196
_iuuerit_
Auantius: _inuenerit_ ?
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The legions which
had been moved, as we saw above,[428] from Novaesium and Bonn to
Trier, now
administered
to themselves the oath of allegiance to
Vespasian.
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Tacitus |
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" Walt was schooled at Brooklyn, a suburb of New York, and
began life at the age of thirteen, working as a printer, later on as a
country teacher, and then as a
miscellaneous
press-writer in New York.
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Whitman |
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Where'er the sound is heard, the multitude,
In panic at the
deafening
echo, start.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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CHEN: I should like to join in
congratulating
Mr.
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Li Po |
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Do you first, Damoetas, sing,
Then you, Menalcas, in
alternate
strain:
Alternate strains are to the Muses dear.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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She slept late, however, the next day with
her pleasant dreams, and Arthur with his Knights of the Round Table had
sped gloriously away on their
snorting
chargers when she arose, called
one of her maids to come with her, mounted her palfrey and forded the
River Usk to pass over by the forest.
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Tennyson |
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It remains, then, only to show how the seed is
transported
from where
it grows to where it is planted.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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' I long to
catch the subtle music of their fairy dances and make a poem with
a rhythm like the quick
irregular
wild flash of their sudden
movements.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Still hangs the hedge without a gust,
Still, still the shadows stay:
My feet upon the moonlit dust
Pursue the
ceaseless
way.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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whether, torn by fate from her
unhappy husband, she stood still, or did she mistake the way, or sink
down
outwearied?
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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It is sweet to dance to violins
When Love and Life are fair:
To dance to flutes, to dance to lutes
Is
delicate
and rare:
But it is not sweet with nimble feet
To dance upon the air!
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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A class in English Literature,
composed
of young girls
who had been studying with Mr.
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Sidney Lanier |
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XXIX
All that the
Egyptians
once devised,
All that Greece, with its Corinthian,
Ionic, Attic, and its Dorian
Ornament, in its temples apprised,
All that the art of Lysippus comprised,
The hand of Apelles, or the Phidian,
That used to adorn this city, and this land,
Grandeur that even Heaven once surprised,
All that Athens in its wisdom showed,
All that from richest Asia ever flowed,
All that from Africa strange and new was sent,
Was here on view.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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1278)
Peire Cardenal, or
Cardinal
was born in Le Puy-en-Velay educated as a canon, but abandoned his career in the church for 'the vanity of this world' according to his vida.
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Troubador Verse |
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Ah,
shuddering
dread doth make my spirit quiver,
And o'er thy fate sits Fear!
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Aeschylus |
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7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the
Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in
paragraphs
1.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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what rejoicing and crackling and
roasting!
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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And now his soul wears the
strength
and fury
Of a huge dun-pelted wolf; he's the wolves' king;
And the fiends have learnt from him to laugh at our flints.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Ye have hampered
Heaven's Gate;
There's little room between the stars in
idleness
to prate!
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Kipling - Poems |
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But never
To worker
summoned
when his day was done
Did mounting tide bring in such freight of friends
As stole to you up the white wintry shingle
That night while they that watched you thought you slept.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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O old pagodas of my soul, how you
glittered
across green trees!
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Imagists |
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Thought Burbank,
meditating
on
Time's ruins, and the seven laws.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Page [80]
636
Page 81
King Solomon's Book of Wisdom,
A BOOK OF MORAL PRECEPTS AND
PRACTICAL
ADVICE (lines 1-105),
Taken from the Laud MS.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Note: The ballade was written for Robert to present to his wife
Ambroise
de Lore, as though composed by him.
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Villon |
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All told
Will there be thirty
thousand?
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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' This, it would seem to me, needs
the
definite
article.
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John Donne |
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I shall get
the idea
sketched
out here and work it up at Kami's.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Yet _more_ than worthy of the love
My spirit struggled with, and strove,
When, on the mountain peak, alone,
Ambition lent it a new tone--
I had no being--but in thee:
The world, and all it did contain
In the earth--the air--the sea--
Its joy--its little lot of pain
That was new pleasure--the ideal,
Dim, vanities of dreams by night--
And dimmer
nothings
which were real--
(Shadows--and a more shadowy light!
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Poe - 5 |
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XXXIV
King Marsilies is turn'ed white with rage,
His
feathered
dart he brandishes and shakes.
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Chanson de Roland |
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It is instantly counted out with
alacrity, and the
postmaster
hastily retires.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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No need of Moorish archer's craft
To guard the pure and stainless liver;
He wants not, Fuscus, poison'd shaft
To store his quiver,
Whether he traverse Libyan shoals,
Or Caucasus, forlorn and horrent,
Or lands where far
Hydaspes
rolls
His fabled torrent.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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For should'st thou suffer,
powerless
to relieve,
I must behold it, and can only grieve.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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The wasps
flourish
greenly
Dawn goes by round her neck
A necklace of windows
You are all the solar joys
All the sun of this earth
On the roads of your beauty.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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The wasps
flourish
greenly
Dawn goes by round her neck
A necklace of windows
You are all the solar joys
All the sun of this earth
On the roads of your beauty.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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I shall pray God all my life for you, and I'll never talk
about the
hareskin
'_touloup_.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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May I call
tomorrow?
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Kipling - Poems |
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First we'll learn the malady of this one,
Herself relating her
destructive
fortunes,
And the remainder of her trials let her learn from thee.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Grand go the years in the crescent above them;
Worlds scoop their arcs, and
firmaments
row,
Diadems drop and Doges surrender,
Soundless as dots on a disk of snow.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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'
The weeping child could not be heard,
The weeping parents wept in vain:
They
stripped
him to his little shirt,
And bound him in an iron chain,
And burned him in a holy place
Where many had been burned before;
The weeping parents wept in vain.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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CLYTEMNESTRA
Not cast thee out, but to a
friendly
home.
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Aeschylus |
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And
plenteous
funeral tears have washed
The red stains from each brow,
And the proud forms, by battle gashed,
Are free from anguish now.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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For pity do not this sad heart belie--
Even as thou
vanishest
so I shall die.
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Keats - Lamia |
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Mihi
pergamena
deest.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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He writes out spells to bless the
silkworms
and spells to protect
the corn.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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tho' that long dream were of
hopeless
sorrow,
'Twere better than the dull reality
Of waking life to him whose heart shall be,
And hath been ever, on the chilly earth,
A chaos of deep passion from his birth!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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_
JOHN GOULD FLETCHER
A REBEL
Tie a bandage over his eyes,
And at his feet
Let rifles
drearily
patter
Their death-prayers of defeat.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Wenn ich auch will,
verleugn
ich hier mich nicht.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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But he, deep-musing, o'er the mountains stray'd
Through mazy
thickets
of the woodland shade,
And cavern'd ways, the shaggy coast along
With cliffs and nodding forests overhung.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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"Why do you sigh, fair
creature?
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Keats - Lamia |
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How can you stay, nor vanish quite
From this bleak spot of thorn,
And birch, and fir, and frozen white
Expanse of the
forlorn?
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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ou doest vs stronge
tourment!
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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For
evermore
and evermore
In the chamber by the sea,
Till death should break the spell-bound door
And end his slavery;
In the chamber strewn with flowers in bloom
With a heavy scent like death,
Echoing ever the song of doom
Which the sad sea moaned beneath.
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Tennyson |
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though all were o'er,
For us repeopled were the
solitary
shore.
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| Source: |
Byron |
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But Chinese
poetry, with a few exceptions, has been written on this principle
since the Han dynasty; one poet alone, Po Chu-i, broke through the
restraints of pedantry, erasing every
expression
that his charwoman
could not understand.
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Li Po |
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I look for no ladder to invade the king's hall--
I stride o'er the ramparts, and down the walls fall,
Till choked are the ditches with the stones, dead and quick,
Whilst the
flagstaff
I use 'midst my teeth as a pick.
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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And now my
conclusion
I'll tell,
For faith I'm confoundedly dry;
The chiel that's a fool for himsel',
Guid Lord!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Wanderers in that happy valley,
Through two
luminous
windows, saw
Spirits moving musically,
To a lute's well-tuned law,
Round about a throne where, sitting
(Porphyrogene)
In state his glory well befitting,
The ruler of the realm was seen.
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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The
invalidity
or unenforceability of any
provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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The lines
beginning
'Do not make a great keening' and 'They shall be
remembered for ever' are said or sung to an air heard by one of the
players in a dream.
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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And thus we rust Life's iron chain
Degraded
and alone:
And some men curse, and some men weep,
And some men make no moan:
But God's eternal Laws are kind
And break the heart of stone.
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Wilde - Poems |
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And there the lion's ruddy eyes
Shall flow with tears of gold:
And pitying the tender cries,
And walking round the fold:
Saying: "Wrath by His meekness,
And, by His health, sickness,
Are driven away
From our
immortal
day.
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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A man should blame his lady indeed,
When she deters him from loving,
For endless talk about love may breed
Boredom, and set
deception
weaving.
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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One man
tried, but he died, and nearly the whole regiment went to his funeral
because it gave them
something
to do.
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Kipling - Poems |
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All at once I
thought I saw a great gate, and we entered the
courtyard
of our house.
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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"Let the prairie-dogs an'
Blackmouth
bark,"
Said our folks.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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the Heaven
And Enion
desolate
where art though Tharmas O return
Three days she waild & three dark nights sitting among the Rocks
While the bright spectre hid himself among the ?
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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For thirty years, he
produced
and distributed Project
Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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THE
DESPATCH
OF THE DOOM.
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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And whistle: All's for the best
In this best of
Carnivals!
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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II
Donna
leggiadra
il cui bel nome honora
L'herbosa val di Rheno, e il nobil varco,
Ben e colui d'ogni valore scarco
Qual tuo spirto gentil non innamora,
Che dolcemente mostra si di fuora
De suoi atti soavi giamai parco,
E i don', che son d'amor saette ed arco,
La onde l' alta tua virtu s'infiora.
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| Source: |
Milton |
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Here critics say
"The
contents
are of very good
Contemporary Verse.
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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10
Rest that gives all men life, gave him his death,
And too much
breathing
put him out of breath;
Nor were it contradiction to affirm
Too long vacation hastned on his term.
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| Source: |
Milton |
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And might it not be
possible
to escape them by
turning into one of our narrow New England lanes, shut in though it were
by bleak stone walls on either hand, and where no better flowers were to
be gathered than goldenrod and hardhack?
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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How rich a man is all desire to know;
But none
inquires
if good he be or no.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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mitten im Gesange sprang
Ein rotes
Mauschen
ihr aus dem Munde.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Then such a rearing without bridle,
A raging which no arm could fend,
An opening of new
fragrant
spaces,
A thrill in which all senses blend.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Whenever a man does a
thoroughly
stupid thing it is always from the
noblest motives.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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'
This poet, though he live apart,
Moved by his
hospitable
heart,
Sped, when I passed his sylvan fort,
To do the honors of his court,
As fits a feathered lord of land;
Flew near, with soft wing grazed my hand,
Hopped on the bough, then, darting low,
Prints his small impress on the snow,
Shows feats of his gymnastic play,
Head downward, clinging to the spray.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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Now from her
thraldom
since thy heart is clear,
Whose either key she, living, held alone,
Follow where she the safe short way has shown,
Nor let aught earthly longer interfere.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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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.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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org),
you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a
copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon
request, of the work in its
original
"Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other
form.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
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--who can hide,
When the
malicious
Fates are bent
On working out an ill intent?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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The leaves
unhooked
themselves from trees
And started all abroad;
The dust did scoop itself like hands
And throw away the road.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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--
I climb towards death: it is not falling down
For me to die, but up the event of the world
As up a mighty ridge I climb, and look
With lifted vision
backward
down on life.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Then,
At last, with members intertwined, when they
Enjoy the flower of their age, when now
Their bodies have sweet presage of keen joys,
And Venus is about to sow the fields
Of woman, greedily their frames they lock,
And mingle the slaver of their mouths, and breathe
Into each other, pressing teeth on mouths--
Yet to no purpose, since they're powerless
To rub off aught, or penetrate and pass
With body entire into body--for oft
They seem to strive and struggle thus to do;
So eagerly they cling in Venus' bonds,
Whilst melt away their members, overcome
By
violence
of delight.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
|
Is there
anything
of this destiny left, or no?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
|
You should be buried in the desert out of sight
And not a dog should howl
miscarried
moans
Over your foul bones.
| Guess: |
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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- You provide, in
accordance
with paragraph 1.
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James Russell Lowell |
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GOETZ: No
further!
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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could I throw aside these earthly bands
That tie me down where
wretched
mortals sigh,--
To join blest spirits in celestial lands!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Mehus,
daughter
of Ninkasi, 144.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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" Now, Varus, I-
For lack there will not who would laud thy deeds,
And treat of
dolorous
wars- will rather tune
To the slim oaten reed my silvan lay.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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But to-night I don't care enough to lie--
I don't
remember
why I ever cared.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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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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Donations
are accepted in a number of other
ways including checks, online payments and credit card donations.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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It has survived long enough for the
copyright
to expire and the book to enter the public domain.
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Meredith - Poems |
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_ This is not only a vivid way of
describing the
banishment
of all their natural pity.
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Keats |
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XXIV
Here clang with hand and foot the daring knight,
Sprang on the embattled wall, and whirled his sword;
And, showing mickle tokens of his might,
The paynims charged, o'erthrew, hewed down and gored:
But all at once, o'erburthened with that weight,
The ladder breaks beneath the assailing horde;
And, saving Brandimart, the
Christians
all
Into the ditch with headlong ruin fall.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Who bade the sun
Clothe you with
rainbows?
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Coleridge - Poems |
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