Purgatorio
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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`Clover' is placed as the initial poem of a volume which was left
in orderly
arrangement
among the author's papers.
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Sidney Lanier |
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But when he saw the evening star above
Leucadia's far-projecting rock of woe,
And hailed the last resort of
fruitless
love,
He felt, or deemed he felt, no common glow:
And as the stately vessel glided slow
Beneath the shadow of that ancient mount,
He watched the billows' melancholy flow,
And, sunk albeit in thought as he was wont,
More placid seemed his eye, and smooth his pallid front.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Herman
received
it and at once left
the table.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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but with an angel's air,
Astonished, eager, unaware,
Or elfin's, wandering with a grace
Foreign to any fireside race,
And with a gaiety unknown
In the light feet and hair backblown,
And with a sadness yet more strange,
In meagre cheeks which knew to change
Or faint or fired more swift than sight,
And forlorn hands and lips pressed white,
And fragile voice, and head downcast,
Hiding tears, lifted at the last
To speed with one pale smile the wise
Glance of the grey
immortal
eyes.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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LXXV
So are you to my
thoughts
as food to life,
Or as sweet-season'd showers are to the ground;
And for the peace of you I hold such strife
As 'twixt a miser and his wealth is found.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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if we dream great deeds, strong men, Revolt Hearts hot,
thoughts
mighty.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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"
ECLOGUE III
MENALCAS
DAMOETAS
PALAEMON
MENALCAS
Who owns the flock, Damoetas?
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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No pomp, no lictor clears the way
'Mid rabble-routs of
troublous
feelings,
Nor quells the cares that sport and play
Round gilded ceilings.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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There was a strangeness in the room,
And
Something
white and wavy
Was standing near me in the gloom--
_I_ took it for the carpet-broom
Left by that careless slavey.
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Lewis Carroll |
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Marvellous
things
Had vanity (quick Spirit that appears
Almost as deeply seated and as strong
In a Child's heart as fear itself) conceived 105
For my enjoyment.
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William Wordsworth |
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Quest' ultima gia mai non si cancella
se non servata; e intorno di lei
si preciso di sopra si favella:
pero
necessitato
fu a li Ebrei
pur l'offerere, ancor ch'alcuna offerta
si permutasse, come saver dei.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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burn all these Corn fields, throw down all these fences
Fattend on Human blood & drunk with wine of life is better far
{Interlineal
erasures throughout this stanza.
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Blake - Zoas |
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This both
Penelope
and I afford:
Then, prince!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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SEMI-CHORUS
Be thy will for the cause of the
maidens!
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Aeschylus |
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was steht dem Herrn zu
Diensten?
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Likewise, thou canst ne'er
Believe the sacred seats of gods are here
In any regions of this mundane world;
Indeed, the nature of the gods, so subtle,
So far removed from these our senses, scarce
Is seen even by
intelligence
of mind.
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Lucretius |
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"
"Well hast thou spoke (rejoin'd the
attentive
swain):
Thy lips let fall no idle word or vain!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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' 205
At which the god of love gan loken rowe
Right for despyt, and shoop for to ben wroken;
He kidde anoon his bowe nas not broken;
For
sodeynly
he hit him at the fulle;
And yet as proud a pekok can he pulle.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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And no man dared to speak of Charmides
Deeming that he some evil thing had wrought,
And when they reached the strait Symplegades
They beached their galley on the shore, and sought
The toll-gate of the city hastily,
And in the market showed their brown and
pictured
pottery.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Thus unlike forms into one mass combine,
And things exist by
intermixed
seed.
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Lucretius |
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I will reveal a great, a terrible
conspiracy
against the gods
to you.
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Aristophanes |
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Now, that our friendly alliance may be ratified for all
eternity, we demand of you that you pull down those
bulwarks
of
slavery, the walls of your town, for even wild beasts lose their
spirit if you keep them caged: that you put to the sword every Roman
on your soil, since tyrants are incompatible with freedom; that all
the property of those killed form a common stock and no one be
allowed to conceal anything or to secure any private advantage.
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Tacitus |
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So twixt each morn and night rise salient heaps:
Some cross with but a zigzag, jaded pace
From meal to meal: some with convulsive leaps
Shake the green tussocks of malign disgrace:
And some advance by system and deep art
O'er
vantages
of wealth, place, learning, tact.
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Sidney Lanier |
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LXXXII
The images below them in their hand
Long scrolls and of an ample size contain,
Which of the
worthiest
figures of that band
The several names with mickle praise explain
As well their own at little distance stand,
Inscribed upon that scroll, in letters plain,
Rinaldo, by the help of blazing lights,
Marked, one by one, the ladies and their knights.
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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All with
obedient
haste forsake the shores,
And, placed in order, spread their equal oars.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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What
business
have I in the woods, if I am thinking of
something out of the woods?
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Eve herself then took up the argument and
repeated
admiringly the
Serpent's persuasions.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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THE QUEEN: With a pure, steady,
honourable
love,
Working and waiting with a patient heart
Till I am free to marry you.
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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He
selected
his card and placed upon it his fresh stake.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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The Spanish and Portuguese
historians
differ widely in their
accounts of the parentage of this gallant stranger.
| Guess: |
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Where is that wise girl Eloise,
For whom was gelded, to his great shame,
Peter Abelard, at Saint Denis,
For love of her enduring pain,
And where now is that queen again,
Who
commanded
them to throw
Buridan in a sack, in the Seine?
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| Source: |
Villon |
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Cease that proud temper: Venus loves it not:
The rope may break, the wheel may backward turn:
Begetting
you, no Tuscan sire begot
Penelope the stern.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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download any of these eBooks directly, rather than using the regular
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addresses
and just
download by the etext year.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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death
in its
vastness
- terrible
death
to strike down so
small a being
I say to deathcoward
ah!
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Vicinus prope dives est,
negligensque
Priapus.
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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The bridal-songs and cradle-songs have cadences of sorrow,
The
laughter
of the sun to-day, the wind of death to-morrow.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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"
With that he struck the board a blow
That
shivered
half the glasses.
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
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I
won't
interrupt
you, I won't really.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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XERXES
Cry out for me an
answering
moan--
CHORUS
Alas, alas again!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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Had but my brother's
foresight
kenn'd as much,
He had been warier that the greedy want
Of Catalonia might not work his bale.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Whose
multitudes
are these?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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VENUS ANADYOMENE
Comme d'un
cercueil
vert en fer-blanc, une tete
De femme a cheveux bruns fortement pommades
D'une vieille baignoire emerge, lente et bete,
Montrant des deficits assez mal ravaudes;
Puis le col gras et gris, les larges omoplates
Qui saillent; le dos court qui rentre et qui ressort.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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He
returned
to the stage for a
short time through necessity, but found his best friends in the best of
the young poets of the day.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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But with her saihng weight the Holland keel,
Snapping tlie brittle links, does
thorough
reel,
And to the rest the opening passage show ;
Monk from the bank that dismal sight does view ;
Our feather gallants, who came down that day
To be spectatoi-s safe of the new play,
Leave him alone when first they hear the gun,
Cornbury the fleetest, and to London run.
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Marvell - Poems |
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A carat
character
is used to denote superscription.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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If you received the work electronically, the person or entity
providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to
receive the work
electronically
in lieu of a refund.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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To this period we should probably assign the
delightful story of Chatterton and a friendly potter who promised to
give him an
earthenware
bowl with what inscription he pleased upon
it--such writing presumably intended to be 'Tommy his bowl' or 'Tommy
Chatterton'.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Lean penury within that pen doth dwell
That to his subject lends not some small glory;
But he that writes of you, if he can tell
That you are you, so
dignifies
his story,
Let him but copy what in you is writ,
Not making worse what nature made so clear,
And such a counterpart shall fame his wit,
Making his style admired every where.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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]
V
Thou also, reader generous,
The chaise long ordered please employ,
Abandon cities riotous,
Which in the winter were a joy:
The Muse capricious let us coax,
Go hear the rustling of the oaks
Beside a nameless rivulet,
Where in the country Eugene yet,
An idle anchorite and sad,
A while ago the winter spent,
Near young Tattiana resident,
My pretty self-deceiving maid--
No more the village knows his face,
For there he left a
mournful
trace.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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That new-born nation, the new sons of Earth,
With war's lightning bolts creating dearth,
Beat down these fine walls, on every hand,
Then vanished to the
countries
of their birth,
That not even Jove's sire, in all his worth,
Might boast a Roman Empire in this land.
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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"
So your
chimneys
I sweep, and in soot I sleep.
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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[15]
[16]
XXVII
"It was indeed a miserable hour [17] 235
When, from the last hill-top, my sire surveyed,
Peering above the trees, the steeple tower
That on his
marriage
day sweet music made!
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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I beg you tell the Great River | whose stream flows to the East
That
thoughts
of you will cling to my heart | when _he_ has ceased
to flow.
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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In the poems of 1842 we have the secret of Tennyson's
eminence
as a poet
as well as the secret of his limitations.
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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"Upon hearing of your duel and wound your mother fell ill with sorrow,
and she is still
confined
to her bed.
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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For the
uninitiated
I would also suggest reading a little about the Troubadours on Wikipedia, which leads the reader on to a vast amount of interesting material online, especially the music.
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Troubador Verse |
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"
So the hand of the child, automatic,
Slipped out and
pocketed
a toy that was running along
the quay.
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Canst thou give to a frame
tremblingly
alive as the tortures of
suspense, the stability and hardihood of the rock that braves the
blast?
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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L
When I behold the pharos shine
And lay a path along the sea,
How gladly I shall feel the spray,
Standing upon the
swinging
prow;
And question of my pilot old, 5
How many watery leagues to sail
Ere we shall round the harbour reef
And anchor off the wharves of home!
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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Sawcy, and ouer-bold, how did you dare
To Trade, and Trafficke with Macbeth,
In Riddles, and Affaires of death;
And I the Mistris of your Charmes,
The close
contriuer
of all harmes,
Was neuer call'd to beare my part,
Or shew the glory of our Art?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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nē his līf-dagas lēoda
ǣnigum nytte tealde (_nor did he count his life useful to any man_), 795;
þæt ic mē ǣnigne under swegles begong ge-sacan ne tealde (_I
believed
not
that I had any foe under heaven_), 1774; cwæð hē þone gūð-wine gōdne tealde
(_said he counted the war-friend good_), 1811; hē ūsic gār-wīgend gōde
tealde (_deemed us good spear-warriors_), 2642; pl.
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Beowulf |
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This
bird, the Great Northern Diver, well deserves its name; for when
pursued with a boat, it will dive, and swim like a fish under water,
for sixty rods or more, as fast as a boat can be paddled, and its
pursuer, if he would
discover
his game again, must put his ear to the
surface to hear where it comes up.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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thy
conquest
is thy flight.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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e
p{ro}pre
fortunes of poure feble
folke.
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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Then the false Libyan own'd his doom:--
"Weak deer, the wolves'
predestined
prey,
Blindly we rush on foes, from whom
'Twere triumph won to steal away.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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"
Seven queens shone round her ivory bed,
Like seven soft gems on a silken thread,
Like seven fair lamps in a royal tower,
Like seven bright petals of Beauty's flower
Queen Gulnaar sighed like a
murmuring
rose
"Where is my rival, O King Feroz?
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Those fruits, nor winter's cold nor summer's heat 140
Fear ever, fail not, wither not, but hang
Perennial, whose unceasing zephyr breathes
Gently on all,
enlarging
these, and those
Maturing genial; in an endless course
Pears after pears to full dimensions swell,
Figs follow figs, grapes clust'ring grow again
Where clusters grew, and (ev'ry apple stript)
The boughs soon tempt the gath'rer as before.
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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(thus his heart he vents)
Once spread the
inviting
banquet in our tents:
Thy sweet society, thy winning care,
Once stay'd Achilles, rushing to the war.
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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12 Seeing Off Administrative Assistant Li of
Lingzhou
The Jie Hu make the sea-girt world reek, when I turn my head, all is a blur.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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* * * * *
ROBERT GRAVES
LOST LOVE
His eyes are quickened so with grief,
He can watch a grass or leaf
Every instant grow; he can
Clearly through a flint wall see,
Or watch the
startled
spirit flee
From the throat of a dead man.
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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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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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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There is not a bird but
delights
in the place where it rests:
And I too--love my thatched cottage.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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See, not one tree but what has lost its leaves--
And yet the
landscape
wears a pleasing hue.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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You
answered
questions as smoothly as a rolling ball, 12 you explained, giving the gist of the texts.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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The Foundation's
principal
office is located at 4557 Melan Dr.
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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--No need,
I think, to bring up into speech the years
Since in the barley-field
Manasses
lay
Shot by the sun.
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Nearly all the
individual
works in the
collection are in the public domain in the United States.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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The third most
glorious
of these majesties
Give aid, O sapphires of th' eternal see, And by your light illume pure verity.
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Mihi
pergamena
deest.
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A public domain book is one that was never subject to
copyright
or whose legal copyright term has expired.
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Meredith - Poems |
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net/1/0/2/3/10234
or
filename
24689 would be found at:
http://www.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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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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ANTIGONE
I charge thee, use no useless
heralding!
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Aeschylus |
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And if more were needed to
disprove
Mons.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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haesit in amplexu consolatusque
iacentem
est,
cumque meis lacrimis miscuit usque suas.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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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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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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At the
beginning
of the period Sh?
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Li Po |
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Division
into
Act and Scene referring chiefly to the Stage (to which this work never
was intended) is here omitted.
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Milton |
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Miss Thompson bowed and blushed, and then
Undoubting
bought of Mr.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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How the spasm and the pain
And the fire on the brain
Strike, burning me
through!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Phlebas, le Phenicien, pendant quinze jours noye,
Oubliait les cris des mouettes et la houle de Cornouaille,
Et les profits et les pertes, et la
cargaison
d'etain:
Un courant de sous-mer l'emporta tres loin,
Le repassant aux etapes de sa vie anterieure.
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T.S. Eliot |
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A smile
suffused
Jehovah's face;
The cherubim withdrew;
Grave saints stole out to look at me,
And showed their dimples, too.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Stern hast thou been and
stubborn
from the womb,
As the ground thou must henceforth till; but he
Thou slew'st was gentle as the flocks he tended.
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Byron |
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for while I sang,
And with poor skill let pass into the breeze
The dull shell's echo, from a bowery strand
Just opposite, an island of the sea,
There came
enchantment
with the shifting wind,
That did both drown and keep alive my ears.
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Keats |
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[Poems by William Blake 1789]
SONGS OF INNOCENCE AND OF EXPERIENCE
and THE BOOK of THEL
SONGS OF INNOCENCE
INTRODUCTION
Piping down the valleys wild,
Piping songs of pleasant glee,
On a cloud I saw a child,
And he
laughing
said to me:
"Pipe a song about a Lamb!
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blake-poems |
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181
165 "The
ruthless
steel, impatient of delay,
Forbade the sire to linger out the day.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Holy Satyr _151_
Lais _153_
Heliodora _156_
Toward the Piraeus _161_
_Slay with your eyes, Greek_
_You would have broken my wings_
_I loved you_
_What had you done_
_If I had been a boy_
_It was not chastity that made me cold_
CONRAD AIKEN
Seven Twilights _171_
_The ragged pilgrim on the road to nowhere_
_Now by the wall of the ancient town_
_When the tree bares, the music of it changes_
_"This is the hour," she says, "of transmutation"_
_Now the great wheel of
darkness
and low clouds_
_Heaven, you say, will be a field in April_
_In the long silence of the sea_
Tetelestai _184_
EDNA ST.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Et, faisant la victime et la petite epouse,
Son etoile la vit, une chandelle aux doigts,
Descendre
dans la cour ou sechait une blouse,
Spectre blanc, et lever les spectres noirs des toits.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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