And I
remembered
thy name, and thy father and mother in England,
And on my journey have stopped to see thee, Elizabeth Haddon.
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Longfellow |
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The principal character, Beatrice, is
precisely
fitted for
Miss O'Neil, and it might even seem to have been written for her (God
forbid that I should see her play it--it would tear my nerves to
pieces); and in all respects it is fitted only for Covent Garden.
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Shelley |
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Two young boys,
Caught in a boyish
quarrel!
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We're dead: the souls let no man harry,
But pray that God
absolves
us all.
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Villon |
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Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied
warranties or the exclusion or
limitation
of certain types of damages.
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Stephen Crane |
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His choice will prove to
courtiers
as in this
That there's but scant reward for present service.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Where's my smooth brow gone:
My arching lashes, yellow hair,
Wide-eyed glances, pretty ones,
That took in the cleverest there:
Nose not too big or small: a pair
Of
delicate
little ears, the chin
Dimpled: a face oval and fair,
Lovely lips with crimson skin?
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Villon |
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Judith, our fates are closer to one another's
Than one might think, seeing my face and yours:
The whole divine abyss is present in your eyes,
And I feel the starry gulf within my soul;
We are both
neighbours
of the silent skies.
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Their printing is, indeed, much more
ancient than that of Europe, but it does not deserve the same name, the
blocks of wood with which they stamp their sheets being as inferior to
as they are
different
from the movable types of Europe.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Here we perforce shall drag them; and throughout
The dismal glade our bodies shall be hung,
Each on the wild thorn of his
wretched
shade.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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He
presents
thee this token sincere.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Can you not hear it crooning clear,
As though it
understood?
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Gama noticed it, and said he only came to
discover the route to India, and therefore was not charged with valuable
gifts, before the
friendship
of the state, where they might choose to
traffic, was known.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Li Po |
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"
But you, raise you your voice anew; resume your
nocturnal
hymns as it is
meet to do at this festival.
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Aristophanes |
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Would that such power as erst graced Orpheus' song
Were mine to win my Laura back from death,
As he
Eurydice
without a rhyme;
Then would I live in best excess of joy;
Or, that denied me, soon may some sad night
Close for me ever these twin founts of tears!
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Petrarch |
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And then how vain
To think we can hold back from being
enricht!
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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You bewitched the rivers, flowers and woods,
With your lyre, in vain but beguilingly,
Yet not what your soul felt, the beauty
That dealt what was
festering
in your blood.
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Ronsard |
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SPOKEN,
ON BEING
APPOINTED
TO THE EXCISE.
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Robert Forst |
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The poem entitled "The Sunset"
was written in the spring of the year, while still
residing
at
Bishopsgate.
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Shelley |
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"
_The Temple of the Captives_
The high-priest said unto the King of Kings:
"We need a temple to commemorate
Your
glorious
victories.
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XXII
When our two souls stand up erect and strong,
Face to face, silent, drawing nigh and nigher,
Until the lengthening wings break into fire
At either curved point,--what bitter wrong
Can the earth do to us, that we should not long
Be here
contented?
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Sonnets Pour Helene Book I: L
Though the human spirit gives itself noble airs
In Plato's doctrine, who calls it divine influx,
Without the body it would do nothing much,
While vainly
praising
its origin up there.
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Li Po |
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Francis Bickley and the
_Westminster
Gazette_:--"The Players.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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_25
Veiled Glory of this
lampless
Universe!
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Shelley |
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But he himself is coming
To his ancestral throne with
dreadful
escort.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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v
Voices
speaking
to the sun.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Tempore quo primum vestis mihi tradita purast, 15
Iocundum cum aetas florida ver ageret,
Multa satis lusi: non est dea nescia nostri,
Quae dulcem curis miscet amaritiem:
Sed totum hoc studium luctu
fraterna
mihi mors
Abstulit.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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e he3e felle;
724 [F] Nade he ben du3ty & dry3e, & dry3tyn had serued,
Douteles
he hade ben ded, & dreped ful ofte.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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As
the prophet who would bring to the world a great
possession
must go
forth into the desert to be alone until the kingdom comes to him from
within, so the poet must leave the world in order to gain the deeper
understanding, to be face to face with God.
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Rilke - Poems |
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As one lamp lights another, nor grows less,
So
nobleness
enkindleth nobleness.
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James Russell Lowell |
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XCIV
They that have power to hurt, and will do none,
That do not do the thing they most do show,
Who, moving others, are themselves as stone,
Unmoved, cold, and to
temptation
slow;
They rightly do inherit heaven's graces,
And husband nature's riches from expense;
They are the lords and owners of their faces,
Others, but stewards of their excellence.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Enclosing
criticisms
on her poems
CLXX.
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Robert Forst |
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He was buried in the
cemetery
of Saint-Joseph, by the side of Moliere.
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La Fontaine |
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Or call up him that left half told
The story of Cambuscan bold, 110
Of Camball, and of Algarsife,
And who had Canace to wife,
That own'd the vertuous Ring and Glass,
And of the wondrous Hors of Brass,
On which the Tartar King did ride;
And if ought els, great Bards beside,
In sage and solemn tunes have sung,
Of Turneys and of
Trophies
hung;
Of Forests, and inchantments drear,
Where more is meant then meets the ear.
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Milton |
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Seated in companies they sit, with
radiance
all their own.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Now, then,
Since nature of mind is movable so much,
Consist it must of seeds
exceeding
small
And smooth and round.
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Lucretius |
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Call here thy congress of the great, the wise,
The hearing ears, the seeing eyes, --
Enrich us out of every farthest clime, --
Yea, make all ages native to our time,
Till thou the freedom of the city grant
To each most antique habitant
Of Fame, --
Bring Shakespeare back, a man and not a name, --
Let every player that shall mimic us
In audience see old godlike Aeschylus, --
Bring Homer, Dante, Plato, Socrates, --
Bring Virgil from the visionary seas
Of old romance, -- bring Milton, no more blind, --
Bring large Lucretius, with unmaniac mind, --
Bring all gold hearts and high
resolved
wills
To be with us about these happy hills, --
Bring old Renown
To walk familiar citizen of the town, --
Bring Tolerance, that can kiss and disagree, --
Bring Virtue, Honor, Truth, and Loyalty, --
Bring Faith that sees with undissembling eyes, --
Bring all large Loves and heavenly Charities, --
Till man seem less a riddle unto man
And fair Utopia less Utopian,
And many peoples call from shore to shore,
`The world has bloomed again, at Baltimore!
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Sidney Lanier |
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And what a
daughter
of darkne?
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Melt in these
pendants
of the eyes.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Zourine received soon
afterwards
the news that the robber had been taken
and the order to halt.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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" "Ought not
his excellency to go to Iwan
Polejaieff?
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Yet, do not do so: for what then would I be
Other than an empty phantom after death,
Bodiless on that shore where love is surely less
(Pardon me Dis) than our idlest
fantasy?
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Ronsard |
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At noonday tumbled
Leaflets,
changing
with delight upon your lips,
And as you slept there played with you, bunches,
bushes,
Billows of roses.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Doubtless to-night thou'lt see him, leading his pack,
And with his jaws
savagely
tampering
With our earth-builded safety.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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What has happened since then,
Since I lay with my face to the wall,
The most
despairing
of men!
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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I fear me, I fear me yon dome of
diaphanous
gleam
Will break as a bubble o'er-blown in a dream, --
Yon dome of too-tenuous tissues of space and of night,
Over-weighted with stars, over-freighted with light,
Over-sated with beauty and silence, will seem
But a bubble that broke in a dream,
If a bound of degree to this grace be laid,
Or a sound or a motion made.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Arriving, I hid quite two thirds of the men
In the holds of the vessels there, and then
The rest, whose numbers now increased hourly,
Devoured by impatience,
gathering
round me,
Lay down on the ground, where in silence
The best part of a fine night was spent.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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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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520
What savage manners, what hardened hatred
Would not, on seeing you, be wholly
softened?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Thy brother in the dark, last night, to bow
His head before that
unadored
tomb?
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Euripides - Electra |
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Perhaps,
convinced
of your profound aversion, 355
He'll make himself the leader of this sedition.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Paradiso
?
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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The Ball no
Question
makes of Ayes and Noes,
But Right or Left as strikes the Player goes;
And He that toss'd Thee down into the Field,
He knows about it all--HE knows--HE knows!
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Since the day
When foolish Steno's ribaldry
detected
220
Unfixed your quiet, you are greatly changed,
And I would soothe you back to what you were.
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Byron |
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Tout a coup, au milieu de l'intimite libre
Eclose a la pale clarte,
De vous, riche et sonore instrument ou ne vibre
Que la
radieuse
gaite,
De vous, claire et joyeuse ainsi qu'une fanfare
Dans le matin etincelant,
Une note plaintive, une note bizarre
S'echappa, tout en chancelant.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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]
[Footnote 38: For the
reference
to Herod see
'Acts' xii.
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Tennyson |
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Will ever the lit
mountains
of To-morrow
Begin to gleam athwart the mournful plain?
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Sidney Lanier |
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On The Death Of John M'Leod, Esq,
Brother to a young Lady, a
particular
friend of the Author's.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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It might have been the lighthouse spark
Some sailor, rowing in the dark,
Had
importuned
to see!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Be near and
befriend
us, O Pallas,
the Zeus-born maiden of might!
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Aeschylus |
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To what green altar, O
mysterious
priest,
Lead'st thou that heifer lowing at the skies,
And all her silken flanks with garlands drest?
| Guess: |
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Keats |
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Bouche au rire
enfantin!
| Guess: |
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Only
There is shadow under this red rock,
(Come in under the shadow of this red rock),
And I will show you
something
different from either
Your shadow at morning striding behind you
Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you;
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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O, shun the sea, where shine
The thick-sown
Cyclades!
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Have the high gods deigned to show thee 5
Destiny, and disillusion
Fills thy heart at all things human,
Fleeting and
desired?
| Guess: |
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Sappho |
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No hollow tree or woodland bower
Well known when joy was beating high,
Where beauty ran to shun a shower
And love took pains to keep her dry,
And laid the sheaf upon the ground
To keep her from the
dripping
grass,
And ran for stocks and set them round
Till scarce a drop of rain could pass
Through; where the maidens they reclined
And sung sweet ballads now forgot,
Which brought sweet memories to the mind,
But here no memory knows them not.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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A swan from time past remembers it's he
Magnificent yet
struggling
hopelessly
Through not having sung a liveable country
From the radiant boredom of winter's sterility.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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On prince or bride no diamond stone
Half so
gracious
ever shone,
As the light of enterprise
Beaming from a young man's eyes.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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Long may ye float upon these floods serene;
Yours be these holms untrodden, still, and green,
Whose leafy shades fence off the blustering gale,
Where
breathes
in peace the lily of the vale.
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| Question: |
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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" 140
But errs not Nature from his
gracious
end,
From burning suns when livid deaths descend,
When earthquakes swallow, or when tempests sweep
Towns to one grave, whole nations to the deep?
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Alexander Pope |
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"And to your more bewitching, see the proud
Plump bed bear up, and _rising_ like a cloud,
Tempting
_thee, too, too_ modest; can
You see it brussle like a swan
And you be cold
To meet it, when it woos and seems to fold
The arms to hug _you_?
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Robert Herrick |
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"
And when, to soothe my soul, that hoped and trembled,
The dissonance ceased, and all seemed calm and bright;
When France her front deep-scarr'd and gory
Concealed with clustering wreaths of glory;
When, insupportably advancing,
Her arm made mockery of the warrior's ramp;
While timid looks of fury glancing,
Domestic
treason, crushed beneath her fatal stamp,
Writhed like a wounded dragon in his gore;
Then I reproached my fears that would not flee;
"And soon," I said, "shall Wisdom teach her lore
In the low huts of them that toil and groan!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Thus, we do not necessarily
keep eBooks in
compliance
with any particular paper edition.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
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Why does the sea moan
evermore?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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"
Forthwith
this challenge, as erewhile the rest,
To Leo was declared at Charles' behest.
| Guess: |
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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We fired a single cannon,
And as its
thunders
roll'd
The mist before us lifted
In many a heavy fold.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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"--This story of Omar reminds me of another so naturally--and when
one
remembers
how wide of his humble mark the noble sailor aimed--so
pathetically told by Captain Cook--not by Doctor Hawkworth--in his
Second Voyage (i.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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[82]
At Chu-t'ang a
straight
cleft yawns:
At Yen-yu islands block the stream.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
|
Donations
are accepted in a number of other
ways including checks, online payments and credit card
donations.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
|
Ich sag dir's im
Vertrauen
nur:
Du bist doch nun einmal eine Hur,
So sei's auch eben recht!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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NEIGHBOUR
A flannel
petticoat
display'd the elf.
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In regard to its measure, it may be noted that if all the verses were
like the second, they might
properly
be placed merely in short lines,
producing a not uncommon form; but the presence in all the others of
one line-mostly the second in the verse" (stanza?
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on thy hoary shore,
Fortress
of falling empire!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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It was
forbidden by act of Congress--here I had not the
slightest
intention
of telling a lie.
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)
Bestows one final
patronising
kiss,
And gropes his way, finding the stairs unlit .
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The great Li Po is no
exception
to this rule.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Thus they ope
Their snowy lips, and speak unto each other,
In the
primeval
language, lost to man.
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Longfellow |
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[_He
embraces
her and hurries away_.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Shall I
subscribe
with pencil, pen or graver?
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Here and there the watch-towers knell it
With a sullen significance,
Heard of the few who hearken
intently
and carry an eagerly upstrained
sense.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Greyhounds
on leash and bears and lions also,
Thousand mewed hawks and seven hundred camels,
Four hundred mules with gold Arabian charged,
Fifty wagons, yea more than fifty drawing.
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Chanson de Roland |
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My boy was by my side, so slim
And
graceful
in his rustic dress!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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They look upon his eyes,
Filled with deep surprise;
And
wondering
behold
A spirit armed in gold.
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blake-poems |
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'Tis not wise until the latest hour
To enjoy delight's
ephemeral
dower:
Birds to southern seas have taken flight,
Fading flow'rs wait till the snows alight.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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This is a crucial set of revisions,
reflecting
some ambiguity about the relation between "shadow" and "spectre".
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Blake - Zoas |
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