The news of the death of Patroclus is brought to
Achilles
by Antilochus.
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Iliad - Pope |
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I
[Illustration]
I was an
Inkstand
new,
Papa he likes to use it;
He keeps it in his pocket now,
For fear that he should lose it.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Les reins portent deux mots graves: _Clara Venus_
--Et tout ce corps remue et tend sa large croupe
Belle
hideusement
d'un ulcere a l'anus.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Till
Darkness and silence of the hill
Received
her in their restful care
And stars came dropping through the air.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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"God looks down from His
judgment
seat, 'Good will on earth' is His message sweet,
Turn your hearts to the Lord.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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I never saw her, yet love her true,
She never was
faithful
or untrue;
I do well when she's not in view,
Not worth a cry,
I know a nobler, fairer too
To any eye.
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Troubador Verse |
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Now, in the
desolate
dawn,
Crying of blue jays.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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ollen
_Monkey_
has two.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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_possim_
Da
18 _nobis_ Muretus: _uobis_ ?
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Latin - Catullus |
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"
A tear stood in his bright blue eye,
But still he answered, with a sigh,
Excelsior!
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Longfellow |
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Keats - Lamia |
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I must take a gold-bound pipe,
And outmatch the bubbling call
From the
beechwoods
in the sunlight,
From the meadows in the rain.
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Sappho |
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Where Mercy, Love, and Pity dwell,
There God is
dwelling
too.
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blake-poems |
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Send your
pitchers
afloat on the tide,
Gather the leaves ere the dawn be old,
Grind them in mortars of amber and gold,
The fresh green leaves of the henna-tree.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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My
beautiful
one!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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If you
received
the work electronically, the person or entity
providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to
receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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The Lion
Wild Animals
'Wild Animals'
Caspar Luyken, Christoph Weigel, 1695 - 1705, The Rijksmuseun
O lion,
miserable
image
Of kings lamentably chosen,
Now you're only born in a cage
In Hamburg, among the Germans.
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Appoloinaire |
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*The list of Dramatis Personae which does not appear in the
original has been added for the
convenience
of the reader--
A.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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decline _1650-69:_ Never declining from _A10_]
[72-7
_omitted
in A10_]
[73 same.
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John Donne |
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Should find him with you, ill disposed will she be:
Frighten you, frowning austerely, contemptuously,
violently
casting
Into the worst of repute houses he's known to frequent.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Hane
Englonde
thenne a tongue, butte notte a stynge?
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Shall I fairly own to you the impression which I generally
receive from the ancient
orators?
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Tacitus |
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And thou, Euryalus, redeem thy wrong;
A generous heart repairs a
slanderous
tongue.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Two men
drinking
together where mountain flowers grow:
One cup, one cup, and again one cup.
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Li Po |
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Wild fruits served as our provisions, low
branches
became the beams of our roof.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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By Night he fled, and at Midnight return'd
From
compassing
the Earth, cautious of day,
Since Uriel Regent of the Sun descri'd 60
His entrance, and forewarnd the Cherubim
That kept thir watch; thence full of anguish driv'n,
The space of seven continu'd Nights he rode
With darkness, thrice the Equinoctial Line
He circl'd, four times cross'd the Carr of Night
From Pole to Pole, traversing each Colure;
On the eighth return'd, and on the Coast averse
From entrance or Cherubic Watch, by stealth
Found unsuspected way.
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Milton |
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CHANCE
How many times we must have met
Here on the street as
strangers
do,
Children of chance we were, who passed
The door of heaven and never knew.
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Sara Teasdale |
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e schauen schaft
schyndered
in pece3,
?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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[HEAVEN CLOSES; THE
ARCHANGELS
EXEUNT.
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Shelley |
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I come to your wan, bleak hills
For a
greeting
that rises dearer,
To homely hearts draws me nearer
Than the warmth of the rice-fields or wealth of the ranches.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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should the branded
character
be mine!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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He was killed
by a thunderbolt from the hand of Zeus, as a result of his
reckless
driving
of the chariot of the sun.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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[Footnote 6: They go to the barnyard, and pull each, at
three
different
times, a stalk of oats.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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The
violent
controversies
of the Reformation period were over.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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I love the fair face of the maid in her youth;
Her
caresses
shall lull me, her music shall soothe:
Let her bring from her chamber the many-toned lyre,
And sing us a song on the fall of her sire.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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And we shall play a game of chess,
Pressing
lidless eyes and waiting for a knock upon the door.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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"
The Ear listened, and after listening
intently
awhile, said, "But
where is any mountain?
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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satisne cum isto
uappa frigoraque et famem
tulistis?
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Latin - Catullus |
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I
transcribe a portion thereof:
Odessa, _28th March (7th April)_ 1824
Count--Your
Excellency
is aware of the reasons for which, some
time ago, young Pushkin was sent with a letter from Count Capo
d'Istria to General Inzoff.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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These hands have helped it go and even race;
Not all the motion, though, they ever lent,
Not all the miles it may have thought it went,
Have got it one step from the
starting
place.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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And Time, the great Accomplisher,
Shall cross the threshold, whensoe'er
He choose with purging hand to cleanse
The palace, driving all
pollution
thence.
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Aeschylus |
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VARLAAM,
wandering
friar.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Another scene display'd the dread alarms
Of war in heav'n, and mighty Jove in arms;
Here, Titan's race their swelling nerves distend
Like knotted oaks, and from their bases rend
And tower the
mountains
to the thund'ring sky,
While round their heads the forky lightnings fly;
Beneath huge Etna vanquish'd Typhon lies,[403]
And vomits smoke and fire against the darken'd skies.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Wiglaf stabs the dragon from underneath, and
Bēowulf
cuts it in two
with his dagger.
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Beowulf |
|
Copyright infringement
liability
can be quite severe.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Sure, sure, if
stedfast
meaning,
If single thought could save,
The world might end to-morrow,
You should not see the grave.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Who shall do
judgment
on me, when she dies?
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Euripides - Electra |
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Yonder small group of hills,
according
to the
guide-book, forms "the portal of the wilds which are trodden only by
the feet of the Indian hunters as far as Hudson's Bay.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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e 3ere after,
& vche sesoun
serlepes
sued after o?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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[Thomson
instantly
complied with the dying poet's request, and
transmitted the exact sum which he requested, viz.
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Robert Forst |
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[We are informed by
Richmond
of Mauchline, that when he was clerk in
Gavin Hamilton's office, Burns came in one morning and said, "I have
just composed a poem, John, and if you will write it, I will repeat
it.
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Robert Forst |
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From that district I proceeded to Bath, Bristol, and so on to the
banks of the Wye; where I took again to
travelling
on foot.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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MOPSUS
What if he also strive
To out-sing
Phoebus?
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Late, a sad
spectacle
of woe, he trod
The desert sands, and now be looks a god.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Tarbigilus simulare fugam flatusque Leonis
spe nutrire leuis
improuisusque
repente,
dum grauibus marcent epulis hostique catenas
inter uina crepant, largo sopita Lyaeo
castra subit.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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let me hear
The name I used to run at, when a child,
From innocent play, and leave the
cowslips
plied,
To glance up in some face that proved me dear
With the look of its eyes.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Stephen Crane |
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Nor may we hope to sodder still and knit
These two, and dare to breake them; nor must wit
Be
colleague
to religion, but be it.
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John Donne |
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And I again envying her and
questioning!
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Copyright laws in most
countries
are in
a constant state of change.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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"
The Nilghai saw the twinkle in Dick's eye, and
refrained
from speech.
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Kipling - Poems |
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M uch better
elsewhere
to search for
A id: it would have been more to my honour:
R etreat I must, and fly with dishonour,
T hough none else then would have cast a lure.
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Villon |
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Once more upon the woody Apennine,
The infant Alps, which--had I not before
Gazed on their mightier parents, where the pine
Sits on more shaggy summits, and where roar
The
thundering
lauwine--might be worshipped more;
But I have seen the soaring Jungfrau rear
Her never-trodden snow, and seen the hoar
Glaciers of bleak Mont Blanc both far and near,
And in Chimari heard the thunder-hills of fear,
LXXIV.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Three times, with beating heart, he made essay:
Three times, unequal to the task, gave way;
A modest
boldness
on his cheek appear'd:
And thrice he hoped, and thrice again he fear'd.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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They have enough as 'tis: I see
In many an eye that
measures
me
The mortal sickness of a mind
Too unhappy to be kind.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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But, when we vanish hence,
Shall they lie
forceless
in the dark below,
Save to make green their little length of souls,
Or deepen pansies for a year or two,
Who now to us are shining-sweet as gods?
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James Russell Lowell |
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"
The voice of grief and fury till then had not been loud;
But a deep sullen murmur
wandered
among the crowd,
Like the moaning noise that goes before the whirlwind on the
deep,
Or the growl of a fierce watch-dog but half aroused from sleep.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Till yesterday
I thought that hunger and
weakness
had been enough;
But finding them too trifling and too light
To hold his mouth from biting at the grave,
I called you hither, and all my hope's in you,
And certain of his neighbours and good friends
That I have sent for.
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Yeats |
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Wilde - Poems |
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Du Fu - 5 |
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to catch
fire in her long tresses, and burn with flickering flame in all her
array, her queenly hair lit up, lit up her
jewelled
circlet; till,
enwreathed in smoke and lurid light, she scattered fire over all the
palace.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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above Iulus' head there seemed
to stream a light
luminous
cone, and a flame whose touch hurt not to
flicker in his soft hair and play round his brows.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Why dost thou pause,
Politian?
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Sometimes
upon the hills beside the sea
All day I watched the floating isles of shade,
And sometimes on the shore, upon the sands
Insensibly I drew her name, until
The meaning of the letters shot into
My brain: anon the wanton billow wash'd
Them over, till they faded like my love.
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Tennyson |
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permission and without paying
copyright
royalties.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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THE son, when grown of size, a tutor had,
No pedant rude, with Greek and Latin mad,
But young and smart, a master too of arts,
Particularly
learned in what imparts,
The gentle flame, the pleasing poignant pang,
That Ovid formerly so sweetly sang.
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La Fontaine |
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I liked him as much for his
terrible
ill
temper, as for his happy knack at making a blunder.
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Poe - 5 |
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The Foundation makes no
representations
concerning
the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United
States.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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It
is also
uncertain
whether he knew, when he entered the service of Lin,
that this prince was about to take up arms against the Emperor.
| Guess: |
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Li Po |
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There lies a spot deep withdrawn; an island forms a
harbour with
outstretched
sides, whereon all the waves break from the
open sea and part into the hollows of the bay.
| Guess: |
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Pray for us, now beyond violence,
To the Son of the Virgin Mary,
So of grace to us she's not chary,
Shields us from Hell's
lightning
fall.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
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How seems it you, of Arrabits and Franks,
Shall we from hence
victorious
go back?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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tunc morior curis, tunc mens mihi perdita fingit,
quisue meam teneat, quot
teneatue
modis:
tunc tibi, lena, precor diras: satis anxia uiuas,
mouerit e uotis pars quotacumque deos.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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They
gathered
the flowers
Each to himself.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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ei weren
enfourmed
of my maneres.
| Guess: |
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Chaucer - Boethius |
|
)
By Power, Wealth, and Show,
(The Gods by men adored,)
By
nameless
Poverty,
(Their hell abhorred,)
By all they hope, by all they fear,
Hear!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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This Troilus, whan he hir wordes herde, 1065
Have ye no care, him liste not to slepe;
For it thoughte him no strokes of a yerde
To here or seen Criseyde, his lady wepe;
But wel he felte aboute his herte crepe,
For every teer which that
Criseyde
asterte, 1070
The crampe of deeth, to streyne him by the herte.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Our master made
That order, that the
stranger
must not know.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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<
diversamente
per diversi offici?
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Three times
I dreamed the
selfsame
dream.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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And see how dark the
backward
stream!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Are
cottages
of mud and stone,
By valley wood and glen,
And their calm dwellers little known
Men, and but common men,
That drive afield with carts and ploughs?
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John Clare |
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The use of
abstracts
as common nouns with
the article, or in the plural, is a feature of Donne's syntax.
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John Donne |
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The sin is yours--with your
accursed
gold--
Man's wealth is master--woman's soul the slave!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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O to die
advancing
on!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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And still they led him onwards, and he still
Looked back towards her
standing
there; and they, content,
Cheered him and praised him that he did their will.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Transcriber's Notes
Some text styles have been preserved in this text by
enclosing
between
special characters.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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