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?
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Keats |
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Bouche au rire
enfantin!
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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Lewis Carroll |
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Why does the sea moan
evermore?
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Christina Rossetti |
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"
Forthwith
this challenge, as erewhile the rest,
To Leo was declared at Charles' behest.
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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.
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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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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Donations
are accepted in a number of other
ways including checks, online payments and credit card
donations.
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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Ich sag dir's im
Vertrauen
nur:
Du bist doch nun einmal eine Hur,
So sei's auch eben recht!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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NEIGHBOUR
A flannel
petticoat
display'd the elf.
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La Fontaine |
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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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Poe - 5 |
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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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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Poe - 5 |
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)
Bestows one final
patronising
kiss,
And gropes his way, finding the stairs unlit .
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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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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| Question: |
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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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Unauthenticated
Download
Date | 10/1/17 7:36 AM Yuhua Palace 327 Imperial expeditions went not so far as Alabaster Pool,1 20 his traces are here in the aftermath of carved walls.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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You may copy it, give it away or
re-use it under the terms of the Project
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Keats - Lamia |
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Thither Duessa bad him bend his pace: 25
For she is wearie of the
toilesome
way,
And also nigh consumed is the lingring day.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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In abandoned cities foxes and badgers talk, in deserted
villages
tigers and leopards contend.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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But though today valour
deserves
this,
I would prove an enemy to your honour
To grant him now the prize of his valour.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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In thick jungles of green, this gyration,
My
centrifugal
folly,
Through roaring dust and futility spattered,
Will find its own repose.
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Imagists |
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THIS ETEXT IS
OTHERWISE
PROVIDED TO YOU "AS-IS".
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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When the whole host of hatred stood hard by,
To watch and mock thee shrinking, thou hast smiled[hy]
With a sedate and all-enduring eye;--
When Fortune fled her spoiled and
favourite
child,
He stood unbowed beneath the ills upon him piled.
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Byron |
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Armee etrange aux cris severes,
Les vents froids
attaquent
vos nids!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Whichever
the sex, whatever the season or place, he may go freshly
and gently and safely by day or by night,
He has the pass-key of hearts, to him the response of the prying of
hands on the knobs.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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ON such a point we readily should say,
Long live the fools who wit so well
display!
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La Fontaine |
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The Foundation makes no representations concerning
the
copyright
status of any work in any country outside the United
States.
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Keats - Lamia |
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e vnbuxum,
chastise
wi?
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| Question: |
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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omnia si facias_:
quem
plerique
secuti sunt
LXXXVIII
Quid facit is, Gelli, qui cum matre atque sorore
prurit et abiectis peruigilat tunicis?
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Latin - Catullus |
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Thanatos is the servant of Hades, a "priest" or sacrificer, who is sent to
fetch the
appointed
victims.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Meantime let all in
Thessaly
who dread
My sceptre join in mourning for the dead
With temples sorrow-shorn and sable weed.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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when crafty eyes thy reason
With sorceries sudden seek to move,
And when in Night's
mysterious
season
Lips cling to thine, but not in love--
From proving then, dear youth, a booty
To those who falsely would trepan
From new heart wounds, and lapse from duty,
Protect thee shall my Talisman.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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A
delicate
odour is borne on the wings of the morning breeze,
The odour of deep wet grass, and of brown new-furrowed earth,
The birds are singing for joy of the Spring's glad birth,
Hopping from branch to branch on the rocking trees.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Canzon: Spear
Or might my
troubled
heart be fed UpOn the frail clear light there shed>
Then were my pain at last allay'd.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Or
cormorants
plunging one by one, cutting
The flood, pearls flying from their wings?
| Guess: |
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19th Century French Poetry |
|
Copyright
laws in most countries are
in a constant state of change.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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There was a
deliberate
clash,
an effect of burlesque; but of course the clash must not be too brutal.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Chor: Thy words to my remembrance bring
How Succoth and the Fort of Penuel
Thir great Deliverer contemn'd,
The matchless Gideon in pursuit 280
Of Madian and her
vanquisht
Kings;
And how ingrateful Ephraim
Not worse then by his shield and spear
Had dealt with Jephtha, who by argument,
Defended Israel from the Ammonite,
Had not his prowess quell'd thir pride
In that sore battel when so many dy'd
Without Reprieve adjudg'd to death,
For want of well pronouncing Shibboleth.
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| Source: |
Milton |
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Go not, lest ye draw 540
Disaster
down and woe on your own heads.
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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7 or
obtain
permission
for the use of the work and the Project Gutenberg-tm
trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.
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Wilde - Poems |
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What welcome should Ulysses at your hands
Receive, arriving
suddenly
at home,
Some God his guide; would ye the suitors aid,
Or would ye aid Ulysses?
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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On
that
classification
depended the distribution of political power.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
|
XVI
"The ox toils through the furrow,
Obedient
to the goad;
The patient ass, up flinty paths,
Plods with his weary load:
With whine and bound the spaniel
His master's whistle hears;
And the sheep yields her patiently
To the loud-clashing shears.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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_ Adonis was a
beautiful
youth beloved
of Venus.
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Keats |
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L
In haste there came the Queen forth, Bramimound;
"I love you well, sir," said she to the count,
"For prize you dear my lord and all around;
Here for your wife I have two brooches found,
Amethysts
and jacynths in golden mount;
More worth are they than all the wealth of Roum;
Your Emperour has none such, I'll be bound.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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There is no
resemblance
whatever between Byron's _Cain_ and Alfieri's
_Abele_.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
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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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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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The more, then, the
telluric
ground is drained
Of heat, the colder grows the water hid
Within the earth.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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Time
consumes
words, like love.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Time
consumes
words, like love.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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He faces
the horror;
realises
it; and tries to surmount it on the sweep of a great
wave of religious emotion.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
|
(_Waves her shawl, and shrieks
with wild intensity) My--my_ Master
Builder!
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Well,
altogether
gript by the being of love.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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The smitten rock that gushes,
The
trampled
steel that springs;
A cheek is always redder
Just where the hectic stings!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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We have stooped down to their level
By
infecting
them with evil,
And their scorn that meets our blow Scathes aright.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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When the tired glutton labours through a treat,
He finds no relish in the sweetest meat,
He calls for something bitter, something sour,
And the rich feast concludes
extremely
poor:
Cheap eggs, and herbs, and olives still we see;
Thus much is left of old simplicity!
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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"That which the palmerworm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that
which the locust hath left hath the
cankerworm
eaten; and that which
the cankerworm hath left hath the caterpillar eaten.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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PART II
His
shipmates
cry out against the ancient Mariner, for killing the bird of
good luck.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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389, or they may be lines in the present
poem, which Wordsworth wrote at first for the 'Highland Girl', but
afterwards
transferred
to this one.
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William Wordsworth |
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Snugly retired in yet dew-laden bowers,
This sweetest
specimen
of rural flowers
Displays, red glowing in the morning wind,
The powers of health and nature when combined.
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John Clare |
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And not for all our questioning 10
Shall we
discover
more than joy,
Nor find a better thing than love!
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Sappho |
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And not for all our questioning 10
Shall we
discover
more than joy,
Nor find a better thing than love!
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Sappho |
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L'Epitaphe Villon: Ballade Des Pendus
My
brothers
who live after us,
Don't harden you hearts against us too,
If you have mercy now on us,
God may have mercy upon you.
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Villon |
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Only despise all human wit and lore,
The highest flights that thought can soar--
Let but the lying spirit blind thee,
And with his spells of
witchcraft
bind thee,
Into my snare the victim creeps.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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