at whan men don hem ne han non
necessite
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On bravely through the
sunshine
and the showers!
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Emerson - Poems |
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I thrust through antique blood and riches vast,
And all big claims of the
pretentious
Past
That hindered my Nirvana.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Straightway I was 'ware,
So weeping, how a mystic Shape did move
Behind me, and drew me
backward
by the hair;
And a voice said in mastery, while I strove,--
"Guess now who holds thee!
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Paris could not lay the fold
Belted down with emerald;
Venice could not show a cheek
Of a tint so
lustrous
meek.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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For we always desire Nuance,
Not Colour, nuance
evermore!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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The young girl was much
impressed
by the missive, but she felt that
the writer must not be encouraged.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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I heard the Owle schreame, and the
Crickets
cry.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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>>
1611
THE WINTER'S TALE
by William Shakespeare
Dramatis Personae
LEONTES, King of Sicilia
MAMILLIUS, his son, the young Prince of Sicilia
CAMILLO, lord of Sicilia
ANTIGONUS, " " "
CLEOMENES, " " "
DION, " " "
POLIXENES, King of Bohemia
FLORIZEL, his son, Prince of Bohemia
ARCHIDAMUS, a lord of Bohemia
OLD SHEPHERD, reputed father of Perdita
CLOWN, his son
AUTOLYCUS, a rogue
A MARINER
A GAOLER
TIME, as Chorus
HERMIONE, Queen to Leontes
PERDITA, daughter to Leontes and Hermione
PAULINA, wife to Antigonus
EMILIA, a lady
attending
on the Queen
MOPSA, shepherdess
DORCAS, "
Other Lords, Gentlemen, Ladies, Officers, Servants, Shepherds,
Shepherdesses
SCENE:
Sicilia and Bohemia
<
SHAKESPEARE IS COPYRIGHT 1990-1993 BY WORLD LIBRARY, INC.
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]
XXII
He was in error; for Eugene
Was sleeping then a sleep like death;
The pall of night was growing thin,
To Lucifer the cock must breathe
His song, when still he slumbered deep,
The sun had mounted high his steep,
A passing snowstorm wreathed away
With pallid light, but Eugene lay
Upon his couch insensibly;
Slumber still o'er him
lingering
flies.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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O man, why place thy heart where there doth need
Exclusion of
participants
in good?
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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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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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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" I asked him,
restraining
with
difficulty my indignation.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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But yet too free, too
resolute
thy tongue
In challenging thy wrong!
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Aeschylus |
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that hast not spar'd
Powder or paper to bring up the youth
Of London, in the
military
truth.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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For
innocent
was the Lord I chanced upon
And clean as mine own heart, King Pheres' son,
Admetus.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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They've chevaliers in
marvellous
great force;
Fifty thousand the smallest column holds.
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Chanson de Roland |
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There was no frost but welcome came,
Nor freshet, nor
midsummer
flame.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Who reasons more
wittily?
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Poe - 5 |
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Canzon: Spear
Or might my
troubled
heart be fed UpOn the frail clear light there shed>
Then were my pain at last allay'd.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Therewithal at my behest
Shall Lyctian Aegon and
Damoetas
sing,
And Alphesiboeus emulate in dance
The dancing Satyrs.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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For alas,
he had crowded the city so full
that men could not grasp beauty,
beauty was over them,
through them, about them,
no crevice
unpacked
with the honey,
rare, measureless.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Your orange hair in the void of the world
The
sentiments
apparent
Would you see
You rise the water unfolds
I only wish to love you
The world is blue as an orange
We have created the night I hold your hand I watch
Even when we sleep we watch over each other
Donkey or cow, cockerel or horse
I looked in front of me
If I speak it's to hear you more clearly
We two take each other by the hand
At dawn I love you I've the whole night in my veins
She looks into me
A single smile disputes
Translated by A.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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He had your picture in his room,
A scurvy traitor picture,
And he smiled
--Merely a fat
complacence
of men who
know fine women--
And thus I divided with him
A part of my love.
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Stephen Crane |
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Fool'd, fool'd, fool'd are our lives, held by the world in jeer;
With crazed eyes we behold veils of enormous fear
Hiding
dreadfully
those marvellous gates and stairs
Where the heathen delighted with sin throng with their prosperous prayers.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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The
invisible
worm,
That flies in the night,
In the howling storm,
Has found out thy bed
Of crimson joy,
And his dark secret love
Does thy life destroy.
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blake-poems |
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"
"I hope I haven't done anything wrong, sir, but you know I hope that as
far as a man can I tries to do the proper thing by all the
gentlemen
in
chambers--and more particular those whose lot is hard--such as you, for
instance, Mr.
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Kipling - Poems |
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'Tis life to guide the fiery barb
Across the
moonlight
plain;
'Tis life to feel the night-wind
That lifts his tossing mane.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Duennas, grating, bolt and lock,
All
obstacles
can naught avail;
Constraint is but a stumbling block;
For youthful ardour must prevail.
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La Fontaine |
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And the power of a
seductive
lover
Stifle with craven silence all my honour!
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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In the former he was equal to the weight and dignity of his
subject: you clearly saw that he
believed
what he said.
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Tacitus |
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, but its volunteers and employees are scattered
throughout
numerous
locations.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Do you imagine that the stability of this beautiful
city
consists
in houses and edifices built of stone upon stone?
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Tacitus |
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With well-scoured buckets on proceeds the maid,
And drives her cows to milk beneath the shade,
Where scarce a sunbeam to molest her steals--
Sweet as the thyme that blossoms where she kneels;
And there oft scares the cooing amorous dove
With her own
favoured
melodies of love.
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John Clare |
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Johnson
when this anecdote was
repeated
to him, "for they are noble lines.
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Alexander Pope |
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And think me how some barter joy for care,
And waste life's summer-health in riot rude,
Of nature, nor of nature's sweets aware;
Where passions vain and rude
By calm reflection,
softened
are and still;
And the heart's better mood
Feels sick of doing ill.
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John Clare |
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Here on my breast flows her hair, an abundance of curls, while her head rests,
Pressing
my arm as it's bent, so as to pillow her neck.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Never sadder tale was heard
By a man of woman born:
The
Marineres
all return'd to work
As silent as beforne.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Such mirth they made, such warblings and such chat
With tongue of music in a well-tuned beak,
They seemed to speak more wisdom than we speak,
To make our music flat
And all our
subtlest
reasonings wild or weak.
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Christina Rossetti |
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11 Truth from the earth like to a flowr
Shall bud and blossom then,
And Justice from her
heavenly
bowr
Look down on mortal men.
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Milton |
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'He sleeps perchance, or rideth to the chase,
Like Baal, when his
prophets
howled that name
From morn to noon on Carmel's smitten height.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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:
_culminibus_
Bentley: cf.
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Latin - Catullus |
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I have
forgotten
you long, long ago.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Copyright laws in most
countries
are in
a constant state of change.
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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But there will be autumn's bounty
Dropping
upon our weariness,
There will be hopes unspoken
And joys to haunt us still;
There will be dawn and sunset
Though we have cast the world away,
And the leaves dancing
Over the hill.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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I was so near to where the hawse-pipes fed
The cable out from her
careening
bow,
I moved up on the swell, shut steam and lay
Hove to in my old launch to look at her.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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The possession of private
property
is very often extremely
demoralising, and that is, of course, one of the reasons why Socialism
wants to get rid of the institution.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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org
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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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Ou miroer entre mil choses,
Choisi rosiers chargies de roses,
Qui estoient en ung detor
D'une haie clos tout entor:
Adont m'en prist si grant envie,
Que ne laissasse por Pavie,
Ne por Paris, que ge n'alasse
La ou ge vi la
greignor
masse.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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And all the woods are alive with the murmur and sound of Spring,
And the rose-bud breaks into pink on the climbing briar,
And the crocus-bed is a
quivering
moon of fire
Girdled round with the belt of an amethyst ring.
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Wilde - Poems |
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And according to that of Plato, _Frustra
poeticas
fores sui
compos pulsavit_.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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, _wonder done by the hand,
wonderful
handwork_: gen.
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Beowulf |
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"For who would trust the seeming sighs[an]
Of wife or
paramour?
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Byron |
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Continued
use of this site implies consent to that usage.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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[Picture: Book cover]
POEMS OF THE PAST
AND THE PRESENT
* * * * *
BY
THOMAS HARDY
* * * * *
* * * * *
* * * * *
MACMILLAN
AND CO.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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" Ulysses' sire, you see,
Had been at
Appomattox
near the famous apple-tree;
And "Patrick Michael Casey!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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So, when the summer calleth,
On forest and field of grain,
With an equal murmur falleth
The cooling drip of the rain;
Under the sod and the dew,
Waiting the
judgment
day;
Wet with the rain, the Blue;
Wet with the rain, the Gray.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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"Fair Hermes, crown'd with feathers, fluttering light,
I had a splendid dream of thee last night:
I saw thee sitting, on a throne of gold, 70
Among the Gods, upon Olympus old,
The only sad one; for thou didst not hear
The soft, lute-finger'd Muses
chaunting
clear,
Nor even Apollo when he sang alone,
Deaf to his throbbing throat's long, long melodious moan.
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Keats |
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But who
yieldeth
herself unto advowtry impure,
Ah!
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Our text (enlarged by about thirty lines fro the
Bodleian
manuscript)
follows for the most part the "Poetical Works",
1839; verbal exceptions are pointed out in the footnotes.
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Shelley |
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Dass diese Fulle der Gesichte
Der trockne
Schleicher
storen muss!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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If you are redistributing or providing access to a work
with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or
appearing
on the
work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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The first and second, and again the fourth and fifth, feet may be
either disyllabic or trisyllabic: but (_a_) two
trisyllables
may not
follow one another in the first two feet, and (_b_) if the fifth foot
(usually trisyllabic) is a disyllable the fourth must be trisyllabic.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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_All insert_ moste
_before_
able.
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Read from some humbler poet,
Whose songs gushed from his heart,
As showers from the clouds of summer,
Or tears from the eyelids start;
Who, through long days of labor,
And nights devoid of ease,
Still heard in his soul the music
Of
wonderful
melodies.
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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Thy phrase well turn'd, and thy ingenuous mind
Proclaim
_thee_ diff'rent far, who hast in strains
Musical as a poet's voice, the woes
Rehears'd of all thy Greecians, and thy own.
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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A washed-out smallpox cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone With all the old
nocturnal
smells
That cross and cross across her brain.
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
|
The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
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Tacitus |
|
2 Li Chu, Prince of
Guangping
and Suzong?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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III
Days of the future, prophetic days,--
Silence engulfs the roar of war;
Yet, through all coming years, repeat the praise
Of those leal
comrades
brave, who come no more!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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) Wordsworth lived in her
cottage at
Hawkshead
during nine eventful years.
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William Wordsworth |
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"
The Marquis d'Argens further observes: "It were to be wished, that
Father Petau, having so judiciously
considered
the works of Julian, had
formed an equally correct idea of the person of that Emperor.
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Tacitus |
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Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm
License terms from this work, or any files containing a part of this
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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56
A darke, and
diuelli?
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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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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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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CCXLII
And
Guineman
tilts with the king Leutice;
Has broken all the flowers on his shield,
Next of his sark he has undone the seam,
All his ensign thrust through the carcass clean,
So flings him dead, let any laugh or weep.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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His little range of water was denied;[2]
All but the bed where his old body lay,
All, all was seized, and weeping, side by side,
We sought a home where we
uninjured
might abide.
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Next, I remember, the ground
rose
suddenly
in front of us, and as we topped the ascent I saw the
waters of the Sutlej shining like a silver bar below.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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_--The circumstance
of GAMA'S refusing to put his fleet into the power of the zamorim, is
thus
rendered
by Fanshaw:--
"The Malabar protests that he shall rot
In prison, if he send not for the _ships_.
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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Thou marshall'st me the way that I was going,
And such an
Instrument
I was to vse.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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Soft
sauntered
through the village,
Sauntered as soft away!
| Guess: |
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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LV
He, seeing this, agnised it for the blade
So famous, which Anglantes' warrior bore,
For which he had the fairest fleet arrayed
Which ever put to sea from eastern shore;
And had Castille's rich kingdom overlaid,
And conquered fruitful France some years before;
But cannot now imagine how that sword
Is in possession of the Tartar lord;
LVI
And asks had he by force or treaty won,
And when and where and how, that
faulchion
bright;
And Mandricardo said that he had done
Fierce battle for that sword with Brava's knight;
Who feigned himself of sober sense foregone,
Hoping that so he should conceal his fright:
-- "For I on him would ceaseless war have made,"
(He added) "while he kept the goodly blade.
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When the golden days arrive,
With the swallow at the eaves,
And the first sob of the south-wind
Sighing at the latch with spring, 40
Long hereafter shall thy name
Be
recalled
through foreign lands,
And thou be a part of sorrow
When the Linus songs are sung.
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Sappho |
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"Fair Hermes, crown'd with feathers, fluttering light,
I had a splendid dream of thee last night:
I saw thee sitting, on a throne of gold,
Among the Gods, upon Olympus old,
The only sad one; for thou didst not hear
The soft, lute-finger'd Muses chaunting clear,
Nor even Apollo when he sang alone,
Deaf to his throbbing throat's long, long
melodious
moan.
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Keats - Lamia |
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Cynthia's Sickness_
DEFICIVNT magico torti sub carmine rhombi,
et iacet exstincto laurus adusta foco;
et iam Luna negat totiens descendere caelo,
nigraque
funestum concinit omen auis.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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And some that beat up Channel homeward-bound
I watched, and
wondered
what they might have found,
What alien ports enriched their teeming hold
With crates of fruit or bars of unwrought gold?
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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,
_nobleman
at the court, distinguished courtier_: acc.
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Beowulf |
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To her children, the words of the
eloquent
dumb great Mother never fail;
The true words do not fail, for motion does not fail, and reflection does
not fail;
Also the day and night do not fail, and the voyage we pursue does not fail.
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Whitman |
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But that
ungrateful
and malignant race,
Who in old times came down from Fesole,
Ay and still smack of their rough mountain-flint,
Will for thy good deeds shew thee enmity.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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"What are you
thinking
of?
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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He was obliged to
mount his horse and ride for quarters to New Cumnock, where, over a
good fire, he penned, in his very
ungallant
indignation, the Ode to
the lady's memory.
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Robert Forst |
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I love thee, Mary dearly love--
There's nought so fair on earth I see,
There's nought so dear in heaven above,
As Mary
Bayfield
is to me.
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John Clare |
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'Tis not
greatness
they require, I.
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Robert Herrick |
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But scarce had sleep's soft witchery
Subdued him, when his
neighbour
stept
Into the chamber where he slept
And wakened him with the loud cry:
"'Tis time to get up!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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--That thought's return
Was the worst pang that sorrow ever bore
Save one, one only, when I stood forlorn,
Knowing my heart's best
treasure
was no more;
That neither present time, nor years unborn
Could to my sight that heavenly face restore.
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Golden Treasury |
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He was examining the apple-trees which the
breath of autumn had already
deprived
of their leaves, and, with the
help of an old gardener, he was enveloping them in straw.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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The kingly bard
Must smite the chords rudely and hard,
As with hammer or with mace;
That they may render back
Artful thunder, which conveys
Secrets of the solar track,
Sparks of the
supersolar
blaze.
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Emerson - Poems |
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But, in
extremes
to be, appears my lot;
Just now I felt quite chilled:--at present hot;
Pray tell me which is best?
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La Fontaine |
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Io volsi 'l viso, e 'l passo non men tosto,
appresso
i savi, che parlavan sie,
che l'andar mi facean di nullo costo.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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