, but its volunteers and employees are scattered
throughout
numerous
locations.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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The quiet nonchalance of death
No
daybreak
can bestir;
The slow archangel's syllables
Must awaken her.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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My mother taught me
underneath
a tree,
And, sitting down before the heat of day,
She took me on her lap and kissed me,
And, pointed to the east, began to say:
"Look on the rising sun: there God does live,
And gives His light, and gives His heat away,
And flowers and trees and beasts and men receive
Comfort in morning, joy in the noonday.
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blake-poems |
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The speech of Clarissa
is a parody of a famous speech by
Sarpedon
in the 'Iliad', XII, 310-328.
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Alexander Pope |
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My blindness, my deafness to others shows
That only her I see, and hear, and bless,
And I offer her no false flatteries so,
For the heart more than the mouth gives word;
That in field, plain, hill, vale, though I go everywhere
I'd not discern all
qualities
in one sole body,
Only hers, where God sets them all today.
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Troubador Verse |
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XXXIII
They had not ridden farre, when they might see
One
pricking
towards them with hastie heat, 290
Full strongly armd, and on a courser free,
That through his fiercenesse fomed all with sweat,
And the sharpe yron did for anger eat,
When his hot ryder spurd his chauffed side;
His looke was sterne, and seemed still to threat 295
Cruell revenge, which he in hart did hyde,
And on his shield _Sans loy_?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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{6}
husband, so as neither to be saved by her own
credulity
nor by divine
power?
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Tacitus |
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Listen not to that
seductive
murmur,
That only swells my pain.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Imagination flowers and vanishes, swiftly, following the flow of the writing, round the
fragmentary
stations of a capitalised phrase introduced by and extended from the title.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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With a broader and deeper background of experience
and environment, which by some divine special privilege belongs to
the poetic imagination, it is easier to set apart and
contrast
these
opposing words and sympathies in a poet; but here we find them evoked
in a restricted locale- an English county-where the rich, cool tranquil
landscape gives a solid texture to the human show.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Some hold that he hath
swallowed
infant flesh,
Monster!
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Tennyson |
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in the Greek) suggest
rather
strongly
that there was only _one_.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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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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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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La
premiere
avoit non Orguex,
L'autre qui ne valoit pas miex,
Fu apelee Vilenie;
Icele fu de felonie
Toute tainte et envenimee.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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But had he already
declared
this guilty love
In Athens, this passion by which he's devoured?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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And
something
1819.
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William Wordsworth |
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My
branches
weigh me down, frost cleans the air,
My sky is black with small birds bearing south;
Say what you will, confuse me with fine care,
Put by my word as but an April truth,--
Autumn is no less on me that a rose
Hugs the brown bough and sighs before it goes.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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how unlike those late
terrific
sleeps!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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"Yes" I
whispered
"this, too, holy, Even this holy and divine,
Though to poets known and lovers only
The dear face that looks from meanest things
"And the majesty that moves about us,
The bright splendor what common guise.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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How hard
With an
unrounded
fortune to sit down!
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Hugo - Poems |
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It is an honorable thought,
And makes one lift one's hat,
As one
encountered
gentlefolk
Upon a daily street,
That we've immortal place,
Though pyramids decay,
And kingdoms, like the orchard,
Flit russetly away.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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And now the other maidens in the hall
Assembling, kindled on the hearth again
Th'
unwearied
blaze; then, godlike from his couch 150
Arose Telemachus, and, fresh-attired,
Athwart his shoulders his bright faulchion slung,
Bound his fair sandals to his feet, and took
His sturdy spear pointed with glitt'ring brass;
Advancing to the portal, there he stood,
And Euryclea thus, his nurse, bespake.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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May I be slander's common speech;
A text for infamy to preach;
And lastly,
streekit
out to bleach
In winter snaw;
When I forget thee!
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Robert Burns |
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6 _eterne_ O:
_aternum_
D m pr.
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Latin - Catullus |
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: SONNET
on the tally-board of wasted days
IF write me for They daily
proud idleness, Let high Hell summons me, and I confess,
No overt act the
preferred
charge allays.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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ne
ralentis
pas tes flammes;
Rechauffe mon coeur engourdi,
Volupte, torture des ames!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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The wind tapped like a tired man,
And like a host, "Come in,"
I boldly answered; entered then
My
residence
within
A rapid, footless guest,
To offer whom a chair
Were as impossible as hand
A sofa to the air.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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The stout
upstanders
say, All's well with us: ruers have nought to
rue!
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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I was
hurrying
down the street when I heard myself
called by someone.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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And this
reviving
Herb whose tender Green
Fledges the River-Lip on which we lean--
Ah, lean upon it lightly!
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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"
It was the desire of beauty that made her a poet; her "nerves of
delight" were always
quivering
at the contact of beauty.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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"
"The sound
appeared
to come from without," observed one of the
courtiers.
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Poe - 5 |
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Then
shepherds
took the badge of royalty,
And the stout labourer the sword did wield:
The Consuls' power was annually revealed,
Till six month terms won greater majesty,
Which, made perpetual, accrued such power
That the Imperial Eagle seized the hour:
But Heaven, opposing such aggrandisement,
Handed that power to Peter's successor,
Who, called a shepherd, fated to reign there,
Shows that all returns to its commencement.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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The long night ends, the day comes creeping in,
Showing the sorrows that the darkness hid,
The bended head of Christ, the blood, the thorns,
The wall's gray stains of damp, the pallet bed
Where little Sister Marta dreams of saints,
Waking with arms
outstretched
imploringly
That seek to stay a vision's vanishing.
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Sara Teasdale |
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= '_Pan_ is not
easily
distinguished
from _skirt_.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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They are not known to send the dead--
And not
disfigured
visibly.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Close, close to men,
Like
undulating
layer of air,
Right above their heads,
The potent plain of Daemons spreads.
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Emerson - Poems |
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I find my
pleasure
in it, too!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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If Rodrigue is essential to the State,
Must I pay for the
workings
of fate.
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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There shall be read the woe, that he doth work
With his adulterate money on the Seine,
Who by the tusk will perish: there be read
The thirsting pride, that maketh fool alike
The English and Scot,
impatient
of their bound.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Time takes fresh start again,
On for a
thousand
years of genius more.
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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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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He went into the
trenches in March, 1915, was wounded in June, and was
invalided
home.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Each day, each moment, to
increase
my glory,
Laurels heap on laurels, victory on victory:
The prince, at my side, might test his mettle
Protected by my arm, in every battle;
He would learn to conquer by watching me;
And matching his great character, swiftly
He would see.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Hypocrite
lecteur--mon semblable--mon
frere!
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Sonnet _'The pallid thunder
stricken
sigh for gain'_
xix.
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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Thus, we do not necessarily
keep eBooks in
compliance
with any particular paper edition.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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I have tiding,
Glad tiding, behold how in duty
From far
Lehistan
the wind, gliding.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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It would have been else impossible to account for the sudden
and
despotic
hatred of this poor man that came upon me.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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"
"And with whom, my little father, did you
quarrel?
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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C'est uns hons qui en biaus ostiez
<<
In
clothing
was he ful fetys,
And lovede wel have hors of prys.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Under my head are dragg'd
The rest, my
predecessors
in the guilt
Of simony.
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Avant que ton coeur ne se blase,
A la gloire de Dieu rallume ton extase;
C'est la Volupte vraie aux
durables
appas!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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'
So your
chimneys
I sweep, and in soot I sleep.
| Guess: |
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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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The old men studied magic in the flowers,
And human fortunes in astronomy,
And an omnipotence in chemistry,
Preferring things to names, for these were men,
Were
unitarians
of the united world,
And, wheresoever their clear eye-beams fell,
They caught the footsteps of the SAME.
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Emerson - Poems |
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This knows my punisher; therefore as farr
From
granting
hee, as I from begging peace:
All hope excluded thus, behold in stead
Of us out-cast, exil'd, his new delight,
Mankind created, and for him this World.
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| Source: |
Milton |
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Nor was I hungry; so I found
That hunger was a way
Of persons outside windows,
The
entering
takes away.
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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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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The
Foundation
makes no representations concerning
the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United
States.
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
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oh
voiceless
trees
Under the wind, I knew
The eager terrible spring
Hidden in you.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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First, indeed, hence towards the rising of the sun
Turning thyself, travel uncultivated lands,
And to the
Scythian
nomads thou wilt come, who woven roofs
On high inhabit, on well-wheeled carts,
With far-casting bows equipped;
Whom go not near, but to the sea-resounding cliffs
Bending thy feet, pass from the region.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Land-dwellers here {20b} and
liegemen
mine,
who house by those parts, I have heard relate
that such a pair they have sometimes seen,
march-stalkers mighty the moorland haunting,
wandering spirits: one of them seemed,
so far as my folk could fairly judge,
of womankind; and one, accursed,
in man's guise trod the misery-track
of exile, though huger than human bulk.
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Venus comes in all her might,
Quits Cyprus for my heart, nor lets me tell
Of the Parthian, hold in flight,
Nor
Scythian
hordes, nor aught that breaks her spell.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Google Book Search helps readers discover the world's books while helping authors and
publishers
reach new audiences.
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Meredith - Poems |
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LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right
of Replacement or Refund"
described
in paragraph 1.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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But thou preferr'st neither to know nor ask
Concerning them, till some
experience
first
Thou make of her whose wasted youth is spent
In barren solitude, and who in tears
Ceaseless her nights and woeful days consumes.
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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Lady Clara Vere de Vere,
There stands a spectre in your hall:
The guilt of blood is at your door:
You changed a
wholesome
heart to gall.
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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far more welcome than the happy soil
The sea-scourged merchant, after all his toil,
Salutes with tears of joy, when fires betray
The smoky
chimneys
of his Ithaca.
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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There, take the
darkling
gold, the gentle gray
From birches and from box--the zephyrs sway,
Few lingering roses yet their perfumes breathe,
Select them, kiss them and a crown enwreathe.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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With the
exception of a very dirty old woman sitting by a crate of geese, all
the
passengers
but himself were below.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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The sailors, hearing the female Halycon sing,
prepared
to die, safe however around mid-December, when these birds make their nests, and one knows that then the sea will be calm.
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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121) "is
taken from the passage of Homer, II ix, in translating which, Pope,
with that squeamish, artificial taste, which
distinguished
the age
of Anne, omits the natural (and, let me add, affecting)
circumstance.
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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The seruice, and the
loyaltie
I owe,
In doing it, payes it selfe.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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Winters that
withered
all the green
Have froze the beating heart.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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The breezes brought
dejected
lutes,
And bathed them in the glee;
The East put out a single flag,
And signed the fete away.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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For perfect strains may float
'Neath master-hands, from
instruments
defaced,--
And great souls, at one stroke, may do and doat.
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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(77)
[Note 77: Many will consider this mode of
bringing
the canto
to a conclusion of more than doubtful taste.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Her health, life's sweetness and its bloom,
Her smile and
maidenly
repose,
All vanished as an echo goes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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It came at length, however,--a
monstrously
big
box of it there was, too--and as the whole party were in excessively
good humor, it was decided, nem.
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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So once it would have been,--'tis so no more
I have submitted to a new control:
A power is gone, which nothing can restore;
A deep distress hath
humanised
my soul.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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To think of to-day, and the ages
continued
henceforward!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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They were like swimmers
breasting
the waves
In the troughs of a stormy channel,
They are silent now in their lonely graves,
But the world has become the panel.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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Besides, vile fiends the universe pervade,
Whose
constant
aim is mortals to degrade,
And cheat us to our noses if they can,
(Hell's imps in human shape, disgrace to man!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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Even if wrong, it has its own excellence, its
special insight and its extraordinary
awakening
power.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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First I must bring a
reproach
against you that applies equally
to both sides.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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, but its volunteers and
employees
are scattered
throughout numerous locations.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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I tell you this:
whatever
of dust to dust
Goes down, whatever of ashes may return
To its essential self in its own season,
Loveliness such as yours will not be lost,
But, cast in bronze upon his very urn,
Make known him Master, and for what good reason.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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But our love it was stronger by far than the love
Of those who were older than we--
Of many far wiser than we--
And neither the angels in Heaven above
Nor the demons down under the sea
Can ever
dissever
my soul from the soul
Of the beautiful ANNABEL LEE:--
For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams
Of the beautiful ANNABEL LEE;
And the stars never rise but I see the bright eyes
Of the beautiful ANNABEL LEE;
And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side
Of my darling, my darling, my life and my bride
In her sepulchre there by the sea--
In her tomb by the side of the sea.
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The Tomb of Charles Baudelaire
The buried shrine shows at its sewer-mouth's
Sepulchral slobber of mud and rubies
Some
abominable
statue of Anubis,
The muzzle lit like a ferocious snout
Or as when a dubious wick twists in the new gas,
Wiping out, as we know, the insults suffered
Haggardly lighting an immortal pubis,
Whose flight roosts according to the lamp
What votive leaves, dried in cities without evening
Could bless, as she can, vainly sitting
Against the marble of Baudelaire
Shudderingly absent from the veil that clothes her
She, his Shade, a protective poisonous air
Always to be breathed, although we die of her.
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And now, with exultation loud the nurse
Again ascended, eager to apprize
The Queen of her Ulysses' safe return;
Joy braced her knees, with
nimbleness
of youth
She stepp'd, and at her ear, her thus bespake.
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Les Amours de Cassandre: CLII
Moon with dark eyes, goddess with horses black,
That steer you up and down, and high and low,
Never
remaining
long, when once they show,
Pulling your chariot endlessly there and back:
My desires and yours are never a match,
Because the passions that pierce your soul,
And the ardours that inflame mine so,
Court different desires to ease their lack.
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Im
Labyrinth
der Taler hinzuschleichen,
Dann diesen Felsen zu ersteigen,
Von dem der Quell sich ewig sprudelnd sturzt,
Das ist die Lust, die solche Pfade wurzt!
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Is it a
purblind
prank, O think you,
Friend with the musing eye?
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Wilde - Poems |
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O
vapours!
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Whitman |
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The troubled plumes of
midnight
were
The plumes upon a hearse:
And bitter wine upon a sponge
Was the savour of Remorse.
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LE VIN DU SOLITAIRE
Le regard singulier d'une femme galante
Qui se glisse vers nous comme le rayon blanc
Que la lune onduleuse envoie au lac tremblant,
Quand elle y veux baigner sa beaute nonchalante,
Le dernier sac d'ecus dans les doigts d'un joueur,
Un baiser
libertin
de la maigre Adeline,
Les sons d'une musique enervante et caline,
Semblable au cri lointain de l'humaine douleur,
Tout cela ne vaut pas, o bouteille profonde,
Les baumes penetrants que ta panse feconde
Garde au coeur altere du poete pieux;
Tu lui verses l'espoir, la jeunesse et la vie,
--Et l'orgueil, ce tresor de toute gueuserie,
Qui nous rend triomphants et semblables aux Dieux.
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Therefore all seasons shall be sweet to thee,
Whether the summer clothe the general earth
With greenness, or the
redbreast
sit and sing
Betwixt the tufts of snow on the bare branch
Of mossy apple-tree, while the nigh thatch
Smokes in the sun-thaw; whether the eave-drops fall
Heard only in the trances of the blast,
Or if the secret ministry of frost
Shall hang them up in silent icicles,
Quietly shining to the quiet Moon.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Or up, where all the
vultures
of the air
May glut them, pierce and nail him for a sign
Far off?
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Euripides - Electra |
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This offspring of the devil,
This
unfrocked
monk, has known how to appear
Dimitry to the people.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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