And thus we see
Creatures in many a wise crooked and ugly
The prosperous
sweethearts
in a high esteem;
And lovers gird each other and advise
To placate Venus, since their friends are smit
With a base passion--miserable dupes
Who seldom mark their own worst bane of all.
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Lucretius |
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_Qui dove mezzo son,
Sennuccio
mio.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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LXXX
"He of his vassals is so held in dread,
There is no man who dares to lift his eyes:
The women with the meaner sort are fled,
And
whosoever
can, the temple flies.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Hold, and smite me not,
Old
housefolk
of my father!
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Euripides - Electra |
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And if my voice break forth, 'tis not that now
I shrink from what is suffered: let him speak
Who hath beheld decline upon my brow,
Or seen my mind's
convulsion
leave it weak;
But in this page a record will I seek.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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HE, to the doctor, ev'ry matter told
Discretion
in a Frenchman would be cold;
'Tis out of nature, and bespeaks the cit;
Smells strong of shop, and would not fashion fit.
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La Fontaine |
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the fifty years since last we met
Seem to me fifty folios bound and set
By Time, the great transcriber, on his shelves,
Wherein are written the
histories
of ourselves.
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Longfellow |
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John Donne |
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141 _at quia_ CAD: _atque_ GORVenBh Laurentiani: _atqui_ p ||
_componier_
Calp.
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Latin - Catullus |
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" And from hence it proceeds, that, to the no small
scandal and disreputation of our church, a great arca-
num of their state hath been discovered and
divulged
;
that, albeit wit be not inconsistent and incompatible
with a clergyman, yet neither is it inseparable from
them.
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Marvell - Poems |
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The
Governor
was strong upon
The Regulations Act:
The Doctor said that Death was but
A scientific fact:
And twice a day the Chaplain called,
And left a little tract.
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Wilde - Poems |
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But there is two hard things- that
is, to bring the
moonlight
into a chamber; for, you know, Pyramus
and Thisby meet by moonlight.
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Shakespeare |
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The boys are up the woods with day
To fetch the
daffodils
away,
And home at noonday from the hills
They bring no dearth of daffodils.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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At strife appear the lawns and purpled skies,
Which from each other stole the beauteous dyes:[581]
The lawn in all Aurora's lustre glows,
Aurora steals the blushes of the rose,
The rose
displays
the blushes that adorn
The spotless virgin on the nuptial morn.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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"
— Current Opinion,
New York
"Each
contribution
is a gem.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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"
But
O O O O that
Shakespeherian
Rag--
It's so elegant
So intelligent 130
"What shall I do now?
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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and an
inarticulate
cry rises from there that seems the voice of light.
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Appoloinaire |
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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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90
The goddes, who kenned the actyons of the wyghte,
To leggen[49] the sadde happe of twayne so fayre,
Houton[50] dyd make the
mountaine
bie theire mighte.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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What deadly poison
Has spread through his whole house with this
passion!
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Racine - Phaedra |
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XXXIX
His cruell step-dame seeing what was donne,
Her wicked dayes with wretched knife did end,
In death avowing th'
innocence
of her sonne, 345
Which hearing, his rash Syre began to rend
His haire, and hastie tongue that did offend.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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>>
Plonge tes yeux dans les yeux fixes
Des
Satyresses
ou des Nixes,
La Dent dit: << Pense a ton devoir!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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As with one half blind
Whom common simples cure, her act flashed home
In that mute moment to my opened mind
The power, the pride, the reach of
perished
Rome.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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As it is a great point of art, when
our matter
requires
it, to enlarge and veer out all sail, so to take it
in and contract it, is of no less praise, when the argument doth ask it.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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"
So strong a regard for
Petrarch
is rooted in the mind of Italy, that his
renown has grown up like an oak which has reached maturity amidst the
storms of ages, and fears not decay from revolving centuries.
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Petrarch |
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How few of the others,
Are men
equipped
with common sense.
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Villon |
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Her face is fair, her heart is true;
As
spotless
as she's bonie, O:
The op'ning gowan, wat wi' dew,
Nae purer is than Nanie, O.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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ELECTRONIC
AND MACHINE READABLE COPIES MAY BE
DISTRIBUTED SO LONG AS SUCH COPIES (1) ARE FOR YOUR OR OTHERS
PERSONAL USE ONLY, AND (2) ARE NOT DISTRIBUTED OR USED
COMMERCIALLY.
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Shakespeare |
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Nearly all the
individual
works in the
collection are in the public domain in the United States.
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Rilke - Poems |
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And the dew on the grass and his own cold tears
Were one in brooding mystery,
Though death's loud thunder came upon him,
Though death's loud thunder struck him down--
The boughs and the proud
thoughts
swept through the thunder,
Till he saw our wide nation, each State a flower,
Each petal a park for holy feet,
With wild fawns merry on every street,
With wild fawns merry on every street,
The vista of ten thousand years, flower-lighted and complete.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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The Hippopotamus
The big-bellied hippopotamus
Inhabits the jungles of Java,
Where in the depths of each lair, cuss
More
monsters
than haunt the dreamer.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Sleepily lull the wasps in the noon-day song,
And through the meagre shelter of the blades
Upon his
sunburnt
forehead slowly trickle
The poppy-petals: large red drops of blood.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Rising from unrest,
The
trembling
woman presse
With feet of weary woe;
She could no further go.
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blake-poems |
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225
XXVI
To thee, most mighty king of Eden faire,
Her greeting sends in these sad lines addrest,
The wofull daughter, and forsaken heire
Of that great Emperour of all the West;
And bids thee be advized for the best, 230
Ere thou thy daughter linck in holy band
Of wedlocke to that new unknowen guest:
For he already
plighted
his right hand
Unto another love, and to another land.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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If a foe have kenn'd,
Or worse than foe, an
alienated
friend,
A rib of dry rot in thy ship's stout side,
Think it God's message, and in humble pride
With heart of oak replace it;--thine the gains--
Give him the rotten timber for his pains!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Shall I be tempted to
infringe
my vow
In the same time 'tis made?
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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"And must we then part from a
dwelling
so fair?
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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See
_Paradise
Lost_, i.
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Keats |
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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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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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LXVI
It stands in the Comitium
Plain for all folk to see;
Horatius in his harness,
Halting upon one knee:
And underneath is written,
In letters all of gold,
How
valiantly
he kept the bridge
In the brave days of old.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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The
shutters
were drawn and the undertaker wiped his feet--
He was aware that this sort of thing had occurred before.
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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She trembleth as the days advance
Who used to be so light of heart:--
We in thy
trembling
bear a part,
Sister France!
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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That Burns was numbered among the republicans of
Dumfries
I well
remember: but then those who held different sentiments from the men in
power, were all, in that loyal town, stigmatized as democrats: that he
either desired to see the constitution changed, or his country invaded
by the liberal French, who proposed to set us free with the bayonet,
and then admit us to the "fraternal embrace," no one ever believed.
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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Le Testament: Rondeau
Death, I cry out at your harshness,
That stole my girl away from me,
Yet you're not
satisfied
I see
Until I languish in distress.
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| Source: |
Villon |
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when crafty eyes thy reason
With sorceries sudden seek to move,
And when in Night's
mysterious
season
Lips cling to thine, but not in love--
From proving then, dear youth, a booty
To those who falsely would trepan
From new heart wounds, and lapse from duty,
Protect thee shall my Talisman.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Wipe your hand across your mouth, and laugh;
The worlds revolve like ancient women
Gathering
fuel in vacant lots.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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If, Phidyle, your hands you lift
To heaven, as each new moon is born,
Soothing
your Lares with the gift
Of slaughter'd swine, and spice, and corn,
Ne'er shall Scirocco's bane assail
Your vines, nor mildew blast your wheat,
Ne'er shall your tender younglings fail
In autumn, when the fruits are sweet.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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The reminiscence comes
Of sunless dry geraniums
And dust in crevices,
Smells of chestnuts in the streets
And female smells in shuttered rooms
And cigarettes in corridors
And
cocktail
smells in bars.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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What words to
yourselves
do you mutter thus low,
Of "blood" and "an intriguer"?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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But since within this body even of ours
Stands fixed and appears arranged sure
Where soul and mind can each exist and grow,
Deny we must the more that they can have
Duration
and birth, wholly outside the frame.
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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It is not from the visible skies
Though they are still,
Unconscious
that their own dropped dews express
The light of heaven on every earthly hill.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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Oh strange how the ground with never a sound
Swings open, tier on tier,
And
standing
there in the shining air
Are the friends he cherished here.
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Why stand ye gazing round the dreadful plain,
Prepared
for flight, but doom'd to fly in vain?
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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What hand doth guide these hapless
creatures
small
To sweet seeds that the withered grasses hold?
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
|
And so many
children
poor?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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A bird, by chance, that goes that way
Soft
overheard
the whole.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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_ Another of the conditions of the
vision was
evidently
silence.
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| Source: |
Keats |
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<< Je sais que la douleur est la noblesse unique
Ou ne
mordront
jamais la terre et les enfers,
Et qu'il faut pour tresser ma couronne mystique
Imposer tous les temps et tous les univers.
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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what you propose,
And let the morrow's dawn
conclude
my woes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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And now a gusty shower wraps
The grimy scraps
Of
withered
leaves about your feet
And newspapers from vacant lots;
The showers beat
On broken blinds and chimney-pots,
And at the corner of the street
A lonely cab-horse steams and stamps.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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A
[Illustration]
A was an Area Arch
Where
washerwomen
sat;
They made a lot of lovely starch
To starch Papa's Cravat.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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We forgot--we worshipped,
we parted green from green,
we sought further thickets,
we dipped our ankles
through leaf-mould and earth,
and wood and wood-bank
enchanted
us--
and the feel of the clefts in the bark,
and the slope between tree and tree--
and a slender path strung field to field
and wood to wood
and hill to hill
and the forest after it.
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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"
Alexander
Smith told Captain Beachey
(_Narrative of a Voyage to the Pacific_, 1831, Part I.
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Byron |
|
3, a full refund of any
money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the
electronic work is discovered and
reported
to you within 90 days
of receipt of the work.
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
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And, for the town even now fearfully aches
In scalding thirst, not five days had I granted,
Had it not been for
somewhat
I must say
Secretly to thee.
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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In those brave days our fathers stood firmly side by side;
They faced the Marcian fury; they tamed the Fabian pride:
They drove the fiercest Quinctius an outcast forth from Rome;
They sent the haughtiest
Claudius
with shivered fasces home.
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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I know not whether I am sitting on the
ruins of a wall, or on the
material
which is to compose a new one.
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
|
II
SIX weeks our guardsman walked the yard,
In the suit of shabby grey:
His cricket cap was on his head,
And his step seemed light and gay,
But I never saw a man who looked
So
wistfully
at the day.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
|
The impression left is one of a
pleasurable
sadness.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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We
scarcely
see the laurel-tree,
The crowd about us is all we see,
And there's no room in it for you and me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
|
O
darkness!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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Hood to see a roup of an unfortunate farmer's
stock--rigid economy, and decent industry, do you preserve me from
being the
principal
_dramatis persona_ in such a scene of horror.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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And there they stand, as stands a lofty mind,
Worn, but unstooping to the baser crowd,
All tenantless, save to the
crannying
wind,
Or holding dark communion with the cloud.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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"
O that
languishing
yawn!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose
such as
creation
of derivative works, reports, performances and
research.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
|
--
But say, what need brings thee in days like these
To
Thessaly
and Pherae's walled ring?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
|
If you received the work electronically, the person or entity
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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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Man can do violence
To himself and his own blessings: and for this
He in the second round must aye deplore
With
unavailing
penitence his crime,
Whoe'er deprives himself of life and light,
In reckless lavishment his talent wastes,
And sorrows there where he should dwell in joy.
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Outo to proton agprion ti zoon ebrothe kai kakourgon, eit
ornis tis e ichthus eilkusto kai geusamenon outo kai promeletesan en
ekeinois to thonikon epi boun ergaten elthe kai to kosmion probaton kai
ton oikouron alektruona kai kata mikron outo ten
aplestian
stomosantes
epi sphagas anthropon kai polemous kai phonous proelthon.
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| Source: |
Shelley |
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Well the
religious
king, to whom 'twas given,
Knew that the saving succour was from Heaven.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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All things are one, and that one none can be,
Since all formes, uniforme
deformity
70
Doth cover, so that wee, except God say
Another _Fiat_, shall have no more day.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
|
Note:
Cassandra
of Troy refused Phoebus Apollo's love.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
|
The supper is over--the fire on the ground burns low;
The wearied emigrants sleep, wrapped in their blankets;
I walk by myself--I stand and look at the stars, which I think now I never
realised
before.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
|
V
Arrived there, the dore they find fast lockt;
For it was warely watched night and day,
For feare of many foes: but when they knockt,
The Porter opened unto them
streight
way: 40
He was an aged syre, all hory gray,
With lookes full lowly cast, and gate full slow,
Wont on a staffe his feeble steps to stay,
Hight Humilta.
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If I could write the beauty of your eyes,
And in fresh numbers number all your graces,
The age to come would say 'This poet lies;
Such
heavenly
touches ne'er touch'd earthly faces.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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De
Beranger
has wrought innumerable
things, pungent and spirit-stirring, but in general they have been too
imponderous to stamp themselves deeply into the public attention, and
thus, as so many feathers of fancy, have been blown aloft only to be
whistled down the wind.
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Poe - 5 |
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Evening shades were dark'ning round us
When we reached the
wretched
hostel,
Where the Ollea-Podrida
Steamed up from the dirty soup-dish.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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One thing there is alone, that doth deform thee;
In the midst of thee, O field, so fair and
verdant!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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LIII
What is your substance, whereof are you made,
That
millions
of strange shadows on you tend?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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2 His excellent nephew is an
extraordinary
talent?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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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.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Undue significance a
starving
man attaches
To food
Far off; he sighs, and therefore hopeless,
And therefore good.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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E io a lui: <
presente
rigagno
si diriva cosi dal nostro mondo,
perche ci appar pur a questo vivagno?
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Yet, after all, I cannot but be conscious, in
much of what I write, of an absence of that
tranquillity
which is the
attribute and accompaniment of power.
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Shelley |
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For thrice three hundred years the full parade
Files past, a
cavalcade
of fear and wonder.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Long since, I lived beneath vast porticoes,
By many ocean-sunsets tinged and fired,
Where mighty pillars, in majestic rows,
Seemed like
basaltic
caves when day expired.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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When Appius Claudius saw that deed, he shuddered and sank
down,
And hid his face some little space with the corner of his gown,
Till, with white lips and
bloodshot
eyes, Virginius tottered
nigh,
And stood before the judgment-seat, and held the knife on high.
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Rilke - Poems |
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An expression of interior agitation passed over the face of the old
woman; then she
relapsed
into her former apathy.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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