But this makes surety once more of my thought,
And gives again my reason its lost station;
For it may come now in my privilege
(A thing that could cure madness in my brain)
That thou from me
persuasion
hast to endure
What well I know thy soul, thy upright soul,
Feels as abominable harness on it
Fastening thee unwillingly to crime,--
The wickedness that hath delighted in thee.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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_ False Heart--thou
thinkest
more!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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It exists
because of the efforts of
hundreds
of volunteers and donations from
people in all walks of life.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Do thou make
offering
for me--for the rite
I know not--as is meet on the tenth night.
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Euripides - Electra |
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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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PROHIBITED COMMERCIAL DISTRIBUTION INCLUDES BY ANY
SERVICE THAT CHARGES FOR
DOWNLOAD
TIME OR FOR MEMBERSHIP.
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Shakespeare |
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Note: It may interest some to know that Georges d'Anthes was tried
by court-martial for his participation in the duel in which Pushkin
fell, found guilty, and reduced to the ranks; but, not being a
Russian subject, he was
conducted
by a gendarme across the frontier
and then set at liberty.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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And then, not to mislead,
I give you an
adversary
to fear indeed.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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To pass it, scarcely he a moment took;
On Florence instantly he cast a look;--
Delighted
with the beauty of the spot,
He there resolved to fix his earthly lot,
Regarding it as proper for his wiles,
A city famed for wanton freaks and guiles.
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La Fontaine |
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Paradiso
?
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Forget the anguish and the ancient bleedings,
The wounds
engendered
by the thorny rind,
And leaves of arid hours, and empty pleadings,
O'ertrample them and leave them all behind.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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The Romans adopted the custom from Greece, where leafy honours
were
bestowed
on victors at public games.
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Petrarch |
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that such bulky bribes as all might see,
Still, as of old,
encumbered
villainy!
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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_Laufen_ is
pronounced
_lofen_ in some
parts of Germany, and I once heard one German student say to another,
_Ich lauf_ (lofe) _hier bis du wiederkehrest_, and he began accordingly
to saunter up and down, in short, to _loaf_.
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James Russell Lowell |
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What rumour without is there
breeding?
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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1090, he seized the castle of Alamut, in the province of Rudbar, which
lies in the mountainous tract south of the Caspian Sea; and it was
from this mountain home he obtained that evil celebrity among the
Crusaders as the OLD MAN OF THE MOUNTAINS, and spread terror through
the Mohammedan world; and it is yet disputed where the word Assassin,
which they have left in the language of modern Europe as their dark
memorial, is derived from the hashish, or opiate of hemp-leaves (the
Indian bhang), with which they maddened
themselves
to the sullen pitch
of oriental desperation, or from the name of the founder of the
dynasty, whom we have seen in his quiet collegiate days, at Naishapur.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Had chastisement for
perjured
truth,
Barine, mark'd you with a curse--
Did one wry nail, or one black tooth,
But make you worse--
I'd trust you; but, when plighted lies
Have pledged you deepest, lovelier far
You sparkle forth, of all young eyes
The ruling star.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Whether a book is still in copyright varies from country to country, and we can't offer guidance on whether any
specific
use of any specific book is allowed.
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Meredith - Poems |
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[A]--Published 1793
[The young Lady to whom this was
addressed
was my Sister.
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William Wordsworth |
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I went down the
primrose
path to the sound of flutes.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Now, brothers, bending o'er the accursed loom,
Stamp we our
vengeance
deep, and ratify his doom.
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Golden Treasury |
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like Plutus, hold
Bosomfuls
of orchard-gold,
Learns he why that mystic core
Was sweet Venus' meed of yore?
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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IT
happened
that our fair one evening said,
To her who of each infant step had led,
But of the present secret nothing knew:--
I feel unwell; pray tell me what to do.
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La Fontaine |
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POEMS
AVE IMPERATRIX
SET in this stormy Northern sea,
Queen of these
restless
fields of tide,
England!
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Wilde - Poems |
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Alas, that love should be a blight and snare
To those who seek all
sympathies
in one!
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Shelley |
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Act II Scene V (The Infanta, Leonor)
Infanta
In my mind, alas, there's such
inquietude!
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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" he said, "Not at
present!
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Lear - Nonsense |
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YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE
TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS
AGREEMENT
WILL NOT BE
LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR
INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH
DAMAGE.
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Tennyson |
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We must receive them as the Roman Bishop
Once
received
Attila, saying, I rejoice
You have come safe, whom I esteem to be
The scourge of God, sent to chastise his people.
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Longfellow |
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Je regrette les temps de la grande Cybele
Qu'on disait parcourir, gigantesquement belle,
Sur un grand char d'airain, les
splendides
cites;
Son double sein versait dans les immensites
Le pur ruissellement de la vie infinie.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Your golden hair
strewed the sweet
whiteness
of the pillows
and the counterpane.
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Imagists |
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John and yet Papias was a Millenarian,
and
expected
his thousand yeares prosperity upon the earth after the
Resurrection: some of them were Disciples of the Apostles, and some of
them were better men then the Apostles, for they were Bishops of Rome;
_Clement_ was so: and yet _Clement_ was one of them, who denied the
fruition of the sight of God, by the Saints, till the Judgement.
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John Donne |
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Ridiculous
as much of it may seem to
the modern reader, it is by no means overdrawn.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Yes; lift your
princely
hand, and take
Revenge, if 't is revenge you seek;
Then pardon me, for Jesus' sake!
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Longfellow |
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Phaeton
was a young
enterprising
prince of Libya.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Cried he, I wish, (and truly I am grieved)
That when the gentleman a kiss received,
From her I love, he'd gone to greater height,
And with my
Petronella
passed the night.
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La Fontaine |
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How else may man make
straight
his plan
And cleanse his soul from Sin?
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Riches and Poverty, long or short life,
By the Maker of Things are
portioned
and disposed.
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Li Po |
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Sweet dreams of
pleasant
streams
By happy, silent, moony beams!
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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XVI
As we gaze from afar on the waves roar
Mountains of water now set in motion,
A
thousand
breakers of cliff-jarring ocean,
Striking the reef, driven in the wind's maw:
View now a fierce northerly, with emotion,
Stirring the storm to its loud-whistling core,
Then folding in air its vaster wing once more
Suddenly weary, as if at some new notion:
As we see a flame, spread in a hundred places,
Gather, in one flare, towards heaven's spaces,
Then powerless fade and die: so, in its day,
This Empire passed, and overwhelming all
Like wave, or wind, or flame, along its way,
Halted at last by Fate, sank here, in fall.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Though, with bare stones o'erspread, the pastures all
Be choked with rushy mire, your ewes with young
By no strange fodder will be tried, nor hurt
Through taint contagious of a
neighbouring
flock.
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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ipse suas
sectatur
ouis, at filius agnos,
et calidam fesso comparat uxor aquam.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Not so
furiously
when a foaming river bursts his
banks and overflows, beating down the opposing dykes with whirling
water, is he borne mounded over the fields, and sweeps herds and
[499-529]pens all about the plains.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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The
remaining
lines are just too short or too
long, a circumstance very irritating to the reader, whose ear expects
the rhythm to continue.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Yet one doubt
Pursues me still, least all I cannot die,
Least that pure breath of Life, the Spirit of Man
Which God inspir'd, cannot together perish
With this
corporeal
Clod; then in the Grave,
Or in some other dismal place, who knows
But I shall die a living Death?
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Milton |
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Not less
delighted
did I take my place
At our domestic table: and, [P] dear Friend
In this endeavour simply to relate
A Poet's history, may I leave untold 80
The thankfulness with which I laid me down
In my accustomed bed, more welcome now
Perhaps than if it had been more desired
Or been more often thought of with regret;
That lowly bed whence I had heard the wind 85
Roar and the rain beat hard, where I so oft
Had lain awake on summer nights to watch
The moon in splendour couched among the leaves
Of a tall ash, that near our cottage stood; [Q]
Had watched her with fixed eyes while to and fro 90
In the dark summit of the waving tree
She rocked with every impulse of the breeze.
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William Wordsworth |
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Yet,
(Knowing the while that they were very kind)
Remembrance
clamoured
in him: 'She was wild and free,
Magnificent in giving; she was blind
To gain or loss, and, loving, loved but me,--but me!
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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De voir sachies, quant les oi,
Moult
durement
m'en esjoi: 670
Que mes si douce melodie
Ne fu d'omme mortel oie.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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In
jealousy
of a Hebe's fate
Rising over this cup at your lips' kisses,
I spend my fires with the slender rank of prelate
And won't even figure naked on Sevres dishes.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Astonishd &
Confounded
he beheld
Her shadowy form now Separate he shudderd & was silent
Till her caresses & her tears revivd him to life & joy
Two wills they had two intellects & not as in times of old
This Urizen percievd & silent brooded in darkning Clouds
To him his Labour was but Sorrow & his Kingdom was Repentance
He drave the Male Spirits all away from Ahania {Alternate reading of "drove" for "drave.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Please check the Project
Gutenberg
Web pages for current donation
methods and addresses.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Firelight
he saw,
beams of a blaze that brightly shone.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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" Hogg and Motherwell, with an ignorance which is
easier to laugh at than account for, say this Poem was "written on the
occasion of Alexander Cunningham's darling sweetheart
alighting
him
and marrying another:--she acted a wise part.
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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La Mort savante met dans ces bieres pareilles
Un symbole d'un gout bizarre et captivant,
Et lorsque j'entrevois un fantome debile
Traversant de Paris le
fourmillant
tableau,
Il me semble toujours que cet etre fragile
S'en va tout doucement vers un nouveau berceau;
A moins que, meditant sur la geometrie,
Je ne cherche, a l'aspect de ces membres discords,
Combien de fois il faut que l'ouvrier varie
La forme de la boite ou l'on met tous ces corps.
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Land of the
avalanche!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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We left the house
apparently
reconciled.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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"
But
O O O O that
Shakespeherian
Rag--
It's so elegant
So intelligent 130
"What shall I do now?
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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To do this, he takes some great story
which has been absorbed into the prevailing
consciousness
of his people.
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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The knight, righting himself in his
saddle, rolls
fiercely
his red eyes about, bends his bristly green
brows, and strokes his beard awaiting a reply.
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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--
Strange that I should have grown so
suddenly
blind.
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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charming fair, said he, be not distressed;
No savage of the woods nor giant 's nigh,
A wand'ring knight alone you now descry,
Delighted
thus to meet a beauteous belle
Such charms divine, what angel can excel!
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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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: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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_Abishag_ presents the contrast between the dawning and
the fading life; _David Singing Before Saul_ shows the impatience of
awakening ambition, and
_Joshua_
is the man who forces even God to do
his will.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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My mother taught me
underneath
a tree,
And, sitting down before the heat of day,
She took me on her lap and kissed me,
And, pointed to the east, began to say:
"Look on the rising sun: there God does live,
And gives His light, and gives His heat away,
And flowers and trees and beasts and men receive
Comfort in morning, joy in the noonday.
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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Voila que monte en lui le vin de la Paresse,
Soupir d'harmonica qui
pourrait
delirer;
L'enfant se sent, selon la lenteur des caresses,
Sourdre et mourir sans cesse un desir de pleurer.
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Proud of this pride,
He is
contented
thy poor drudge to be,
To stand in thy affairs, fall by thy side.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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But I'll
suppress
a secret that touches you.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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Swallows check their winding flight,
And
twittering
on the chimney light.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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The boys are up the woods with day
To fetch the
daffodils
away,
And home at noonday from the hills
They bring no dearth of daffodils.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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O worthyest Cousin,
The sinne of my
Ingratitude
euen now
Was heauie on me.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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O Tiburnian groves,
And orchards
saturate
with shifting streams!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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But if you had a little real love,
A little strength,
You would leave your
nonchalant
idle lovers
And go walking down the white road
Behind the waggoners.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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The Sanctuary
If I could keep my innermost Me
Fearless, aloof and free
Of the least breath of love or hate,
And not disconsolate
At the sick load of sorrow laid on men;
If I could keep a
sanctuary
there
Free even of prayer,
If I could do this, then,
With quiet candor as I grew more wise
I could look even at God with grave forgiving eyes.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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(gūð-byrne,
līc-syrce)
hondlocen
(because the shirts of mail consisted of interlaced
rings), 322, 551.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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X
That idle name of love, and lovers life,
As losse of time, and vertues enimy,
I ever scornd, and joyd to stirre up strife,
In middest of their
mournfull
Tragedy, 85
Ay wont to laugh, when them I heard to cry,
And blow the fire, which them to ashes brent:
Their God himselfe, griev'd at my libertie,
Shot many a dart at me with fiers intent,
But I them warded all with wary government.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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The sonnets of Les
Antiquites
provide a fascinating comment on the Classical Roman world as seen from the viewpoint of the French Renaissance.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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MOERIS
'Twas in my thought to do so, Lycidas;
Even now was I revolving silently
If this I could recall- no paltry song:
"Come, Galatea, what
pleasure
is 't to play
Amid the waves?
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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XV
"From sunrise unto sunset
All earth shall hear thy fame:
A glorious city thou shalt build,
And name it by thy name:
And there,
unquenched
through ages,
Like Vesta's sacred fire,
Shall live the spirit of thy nurse,
The spirit of thy sire.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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My
thoughts
tear me,
I dread their fever.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Some seed the birds devour,
And some the season mars,
But here and there will flower
The solitary stars,
And fields will yearly bear them
As light-leaved spring comes on,
And
luckless
lads will wear them
When I am dead and gone.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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I have no more to give, all that was mine
Is laid, a wrested tribute, at thy shrine;
Let me depart, for my whole soul is wrung,
And all my
cheerless
orisons are sung;
Let me depart, with faint limbs let me creep
To some dim shade and sink me down to sleep.
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Older than Saturn, 5
Older than Rhea,
That
mournful
music,
Falling and surging
With the vast rhythm
Ceaseless, eternal, 10
Keeps the long tally
Of all things mortal.
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Deliciosa.
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Give me the cups;
And let the kettle to the trumpet speak,
The trumpet to the
cannoneer
without,
The cannons to the heavens, the heaven to earth,
'Now the King drinks to Hamlet.
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Translated
from the Swedish by
STORK, author of "Sea and Bay," etc.
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More strong affections never reason served,
Yet still
affected
most what best deserved.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Since thou in all thy youth and charms,
Must bid the world adieu,
(A world 'gainst peace in constant arms)
To join the
friendly
few.
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All have not
appeared
in the form of snowflakes but many have been tamed by the Finnish or Lapp sorcerers and obey them.
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Appoloinaire |
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They have
anchored
their ships in the current,
they have bridled the neck of the sea--
The Shepherd and Lord of the East
hath bidden a roadway to be!
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Aeschylus |
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Well, in this broad bed lie and sleep,--
The
punctual
stars will vigil keep,--
Embalmed by purifying cold;
The winds shall sing their dead-march old,
The snow is no ignoble shroud,
The moon thy mourner, and the cloud.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Says
Chemubles
"My sword is in its place,
At Rencesvals scarlat I will it stain;
Find I Rollanz the proud upon my way,
I'll fall on him, or trust me not again,
And Durendal I'll conquer with this blade,
Franks shall be slain, and France a desert made.
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Chanson de Roland |
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She's lady, they replied, to great 'squire Good,
Who's almost bald from age 'tis understood;
But as he's rich, and high in rank appears,
Why that's a
recompense
you know for years.
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La Fontaine |
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445
DE
PROFUNDIS
III.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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I keep my countenance,
I remain self-possessed
Except when a street piano,
mechanical
and tired
Reiterates some worn-out common song
With the smell of hyacinths across the garden
Recalling things that other people have desired.
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Oblivion here thy wisdom is,
Thy thrift, the sleep of cares;
For a proud
idleness
like this
Crowns all thy mean affairs.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Songs can the very moon draw down from heaven
Circe with singing changed from human form
The
comrades
of Ulysses, and by song
Is the cold meadow-snake, asunder burst.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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compared with me,
Suffering
not doing ill--fate far more mild.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Now, sir, if ye hae friends enow,
Tho' real friends, I b'lieve, are few;
Yet, if your
catalogue
be fu',
I'se no insist:
But, gif ye want ae friend that's true,
I'm on your list.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Half-past two,
The street-lamp said,
"Remark the cat which
flattens
itself in the gutter,
Slips out its tongue
And devours a morsel of rancid butter.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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