It was objected, that the
successor of Muley Molucco sent a corpse to Portugal which had been
owned as that of the king by the Portuguese
nobility
who survived the
battle.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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THE
DAEMONIC
LOVE
III.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Yon rising Moon that looks for us again--
How oft
hereafter
will she wax and wane;
How oft hereafter rising look for us
Through this same Garden--and for one in vain!
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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[Sidenote A: On
Christmas
morn,]
[Sidenote B: joy reigns in every dwelling in the world.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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It
must be, however, in the
miraculous
fusing of the two.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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I suppose in the whole of India there are
few men whose
learning
is greater than his, and I don't think
there are many men more beloved.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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The touch of Zephyr and of Spring has loosen'd Winter's thrall;
The well-dried keels are wheel'd again to sea:
The
ploughman
cares not for his fire, nor cattle for their stall,
And frost no more is whitening all the lea.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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_ I wonder then you
occupied
it not,
For you seem delicate in health.
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Byron |
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I should have known thee;
Thou hast her eyes whom we shall see
hereafter!
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Longfellow |
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"Why loosened I olden control here
To mechanize skywards,
Undeeming great scope could
outshape
in
A globe of such grain?
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Then, when the
mellowing
years have made thee man,
No more shall mariner sail, nor pine-tree bark
Ply traffic on the sea, but every land
Shall all things bear alike: the glebe no more
Shall feel the harrow's grip, nor vine the hook;
The sturdy ploughman shall loose yoke from steer,
Nor wool with varying colours learn to lie;
But in the meadows shall the ram himself,
Now with soft flush of purple, now with tint
Of yellow saffron, teach his fleece to shine.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Judith, if thy hot spirit beareth still
Indignant
suffering
of villainy,
Think, that thou hast no wrong from it.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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with looks intent
Again she stretch'd, again she bent,
Nor knew the gulf between--
Malignant Fate sat by and smiled--
The
slippery
verge her feet beguiled;
She tumbled headlong in!
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Golden Treasury |
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If you
discover
a Defect in this etext within 90 days of
receiving it, you can receive a refund of the money (if any)
you paid for it by sending an explanatory note within that
time to the person you received it from.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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(It falls and sings through the years, but wakes
No
answering
echo of joy or pain.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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The
braunches
were borly, sum of bright gold,
With leuys full luffly, light of the same;
With burions aboue bright to beholde;
And fruit on yt fourmyt of fairest of shap,
Of mony kynd that was knyt, knagged aboue.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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What could I do, unaided and
unblest?
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Yet must I bow and obey, and deliver the will of our monarch;
Namely, that all your lands, and dwellings, and cattle of all kinds
Forfeited be to the crown; and that you yourselves from this province
Be
transported
to other lands.
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Longfellow |
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Its
business
office is located at 809
North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email
business@pglaf.
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Stephen Crane |
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I am alone with Weakness and Pain,
Sick abed and June is going,
I cannot keep her, she hurries by
With the silver-green of her
garments
blowing.
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Sara Teasdale |
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In the wretched little beast
Is life and heart,
Child and parent,
Not without relation
To
fruitful
field and sun and moon.
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Emerson - Poems |
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" Smiling she return'd:
"If thou canst, not remember, call to mind
How lately thou hast drunk of Lethe's wave;
And, sure as smoke doth indicate a flame,
In that
forgetfulness
itself conclude
Blame from thy alienated will incurr'd.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Would you ha' me
mercenary?
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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In the second series of poems published, a facsimile of her
handwritten poem which her editors titled "Renunciation" is given,
and I here transcribe that manuscript as faithfully as I can,
showing
_underlined_
words thus.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Basmanov, thou,
And ye, my friends, on the grave's brink I pray you
To serve my son with zeal and
rectitude!
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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The
nuthatch
noises loud in wood and wild,
Like women turning skreeking to a child.
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John Clare |
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The disdain and calmness of martyrs,
The mother of old, condemn'd for a witch, burnt with dry wood, her
children
gazing on,
The hounded slave that flags in the race, leans by the fence,
blowing, cover'd with sweat,
The twinges that sting like needles his legs and neck, the murderous
buckshot and the bullets,
All these I feel or am.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Protect me always from like excess,
Virgin, who bore, without a cry,
Christ whom we
celebrate
at Mass.
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Villon |
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And now, with gleams of half-extinguish'd thought,
With many recognitions dim and faint,
And somewhat of a sad perplexity,
The picture of the mind revives again:
While here I stand, not only with the sense
Of present pleasure, but with
pleasing
thoughts
That in this moment there is life and food
For future years.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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"Then
carelessly
remark 'Old coon!
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Lewis Carroll |
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XXXI
"Then where, o'er two bright havens,
The towers of Corinth frown;
Where the gigantic King of Day
On his own Rhodes looks down;
Where oft Orontes murmurs
Beneath the laurel shades;
Where Nile reflects the endless length
Of dark red colonnades;
Where in the still deep water,
Sheltered from waves and blasts,
Bristles the dusky forest
Of Byrsa's
thousand
masts;
Where fur-clad hunters wander
Amidst the northern ice;
Where through the sand of morning-land
The camel bears the spice;
Where Atlas flings his shadow
Far o'er the western foam,
Shall be great fear on all who hear
The might name of Rome.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Then Nisus and Euryalus
together
pray with quick
urgency to be given audience; their matter is weighty and will be worth
the delay.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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2 The kingfisher
feathers
mark the imperial standards and would be a sign of the emperor?
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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All, all; their cause
Is fallen flat; but go you on and see
How
wonderly
their proud heads are elate.
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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"I fancy it was the parrot at the window,
whetting
his bill
upon his cage-wires.
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Poe - 5 |
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And be the Spartan's epitaph on me--
'Sparta hath many a
worthier
son than he.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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"
"What
rascals?
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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It is a land of
poverty!
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blake-poems |
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fr)
Updated editions will replace the
previous
one--the old editions
will be renamed.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Wherefore
haue I plac'd you
With S^r.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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I am satisfied--I see, dance, laugh, sing;
As the hugging and loving bed-fellow sleeps at my side through the night,
and
withdraws
at the peep of the day with stealthy tread,
Leaving me baskets cover'd with white towels swelling the house with
their plenty,
Shall I postpone my acceptation and realization and scream at my eyes,
That they turn from gazing after and down the road,
And forthwith cipher and show me to a cent,
Exactly the value of one and exactly the value of two, and which is ahead?
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Now, Menelaus, think,
illustrious
Chief!
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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Ye fain, rich wights,
All woo her: thither too (the chief of
slights!
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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[_The Attendants depart;_ CLYTEMNESTRA, _left alone,
proceeds
to enter the
house_.
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Euripides - Electra |
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If he is a dramatist
his
characters
must have a like newness.
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Yeats |
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Rilke - Poems |
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The Kiss
I hoped that he would love me,
And he has kissed my mouth,
But I am like a
stricken
bird
That cannot reach the south.
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Sara Teasdale |
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The moaning wind went
wandering
round
The weeping prison-wall:
Till like a wheel of turning steel
We felt the minutes crawl:
O moaning wind!
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Wilde - Poems |
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Faun, illusion escapes from the blue eye,
Cold, like a fount of tears, of the most chaste:
But the other, she, all sighs,
contrasts
you say
Like a breeze of day warm on your fleece?
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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She felt herself supremer, --
A raised, ethereal thing;
Henceforth for her what
holiday!
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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You scorn me, Alexis, who or what I am
Care not to ask- how rich in flocks, or how
In snow-white milk abounding: yet for me
Roam on Sicilian hills a
thousand
lambs;
Summer or winter, still my milk-pails brim.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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Along the reaches of the street
Held in a lunar synthesis,
Whispering lunar incantations
Disolve the floors of memory
And all its clear relations,
Its divisions and precisions,
Every street lamp that I pass
Beats like a
fatalistic
drum,
And through the spaces of the dark
Midnight shakes the memory
As a madman shakes a dead geranium.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Transcriber's note: Facsimile of Title page of Lycidas follows:
JUSTA
EDOVARDO KING
naufrago,
ab
Amicis Moerentibus,
amoris
&
mneias chaein
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Sirecte calculam ponas, ubique
naufragium
est.
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| Source: |
Milton |
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Do not let it serve some impious
purpose!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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Aut facere ingenuaest, aut non promisse pudicae, 5
Aufilena, fuit: sed data corripere
Fraudando + efficit plus quom
meretricis
avarae,
Quae sese tota corpore prostituit.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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Farewell, green fields and happy groves,
Where flocks have took delight,
Where lambs have nibbled, silent moves
The feet of angels bright;
Unseen, they pour blessing,
And joy without ceasing,
On each bud and blossom,
And each
sleeping
bosom.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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'O William, we
_receive_
but what we _give_:
And in our life alone does Nature live.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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Fool, to stand here cursing
When I might be
running!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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at,
And
hardiliche
held hir gate
Al ?
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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XXVII
Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed,
The dear respose for limbs with travel tir'd;
But then begins a journey in my head
To work my mind, when body's work's expired:
For then my thoughts--from far where I abide--
Intend a zealous pilgrimage to thee,
And keep my drooping eyelids open wide,
Looking on darkness which the blind do see:
Save that my soul's imaginary sight
Presents
thy shadow to my sightless view,
Which, like a jewel (hung in ghastly night,
Makes black night beauteous, and her old face new.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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31 Happy at the News that the Imperial Army is Already at the Edge of �Rebel Territory: Twenty Couplets The Hu barbarians hide away in the capital district, the
imperial
army surrounds the rebel moats.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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As, in your field, I plant I lose no grain,
For the harvest
resembles
me, and ever
God orders me to plough, and sow again:
Even for this end are we come together.
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| Source: |
Villon |
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Lone in the light of that magical grove,
I felt the stars of the spirits of Love
Gather and gleam round my
delicate
youth,
And I heard the song of the spirits of Truth;
To quench my longing I bent me low
By the streams of the spirits of Peace that flow
In that magical wood in the land of sleep.
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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It has
survived
long enough for the copyright to expire and the book to enter the public domain.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Past cure I am, now Reason is past care,
And frantic-mad with evermore unrest;
My thoughts and my
discourse
as madmen's are,
At random from the truth vainly express'd;
For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright,
Who art as black as hell, as dark as night.
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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I pull in Resolution, and begin
To doubt th'
Equiuocation
of the Fiend,
That lies like truth.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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They get them to bed, somehow,
And sleep the forgiving,
Comes thru the
scattering
tumult
And closes their eyes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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Time
consumes
words, like love.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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When I was well, I wished to live,
For clothes, for warmth, for food, and fire;
But they to me no joy can give,
No
pleasure
now, and no desire.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Strong blew the breeze--the surge closed o'er
The cloven track of keel and oar,
But while she fled, there drove along,
Fast in her wake, a mighty throng--
Athirst for blood, athirst for war,
Forward in fell pursuit they sprung,
Then leapt on Simois' bank ashore,
The leafy coppices among--
No rangers, they, of wood and field,
But
huntsmen
of the sword and shield.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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Thy voice,
resounding
of thy message high,
Has filled our souls with rapture.
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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But if ever its offence distressed your mind, 775
Can you forget the
scornfulness
of his pride?
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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practically
ANYTHING
with public domain eBooks.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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As becomes a drama, it
has more vigorously
sustained
movement than any of Milton's works.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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The dust replaced in hoisted roads,
The birds jocoser sung;
The sunshine threw his hat away,
The orchards
spangles
hung.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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--Venice, lost and won,
Her
thirteen
hundred years of freedom done,
Sinks, like a seaweed, into whence she rose!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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The planet orb of fire, whereon he rode
Each day from east to west the heavens through, 270
Spun round in sable curtaining of clouds;
Not therefore veiled quite, blindfold, and hid,
But ever and anon the glancing spheres,
Circles, and arcs, and broad-belting colure,
Glow'd through, and wrought upon the muffling dark
Sweet-shaped
lightnings
from the nadir deep
Up to the zenith,--hieroglyphics old,
Which sages and keen-eyed astrologers
Then living on the earth, with labouring thought
Won from the gaze of many centuries: 280
Now lost, save what we find on remnants huge
Of stone, or marble swart; their import gone,
Their wisdom long since fled.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
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'What is
Freedom?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
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May Liberty meet wi'
success!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
Diegue
How enviable, yes,
On losing strength to swiftly meet with death,
See how old age prepares for noble spirits
After long careers,
miserable
exits!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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Hope, memory, love:
Hope for fair morn, and love for day,
And memory for the evening grey
And
solitary
dove.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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Forerunner of a valiant race,
His
voiceless
spirit still reminds us
Of ever-waiting, silent duty:
The bond of faith wherewith he binds us
Shall hold us ready hour by hour
To serve the sacred, guiding power
Whene'er it calls, where'er it finds us,
With loyalty that, like a folded flower,
Blooms at a touch in proud, full-circled beauty.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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J'etais bien jeune, et Christ a souille mes haleines,
Il me bonda jusqu'a la gorge de degouts;
Tu baisais mes cheveux profonds comme des laines,
Et je me
laissais
faire!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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And York as fast upon your Grace exclaims,
Swearing that you withhold his levied host,
Collected
for this expedition.
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Shakespeare |
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If you
do not charge
anything
for copies of this eBook, complying with the
rules is very easy.
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Keats - Lamia |
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Is not every
continent
worked over and over with sour dead?
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Whitman |
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As for will and
testament
I leave none,
Save this: "Vers and canzone to the Countess of
Beziers
In return for the first kiss she gave me.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Come in joy,
Brother, and take to bind thy
rippling
hair
My crowns!
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Euripides - Electra |
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"
IV
To him the
stateliest
spake in answer;
the warriors' leader his word-hoard unlocked: --
"We are by kin of the clan of Geats,
and Hygelac's own hearth-fellows we.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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The
apparition
was so giant-great,
That to a very dwarf my soul had shrunken.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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And bow to dread inquisitor and worship lords of dust;
Let sophists give the lie, hearts droop, and courtiers play the worm,
Our martyrs of
Democracy
the Truth sublime affirm!
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Hugo - Poems |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Lift thine eyes which lingering see
The shadows on the foot-worn threshold fall,
Lift thine eyes slowly to the great dark tree
That stands against heaven, solitary, tall,
And thou hast visioned Life, its
meanings
rise
Like words that in the silence clearer grow;
As they unfold before thy will to know
Gently withdraw thine eyes--
THE NEIGHBOUR
Strange violin!
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Rilke - Poems |
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No ship have I known so nobly dight
with weapons of war and weeds of battle,
with breastplate and blade: on his bosom lay
a heaped hoard that hence should go
far o'er the flood with him
floating
away.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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For never shall ye be
From
henceforth
under the same roof with me.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Hitherto Christ has
scarcely
seen
the Galilean towns, but He shall "quit these rudiments" and survey
"the monarchies of the earth, their pomp and state.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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or you yet may sleep too well:
Fly--from the father of your bride,
Her sisters fell:
They, as she-lions
bullocks
rend,
Tear each her victim: I, less hard
Than these, will slay you not, poor friend,
Nor hold in ward:
Me let my sire in fetters lay
For mercy to my husband shown:
Me let him ship far hence away,
To climes unknown.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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) Then the
wrinkles
I express,
Of the heart, smile into emptiness.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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If such there be, my friend
Baldazzar
here--
Baldazzar!
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Poe - 5 |
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