Then amid his exaltation,
Loud the convent bell appalling,
From its belfry calling, calling,
Rang through court and corridor
With
persistent
iteration
He had never heard before.
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There's grief of want, and grief of cold, --
A sort they call 'despair;'
There's
banishment
from native eyes,
In sight of native air.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Along the reaches of the street
Held in a lunar synthesis,
Whispering lunar incantations
Disolve the floors of memory
And all its clear relations,
Its divisions and precisions,
Every street lamp that I pass
Beats like a
fatalistic
drum,
And through the spaces of the dark
Midnight shakes the memory
As a madman shakes a dead geranium.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Though they sleep or wake to torment
and wish to
displace
our old cells--
thin rare gold--
that their larve grow fat--
is our task the less sweet?
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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She turned away, but with the autumn weather
Compelled
my imagination many days,
Many days and many hours:
Her hair over her arms and her arms full of flowers.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Wherever now
My heedless course I may pursue
One object on thy desert brow
I everlastingly shall view--
A rock, the
sepulchre
of Fame!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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III
Who, after Archimagoes fowle defeat,
Led her away into a forest wilde, 20
And turning wrathfull fyre to
lustfull
heat,
With beastly sin thought her to have defilde,
And made the vassal of his pleasures wilde.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no
one owns a United States
copyright
in these works, so the Foundation
(and you!
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Stephen Crane |
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A father
mother
surviving
him
in sad existence
like two extremes -
ill fused in him
that are parted
-hence his death -
cancelling this small
child's 'self'
2.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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It cannot be
submitted
to a close examination, and it
is all wrong historically, yet it presents a complete picture with an
artistic charm that must be judged on its own merits.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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But where Homer and
Beowulf together differ from Tasso and Milton is in the way the
surrounding folk-spirit
contains
the poet's mind.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Ambition this shall tempt to rise,
Then whirl the wretch from high
To bitter Scorn a sacrifice
And
grinning
Infamy.
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Golden Treasury |
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GHOST OF DARIUS
She wastes by famine a too
countless
foe.
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Aeschylus |
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"Of whom are you
speaking?
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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It's a day's work
To empty one house of all household goods
And fill another with 'em fifteen miles away,
Although
you do no more than dump them down.
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Robert Forst |
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" 770
'Twas done: and
straight
with sudden swell and fall
Sweet music breath'd her soul away, and sigh'd
A lullaby to silence.
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Keats |
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"You are a
monster!
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Les fleurs d'encre,
crachant
des pollens en virgules,
Les bercent le long des calices accroupis,
Tels qu'au fil des glaieuls le vol des libellules,
--Et leur membre s'agace a des barbes d'epis!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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agreement
violates the
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interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by
the applicable state law.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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But I will be
revenged!
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Longfellow |
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If this story be true, and we have Horace Walpole's authority for it, we
may well imagine that the entry of the bribe, like that of Uncle Toby's
oath, was blotted out by a tear from the books of the
Recording
Angel.
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Alexander Pope |
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"
_Behemot, sweating blood,
Uses for his daily food
All the fodder, flesh and juice
That twelve tall
mountains
can produce.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Throbbing
THIS throbbing shows what we abandoned,
Which through the vacant chamber wells,
Wherein our joys, in parting, beckoned,
No longer hour nor pathway tells 1
How oft in sleep we wander,
straying!
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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He
impolitely
spoke of Ary Scheffer and
the "apes of sentiment"; while his discussions of Hogarth, Cruikshank,
Pinelli and Breughel proclaims his versatility of vision.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Unauthenticated
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Date | 10/1/17 7:36 AM 334 ?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Sometimes he projected taking a farm situated on the height of one
of the near hills,
surrounded
by chestnut and pine woods, and
overlooking a wide extent of country: or settling still farther in the
maritime Apennines, at Massa.
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Shelley |
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But Norandine, the pastime to delay,
And to
continue
it till even-fall,
Descending from his place, bade clear the way;
And the huge squad divided, at his call,
Into two troops, whom, ranked by blood and might,
The monarch formed, and marched for other fight.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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"
Again he dreamed and saw another dream
and
reported
it unto his mother.
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Nor could I go burdened with grief, but made merry
Till I came to the gate of that
overgrown
ground
Where scarce once a year sees the priest come to bury.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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3050
To Resoun than prayeth Chastitee,
Whom Venus flemed over the see,
That she hir
doughter
wolde hir lene,
To kepe the roser fresh and grene.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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By absence who hath chilled his love,
His hate by slander, and who spends
Existence without wife or friends,
Whom jealous transport cannot move,
And who the rent-roll of his race
Ne'er trusted to the
treacherous
ace.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the
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work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days
of receipt of the work.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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The shape of your heart is chimerical
And your love
resembles
my lost desire.
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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"Cooks need not be
indulged
in waste;
Yet still you'd better teach them
Dishes should have _some sort_ of taste.
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Lewis Carroll |
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And never a human voice comes near
To speak a gentle word:
And the eye that watches through the door
Is
pitiless
and hard:
And by all forgot, we rot and rot,
With soul and body marred.
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Wilde - Poems |
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"
CORYDON
"The junipers and prickly
chestnuts
stand,
And 'neath each tree lie strewn their several fruits,
Now the whole world is smiling, but if fair
Alexis from these hill-slopes should away,
Even the rivers you would ; see run dry.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Seek thou
straight
Athena's land,
And round her awful image clasp thine hand,
Praying: and she will fence them back, though hot
With flickering serpents, that they touch thee not,
Holding above thy brow her gorgon shield.
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Euripides - Electra |
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]
* * * * *
ONE HUNDRED NONSENSE
PICTURES
AND RHYMES.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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with whom I
traverse
earth,
Invisible but gazing, as I glow
Mixed with thy spirit, blended with thy birth,
And feeling still with thee in my crushed feelings' dearth.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Here, then, we rest: "The
Universal
Cause
Acts to one end, but acts by various laws.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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For the brood beyond us and of us,
For those who belong here, and those to come,
I, exultant, to be ready for them, will now shake out carols stronger and
haughtier
than have ever yet been heard upon earth.
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Whitman |
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To shield and free
Humanity!
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Hugo - Poems |
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The
fountains
mingle with the river
And the rivers with the ocean,
The winds of heaven mix for ever
With a sweet emotion;
Nothing in the world is single,
All things by a law divine
In one another's being mingle--
Why not I with thine?
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Golden Treasury |
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Get up, get up for shame, the
blooming
morn
Upon her wings presents the god unshorn.
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Robert Herrick |
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Most righteous, and most just,
avenging
Heaven!
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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He passed through Kiukiang on his way,
and released the
prisoners
there.
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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If one as herald came with rueful face
To say, _The curse has fallen, and the host
Gone down to death; and one wide wound has reached
The city's heart, and out of many homes
Many are cast and
consecrate
to death,
Beneath the double scourge, that Ares loves,
The bloody pair, the fire and sword of doom_--
If such sore burden weighed upon my tongue,
'Twere fit to speak such words as gladden fiends.
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Aeschylus |
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There is some noise outside--a high vexing noise,
so that I can't be
listening
to myself.
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Yeats |
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Lo the Lilly pale & the rose reddning fierce
Reproach thee & the beamy gardens sicken at thy beauty {According to Erdman, beneath and below these 2 lines are about 11 erased pencil lines, the first [partially recovered]
beginning
'XXX she wails,' the following 2 the same as the existing lines, and the remainder apparently different from the final text EJC}
I grasp thy vest in my strong hand in vain.
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Blake - Zoas |
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That whatso-
ever they can do of that kind is, at uttermost, to im-
power men by their authority and commission, no
otherwise than in the
licensing
of midwives or physi-
cians.
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Marvell - Poems |
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"
Oure lord hym
graunted
?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Saveliitch
exclaimed, joy painted on his face--
"He is coming to himself!
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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All are at peace, who once so
fiercely
warred:
Brother and brother, now, we chant a common chord.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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If you had a witch for your client you would not be
able to manage her
defence!
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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How
pleasant
and beautiful it is to be
At last obedient to love!
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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[Sidenote A: The bowmen send their arrows after this wild swine,]
[Sidenote B: but they glide off
shivered
in pieces.
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Then we ask'd from Jove a sign,
And by a sign
vouchsafed
he bade us cut
The wide sea to Euboea sheer athwart,
So soonest to escape the threat'ned harm.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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But, one all-fired sweatin' day,
It
happened
I was hoein'
My lower corn-field, which it lay
'Longside the road that runs my way
Whar I can see what's goin'.
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Sidney Lanier |
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PREFACE
There is something grotesque in the idea of a prose
translation
of a
poet, though the practice is become so common that it has ceased to
provoke a smile or demand an apology.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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I
challenge
thee to hurry past
Or for my turn to fly too fast.
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Emerson - Poems |
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zip *****
This and all
associated
files of various formats will be found in:
http://www.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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703
founded]
found out 1674.
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| Source: |
Milton |
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Oh, many a Cup of this forbidden Wine
Must drown the memory of that
insolence!
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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And be your words submissive: heed this well;
For weak ye are, outcasts on
stranger
lands,
And froward talk beseems not strengthless hands.
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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Be with us now or we betray our trust — And say, "There is no wisdom but in death"
—
The
changeless
regions of our empery,
Where once we moved in friendship with the stars.
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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[Illustration]
There was an old Person of Cromer,
Who stood on one leg to read Homer;
When he found he grew stiff, he jumped over the cliff,
Which
concluded
that Person of Cromer.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Mantillas
elsewhere
hide dull eyes--
Compared with these, how small!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Why, you
whoreson
round man, what's the matter?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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Well, of
sufferance
comes ease.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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Woman is the
blood-royal of life: let there be slight degrees of
precedency
among
them--but let them be ALL sacred.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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415 "Þā mē þæt
gelǣrdon
lēode mīne,
"þā sēlestan, snotere ceorlas,
"þēoden Hrōðgār, þæt ic þē sōhte;
"forþan hīe mægenes cræft mīnne cūðon:
"selfe ofersāwon, þā ic of searwum cwōm,
420 "fāh from fēondum, þǣr ic fīfe geband,
"ȳðde eotena cyn, and on ȳðum slōg
"niceras nihtes, nearo-þearfe drēah,
"wræc Wedera nīð (wēan āhsodon)
"forgrand gramum; and nū wið Grendel sceal,
425 "wið þām āglǣcan, āna gehegan
"þing wið þyrse.
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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Luther, Martin, his first
appearance
as Europa.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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And the leaves, brown, yellow, and gray, and red,
And white with the
whiteness
of what is dead, _35
Like troops of ghosts on the dry wind passed;
Their whistling noise made the birds aghast.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
|
In Yen and Chao are many fair ladies,
Beautiful
people with faces like jade.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Cobham's a coward, Polwarth is a slave,
And
Littelton
a dark, designing knave,
St.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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They wasted o'er a
scorching
flame
The marrow of his bones;
But a miller us'd him worst of all--
He crush'd him 'tween the stones.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
|
We encourage the use of public domain materials for these
purposes
and may be able to help.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
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Let us rather love to mark
How the
unextingnished
spark
Still gleams through the thin disguise 179
Of our customs, pomps, and lies,
And, not seldom blown to flame,
Vindicates its ancient claim.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
|
"
So saw I fluctuate in successive change
Th'
unsteady
ballast of the seventh hold:
And here if aught my tongue have swerv'd, events
So strange may be its warrant.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can
receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a
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the work from.
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Tennyson |
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It should be borne in mind that at the time
this poem was written
literary
warfare more or less open was
being waged between two hostile schools of Russian men of
letters.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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A woman, if her mind
So turn, can light on many a
pleasant
thing
To fill her board.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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_65
This
quicksilver
no gnome has drunk--within
The walnut bowl it lies, veined and thin,
In colour like the wake of light that stains
The Tuscan deep, when from the moist moon rains
The inmost shower of its white fire--the breeze _70
Is still--blue Heaven smiles over the pale seas.
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| Source: |
Shelley |
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It was playing in the great alley of poplars whose leaves, even in spring, seem
mournful
to me since Maria passed by them, on her last journey, lying among candles.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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Lawrence
the
Bay of Chaleur, or of warmth; but they said nothing about the winter
being as cold as Greenland.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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41 Catullus: Currite ducenti sub tegmine
currite fusi ||
_subtegmina_
(_a_ ex _e_) O
330 om.
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Latin - Catullus |
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II I accept frailty and white hair in my life, in lonely
isolation
now at the ends of the earth.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Your hands have no
innocent
blood on them, no stain?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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3 *Regard the *weak and
fatherless
*Shiphtu-dal.
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Milton |
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Whereupon
a child began
With spirit running up to man
As by angels' shining ladder,
(May he find no cloud above!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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"
The conversation was
interrupted
at this point, to the great regret of
the young girl.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Pittheus,
accounted
wise amongst all men,
Deigned to instruct me when I left her hands.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Sansonet, Guido, follow, with the pair
Or
brethren
bold, Marphisa terrified.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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And the Golden Grouse came there,
And the Pobble who has no toes,
And the small Olympian bear,
And the Dong with a
luminous
nose.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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"BETWEEN US NOW"
BETWEEN us now and here--
Two thrown together
Who are not wont to wear
Life's
flushest
feather--
Who see the scenes slide past,
The daytimes dimming fast,
Let there be truth at last,
Even if despair.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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NOTE: Though written and engraved by Blake, "A DIVINE IMAGE" was never
included in the SONGS OF
INNOCENCE
AND OF EXPERIENCE.
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blake-poems |
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, which was given him back,'
doubtless
by his brother William.
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John Donne |
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) can copy and distribute it in the United States without
permission and without paying
copyright
royalties.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Her hair is a
sinister
black,
Her skin, tanned by the devil.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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