Elvire, my father's dead; and the first blade
With which
Rodrigue
fought, made him a shade.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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When in an antichamber every guest
Had felt the cold full sponge to pleasure press'd,
By minist'ring slaves, upon his hands and feet,
And
fragrant
oils with ceremony meet
Pour'd on his hair, they all mov'd to the feast
In white robes, and themselves in order placed
Around the silken couches, wondering
Whence all this mighty cost and blaze of wealth could spring.
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Keats |
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{31a} "More
loquacious
than eloquent; words enough, but little
wisdom.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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The same
stealthy
blow .
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Euripides - Electra |
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Cease that proud temper: Venus loves it not:
The rope may break, the wheel may backward turn:
Begetting
you, no Tuscan sire begot
Penelope the stern.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Within the navil of this hideous Wood, 520
Immur'd in cypress shades a
Sorcerer
dwels
Of Bacchus, and of Circe born, great Comus,
Deep skill'd in all his mothers witcheries,
And here to every thirsty wanderer,
By sly enticement gives his banefull cup,
With many murmurs mixt, whose pleasing poison
The visage quite transforms of him that drinks,
And the inglorious likenes of a beast
Fixes instead, unmoulding reasons mintage
Character'd in the Face; this have I learn't 530
Tending my flocks hard by i'th hilly crofts,
That brow this bottom glade, whence night by night
He and his monstrous rout are heard to howl
Like stabl'd wolves, or tigers at their prey,
Doing abhorred rites to Hecate
In their obscured haunts of inmost bowres.
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Milton |
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scawan
scīrhame
tō scipe fōron, _that the visitors in
glittering attire betook themselves to the ship_, 1896.
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Beowulf |
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2121, 2414, for similar use of
unhēoru
= ungeheuer.
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Beowulf |
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4 In
consequence
half the folk of Qin 56 were destroyed and made into non-human things.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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and
distributed Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of
volunteer support.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Clarence and the Malmesey over again;
'Twas a
delightful
death.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Helen of
Kirkconnel
was one of the
poems which he was fond of reciting, and Fitzgerald says that he used
also to recite this poem, in a way not to be forgotten, at Cambridge
tables.
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Tennyson |
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The Immediate Life
What's become of you why this white hair and pink
Why this forehead these eyes rent apart heart-rending
The great misunderstanding of the
marriage
of radium
Solitude chases me with its rancour.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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XXII
Ah, to uphold one's
respectable
name is not easy.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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And yet, because I love thee, I obtain
From that same love this vindicating grace
To live on still in love, and yet in vain,--
To bless thee, yet
renounce
thee to thy face.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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"
And when we had come out of the temple, I
straightway
left that
Blessed City; for I was not too young, and I could read the scripture.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Me to your springs, your dances true,
Philippi
bore not to the ground,
Nor the doom'd tree in falling slew,
Nor billowy Palinurus drown'd.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the
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of receipt of the work.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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The very day o' your
probation?
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Much less themselves to perfect them begin ;
No other care they bear of things above,
But with astrologers, divine of Jove,
To know how long their planet yet reprieves
From the
deserved
fate their guilty lives.
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Marvell - Poems |
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There were the sordid provincial shops--
The grocer's, and the shops for women,
The shop where I bought transfers,
And the piano and
gramaphone
shop
Where I used to stand
Staring at the huge shiny pianos and at the pictures
Of a white dog looking into a gramaphone.
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Imagists |
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providing it to you may choose to give you a second
opportunity
to
receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Ein wahres
Hexenelement!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Newby
Chief
Executive
and Director
gbnewby@pglaf.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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We are a small people, and our war is weak:
Who knows whether our God doth not desire
Armies and great plains full of spears and horses,
And cities made of bronze and hewn white stone
And scarlet awnings, throng'd with sworded men,
To shout his name up from the earth and kill
All crying at the gates of other heavens;
And hath grown tired of peaceable praise and folk
That in a warren of dry
mountains
dwell,
Whose few throats can make little noise in heaven.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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One sea-gull, paired with a shadow, wheels, wheels;
Circles the lonely ship by wave and trough;
Lets down his feet, strikes at the
breaking
water,
Draws up his golden feet, beats wings, and rises
Over the mast.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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'Tis thus that I taught my audience how to judge, namely, by
introducing the art of reasoning and
considering
into tragedy.
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Aristophanes |
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Hence eodor is
sometimes
used instead of _house_: acc.
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Beowulf |
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This is the lamentable tale wherewith
My
chronicle
doth end; since then I little
Have dipped in worldly business.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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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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Lewis Carroll |
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Man, one
harmonious
soul of many a soul, _400
Whose nature is its own divine control,
Where all things flow to all, as rivers to the sea;
Familiar acts are beautiful through love;
Labour, and pain, and grief, in life's green grove
Sport like tame beasts, none knew how gentle they could be!
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Shelley |
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_16
festival
Harvard, Fred.
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Shelley |
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XV
You pallid ghost, and you, pale ashen spirit,
Who joyful in the bright light of day
Created all that arrogant display,
Whose dusty ruin now greets our visit:
Speak, spirits (since that shadowy limit
Of Stygian shore that ensures your stay,
Enclosing you in thrice
threefold
array,
Sight of your dark images, may permit),
Tell me, now (since it may be one of you,
Here above, may yet be hid from view)
Do you not feel a greater depth of pain,
When from hour to hour in Roman lands
You contemplate the work of your hands,
Reduced to nothing but a dusty plain?
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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cuncta dabant reditus: tamen est deterrita numquam
quin fleret nostras
respiceretque
uias.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Perished
is all that grieves;
And lo, our old-new joys
Are gathered as in sheaves,
Held in love's equipoise.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Shake the snow off and with hearty
Hand-shakes drive away the cold;
Else your plate you'll hardly hold
Of good
Thanksgiving
turkey.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Hold me, my love — I know the answer now, O wayward, ever
wandering
feet of man— Always the journey ends where it began !
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Where
its fine column rises above the forest, like an ensign, some human
life has planted itself,--and such is the
beginning
of Rome, the
establishment of the arts, and the foundation of empires, whether on
the prairies of America or the steppes of Asia.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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"Stout be the heart, nor slow
The foot to follow the
impetuous
will,
Nor the hand slack upon the loom of deeds.
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Sappho |
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- What have you done, O you there
Who
endlessly
cry,
Say: what have you done, there
With youth gone by?
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Everything, doubtless, O best of
parents!
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Tacitus |
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[Till they had drawn the Spectre quite away from Enion]
And drawing in the
Spectrous
life in pride and haughty joy
Thus Enion gave them all her spectrous life in dark despair.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Yet I feel that I shall stand
Henceforward
in thy shadow.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Nous
dorerons
ton Louvre en donnant nos gros sous!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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But
presently
the Thing began
To shiver and to sneeze:
On which I said "Come, come, my man!
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Lewis Carroll |
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But I would
comprehend
Thee
As the wide Earth unfolds Thee.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Terrified
& drinking tears of woe
Shuddring she wove--nine days & nights Sleepless her food was tears
Wondring she saw her woof begin to animate.
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Blake - Zoas |
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With slow
reluctant
feet and weary eyes Kore And eyelids heavy with the coming sleep,
With small breasts lifted up in stress of sighs,
She passed as shadows pass amid the sheep
While the earth dreamed and only I was ware Of that faint fragrance blown from her soft hair.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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_Scandal_
She hastens out and
scarcely
pins her clothes
To hear the news and tell the news she knows;
She talks of sluts, marks each unmended gown,
Her self the dirtiest slut in all the town.
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John Clare |
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Instructed that true knowledge leads to love,
True dignity abides with him alone
Who, in the silent hour of inward thought,
Can still suspect, and still revere himself,
In
lowliness
of heart.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Whither dost thou loiter, by what murmuring hollows,
Where
oleanders
scatter their ambrosial fire?
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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In their reaction to Nature men
appear to me for the most part,
notwithstanding
their arts, lower than
the animals.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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See, Lovers, how I'm treated, in what ways
I die of cold through summer's
scorching
days:
Of heat, in the depths of icy weather.
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Ronsard |
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"
CORYDON
"This
bristling
boar's head, Delian Maid, to thee,
With branching antlers of a sprightly stag,
Young Micon offers: if his luck but hold,
Full-length in polished marble, ankle-bound
With purple buskin, shall thy statue stand.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Les Amours de Cassandre: XCIV
Whether her golden hair curls languidly,
Or whether it swims by, in two flowing waves
That over her breasts wander there, and stray,
And across her neck float playfully:
Whether a knot, ornamented richly,
With many a ruby, many a rounded pearl,
Ties the stream of her
rippling
curls,
My heart delights itself, contentedly.
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Ronsard |
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Come, fill the Cup, and in the Fire of Spring
The Winter Garment of
Repentance
fling:
The Bird of Time has but a little way
To fly--and Lo!
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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But thou, Catullus, remain
hardened
as steel.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Par la lune d'ete
vaguement
eclairee,
Debout, nue, et revant dans sa paleur doree
Que tache le flot lourd de ses longs cheveux bleus,
Dans la clairiere sombre ou la mousse s'etoile,
La Dryade regarde au ciel silencieux.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Any alternate format must include the
full Project Gutenberg-tm License as
specified
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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generally
flies from me; but the third is
my plague, worse than the ten plagues of Egypt.
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Robert Burns |
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As soon as he saw our Daughter Dell,
In violent love that Crane King fell,--
On seeing her
waddling
form so fair,
With a wreath of shrimps in her short white hair.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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O genus infelix humanum, talia diuis
cum tribuit facta atque iras
adiunxit
acerbas!
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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5 Palace ladies sobbed on their red sleeves, 24 princes of the blood went in
commoners?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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"
It being remembered that there were six of us with Master Villon, when that expecting presently to be hanged he writ a ballad whereof ye know :
"
Frtres
humftins
qui aprls nous vivez" NK ye a skoal for the gallows tree !
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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THE PROBLEM
SHALL we conceal the Case, or tell it--
We who believe the
evidence?
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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You have waited, you always wait, you dumb, beautiful ministers,
We receive you with free sense at last, and are insatiate henceforward,
Not you any more shall be able to foil us, or withhold
yourselves
from us,
We use you, and do not cast you aside--we plant you permanently within us,
We fathom you not--we love you--there is perfection in you also,
You furnish your parts toward eternity,
Great or small, you furnish your parts toward the soul.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Week in, week out, from morn till night,
You can hear his bellows blow;
You can hear him swing his heavy sledge,
With
measured
beat and slow,
Like a sexton ringing the village bell,
When the evening sun is low.
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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At last I saw the
shadowed
bars,
Like a lattice wrought in lead,
Move right across the whitewashed wall
That faced my three-plank bed,
And I knew that somewhere in the world
God's dreadful dawn was red.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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A mighty man, that can and may,
Shulde with his honde and body alway
Winne him his food in laboring, 6575
If he ne have rent or sich a thing,
Although
he be religious,
And god to serven curious.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Latin mortal
dreadful
word,
Ibis, Nile's native bird.
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Appoloinaire |
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Neither the wife nor
daughter of the
Commandant
was in the room.
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Donations are
accepted
in a number of other
ways including checks, online payments and credit card donations.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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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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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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'To shelter
Rosamunde
from hate
borne her by the queen,
the king had a palace made
such as had ne'er been seen'.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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"
"An
engineer?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Et tout en promenant son petit doigt tremblant
Sur sa joue, un velours de peche rose et blanc,
En faisant, de sa levre enfantine, une moue,
Elle
arrangeait
les plats, pres de moi, pour m'aiser;
--Puis, comme ca,--bien sur pour avoir un baiser,--
Tout bas: <
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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