Nos peches sont tetus, nos repentirs sont laches,
Nous nous faisons payer
grassement
nos aveux,
Et nous rentrons gaiment dans le chemin bourbeux,
Croyant par de vils pleurs laver toutes nos taches.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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What hum of music, what a radiant tone,
Thrills through me, from my lips the goblet
stealing!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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And now she's high upon the down,
Alone amid a
prospect
wide;
There's neither Johnny nor his horse,
Among the fern or in the gorse;
There's neither doctor nor his guide.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Note: The Rose
tremiere
is the hollyhock.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Neither her out-side formd so fair, nor aught
In
procreation
common to all kindes
(Though higher of the genial Bed by far,
And with mysterious reverence I deem)
So much delights me, as those graceful acts, 600
Those thousand decencies that daily flow
From all her words and actions, mixt with Love
And sweet compliance, which declare unfeign'd
Union of Mind, or in us both one Soule;
Harmonie to behold in wedded pair
More grateful then harmonious sound to the eare.
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Milton |
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At other times be sour and glum
And daily
thinner?
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Lewis Carroll |
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Moreover she added a certain one whose name I'm
unwilling
to speak, lest he
uplift his red eyebrows.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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CXXV
Were't aught to me I bore the canopy,
With my extern the outward honouring,
Or laid great bases for eternity,
Which proves more short than waste or
ruining?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Deep into that
darkness
peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing,
Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before;
But the silence was unbroken, and the darkness gave no token,
And the only word there spoken was the whispered word, "Lenore!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Phaedra
I've already
prolonged
its guilty thread too far.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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--We praise the things we hear with much more
willingness
than
those we see, because we envy the present and reverence the past;
thinking ourselves instructed by the one, and overlaid by the other.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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e halle entres,
Driuande
to ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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How many a holy and
obsequious
tear
Hath dear religious love stol'n from mine eye,
As interest of the dead, which now appear
But things remov'd that hidden in thee lie!
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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To place the semicolon after 'trash' makes 'Of
triviall
household
trash' depend rather awkwardly on 'lye'.
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John Donne |
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Eliot
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T.S. Eliot |
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No one can imagine too much when the
imagination
is
that of a poet.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
|
The person or entity that provided you with
the defective work may elect to provide a
replacement
copy in lieu of a
refund.
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Keats - Lamia |
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Any alternate format must include the
full Project Gutenberg-tm License as
specified
in paragraph 1.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Copyright laws in most countries are in
a
constant
state of change.
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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" As thus she said,
Love, leftwards as before, with approbation
rightwards
sneezed.
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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Can I--oh, father, mother, crave
Another final
blessing
save
To rest my head upon your grave?
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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{1a} That is, "The Hart," or "Stag," so called from decorations in
the gables that
resembled
the antlers of a deer.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Besides, the water's wet is beat upon
By rays of sun, and, with the dawn, becomes
Rarer in texture under his pulsing blaze;
And, therefore, whatso seeds it holds of fire
It renders up, even as it renders oft
The frost that it contains within itself
And thaws its ice and
looseneth
the knots.
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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Hand alitur pariles ciliorum
contrahit
arcus,
Acribus ast oculis tela subesse putes.
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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Enough for half the
greatest
of these days
To 'scape my censure, not expect my praise.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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And are they of no more avail,
Ten
thousand
glitt'ring pounds a-year?
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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To slay the
monsters
I all means will try,
Or drive them from the realm which they offend.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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--
And is all light within
destroyed?
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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To-day, the road all runners come,
Shoulder-high we bring you home,
And set you at your
threshold
down,
Townsman of a stiller town.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Quiloa's blood-stain'd tyrant now shall feel
The righteous
vengeance
of the Lusian steel.
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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We have
consented
to all terms of reason.
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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Of these Weland is the type,
husband of a swan maiden, and
afterwards
almost a god.
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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"To-day be wise and great,
And put off hesitation and go forth 5
With
cheerful
courage for the diurnal need.
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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"The son of a
stranger
came--a chief who loved the white-bosomed Moina.
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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"
"8th
November
.
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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By this clear stream,
Of thee will I write;
Meantime
from afar
Bathe me in light I
Thy world has not the dross of ours,
Yet all the beauty-all the flowers
That list our love or deck our bowers
In dreamy gardens, where do lie
Dreamy maidens all the day;
While the silver winds of Circassy
On violet couches faint away.
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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I mean
tenderly
by you,
I gather for myself, and for this phantom, looking down where we lead, and
following me and mine.
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| Source: |
Whitman |
|
[6]
In the midst of the courtyard grows a cassia-tree,--
And candles on its
branches
flaring away in the night.
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Pale through
pathless
ways
The fancied image strays,
Famished, weeping, weak,
With hollow piteous shriek.
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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And all that soul-uplifting stir
Step by step fell back from her,
The glory gone, the blossoming
Shrivelled, and she, a small, frail thing,
Carrying
her laden basket.
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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I'll teach my boy the
sweetest
things;
I'll teach him how the owlet sings.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Are fair
endowments
and a beauteous face
Beloved by none but those of Atreus' race?
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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The gesture, the
movement
begins in _Advent_ and _Celebration_ to
disturb the stillness prevailing in the first two volumes of poems.
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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Go work, hunt,
exercise!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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"Whom do you wish to
present?
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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sinews & flesh Exalt thyself attain a voice
Call to thy dark armd hosts, for all the sons of Men muster together
To
desolate
their cities!
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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"
From the wood a sound is gliding,
Vapours dense the plain are hiding,
Cries the Dame in anxious measure:
"Stay, I'll wash thy head, my
treasure!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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To fade away like morning beauty from her mortal day:
Down by the river of Adona her soft voice is heard;
And thus her gentle
lamentation
falls like morning dew.
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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"
[Note 64: The fact of the above words being
italicised
suggests
the idea that the poet is here firing a Parthian shot at some
unfriendly critic.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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I
imagined
I could save my happy life by forfeiting
my honour; and the result is that I have lost both.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Thus, too, in our own
national
songs, Douglas
is almost always the doughty Douglas; England is merry England;
all the gold is red; and all the ladies are gay.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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NOTES:
_2
unsteady
B.
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| Source: |
Shelley |
|
The person or entity that provided you with
the
defective
work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a
refund.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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It is sweet to dance to violins
When Love and Life are fair:
To dance to flutes, to dance to lutes
Is
delicate
and rare:
But it is not sweet with nimble feet
To dance upon the air!
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
|
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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]
Differences between the
editions
of 1891 & 1916 (printings of 1898 & 1918).
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Sidney Lanier |
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We can see the bright steel glancing all along the lines advancing--
Now the front rank fires a volley--they have thrown away their shot;
Far behind the
earthwork
lying, all the balls above them flying,
Our people need not hurry; so they wait and answer not.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Unauthenticated
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Date | 10/1/17 7:36 AM 292 ?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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In it is
cherishing
fyer which dryes in mee 5
Griefe which did drowne me: and halfe quench'd by it
Are satirique fyres which urg'd me to have writt
In skorne of all: for now I admyre thee.
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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"
It is
uncertain
whether this refers to his own poem or not, but I
incline to think it does.
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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wyrðe
þinceað
eorla geæhtlan, _seem worthy of the
high esteem of the noble-born_, 369.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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INCANTATION
When the leaves, by
thousands
thinned,
A thousand times have whirled in the wind,
And the moon, with hollow cheek,
Staring from her hollow height,
Consolation seems to seek
From the dim, reechoing night;
And the fog-streaks dead and white
Lie like ghosts of lost delight
O'er highest earth and lowest sky;
Then, Autumn, work thy witchery!
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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O think how this dry palate would
rejoice!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
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What is her pyramid of
precious
stones?
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Public domain books are our gateways to the past, representing a wealth of history, culture and knowledge that's often
difficult
to discover.
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Meredith - Poems |
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XXXV
The godly Matrone by the hand him beares
Forth from her presence, by a narrow way,
Scattred with bushy thornes, and ragged breares,
Which still before him she remov'd away, 310
That nothing might his ready passage stay:
And ever when his feet encombred were,
Or gan to shrinke, or from the right to stray,
She held him fast, and firmely did upbeare,
As
carefull
Nourse her child from falling oft does reare.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Carried to Colmekill,
The Sacred Store-house of his Predecessors,
And
Guardian
of their Bones
Rosse.
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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50
Here is the man with three staves, and here the Wheel,
And here is the one-eyed merchant, and this card,
Which is blank, is
something
he carries on his back,
Which I am forbidden to see.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Full many a stranger and from many a land
Hath lodged in this old castle, and my hand
Served them; but never has there passed this way
A
scurvier
ruffian than our guest to-day.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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" It would appear that in a dispute between the
families of Cadmon and De Castera, a
cavalier
of the latter family was
slain.
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
|
IX
In vain the mighty endeavor;
In vain the immortal valor;
In vain the
insurgent
life outpoured!
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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THE CHIMNEY-SWEEPER
When my mother died I was very young,
And my father sold me while yet my tongue
Could
scarcely
cry "Weep!
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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The
faithful
unto death!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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For Time, in taking him, had oped
An
unexpected
door
Of bliss for me, which grew to seem
Far surer than before .
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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This
verse
strongly
recalls certain parts of the frieze of the Parthenon
(British Museum).
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| Source: |
Keats |
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) Then when the grey wolves
everychone
Drink of the winds their chill small-beer And lap o' the snows food's gueredon,
Then maketh my heart his yule-tide cheer (Skoal !
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Soon, soon shall Conquest's fiery foot intrude,
Blackening
her lovely domes with traces rude.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Lotus-maiden, may you be
Fragrant
of all ecstasy.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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THE spark concealed himself; each charm admired;
Now this, now that, now t'other feature fired;
A hundred beauties caught his eager sight;
And while his bosom felt supreme delight,
He turned his thoughts advantages to take,
And of the maiden's error something make;
Assumed the character, and dress; and air;
That should a wat'ry deity declare;
Within the gliding flood his
vestments
dipt:
A crown of rushes on his head he slipt;
Aquatick herbs and plants around he twined:
Then Mercury intreated to be kind,
And Cupid too, the wily god of hearts;
How could the innocent resist these arts?
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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Erect stood He,
scanning
his work proudly.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
|
LV
Westward
on the high-hilled plains
Where for me the world began,
Still, I think, in newer veins
Frets the changeless blood of man.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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THE fierce harangue o'er Square-toes
pleasure
spread,
Who, mutt'ring 'tween his teeth, with fervour said:
O gracious Lord!
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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For {40c} princes potent, who placed the gold,
with a curse to
doomsday
covered it deep,
so that marked with sin the man should be,
hedged with horrors, in hell-bonds fast,
racked with plagues, who should rob their hoard.
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Sighs ascended,
Thou
gleanest
not?
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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e brode shewyng
contreys
(p.
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
|
VI
Then let not winter's ragged hand deface,
In thee thy summer, ere thou be distill'd:
Make sweet some vial;
treasure
thou some place
With beauty's treasure ere it be self-kill'd.
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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cum domitis nemo Cererem iactaret in aruis
uenturisque
malas prohiberet fructibus herbas,
annua sed saturae complerent horrea messes,
ipse suo flueret Bacchus pede mellaque lentis
penderent foliis et pingui Pallas oliuae,
secretos amnis ageret cum gratia ruris?
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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at te ego certe 25
cognoram
a parua uirgine magnanimam.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
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Men die nightly in their
beds, wringing the hands of ghostly confessors and looking them
piteously in the eyes--die with despair of heart and
convulsion
of
throat, on account of the hideousness of mysteries which will not suffer
themselves to be revealed.
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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"E'en so let it be," said he, clapping me on the shoulder; "either
entirely punish or
entirely
pardon.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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But should they with
dishonourable
scorn
Insult me, thou unmov'd my wrongs endure,
And should they even drag me by the feet
Abroad, or smite me with the spear, thy wrath
Refraining, gently counsel them to cease
From such extravagance; but well I know 330
That cease they will not, for their hour is come.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Nations, ten thousand years before these States, and many times ten
thousand years before these States;
Garnered clusters of ages, that men and women like us grew up and travelled
their course, and passed on;
What vast-built cities--what orderly republics--what pastoral tribes and
nomads;
What histories, rulers, heroes, perhaps
transcending
all others;
What laws, customs, wealth, arts, traditions;
What sort of marriage--what costumes--what physiology and phrenology;
What of liberty and slavery among them--what they thought of death and the
soul;
Who were witty and wise--who beautiful and poetic--who brutish and
undeveloped;
Not a mark, not a record remains,--And yet all remains.
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Whitman |
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Adversity
hurts none, but only such
Whom whitest fortune dandled has too much.
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Robert Herrick |
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I have seen eyes in the street
Trying to peer through lighted shutters,
And a crab one
afternoon
in a pool,
An old crab with barnacles on his back,
Gripped the end of a stick which I held him.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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"The Ancient Mariner" is the most sustained piece of
imagination
in the
whole of English poetry; and it has almost every definable merit of
imaginative narrative.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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"
He weeps by the side of the ocean,
He weeps on the top of the hill;
He purchases pancakes and lotion,
And
chocolate
shrimps from the mill.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Project Gutenberg volunteers and employees expend considerable
effort to identify, do copyright research on, transcribe and proofread
public domain works in
creating
the Project Gutenberg-tm
collection.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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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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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Even When We Sleep
Even when we sleep we watch over each other
And this love heavier than a lake's ripe fruit
Without
laughter
or tears lasts forever
One day after another one night after us.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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This is _monte potiri_, to get
the hill; for no perfect
discovery
can be made upon a flat or a level.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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