Jewelled scabbards lie twisted and defaced:
The stones that were set in them, thieves have carried away,
The ancestral temples are
hummocks
in the ground:
The walls that went round them are all levelled flat.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Some of the very worst traits in Donne's mind are brought out in
his
religious
writing.
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So do the mottled formulas of Sense
Glide
snakewise
through our dreams of Aftertime;
So errors breed in reeds and grasses dense
That bank our singing rivulets of rhyme.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Who wishes to receive
visitations
often,
Mustn't load with too many flowers the stone
My finger raises with a dead power's boredom.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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And in the silence
I hear a woman's voice make answer then:
"Well, they are green,
although
no ship can sail them.
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ni
Although the clouded storm dismays Many a heart upon these waters, The thought of that far golden blaze Giveth me heart upon the waters,
Thinking
thereof my bark is led
To port wherein no storm I dread; No tempest maketh me afraid.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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"What are you
thinking
of?
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The sailors, hearing the female Halycon sing,
prepared
to die, safe however around mid-December, when these birds make their nests, and one knows that then the sea will be calm.
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Appoloinaire |
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WERE her intentions fully as expressed,
Or contrary to what her lips confessed,
No matter which her view, 'twas very plain,
If she would Hispal's services retain,
'Twere right the youth with promises to feed,
While his assistance she so much must need:
As soon as he was ready to depart
She pressed him fondly to her glowing heart,
And charged him with a letter to the king;
This Hispal hastened to the prince to bring;
Each sail he crowded:--plied with ev'ry oar;
A wind quite fair soon brought him to shore;
To court he went, where all with eager eyes,
Demanded
if he lived, amid surprise,
And where he left the princess; what her state?
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La Fontaine |
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To and fro the Genius flies,
A light which plays and hovers
Over the maiden's head
And dips
sometimes
as low as to her eyes.
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Emerson - Poems |
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--"Your hands were like paws then, your face blue and bleak,
But now I'm
bewitched
by your delicate cheek,
And your little gloves fit as on any la-dy!
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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All have not
appeared
in the form of snowflakes but many have been tamed by the Finnish or Lapp sorcerers and obey them.
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Appoloinaire |
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Therewithal came Camilla the Volscian, leading a train of cavalry,
squadrons splendid with brass: a warrior maiden who had never used her
woman's hands to Minerva's distaff or wool-baskets, but hardened to
endure the battle shock and
outstrip
the winds with racing feet.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Oh,
In arms' reach, here be Dante, Keats, Chopin,
Raphael, Lucretius, Omar, Angelo,
Beethoven, Chaucer, Schubert, Shakespeare, Bach,
And Buddha (sweetest
masters!
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Sidney Lanier |
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(6) The evident reason for
introducing
them is their own
intrinsic lyrical merit.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Among those who will forthcoming numbers a
volumes for contribute to
Scudder Middleton Marguerite
Wilkinson
John Russell McCarthy Phoebe Hoffman Ellwood Lindsay Haines Esther Morton Smith Howard Buck
Mary Humphreys Samuel Roth
John Hall Wheelock Laura Benet
Fullerton L.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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All morning, patient watchers, there we lay;
And now the num'rous phocae from the Deep
Emerging, slept along the shore, and he
At noon came also, and
perceiving
there
His fatted monsters, through the flock his course
Took regular, and summ'd them; with the first 550
He number'd us, suspicion none of fraud
Conceiving, then couch'd also.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Meredith - Poems |
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A
passport
from the pirate he obtain'd,
Then waited on him and his wish explain'd;
To pay he offer'd what soe'er he'd ask;
His terms accept, though hard perhaps the task;
THE robber answer'd, if my name around,
Be not for honourable acts renown'd,
'Tis quite unjust:--your partner I'll restore
In health, without a ransom:--would you more?
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La Fontaine |
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'Tis sure no
pleasure
to be shot.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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I know the grass
Must grow somewhere along this
Thracian
coast, If only he would come some little while and find
it me.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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'Frowning,
frowning
night,
O'er this desert bright
Let thy moon arise,
While I close my eyes.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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By all the deathless powers that reign above,
By righteous Themis and by
thundering
Jove
(Themis, who gives to councils, or denies
Success; and humbles, or confirms the wise),
Rise in my aid!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Will it never cease to
torture, this
iteration!
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Imagists |
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At last he finished his letter, put it with my
commission
into
the same cover, took off his spectacles, called me, and said--
"This letter is addressed to Andrej Karlovitch R.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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(one page)
We produce about two million dollars for each hour we work.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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How many
thousand
times shall I look on them ere this fire in me is
dead?
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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the flesh of my sows will be
excellent
on the spit.
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Aristophanes |
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The train stopped for some
obstruction
on the line ahead and a party
went out to reconnoitre, but came back, cursing, for spades.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Giri
198
_abscondas_
?
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Latin - Catullus |
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225
XXVI
In ashes and sackcloth he did array
His daintie corse, proud humors to abate,
And dieted with fasting every day,
The
swelling
of his wounds to mitigate,
And made him pray both earely and eke late: 230
And ever as superfluous flesh did rot
Amendment readie still at hand did wayt,
To pluck it out with pincers firie whot,
That soone in him was left no one corrupted jot.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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: in O primae litterae P caerulea nota
adficta est
1
_Sirinio_
GO
3 _nept?
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Latin - Catullus |
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er man; mychel
enpaired
I-wis.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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His
best mare had rolled out of stable down the hill and had broken her
back; his decisions were being
reversed
by the upper Courts, more
than an Assistant Commissioner of eight years' standing has a right to
expect; he knew liver and fever, and, for weeks past, had felt out of
sorts.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Now from the finish'd games the Grecian band
Seek their black ships, and clear the crowded strand,
All stretch'd at ease the genial banquet share,
And pleasing
slumbers
quiet all their care.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Between two pals, you know, if I may call you
so, and
speaking
as a man of the world, I couldn't.
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Kipling - Poems |
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no tongue
Their beauty might declare:
A spring of love gusht from my heart,
And I bless'd them
unaware!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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And
therefore
borne in a speedy
craft by favouring breezes, he came to the imperious Minos and his superb
seat.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Meredith - Poems |
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,
"You will not perceive that, as perceiving a
particular
thing," say the
Chaldean Oracles.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Daly,
Philadelphia Evening Ledger
"All the
contents
are interesting.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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If you
do not charge anything for copies of this eBook,
complying
with the
rules is very easy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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"Sir, I now can hear like chime
The sound of voices, and men's voices too,
Laughter
and talk; two men there are in view,
Across the road the shadows clear I mark
Of horses three.
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Hugo - Poems |
|
The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
| Guess: |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Why might he not o'erpass Croesus in
wealth, he who in one demesne
possesses
so much?
| Guess: |
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Catullus - Carmina |
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But others, rising as they see the sail
Increase
upon the sunset, hasten down,
Hands out and eyes elated; for they see
Head over head, crowding from bow to stern,
Repeopling their long loneliness with smiles,
The faces of their friends; and such go forth
Content upon the ebb tide, with safe hearts.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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_The Cellar Door_
By the old tavern door on the causey there lay
A
hogshead
of stingo just rolled from a dray,
And there stood the blacksmith awaiting a drop
As dry as the cinders that lay in his shop;
And there stood the cobbler as dry as a bun,
Almost crackt like a bucket when left in the sun.
| Guess: |
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John Clare |
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Francois and Margot and thee and me:
1 Certain gibbeted corpses used to be coated with tar as a pre- servative ; thus one
scarecrow
served as warning for considerable time.
| Guess: |
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Keats - Lamia |
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White and golden Lizzie stood,
Like a lily in a flood,--
Like a rock of blue-veined stone
Lashed by tides obstreperously,--
Like a beacon left alone
In a hoary roaring sea,
Sending up a golden fire,--
Like a fruit-crowned orange-tree
White with
blossoms
honey-sweet
Sore beset by wasp and bee,--
Like a royal virgin town
Topped with gilded dome and spire
Close beleaguered by a fleet
Mad to tug her standard down.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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Love
conquers
all things; yield we too to love!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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XVI
As we gaze from afar on the waves roar
Mountains of water now set in motion,
A thousand breakers of cliff-jarring ocean,
Striking the reef, driven in the wind's maw:
View now a fierce northerly, with emotion,
Stirring the storm to its loud-whistling core,
Then folding in air its vaster wing once more
Suddenly weary, as if at some new notion:
As we see a flame, spread in a hundred places,
Gather, in one flare, towards heaven's spaces,
Then powerless fade and die: so, in its day,
This Empire passed, and
overwhelming
all
Like wave, or wind, or flame, along its way,
Halted at last by Fate, sank here, in fall.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT
LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE
PROVIDED IN
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F3.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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It is all a blood-feud between chieftains, in which Orestes,
after seven years,
succeeds
in slaying his foe Aegisthus, who had killed
his father.
| Guess: |
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Euripides - Electra |
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Gallants, now sing his song below:
Rondeau
Oh, grant him now eternal peace,
Lord, and
everlasting
light,
He wasn't worth a candle bright,
Nor even a sprig of parsley.
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Villon |
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It reaches to the fence,
It wraps it, rail by rail,
Till it is lost in fleeces;
It flings a crystal veil
On stump and stack and stem, --
The summer's empty room,
Acres of seams where
harvests
were,
Recordless, but for them.
| Guess: |
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Compilers of other
miscellanies
and song books laid Herrick
under contribution, but, with the one exception of his contribution to
the _Lacrymae Musarum_ in 1649, no fresh production of his pen has been
preserved, and we know nothing further of his life save that he returned
to Dean Prior after the Restoration (August 24, 1662), and that
according to the parish register "Robert Herrick, Vicker, was buried
y^e 15th day October, 1674.
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Robert Herrick |
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And even and morn,
With their hammocks for coffins the seamen aghast
Like dead men the dead limbs of their
comrades
cast
Down the deep, which closed on them above and around, _55
And the sharks and the dogfish their grave-clothes unbound,
And were glutted like Jews with this manna rained down
From God on their wilderness.
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Shelley |
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Asking what happened, scrambling to pull my
whiskers
88 who could glare or scold them just then?
| Guess: |
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Then they whispered to each other,
"O
delightful
little brother,
What a lovely walk we've taken!
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Vedi la
Farinata
che s'e dritto:
da la cintola in su tutto 'l vedrai>>.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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A bearded postillion astride
A lean and shaggy nag doth ride,
Unto the gates the
servants
fly
To bid the gentlefolk good-bye.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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O, full of
Scorpions
is my Minde, deare Wife:
Thou know'st, that Banquo and his Fleans liues
Lady.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
|
PROMETHEUS
Yet,--though in shackles close and strong
I lie in wasting torments long,---
Yet the new tyrant, 'neath whose nod
Cowers down each blest
subservient
god,
One day, far hence, my help shall need,
The destined stratagem to read,
Whereby, in some yet distant day,
Zeus shall be reaved of pride and sway:
And no persuasion's honied spell
Shall lure me on, the tale to tell;
And no stern threat shall make me cower
And yield the secret to his power,
Until his purpose be foregone,
And shackles yield, and he atone
The deep despite that he hath done!
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Aeschylus |
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Matthew Arnold forgets this a little too
much sometimes when he writes of the
beauties
of French style.
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James Russell Lowell |
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"
The
stranger
vanished .
| Guess: |
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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unless a
copyright
notice is included.
| Guess: |
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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International donations are accepted, but we don't know
ANYTHING
about
how to make them tax-deductible, or even if they CAN be made
deductible, and don't have the staff to handle it even if there are
ways.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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perchance
had seen the heavens opening,
as they opened to the Florentine.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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I, with what speed the while
Will send for all my kindred, all my friends,
To fetch him hence, and
solemnly
attend,
With silent obsequy and funeral train,
Home to his father's house.
| Guess: |
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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A melancholy choir attend around,
With plaintive sighs, and music's solemn sound:
Alternately
they sing, alternate flow
The obedient tears, melodious in their woe.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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This oracle in no sort of way resembles the one Apollo
dictated to me: "If an impostor comes without invitation to annoy you
during the
sacrifice
and to demand a share of the victim, apply a stout
stick to his ribs.
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Aristophanes |
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My memory
Is still
obscured
by seeing your coming
And going.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Ay, in good sadness is he; and talks of the basket
too,
howsoever
he hath had intelligence.
| Guess: |
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Shakespeare |
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He passed through Kiukiang on his way,
and released the
prisoners
there.
| Guess: |
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Li Po |
|
IV
O, well for the
fortunate
soul
Which Music's wings infold,
Stealing away the memory
Of sorrows new and old!
| Guess: |
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Emerson - Poems |
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A TOMBLESS EPITAPH
'Tis true, Idoloclastes
Satyrane!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Redistribution is
subject to the trademark license,
especially
commercial
redistribution.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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"
After a few more remarks the officer walked up to the window where
Lisaveta
Ivanovna
sat.
| Guess: |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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These Fitz Gerald
considered
made 'a perfect
poem by themselves.
| Guess: |
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Tennyson |
|
Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this
electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without
prominently
displaying
the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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In the
editions
of 1815 and 1820 it was ranked as one of the "Poems
founded on the Affections.
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William Wordsworth |
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480
Aricia
Moderate your
kindness
whose excess shames me.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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in mazes of delusive beauty
I have lookd into the secret soul of him I lovd
And in the Dark recesses found Sin & cannot return
Trembling & pale sat Tharmas weeping in his clouds
Why wilt thou Examine every little fibre of my soul *{This and the
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Blake - Zoas |
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Cold fog-drawn Lily, pale mist-magic Rose
He conjured, and in a glassy cauldron set
With elvish
unsubstantial
Mignonette
And such vague bloom as wandering dreams enclose.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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What, shrinking from thine own
delightsomeness?
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Note: Ixion was tormented on a wheel in Hades, Tantalus by water and food just out of reach,
Prometheus
by having his liver torn by vultures, Sisyphus by being forced eternally to roll a boulder to the top of a hill and see it roll back again.
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Ronsard |
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Deluded by [the] summers heat they sport in
enormous
love
And cast their young out to the [?
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Blake - Zoas |
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At barn or byre thou shalt na drudge,
Or
naething
else to trouble thee;
But stray amang the heather-bells,
And tent the waving corn wi' me.
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Robert Forst |
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such as from the
blest
immortals
flows?
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Tacitus |
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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It was here, about twelve o'clock one night during the severe winter
the comments of his
neighbours
upon his singular propensity--that Pierre
Bon-Bon, I say, having turned them all out of his house, locked the door
upon them with an oath, and betook himself in no very pacific mood to
the comforts of a leather-bottomed arm-chair, and a fire of blazing
fagots.
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Poe - 5 |
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--But yet we grieve
And wander
restless
from the lighted rooms.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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E quando noi a lei venuti semo,
poco piu oltre veggio in su la rena
gente seder
propinqua
al loco scemo.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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The way between is
difficult
and long,
Face to face how shall we meet again?
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Living in
retirement
beyond the World,
Silently enjoying isolation,
I pull the rope of my door tighter
And stuff my window with roots and ferns.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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I have
forgotten
jou long, long ago,
Like the svteet, silver singing of thin bells
Vanished, or music fading faint and low.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Here, son of Saturn, was thy
favourite
throne!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Still, like a spreading ulcer, which leech-craft may not cure,
Let your foul usance eat away the
substance
of the poor.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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You want somebody to get up an
argument
with.
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Yeats |
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