83
capable of
salvation
or
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Poetry is reality's essence
visioned
and made manifest by one endowed
with a perception acutely sensitive to sound, form, and colour, and
gifted with a power to shape into rhythmic and rhymed verbal symbols the
reaction to Life's phenomena.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Who then of the Nymphs had sung,
Or who with
flowering
herbs bestrewn the ground,
And o'er the fountains drawn a leafy veil?
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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My garden is the cloven rock,
And my manure the snow;
And
drifting
sand-heaps feed my stock,
In summer's scorching glow.
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Emerson - Poems |
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International donations are
gratefully
accepted, but we cannot make
any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from
outside the United States.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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In
contrast
to this melancholy view of human nature, sunk in barbarism
and benighted with ignorance, let the present state of Europe be
impartially estimated.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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My memory
Is still
obscured
by seeing your coming
And going.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Asteropeus with grief beheld the slain,
And rush'd to combat, but he rush'd in vain:
Indissolubly firm, around the dead,
Rank within rank, on buckler buckler spread,
And hemm'd with
bristled
spears, the Grecians stood,
A brazen bulwark, and an iron wood.
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Iliad - Pope |
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'The lion now forgets to thirst for blood:
There might you see him
sporting
in the sun _125
Beside the dreadless kid; his claws are sheathed,
His teeth are harmless, custom's force has made
His nature as the nature of a lamb.
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Shelley |
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Of the Earl
Politian?
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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I never saw a man who looked
With such a wistful eye
Upon that little tent of blue
Which
prisoners
call the sky,
And at every drifting cloud that went
With sails of silver by.
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Wilde - Poems |
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And ever the shot and shell
Came with the howl of hell,
The splinter-clouds rose and fell,
And the long line of corpses grew--
_Would_ the fleet win
through?
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Such of late
Columbus
found th' American so girt
With featherd Cincture, naked else and wilde
Among the Trees on Iles and woodie Shores.
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Milton |
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Copyright laws in most
countries
are in
a constant state of change.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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enne
repreued
he ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Virgil is the most scrupulous in this respect;
and towards the inevitable change, which Milton
completed
and perfected
from Camoens and Tasso, Virgil took a great step in making Jupiter
professedly almighty.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Virgil is the most scrupulous in this respect;
and towards the inevitable change, which Milton
completed
and perfected
from Camoens and Tasso, Virgil took a great step in making Jupiter
professedly almighty.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Hir gilte heres with a golden threde
Y-bounden were,
untressed
as she lay,
And naked fro the breste unto the hede
Men might hir see; and, sothly for to say, 270
The remenant wel kevered to my pay
Right with a subtil kerchef of Valence,
Ther was no thikker cloth of no defence.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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That is too much
presumption
on thy part;
But if thy arms be to no other end,
The King hath yielded unto thy demand:
The Duke of Somerset is in the Tower.
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Shakespeare |
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Thou fav'rest Frenchmen, though from England seen,
Oft tearful to that
mistress
"North Countree";
Returned the third time safely here to be,
I bless my bold Gibraltar of the Free.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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" It was a
collection of the work of various young poets,
presented
together as a
school.
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Imagists |
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Please read the "legal small print," and other information about the
eBook and Project
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at the bottom of this file.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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He's
insulted
me.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Oh,
knowledge!
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Hugo - Poems |
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Thou giv'st the word: Thy creature, man,
Is to
existence
brought;
Again thou say'st, "Ye sons of men,
Return ye into nought!
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Robert Burns |
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They hanged him as a beast is hanged:
They did not even toll
A requiem that might have brought
Rest to his
startled
soul,
But hurriedly they took him out,
And hid him in a hole.
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Wilde - Poems |
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"Slender in bulk—but it
contains
good poems.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Human bodies are words, myriads of words;
In the best poems
reappears
the body, man's or woman's, well-shaped,
natural, gay;
Every part able, active, receptive, without shame or the need of shame.
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Whitman |
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Lewis Carroll |
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So in the _Grecian Urn_ he contrasts unsatisfying human life with art,
which is
everlastingly
beautiful.
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Keats |
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I roam anew,
Scarce conscious of my late
distress
.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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"
The gray
squirrel
and rabbit are brisk and playful in the remote
glens, even on the morning of the cold Friday.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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`For love is yet the moste stormy lyf,
Right of him-self, that ever was bigonne;
For ever som mistrust, or nyce stryf, 780
Ther is in love, som cloud is over that sonne:
Ther-to we
wrecched
wommen no-thing conne,
Whan us is wo, but wepe and sitte and thinke;
Our wreche is this, our owene wo to drinke.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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But you shall see better things; I will load you with
other favours when I shall have
recovered
my empire.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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" The "original Designs," water-colour
drawings, were presented by Lord Byron to the third Lord Holland, and
are now in the
possession
of the Earl of Ilchester.
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Byron |
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He
departed
for Paris at the end of August 1557.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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You built your cities rich
Around each towered hall,--
Without, the statued niche,
Within, the
pictured
wall.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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_ ci
WINTERTIME
nighs;
But my bereavement-pain
It cannot bring again:
Twice no one dies.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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My eyes are dazzled, on seeing the light of day, 155
My knees,
trembling
beneath me, have given way.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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260
And now he thither came for like intent;
Where he unwares the fairest Una found,
Straunge Lady, in so straunge habiliment,
Teaching
the Satyres, which her sat around,
Trew sacred lore, which from her sweet lips did redound.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Les poesies de Baudelaire
disseminees
un peu partout dans les petits
journaux d'avant-garde comme le _Corsaire_ et jusque dans la grave
_Revue des Deux-Mondes,_ n'avaient point encore, en 1857, ete
reunies en volume.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Ages since the vanquished bled
Round my mother's marriage-bed;
There the ravens feasted far
About the open house of war:
When Severn down to
Buildwas
ran
Coloured with the death of man,
Couched upon her brother's grave
The Saxon got me on the slave.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Give me exhaustless, make me a fountain,
That I exhale love from me wherever I go like a moist perennial dew,
For the ashes of all dead
soldiers
South or North.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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The shutters were drawn and the
undertaker
wiped his feet--
He was aware that this sort of thing had occurred before.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Next on Eryalus he flies; a stone,
Large as a rock, was by his fury thrown:
Full on his crown the ponderous
fragment
flew,
And burst the helm, and cleft the head in two:
Prone to the ground the breathless warrior fell,
And death involved him with the shades of hell.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Aye, as each year began,
My farmer to the neighboring city ran;
Passed with a
mournful
anxious face
Into the banker's inner place;
Parleyed, excused, pleaded for longer grace;
Railed at the drought, the worm, the rust, the grass;
Protested ne'er again 'twould come to pass;
With many an `oh' and `if' and `but alas'
Parried or swallowed searching questions rude,
And kissed the dust to soften Dives's mood.
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Sidney Lanier |
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I struck thee dead, then stood above,
With tears that none but
dreamers
weep;'
`Dreams,' quoth Love;
"`In dreams, again, I plucked a flower
That clung with pain and stung with power,
Yea, nettled me, body and mind.
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Sidney Lanier |
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The room betrayed the mother--so she felt--
She kissed her boy and
questioned
"Are you here?
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Rilke - Poems |
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These
reformed
cities into ashes turn.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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Why fade these
children
of the spring?
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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With not even one blow
landing?
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Villon |
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A Civil Surgeon
who never
quarrels
is a rarity, appreciated as such.
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Kipling - Poems |
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About the same time
Antonius Flamma was prosecuted by Cyrene for extortion, and exiled for
the
inhumanity
of his conduct.
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Tacitus |
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Suddenly out of the grass the long white horns of the cattle
Rose like flakes of foam on the adverse
currents
of ocean.
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Longfellow |
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The invalidity or unenforceability of any
provision of this
agreement
shall not void the remaining provisions.
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Keats - Lamia |
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The Foundation's
principal
office is located at 4557 Melan Dr.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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XIX
There is a medlar-tree
Growing in front of my lover's house,
And there all day
The wind makes a
pleasant
sound.
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Sappho |
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Her daughter Margaret had been jilted and was in despair,
had taken to her bed with every
resolution
to die, and was growing
paler and paler.
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Yeats |
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To thee
Come I, a poet, hereward haply blown,
From out another
worldflower
lately flown.
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Sidney Lanier |
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no father shall thy corpse compose;
Thy dying eyes no tender mother close;
But hungry birds shall tear those balls away,
And hovering
vultures
scream around their prey.
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Iliad - Pope |
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But the
offering
should be dearer to your eyes.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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White as an angel is the English child,
But I am black, as if
bereaved
of light.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Scarce had he pass'd the steeds and Trojan throng,
(Still bending forward as he coursed along,)
When, on the hollow way, the
approaching
tread
Ulysses mark'd, and thus to Diomed;
"O friend!
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Iliad - Pope |
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Pour ses virginites presentes et futures
Elle mord aux
fraicheurs
de ta Remission;
Mais plus que les lys d'eau, plus que les confitures
Tes pardons sont glaces, o Reine de Sion.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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He to me to be peer to a god doth seem, he, if such were lawful, to
o'er-top the gods, who sitting oft a-front of thee doth gaze on thee, and
doth listen to thine laughter lovely, which doth snatch away from sombre me
mine every sense: for instant falls my glance on thee, Lesbia, naught is
left to me [of voice], but my tongue is numbed, a keen-edged flame spreads
through my limbs, with sound self-caused my twin ears sing, and mine eyes
are
enwrapped
with night.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Perhaps; but it is more
legitimate
to suppose that he himself does
not know why.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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They have to be told of it by other
people, and they often
entirely
disbelieve them.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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_ We picture a man creeping over a
wide plain, fearing that any sound he makes will arouse some wild beast
or other
frightful
thing.
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Keats |
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"
"Because I believe he has serious
intentions
concerning you.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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It has not weakened your noble ardour;
And your great virtue
inspires
my favour;
Wishing a perfect warrior for my son,
I made no error in thus choosing one.
| Guess: |
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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By the way, when a man once acquires
a taste for this
particular
amusement, it abides with him all his days.
| Guess: |
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Kipling - Poems |
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To be so tickled, they would change their state
And
situation
with those dancing chips,
O'er whom thy fingers walk with gentle gait,
Making dead wood more bless'd than living lips.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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I look'd upon the rotting Sea,
And drew my eyes away;
I look'd upon the
eldritch
deck,
And there the dead men lay.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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There on a shabby
building
was a sign
"The India Wharf " .
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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Can aught on earth impede delight,
Still
mounting
to a higher height;
And higher still--a greedy flight!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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'64'
The
quotation
is from a song in an opera called 'Camilla'.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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There must be
attraction
much higher
Than Scamp, or the Jew's harp he nicknames his lyre, 60
To call you to this hotbed.
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| Source: |
Byron |
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FAUST:
Schlange!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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"One is more precious: but the other needs
Skill and sagacity, large share of each,
Ere its good task to
disengage
the knot
Be worthily perform'd.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Suffice it in this
exigence
alone
To mark the damsels that attend the throne:
Dispersed the youth reside; their faith to prove
Jove grants henceforth, if thou hast spoke from Jove.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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]
[Sidenote B: Meanwhile the lord pursues the wild boar,]
[Sidenote C: that bit the backs of his hounds asunder,]
[Sidenote D: and caused the
stiffest
of the hunters to start.
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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"The Haunted House," by the same author, is one of the truest poems ever
written,--one of the truest, one of the most unexceptionable, one of the
most
thoroughly
artistic, both in its theme and in its execution.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Poe - 5 |
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(It falls and sings through the years, but wakes
No
answering
echo of joy or pain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Eternal alembic of antique
distress!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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So truly fortunate, indeed, his lot,
Again his money, baggage, horse he got;
And, thank Saint Julian, howsoever tossed,
He passed a
blissful
night that nothing cost.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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There he doth
dithering
sit, and entertain
His eyes with marking the storm-driven leaves;
Oft spying nests where he spring eggs had ta'en,
And wishing in his heart twas summer-time again.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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COB: A poor
neighbour
of your worship, come to
crave the peace of your worship; a warrant for one that
has wronged me, sir; an I die within a twelvemonth and
a day, I may swear by the law of the land that he killed
me.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Weeds triumphant ranged,
Strangers
strolled
and spelled
At the lone orthography
Of the elder dead.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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AS I CAME DOWN IN THE HARBOR By Louis Ginsberg
As I came down in the harbor, I saw ships careening — Tall ships with taut sails, bulging slowly away;
As I came down in the harbor, like far swallows flying,
Delicate
were the sails I saw, poised faint and dim !
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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How
differently
works on me this sign!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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And travellers, now, within that valley,
Through the red-litten windows see
Vast forms, that move fantastically
To a
discordant
melody,
While, lie a ghastly rapid river,
Through the pale door
A hideous throng rush out forever
And laugh--but smile no more.
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Poe - 5 |
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O grant me, Phoebus, calm content,
Strength unimpair'd, a mind entire,
Old age without dishonour spent,
Nor
unbefriended
by the lyre!
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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It was as though
garlands
crowned everything
And all things were touched softly by the sun;
And many windows opened one by one
And the light trembled on them glistening.
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Rilke - Poems |
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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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Alle these thinges, wel avysed, 475
As I have you er this devysed,
With gold and asure over alle
Depeynted
were upon the walle.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Chvabrine
was very witty.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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But, though hated
by the court party generally, he was as generally
feared, and in sonie few
instances
respected.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Poor Mailie's Elegy
Lament in rhyme, lament in prose,
Wi' saut tears
trickling
down your nose;
Our bardie's fate is at a close,
Past a' remead!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Long conversations she could rarely get,
And various
obstacles
the lovers met;
No interviews where they might be at ease,
But ev'ry thing conspired to fret and teaze.
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La Fontaine |
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