Why preyest thou thus upon the poet's heart,
Vulture, whose wings are dull
realities?
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er
charcole
brenned,
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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By perfect, we understand that
to which nothing is wanting, as place to the
building
that is raised, and
action to the fable that is formed.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Every species of assassination was
the policy of their courts, and every act of
unrestrained
rapine and
massacre followed the path of victory.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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In my
intercourse
with the Chinese I cannot recall a modern
Chinese who was a poet.
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Li Po |
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Daddy Long-legs,
"I can never sing again;
And, if you wish, I'll tell you why,
Although
it gives me pain.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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"
In the evening
The far valleys were
sprinkled
with tiny lights.
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Stephen Crane |
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'You Rise the Water Unfolds'
You rise the water unfolds
You sleep the water flowers
You are water ploughed from its depths
You are earth that takes root
And in which all is grounded
You make bubbles of silence in the desert of sound
You sing
nocturnal
hymns on the arcs of the rainbow
You are everywhere you abolish the roads
You sacrifice time
To the eternal youth of an exact flame
That veils Nature to reproduce her
Woman you show the world a body forever the same
Yours
You are its likeness.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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The sanguine Sunrise, with his meteor eyes,
And his burning plumes outspread,
Leaps on the back of my sailing rack,
When the morning star shines dead;
As on the jag of a
mountain
crag, _35
Which an earthquake rocks and swings,
An eagle alit one moment may sit
In the light of its golden wings.
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Shelley |
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Sow your
gladness
for earth's reaping,
So you may be glad, though sleeping.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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[Footnote D of 'Descriptive Sketches',
the
preceding
poem in this text.
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William Wordsworth |
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Quick, rub thine eyes and draw thy hose:
The Morning comes ere
darkness
goes.
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Sidney Lanier |
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+ Keep it legal Whatever your use, remember that you are
responsible
for ensuring that what you are doing is legal.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Far as the east from even,
Dim as the border star, --
Courtiers quaint, in kingdoms,
Our
departed
are.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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,
_habitable
space, house_, _hall_: dat.
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Beowulf |
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oblivion dark and long
Has locked them in a tearless grave,
For lack of
consecrating
song.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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That which is the very keynote of
romantic
art was to him the proper
basis of natural life.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Faggots are heaped all about me against the cold of the winter,
Which I so hate for the crows
settling
then down on my head,
Which they befoul very shamefully.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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]
166 (return)
[ The Catti possessed a large territory between the Rhine, Mayne and Sala, and the Hartz forest on this side of the Weser; where are now the
countries
of Hesse, Thuringia, part of Paderborn, of Fulda, and of Franconia.
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Tacitus |
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Petrarch sent him both, accompanied with a
letter, in which he praises Luchino for his encouragement of learning
and his
cultivation
of the Muses.
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Petrarch |
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The horses stood
motionless, hanging their heads and
shivering
from time to time.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Imagination
flowers and vanishes, swiftly, following the flow of the writing, round the fragmentary stations of a capitalised phrase introduced by and extended from the title.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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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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Stephen Crane |
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Aricia
I'm astonished and
confused
by all I hear,
I fear lest a dream deceives me, yes I fear.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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"
The God on half-shut
feathers
sank serene,
She breath'd upon his eyes, and swift was seen
Of both the guarded nymph near-smiling on the green.
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Keats |
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The results of this great change were
singularly
happy and
glorious.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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"
LXXXVI
Love is so strong a thing,
The very gods must yield,
When it is welded fast
With the
unflinching
truth.
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Sappho |
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310
Ah
conversant
with woe!
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Certitude
If I speak it's to hear you more clearly
If I hear you I'm sure to
understand
you
If you smile it's the better to enter me
If you smile I will see the world entire
If I embrace you it's to widen myself
If we live everything will turn to joy
If I leave you we'll remember each other
In leaving you we'll find each other again.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Already doubled is the cape--our bay
Receives
that prow which proudly spurns the spray.
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Byron |
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Thus grow I calm, and to such state am brought,
At noon, at break of day, at vesper-bell,
I find them in my mind so
tranquil
dwell,
I neither think nor care beside for aught.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Two bodies
therefore
be;
Bind one, and one will flee.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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How
silently
serene a sea of pride!
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Poe - 5 |
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But there upon the sanded floor,
More wonderful in all that store
Than
anything
on slab or shelf,
Stood Miles, the fishmonger, himself.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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CXCVII
Says
Marsilies
the king: "Now let that be.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Now is the time of
plaintive
robin-song,
When flowers are in their tombs.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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"
The harbour-bay was clear as glass,
So
smoothly
it was strewn!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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His high-handed conduct
soon became unpopular, but he continued in favor with
Villiers
and
James, and his disgrace did not come until 1621.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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neque ulla uota litoralibus deis
sibi esse facta, cum ueniret a marei
nouissimo
hunc ad usque limpidum lacum.
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Latin - Catullus |
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(C)
Copyright
2000-2016 A.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Pine cone,
stripped
by squirrels, 196.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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"
Then the gauzes removes he which shade her,
At her beauty all wonder intensely;
One moment the Pasha survey'd her,
And,
dropping
his tchebouk, without sense lay.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Where is that wise girl Eloise,
For whom was gelded, to his great shame,
Peter Abelard, at Saint Denis,
For love of her
enduring
pain,
And where now is that queen again,
Who commanded them to throw
Buridan in a sack, in the Seine?
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Villon |
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Thus, Woman,
Principle
of Life, Speaker of the Ideal
Would you see
The dark form of the sun
The contours of life
Or be truly dazzled
By the fire that fuses all
The flame conveyer of modesties
In flesh in gold that fine gesture
Error is as unknown
As the limits of spring
The temptation prodigious
All touches all travels you
At first it was only a thunder of incense
Which you love the more
The fine praise at four
Lovely motionless nude
Violin mute but palpable
I speak to you of seeing
I will speak to you of your eyes
Be faceless if you wish
Of their unwilling colour
Of luminous stones
Colourless
Before the man you conquer
His blind enthusiasm
Reigns naively like a spring
In the desert
Between the sands of night and the waves of day
Between earth and water
No ripple to erase
No road possible
Between your eyes and the images I see there
Is all of which I think
Myself inderacinable
Like a plant which masses itself
Which simulates rock among other rocks
That I carry for certain
You all entire
All that you gaze at
All
This is a boat
That sails a sweet river
It carries playful women
And patient grain
This is a horse descending the hill
Or perhaps a flame rising
A great barefooted laugh in a wretched heart
An autumn height of soothing verdure
A bird that persists in folding its wings in its nest
A morning that scatters the reddened light
To waken the fields
This is a parasol
And this the dress
Of a lace-maker more seductive than a bouquet
Of the bell-sounds of the rainbow
This thwarts immensity
This has never enough space
Welcome is always elsewhere
With the lightning and the flood
That accompany it
Of medusas and fires
Marvellously obliging
They destroy the scaffolding
Topped by a sad coloured flag
A bounded star
Whose fingers are paralysed
I speak of seeing you
I know you living
All exists all is visible
There is no fleck of night in your eyes
I see by a light exclusively yours.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Verflucht, was uns in Traumen heuchelt
Des Ruhms, der
Namensdauer
Trug!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Your
misfortune
even lent you fresh dimension.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Perhaps he will die, and the sacrilegious vow 1315
Of a
maddened
father may yet be carried out.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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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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Li Bai - Chinese |
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) can copy and
distribute
it in the United States without
permission and without paying copyright royalties.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Traveller, to thee, perchance, a tedious road,
Or, it may be, a picture; to these men,
The
landscape
is an armory of powers,
Which, one by one, they know to draw and use.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Why will you plead
yourself
so sad forlorn,
While I am striving how to fill my heart
With deeper crimson, and a double smart?
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Keats - Lamia |
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Very
beautiful
instances of this are the sunset and
sunrise in Book I, when the departure of the sun-god and his return to
earth are so described that the pictures we see are of an evening and
morning sky, an angry sunset, and a grey and misty dawn.
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Keats |
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= Pumps are
first
mentioned
in the sixteenth century (Planche).
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Keats |
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Truly they say, and it's my belief:
'All are my
brothers!
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Troubador Verse |
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In doing so--it
was lying face downward--I tore the frail and rotten khaki shooting-coat
open,
disclosing
a hideous cavity in the back.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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"
--And so the
conversation
slips
Among velleities and carefully caught regrets
Through attenuated tones of violins
Mingled with remote cornets
And begins.
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T.S. Eliot |
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quem tu
scilicet
ad tuum Catullum
misti, continuo ut die periret,
Saturnalibus, optimo dierum!
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Latin - Catullus |
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O'er miles and miles the
shattered
ruins spread
Beneath its base, from captive tempests bred,
The air seemed filled with harmony strange and dire;
While swarmed around the entire human race
A future Babel, on the world's whole space
Fixed its eternal spire.
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
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T.S. Eliot |
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FAUST:
Hat sich dir was im Kopf
verschoben?
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Yong fry of
Treachery?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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He is
that rare and unknown being, a genuine poet--a poet in the midst of
things that have disordered his spirit--a poet excessively
developed
in
his taste for and by beauty .
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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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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"Since of all women thou hast made of me
Unto my husband a disgust and shame;
Since I may not cast this monstrosity,
Like an old love-epistle, to the flame;
"I will pour out thine
overwhelming
hate
On this the accursed weapon of thy spite;
This stunted tree I will so desecrate
That not one tainted bud shall see the light!
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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If I but deserve you,
I keep all you grant to him and more:
You shall make me dare what others dare not,
You shall keep my nature pure as snow,
And a light from you that others share not
Shall
transfigure
me where'er I go.
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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Now indeed
His senses had swoon'd off: he did not heed
The sudden silence, or the whispers low,
Or the old eyes
dissolving
at his woe, 400
Or anxious calls, or close of trembling palms,
Or maiden's sigh, that grief itself embalms:
But in the self-same fixed trance he kept,
Like one who on the earth had never slept.
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| Source: |
Keats |
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_Visions
of the Evening.
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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Was it not well beleev'd till now, that hee, 25
Whose reputation was an extasie
On
neighbour
States, which knew not why to wake,
Till hee discover'd what wayes he would take;
For whom, what Princes angled, when they tryed,
Met a _Torpedo_, and were stupified; 30
And others studies, how he would be bent;
Was his great fathers greatest instrument,
And activ'st spirit, to convey and tie
This soule of peace, through Christianity?
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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With "Mary, when shall we return,
Sic
pleasure
to renew?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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To the high altar on they go;
Oh, but it made a
glorious
show!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
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"
To the far heaven, where gleams a
splendid
throne,
The Poet uplifts his arms in calm delight,
And the vast beams from his pure spirit flown,
Wrap all the furious peoples from his sight:
"Thou, O my God, be blest who givest pain,
The balm divine for each imperfect heart,
The strong pure essence cleansing every stain
Of sin that keeps us from thy joys apart.
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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By her glad Lycius sitting, in chief place,
Scarce saw in all the room another face, 240
Till, checking his love trance, a cup he took
Full brimm'd, and
opposite
sent forth a look
'Cross the broad table, to beseech a glance
From his old teacher's wrinkled countenance,
And pledge him.
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| Source: |
Keats |
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Mostrata
ho lui tutta la gente ria;
e ora intendo mostrar quelli spirti
che purgan se sotto la tua balia.
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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" and all other
references
to Project Gutenberg,
or:
[1] Only give exact copies of it.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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So many conquests proud of having made,
And over full the BOOK of--those who'd play'd;
Said gay Astolphus we will now, my friend,
Return the
shortest
road and poaching end;
If false our mates, yet we'll console ourselves,
That many others have inconstant elves.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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To balls and banquets ALL themselves resigned;
Of dwarf or valet nothing more we find;
Each with his wife contentedly remained:--
'Tis thus alone true
happiness
is gained.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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Here some are digging harbours, here
others lay the deep foundations of their theatre, and hew out of the
cliff vast columns, the lofty ornaments of the stage to be: even as bees
when summer is fresh over the flowery country ply their task beneath the
sun, when they lead forth their nation's grown brood, or when they press
the liquid honey and strain their cells with
nectarous
sweets, or
relieve the loaded incomers, or in banded array drive the idle herd of
drones far from their folds; they swarm over their work, and the odorous
honey smells sweet of thyme.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
|
You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose
such as
creation
of derivative works, reports, performances and
research.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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' 1190
What mighte or may the sely larke seye,
Whan that the
sperhauk
hath it in his foot?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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And now in
flight he descries the peak and steep sides of toiling Atlas, whose
crest
sustains
the sky; Atlas, whose pine-clad head is girt alway with
black clouds and beaten by wind and rain; snow is shed over his
shoulders for covering; rivers tumble over his aged chin; and his rough
beard is stiff with ice.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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O, Civil Fury, you alone are the cause,
In
Macedonian
fields sowing new wars,
Arming Pompey against Caesar there,
So that achieving the rich crown of all,
Roman grandeur, prospering everywhere,
Might tumble down in more disastrous fall.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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They are all
drowned!
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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And many an Afghan chief, who lies
Beneath his cool pomegranate-trees,
Clutches his sword in fierce surmise
When on the mountain-side he sees
The fleet-foot Marri scout, who comes
To tell how he hath heard afar
The
measured
roll of English drums
Beat at the gates of Kandahar.
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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For nothing visible, they say, had birth
In that blest ground but it was play'd about
With its
peculiar
glory.
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Tennyson |
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Ronsard's Cassandra, was
Cassandra
Salviati, the daughter of an Italian banker.
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Ronsard |
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What if the immortals on the man bestow
Sufficient
strength
to draw the mighty bow?
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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217,
apparently
remarks that ēode is
"probably used only in prose.
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm
electronic
work is posted
with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution
must comply with both paragraphs 1.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Yet it's too harsh, and my reason's stunned
By my scorn for such a lover:
Though birth
reserves
me for kings alone,
Rodrigue I'll bow to your law with honour.
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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O bliss of
blisses!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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The Wine
I cannot die, who drank delight
From the cup of the crescent moon,
And
hungrily
as men eat bread,
Loved the scented nights of June.
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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Mine eyes that are weary of bliss
As of light that is
poignant
and strong
O silence my lips with a kiss,
My lips that are weary of song!
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Thou art the first that I have known in deed
True and my friend, and
shelterer
of my need.
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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O holy pyre, O flame that's
nourished
by
A fire divine, may your fierce heart now burn
My familiar surface so completely, I,
Free and naked, might with a single flight
Rise, beyond the sky, to adore in turn
That other beauty from which your own derives.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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It exists
because of the efforts of
hundreds
of volunteers and donations from
people in all walks of life.
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
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As Daniel, when the haughty king he freed
From ire, that spurr'd him on to deeds unjust
And violent; so look'd
Beatrice
then.
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Is one
disaster
not enough for you?
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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A sudden music spins great webs of sound
Spanning the ground, the stars and their companions;
While from the cliffs and canons of blue air,
Prayers of all colors, cries of exultation
Rise into
choruses
of singing gold.
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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