Winter kept us warm, covering
Earth in
forgetful
snow, feeding
A little life with dried tubers.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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After the king's death as Merlin and Bleys walked out from the
castle walls into the dismal misty night, they saw a wonderful
fairy-ship shaped like a winged dragon sailing the heavens, with shining
people
collected
on its decks; but in the twinkling of an eye the ship
was gone.
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Tennyson |
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Come from deep glen, and
From
mountain
so rocky;
The war-pipe and pennon
Are at Inverlochy.
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Golden Treasury |
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Nor took from that
dwelling
the duke of the Geats
save only the head and that hilt withal
blazoned with jewels: the blade had melted,
burned was the bright sword, her blood was so hot,
so poisoned the hell-sprite who perished within there.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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I think I once mentioned something to you of a
collection
of Scots
songs I have for some years been making: I send you a perusal of what
I have got together.
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Robert Forst |
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150
Then I'll know who to thank, she said, and give me a
straight
look.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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The star grew pale and hid her face
In a bit of
floating
cloud like lace.
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Sara Teasdale |
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If you are redistributing or providing access to a work
with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or
appearing
on the
work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Short life and bitter
nuptials
should be theirs.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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You've stolen away that great power
My beauty
ordained
for me
Over priests and clerks, my hour,
When never a man I'd see
Would fail to offer his all in fee,
Whatever remorse he'd later show,
But what was abandoned readily,
Beggars now scorn to know.
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Villon |
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XXIV
Up then, up dreary Dame, of
darknesse
Queene,
Go gather up the reliques of thy race,
Or else goe them avenge, and let be seene, 210
That dreaded Night in brightest day hath place,
And can the children of faire light deface.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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But not in silence pass Calypso's isles,
The sister tenants of the middle deep;
There for the weary still a haven smiles,
Though the fair goddess long has ceased to weep,
And o'er her cliffs a
fruitless
watch to keep
For him who dared prefer a mortal bride:
Here, too, his boy essayed the dreadful leap
Stern Mentor urged from high to yonder tide;
While thus of both bereft, the nymph-queen doubly sighed.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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e wowes,
Vnder
couertour
ful clere, cortyned aboute;
& as in slomeryng he slode, sle3ly he herde
[C] A littel dyn at his dor, & derfly vpon;
1184 & he heue3 vp his hed out of ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Fore all the rest, 'twas voted by the Franks
That Guenes die with
marvellous
great pangs;
So to lead forth four stallions they bade;
After, they bound his feet and both his hands;
Those steeds were swift, and of a temper mad;
Which, by their heads, led forward four sejeants
Towards a stream that flowed amid that land.
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Chanson de Roland |
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His hat
slouched
down, and great coat buttoned close
Bellied like hooped keg, and chuffy face
Red as the morning sun, he takes his round
And talks of stock: and when his jobs are done
And Dobbin's hay is eaten from the rack,
He drinks success to corn in language hoarse,
And claps old Dobbin's hide, and potters back.
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree
If mankind
perished
utterly;
And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn,
Would scarcely know that we were gone.
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Sara Teasdale |
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We do not solicit donations in locations
where we have not
received
written confirmation of compliance.
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Yeats |
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_ You think rightly; but if you cannot assent to my
conclusion you ought to show that the premises are false, or that
the
consequences
are unfairly deduced; for if the premises be
granted, you cannot reject the inferences from them.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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THE
REJECTED
WIFE
By Yuan-ti (508-554).
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Healest thy
wandering
and distempered child:
Thou pourest on him thy soft influences,
Thy sunny hues, fair forms, and breathing sweets,
Thy melodies of woods, and winds, and waters,
Till he relent, and can no more endure
To be a jarring and a dissonant thing,
Amid this general dance and minstrelsy;
But, bursting into tears, wins back his way,
His angry spirit healed and harmonized
By the benignant touch of love and beauty.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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FINIS
Joachim du Bellay
'Joachim du Bellay'
Science and literature in the Middle Ages and the
Renaissance
- P.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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And in the blast there smote along the hall
A beam of light seven times more clear than day:
And down the long beam stole the Holy Grail
All over covered with a
luminous
cloud.
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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Was this, Romans, your harsh destiny,
Or some old sin, with discordant mutiny,
Working on you its eternal
vengeance?
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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"
"Fill thy hand with sands, ray
blossom!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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We Have Created the Night
We have created the night I hold your hand I watch
I sustain you with all my powers
I engrave in rock the star of your powers
Deep furrows where your body's goodness fruits
I recall your hidden voice your public voice
I smile still at the proud woman
You treat like a beggar
The madness you respect the
simplicity
you bathe in
And in my head which gently blends with yours with the night
I wonder at the stranger you become
A stranger resembling you resembling everything I love
One that is always new.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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'"
If he
astounded
them at first, much more so did he after this speech,
and fear held them all silent.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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N'es-tu pas l'oasis ou je reve, et la gourde
Ou je hume a longs traits le vin du
souvenir?
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Time will go by, and pass the
appointed
day;
Tidings of us no Frank will hear or say.
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Chanson de Roland |
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The son of
God, therefore, was
vanquished
by the devil; and being punished by him,
teaches us also to despise the punishments inflicted by him; Christ at
the same time predicting that Satan would appear on
{28}
the earth, and, like himself, would exhibit great and admirable works,
usurping to himself the glory of God.
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Tacitus |
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--my
thoughts
do twine and bud
XXX I see thine image through my tears to-night
XXXI Thou comest!
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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In the case of the
present author, there was
absolutely
no choice in the matter; she
must write thus, or not at all.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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"
I
straight
obey'd; and with mine eye return'd
Through all the seven spheres, and saw this globe
So pitiful of semblance, that perforce
It moved my smiles: and him in truth I hold
For wisest, who esteems it least: whose thoughts
Elsewhere are fix'd, him worthiest call and best.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Or if he left his arrows sharp
And came a
minstrel
weary,
I'd never tell him by his harp
Nor know him for my dearie.
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Sara Teasdale |
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had I deem'd my sighs, in numbers rung,
Could e'er have gain'd the world's approving smile,
I had awoke my rhymes in choicer style,
My sorrow's birth more tunefully had sung:
But she is gone whose inspiration hung
On all my words, and did my
thoughts
beguile;
My numbers harsh seem'd melody awhile,
Now she is mute who o'er them music flung.
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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Some states do not allow
disclaimers
of certain implied
warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of
damages.
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| Question: |
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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No more the thundering memory of the fight
Wrapped his weaned bosom in its dark delight;
No more the irksome restlessness of Rest
Disturbed
him like the eagle in her nest,
Whose whetted beak[389] and far-pervading eye 310
Darts for a victim over all the sky:
His heart was tamed to that voluptuous state,
At once Elysian and effeminate,
Which leaves no laurels o'er the Hero's urn;--
These wither when for aught save blood they burn;
Yet when their ashes in their nook are laid,
Doth not the myrtle leave as sweet a shade?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
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On the bow stood Bishop Sigurd,
In his robes, as one transfigured,
And the
Crucifix
he planted
High amid the rain and mist.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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SAS Note further that in Night One, page 9, Blake had
inserted
"Night the Second", even though the end of the First Night One is indicated on page 22.
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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"
"We may conjecture," says Canon Rawlinson, "that the monument was in
reality a stele containing the king [Sennacherib] in an arched frame,
with the right hand raised above the left, which is the ordinary
attitude, and an inscription commemorating the occasion of its erection"
[the
conquest
of Cilicia and settlement of Tarsus].
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| Source: |
Byron |
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or
filename
24689 would be found at:
http://www.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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From my memory
With nothing of language but
O dreamer, that I may dive
All at once, as if in play,
Not meaningless flurries like
Any solitude
When the shadow with fatal law menaced me
The virginal, living and lovely day
Victoriously the grand suicide fled
Her pure nails on high dedicating their onyx,
- 'Over the lost woods when dark winter lowers
To the sole task of voyaging
All summarised, the soul,
What silk of time's sweet balm
To introduce myself to your story
Crushed by the
overwhelming
cloud
My books closed again on Paphos' name,
My soul, towards your brow where O calm sister,
Each Dawn however numb
She slept: her finger trembled, amethyst-less
Frigid roses to last
O so dear from far and near and white all
Mery,
Since Maria left me to go to another star - which one, Orion, Altair - or you
The flesh is sad, alas!
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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278
The 34 first lines of this poem are extant upon another of the
vellum-fragments, given by
Chatterton
to Mr.
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Ah, my
darling!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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For I have taught
That this their number is innumerable
And
infinite
the sum of the Abyss,
And I have shown with what stupendous speed
Those bodies fly and how they're wont to pass
Amain through incommunicable space.
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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Phaedra
I hear that a swift
departure
takes you far
From us, my Lord.
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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3
Distressed
that I don?
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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Copyright laws in most countries are in
a
constant
state of change.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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All good
thoughts
be near,
For thee to speak and me to understand!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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About Google Book Search
Google's mission is to organize the world's
information
and to make it universally accessible and useful.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Are those really
Congressmen?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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The time is now propitious, as he guesses,
The meal is ended, she is bored and tired,
Endeavours
to engage her in caresses
Which still are unreproved, if undesired.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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O
ruthless
Death!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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consilia
nullus mente tam pura dedit
uel altiore conditu texit data.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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For while they all were
travelling
home,
Cried Betty, "Tell us, Johnny, do,
Where all this long night you have been,
What you have heard, what you have seen: 440
And, Johnny, mind you tell us true.
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
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He spake, nor she was loth, but bedward too
Like him inclined; so then, to bed they went,
And as they lay'd them down, down stream'd the net
Around them, labour
exquisite
of hands
By ingenuity divine inform'd.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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Public domain books are our gateways to the past, representing a wealth of history, culture and knowledge that's often
difficult
to discover.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
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The Warders strutted up and down,
And kept their herd of brutes,
Their uniforms were spick and span,
And they wore their Sunday suits,
But we knew the work they had been at,
By the
quicklime
on their boots.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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How sweet the
soothing
calm that smoothly stills
Oer the heart's every sense its opiate dews,
In meek-eyed moods and ever balmy trills!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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Footsteps
shuffled on the stair.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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"
DAMOETAS
"You, picking flowers and
strawberries
that grow
So near the ground, fly hence, boys, get you gone!
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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She's coming, and must not be seen by the
neighbor!
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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She hath no scorn of common things,
And, though she seem of other birth,
Round us her heart intwines and clings,
And
patiently
she folds her wings
To tread the humble paths of earth.
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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15
The pure contralto sings in the organ loft,
The carpenter dresses his plank, the tongue of his foreplane
whistles its wild ascending lisp,
The married and unmarried children ride home to their Thanksgiving dinner,
The pilot seizes the king-pin, he heaves down with a strong arm,
The mate stands braced in the whale-boat, lance and harpoon are ready,
The duck-shooter walks by silent and cautious stretches,
The deacons are ordain'd with cross'd hands at the altar,
The spinning-girl retreats and advances to the hum of the big wheel,
The farmer stops by the bars as he walks on a First-day loafe and
looks at the oats and rye,
The lunatic is carried at last to the asylum a confirm'd case,
(He will never sleep any more as he did in the cot in his mother's
bed-room;)
The jour printer with gray head and gaunt jaws works at his case,
He turns his quid of tobacco while his eyes blurr with the manuscript;
The malform'd limbs are tied to the surgeon's table,
What is removed drops horribly in a pail;
The quadroon girl is sold at the auction-stand, the drunkard nods by
the bar-room stove,
The machinist rolls up his sleeves, the policeman travels his beat,
the gate-keeper marks who pass,
The young fellow drives the express-wagon, (I love him, though I do
not know him;)
The half-breed straps on his light boots to compete in the race,
The western turkey-shooting draws old and young, some lean on their
rifles, some sit on logs,
Out from the crowd steps the marksman, takes his position, levels his piece;
The groups of newly-come immigrants cover the wharf or levee,
As the woolly-pates hoe in the sugar-field, the overseer views them
from his saddle,
The bugle calls in the ball-room, the gentlemen run for their
partners, the dancers bow to each other,
The youth lies awake in the cedar-roof'd garret and harks to the
musical rain,
The Wolverine sets traps on the creek that helps fill the Huron,
The squaw wrapt in her yellow-hemm'd cloth is offering moccasins and
bead-bags for sale,
The
connoisseur
peers along the exhibition-gallery with half-shut
eyes bent sideways,
As the deck-hands make fast the steamboat the plank is thrown for
the shore-going passengers,
The young sister holds out the skein while the elder sister winds it
off in a ball, and stops now and then for the knots,
The one-year wife is recovering and happy having a week ago borne
her first child,
The clean-hair'd Yankee girl works with her sewing-machine or in the
factory or mill,
The paving-man leans on his two-handed rammer, the reporter's lead
flies swiftly over the note-book, the sign-painter is lettering
with blue and gold,
The canal boy trots on the tow-path, the book-keeper counts at his
desk, the shoemaker waxes his thread,
The conductor beats time for the band and all the performers follow him,
The child is baptized, the convert is making his first professions,
The regatta is spread on the bay, the race is begun, (how the white
sails sparkle!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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"Charlie, what do you suppose are
Skroelings?
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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I burned
Hot and cold, in a lasting fever, well-earned
By the mortal wound of your glance's
piercing
flight.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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ei
preceden
euere ner & nerre,
fforto comen to ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Julian's Prayer
The Countryman Who Sought His Calf
Hans Carvel's Ring
The Hermit
The Convent Gardener of Lamporechio
The Mandrake
The Rhemese
The Amorous Courtesan
Nicaise
The
Progress
of Wit
The Sick Abbess
The Truckers
The Case of Conscience
The Devil of Pope-fig Island
Feronde
The Psalter
King Candaules and the Doctor of Laws
The Devil in Hell
Neighbour Peter's Mare
The Spectacles
The Bucking Tub
The Impossible Thing
The Picture
The Pack-Saddle
The Ear-maker, and the Mould-mender
The River Scamander
The Confidant Without Knowing It, or the
Stratagem
The Clyster
The Indiscreet Confession
The Contract
The Quid Pro Quo, or the Mistakes
The Dress-maker
The Gascon
The Pitcher
To Promise is One Thing, to Keep It, Another
The Nightingale
Epitaph of La Fontaine
LIFE OF
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE
Jean de La Fontaine was born on the 8th of July, 1621, at
Chateau-Thierry, and his family held a respectable position there.
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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[[pope crosst
through]]
com, & ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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And Berni, with a hand
stretched
out
To sleek that storm.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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The noble authors, probably
well aware how they could give the most pain, proceeded to attack his
family and his
distorted
person.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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Jealously
she seeks me out, sweet secret love to expose.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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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
written explanation to the person you received the work from.
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_fancied green_:
cherished
garden.
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Golden Treasury |
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The flames of the Dog Days keep
Far from your green steep,
Because your shade around
Is always close and deep,
For the shepherds
changing
ground,
The weary oxen, the sheep,
And the cattle that wander round.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Mechul honur
schaltou
haue,
& alle ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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That roused the coward, glory to
embrace!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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For now no more the gods with fate contend,
At Juno's suit the heavenly
factions
end.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Allow him but his
plaything
of a pen,
He ne'er rebels, or plots, like other men:
Flight of cashiers, or mobs, he'll never mind;
And knows no losses while the Muse is kind.
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They lived by the side of the great Lake
Pipple-Popple (one of the seven families, indeed, lived _in_ the lake), and
on the
outskirts
of the city of Tosh, which, excepting when it was quite
dark, they could see plainly.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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You've stolen away that great power
My beauty ordained for me
Over priests and clerks, my hour,
When never a man I'd see
Would fail to offer his all in fee,
Whatever remorse he'd later show,
But what was
abandoned
readily,
Beggars now scorn to know.
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Villon |
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Grant, if thou wilt, thou art belov'd of many,
But that thou none lov'st is most evident:
For thou art so possess'd with murderous hate,
That 'gainst thy self thou stick'st not to conspire,
Seeking that
beauteous
roof to ruinate
Which to repair should be thy chief desire.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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The
preparations
have every one been justified,
The orchestra have sufficiently tuned their instruments--the baton has
given the signal.
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Whitman |
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I see what is coming,
I see the high pioneer-caps, see staves of runners clearing the way,
I hear
victorious
drums.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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[Illustration]
There was an old person of Brill,
Who
purchased
a shirt with a frill;
But they said, "Don't you wish, you mayn't look like a fish,
You obsequious old person of Brill?
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Lear - Nonsense |
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An
imitation
of the opening lines of Vergil's
_Aeneid_:--
"Ille ego, qui quondam gracili modulatus avena
Carmen,.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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at tresoure,
And
foloweden
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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27 _fines_ T:
_signes_
Palmer || _conubia_ T: _conn.
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Latin - Catullus |
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Guillaume
Apollinaire
(1880-1918)
Guillaume Apollinaire
'Guillaume Apollinaire'
Guillaume Apollinaire - Wybor Poezji", Zak?
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Oh, of course she charged her lacqueys to bear out the sickly burden,
And to cast it from her scornful sight, but not
_beyond_
the gate;
She is too kind to be cruel, and too haughty not to pardon
Such a man as I; 't were something to be level to her hate.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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O ciel, nel cui girar par che si creda
le
condizion
di qua giu trasmutarsi,
quando verra per cui questa disceda?
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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He ate and drank the
precious
words,
His spirit grew robust;
He knew no more that he was poor,
Nor that his frame was dust.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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When Lil's husband got demobbed, I said--
I didn't mince my words, I said to her myself, 140
HURRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME
Now Albert's coming back, make
yourself
a bit smart.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Now rushing fierce, in equal arms appear
The daring Greek, the
dreadful
god of war!
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Iliad - Pope |
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-i was accused of
breaking the law, Li Po had come to his
assistance
and had him released.
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Li Po |
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Yet neither scorn nor hate did it devise,
But sad
compassion
and atoning zeal!
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Those fruits, nor winter's cold nor summer's heat 140
Fear ever, fail not, wither not, but hang
Perennial, whose
unceasing
zephyr breathes
Gently on all, enlarging these, and those
Maturing genial; in an endless course
Pears after pears to full dimensions swell,
Figs follow figs, grapes clust'ring grow again
Where clusters grew, and (ev'ry apple stript)
The boughs soon tempt the gath'rer as before.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Carjat
qui se trouvait en face ou tout comme, la lame
degainee
qui ne fit pas
heureusement de tres grands ravages, puisque le sympathique ex-directeur
du _Boulevard_ ne recut, si j'en crois ma memoire qui est excellente
dans ce cas, qu'une eraflure tres legere a une main.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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He has left us no penetrating
criticisms
of Byron, of Shelley, or of Keats;
and in a very interesting letter about Blake, written in 1818, he is unable
to take the poems merely as poems, and chooses among them with a scrupulous
care "not for the want of innocence in the poem, but from the too probable
want of it in many readers.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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We here have found
hosts to our heart: thou hast
harbored
us well.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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