My soul, which bears but ill such
dazzling
light,
Says with a sigh: "O blessed day!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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I wish he'd sent me
something
else,
I like his cough-drops twice as much.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Though I shall never pretend to be the
translator
of Petrarch, I recoil
not, after writing his Life, from giving a sincere account of the
impression which his poetry produces on my mind.
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"
From the wood a sound is gliding,
Vapours dense the plain are hiding,
Cries the Dame in anxious measure:
"Stay, I'll wash thy head, my
treasure!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Where fierce the surge with awful bellow
Doth ever lash the rocky wall;
And where the moon most
brightly
mellow
Dost beam when mists of evening fall;
Where midst his harem's countless blisses
The Moslem spends his vital span,
A Sorceress there with gentle kisses
Presented me a Talisman.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Hubur,
mythical
river, 197, 42.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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"Well met," I thought the look would say,
"We both were
fashioned
far away;
We neither knew, when we were young,
These Londoners we live among.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Cease that proud temper: Venus loves it not:
The rope may break, the wheel may backward turn:
Begetting
you, no Tuscan sire begot
Penelope the stern.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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'
To that Cryseyde answerde right anoon,
And with a syk she seyde, `O herte dere,
The game, y-wis, so ferforth now is goon,
That first shal Phebus falle fro his spere, 1495
And every egle been the dowves fere,
And every roche out of his place sterte,
Er Troilus out of
Criseydes
herte!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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word-hord on-lēac (_opened the
word-hoard,
treasure
of speech_), 259.
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Beowulf |
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"
He leaned into the darkness, watching the greater
darkness
of London
below him.
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Kipling - Poems |
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He did: and with an absolute Sir, not I
The clowdy
Messenger
turnes me his backe,
And hums; as who should say, you'l rue the time
That clogges me with this Answer
Lenox.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Ritson supposes it to be Caer-went, in Monmouthshire,
and
afterwards
confounded with Caer-wynt, or Winchester.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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But, when he had refused the
proffered
gold,
To cruel injuries he became a prey,
Sore traversed in whate'er he bought and sold:
His troubles grew upon him day by day,
Till all his substance fell into decay.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Your glance entered my heart and blood, just like
A flash of
lightning
through the clouds.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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But I know
something
else I want to tell you.
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Aristophanes |
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Straight
into the snare!
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Euripides - Electra |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Metaphor
and Simile in the Minor
Elizabethan Drama.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Will he return when the Winter
Huddles the sheep, and Orion
Goes to his
hunting?
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Sappho |
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II
No wind fanned the flats of the ocean,
Or promontory sides,
Or the ooze by the strand,
Or the bent-bearded slope of the land,
Whose base took its rest amid
everlong
motion
Of criss-crossing tides.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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It is a land of
poverty!
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blake-poems |
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Grudgings
turns bread to stones, when to the poor, 395.
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Robert Herrick |
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Get thee forth, Old Man, and quick
Tell
Clytemnestra
.
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Euripides - Electra |
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Although the cheating
merchants
of the mart
With iron roads profane our lovely isle,
And break on whirling wheels the limbs of Art,
Ay!
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Wilde - Poems |
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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[51] [_Illusion, or the Trances of Nourjahad_, a
melodrama
founded on
_The History of Nourjahad_, By the Editor of Sidney Bidulph (Mrs.
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Byron |
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"What are you
thinking
of?
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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The stars seem purer the shade is more delightful;
A hazy half-light colours the dome on high;
And dawn, pale and tender,
awaiting
her moment,
Seems to wander about all night in the deeps of the sky.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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XII
When I watch the living meet,
And the moving pageant file
Warm and
breathing
through the street
Where I lodge a little while,
If the heats of hate and lust
In the house of flesh are strong,
Let me mind the house of dust
Where my sojourn shall be long.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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The humblest of thy
pilgrims
passing by
Would gladly woo thine echoes with his string,
Though from thy heights no more one muse will wave her wing.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Now I feel it; naught can give us peace
Mid worldly cares, nothing save only
conscience!
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Chimene
Still you speak, what more,
Vile
murderer
of that hero I adore!
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Why laugh'st thou not
thereat?
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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This was the manner in which Vaudracour 265
Departed
with his infant; and thus reached
His father's house, where to the innocent child
Admittance was denied.
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William Wordsworth |
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Is only matter
triumphant?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Unauthenticated
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Du Fu - 5 |
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They would not
pretend that they were the only painters worthy of a public showing;
they would maintain that their work was,
generally
speaking, most
interesting to one another.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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used on or
associated
in any way with an electronic work by people who
agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Hugo - Poems |
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Since, indeed,
Though she thou lovest now be far away,
Yet idol-images of her are near
And the sweet name is
floating
in thy ear.
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Lucretius |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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ORESTES
O father, murdered in
unkingly
wise,
Fulfil my prayer, grant me thine halls to sway.
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Aeschylus |
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If it be thy
pleasure
let us rather cast
a lot.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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`And if that at myn owene lust I brenne,
Fro whennes cometh my wailing and my
pleynte?
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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"
From the wood a sound is gliding,
Vapours dense the plain are hiding,
Cries the Dame in anxious measure:
"Stay, I'll wash thy head, my
treasure!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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And since till girls go maying
You find the
primrose
still,
And find the windflower playing
With every wind at will,
But not the daffodil,
Bring baskets now, and sally
Upon the spring's array,
And bear from hill and valley
The daffodil away
That dies on Easter day.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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The Occident and the Orient,
posterior and posterior,
sitting tight, holding fast
the culture dumped by them
on to primitive America,
Atlantic
to Pacific,
were monumental colophons
a disorderly country fellow,
vulgar Long Islander.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Now,
Come tell me, son of hell, I pray thee,
If that spell-binds thee, then how
enteredst
thou?
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Out of my dark hours wisdom dawns apace,
Infinite Life unrolls its
boundless
space .
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Rilke - Poems |
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Under the firelight, under the brush, her hair
Spread out in fiery points
Glowed into words, then would be
savagely
still.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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The little, old man was looking
curiously
at me with his one eye.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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PROPOSED FOR A SOLDIERS' AND SAILORS'
MONUMENT
IN BOSTON
To those who died for her on land and sea,
That she might have a country great and free,
Boston builds this: build ye her monument
In lives like theirs, at duty's summons spent.
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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I'll be under the earth, a
boneless
phantom,
At rest in the myrtle groves of the dark kingdom:
You'll be an old woman hunched over the fire,
Regretting my love for you, your fierce disdain,
So live, believe me: don't wait for another day,
Gather them now the roses of life, and desire.
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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-
Das
schonste
Bild von einem Weibe!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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He fell in love with the
celebrated
Madame Sabatier, a reigning beauty,
at whose salon artistic Paris assembled.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Nelehorpe
; but the
surplus of it exceeding much the expense I have
been at on this occasion, I desire you to make
use of it, and of me, upon any other opportu-
nity.
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Marvell - Poems |
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_Insects_
These tiny loiterers on the barley's beard,
And happy units of a numerous herd
Of playfellows, the laughing Summer brings,
Mocking the sunshine in their
glittering
wings,
How merrily they creep, and run, and fly!
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| Source: |
John Clare |
|
Here is a miracle, only
believe!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
There's
somebody
weary wi' lying her lane;
There's somebody weary wi' lying her lane;
There's some that are dowie, I trow would be fain
To see the bit tailor come skippin' again.
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Robert Burns |
|
Had
Coriolanus
not been
a law-breaker neither he nor we had ever discovered, it may be, that
noble pride of his, and if we had not seen Cleopatra through the eyes
of so many lovers, would we have known that soul of hers to be all
flame, and wept at the quenching of it?
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| Source: |
Yeats |
|
Rejoice, and be
exceeding
glad, for great
Is your reward in heaven.
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
Happiness
"O, Happiness, thou fickle maid, gay
farewell
to thee—"
But Happiness, that fickle maid, Came smiling back to me
Dreamt
dreamt that thou didst come
When was dead and lay pale violets About my head; —
And on my folded hands,
Where once did live
Thy kiss, — felt thy tears
And heard, "Forgive!
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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But when in his immortal mind he felt
His altering form and
soldered
limbs to melt,
Down on the deck he laid himself, and died,
With his dear sword reposing by his side.
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Marvell - Poems |
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We are many and strong
Whom thou standest among,--
And we press on the air,
And we stifle thee back,
And we
multiply
where
Thou wouldst trample us down
From rights of our own
To an utter wrong--
And, from under the feet of thy scorn,
O forlorn,
We shall spring up like corn,
And our stubble be strong.
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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THE same in other words, I've often said;
'Tis right, at times,
disguise
with care to spread.
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La Fontaine |
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They
grumbled
aloud, and Iwan Ignatiitch, who
executed the Commandant's orders, heard them with his own ears say
pretty clearly--
"Only wait a bit, you garrison rat!
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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And yet, as poor as I
Have
ventured
all upon a throw;
Have gained!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Here he has
returned
to Chang?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Du Fu - 5 |
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what docs it boot
To build below the grass's root ;
When lowness is unsafe as height^
And chance
overtakes
Avhat 'scapeth spite ?
| Guess: |
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Marvell - Poems |
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And the
miserable
self-blinded old man
could not see it!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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A great
deal of his third book is a real
contribution
to the main process, to
epic content as well as to epic manner.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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It is a myth which has begotten some exquisite literature,
both in prose and verse, from Ovid's famous epistle to Addison's gracious
fantasy and some impassioned and imperishable
dithyrambs
of Mr.
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| Source: |
Sappho |
|
Who cannot want the thought, how monstrous
It was for Malcolme, and for Donalbane
To kill their
gracious
Father?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
|
"
Thy age, great Caesar, has restored
To squalid fields the plenteous grain,
Given back to Rome's almighty Lord
Our standards, torn from Parthian fane,
Has closed Quirinian Janus' gate,
Wild passion's erring walk controll'd,
Heal'd the foul plague-spot of the state,
And brought again the life of old,
Life, by whose
healthful
power increased
The glorious name of Latium spread
To where the sun illumes the east
From where he seeks his western bed.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Its
business
office is located at
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business@pglaf.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Amorous Prince, the
greatest
lover,
I want no evil that's of your doing,
But, by God, all noble hearts must offer
To succour a poor man, without crushing.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
|
Thou shalt not speed in
undertakings
more,
Nor be the warder of thine own no more.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
|
Whence, for some
universal
good,
The priest shall cut the sacred bud.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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Now, Christ be
thanked!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
|
Can she the
bodiless
dead espy?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
|
Explain the suffix in
_marchen_
in l.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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his children thus to
plunder!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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The players were all standing up now, with their backs to the boards,
shrinking from the hounds, and nearly
deafened
with the noise of their
yelping, but as quick as the hounds were they could not overtake the
hare, but it went round, till at the last it seemed as if a blast of
wind burst open the barn door, and the hare doubled and made a leap
over the boards where the men had been playing, and went out of the
door and away through the night, and the hounds over the boards and
through the door after it.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
|
O're all his Brethren he shall Reign as King,
Yet every one shall make him underling,
And those that cannot live from him asunder
Ungratefully shall strive to keep him under,
In worth and
excellence
he shall out-go them,
Yet being above them, he shall be below them; 80
From others he shall stand in need of nothing,
Yet on his Brothers shall depend for Cloathing.
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Any
alternate
format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm
License as specified in paragraph 1.
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Der Bose,
Mit
furchtbarem
Grimme,
Macht ein Getose!
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(Alcools: Le Pont Mirabeau)
Under the Mirabeau flows the Seine
And our amours
Shall I
remember
it again
Joy always followed after Pain
Comes the night sounds the hour
The days go by I endure
Hand in hand rest face to face
While underneath
The bridge of our arms there races
So weary a wave of eternal gazes
Comes the night sounds the hour
The days go by I endure
Love vanishes like the water's flow
Love vanishes
How life is slow
And how Hope lives blow by blow
Comes the night sounds the hour
The days go by I endure
Let the hour pass the day the same
Time past returns
Nor love again
Under the Mirabeau flows the Seine
Comes the night sounds the hour
The days go by I endure
Twilight
(Alcools: Crepuscule)
Brushed by the shadows of the dead
On the grass where day expires
Columbine strips bare admires
her body in the pond instead
A charlatan of twilight formed
Boasts of the tricks to be performed
The sky without a stain unmarred
Is studded with the milk-white stars
From the boards pale Harlequin
First salutes the spectators
Sorcerers from Bohemia
Fairies sundry enchanters
Having unhooked a star
He proffers it with outstretched hand
While with his feet a hanging man
Sounds the cymbals bar by bar
The blind man rocks a pretty child
The doe with all her fauns slips by
The dwarf observes with saddened pose
How Harlequin magically grows
Clotilde
(Alcools: Clotilde)
The anemone and flower that weeps
have grown in the garden plain
where Melancholy sleeps
between Amor and Disdain
There our shadows linger too
that the midnight will disperse
the sun that makes them dark to view
will with them in dark immerse
The deities of living dew
Let their hair flow down entire
It must be that you pursue
That lovely shadow you desire
The White Snow
(Alcools: La blanche neige)
The angels the angels in the sky
One's dressed as an officer
One's dressed as a chef today
And the others sing
Fine sky-coloured officer
Sweet Spring when Christmas is long gone
Will deck you with a lovely sun
A lovely sun
The chef plucks geese
Ah!
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Appoloinaire |
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Pierce the woods, the earth,
Somewhere
listening to catch you must be the one I want.
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_Remoraes_; Browne doubts 'whether the story of the remora be
not
unreasonably
amplified'.
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You heard the evidence
Produced before us
yesterday
at the trial
Of Bridget Bishop.
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Not on his lofty brow, nor in his looks
May one peruse his secret thoughts; always
The same aspect; lowly at once, and lofty--
Like some state
Minister
grown grey in office,
Calmly alike he contemplates the just
And guilty, with indifference he hears
Evil and good, and knows not wrath nor pity.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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1, 1862]
_These verses were written in memory of General Philip Kearny,
killed at
Chantilly
after he had ridden out in advance of his men
to reconnoitre.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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"My dreams became the
substance of my life," he writes, just after the composition of that
terrible poem on "The Pains of Sleep," which is at once an outcry of agony,
and a yet more disturbing vision of the sufferer with his fingers on his
own pulse, his eyes fixed on his own hardly
awakened
eyes in the mirror.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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He was
desperate
and
grandmother took pity on him.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Hymen O Hymenaee, Hymen ades O
Hymenaee!
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