To
withdraw
with you- why do
you go about to recover the wind of me, as if you would drive me
into a toil?
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He is indebted at
every step to the labors of earlier editors,
particularly
to Elwin,
Courthope, Pattison, and Hales.
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"I dare say Milton
preferred
'Comus' to either-.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Da seht, dass Ihr tiefsinnig fasst,
Was in des Menschen Hirn nicht passt;
Fur was drein geht und nicht drein geht,
Ein prachtig Wort zu
Diensten
steht.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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As Far As My Eye Can See In My Body's Senses
All the trees all their branches all of their leaves
The grass at the foot of the rocks and the houses en masse
Far off the sea that your eye bathes
These images of day after day
The vices the virtues so imperfect
The transparency of men passing among them by chance
And passing women breathed by your elegant obstinacies
Your obsessions in a heart of lead on virgin lips
The vices the virtues so imperfect
The likeness of looks of permission with eyes you conquer
The confusion of bodies wearinesses ardours
The imitation of words attitudes ideas
The vices the virtues so imperfect
Love is man incomplete
Barely Disfigured
Adieu Tristesse
Bonjour Tristesse
Farewell Sadness
Hello Sadness
You are inscribed in the lines on the ceiling
You are inscribed in the eyes that I love
You are not poverty absolutely
Since the poorest of lips denounce you
Ah with a smile
Bonjour Tristesse
Love of kind bodies
Power of love
From which kindness rises
Like a bodiless monster
Unattached head
Sadness
beautiful
face.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Whatever
in those climes he found
Irregular in sight or sound
Did to his mind impart
A kindred impulse, seemed allied 130
To his own powers, and justified
The workings of his heart.
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William Wordsworth |
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I burned
Hot and cold, in a lasting fever, well-earned
By the mortal wound of your glance's
piercing
flight.
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Ronsard |
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FOOTNOTES:
[492] {481}["Aye, he and the count's footman were
jabbering
French like
two intriguing ducks in a mill-pond; and I believe they talked of me,
for they laughed consumedly.
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Byron |
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I looked again, and saw him standing in the
middle of a boggy Stygian fen,
surrounded
by devils, and he had found
his bounds without a doubt, three little stones, where a stake had
been driven, and looking nearer, I saw that the Prince of Darkness was
his surveyor.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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The gale, it plies the
saplings
double,
It blows so hard, 'twill soon be gone:
To-day the Roman and his trouble
Are ashes under Uricon.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Les Amours de Cassandre: CXCII
It was hot, and sleep, gently flowing,
Was trickling through my dreaming soul,
When the vague form of a vibrant ghost
Arrived to disturb my dreaming, softly
Leaning down to me, pure ivory teeth,
And
offering
me her flickering tongue,
Her lips were kissing me, sweet and long,
Mouth on mouth, thigh on thigh beneath.
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Ronsard |
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But when the Queen immersed in such a trance,
And moving through the past unconsciously,
Came to that point where first she saw the King
Ride toward her from the city, sighed to find
Her journey done, glanced at him, thought him cold,
High, self-contained, and passionless, not like him,
'Not like my Lancelot'--while she brooded thus
And grew half-guilty in her
thoughts
again,
There rode an armed warrior to the doors.
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Tennyson |
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" developed, a species of song
in lines of
irregular
length, written in strophes, each of which must
conform to a strict pattern of tones and rhymes.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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I have tiding,
Glad tiding, behold how in duty
From far
Lehistan
the wind, gliding.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Li Yang-ping gives the
following
account of Po's death: "When he
was about to hang up his cap [an euphemism for "dying"] Li Po was
worried at the thought that his numerous rough drafts had not been
collected and arranged.
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Li Po |
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Wherefore
did you so?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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* * * * *
War and its travels have made me sad,
And a fierce anger burns within me:
It's
thinking
of how I've wasted my time
That makes this fury tear my heart.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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It's certain that there is some trouble here,
Although
it's gone out of my memory.
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Yeats |
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Awhile our stream of ships
Held onward, till within the narrowing creek
Our jostling vessels were together driven,
And none could aid another: each on each
Drave hard their brazen beaks, or brake away
The oar-banks of each other, stem to stern,
While the Greek galleys, with no lack of skill,
Hemmed them and
battered
in their sides, and soon
The hulls rolled over, and the sea was hid,
Crowded with wrecks and butchery of men.
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Aeschylus |
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Gutenberg
is a registered trademark,
and may not be used if you charge for the eBooks, unless you receive
specific permission.
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Wilde - Poems |
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And with the gipsies there will be a king
And a thousand desperadoes just his style,
With all their rags dyed in the blood of roses,
Splashed
with the blood of angels, and of demons.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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XVII
Nay; I'll sing "The Bridge of Lodi"--
That long-loved,
romantic
thing,
Though none show by smile or nod he
Guesses why and what I sing!
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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The final edition shows
numerous and considerable variations from all its precursors; evidencing
once again that Whitman is by no means the rough-and-ready writer,
panoplied in rude art and
egotistic
self-sufficiency, that many people
suppose him to be.
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Whitman |
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_ I agree, but to disobey the Father's words
How is it
possible?
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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No useless coffin
enclosed
his breast,
Not in sheet or in shroud we wound him:
But he lay like a warrior taking his rest,
With his martial cloak around him.
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Golden Treasury |
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Had not the brother of the Monarch reach'd
Achaian Argos yet, but, wand'ring still
In other climes, his long absence gave
AEgisthus
courage for that bloody deed?
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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It ruffles wrists of posts,
As ankles of a queen, --
Then stills its
artisans
like ghosts,
Denying they have been.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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And Fulvius, who Campania's traitors slew,
And paid ingratitude with
vengeance
due.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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MEMORIES OF A CHILDHOOD
The
darkness
hung like richness in the room
When like a dream the mother entered there
And then a glass's tinkle stirred the air
Near where a boy sat in the silent gloom.
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Rilke - Poems |
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He calls for the tsarevich, the
tsarevich!
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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But dash the tear-drop from thine eye,
Our ship is swift and strong;
Our
fleetest
falcon scarce can fly
More merrily along.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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What Beast was't then
That made you breake this
enterprize
to me?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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'And now the Argive squadron was sailing in order from Tenedos, and in
the favouring stillness of the quiet moon sought the shores it knew;
when the royal galley ran out a flame, and, protected by the gods'
malign decrees, Sinon stealthily lets loose the imprisoned Grecians from
their barriers of pine; the horse opens and restores them to the air;
and
joyfully
issuing from the hollow wood, Thessander and Sthenelus the
captains, and terrible Ulysses, [262-295]slide down the dangling rope,
with Acamas and Thoas and Neoptolemus son of Peleus, and Machaon first
of all, and Menelaus, and Epeus himself the artificer of the treachery.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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The Ox
Lucas and the Ox
'Lucas and the Ox'
Hieronymus Wierix, 1563 - before 1590, The Rijksmuseun
This cherubim sings the praises
Of
Paradise
where, with Angels,
We'll live once more, dear friends,
When the good God intends.
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Appoloinaire |
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Somewhere
or other, may be far or near;
With just a wall, a hedge, between;
With just the last leaves of the dying year
Fallen on a turf grown green.
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Christina Rossetti |
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"O friends (he cries), the
stranger
seems well skill'd
To try the illustrious labours of the field:
I deem him brave: then grant the brave man's claim,
Invite the hero to his share of fame.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Or how the fish
outbuilt
her shell,
Painting with morn each annual cell?
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Emerson - Poems |
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); and
this archaism, in its turn, seems to me best explained as a conscious
reaction against Euripides'
searching
and unconventional treatment of the
same subject (cf.
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Euripides - Electra |
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Some think it service in the place
Where we, with late, celestial face,
Please God, shall
ascertain!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Wonderful,
Never to feel thee thrill the day or night
With
personal
act or speech,--nor ever cull
Some prescience of thee with the blossoms white
Thou sawest growing!
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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And all men kill the thing they love,
By all let this be heard,
Some do it with a bitter look,
Some with a
flattering
word,
The coward does it with a kiss,
The brave man with a sword!
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Wilde - Poems |
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Foin de leur
tabatiere
a sornettes!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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trinity sure to me you bring;
Lilac blooming perennial, and
drooping
star in the west,
And thought of him I love.
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Whitman |
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"
{146a} "If it were allowable for immortals to weep for mortals, the
Muses would weep for the poet Naevius; since he is handed to the chamber
of Orcus, they have
forgotten
how to speak Latin at Rome.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Oh the dismal care
That shakes the
blossoms
of my hoary hair!
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blake-poems |
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er hou shal I my-seluen saue
To lyue in
maidenhede?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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forgive that I
Thus violate thy bower's
sanctity!
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Keats |
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Hankerings for foreign things will
sometimes
haunt you,
The good so far one often finds;
Your real German man can't bear the French, I grant you,
And yet will gladly drink their wines.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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With joint consent on
helpless
me they flew.
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Marvell - Poems |
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e
grattest
of gres ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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"--
He is a fool,
withouten
were,
That trowith have his countre here.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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They, like a spasm of the Hydra, hearing the angel
Once grant a purer sense to the words of the tribe,
Loudly
proclaimed
it a magic potion, imbibed
From some tidal brew black, and dishonourable.
| Guess: |
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Still as death are the places of life;
The city seems crumbled and gone,
Sunk 'mid
invisible
deeps--
The city so lately rife
With the stir of brain and brawn.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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[84] The trial of Anne Turner in 1615, in
which charges of witchcraft were joined with those of poisoning,
especially attracted the
attention
of Jonson.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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"I taught you of kissing," says she; "that
becomes every
courteous
knight.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Wilt thou teach us spell-words that protect from all harm,
And
thoughts
of evil banish?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Under the sod and the dew,
Waiting the
judgment
day;
Love and tears for the Blue;
Tears and love for the Gray.
| Guess: |
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Or if he escape me, if he come not there
To seek the blood of offering, I will fare
Down to the Houses without Light, and bring
To Her we name not and her
nameless
King
Strong prayers, until they yield to me and send
Alcestis home, to life and to my friend:
Who gave me shelter, drove me not away
In his great grief, but hid his evil day
Like a brave man, because he loved me well.
| Guess: |
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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for I will fly to thee,
Not
charioted
by Bacchus and his pards,
But on the viewless wings of Poesy,
Though the dull brain perplexes and retards:
Already with thee!
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Keats |
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And it grew both day and night,
Till it bore an apple bright,
And my foe beheld it shine,
and he knew that it was mine, --
And into my garden stole
When the night had veiled the pole;
In the morning, glad, I see
My foe
outstretched
beneath the tree.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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Avez-vous donc pu croire, hypocrites surpris,
Qu'on se moque du maitre, et qu'avec lui l'on triche,
Et qu'il soit naturel de
recevoir
deux prix.
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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And now, far off
In the fragrant darkness
The tree is
tremulous
again with bloom
For June comes back.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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Why should, of all things, man, unruFd,
Such unproportion*d
dwellings
build ?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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Nor dare I chide the world-without-end hour,
Whilst I, my sovereign, watch the clock for you,
Nor think the
bitterness
of absence sour,
When you have bid your servant once adieu;
Nor dare I question with my jealous thought
Where you may be, or your affairs suppose,
But, like a sad slave, stay and think of nought
Save, where you are, how happy you make those.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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how blithe the
throstle
sings!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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"
He said, and
forceful
pierced his spacious shield:
Through the strong brass the ringing javelin thrown,
Plough'd half his side, and bared it to the bone.
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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E uno incomincio: <
del beneficio tuo sanza giurarlo,
pur che 'l voler
nonpossa
non ricida.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Living, and weeping, late I've learn'd to say
That here below--Oh,
knowledge
dearly bought!
| Guess: |
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Trumpets
they blew in rear and in the van,
Till all again answered that olifant.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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Even unto us, who made these ancient things,
The fool his public
lamentation
sings.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
|
Come lovely and soothing death,
Undulate round the world, serenely arriving, arriving,
In the day, in the night, to all, to each,
Sooner or later
delicate
death.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
|
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terms will be linked
to the Project Gutenberg-tm License for all works posted with the
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Let the hoarse torrent
In the blue canyon,
Murmuring
mightily
10
Out of the grey mist
Of primal chaos,
Cease not proclaiming
How I adore thee.
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| Source: |
Sappho |
|
3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER
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WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE.
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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And the
blacksmith
he threw off his apron and swore
Small swipes should bemoisten his gullet no more:
Let it out on the floor for the dry cock-a-roach--
And he held up his hammer with threatens to broach
Sir John in his castle without leave or law
And suck out his blood with a reed or a straw
Ere he'd soak at the swipes--and he turned him to start,
Till the host for high treason came down a full quart.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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"
She still had prayed, (the
heavenly
word
Broken by an earthly sigh)
--"Thou who didst not erst deny
The mother-joy to Mary mild,
Blessed in the blessed child
Which hearkened in meek babyhood
Her cradle-hymn, albeit used
To all that music interfused
In breasts of angels high and good!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
|
'Twas a
peaceful
summer's morning, when the first thing gave
us warning
Was the booming of the cannon from the river and the shore:
"Child," says grandma, "what's the matter, what is all this
noise and clatter?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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FAUST:
Ja, was man so
erkennen
heisst!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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`Swich wreche on hem, for
fecching
of Eleyne, 890
Ther shal be take, er that we hennes wende,
That Manes, which that goddes ben of peyne,
Shal been agast that Grekes wol hem shende.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
|
Some of you, by means of drugs,
extinguish
the newly-formed man within your bowels, and thus commit parricide on your offspring before you bring them into the world.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
|
But still the steam curled watery white;
Night turned to day and day to night;
One thing lacked, by his feeble sight
Unseen,
unguessed
by his feeble mind:
Life might miss him, but Death the blight
Was sure to find.
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Christina Rossetti |
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they did invent,
Or Cybeles
franticke
rites?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Kline (C)
Copyright
2008 All Rights Reserved
This work may be freely reproduced, stored, and transmitted, electronically or otherwise, for any non-commercial purpose.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Express him
startling
next, with listening ear,
As one that some unusual noise doth hear ;
With cannons, trumpets, drums, his door sur-
round.
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Marvell - Poems |
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e
chaungyng
of hyre
self.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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at te ego certe 25
Cognoram
a parva virgine magnanimam.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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I know they think me mad, for all night long
I haunt the sea-marge,
thinking
I may find
Some day the herb he offered unto me.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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In his
adversity
I ever prayed that God would give him strength; for
greatness he could not want.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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+ Maintain attribution The Google "watermark" you see on each file is essential for informing people about this project and helping them find additional
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through Google Book Search.
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Meredith - Poems |
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LXXXII
Over the roofs the honey-coloured moon,
With purple shadows on the silver grass,
And the warm south-wind on the curving sea,
While we two, lovers past all turmoil now,
Watch from the window the white sails come in, 5
Bearing what unknown
ventures
safe to port!
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Sappho |
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There are as many
perfections
as there are
imperfect men.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Only the
hearthstone
of old India
Will end the endless march of gipsy feet.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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1 with
active links or
immediate
access to the full terms of the Project
Gutenberg-tm License.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Not for _me_,
brother!
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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What do you think
endures?
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Whitman |
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The old man took the oars, and soon the bark
Smote on the beach beside a tower of stone; _1415
It was a crumbling heap, whose portal dark
With blooming ivy-trails was overgrown;
Upon whose floor the spangling sands were strown,
And rarest sea-shells, which the eternal flood,
Slave to the mother of the months, had thrown _1420
Within the walls of that gray tower, which stood
A
changeling
of man's art nursed amid Nature's brood.
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Shelley |
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Hinc credo explicari tot alternantes lectiones quae in _G_ et
_R_ reperiuntur; quae ut ab archetypon diuerse interpretantibus sine
dubio ortae sunt, ita ex archetypo non ipso semper, sed apographis eius
depromi poterant, qualia inter 1323 et 1375 quo anno descriptus est _G_,
exarata esse
credibile
est.
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Latin - Catullus |
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Panic took them, and deaf as they were then, 1535
They
recognised
neither voice nor the rein.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Yet not of these I muse
In this
ancestral
place,
But of a kindred face
That never joy or hope shall here diffuse.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Fleay
believes
that _Charis_, part
1, in which the poet speaks of himself as writing 'fifty years', was
written c 1622-3; but that parts 2-10 were written c 1608.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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