Les soirs
illumines
par l'ardeur du charbon,
Et les soirs au balcon, voiles de vapeurs roses;
Que ton sein m'etait doux!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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In a set
Garden beside a
channelled
rivulet,
Culling a myrtle garland for his brow,
He walked: but hailed us as we passed: "How now,
Strangers!
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Euripides - Electra |
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"Good day, Maximitch," said I, "is it long since you left
Belogorsk?
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Or possibly (fantastic, I confess)
It may be Prester John's balloon
Or an old battered lantern hung aloft
To light poor
travellers
to their distress.
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T.S. Eliot |
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The lasses, skelpin barefit, thrang,
In silks an'
scarlets
glitter;
Wi' sweet-milk cheese, in mony a whang,
An' farls, bak'd wi' butter,
Fu' crump that day.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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I shall want your
fist in an
enterprise
I am preparing.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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ATHANASIUS
MIKAILOVICH PUSHKIN, friend of Prince Shuisky.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement
violates
the
law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be
interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by
the applicable state law.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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He could not forget, or forgive what he called her
infidelity
to
the memory of his father.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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If you
received the work on a
physical
medium, you must return the medium with
your written explanation.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Blind Chance, let her snapper and stoyte on her way;
Be't to me, be't frae me, e'en let the jade gae:
Come Ease, or come Travail, come
Pleasure
or Pain,
My warst word is: "Welcome, and welcome again!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Devise some ingenious method to secure the much-needed
salvation of Athens; but let neither your acts nor your words recall
anything of the past, for 'tis only
innovations
that please.
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Aristophanes |
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Strange sound it was, when the pale shadow spake;
For there was striving, in its piteous tongue,
To speak as when on earth it was awake,
And Isabella on its music hung:
Languor there was in it, and tremulous shake,
As in a palsied Druid's harp unstrung;
And through it moan'd a ghostly under-song,
Like hoarse night-gusts
sepulchral
briars among.
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Keats |
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Petrus Borel
The piano kissed by a
delicate
hand
Gleams distantly in rose-grey evening
While with a wingtips' weightless sound
A fine old tune, so fragile, charming
Roams discreetly, almost trembling,
Through the chamber She's long perfumed.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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For I have one I've chosen
Who gives me
strength
and joy.
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Troubador Verse |
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Yet let her retain me, as she please,
For my
suffering
is not so rare.
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Troubador Verse |
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Where'er the oak's thick branches stretch
A broader, browner shade,
Where'er the rude and moss-grown beech
O'er-canopies the glade,
Beside some water's rushy brink
With me the Muse shall sit, and think
(At ease reclined in rustic state)
How vain the ardour of the Crowd,
How low, how little, are the Proud,
How
indigent
the Great!
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Golden Treasury |
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How deadly like this sky, these fields, these treen,
To
trappings
of the tomb!
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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wherefore
did you blind
Yourself from his quick eyes?
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Keats - Lamia |
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Upon the refusal of
Achilles
to return to the army, the distress of
Agamemnon is described in the most lively manner.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Come to the radiant homes of the blest,
Where meadows like
fountain
in light are drest,
And the grottoes of verdure never decay,
And the glow of the August dies not away.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Think, in this batter'd Caravanserai
Whose Doorways are
alternate
Night and Day,
How Sultan after Sultan with his Pomp
Abode his Hour or two, and went his way.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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I shouldn't, if I were you, meet trouble half-way,
It is always best to take
everything
as it comes.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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'Tis sure no
pleasure
to be shot.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Joined to your fate, and in what ecstasy
I'd live
forgotten
by all of humanity!
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Racine - Phaedra |
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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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Wilde - Poems |
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There's never a moment's rest allowed:
Now here, now there, the
changing
breeze
Swings us, as it wishes, ceaselessly,
Beaks pricking us more than a cobbler's awl.
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Villon |
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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 PARAGRAPH 1.
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Tacitus |
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And how many women have been
victims of your
cruelty!
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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Here Hans Sachs, the cobbler-poet,
laureate
of the gentle craft,
Wisest of the Twelve Wise Masters, in huge folios sang and laughed.
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Longfellow |
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Is it not thus the
Phrygian
herdsman wound his way to Lacedaemon,
and carried Leda's Helen to the Trojan towns?
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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He turned on will-power to
increase
the load
And slow me down--and I abruptly slowed,
Like coming to a sudden railroad station.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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For the uninitiated I would also suggest reading a little about the Troubadours on Wikipedia, which leads the reader on to a vast amount of
interesting
material online, especially the music.
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Troubador Verse |
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some we loved, the
loveliest
and the best
That Time and Fate of all their Vintage prest,
Have drunk their Cup a Round or two before,
And one by one crept silently to Rest.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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We tore the tarry rope to shreds
With blunt and bleeding nails;
We rubbed the doors, and scrubbed the floors,
And cleaned the shining rails:
And, rank by rank, we soaped the plank,
And
clattered
with the pails.
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Wilde - Poems |
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The Foundation is committed to
complying
with the laws regulating
charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United
States.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Innocent of your misfortune, or culpable,
To save you still, of what would I not be
capable?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Thus hope of flight were futile from that hall,
Where chiefest guest was most
enslaved
of all!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Then mine own
hand reared an empty tomb on the
Rhoetean
shore, mine own voice thrice
called aloud upon thy ghost.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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[For] the
temprure
of the mortere
Was maad of licour wonder dere;
Of quikke lyme persant and egre,
The which was tempred with vinegre.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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LXI
But
fiercely
ran the current,
Swollen high by months of rain:
And fast his blood was flowing;
And he was sore in pain,
And heavy with his armor,
And spent with changing blows:
And oft they thought him sinking,
But still again he rose.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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performing, copying or
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any Project Gutenberg-tm works
unless you comply with paragraph 1.
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Rilke - Poems |
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For sin against the
eleventh
commandment.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Macdonald of Glengary to
the wilds of Canada, in search of that
fantastic
thing--Liberty.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Criseyde
also, right in the same wyse,
Of Troilus gan in hir herte shette
His worthinesse, his lust, his dedes wyse, 1550
His gentilesse, and how she with him mette,
Thonkinge love he so wel hir bisette;
Desyring eft to have hir herte dere
In swich a plyt, she dorste make him chere.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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But this no time our vigour to display;
Nor suit, with them, the games of this sad day:
Lost is
Patroclus
now, that wont to deck
Their flowing manes, and sleek their glossy neck.
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Iliad - Pope |
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CRANMER _enters
between_
SOTO _and_
VILLA GARCIA, _and the whole Choir strike up_ 'Nunc Dimittis.
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Tennyson |
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For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project
Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of
volunteer
support.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Nay, the wild rocks and woods then voiced the roar
Of Afric lions
mourning
for thy death.
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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"Desire from joy gains
strength
in weightier measure.
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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The origin of Crowland was
in a
hermitage
founded in the 7th century by St.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Scarce heard, their chattering lips her
shoulder
chill,
And her cold back their colder bosoms thrill;
All blind she wilders o'er the lightless heath,
Led by Fear's cold wet hand, and dogg'd by Death;
Death, as she turns her neck the kiss to seek,
Breaks off the dreadful kiss with angry shriek.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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When the living leave us, moved, I gaze,
For to enter death, is
entering
the temple;
And when a man dies, and goes his way,
I see my own ascent, clear, like crystal.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Yet even they are but a making ready
For what I
perfectly
intend: in them
Joy of self-bound desire hath burnt itself
To extreme purity; I am free thereby
To work my meaning through them, my divinity.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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If you
received the work on a
physical
medium, you must return the medium with
your written explanation.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
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those less
imperious
voices, hands
Not half so cruel as thine, those earthlier forms!
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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_at their best
Sweetnesse
and wit, they'are but Mummy, possest.
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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Use well the
precious
time, it flips away so,
Yet method gains you time, if I may say so.
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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A SONG OF THE VIRGIN MOTHER In "Los
Pastores
de Belen.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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But the robin might have said,
"To the
farthest
West he has followed the sun,
His life and his empire just begun.
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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IV
But soon, returning duly,
Dawn whitens the wet
hilltops
bluely.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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In the eulogy pronounced over his body
all the great exploits of his
ancestors
were doubtless recounted
and exaggerated.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Everybody remembers Horace's characterization of Vergil:
molle atque facetum
Vergilio
annuerunt gaudentes rure Camenae.
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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LAUD:
And weak
expedients
they!
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| Source: |
Shelley |
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Isis was the Egyptian mother goddess (Cybele was her
equivalent
in Asia Minor): consort of Osiris she bore the child Horus-Harpocrates, the new sun (De Nerval's image here for the Christ-Child).
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Thou stirrest earthquake in the South,
And
maelstrom
in the sea;
Say, Jesus Christ of Nazareth,
Hast thou no arm for me?
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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"
(Thus)
Gilgamish
solves (his) dream.
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Portraits are to daily faces
As an evening west
To a fine,
pedantic
sunshine
In a satin vest.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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[sh]
Mark, how the channels of her yellow blood
Ooze to her skin, and stagnate there to mud,
Cased like the centipede in saffron mail,
Or darker
greenness
of the scorpion's scale--[si]
(For drawn from reptiles only may we trace
Congenial colours in that soul or face)-- 70
Look on her features!
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| Source: |
Byron |
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All the earthly goods that be,
Fortune, glory, war's renown,
King or kaiser's sparkling crown,
Victory!
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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Sam: So let her go, God sent her to debase me,
And aggravate my folly who
committed
1000
To such a viper his most sacred trust
Of secresie, my safety, and my life.
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Milton |
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thinks this an allusion to the widespread
superstition
of the
evil eye (_mal occhio, mauvais ǣil_).
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Beowulf |
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When now
Sarpedon
his brave friends beheld
Grovelling in dust, and gasping on the field,
With this reproach his flying host he warms:
"Oh stain to honour!
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Iliad - Pope |
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And since I must repeat the whole story,
Here now is what he hastened to tell me:
'She's dutiful, and both deserve her hand,
Both are of noble blood, loyal, valiant,
Young, yet it's clear to see in their eyes
The shining virtue of their ancient ties:
Don
Rodrigue
above all: in his visage,
Every trait reveals the heroic image,
His house so rich in soldiers of renown,
They seem born to wear the laurel crown.
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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I seem that which I am;
And therefore do I ask of thee, if thou
Wouldst be
immortal?
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| Source: |
Byron |
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Beautiful
eagle!
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Lear - Nonsense |
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namque (fatebor enim) quae maxima deterrendi
debuit,
hortandi
maxima causa fuit.
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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And in his heart kind
influences
shed
Of country's love, by truth and justice bred.
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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The wasps
flourish
greenly
Dawn goes by round her neck
A necklace of windows
You are all the solar joys
All the sun of this earth
On the roads of your beauty.
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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'Twas the Pyx, unharmed 'mid the circling rows
Of Blackmore's hairy throng,
Whereof were oxen, sheep, and does,
And hares from the brakes among;
And badgers grey, and conies keen,
And
squirrels
of the tree,
And many a member seldom seen
Of Nature's family.
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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e
difference
q{uo}d she.
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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Purgatorio
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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While the music fell and rose,
And the dance reeled to its close,
Where her round of costly woes
Fashion strolled,
I beheld with
shuddering
fear
Wolves' eyes through the windows peer;
Little dream they you are near,
Hunger and Cold!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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Then, placing in the hall
Three hearths that should
illumine
wide the house,
They compass'd them around with fuel-wood
Long-season'd and new-split, mingling the sticks
With torches.
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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Go, day by day, and waste thy manly prime
In mad love-yearning by the vacant brook,
Till sickly
thoughts
bewitch thine eyes, and thou
Behold'st her shadow still abiding there,
The Naiad of the mirror!
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
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And in this place the Lord Mayor,
Recorder, the Aldermen and
Justices
of the Peace for the County
of Middlesex do sit, and keep his Majesty's Sessions of Oyer and
Terminer.
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Mere scandal this; from truth I would nor swerve,
To please the fair: more credence I deserve;
Her husband only eight precursors had;
The fact was such;--I none
suppress
nor add.
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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Sixth Self: And I, the working self, the pitiful labourer, who,
with patient hands, and longing eyes, fashion the days into images
and give the formless
elements
new and eternal forms--it is I, the
solitary one, who would rebel against this restless madman.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Some of these have already been acted, but
some may not be acted for a long time, but all seem to me, though they
were but a part of a summer's work, to have more of that countenance of
country life than
anything
I have done since I was a boy.
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Yeats |
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Were it not that his art's glory, full of fire
Till the dark
communal
moment all of ash,
Returns as proud evening's glow lights the glass,
To the fires of the pure mortal sun!
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Mallarme - Poems |
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If you
do not charge anything for copies of this eBook,
complying
with the
rules is very easy.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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1921
CONRAD AIKEN
Earth Triumphant The
Macmillan
Company 1914
Turns and Movies Houghton Mifflin Co.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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The
invalidity
or unenforceability of any
provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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He has ears, and two eyes, and ten fingers,
Leastways
if you reckon two thumbs;
Long ago he was one of the singers,
But now he is one of the dumbs.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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I saw a
something
in the Sky
No bigger than my fist;
At first it seem'd a little speck
And then it seem'd a mist:
It mov'd and mov'd, and took at last
A certain shape, I wist.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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_ I have looked to all things needful, and will now
Receive reports of
progress
made in such
Orders as I had given, and then return
To hear your further pleasure.
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Byron |
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"
But none of my
neighbours
came to look upon my Joy, and great was
my astonishment.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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The
alliteration
in this sentence is Tacitus'.
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Tacitus |
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nam quis te maiora gerit
castrisue
foroue?
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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