XXV
The knight was wroth to see his stroke beguyld,
And smote againe with more outrageous might;
But backe againe the
sparckling
steele recoyld,
And left not any marke, where it did light, 220
As if in Adamant rocke it had bene pight.
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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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Now that sword began,
from blood of the fight, in battle-droppings, {23c}
war-blade, to wane: 'twas a
wondrous
thing
that all of it melted as ice is wont
when frosty fetters the Father loosens,
unwinds the wave-bonds, wielding all
seasons and times: the true God he!
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Thou would'st be great,
Art not without Ambition, but without
The
illnesse
should attend it.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Far inward stretch the
mournful
sterile dales,
Where on the parch'd hill-side pale famine wails.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Yet she is not by
any means a mere blameless ideal heroine; and the character which
Euripides gives her makes an
admirable
foil to that of Admetus.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Mariana, the classical
historian
of Spain, tells the story of the
ill-starred marriage which the King Don Alonso brought about
between the heirs of Carrion and the two daughters of the Cid.
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Master, must thou too die, thou beautiful
As Lucifer unstained,
fearless
as Michael helmed
For war?
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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But
wickedly
we say this.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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A large number of well-attested
saturnians
yield only two accents in
the second _colon_.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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It had to endure
the wear and tear of quotation, the
commonizing
touch of the school and the
market-place.
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Sappho |
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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last she fell a heap of Ashes
Beneath the furnaces a woful heap in living death
Then were the furnaces unscald with spades &
pickaxes
{Alternate reading of "unsealed" for "unscaled.
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Blake - Zoas |
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The Ox
Lucas and the Ox
'Lucas and the Ox'
Hieronymus Wierix, 1563 - before 1590, The Rijksmuseun
This
cherubim
sings the praises
Of Paradise where, with Angels,
We'll live once more, dear friends,
When the good God intends.
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Appoloinaire |
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whatever
brought you here.
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Iliad - Pope |
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DIDIER: The Marquis of
Saverny!
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Say what strange motive,
Goddess!
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Alexander Pope |
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Still by the light and laughing sea
Poor Polypheme bemoans his fate;
O Singer of
Persephone!
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Our paint-box is
very
imperfectly
filled.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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CXIX
Rodomont
o'er the plain pursues his man.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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150
Then I'll know who to thank, she said, and give me a
straight
look.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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You
started making that golden coach, and you were set upon it, and you had
me
tormented
about it.
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Yeats |
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Even Peter
trembles
only for his ears.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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I heard it from a little old woman in a white cap, who
sings to herself in Gaelic, and moves from one foot to the other as
though she
remembered
the dancing of her youth.
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Yeats |
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The
fountain
rears up in long
broken spears of disheveled water and flattens into the earth.
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Imagists |
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My beauty as a
branding
now will mark me;
And shame will run before me, and await
My coming, wheresoever I would lodge.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Draghignazzo
anco i volle dar di piglio
giuso a le gambe; onde 'l decurio loro
si volse intorno intorno con mal piglio.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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The shape of your heart is chimerical
And your love
resembles
my lost desire.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Of course I had money in my purse 76 to save you from
shivering
in the cold.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Poscia che m'ebbe ragionato questo,
li occhi lucenti
lagrimando
volse,
per che mi fece del venir piu presto.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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of Cilicia,
Teumman of Elam, and other potentates,
suffered
defeat at his hands.
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Byron |
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I feel it all my members haunting--
The glorious
Walpurgis
night.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Wilde - Poems |
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Are you not of some
coterie?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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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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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Wilde - Poems |
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II
Tell me ye stones and give me O
glorious
palaces answer.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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of Replacement or Refund" described in
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Quali Fiamminghi tra Guizzante e Bruggia,
temendo 'l fiotto che 'nver' lor s'avventa,
fanno lo schermo perche 'l mar si fuggia;
e quali Padoan lungo la Brenta,
per
difender
lor ville e lor castelli,
anzi che Carentana il caldo senta:
a tale imagine eran fatti quelli,
tutto che ne si alti ne si grossi,
qual che si fosse, lo maestro felli.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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"
Nay, why
external
for internal given?
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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, but its volunteers and
employees
are scattered
throughout numerous locations.
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| Question: |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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scoop the soil, op'ning a trench
Ell-broad on ev'ry side; then pour around
Libation consecrate to all the dead,
First, milk with honey mixt, then
luscious
wine, 630
Then water, sprinkling, last, meal over all.
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| Question: |
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Years go, dreams go, and youth goes too,
The world's heart breaks beneath its wars,
All things are changed, save in the east
The
faithful
beauty of the stars.
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| Question: |
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Sara Teasdale |
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Mē tō grunde tēah
"fāh fēond-scaða, fæste hæfde
555 "grim on grāpe:
hwæðre
mē gyfeðe wearð,
"þæt ic āglǣcan orde gerǣhte,
"hilde-bille; heaðo-rǣs fornam
"mihtig mere-dēor þurh mīne hand.
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Beowulf |
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The very roughness of her
rendering is part of herself, and not lightly to be touched; for it
seems in many cases that she
intentionally
avoided the smoother and
more usual rhymes.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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ODE ON THE
PLEASURE
ARISING FROM VICISSITUDE.
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Golden Treasury |
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What a
tiresome
girl!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
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Upon this night no
sentinels
keep watch.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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1085
And with his salte teres gan he bathe
The ruby in his signet, and it sette
Upon the wex deliverliche and rathe;
Ther-with a
thousand
tymes, er he lette,
He kiste tho the lettre that he shette, 1090
And seyde, `Lettre, a blisful destenee
Thee shapen is, my lady shal thee see.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Why write I still all one, ever the same,
And keep invention in a noted weed,
That every word doth almost tell my name,
Showing their birth, and where they did
proceed?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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'Tis great turmoil, when a guest
Comes to a
mourning
house.
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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THE LITTLE BLACK BOY
My mother bore me in the
southern
wild,
And I am black, but oh my soul is white!
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blake-poems |
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Ma perche tutte le tue voglie piene
ten porti che son nate in questa spera,
proceder
ancor oltre mi convene.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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It's The Sweet Law Of Men
It's the sweet law of men
They make wine from grapes
They make fire from coal
They make men from kisses
It's the true law of men
Kept intact despite
the misery and war
despite danger of death
It's the warm law of men
To change water to light
Dream to reality
Enemies to friends
A law old and new
That
perfects
itself
From the child's heart's depths
To reason's heights.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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La mer est ton miroir; tu contemples ton ame
Dans le
deroulement
infini de sa lame,
Et ton esprit n'est pas un gouffre moins amer.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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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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| Question: |
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Thus, we do not necessarily
keep eBooks in
compliance
with any particular paper edition.
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| Question: |
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Elizabeth Browning |
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"
"Surely," replied this other;
"His
grandfathers
beat them many times.
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Stephen Crane |
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TRIBOULET
_(the Court Jester), sneering.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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But there is one more strong,
Love, that came laughing from the elder seas,
The Cyprian, the mother of the world;
She gave me love who only asked for death--
I who had seen much sorrow in men's eyes
And in my own too
sorrowful
a fire.
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Sara Teasdale |
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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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blake-poems |
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I would not, if I could,
Know what the
sapphire
fellows do,
In your new-fashioned world!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Often he would bring her the
beautiful
skins of animals, and she would
walk to and fro on them, laughing to feel their softness under her
feet.
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Yeats |
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Omar, more
desperate, or more careless of any so complicated System as resulted
in nothing but hopeless Necessity, flung his own Genius and Learning
with a bitter or humorous jest into the general Ruin which their
insufficient glimpses only served to reveal; and, pretending sensual
pleasure, as the serious purpose of Life, only
diverted
himself with
speculative problems of Deity, Destiny, Matter and Spirit, Good and
Evil, and other such questions, easier to start than to run down, and
the pursuit of which becomes a very weary sport at last!
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Whilst I tell the gallant stripling's tale of daring;
When this morn they led the gallant youth to judgment
Before the dread
tribunal
of the grand Tsar,
Then our Tsar and Gosudar began to question:
Tell me, tell me, little lad, and peasant bantling!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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This one day sent thee first to war, this one day takes thee
away, while yet thou leavest heaped high thy
Rutulian
dead.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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de Crousaz, Professor of
Philosophy and Mathematics in the University of Lausanne, and defended by
Warburton, then
chaplain
to the Prince of Wales, in six letters published
in 1739, and a seventh in 1740, for which Pope (who died in 1744) was
deeply grateful.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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So he built a new city,
ah can we believe, not ironically
but for new splendour
constructed
new people
to lift through slow growth
to a beauty unrivalled yet--
and created new cells,
hideous first, hideous now--
spread larve across them,
not honey but seething life.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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XLI
Those pretty wrongs that liberty commits,
When I am sometime absent from thy heart,
Thy beauty, and thy years full well befits,
For still
temptation
follows where thou art.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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exquisite dancers in gray
twilight!
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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cwōm
Wealhþēo
forð gān under
gyldnum bēage, _she walked along under a golden head-ring, wore a golden
diadem_, 1164; gen.
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Beowulf |
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The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Madame, you must
remember
your promise.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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XXXVI
When I pass thy door at night
I a benediction breathe:
"Ye who have the sleeping world
In your care,
"Guard the linen sweet and cool, 5
Where a lovely golden head
With its dreams of mortal bliss
Slumbers
now!
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| Question: |
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Sappho |
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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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| Question: |
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Chimene
Sire, one faints from joy as well as sadness:
Excess of
happiness
may bring on weakness,
Surprise the soul, and overcome the senses.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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It was put down
entirely through the grossly illegal conduct of certain agitators in
Boston and elsewhere, who were not slaves themselves, nor owners of
slaves, nor had
anything
to do with the question really.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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They read of politics and not of grain,
And speechify and comment and explain,
And know so much of
Parliament
and state
You'd think they're members when you heard them prate;
And know so little of their farms the while
They can but urge a wiser man to smile.
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John Clare |
|
Some states do not allow disclaimers of implied warranties or
the exclusion or
limitation
of consequential damages, so the
above disclaimers and exclusions may not apply to you, and you
may have other legal rights.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Wherefore
again, again,
Even as I say, there is a joint delight.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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She gave him minute
instructions
and a key with which to open the street
door.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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If he lives, and his game spirit increases,
heaven and earth shall fail him sooner than game; and when he dies, he
will go to more
extensive
and, perchance, happier hunting-grounds.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Or ask of yonder argent fields above,
Why Jove's
satellites
are less than Jove?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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_Enter_ SIR
NICHOLAS
HEATH.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
|
'
'It is
certainly
genuine,' he replied.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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'
The
huntsman
loosens on the morn
A gay and wandering cry.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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Last came, and last did go,
The Pilot of the
Galilean
lake,
Two massy Keyes he bore of metals twain, 110
(The Golden opes, the Iron shuts amain)
He shook his Miter'd locks, and stern bespake,
How well could I have spar'd for thee, young swain,
Anow of such as for their bellies sake,
Creep and intrude, and climb into the fold?
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The
reminiscence
comes
Of sunless dry geraniums
And dust in crevices,
Smells of chestnuts in the streets
And female smells in shuttered rooms
And cigarettes in corridors
And cocktail smells in bars.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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What widens within you, Walt
Whitman?
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Whitman |
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Let our laughter
Leap like
firelight
up again.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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inges ne
shewedest
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Pages in purple run madly about,
Rolling their eyes and grinning with huge,
frightened
mouths.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Juste as I was wythe AElla to be bleste,
Shappe foullie thos hathe
snatched
hym awaie.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Its
business
office is located at
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business@pglaf.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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_Winter Walk_
The holly bush, a sober lump of green,
Shines through the
leafless
shrubs all brown and grey,
And smiles at winter be it eer so keen
With all the leafy luxury of May.
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John Clare |
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I am torn, torn with thy beauty,
O Rose of the
sharpest
thorn !
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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'Tis great turmoil, when a guest
Comes to a
mourning
house.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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, and
I have adopted it in
preference
to 'But scarce a Poet', which is an
awkward phrase and does not express what the writer means.
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John Donne |
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Of all these ways, if each pursues his own,
Satire be kind, and let the wretch alone:
But show me one who has it in his power
To act
consistent
with himself an hour.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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