) whose famous poem "Li Sao," or "Falling into Trouble," has also
been
translated
by Legge.
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SHROPSHIRE
LAD
By A.
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Phoebus the
Glorious
descends from his throne!
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Upon the
mountain
did they feed;
They throve, and we at home did thrive.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Good news is brought often from all quarters, 8 His Majesty has no choice but to
personally
reward them.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Above, how high,
progressive
life may go!
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but rough Caucasus bore thee on his iron crags, and
Hyrcanian
tigresses
gave thee suck.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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But I venture to surmise that if a dozen
representative
English poets
could read Chinese poetry in the original, they would none of them give
either the first or second place to Li Po.
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Li Po |
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--
Lo ye, a second sign--these footsteps, look,--
Like to my own, a
corresponsive
print;
And look, another footmark,--this his own,
And that the foot of one who walked with him.
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Aeschylus |
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the fancy cannot cheat so well
As she is famed to do,
deceiving
elf.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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50
Think not, when Woman's transient breath is fled
That all her
vanities
at once are dead;
Succeeding vanities she still regards,
And tho' she plays no more, o'erlooks the cards.
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Alexander Pope |
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Mais je poursuis en vain le Dieu qui se retire;
L'irresistible Nuit etablit son empire,
Noire, humide, funeste et pleine de frissons;
Une odeur de tombeau dans les tenebres nage,
Et mon pied peureux froisse, au bord du marecage,
Des crapauds
imprevus
et de froids limacons.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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(Captains enter:
MARZHERET
and WALTHER ROZEN.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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But
presently
we heard you asking out loud in
the open street: "Is there never a man left in Athens?
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Aristophanes |
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C'est que la voix des mers, comme un immense rale,
Brisait ton sein d'enfant, trop humain et trop doux;
C'est qu'un matin d'avril, un beau
cavalier
pale,
Un pauvre fou s'assit, muet, a tes genoux!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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O'BRIEN
Boston
(To be
published
by Henry Holt fit Co.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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May God grant you an honest man as
a husband, and not a
disgraced
and convicted traitor.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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To
SEND DONATIONS or
determine
the status of compliance for any
particular state visit http://pglaf.
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Emerson - Poems |
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The fountain sang and sang
The things one cannot tell;
The dreaming
peacocks
stirred
And the gleaming dew-drops fell.
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Sara Teasdale |
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You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose
such as
creation
of derivative works, reports, performances and
research.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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And could griefe get so high as heav'n, that Quire,
Forgetting this their new joy, would desire 60
(With griefe to see him) hee had staid below,
To
rectifie
our errours, They foreknow.
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John Donne |
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You heard the evidence
Produced before us
yesterday
at the trial
Of Bridget Bishop.
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Longfellow |
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Denique testis erit morti quoque reddita praeda,
Cum terrae ex celso coacervatum aggere bustum
Excipiet niveos
percussae
virginis artus.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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"
Can you see it still," he cried, "my
brother?
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Another Fan
(Of
Mademoiselle
Mallarme's)
O dreamer, that I may dive
In pure pathless joy, understand,
How by subtle deceits connive
To keep my wing in your hand.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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'_And art thou gone_,
_beloved
Ghost_?
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Lewis Carroll |
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"
Adam replies:
"These have their course to finish round the Earth,
And they, though
unbeheld
in deep of night,
Shine not in vain.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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WHEN round the dorture he began to creep,
The troop
appeared
as if dissolved in sleep,
And so they truly were, save our gallant,
Whose terrors made him tremble, sigh, and pant:
No light the king had got; it still was dark;
Agiluf groped about to find the spark,
Persuaded that the culprit might be known,
By rapid beating of the pulse alone.
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La Fontaine |
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Thus, we do not necessarily
keep eBooks in
compliance
with any particular paper edition.
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Lucretius |
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Lo, see how the
vanished
years,
In robes outworn lean over heaven's rim;
And from the water, smiling through her tears,
Remorse arises, and the sun grows dim;
And in the east, her long shroud trailing light,
List, O my grief, the gentle steps of Night.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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syllīc spell rehte (_told a
wondrous
tale_), 2111; so
intrans.
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Beowulf |
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C'est un cri repete par mille sentinelles,
Un ordre renvoye par mille porte-voix;
C'est un phare allume sur mille citadelles,
Un appel de
chasseurs
perdus dans les grands bois!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Thus Aeacus has 'scaped the Stygian wave,
By grace of poets and their silver tongue,
Henceforth
to live the happy isles among.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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But when the sun shines in the Square,
And multitudes are swarming in the street,
Children are always gathered there,
Laughing
and playing round the hero's feet.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Et ses yeux et sa danse
superieurs
encore aux eclats precieux, aux
influences froides, au plaisir du decor et de l'heure uniques.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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HE IS
CONTINUALLY
IN FEAR OF DISPLEASING HER.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Congreve
came too, at times, and Gay, the laziest and most
good-natured of poets.
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Alexander Pope |
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Then cling to her;
And say if thou hast found a guest of grace
In God's son,
Heracles!
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Now is the time of
plaintive
robin-song,
When flowers are in their tombs.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Very beautiful
instances
of this are the sunset and
sunrise in Book I, when the departure of the sun-god and his return to
earth are so described that the pictures we see are of an evening and
morning sky, an angry sunset, and a grey and misty dawn.
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Keats |
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Marya
Ivanofna
soon ceased being shy, and we became better
acquainted.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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After such knowledge, what
forgiveness?
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T.S. Eliot |
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Thus they ascended the steps, and,
crossing
the breezy veranda,
Entered the hall of the house, where already the supper of Basil
Waited his late return; and they rested and feasted together.
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Longfellow |
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references
to Project Gutenberg:
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Is't not a pity that this empty mind,
This tramp, this actor out of work, this droll,
Because he knows how to assume a role
Should dream that eagles and insects, streams and woods,
Stand still to hear him chaunt his
dolorous
moods?
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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So are the' Italian cities all o'erthrong'd
With tyrants, and a great
Marcellus
made
Of every petty factious villager.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Will they not issue in armed pursuit from all the city, and
some launch ships from the
dockyards?
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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The wind as a changed thing
Whispereth
overhead
Of one that of old lay dead
In the water lapping long:
My King, O my King!
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Euripides - Electra |
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TO-DAY we will not cross the garden railing,
For sometimes swiftly, yet in ways unclear,
This soft
caressing
or this sweet exhaling,
With long-forgotten joy again draws near:
And thus it brings us ghosts which goad and harass,
And anguish rendering weary and afraid.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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But presently the evening shadows in,
Heralded by the night-jar's solitary din
And the quick bat's squeak among the trees;
--Who sudden rises, darting across the air
To weave her filmy web in the Sun's bright hair
That slowly sinks
dejected
on his knees.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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In te, si in quemquam, dici pote, putide Victi,
Id quod
verbosis
dicitur et fatuis.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Meredith - Poems |
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The Emperor was so pleased with Po's talent that
whenever
he was
feasting or drinking he always had this poet to wait upon him.
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Li Po |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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--
The little
children
of men go hungry all,
And stiffen and cry with numbing cold.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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haec deus in melius
crudelia
somnia uertat
et iubeat tepidos inrita ferre Notos.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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XX
To Olga frequently he would
Some nice instructive novel read,
Whose author nature understood
Better than
Chateaubriand
did
Yet sometimes pages two or three
(Nonsense and pure absurdity,
For maiden's hearing deemed unfit),
He somewhat blushing would omit:
Far from the rest the pair would creep
And (elbows on the table) they
A game of chess would often play,
Buried in meditation deep,
Till absently Vladimir took
With his own pawn alas!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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quia sunt + totidem mea:
deprecor
illam
Absidue, verum dispeream nisi amo.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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"O that some
courteous
ghost would blab it out!
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Robert Forst |
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The Marineres gave it biscuit-worms,
And round and round it flew:
The Ice did split with a Thunder-fit;
The
Helmsman
steer'd us thro'.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Sei Er kein
schellenlauter
Tor!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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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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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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There casting glance of weeping eyes where vasty billows brake,
Sad-voiced in
pitifullest
lay his native land bespake.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Leonor
Is the lofty virtue
reigning
in your soul
So swift to pursue this ignoble goal?
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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We'll praise the God Who bade
My angel
_visibly_
on his white wing
Athwart the roaring flame----
NATHAN (_aside_): White wing?
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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A CERTAIN spouse the same devise had got,
Whose wife by all was thought a
handsome
lot.
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La Fontaine |
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Why had not I in those good times my birth,
Ere coxcomb pies or
coxcombs
were on earth?
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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"
I bore it--bore it like a man--
This agonizing
witticism!
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
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Some
[644-676]dance with beating footfall and lips that sing; with them is
the Thracian priest in
sweeping
robe, and makes music to their measures
with the notes' sevenfold interval, the notes struck now with his
fingers, now with his ivory rod.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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what is there of inferior birth,
That breathes or creeps upon the dust of earth;
What wretched
creature
of what wretched kind,
Than man more weak, calamitous, and blind?
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Iliad - Pope |
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As 't were a spur upon the soul,
A fear will urge it where
To go without the spectre's aid
Were
challenging
despair.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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how
ceaselessly
is urged Love's claim,
By day, by night, a thousand times I turn
Where best I may behold the dear lights burn
Which have immortalized my bosom's flame.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Deem I thus did his dame and thus-wise Liber his uncle 5
Speak, and on spindle-side
grandsire
and grandmother too.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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To distinguish, however, between
merely narrative poetry, and poetry which goes beyond being mere
narrative into the being of epic, must often be left to feeling which
can
scarcely
be precisely analysed.
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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The former thought the members of the deputation
ought to be nominated by
magistrates
acting under oath; Marcellus
demanded their selection by lot.
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Tacitus |
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It
gradually
possessed his mind;
Though, God be praised!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Compliance
requirements are not uniform and it takes a
considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up
with these requirements.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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Dhorme _Choix de Textes
Religieux_
198, 33.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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The
pleasures
of Lucretilis
Tempt Faunus from his Grecian seat;
He keeps my little goats in bliss
Apart from wind, and rain, and heat.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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"It Is Not a Word"
It is not a word spoken,
Few words are said;
Nor even a look of the eyes
Nor a bend of the head,
But only a hush of the heart
That has too much to keep,
Only
memories
waking
That sleep so light a sleep.
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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It may be strange--yet who would change
Time's course to lower speeding,
When one by one our friends have gone
And left our bosoms
bleeding?
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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It is one to me that they come or go
If I have myself and the drive of my will,
And
strength
to climb on a summer night
And watch the stars swarm over the hill.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
|
He loves the long paths where no
footfalls
ring,
And he loves much the silent chamber where
Like a soft whisper through the quiet air
He hears your voice, far distant, vanishing.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
|
"
"Thou art but a poor diviner,"
Straightway
Olaf said;
"Take my bow, and swifter, Einar,
Let thy shafts be sped.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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And thus, I cannot speak
Of love even, as a good thing of my own:
Thy soul hath
snatched
up mine all faint and weak,
And placed it by thee on a golden throne,--
And that I love (O soul, we must be meek!
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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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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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Larkyn, had
established
his guilt.
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Kipling - Poems |
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The poems of The Ruins of Rome belong to the beginning of his four and a half year
residence
in Italy.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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illi caeruleum Panope matertera crinem
soluit et immensas fletibus auxit aquas,
consortesque deae centum longaeuaque magni
Oceani coniux Oceanusque pater,
et Thetis ante omnis: sed nec Thetis ipsa neque omnes
mutarunt
auidi tristia iura dei.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Well, if Albert won't leave you alone, there it is, I said,
What you get married for if you don't want
children?
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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And since your actions are so nobly meant
Humble, in trembling, my love I phrase,
For there is no lover as
faithful
always
As I to you, Lady, through this world's extent.
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Troubador Verse |
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There's an
advantage
in ruin," said she.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Do thou
secretly
raise
a pyre in the inner court, and let them lay on it the arms that the
accursed one left hanging in our chamber, and all the dress he wore, and
the bridal bed where I fell.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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--Say, have you seen
Young beauties
sporting
on the sward?
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Hugo - Poems |
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Chisel, file, and ream
That you may lock
Vague dream
In the
resistant
block!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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