The Portuguese prince even visited the Kingdoms of Prester John and
returned
to his own country after three years and four months.
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Appoloinaire |
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Villon
presumably
means that they were 'near cousins' in spirit.
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Villon |
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yon young gallant--
Your miserly Intendant and dense noble--
All--all
suspected
me; and why?
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Byron |
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525
But if in noble minds some dregs remain
Not yet purg'd off, of spleen and sour disdain;
Discharge
that rage on more provoking crimes,
Nor fear a dearth in these flagitious times.
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Meanwhile corpses lie in new-made graves, bloody corpses of young men,
The rope of the gibbet hangs heavily, the bullets of princes are
flying, the
creatures
of power laugh aloud,
And all these things bear fruits, and they are good.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Tharmas groand among his Clouds
Weeping, and then bending from his Clouds he stoopd his holy innocent head*
{innocent replaces holy LFS} And
stretching
out his holy hand in the vast Deep sublime
Turnd round the circle of Destiny with tears & bitter sighs
And said.
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Blake - Zoas |
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stretch'd and
basking!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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These
syllables
that Nature spoke,
And the thoughts that in him woke,
Can adequately utter none
Save to his ear the wind-harp lone.
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Emerson - Poems |
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There, when the turf in
springtime
flowers,
With downward eye and gazes sad,
Stands amid the glancing showers
A jonquil, not a Grecian lad.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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XXXVII
They looked and saw a lengthening road, and wain 325
That rang down a bare slope not far remote:
The barrows
glistered
bright with drops of rain,
Whistled the waggoner with merry note,
The cock far off sounded his clarion throat;
But town, or farm, or hamlet, none they viewed, 330
Only were told there stood a lonely cot
A long mile thence.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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XLI
"If of all human sins of deepest dye
Be fell ingratitude; if doomed to smart
For this, the fairest angel of the sky
Was banished into foul and darksome part;
If mighty sins for mighty vengeance cry,
Where due
atonement
cleanses not the heart;
Beware lest thou beneath such vengeance groan,
Ingrate!
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
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Imagists |
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Most works are most
beautiful
without ornament.
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Whitman |
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Thy love is better than high birth to me,
Richer than wealth, prouder than garments' costs,
Of more delight than hawks and horses be;
And having thee, of all men's pride I boast:
Wretched in this alone, that thou mayst take
All this away, and me most
wretchcd
make.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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'--
'Better I like my
kerchief
rolled
Light and white round my neck.
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Christina Rossetti |
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To-day, when friends approach, and every hour
Brings book, or
starbright
scroll of genius,
The little cup will hold not a bead more,
And all the costly liquor runs to waste;
Nor gives the jealous lord one diamond drop
So to be husbanded for poorer days.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Canst thou expect, that should he even prove
Stronger
than ye, and bend the massy bow,
He will conduct me hence to his own home,
And make me his own bride?
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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' To which Juno answers--'Dost
thou mean to rescue from death a mortal man, long since destined by
fate (palai
pepromenon)?
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Iliad - Pope |
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Houghton
Mifflin Company, Boston, 1914.
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Imagists |
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961 A
Paradoxe
of a Painted Face 456
Sonnett.
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John Donne |
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money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the
electronic work is
discovered
and reported to you within 90 days
of receipt of the work.
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Stephen Crane |
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50
Here is the man with three staves, and here the Wheel,
And here is the one-eyed merchant, and this card,
Which is blank, is something he carries on his back,
Which I am
forbidden
to see.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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_139_
I give the first stanza of this poem in the effective paraphrase of
Herrick, and the first two stanzas in the rather diffuse
rendering
of
Byron.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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The Fly
The Fable of the Ant and the Fly
'The Fable of the Ant and the Fly'
Aegidius Sadeler, Marcus
Gheeraerts
(I), Marcus Gheeraerts (I), 1608, The Rijksmuseun
The songs that our flies know
Were taught to them in Norway
By flies who are they say
Divinities of snow.
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Appoloinaire |
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The mistakes
of the night, however, as they were all equal in point of honour, were
mutually forgiven in the morning, and each man took his proper wife whom
he had
received
at the altar.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Caves I long for and cold rocks,
Minnow-peopled country brooks,
Blundering gales of Equinox,
Sunless valley-nooks,
Daily so I might restore
Calcined heart and
shrivelled
skin,
A morning phoenix with proud roar
Kindled new within.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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O Latonia, maximi 5
Magna
progenies
Iovis,
Quam mater prope Deliam
Deposivit olivam,
Montium domina ut fores
Silvarumque virentium 10
Saltuumque reconditorum
Amniumque sonantum.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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La terre avait des
versants
fertiles
en princes et en artistes, et la descendance et la
race nous poussaient aux crimes et aux deuils: ce monde votre fortune et
votre peril.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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THE treaty was most
faithfully
observed;
No calculation wrong; from naught they swerved.
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La Fontaine |
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Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or
redistribute
this
electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without
prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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There, when hueless is the west
And the darkness hushes wide,
Where the lad lies down to rest
Stands the
troubled
dream beside.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Upon his fragile form the troopers' bloody grip
Was deeply dug, while sharply
challenged
they:
"Were you one of this currish crew?
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Hugo - Poems |
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[110] The pun--rather a far-fetched one--is between the words [Greek:
D_orh_osti] (in the Dorian mode) and [Greek:
d_orhon]
(a bribe).
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Aristophanes |
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Who
assisted
thee to ravage and to plunder;
I trow thou hadst full many wicked comrades.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Si quicquam mutis gratum
acceptumve
sepulcris
Accidere a nostro, Calve, dolore potest,
Quo desiderio veteres renovamus amores
Atque olim missas flemus amicitias,
Certe non tanto mors inmatura dolorist 5
Quintiliae, quantum gaudet amore tuo.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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A PEASANT,
_husband
of Electra_.
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Euripides - Electra |
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Two puissant people
are flying to arms; two flourishing cities are
agitated
by the approach
of war.
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Petrarch |
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Oh dear, night and day
the
experiments
are going on, and every man who brings a new
prescription is welcome as a brother.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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though
daughter
of a king,
Though faire as ever living wight was faire, 15
Though nor in word nor deede ill meriting,
Is from her knight divorced in despaire,
And her due loves?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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The black ducks
mounting
from the lake,
The pigeon in the pines,
The bittern's boom, a desert make
Which no false art refines.
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Emerson - Poems |
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20
Ah, but what burden of sorrow
Tinges their slow stately chorus,
Though spring
revisits
the glad earth?
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Sappho |
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I, too, have passed her on the hills
Setting her little water-mills
By spouts and
fountains
wild--
Such small machinery as she turned 250
Ere she had wept, ere she had mourned,
A young and happy Child!
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William Wordsworth |
|
"
XLIII
There came
whisperings
in the winds
"Good bye!
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Stephen Crane |
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And in his heart kind
influences
shed
Of country's love, by truth and justice bred.
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Marvell - Poems |
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A rat crept softly through the vegetation
Dragging
its slimy belly on the bank
While I was fishing in the dull canal
On a winter evening round behind the gashouse 190
Musing upon the king my brother's wreck
And on the king my father's death before him.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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[_He
snatches
Helmet at the last word.
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Yeats |
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How
seriously
we may
take this swing of the pendulum is to be noted in a speech of the poet's
at the time of the Revolution: "Come," he said, "let us go shoot General
Aupick!
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Thy
sensitive
beauty
Is become part of the fleeting
Loveliness, merged in the pathos
Of all things mortal.
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Sappho |
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" Naturally, people
stared and
Baudelaire
was happy--he had startled a bourgeois.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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She leaps: they shake and pale; she glows--
And who but knows
How the rejoiced heart aches
When Venus all his starry vision shakes;
When through his mind
Tossing with random airs of an unearthly wind,
Rose-bosom'd, rose-limb'd,
The mistress of his starry vision arises,
And the boughs glittering sway
And the stars pale away,
And the enlarging heaven glows
As Venus light-foot mid the twined
branches
goes.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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'
And she to-laugh, it
thoughte
hir herte breste.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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I was
abasshed
never a del, 805
But it me lykede right wel,
That Curtesye me cleped so,
And bad me on the daunce go.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Thee of thy faith who hath bereft,
And torn the ensigns from thy brow,
And sunk the
immortal
eye so low?
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Emerson - Poems |
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O lovelier than the lovely dame
That bore you, sentence as you please
Those scurril verses, be it flame
Your
vengeance
craves, or Hadrian seas.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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His wretched body was
dominated by a high and eager mind, and he combined in an unparalleled
degree the fiery energy of the born poet with the tireless
patience
of
the trained artist.
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Alexander Pope |
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Donations are
accepted
in a number of other
ways including checks, online payments and credit card donations.
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Rilke - Poems |
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VIII
With arms and vassals Rome the world subdued,
So that one might judge this single city
Had found her
grandeur
held in check solely
By earth and ocean's depth and latitude.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Yet he
concedes
not any void in things,
Nor any limit to cutting bodies down.
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Lucretius |
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No, for the
gods are immortal, and one might still find them loitering in
some
solitary
dell on the grey hillsides of Fiesole.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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) can copy and distribute it in the United States without
permission and without paying
copyright
royalties.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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1745
Criseyde
loveth the sone of Tydeus,
And Troilus mot wepe in cares colde.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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"
THE STUDENT'S TALE
EMMA AND EGINHARD
When Alcuin taught the sons of Charlemagne,
In the free schools of Aix, how kings should reign,
And with them taught the
children
of the poor
How subjects should be patient and endure,
He touched the lips of some, as best befit,
With honey from the hives of Holy Writ;
Others intoxicated with the wine
Of ancient history, sweet but less divine;
Some with the wholesome fruits of grammar fed;
Others with mysteries of the stars o'er-head,
That hang suspended in the vaulted sky
Like lamps in some fair palace vast and high.
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
XXIX
Do you have hopes that posterity
Will read you, my Verse, for
evermore?
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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'Is there a man whose
judgment
clear,
Can others teach the way to steer,
Yet runs himself life's mad career,
Wild as the wave?
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William Wordsworth |
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How all heroic
martyrdoms
to it!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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--
SILENUS:
Aetna, the
loftiest
peak in Sicily.
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| Source: |
Shelley |
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Herman did not recover his usual
composure
during the entire day.
| Guess: |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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El Desdichado (The Disinherited)
I am the darkness - the widower - the un-consoled,
The prince of
Aquitaine
in the ruined tower;
My sole star is dead - and my constellated lute
Bears the black sun of Melancholy.
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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HE IS NEVER WEARY OF
PRAISING
THE EYES OF LAURA.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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For, fisherman, what fresh or
seawater
catch
equals him, either in form or savour,
that lovely divine fish, Jesus, My Saviour?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
|
When any book has a wide
influence
upon opinion, its general
ideas pass into the minds of many people who have never read it.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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(London) 1913
Visions of the Evening Erskine
Macdonald
(London) 1913
Irradiations Houghton Mifflin Co.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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hark, the roar
Of the great
landstorm
with its waves of men!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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if France be still thy
guardian
care,
Oh!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
|
Copyright
laws in most countries are
in a constant state of change.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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Must I see the Count debase my name,
Die without
vengeance
now, or live in shame?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
|
The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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I hope he is a poor young scholar, filled
With noble
thoughts
rather than noble blood.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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The
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Li Bai - Chinese |
|
50 net
"Sleep on, 1 lie at heaven's high oriels Over the start that mumur as thye go
Lighting
your lattice window far below:
And every star some of the glory spells Whereof 1 know.
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Youth
flickers
out like wind-blown flame,
Sweets of to-day to-morrow sour,
For Time and Death, relentless, claim
Our little hour.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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On hope that man seduces,
On
patience
last, not least, of all!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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--it
flickers
up the sky through the night!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
|
Chiefs, soldiers,
comrades
died.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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Lady Mary had been for years
acknowledged
as one of the wittiest, most
learned, and most beautiful women of her day.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
Seest thou not also how the clouds be sped
By contrary winds to regions contrary,
The lower clouds
diversely
from the upper?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
|
HURRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME
Well, that Sunday Albert was home, they had a hot gammon,
And they asked me in to dinner, to get the beauty of it hot--
HURRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME
HURRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME
Goonight
Bill.
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Why will you plead yourself so sad forlorn,
While I am
striving
how to fill my heart
With deeper crimson, and a double smart?
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Steamer, straining at your ropes
Lift your anchor towards an exotic
rawness!
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--My Lord
Glencairn
and the Dean of Faculty, Mr.
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Robert Burns |
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What is your
tidings?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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I saw, with its celestial keys,
Its chords of air, its frets of fire,
The Samian's great Aeolian lyre,
Rising through all its
sevenfold
bars,
From earth unto the fixed stars.
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Longfellow |
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I
returned
with the newspaper and met my host
and hostess in the door.
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Yeats |
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How can one say he was
fortunate
at first?
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Aristophanes |
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Now ask the
husbandmen
to be off.
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Aristophanes |
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Golden Treasury |
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Pleaseth
your Majesty to give me leave,
I'll muster up my friends and meet your Grace
Where and what time your Majesty shall please.
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Shakespeare |
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THE LITTLE VAGABOND
Dear mother, dear mother, the Church is cold;
But the
Alehouse
is healthy, and pleasant, and warm.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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