy prayers,
O Virgin meek and mild!
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Petrarch |
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The great city is that which has the
greatest
man or woman;
If it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the
whole world.
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Whitman |
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Why hast thou
awakened
the heart within me, O Rose of the crimson thorn?
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Let Paphos lift the mirror;
let her look
into the
polished
center of the disk.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Cousin, farewell; what
presence
must not know,
From where you do remain let paper show.
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Shakespeare |
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He arose from the blow, adjusted his clothes, and made no
attempt at retaliation at all--merely muttering a few words about
"taking summary vengeance at the first
convenient
opportunity,"--a
natural and very justifiable ebullition of anger, which meant nothing,
however, and, beyond doubt, was no sooner given vent to than forgotten.
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Poe - 5 |
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The dark wave, the plumed wave,
It meets his eager glance;
And it
sparkles
'neath the stars,
Like the glimmer of a lance--
A dark wave, a plumed wave,
On an emerald expanse.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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O
Camerado
close!
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Whitman |
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Ritson supposes it to be Caer-went, in Monmouthshire,
and afterwards
confounded
with Caer-wynt, or Winchester.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Were this misfortune viewed with proper eyes,
Such ills from
cuckoldom
would ne'er arise.
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La Fontaine |
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The Spirit turns away,
Just laying off, for evidence,
An
overcoat
of clay.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Though true it be that none with surer seat
O'er Mars's grassy turf is seen to ride,
Nor any swims so fleet
Adown the Tuscan tide,
Yet keep each evening door and window barr'd;
Look not abroad when music strikes up shrill,
And though he call you hard,
Remain
obdurate
still.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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--Ease and relaxation are
profitable
to all studies.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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2255); Mr Small's
Northern
'Metrical Homilies', p.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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I have heard the
mermaids
singing, each to each.
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| Question: |
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T.S. Eliot |
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2 That is, the extravagance of Sui Yangdi can been seen in the ornament of the ruins, which serve as
evidence
of why the Sui fell.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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For never, in all memory, as to thee,
To mortal man so sure and straight the way
Of
everlasting
honour open lay,
For thine the power and will, if right I see,
To lift our empire to its old proud state.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Petrarch - Poems |
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PLANH
It is of the white
thoughts
that he saw in the Forest.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Why does your tender palm
dissolve
in dew?
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| Question: |
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Keats - Lamia |
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No more I know, I wish I did,
And I would tell it all to you;
For what became of this poor child
There's none that ever knew:
And if a child was born or no,
There's no one that could ever tell;
And if 'twas born alive or dead,
There's no one knows, as I have said,
But some
remember
well,
That Martha Ray about this time
Would up the mountain often climb.
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| Question: |
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Have you got a brook in your little heart,
Where bashful flowers blow,
And
blushing
birds go down to drink,
And shadows tremble so?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Love, now an
universal
birth.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Flame and Shadow, by Sara Teasdale
This eBook is for the use of anyone
anywhere
at no cost and with
almost no restrictions whatsoever.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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My boy was by my side, so slim
And
graceful
in his rustic dress!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Her face was of
the colour of earth, and more
wrinkled
than the face of any old hag
that was ever seen, and her grey hair was hanging in wisps, and the
rags she was wearing did not hide her dark skin that was roughened by
all weathers.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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E'en for thy
presence
ceased to pine;
The World--nay, Heaven itself was mine!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
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Can tyrants but by tyrants conquered be,
And Freedom find no champion and no child
Such as Columbia saw arise when she
Sprung forth a Pallas, armed and
undefiled?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Her
evenings
then were dull and dead: 45
Sad case it was, as you may think,
For very cold to go to bed;
And then for cold not sleep a wink.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
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Nous
marchions
au soleil, front haut; comme cela,
Dans Paris!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Till the
sun got low, I did not believe that there were so many
redcoats
in the
forest army.
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steed and rider;--Tartar chiefs or of Arabian birth,
Their turbans and their cruel course, their banners and their cries,
Seem now as if a
troubled
dream had passed before mine eyes--
My valiant warriors and their steeds, thus doomed to fall and bleed!
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amenusynge
of p{er}fecc{i}ou{n}.
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surely thy resolve
Is altogether fixt to perish there,
If thou indeed hast
purposed
with that throng
To mix, whose riot and outrageous acts 400
Of violence echo through the vault of heav'n.
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Money should be paid to the:
"Project Gutenberg
Literary
Archive Foundation.
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What bodes it now that forth they fare,
To men revealed
visibly?
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Felon is Guene, since th' hour that he betrayed,
And, towards you, is perjured and ashamed:
Wherefore
I judge that he be hanged and slain,
His carcass flung to th' dogs beside the way,
As a felon who felony did make.
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Knopf 1920
To Jean
Verdenal
1889-1915
Certain of these poems first appeared in Poetry, Blast, Others, The
Little Review, and Art and Letters.
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Forth issued into day that figure dread
From
devilish
darkness and the caverned deep.
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GHOST OF DARIUS
She wastes by famine a too
countless
foe.
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'Tis too
apparent
this!
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to live content with only one husband,
Praise is and truest of praise ever
bestowed
upon wife.
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