And some fall back upon the architect ;
Yet all, composed by his
attractive
song,
Into the animated city throng.
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O I am very sick and
sorrowful!
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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With
watchers
doth he go
Begirt, and mailed pikemen?
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Euripides - Electra |
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Lang_
Have You Nothing to Say for
Yourself?
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Even as on Eurotas'
banks or along the Cynthian ridges Diana wheels the dance, while behind
her a thousand
mountain
nymphs crowd to left and right; she carries
quiver on shoulder, and as she moves outshines them all in deity;
Latona's heart is thrilled with silent joy; such was Dido, so she
joyously advanced amid the throng, urging on the business of her rising
empire.
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Then in the dark
hillsides
the Cherry-trees
Gleam white with loads of blossom where the gleams
Of piled snow lately hung, and richer streams
The honey.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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At this agreed, the heavenly powers withdrew;
Sage Helenus their secret counsels knew;
Hector, inspired, he sought: to him address'd,
Thus told the
dictates
of his sacred breast:
"O son of Priam!
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Iliad - Pope |
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She often accuses me and tries me,
And lays false charges now, at will,
Yet
whenever
she acts vilely
All the fault's laid at my door still!
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Troubador Verse |
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Royalty payments
must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you
prepare (or are legally required to
prepare)
your periodic tax
returns.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Tell her a
bleeding
hand
Bound it and tied it;
Tell her the knot will stand
Though she deride it.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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In other worlds can Mammon fail,
Omnipotent
as he is here?
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would that mine
Were half as
gracious!
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Tennyson |
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To say no more, the
conformation
of his visiter's feet
was sufficiently remarkable--he maintained lightly upon his head an
inordinately tall hat--there was a tremulous swelling about the hinder
part of his breeches--and the vibration of his coat tail was a palpable
fact.
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Poe - 5 |
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[_During the last words_ ADMETUS _and_
ALCESTIS
_have entered_.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Sir, pardon; a soldier is better
accommodated
than with a
wife.
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sanam_ GVen ||
_anumque_ Faernus: _senemque_ Auantius
9
_suauiabor_
D: _suabior_ ?
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FOOTNOTES:
[G] Of the "Odyssey" it may be said with certainty that its
composition was later than that of the "Iliad," but it cannot be
affirmed that both poems were not
composed
within the life-time of one
man.
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The invalidity or
unenforceability
of any
provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Whom youth and youth's affections bound to me;
Who did for me what none beside have done,
Nor shrank from one albeit
unworthy
thee.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Donations are
accepted
in a number of other
ways including checks, online payments and credit card donations.
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Keats |
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And a
collection
choicer far
Than or Whitehall's, or Mantua's were.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Lett
Celmonde
yn thie armour-brace be dyghte;
And yn thie stead unto the battle goe;
Thie name alleyne wylle putte the Danes to flyghte, 340
The ayre thatt beares ytt woulde presse downe the foe.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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I understand your anguish, but I cannot help you,
I approach, hear, behold, the sad mouth, the look out of the eyes,
your mute inquiry,
Whither I go from the bed I recline on, come tell me,--
Old age, alarm'd, uncertain--a young woman's voice,
appealing
to
me for comfort;
A young man's voice, Shall I not escape?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Werejeweledtales
An opiate meet to quell the malady Oflifeunlived?
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Thine eyes, that taught the dumb on high to sing
And heavy ignorance aloft to fly,
Have added
feathers
to the learned's wing
And given grace a double majesty.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Is it that death forgets to free
You fishes of
melancholy?
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Appoloinaire |
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Right here remains
A certain slender means to skulk from truth,
Which Anaxagoras takes unto himself,
Who holds that all things lurk
commixed
with all
While that one only comes to view, of which
The bodies exceed in number all the rest,
And lie more close to hand and at the fore--
A notion banished from true reason far.
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Lucretius |
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The
enclosed
will show you partly what I have been doing.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Don Stephen sent his brother, Don
Christoval
with 500
men.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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"
Once a man clambering to the housetops
Appealed
to the heavens.
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Stephen Crane |
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For those, my
unbaptised
rhymes, II.
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Robert Herrick |
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Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a
considerable effort, much
paperwork
and many fees to meet and keep up
with these requirements.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Go: don't expose
yourself
to the tremor
That will fuel the first ardour of her anger.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Long have I longed, till I am tired
Of longing and desire;
Farewell
my points in vain desired,
My dying fire;
Farewell all things that die and fail and tire.
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Christina Rossetti |
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It is a government, that English one,--like
most other
European
ones,--that cannot afford to be forgotten, as you
would naturally forget it; under which one cannot be wholesomely
neglected, and grow up a man and not an Englishman merely,--cannot be
a poet even without danger of being made poet-laureate!
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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To sea I gazed, and then I turned
Stricken
toward the shore,
Praying half-crazed to a moon that burned
Above your door.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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What holy mystery e'er was noosed in
thought?
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Thro' worlds where Life, and Sound, and Motion sleep;
Where Silence still her death-like reign extends,
Save when the startling cliff
unfrequent
rends:
In the deep snow the mighty ruin drowned,
Mocks the dull ear .
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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But most, through
midnight
streets I hear
How the youthful harlot's curse
Blasts the new-born infant's tear,
And blights with plagues the marriage-hearse.
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blake-poems |
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Many small donations
($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to
maintaining
tax exempt
status with the IRS.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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I have already told you
that the dry sand had, as it were,
mummified
the body.
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Kipling - Poems |
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of the Life in the Durham Cathedral Library, but my enquiries about it have not yet
elicited
any answer.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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He was eventually
executed
by Domitian
for keeping Otho's birthday.
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Tacitus |
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The Project
Gutenberg
EBook of Li Bu Collection, by Li Bu
This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
almost no restrictions whatsoever.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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My good I seek in the good of another,
This marriage means so much to all three;
Make my soul strong, or
complete
it swiftly.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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My hunger regaled by no fruits here I see
Finds equal taste in their learned deficiency:
Let one burst with human
fragrance
and flesh!
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Mallarme - Poems |
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For what more like the
brainless
speech of a fool,--
The lives travelling dark fears,
And as a boy throws pebbles in a pool
Thrown down abysmal places?
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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_
_Josephine Preston Peabody_
MY SON
Here is his little cambric frock
That I laid by in
lavender
so sweet,
And here his tiny shoe and sock
I made with loving care for his dear feet.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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' which
corrects one of the falsest notes ever struck by a poet:--
A tear Dropt on _my
tablets_
as I wrote.
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Tennyson |
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]
Sara Teasdale
Sara
Teasdale
was born in St.
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Sara Teasdale |
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"
NURSE'S SONG
When voices of children are heard on the green,
And
whisperings
are in the dale,
The days of my youth rise fresh in my mind,
My face turns green and pale.
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blake-poems |
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Why not try to win her good-will and appeal to her
sympathy?
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Lat us holde forth our purpos fermely; 495
And sin that ye
bihighten
him to byde,
Hold forward now, and after lat us ryde.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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XLVI
And the great Lord of Luna
Fell at that deadly stroke,
As falls on Mount Alvernus
A thunder smitten oak:
Far o'er the crashing forest
The giant arms lie spread;
And the pale augurs,
muttering
low,
Gaze on the blasted head.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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'
'It was this night a year ago, I was in a barn, and there were men
playing cards, and there was money on the table, they were pushing
it from one to another here and there--and I got a message, and I was
going out of the door to look for my
sweetheart
that wanted me, Mary
Lavelle.
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Yeats |
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Since there is comfort, why
disdain?
| Guess: |
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Behold upon this happy earth we are;
Let us ay love each other; let us fare 630
On forest-fruits, and never, never go
Among the abodes of mortals here below,
Or be by
phantoms
duped.
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Keats |
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Sara Teasdale |
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" A copy is in the
possession
of Mr.
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Byron |
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Thou lyest
abhorred
Tyrant, with my Sword
Ile proue the lye thou speak'st.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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I Said It To You
I said it to you for the clouds
I said it to you for the tree of the sea
For each wave for the birds in the leaves
For the pebbles of sound
For
familiar
hands
For the eye that becomes landscape or face
And sleep returns it the heaven of its colour
For all that night drank
For the network of roads
For the open window for a bare forehead
I said it to you for your thoughts for your words
Every caress every trust survives.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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703
founded]
found out 1674.
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Milton |
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Then they're so
innocent
of vice,
So full of piety, correct,
So prudent, and so circumspect
Stately, devoid of prejudice,
So inaccessible to men,
Their looks alone produce the spleen.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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When Charles my lord shall come into this field,
Such discipline of
Sarrazins
he'll see,
For one of ours he'll find them dead fifteen;
He will not fail, but bless us all in peace.
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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When gods and men I saw in Cupid's chain
Promiscuous
led, a long uncounted train,
By sad example taught, I learn'd at last
Wisdom's best rule--to profit from the past
Some solace in the numbers too I found,
Of those that mourn'd, like me, the common wound
That Phoebus felt, a mortal beauty's slave,
That urged Leander through the wintry wave;
That jealous Juno with Eliza shared,
Whose more than pious hands the flame prepared;
That mix'd her ashes with her murder'd spouse.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Freaware
and the Dane.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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We were
enchanted
with the fields,
the tufts of coarse grass
in the shorter grass--
we loved all this.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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And what of
Shuisky?
| Guess: |
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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A crow without
feather?
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Shakespeare |
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representations
concerning
the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Gewāt þā twelfa sum torne gebolgen
dryhten Gēata dracan scēawian;
hæfde þā gefrūnen, hwanan sīo fǣhð ārās,
2405 bealo-nīð biorna; him tō bearme cwōm
māððum-fæt mǣre þurh þæs meldan hond,
Sē wæs on þām þrēate þreotteoða secg,
sē þæs orleges ōr onstealde,
hæft hyge-giōmor, sceolde hēan þonon
2410 wong wīsian: hē ofer willan gīong
tō þæs þe hē eorð-sele ānne wisse,
hlǣw under hrūsan holm-wylme nēh,
ȳð-gewinne, sē wæs innan full
wrǣtta and wīra: weard unhīore,
2415 gearo gūð-freca, gold-māðmas hēold,
eald under eorðan; næs þæt ȳðe cēap,
tō
gegangenne
gumena ǣnigum.
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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He said it and quit and faded away,
A
gunnysack
shirt on his bones.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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Guardian
angel sent
Or torturer malevolent?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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"
Was the first
question
Olga made,
Lenski, into confusion thrown,
All silently hung down his head.
| Guess: |
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Yet, what man of fortune in England
lives in that stupendous gross luxury which every day was exhibited in
the Gothic castles of the old
chieftains!
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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We hae
plighted
our troth, my Mary,
In mutual affection to join;
And curst be the cause that shall part us!
| Guess: |
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Robert Forst |
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Dispatch my charge
immediately!
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Nay, she is rather the eternal lure
Out of form and things that end,
Out of all the starry snares,
Out of the trap of years,
Into measureless desire;
Lest man be
satisfied
with mind,--
Be never stung into self-hate
At crouching always in the crate
Of prudent knowledge round him wrought,
And so grow small as his own thought.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Saw ye not whom the reeking sabre smote;
Nor saved your
brethren
ere they sank beneath
Tyrants and tyrants' slaves?
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Thou scene of all my
happiness
and pleasure!
| Guess: |
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Oft on a Plat of rising ground,
I hear the far-off Curfeu sound,
Over som wide-water'd shoar,
Swinging slow with sullen roar;
Or if the Ayr will not permit,
Som still removed place will fit,
Where glowing Embers through the room
Teach light to
counterfeit
a gloom 80
Far from all resort of mirth,
Save the Cricket on the hearth,
Or the Belmans drowsie charm,
To bless the dores from nightly harm:
Or let my Lamp at midnight hour,
Be seen in som high lonely Towr,
Where I may oft out-watch the Bear,
With thrice great Hermes, or unsphear
The spirit of Plato to unfold
What Worlds, or what vast Regions hold 90
The immortal mind that hath forsook
Her mansion in this fleshly nook:
And of those Daemons that are found
In fire, air, flood, or under ground,
Whose power hath a true consent
With planet or with Element.
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| Source: |
Milton |
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Me therein, an innocent man,
the
fiendish
foe was fain to thrust
with many another.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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You stars and suns, Canopus, Deneb, Rigel,
Let me, as I lie down, here in this dust,
Hear, far off, your whispered
salutation!
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I am no king, have laid no kingdoms waste,
Taken no princes captive, led no triumphs
Of weeping women through long walls of trumpets;
Say rather I am no one, or an atom;
Say rather, two great gods in a vault of starlight
Play ponderingly at chess; and at the game's end
One of the pieces, shaken, falls to the floor
And runs to the darkest corner; and that piece
Forgotten
there, left motionless, is I.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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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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SAS}
Luvah & Vala
trembling
& shrinking, beheld the great Work master {According to Erdman, the first rendition of the line read "beheld the lord of ?
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Blake - Zoas |
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da_ Ven: _tot bona_
Auantius
5 _iugentis_ O ||
_saltusque_
(_saltus_ AC) _paludesque_
(_plaudesque_ O) ?
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Latin - Catullus |
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And whose more rife with merriment than thine,
O
Stamboul!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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es of hire vices by [the]
to{ur}ment?
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There are many
chimaeras
that exist today, and before combating one of them, the greatest enemies of poetry, it is necessary to bridle Pegasus and even yoke him.
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Appoloinaire |
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A nymph of quality admires our knight;
He marries, bows at court, and grows polite:
Leaves the dull cits, and joins (to please the fair)
The well bred
c*ck**ds
in St.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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A shudder
overtakes
the pois'nous snakes
When they glide near that powder, laid in flakes.
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to the Project Gutenberg-tm License for all works posted with the
permission of the
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holder found at the beginning of this work.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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As to trees the vine
Is crown of glory, as to vines the grape,
Bulls to the herd, to
fruitful
fields the corn,
So the one glory of thine own art thou.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Here are a
thousand
books!
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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In relating the death of Drusus, I have followed the greatest part of
our historians, and the most faithful: I would not however omit a rumour
which in those times was so prevailing that it is not extinguished in
ours; "that Sejanus having by adultery gained Livia to the murder, had
likewise engaged by constupration the affections and concurrence of
Lygdus the eunuch; because Lygdus was, for his youth and loveliness,
dear to his master, and one of his chief attendants: that when the time
and place of poisoning, were by the
conspirators
concerted; the eunuch
carried his boldness so high, as to charge upon Drusus a design of
poisoning Tiberius; and secretly warning the Emperor of this, advised
him to shun the first draught offered him in the next entertainment
at his son's: that the old man possessed with this fictitious treason,
after he had sate down to table, having received the cup delivered it to
Drusus, who ignorantly and gaily drank it off: that this heightened the
jealousy and apprehensions of Tiberius, as if through fear and shame
his son had swallowed the same death, which for his father he had
contrived.
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Tacitus |
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Gentlemen rise, his
Highnesse
is not well
Lady.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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