Scyria sic tenerum uirgo flammabat Achillem
fraudis adhuc expers bellatricisque docebat
ducere fila manus et, mox quos horruit Ide,
Thessalicos roseo
nectebat
pollice crinis.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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'And we are put on earth a little space,
That we may learn to bear the beams of love;
And these black bodies and this
sunburnt
face
Are but a cloud, and like a shady grove.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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But now let each becalm his
troubled
breast,
Wash, and partake serene the friendly feast.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Rodrigue
Chasing the harsh course of my
wretched
fate.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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XXXVII
As through the wild green hills of Wyre
The train ran,
changing
sky and shire,
And far behind, a fading crest,
Low in the forsaken west
Sank the high-reared head of Clee,
My hand lay empty on my knee.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Thinking about his embrace and its pleasures, she seems to be asking
Shouldn't our
glorious
son here at our side stand erect?
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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While Spring shall pour his showers, as oft he wont,
And bathe thy
breathing
tresses, meekest Eve!
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Golden Treasury |
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Royalty payments
must be paid within 60 days
following
each date on which you
prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your periodic tax
returns.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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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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1070
Eager for the help I expect from your care,
For this greater need I
retained
my prayer.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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A few grave words, a
question
asked;
Eyelids that with the answer fell
Like falling petals;--form that tasked
Brief time;--and so was wrought the spell!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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'
THE VILLAIN
While joy gave clouds the light of stars,
That beamed where'er they looked;
And calves and lambs had
tottering
knees,
Excited, while they sucked;
While every bird enjoyed his song,
Without one thought of harm or wrong--
I turned my head and saw the wind,
Not far from where I stood,
Dragging the corn by her golden hair,
Into a dark and lonely wood.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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There is also a
wider reference to the
struggles
between the Turks and the allied Christian
powers, which had been going on since the siege of Vienna in 1529.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Apollinax
visited the United States
His laughter tinkled among the teacups.
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T.S. Eliot |
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What race
Are these, who seem so
overcome
with woe?
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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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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You who are really a lady of silks and satins
Are now become my hill and stream
companion!
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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FROM HAFIZ
I said to heaven that glowed above,
O hide yon sun-filled zone,
Hide all the stars you boast;
For, in the world of love
And
estimation
true,
The heaped-up harvest of the moon
Is worth one barley-corn at most,
The Pleiads' sheaf but two.
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Emerson - Poems |
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APOLLO
Was it not well, my
worshipper
to aid,
Then most of all when hardest was the need?
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Aeschylus |
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]
* * * * *
From 1815 to 1843 these 'Lines' were placed by Wordsworth among his
"Poems of
Sentiment
and Reflection.
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William Wordsworth |
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All
terrified
upon their knees they fell.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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In the
event of its
assuming
any decided shape, IT WOULD BE MY DUTY to go to
Italy without delay.
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Shelley |
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Willow
switches
I broke and peeled bits of straws,
Ever lonely in crowds, in Nature's own laws--
My ball room the pasture, my music the bees,
My drink was the fountain, my church the tall trees.
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John Clare |
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) plague of our
friendship
and pest.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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And, what is a stranjre thinjr, the very spunks,
which one would think should rather deface and blot
out the whole book, and were
anciently
used for that
purpose, are become now the instalments to make
them legible.
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Marvell - Poems |
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•
Many and many a day he had been failing, And I knew the end must come at last—
The poor
fellow—I
had loved him dearly, It was hard for me to see him go.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Or by an
agreement
on a paper?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Next a row of soles and plaice
With querulous and twisted face,
And red-eyed bloaters, golden-grey;
Smoked
haddocks
ranked in neat array;
A group of smelts that take the light
Like slips of rainbow, pearly bright;
Silver trout with rosy spots,
And coral shrimps with keen black dots
For eyes, and hard and jointed sheath
And crisp tails curving underneath.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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In Memoriam_
_i_
_Alcimus_
ALCIME, quem raptum domino
crescentibus
annis
Lauicana leui caespite uelat humus,
accipe non Pario nutantia pondera saxo,
quae cineri uanus dat ruitura labor,
sed facilis buxos et opacas palmitis umbras
quaeque uirent lacrimis roscida prata meis.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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These
travellers
were mounted on four dromedaries, and having passed through Spain, they went to Norway and from there to Babylon and the Holy Land.
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Appoloinaire |
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She
tenderly
kissed me,
She fondly caressed,
And then I fell gently
To sleep on her breast--
Deeply to sleep
From the heaven of her breast.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Þā þæt sweord ongan
æfter heaðo-swāte hilde-gicelum
wīg-bil wanian; þæt wæs wundra sum,
þæt hit eal gemealt īse gelīcost,
1610 þonne forstes bend fæder onlǣteð,
onwindeð
wæl-rāpas, sē þe geweald hafað
sǣla and mǣla; þæt is sōð metod.
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Beowulf |
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Then the priest bent
likewise
to the sod
And thanked the Lord of Love,
And Blessed Mary, Mother of God,
And all the saints above.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Remember how
Narcissus
erst was lost!
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Petrarch |
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Please contact us
beforehand
to
let us know your plans and to work out the details.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Indeed, Herrick's deepest debt to ancient
literature
lies not in the
models which he directly imitated, nor in the Anacreontic tone which
with singular felicity he has often taken.
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Robert Herrick |
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The Project Gutenberg eBook, Selected Poems of Oscar Wilde, by Oscar
Wilde, Edited by Robert Ross
This eBook is for the use of anyone
anywhere
in the United States and most
other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions
whatsoever.
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Wilde - Poems |
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That, however, the Ends of Providence and general Good
are answered in our
Passions
and Imperfections, v.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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[end]
End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Golden Threshold, by
Sarojini
Naidu
*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE GOLDEN THRESHOLD ***
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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I'll taste the unguent of your eyelids' shore,
To see if it can grant to the heart, at your blow,
The
insensibility
of stones and the azure.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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WATERS OF BABYLON
What presses about us here in the evening
As you open a window and stare at a stone-gray sky,
And the streets give back the jangle of
meaningless
movement
That is tired of life and almost too tired to die.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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A little masterpiece in a very
difficult
style: Catullus himself could
hardly have bettered it.
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Golden Treasury |
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No; let me be
obsequious
in thy heart,
And take thou my oblation, poor but free,
Which is not mix'd with seconds, knows no art,
But mutual render, only me for thee.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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You might live to the age of
Methuselah
and never find a
tithe of them, otherwise.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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John Anderson my jo, John,
We clamb the hill thegither,
And mony a canty day, John,
We've had wi' ane anither:
Now we maun totter down, John,
But hand in hand we'll go,
And sleep
thegither
at the foot,
John Anderson my jo.
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Golden Treasury |
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So with curious eyes and sick surmise
We watched him day by day,
And
wondered
if each one of us
Would end the self-same way,
For none can tell to what red Hell
His sightless soul may stray.
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Wilde - Poems |
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What is this sudden cradle song
That
gradually
lulls my poor being?
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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LFS}
All Love is lost Terror
succeeds
& Hatred instead of Love
And stern demands of Right & Duty instead of Liberty.
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Blake - Zoas |
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10
XLVII
Like torn sea-kelp in the drift
Of the great tides of the sea,
Carried past the harbour-mouth
To the deep beyond return,
I am buoyed and borne away 5
On the
loveliness
of earth,
Little caring, save for thee,
Past the portals of the night.
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Sappho |
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Indeed, if in a ball of wool there be
As much of body as in lump of lead,
The two should weigh alike, since body tends
To load things downward, while the void abides,
By
contrary
nature, the imponderable.
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Lucretius |
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WAGNER:
Verzeiht!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Lear - Nonsense |
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71
This faint
resemblance
of thy charms (_Hours of Idleness_), i.
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Byron |
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Humbler smiles and
lordlier
tears
Shine and fall, shine and fall,
While old voices rise and call
Yonder where the to-and-fro
Weltering of my Long-Ago
Moves about the moveless base
Far below my resting-place.
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Sidney Lanier |
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The fatal hour of her short life drew near,
That doubtful passage which the world doth fear;
Another company, who had not been
Freed from their earthy burden there were seen,
To try if prayers could appease the wrath,
Or stay th'
inexorable
hand, of Death.
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Petrarch |
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And since I must repeat the whole story,
Here now is what he hastened to tell me:
'She's dutiful, and both deserve her hand,
Both are of noble blood, loyal, valiant,
Young, yet it's clear to see in their eyes
The shining virtue of their ancient ties:
Don
Rodrigue
above all: in his visage,
Every trait reveals the heroic image,
His house so rich in soldiers of renown,
They seem born to wear the laurel crown.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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1270
Considered
al, ther nis no-more amis.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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"Be not
disturbed!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Thou His image ever see,
Heavenly
face that smiles on thee!
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blake-poems |
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]
[Sidenote E: He
beseeches
the Virgin Mary to direct him to some lodging
where he may hear mass.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Change is the mask that all Continuance wears
To keep us youngsters harmlessly amused;
Meanwhile some ailing or more watchful child, 510
Sitting apart, sees the old eyes gleam out,
Stern, and yet soft with
humorous
pity too.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Pope uses it here for
his enemy Welsted,
mentioned
in l.
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Alexander Pope |
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cancelled by Shelley for why not
fatherless?
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Shelley |
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It is a land of
poverty!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
Copyright
laws in most countries are in
a constant state of change.
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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All these things, O God, are conceived with forethought, born with
determination, nursed with exactness, governed by rules, directed
by reason, and then slain and buried after a
prescribed
method.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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The ocean at the plunge
Of that huge rock, high on its
refluent
flood
Heav'd, irresistible, the ship to land.
| Guess: |
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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But near the casement wide to the north,
A gold is dying, in accord with the decor
Perhaps, those unicorns dashing fire at a nixie,
She who, naked and dead in the mirror, yet
In the
oblivion
enclosed by the frame, is fixed
As soon by scintillations as the septet.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Copyright
infringement liability can be quite severe.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
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'O
CROMWELL
we are fallen on evil times!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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per quam demisso
quotiens
tibi fune pependi,
alterna ueniens in tua colla manu!
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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I think just how my lips will weigh
With shapeless, quivering prayer
That you, so late,
consider
me,
The sparrow of your care.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Behind them was the wood
Full of black female mastiffs, gaunt and fleet,
As
greyhounds
that have newly slipp'd the leash.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Victor
Ratcliffe; "The Battlefield," by Major Sidney Oswald; "To an Old Lady
Seen at a Guest-House for Soldiers," by Corporal Alexander Robertson;
"The
Casualty
Clearing Station," by Lieutenant Gilbert Waterhouse; and
"Hills of Home," by Lance-Corporal Malcolm Hemphrey.
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Can such things be,
And
ouercome
vs like a Summers Clowd,
Without our speciall wonder?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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For, fisherman, what fresh or
seawater
catch
equals him, either in form or savour,
that lovely divine fish, Jesus, My Saviour?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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active links or
immediate
access to the full terms of the Project
Gutenberg-tm License.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Lewis Carroll |
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I, whose great labours had
acquired
glory,
I, who was ever pursued by victory,
Find that having lived far too long
I must rest un-avenged for a wrong.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the
Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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LXXXII
That true religion had the stripling swayed
Men might at any other time conceive:
But now, when needed was the warrior's aid
From siege the Moorish monarch to relieve,
That Fear and Baseness had more largely weighed,
In his designs, would every one believe,
That any
preference
of a better creed:
This thought makes good Rogero's bosom bleed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Star that bringest home the bee,
And sett'st the weary
labourer
free!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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Well, I grew strong again:
In time of primroses,
I went to pluck them in the lane;
In time of nestling birds,
I heard them
chirping
round the house;
And all the herds
Were out at grass when I grew strong, 290
And days were waxen long,
And there was work for bees
Among the May-bush boughs,
And I had shot up tall,
And life felt after all
Pleasant, and not so long
When I grew strong.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
|
As the
procession
passes the
Capitol, prayers and vows are poured forth, but in vain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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"O thou, who in the
fortunate
vale, that made
Great Scipio heir of glory, when his sword
Drove back the troop of Hannibal in flight,
Who thence of old didst carry for thy spoil
An hundred lions; and if thou hadst fought
In the high conflict on thy brethren's side,
Seems as men yet believ'd, that through thine arm
The sons of earth had conquer'd, now vouchsafe
To place us down beneath, where numbing cold
Locks up Cocytus.
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answer for fear]
[XXX for vindication of Urizens word] [Thy name is
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Blake - Zoas |
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No more, no more, since thou art dead,
Shall we e'er bring coy brides to bed;
No more, at yearly festivals,
We, cowslip balls,
Or chains of
columbines
shall make,
For this or that occasion's sake.
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Robert Herrick |
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The child
inclined
his ear,
And then grew weary and gray.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Yea, man's stubborn lust
To feed his heart upon your beauty, is all
The
strength
your lives have, all that holdeth you
Safe in the world,--propt like a rotten house.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Ronsard |
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May ye not ten dayes thanne abyde,
For myn honour, in swich an
aventure?
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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O, may thou ne'er forgather up
Wi' ony blastit,
moorland
toop,
But ay keep mind to moop an' mell
Wi' sheep o' credit like thysel!
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Robert Burns |
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The earth
itself has slept, as it were its first, not its last sleep, save when
some street-sign or wood-house door has faintly creaked upon its
hinge, cheering forlorn nature at her
midnight
work,--the only sound
awake 'twixt Venus and Mars,--advertising us of a remote inward
warmth, a divine cheer and fellowship, where gods are met together,
but where it is very bleak for men to stand.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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The veil of cloud was lifted, and below
Glowed the rich valley, and the river's flow
Was
darkened
by the forest's shade,
Or glistened in the white cascade;
Where upward, in the mellow blush of day,
The noisy bittern wheeled his spiral way.
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Longfellow |
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Sith
Richesse
hath me failed here, 5975
She shal abye that trespas dere,
At leeste wey, but [she] hir arme
With swerd, or sparth, or gisarme.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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HE CONGRATULATES HIS HEART ON ITS
REMAINING
WITH HER.
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Petrarch |
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I left the place with all my might, --
My prayer away I threw;
The quiet ages picked it up,
And
Judgment
twinkled, too,
That one so honest be extant
As take the tale for true
That "Whatsoever you shall ask,
Itself be given you.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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could I count those orbs that shine
Nightly o'er yon
ethereal
plain,
Or in some scanty vase confine
Each drop that ocean's bounds contain,
Then might I hope to fly from beauty's rays,
Laura o'er flaming worlds can spread bright beauty's blaze.
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Petrarch |
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I behold
Arcturus
going westward
Down the crowded slope of night-dark azure,
While the Scorpion with red Antares
Trails along the sea-line to the southward.
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Sappho |
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