But the servaunt
traveileth
in vayne,
That for to serven doth his payne 2110
Unto that lord, which in no wyse
Can him no thank for his servyse.
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Transcriber's Notes:
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'And now beside thee,
bleating
lamb,
I can lie down and sleep,
Or think on Him who bore thy name,
Graze after thee, and weep.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Baron, strike on; here have we our
warrant!
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Chanson de Roland |
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"
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writers?
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Paradiso
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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O thou field of my delight so fair and
verdant!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Meredith - Poems |
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"Begin, my flute, with me
Maenalian
lays.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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From the
wildness
of my wasted passion I had
struck a better, clearer song,
Lit some lighter light of freer freedom, battled
with some Hydra-headed wrong.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Women claim she's ugly,
But for her the men go mad:
The
Archbishop
of Toledo
Kneels at her feet to say Mass;
For above her amber nape
Is coiled a large chignon
That, in her room, undone
Yields her body a cape.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Right in we went, with soul intent
On Death and Dread and Doom:
The hangman, with his little bag,
Went shuffling through the gloom:
And each man
trembled
as he crept
Into his numbered tomb.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Might he know
How
conscious
consciousness could grow,
Till love that was, and love too blest to be,
Meet -- and the junction be Eternity?
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Hubur,
mythical
river, 197, 42.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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There simmer first unfauld her robes,
And there the langest tarry;
For there I took the last fareweel
O' my sweet
Highland
Mary.
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Golden Treasury |
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Even the King agrees, the truth is plain,
That in
Rodrigue
your father lives again;
If you'd have me explain it in a breath,
You pursue public ruin through his death.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Soft airs and song, and the light and bloom,
Should keep them
lingering
by my tomb.
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Poe - 5 |
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But if the brave old mould is broke,
And end in churls the
mountain
folk
In tavern cheer and tavern joke,
Sink, O mountain, in the swamp!
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Emerson - Poems |
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I then my wife was anxious to address,
And
whispered
that she should the youth caress;
Nor dread too much the spoiling of her charms:
Indeed 'twas all embarrassing alarms.
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La Fontaine |
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So ween I for thee a worse adventure
-- though in buffet of battle thou brave hast been,
in
struggle
grim, -- if Grendel's approach
thou darst await through the watch of night!
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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' his household cry:
`He hath
followed
a ghost in flight.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Thembassadours ben answered for fynal, 145
Theschaunge
of prisoners and al this nede
Hem lyketh wel, and forth in they procede.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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_Dumu-zi_
I take to have been originally the name of a prehistoric ruler of
Erech, identified with the
primitive
deity Abu.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Unauthenticated
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Du Fu - 5 |
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First, that a wife sat sundered from her lord,
In widowed solitude, was utter woe--
And woe, to hear how rumour's many tongues
All boded evil--woe, when he who came
And he who
followed
spake of ill on ill,
Keening _Lost, lost, all lost!
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Aeschylus |
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By him who died on cross,
With his cruel bow he laid full low
The
harmless
Albatross.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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When will you bring back the
standard
and axe,1 40 unite our forces and sweep away the ill-omened comet?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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net
Updated
editions
will replace the previous one--the old editions
will be renamed.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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XVI
And the spirits of those who were homing
Passed on, rushingly,
Like the Pentecost Wind;
And the whirr of their
wayfaring
thinned
And surceased on the sky, and but left in the gloaming
Sea-mutterings and me.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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I will pay the
sapientipotent
George, most cheerfully, to hear from
you ere I leave Ayrshire.
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Robert Forst |
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Vologaesus was duly thanked
and
instructed
to send his envoys to the senate and to understand that
peace had been made.
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Tacitus |
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Thence to relieve the
fainting
Argive throng,
Smooth as the sailing doves they glide along.
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Iliad - Pope |
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In common with all the world, we have been much
delighted
with "The
Shepherd's Hunting" by Withers--a poem partaking, in a remarkable
degree, of the peculiarities of "Il Penseroso.
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Poe - 5 |
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active links or
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Keats |
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To them
must also be attributed the
illiberal
sneers at the Greeks, the
furious party spirit, the contempt for the arts of peace, the
love of war for its own sake, the ungenerous exultation over the
vanquished, which the reader will sometimes observe.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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_The Son_
But the
headboard
of mother's bed is pushed
Against the attic door: the door is nailed.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Or shall we every decency confound,
Through taverns, stews, and bagnios take our round,
Go dine with Chartres, in each vice out-do
K---l's lewd cargo, or Ty---y's crew,
From Latian Syrens, French Circean feasts,
Return well travelled, and
transformed
to beasts.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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I pause, my
dreaming
spirit hears,
Across the wind's unquiet tides,
The glimmering music of your spears,
The laughter of your royal brides.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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"
These pictures of town and
landscape
are never separated from their
personal relation to the poet.
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Rilke - Poems |
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WAGNER:
Wie konnt Ihr Euch darum
betruben!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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And, flocking out, streams up the rout;
And lilies nod to velvet's swish;
And peacocks prim on gilded dish,
Vast pies thick-glazed, and gaping fish,
Towering confections crisp as ice,
Jellies aglare like cockatrice,
With
thousand
savours tongues entice.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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No
lightning
or storm reach where he's gone.
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Villon |
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XX
Exactly as the rain-filled cloud is seen
Lifting earthly vapours through the air,
Forming a bow, and then drinking there
By plunging deep in Tethys' hoary sheen,
Next,
climbing
again where it has been,
With bellying shadow darkening everywhere,
Till finally it bursts in lightning glare,
And rain, or snow, or hail shrouds the scene:
This city, that was once a shepherd's field,
Rising by degrees, such power did wield,
She made herself the queen of sea and land,
Till helpless to sustain that huge excess,
Her power dispersed, so we might understand
That all, one day, must come to nothingness.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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One of us, pierced in the flank,
dragged himself across the marsh,
he tore at the bay-roots,
lost hold on the
crumbling
bank--
Another crawled--too late--
for shelter under the cliffs.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Haste to cure the old despair,--
Reason in Nature's lotus drenched,
The memory of ages quenched;
Give them again to shine;
Let wine repair what this undid;
And where the infection slid,
A dazzling memory revive;
Refresh the faded tints,
Recut the aged prints,
And write my old
adventures
with the pen
Which on the first day drew,
Upon the tablets blue,
The dancing Pleiads and eternal men.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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In the department of history
be appears to have been
particularly
well read;
Digitized by VjOOQIC
Xlviii NOTICE OF THE AUTHOR.
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Marvell - Poems |
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The Foundation is
committed
to complying with the laws regulating
charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United
States.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Whoe'er offends, at some unlucky time
Slides into verse, and hitches in a rhyme,
Sacred to
ridicule
his whole life long,
And the sad burthen of some merry song.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Hounded by misery till my final breath,
I lay down a painful life in
tormented
death.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Lewis Carroll |
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On every wooden dish, a humble claim,
Two rude cut letters mark the owner's name;
From every nook the smile of plenty calls,
And rusty
flitches
decorate the walls,
Moore's Almanack where wonders never cease--
All smeared with candle snuff and bacon grease.
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John Clare |
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Perhaps Charlevoix
describes
the St.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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1630
She has
punished
herself, and escaped my anger,
By seeking in the waves a far gentler torture.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Is there another glutton besides
Cleonymus?
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Aristophanes |
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Rude is the tent this
architect
invents,
Rural the place, with cart ruts by dyke side.
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John Clare |
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I am
touching
your face.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Series
For the
splendour
of the day of happinesses in the air
To live the taste of colours easily
To enjoy loves so as to laugh
To open eyes at the final moment
She has every willingness.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Its dialogue was
above the average, though the
characters
were the old rattle-traps of
the stage, the wild Irish girl, and the Irish servant, and the bowing
Frenchman, and the situations had all been squeezed dry generations
ago.
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Yeats |
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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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(_To the
Attendants_)
So; guide her home.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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An act of
courtesy
(used in _pl.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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"--As this he said,
He lifted up his stature vast, and stood,
Still without
intermission
speaking thus:
"Now ye are flames, I'll tell you how to burn,
And purge the ether of our enemies;
How to feed fierce the crooked stings of fire,
And singe away the swollen clouds of Jove, 330
Stifling that puny essence in its tent.
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Keats |
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Or ask of yonder argent fields above,
Why Jove's
satellites
are less than Jove?
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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So far it is from both the sky and land,
It cannot rise, it dare not fall, so lives apart
From fear of
conquest
and from hope of rest.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Broad-faced asters by my garden walk,
You are but coarse
compared
with roses:
More choice, more dear that rosebud which uncloses
Faint-scented, pinched, upon its stalk,
That least and last which cold winds balk;
A rose it is though least and last of all,
A rose to me though at the fall.
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Christina Rossetti |
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"Now wenches listen, and let lovers lie,
Ye'll hear a story ye may profit by;
I'm your age treble, with some oddments to't,
And right from wrong can tell, if ye'll but do't:
Ye need not giggle
underneath
your hat,
Mine's no joke-matter, let me tell you that;
So keep ye quiet till my story's told,
And don't despise your betters cause they're old.
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John Clare |
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* * *
NIGHT IN JUNE
I left my dreary page and sallied forth,
Received the fair
inscriptions
of the night;
The moon was making amber of the world,
Glittered with silver every cottage pane,
The trees were rich, yet ominous with gloom.
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Emerson - Poems |
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XVII
Pale rose leaves have fallen
In the
fountain
water;
And soft reedy flute-notes
Pierce the sultry quiet.
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Sappho |
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The Bandersnatch fled as the others appeared
Led on by that fear-stricken yell:
And the Bellman
remarked
"It is just as I feared!
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Lewis Carroll |
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To Gammer Gurton if it give the bays,
And yet deny the
careless
husband praise.
| Guess: |
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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LXXV
So are you to my
thoughts
as food to life,
Or as sweet-season'd showers are to the ground;
And for the peace of you I hold such strife
As 'twixt a miser and his wealth is found.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Presuming
of his force, with sparkling eyes,
Already he devours the promised prize.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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The Vizier was
generous
and
kept his word.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Copyright
laws in most countries are in
a constant state of change.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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"Surely the most beneficent and innocent of all books
yet
produced
is the _Book of Nonsense_, with its corollary
carols, inimitable and refreshing, and perfect in rhythm.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Whom he takes he takes with firm sure grasp into live
regions
previously
unattained.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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Meanwhile opinion gilds with varying rays
Those painted clouds that beautify our days;
Each want of
happiness
by hope supplied,
And each vacuity of sense by pride:
These build as fast as knowledge can destroy;
In folly's cup still laughs the bubble, joy;
One prospect lost, another still we gain;
And not a vanity is given in vain;
Even mean self-love becomes, by force divine,
The scale to measure others' wants by thine.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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LXXIII
A castle this, which royal Charlemagne
Had given to Aymon some few days before,
Built between Carcasson and Perpignan,
On a
commanding
point upon the shore.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Nothing is sure for me but what's uncertain:
Obscure,
whatever
is plainly clear to see:
I've no doubt, except of everything certain:
Science is what happens accidentally:
I win it all, yet a loser I'm bound to be:
Saying: 'God give you good even!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
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Her lover and the place, at once assured,
That such a secret would be well secured;
A
tempting
bait, which made her, with regret,
Resist the witching charm that her beset.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
|
On every wooden dish, a humble claim,
Two rude cut letters mark the owner's name;
From every nook the smile of plenty calls,
And rusty flitches decorate the walls,
Moore's
Almanack
where wonders never cease--
All smeared with candle snuff and bacon grease.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
|
And their long holiday that feared not grief,
For all
belonged
to all, and each was chief.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Da mag denn Schmerz und Genuss,
Gelingen
und Verdruss
Miteinander wechseln, wie es kann;
Nur rastlos betatigt sich der Mann.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
|
ULALUME
The skies they were ashen and sober;
The leaves they were crisped and sere--
The leaves they were withering and sere;
It was night in the lonesome October
Of my most
immemorial
year:
It was hard by the dim lake of Auber,
In the misty mid region of Weir:--
It was down by the dank tarn of Auber,
In the ghoul-haunted woodland of Weir.
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The pigeons from the dove cote cooed over the old lane,
The crow flocks from the oakwood went flopping oer the grain;
Like lots of dear old
neighbours
whom I shall see no more
They greeted me that morning I left the English shore.
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In passing over
these heights of land, through their thin atmosphere, the follies of
the plain are refined and purified; and as many species of plants do
not scale their summits, so many species of folly, no doubt, do not
cross the Alleghanies; it is only the hardy mountain-plant that creeps
quite over the ridge, and
descends
into the valley beyond.
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[DON RUY GOMEZ
_presses
a spring in the wall, and a
door opens into a hiding-place.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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GAMA the while, and India's second lord,
Hold glad responses, as the various word
The
faithful
Moor unfolds.
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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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As when a prowling Wolfe,
Whom hunger drives to seek new haunt for prey,
Watching where
Shepherds
pen thir Flocks at eeve
In hurdl'd Cotes amid the field secure,
Leaps o're the fence with ease into the Fould:
Or as a Thief bent to unhoord the cash
Of some rich Burgher, whose substantial dores,
Cross-barrd and bolted fast, fear no assault, 190
In at the window climbes, or o're the tiles;
So clomb this first grand Thief into Gods Fould:
So since into his Church lewd Hirelings climbe.
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The
children
of the citadel conquered all
Their conquerors, smiting them with the pure light
That shone in that strong city fortified.
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Even Peter
trembles
only for his ears.
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--There can hardly exist a poem more
truly tragic in the highest sense than this: nor, except Sappho, has any
Poetess known to the Editor
equalled
it in excellence.
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The Limitoure then loosen'd his pouche threade, 80
And did
thereoute
a groate of silver take;
The mister pilgrim dyd for halline[47] shake.
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Oh, to awake with the wise old stars --
The cultured, the careful, the Chesterfield stars,
That wink at the work-a-day fact of crime
And shine so rich through the ruins of time
That Baalbec is finer than London; oh,
To sit on the bough that zigzags low
By the woodland pool,
And loudly laugh at man, the fool
That vows to the vulgar sun; oh, rare,
To wheel from the wood to the window where
A day-worn sleeper is
dreaming
of care,
And perch on the sill and straightly stare
Through his visions; rare, to sail
Aslant with the hill and a-curve with the vale, --
To flit down the shadow-shot-with-gleam,
Betwixt hanging leaves and starlit stream,
Hither, thither, to and fro,
Silent, aimless, dayless, slow
(`Aimless?
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They might (were Harpax not too wise to spend)
Give Harpax' self the blessing of a friend;
Or find some doctor that would save the life
Of
wretched
Shylock, spite of Shylock's wife:
But thousands die, without or this or that,
Die, and endow a college, or a cat.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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This climate, which, as far as I can judge, must be
insupportable in summer, is
delightful
in winter.
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Petrarch |
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How durst thou vaunt thy watery
progeny?
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