Night and great horror of the rising wave
Came o'er us, and the blasts that blow from Thrace
Clashed ship with ship, and some with plunging prow
Thro'
scudding
drifts of spray and raving storm
Vanished, as strays by some ill shepherd driven.
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What for the sage, old
Apollonius?
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Keats - Lamia |
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Thou fav'rest Frenchmen, though from England seen,
Oft tearful to that mistress "North Countree";
Returned the third time safely here to be,
I bless my bold
Gibraltar
of the Free.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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VILLONAUD FOR THIS YULE
HTOWARDS
the Noel that morte saison
-L (Christ make the shepherds' homage dear!
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Mammon also advised
them to keep the peace, and make the best they could of Hell, a policy
received with applause; but then Beelzebub, "than whom, Satan except,
none higher sat," rose, and with a look which "drew audience and
attention still as night," developed the suggestion previously made by
Satan, that they should attack Heaven's High
Arbitrator
through His
new-created Man, waste his creation, and "drive as we are driven.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Avez-vous donc pu croire, hypocrites surpris,
Qu'on se moque du maitre, et qu'avec lui l'on triche,
Et qu'il soit naturel de
recevoir
deux prix.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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--And yes, thank God, it still is possible
The healing days shall close the darkness up
Wherein I
breathed
you like a smoke or dew.
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Imagists |
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Amilau, or Millau in Aveyron, on the banks of the Tarn, was the major source of
earthenware
in the Roman Empire, and site of one of the major bridges over the Tarn.
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Troubador Verse |
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His
servants
are drunk
already.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Gray Pelican, poised where yon broad
shallows
shine,
Know'st thou, that finny foison all is mine
In the bag below thy beak -- yet thine, not less?
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Sidney Lanier |
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farewell, a short
farewell!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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The court in
flattering
yet itself doth please,
(And female Stewart there rules the four seas.
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Marvell - Poems |
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"
The tear-drop
trickled
to his chin:
There was a meaning in her grin
That made him feel on fire within.
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Lewis Carroll |
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I soar up into the
coldness
as the air-hounds wheel on high,
And slip away in the dimness as they hunt where I circled by.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Tonson wrote Pope a
respectful
letter asking for the honor of
being allowed to publish them.
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Alexander Pope |
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A defeat was our
conquest
red!
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Hugo - Poems |
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I esteem myself happy to have quitted Venice, on account of
that war which has been
declared
between that Republic and the Lord of
Padua.
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Petrarch |
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It has survived long enough for the
copyright
to expire and the book to enter the public domain.
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Meredith - Poems |
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While on my varying brow, that speaks the soul,
The wild emotions roll,
Now dark, now bright, as
shifting
skies appear;
That whosoe'er has proved the lover's state
Would say, He feels the flame, nor knows his future fate.
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Petrarch |
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Apples on the small trees
are hard,
too small,
too late ripened
by a
desperate
sun
that struggles through sea-mist.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Say from whence
You owe this strange Intelligence, or why
Vpon this blasted Heath you stop our way
With such
Prophetique
greeting?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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O had I known as then joy had left the paths of men,
I had watched her night and day, be sure, and never slept agen,
And when she turned to go, O I'd caught her mantle then,
And wooed her like a lover by my lonely side to stay;
Ay, knelt and worshipped on, as love in beauty's bower,
And clung upon her smiles as a bee upon a flower,
And gave her heart my posies, all cropt in a sunny hour,
As keepsakes and pledges all to never fade away;
But love never heeded to
treasure
up the may,
So it went the common road to decay.
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John Clare |
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Ver e ch'altra fiata qua giu fui,
congiurato da quella Eriton cruda
che
richiamava
l'ombre a' corpi sui.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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When I turn up into the mouth of the Assabet, which is
wooded, large fleets of leaves are floating on its surface, as it
were getting out to sea, with room to tack; but next the shore, a
little farther up, they are thicker than foam, quite concealing the
water for a rod in width, under and amid the alders, button-bushes,
and maples, still perfectly light and dry, with fibre unrelaxed; and
at a rocky bend where they are met and stopped by the morning wind,
they sometimes form a broad and dense
crescent
quite across the river.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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"
But
especially
"Thing-um-a jig!
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Lewis Carroll |
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And at your door, you
discovered
me;
And at your heart, I sobbed .
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Then "mid the gray there peeps a glimmer soon,
A new light rises 'neath the evening star,
A grass-plot
stretches
o'er a crag afar.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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How doth my heart that is so wrung not burst
When I
remember
that my way was plain,
And that God's candle lit me at the first,
Whilst now I grope in darkness, grope in vain,
Desiring but to find Him Who is lost,
To find him once again, but once again!
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Christina Rossetti |
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Or friends or
kinsfolk
on the citied earth,
To share our marriage feast and nuptial mirth?
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Keats - Lamia |
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The wagons quickened on the streets,
The thunder hurried slow;
The
lightning
showed a yellow beak,
And then a livid claw.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Why, is not this better now than
groaning
for love?
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Shakespeare |
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Champaigne's the wine for me,
But then right
sparkling
it must be!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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It was the
loveliest
castle he
had ever beheld.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Around, by lifting winds forgot,
Resignedly beneath the sky
The
melancholy
waters lie.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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By thee the seeds of
conscious
worth are fir'd,
Hero by hero, fame by fame inspir'd:
Without thine aid how soon the hero dies!
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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480
Earth, spangled sky, and lake serene,
Involved and restless all--a scene
Pregnant with mutual exaltation,
Rich change, and multiplied
creation!
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William Wordsworth |
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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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+ Keep it legal Whatever your use,
remember
that you are responsible for ensuring that what you are doing is legal.
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Meredith - Poems |
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If I were young as thou, if these grey hairs
Had not already
streaked
my beard--Dost take me?
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Tell her, if she
struggle
still,
I have myrtle rods (at will)
For to tame, though not to kill.
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Robert Herrick |
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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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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And
unreluctant
Hermes 15
Shall give me words to say.
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Sappho |
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And I saw it was filled with graves,
And
tombstones
where flowers should be;
And priests in black gowns were walking their rounds,
And binding with briars my joys and desires.
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blake-poems |
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In the
Medicean
MS.
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Tacitus |
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But at the last, as I bithought
Whether I sholde passe or nought, 2980
I saw come with a gladde chere
To me, a lusty bachelere,
Of good stature, and of good hight,
And Bialacoil
forsothe
he hight.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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To this end they don
men's clothes, and taking seats in the Assembly on the Pnyx, command a
majority of votes and carry a series of
revolutionary
proposals--that the
government be vested in a committee of women, and further, that property
and women be henceforth held in common.
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Aristophanes |
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hys
p{ro}pre
causes of whiche causes ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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FAUST:
Wie seltsam glimmert durch die Grunde
Ein
morgenrotlich
truber Schein!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Our works of fiction and
poetry have been
overshadowed
by the same infectious gloom.
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Shelley |
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Yet glared he
fiercely
round him, and growled in harsh, fell
tone,
"She's mine, and I will have her, I seek but for mine own:
She is my slave, born in my house, and stolen away and sold,
The year of the sore sickness, ere she was twelve hours old.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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The gods are most dreaded at the
seasons most
important
to a primitive people, seed-time, for example,
and harvest.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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I ha' seen him cow a
thousand
men.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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O to the gentle spouse right dear, right dear to his parent,
Hail, and with increase fair Jupiter lend thee his aid,
Door, 'tis said wast fain kind service render to Balbus
Erst while, long as the house by her old owner was held;
Yet wast
rumoured
again to serve a purpose malignant, 5
After the elder was stretched, thou being oped for a bride.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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For myself, though conquered I'm content;
And despite my own amorous intent,
And
infinite
loss, I welcome my defeat,
Rendering a perfect love thus complete.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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THE
HIGHLAND
LADDIE.
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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"
"I am like thee, O, Night, patient and passionate; for in my breast
a
thousand
dead lovers are buried in shrouds of withered kisses.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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s heart prefers to wait, doing nothing, 108 all spirit is
virtually
lost in current policy debates.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Why not this for our night
quarters?
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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I Said It To You
I said it to you for the clouds
I said it to you for the tree of the sea
For each wave for the birds in the leaves
For the pebbles of sound
For
familiar
hands
For the eye that becomes landscape or face
And sleep returns it the heaven of its colour
For all that night drank
For the network of roads
For the open window for a bare forehead
I said it to you for your thoughts for your words
Every caress every trust survives.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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, but its
volunteers
and employees are scattered
throughout numerous locations.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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He does not wake at dawn to see
Dread figures throng his room,
The shivering Chaplain robed in white,
The Sheriff stern with gloom,
And the
Governor
all in shiny black,
With the yellow face of Doom.
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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Note: Ixion tried to seduce Juno, but Jupiter
substituted
a cloud for her person.
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Ronsard |
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L
"Through tears the rising sun I oft have viewed,
Through tears have seen him towards that world descend [67]
Where my poor heart lost all its fortitude:
Three years a
wanderer
now my course I bend--[68] 445
Oh!
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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And then to dwell in
sovereign
barns,
And dream the days away, --
The grass so little has to do,
I wish I were the hay!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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And
standing
on the altar high,
"Lo, what a fiend is here!
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blake-poems |
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--
Wait till, like me, your hopes are blighted[178] till
Sorrow and Shame are
handmaids
of your cabin--
Famine and Poverty your guests at table;
Despair your bed-fellow--then rise, but not
From sleep, and judge!
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Byron |
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s father Li Yuan
abdicating
to Taizong.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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"This music crept by me upon the waters"
And along the Strand, up Queen
Victoria
Street.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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"
In spite of new poems revealing a
Napoleonic
bias, Victor was invited to
see Charles X.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Meanwhile Civilis had been playing upon the feelings of the besieged
by
pretending
that the Romans had been defeated and success had
favoured his arms.
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Tacitus |
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For when the conquering wolves
Into that village won, we in our huts
Lay
hearkening
to their rejoicing hunger;
But Gwat stayed out in the stars all night long.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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The clock is on the stroke of one;
But neither Doctor nor his guide
Appear along the
moonlight
road,
There's neither horse nor man abroad,
And Betty's still at Susan's side.
| Guess: |
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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All his
government
is groping.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Quiet, quiet, above,
beneath!
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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E poi il mosser le parole biece
a dimandar ragione a questo giusto,
che li assegno sette e cinque per diece,
indi
partissi
povero e vetusto;
e se 'l mondo sapesse il cor ch'elli ebbe
mendicando sua vita a frusto a frusto,
assai lo loda, e piu lo loderebbe>>.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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But when my glass shows me myself indeed
Beated and chopp'd with tanned antiquity,
Mine own self-love quite
contrary
I read;
Self so self-loving were iniquity.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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"
Through the grey cell of the young Monk there flash in luminous
magnificence the colours of the great renaissance masters, for he feels
in Titian, in Michelangelo, in Raphael the same fervour that animates
him; they, too, are
worshippers
of the same God.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Sara Teasdale |
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of volunteers and donations
from people in all walks of life.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Thee,
Caledonia!
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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copyright
law means that no one owns a United States
copyright
in these works,
so the Foundation (and you!
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Words, a Poet's words more
particularly, ought to be weighed in the balance of feeling and not
measured
by the space which they occupy upon paper.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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But to convince the proud what Signs availe,
Or Wonders move th'
obdurate
to relent?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Where, from above, the milder sun
Does through a fragrant zodiac run:
And, as it works, th'
industrious
bee
Computes its time as well as we.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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What gnat did
they strain at here, after having
swallowed
all those camels?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
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Ne'er heard I of host in haughtier throng
more graciously
gathered
round giver-of-rings!
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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On the morning of the
following
day a travelling
_kibitka_ stood before the hall door.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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o
eufemian
was y-war
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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[Somers] acting those
gestures
M.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Updated
editions
will replace the previous one--the old editions
will be renamed.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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The good
Bishop of Montpellier, who knew the family, said that Charles was a
little crazy--second
marriages
usually bring woe in their train.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Ses amis, ses vrais amis, Alfred de
Vigny et Sainte-Beuve, lui
conseillerent
de se desister, ce qu'il fit
d'ailleurs en des termes dont on apprecia la modestie et la convenance.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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zip *******
This and all
associated
files of various formats will be found in:
http://www.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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We need your
donations
more than ever!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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'Twas sunset: when the sun will part
There comes a
sullenness
of heart
To him who still would look upon
The glory of the summer sun.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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CXL
Be wise as thou art cruel; do not press
My tongue-tied
patience
with too much disdain;
Lest sorrow lend me words, and words express
The manner of my pity-wanting pain.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Not unless God made sharp thine ear
With sorrow such as mine,
Out of that
delicate
lay could'st thou
Its heavy tale divine.
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Emerson - Poems |
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