Church gone and singers too, the song
Sings to me voiceless all night long,
Till my soul beckons me afar,
Glowing and
trembling
like a star.
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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Tacitus: The Histories, Volumes I and II
by Caius Cornelius Tacitus
This eBook is for the use of anyone
anywhere
at no cost and with
almost no restrictions whatsoever.
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Tacitus |
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th,
ffor
penaunce
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Far I have
wandered
throughout the Nine Lands;
Wherever I went such manners had disappeared.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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I'll make my
mistress
my lord and lady,
Whatever may be the outcome now,
For I drank that secret love, fatally,
And must love you evermore, I vow.
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Troubador Verse |
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THE
PHANTASM
OF JUPITER.
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Shelley |
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With Juno goes the Hours
And Graces
strewing
flowers.
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Robert Herrick |
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King
To win a war, then duel
immediately!
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Hence too it happens in the sum there is
No one thing single of its kind in birth,
And single and sole in growth, but rather it is
One member of some
generated
race,
Among full many others of like kind.
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Lucretius |
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'Twas he whom, amid nightly shades,
Whilst Morpheus his approach delays,
She mourned and to the moon would raise
The languid eye of love-sick maids,
Dreaming
perchance
in weal or woe
To end with him her path below.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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The Literary Digest says, in a recent issue :
"There are many "poetry magazines,' but so far as we know Contemporary Verse is the only Ameriean magazine devoted wholly to the
publication
of poetry.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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In the
letter just mentioned he gives the following account of his reception,
with some curious
observations
upon political writing: "The Lord
Mayor received me as politely as a citizen could.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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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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Methinks
I hear of leaders proud
With no uncomely dust distain'd,
And all the world by conquest bow'd,
And only Cato's soul unchain'd.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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(he cries;)
Can these lean shrivell'd limbs, unnerved with age,
These poor but honest rags,
enkindle
rage?
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Odyssey - Pope |
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So he takes his stand exultant
before Aeneas' feet, deeming he
excelled
all in victories; and thereon
without more delay grasps the bull's horn with his left hand, and speaks
thus: 'Goddess-born, if no man dare trust himself to battle, to what
conclusion shall I stand?
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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In quiet let me live:
I ask no
kindness
at thy hand,
For thou hast none to give.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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"
Elsewhere, in personal poems like "Frost at Midnight," and "Fears in
Solitude," all the value of the poem comes from the delicate sensations of
natural things which mean so much more to us, whether or not they did to
him, than the
strictly
personal part of the matter.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Do you feel the fierce paradise
Like stifled
laughter
that slips
To the unanimous crease's depths
From the corner of your lips?
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Mallarme - Poems |
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If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted
with the permission of the
copyright
holder, your use and distribution
must comply with both paragraphs 1.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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In this manner having sailed round the island, they lost their ships through want of skill; and, being
regarded
as pirates, were intercepted, first by the Suevi, then by the Frisii.
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Tacitus |
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LXXIV
"For secretly the duke enjoined the guide,
Who with me through the gloomy forest went,
The worthy guerdon of a faith so tried,
To slay me; and had
compassed
his intent,
But for your ready succour, when I cried.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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And often spent, whene'er I chanced to stray,
In amorous ditties all the
livelong
day!
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Petrarch |
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"
CLXXIV
But Rollant felt that death had made a way
Down from his head till on his heart it lay;
Beneath a pine running in haste he came,
On the green grass he lay there on his face;
His olifant and sword beneath him placed,
Turning his head towards the pagan race,
Now this he did, in truth, that Charles might say
(As he
desired)
and all the Franks his race;--
'Ah, gentle count; conquering he was slain!
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Chanson de Roland |
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I would fain obey;
Within, without, I feel myself decay;
And am so alter'd--not with many a year--
That to myself a
stranger
I appear;
All my old usual life is put away--
Could I but know how long I have to stay!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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The Foundation's
principal
office is located at 4557 Melan Dr.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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We, thus disposed, waited with many a sigh
The sacred dawn; but when, at length, aris'n,
Aurora, day-spring's
daughter
rosy-palm'd
Again appear'd, the males of all his flocks
Rush'd forth to pasture, and, meantime, unmilk'd,
The wethers bleated, by the load distress'd
Of udders overcharged.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Indeed, indeed,
Repentance
oft before
I swore--but was I sober when I swore?
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Then the
henchman
-- he that smote Hamish -- would tremble and lag;
"Strike, hard!
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Sidney Lanier |
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The
kingfisher
flies like an arrow, and wounds the air.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Nay, these the things that make the world, The pick and spade, the ax, the mill, The furrowed field, the
ploughman
grim, The sons of God that work His will.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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For it were neither skile ne right 3120
Of the roser ye broke the rind,
Or take the rose aforn his kind;
Ye ar not
courteys
to aske it.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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'Twas a sweet time for Nesace--for there
Her world lay lolling on the golden air,
Near four bright suns--a
temporary
rest--
An oasis in desert of the blest.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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I see the Deep's untrampled floor
With green and purple sea-weeds strown;
I see the waves upon the shore
Like light dissolved in star-showers thrown;
I sit upon the sands alone;
The
lightning
of the noon-tide ocean
Is flashing round me, and a tone
Arises from its measured motion--
How sweet!
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Golden Treasury |
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See how the temple's solid square of shade
Points north to Lesbos, and the
splendid
sea
That you have never seen, oh evening-eyed.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Sing ho my braw John
Highlandman!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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She ransacks mines and ledges
And
quarries
every rock,
To hew the famous adamant
For each eternal block--
She lays her beams in music,
In music every one,
To the cadence of the whirling world
Which dances round the sun--
That so they shall not be displaced
By lapses or by wars,
But for the love of happy souls
Outlive the newest stars.
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Emerson - Poems |
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From
Camelot, in Somersetshire, he proceeds through Gloucestershire and the
adjoining
counties into Montgomeryshire, and thence through North Wales
to Holyhead, adjoining the Isle of Anglesea (ll.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Should war's mad blast again be blown,
Permit not thou the tyrant powers
To fight thy mother here alone,
But let thy
broadsides
roar with ours.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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"
Fashioned withal with so much skill and care
By her who wrought that work, their
gestures
were.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Is this an
ornament
vain women wear
Upon their wedding day?
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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The
Chaplain
would not kneel to pray
By his dishonoured grave:
Nor mark it with that blessed Cross
That Christ for sinners gave,
Because the man was one of those
Whom Christ came down to save.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Uncertain thro' his fierce uncultured soul
Like lighted tempests troubled
transports
roll;
To viewless realms his Spirit towers amain, 1820.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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for the love of heaven,
Teach me, too, that
wondrous
song!
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Longfellow |
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The sabbath comes, a day of blessed rest;
What hallows it upon this
Christian
shore?
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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It is that settled, ceaseless gloom
The fabled Hebrew
wanderer
bore,
That will not look beyond the tomb,
But cannot hope for rest before.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Her head upon my
throbbing
breast,
She, sinking, said, 'I'm thine for ever!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Your
Lordship
may not have so long to wait.
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Tennyson |
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Per ch'elli a me: <
conosce il danno; e pero non s'ammiri
se ne
riprende
perche men si piagna.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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[Note 81: The "Demon," a short poem by Pushkin which at its first
appearance created some
excitement
in Russian society.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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But it is not to be
taken as an evidence of the
populousness
of the country in general,
hardly even of the river-banks.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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I woke; it was the
midnight
hour,
The clock was echoing in the tower;
But though my slumber was gone by,
This dream it would not pass away--
It seems to live upon my eye!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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And you of
centuries
hence when you listen to me!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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By
Richmond
I raised my knees
Supine on the floor of a narrow canoe.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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For since 'tis fluid, smooth its atoms are
And round, with painful rough ones mixed therein;
Yet need not these be held
together
hooked:
In fact, though rough, they're globular besides,
Able at once to roll, and rasp the sense.
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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Through many a
startled
hamlet
Thundered his flying feet;
He rushed through the gate of Tusculum,
He rushed up the long white street;
He rushed by tower and temple,
And paused not from his race
Till he stood before his master's door
In the stately market-place.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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And when in the silent hours
I whisper your sacred name,
Like an altar-fire it showers
My blood with
fragrant
flame!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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copyright
law in creating the Project
Gutenberg-tm collection.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Epicurus and the Fear of Death_
E TENEBRIS tantis tam clarum extollere lumen
qui primus potuisti inlustrans commoda uitae,
te sequor, o Graiae gentis decus, inque tuis nunc
ficta pedum pono pressis uestigia signis,
non ita certandi cupidus quam propter amorem
quod te imitari aueo; quid enim
contendat
hirundo
cycnis, aut quidnam tremulis facere artubus haedi
consimile in cursu possint et fortis equi uis?
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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CXCI
The pagan race would never rest, but come
Out of the sea, where the sweet waters run;
They leave Marbris, they leave behind Marbrus,
Upstream
by Sebre doth all their navy turn.
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Chanson de Roland |
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But always there comes,
Out from the flame of my being Smoke with its wavering fingers Running athwart my joy;
Always the dark fingers weaving Out of the smoke of my sinning
Curtains
to shut me from God.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Naval
adventurers
were now
invited from all parts to the town of Sagrez, and in 1418 Juan Gonsalez
Zarco and Tristran Vaz set sail on an expedition of discovery, the
circumstances of which give us a striking picture of the state of
navigation ere it was remodelled by the genius of Henry.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Wide o'er the decks the
spreading
sails they throw;
From each tall mast the waving streamers flow;
All seems a festive holiday on board
To welcome to the fleet the island's lord.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Barons of France weep
therefore
and complain.
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Chanson de Roland |
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To learn more about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation
and how your efforts and donations can help, see
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and the Foundation web page at http://www.
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Byron |
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Denying that which mine own spirit guesses
--Our great and ancient fame is also known--
Can I tear off the scarf which veils my tresses,
And with an early
widowhood
atone?
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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hast thou eaten of the Tree
Whereof I gave thee charge thou
shouldst
not eat?
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| Source: |
Milton |
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31
I know you step within mine house 32
'Tis not wise until the latest hour 32
The hill where o'er we wander lies in shadow 33
Needs must thou be upon the
wastelands
yearning .
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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If you
received the work on a
physical
medium, you must return the medium with
your written explanation.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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--But, above all,
Think not to speak unto the people; they 550
Are now by thousands
swarming
at the gates,
But these are closed: the Ten, the Avogadori,
The Giunta, and the chief men of the Forty,
Alone will be beholders of thy doom,
And they are ready to attend the Doge.
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| Source: |
Byron |
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Of the Calfucci still the branchy trunk
Was in its strength: and to the curule chairs
Sizii and
Arigucci
yet were drawn.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Once a
youthful
pair,
Filled with softest care,
Met in garden bright
Where the holy light
Had just removed the curtains of the night.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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And if there be of love a dream
Rose-scented as the west,
Which shows, each time it comes, a gleam,--
A
something
sweet and blest,--
A dream of which heaven is the pole,
A dream that mingles soul and soul,
I fain of it would make the goal
Where thy mind should rest.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Your opening
promises
some grand design,
And purple patches with broad lustre shine
Sewed on the poem; here in laboured strain
A sacred grove, or fair Diana's fane
Rises to view; there through delightful meads
A murmuring stream its winding water leads.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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then return,
And leave thee
sleeping
in thy urn.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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Would you cast your jewels all to the breezes
blowing?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
|
X
Yet, love, mere love, is
beautiful
indeed
And worthy of acceptation.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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An
unfrocked
monk against us
Leads rascal troops, a truant friar dares write
Threats to us!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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What strange
disguise
hast now put on
To make believe that thou art gone?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
_ 1812:
Durae
peragunt
pensa sorores, Nec sua retro fila revolvunt.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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The
collection
of Songs was my _vade mecum.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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Despite all the torment that I suffer
To
renounce
true love is not my plan,
Though I'm exiled to a desert shore,
These words shall rhyme the whole affair:
More than ploughmen, lovers toil so;
In the tale, Monclis no more admires
Audierna, than I for my love have sighed.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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II
When forty winters shall besiege thy brow,
And dig deep trenches in thy beauty's field,
Thy youth's proud livery so gazed on now,
Will be a tatter'd weed of small worth held:
Then being asked, where all thy beauty lies,
Where all the treasure of thy lusty days;
To say, within thine own deep sunken eyes,
Were an all-eating shame, and
thriftless
praise.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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"
An expression of interior
agitation
passed over the face of the old
woman; then she relapsed into her former apathy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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But, notwithstanding
that inequality, the balance of Happiness among Mankind is kept even by
Providence, by the two
Passions
of Hope and Fear, v.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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if I
For once could have thee close to me,
With happy heart I then would die,
And my last
thoughts
would happy be,
I feel my body die away,
I shall not see another day.
| Guess: |
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The abbot pulled his night-cap off and crumpled it in his hands, and
the circular brown patch of hair in the middle of his bald head looked
like an island in the midst of a pond, for in
Connaught
they had not
yet abandoned the ancient tonsure for the style then coming into use.
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For there I lost my father dear,
My father dear, and
brethren
three.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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What answer was it you brought me, good
Baldazzar?
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Poe - 5 |
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Sharply thou hast
insisted
on rebuke,
And urg'd me hard with doings, which not will
But misery hath rested from me; where 470
Easily canst thou find one miserable,
And not inforc'd oft-times to part from truth;
If it may stand him more in stead to lye,
Say and unsay, feign, flatter, or abjure?
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As to ascend
That steep, upon whose brow the chapel stands
(O'er Rubaconte, looking lordly down
On the well-guided city,) up the right
Th'
impetuous
rise is broken by the steps
Carv'd in that old and simple age, when still
The registry and label rested safe;
Thus is th' acclivity reliev'd, which here
Precipitous from the other circuit falls:
But on each hand the tall cliff presses close.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Copyright
laws in most countries are in
a constant state of change.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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appearance
in Google Book Search means it can be used in any manner anywhere in the world.
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Meredith - Poems |
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But in the tiny
landscapes
of the Prose Poems there is
nothing rigid or artificial.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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And what the potent say so oft, can it fail to be
somewhat
true?
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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His lectures were still in
demand; he was often asked to speak by
literary
societies at orthodox
colleges.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Ye airy, tender youths, your numbers
Have sung him into
sweetest
slumbers!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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The
sweetest
sonnets of Belleau,
Offered by gallants ere they fight
For your delight;
And many fawning rhymers who
Inscribe their first thin book to you
Will contemplate upon the stair
Your slipper fair;
And many a page who plays at cards,
And many lords and many bards,
Will watch your going forth, and burn
For your return;
And you will count before your glass
More kisses than the lily has;
And more than one Valois will sigh
When you pass by.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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You descend from them, you are my issue;
Your first sword-thrust
equalled
mine too;
And with fine ardour your lively youth
Attains my fame with this single proof.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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