Darkness
deepens.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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With the myriad stars in beauty
All bedight, the heavens were seen,
Radiant hopes were bright around me,
Like the light of stars serene;
Like the mellow midnight splendor
Of the Night's
irradiate
queen.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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A
Selection
of Hebrew Melodies.
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Byron |
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t,
In
fondynge
he was y-bro?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Oh, workmen, seen by me sublime,
When from the tyrant
wrenched
ye peace,
Can you be dazed by tinselled crime,
And spy no wolf beneath the fleece?
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Let whoso hath been With
worthier
works concerned, display his wares !
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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To think just how the fire will burn,
Just how long-cheated eyes will turn
To wonder what myself will say,
And what itself will say to me,
Beguiles the
centuries
of way!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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the theme
surmounts
the loftiest strains.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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O, Civil Fury, you alone are the cause,
In Macedonian fields sowing new wars,
Arming Pompey against Caesar there,
So that
achieving
the rich crown of all,
Roman grandeur, prospering everywhere,
Might tumble down in more disastrous fall.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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yield'st not to the Gods
themselves?
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Even in
whispers
men each other told
The details of the pact which they had signed
With that dark power, the foe of human kind;
In whispers, for the crowd had mortal dread
Of them so high, and woes that they had spread.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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She turns and looks a moment in the glass,
Hardly aware of her
departed
lover; 250
Her brain allows one half-formed thought to pass:
"Well now that's done: and I'm glad it's over.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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To a modern
romantic
reader her insistence that her husband
shall not marry again seems hardly delicate.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Defeat
Defeat, my Defeat, my solitude and my aloofness;
You are dearer to me than a
thousand
triumphs,
And sweeter to my heart than all world-glory.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Loosened
from their sapless twigs
Leaves drop with every gust;
Drifting, rustling, out of sight
In the damp or dust.
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Christina Rossetti |
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[Sidenote: But it is one thing to be conducted through a life of
infinite
duration, which was Plato's opinion of the world, and
another thing to comprehend at once the whole extent of this
duration as present which, it is manifest, can only belong to the
Divine mind.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Morning sought _120
Her eastern watch-tower, and her hair unbound,
Wet with the tears which should adorn the ground,
Dimmed the aereal eyes that kindle day;
Afar the
melancholy
thunder moaned,
Pale Ocean in unquiet slumber lay, _125
And the wild Winds flew round, sobbing in their dismay.
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Shelley |
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Knowist thou the
excellent
joys of youth?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Heaven approved the innocence of their sighs:
They
followed
their loving thoughts without remorse:
Each day rose clear, serene to light their course.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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{and} hasten hem to 1780
geten
glorious
name by ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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com,
for a more
complete
list of our various sites.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Barons of France may not
forgetful
be
Whence comes the ensign "Monjoie," they cry at need;
Wherefore no race against them can succeed.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Sad case for such a brain to hold
Communion
with a stirring child!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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When
Severity
is chiefly to be used by Critics.
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Alexander Pope |
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Depending
on the nature of subsequent use that is made, additional rights may need to be obtained independently of anything we can address.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the
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reported
to you within 90 days
of receipt of the work.
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Rilke - Poems |
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"
He spurs his horse, that on with speed doth strain;
Which should forfeit, they both
together
came.
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Chanson de Roland |
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above all,
For the
resurrection
of deep-buried faith
In Truth--in Virtue--in Humanity--
Of all who, on Despair's unhallowed bed
Lying down to die, have suddenly arisen
At thy soft-murmured words, "Let there be light!
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Poe - 5 |
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Perhaps Merlin brought him, for
Merlin, they say, can walk about and nobody see him, if he will, but any
rate, Arthur was there by my side,
comforting
me and drying my tears.
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Tennyson |
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Hast thou weighed well thy life's worth,
That thus you dare assume a lawless
function?
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Byron |
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Here, here I live with what my board
Can with the
smallest
cost afford.
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Robert Herrick |
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Maintenant il dit: Je sais les choses,
Et va, les yeux fermes et les
oreilles
closes;
--Et pourtant, plus de dieux!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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_ Thou knowest that I did not covet mortal and
transitory
things.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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As cruel some, as weak and proud some shent
Their king, and (as still happens in like woe)
All hate him privily; but, for they fear
His fury, in his
presence
mute appear.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Then he: "Now, father, sleep, but sleep not here;
Consult thy safety, and forgive my fear,
Lest any Argive, at this hour awake,
To ask our counsel, or our orders take,
Approaching sudden to our open'd tent,
Perchance
behold thee, and our grace prevent.
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Iliad - Pope |
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They have frequently
failed to recognize allusions as such, and have mistranslated them
accordingly, often turning proper names into
romantic
sentiments.
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Li Po |
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Its
business
office is located at
809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email
business@pglaf.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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The combs are founded, the queen rules her court,
Bee-sergeants posted at the entrance-chink
Are
sampling
each returning honey-cargo
With scrutinizing mouth and commentary,
Slow approbation, quick dissatisfaction--
Disquieting rhythm, that leads me home at last
From labyrinthine wandering.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Because
Oh, because you never tried
To bow my will or break my pride,
And nothing of the cave-man made
You want to keep me half afraid,
Nor ever with a
conquering
air
You thought to draw me unaware--
Take me, for I love you more
Than I ever loved before.
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Sara Teasdale |
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20
LXVII
Indoors the fire is kindled;
Beechwood is piled on the hearthstone;
Cold are the
chattering
oak-leaves;
And the ponds frost-bitten.
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Sappho |
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) This
Relation
of Pot and Potter to Man and his Maker
figures far and wide in the Literature of the World, from the time of
the Hebrew Prophets to the present; when it may finally take the name
of "Pot theism," by which Mr.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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XXVIII
He who has seen a great oak dry and dead,
Bearing some trophy as an ornament,
Whose roots from earth are almost rent,
Though to the heavens it still lifts its head;
More than half-bowed towards its final bed,
Showing its naked boughs and fibres bent,
While, leafless now, its heavy crown is leant
Support by a gnarled trunk, its sap long bled;
And though at the first strong wind it must fall,
And many young oaks are rooted within call,
Alone among the devout
populace
is revered:
Who such an oak has seen, let him consider,
That, among cities which have flourished here,
This old honoured dust was the most honoured.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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For nature then
(The coarser pleasures of my boyish days,
And their glad animal
movements
all gone by,)
To me was all in all.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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APOLLO
This too I answer; mark a soothfast word,
Not the true parent is the woman's womb
That bears the child; she doth but nurse the seed
New-sown: the male is parent; she for him,
As
stranger
for a stranger, hoards the germ
Of life; unless the god its promise blight.
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Aeschylus |
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`And thou, Simoys, that as an arwe clere
Thorugh Troye rennest ay downward to the see,
Ber witnesse of this word that seyd is here, 1550
That thilke day that ich untrewe be
To Troilus, myn owene herte free,
That thou retorne
bakwarde
to thy welle,
And I with body and soule sinke in helle!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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von (Robert), p39 1887,
Internet
Book Archive Images
Medusas, miserable heads
With hairs of violet
You enjoy the hurricane
And I enjoy the very same.
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Appoloinaire |
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This roused such an enthusiasm,
that they insisted on bumpering the punch round in it; and by and by,
never did your great
ancestor
lay a _Suthron_ more completely to rest,
than for a time did your cup my two friends.
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Robert Burns |
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The
artisans
gathered about him.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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I could not
understand
it.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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'Tis not enough, taste, judgment, learning, join;
In all you speak, let truth and candour shine:
That not alone what to your sense is due
All may allow; but seek your
friendship
too.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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Prophets of Nature, we to them will speak
A lasting inspiration, sanctified 445
By reason, blest by faith: what we have loved,
Others will love, and we will teach them how;
Instruct them how the mind of man becomes
A thousand times more
beautiful
than the earth
On which he dwells, above this frame of things 450
(Which, 'mid all revolution in the hopes
And fears of men, doth still remain unchanged)
In beauty exalted, as it is itself
Of quality and fabric more divine.
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William Wordsworth |
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Or
cormorants
plunging one by one, cutting
The flood, pearls flying from their wings?
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Richmond
and Kew
Undid me.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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The windel-straw nor grass so shook and trembled;
As the good and gallant stripling shook and trembled;
A linen shirt so fine his frame invested,
O'er the shirt was drawn a bright pelisse of scarlet
The sleeves of that pelisse depended backward,
The lappets of its front were button'd backward,
And were spotted with the blood of unbelievers;
See the good and gallant stripling reeling goeth,
From his eyeballs hot and briny tears distilling;
On his bended bow his figure he supporteth,
Till his bended bow has lost its goodly gilding;
Not a single soul the stripling good encounter'd,
Till encounter'd he the mother dear who bore him:
O my boy, O my treasure, and my
darling!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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VIRGINES
Hesperus
e nobis, aequalis, abstulit unam.
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Latin - Catullus |
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I, whether lately through her brightnesse blind, 5
Or through
alleageance
and fast fealtie,
Which I do owe unto all woman kind,
Feele my hart perst with so great agonie,
When such I see, that all for pittie I could die.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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I took thee as my
friendly
host
That counsel might in dangers show,
But when I needed thee the most
I found thou wert my foe.
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John Clare |
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Daughter
of genius!
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
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Why how now Hecat, you looke
angerly?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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THE GHOST'S PETITION
'There's a
footstep
coming: look out and see,'
'The leaves are falling, the wind is calling;
No one cometh across the lea.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Rilke - Poems |
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A little oak spreads oer it,
And throws a shadow round,
A green sward close before it,
The greenest ever found:
There is not a
woodland
nigh nor is there a green grove,
Yet stood the fair maid nigh me and told me all her love.
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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' 'Damsel, thy charge
Is an abounding
pleasure
to me.
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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I love to think that if my blood should be
So
privileged
to sink where his has sunk,
I shall not pass from Earth entirely,
But when the banquet rings, when healths are drunk,
And faces that the joys of living fill
Glow radiant with laughter and good cheer,
In beaming cups some spark of me shall still
Brim toward the lips that once I held so dear.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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I said
I would not drink this evening; but I must; _170
For, strange to say, I feel my spirits fail
With
thinking
what I have decreed to do.
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Shelley |
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"
Hied then in haste to where Hrothgar sat
white-haired and old, his earls about him,
till the stout thane stood at the
shoulder
there
of the Danish king: good courtier he!
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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--Off they fly in earnest chase; 10
Every dog is eager-hearted,
All the four are in the race:
And the hare whom they pursue,
Knows from
instinct
[1] what to do;
Her hope is near: no turn she makes; 15
But, like an arrow, to the river takes.
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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And when wind and winter harden
All the
loveless
land,
It will whisper of the garden,
You will understand.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Quickly then, your waning
strength
needs rescue,
While the flame of your life, almost dwindled, 215
Still endures, and can even yet be rekindled.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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That, I think,
Hurts the most a
thousandfold!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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Love
conquers
all things; yield we too to love!
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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I do not
see what the
Puritans
did at this season, when the maples blaze out in
scarlet.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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And no
forgetting
wabster Charlie,
I'm tauld he offers very fairly.
| Guess: |
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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,
surnamed
the Brave, ascended the
throne of Portugal in the vigour of his age.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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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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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
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Flesh-and-blood is weak and frail,
Susceptible
to nervous shock;
While the True Church can never fail
For it is based upon a rock.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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Whether the poet
conjures
from the
depths of myth _The Kings in Legends_, or whether we read from _The
Chronicle of a Monk_ the awe-inspiring description of _The Last Judgment
Day_, or whether in Paris on a Palm Sunday we see _The Maidens at
Confirmation_, the pictures presented stand out with the clearness and
finality of the typical.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Two friends alone I ask, and that the one
More
merciful
and meek to me may seem,
The other well as erst, and firm of feet.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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"
He spoke, and
headlong
from the mountain's height
Deep in the roaring tide he plunged to endless night.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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Truth in art is the unity of a thing
with itself: the outward
rendered
expressive of the inward: the soul made
incarnate: the body instinct with spirit.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
|
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modified
and printed and given away--you may do
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| Question: |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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"
[Picture: The wainscotings begin to go]
"It means the loosening all the doors,"
The Ghost replied, and laughed:
"It means the drilling holes by scores
In all the skirting-boards and floors,
To make a
thorough
draught.
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Lewis Carroll |
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This Church, by letting these daies joyne, hath shown
Death and conception in mankinde is one;
Or'twas in him the same humility, 35
That he would be a man, and leave to be:
Or as creation he hath made, as God,
With the last judgement, but one period,
His imitating Spouse would joyne in one
Manhoods
extremes: He shall come, he is gone: 40
Or as though one blood drop, which thence did fall,
Accepted, would have serv'd, he yet shed all;
So though the least of his paines, deeds, or words,
Would busie a life, she all this day affords;
This treasure then, in grosse, my Soule uplay, 45
And in my life retaile it every day.
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The death of the Countess had
surprised
no one, as it had long been
expected.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Once he saw a fat, stupid ass
Grinning
at him from a green place.
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Stephen Crane |
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Floppy Fly
Rushed downward to the foamy sea
With one sponge-taneous cry:
And there they found a little boat,
Whose sails were pink and gray;
And off they sailed among the waves,
Far and far away:
They sailed across the silent main,
And reached the great
Gromboolian
Plain;
And there they play forevermore
At battlecock and shuttledore.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Ulysses, at that sound, for trial sake
Of his good host, if putting off his cloak
He would accommodate him, or require
That service for him at some other hand,
Addressing
thus the family, began.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Had I not better
Forestall
the stormy onset of the flood,
Myself to--ah!
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Our
preparation
stands
In expectation of them.
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Shakespeare |
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Sound, ruddy men, frolic and innocent,
In winter, lumberers; in summer, guides;
Their sinewy arms pull at the oar untired
Three times ten
thousand
strokes, from morn to eve.
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Emerson - Poems |
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The four children then entered into conversation with the
Blue-Bottle-Flies, who
discoursed
in a placid and genteel manner, though
with a slightly buzzing accent, chiefly owing to the fact that they each
held a small clothes-brush between their teeth, which naturally occasioned
a fizzy, extraneous utterance.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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When to the point we came,
Whereat my guide was pleas'd that I should see
The
creature
eminent in beauty once,
He from before me stepp'd and made me pause.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Cloud another lord awaited,
Or that in scenes Le Notre's art created
For
princely
sport and ease,
Crimean steeds, trampling the velvet glade,
Should browse the bark beneath the stately shade
Of the great Louis' trees?
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Hugo - Poems |
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an how gret defaute of power
{and} how gret
feblesse
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Beschamt
nur steh ich vor ihm da
Und sag zu allen Sachen ja.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Women claim she's ugly,
But for her the men go mad:
The
Archbishop
of Toledo
Kneels at her feet to say Mass;
For above her amber nape
Is coiled a large chignon
That, in her room, undone
Yields her body a cape.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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But behold
What these
superior
beings are or were;
Or, if it irk thee, turn thee back and till
The earth, thy task--I'll waft thee there in safety.
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Byron |
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