A canoe with
flashing
paddle,
A girl with soft searching eyes,
A call: "John!
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Stephen Crane |
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I
vndirstonde
wel q{uo}d .
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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You must not mix our Queen with those
That wish to keep their people fools;
Our freedom's foemen are her foes,
She
comprehends
the race she rules.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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darkning
in the West
Lost!
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Blake - Zoas |
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--The
Phylarchs
were the headmen
of the tribes, [Greek: Phulai].
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Aristophanes |
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Nil prseter solitum
sapiebat
epistola nostra,
Exemplumque meae simplicitatis erat :
Fabula jucundos qualis delectat amicos ;
Urbe, lepore, novis, carmine, tota scatens.
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Marvell - Poems |
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"
PINE
By John Russell McCarthy
You must have dreamed a little every year For fifty years: you must have been a child, Shy and
diffident
with the violets, School-girlish with the daisies, or perhaps
A youthful Indian with the hickory tree;
You must have been a lover with the beech, A wise young father walking with your sons Beneath the maple; then have battled long Grim and defiant with the oak : all these
You must have been for fifty dreaming years Before you may hold converse with the pine.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Or doth God mock at me
And blast my vision with some mad
surmise?
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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This
gentleman
says to Bernick that the
_Palm Tree_ ought to start all the same, for she is a splendidly-built
craft, and she is only to cross the North Sea; but as for the _Indian
Girl_, such an old hulk would be in great peril.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Yet in the city of my love
High noon burns all the heavens bare--
For him the happiness of light,
For me a
delicate
despair.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Pursuing thus our
solitary
way
Among the crags and splinters of the rock,
Sped not our feet without the help of hands.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Hic, qualis flatu placidum mare matutino
Horrificans Zephyrus proclivas incitat undas 270
Aurora exoriente vagi sub limina Solis,
Quae tarde primum clementi flamine pulsae
Procedunt (leni resonant plangore cachinni),
Post vento crescente magis magis increbescunt
Purpureaque procul nantes a luce refulgent, 275
Sic ibi
vestibuli
linquentes regia tecta
Ad se quisque vago passim pede discedebant.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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See by what outrages
Tormented
the myriad-yeared
Time I shall endure; such the new
Ruler of the blessed has contrived for me,
Unseemly bonds.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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The wasps flourish greenly
Dawn goes by round her neck
A
necklace
of windows
You are all the solar joys
All the sun of this earth
On the roads of your beauty.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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O but stay tender, enchanted
where wave-lengths cut you
apart from all the rest--
for we have found you,
we watch the
splendour
of you,
we thread throat on throat of freesia
for your shelf.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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And it grew both day and night,
Till it bore an apple bright,
And my foe beheld it shine,
and he knew that it was mine, --
And into my garden stole
When the night had veiled the pole;
In the morning, glad, I see
My foe
outstretched
beneath the tree.
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blake-poems |
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No word the experienced man replies,
But thus to heaven (and
heavenward
lifts his eyes):
"O Jove!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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General
Information
About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic
works.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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From the
forgotten
you call forth dreams; the
child
Reposing on the ground in the corn-clad fields,
In harvest-glow beside the naked mowers.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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The
creatures
pass to the sounds
Of my tortoise, and the songs I sing.
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Appoloinaire |
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She, poor bird, as all forlorn,
Lean'd her breast against a thorn,
And there sung the
dolefullest
ditty,
That to hear it was great pity.
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Golden Treasury |
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"
Then I left my friend and
approached
the blind man and greeted him.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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e noble welles of hys modir
calliope
?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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LXXIX
As Bradamant unarms, and first her shield,
And after puts her
polished
casque away,
A caul of shining gold, wherein concealed
And clustering close, her prisoned tresses lay,
She with the helmet doffs; and now revealed,
(While the long locks about her shoulders play,)
A lovely damsel by that band is seen,
No fiercer in affray than fair of mien.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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" There we
get the morbid
physical
basis of a sensitiveness to music which came to
mean much to him.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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If it doesn't merit any change of course,
We'll leave: and
whatever
the cost to us may be, 735
We'll yet place the sceptre in hands more worthy.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Miss
Thompson
lets her say her say:
'So chilly for the time of year.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Beside the gate the reverend minstrel stands;
The lyre now silent trembling in his hands;
Dubious to
supplicate
the chief, or fly
To Jove's inviolable altar nigh,
Where oft Laertes holy vows had paid,
And oft Ulysses smoking victims laid.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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100
myntynge to gone in to foreyne
derknesses
as
ofte as hys anoious bisines wexi?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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What are you telling,
Variable
Wind-tone?
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Christina Rossetti |
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Betrayed
you has he that to guard you ought;
Mad is the King who left you in this post.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Here, said she,
Is your card, the drowned
Phoenician
Sailor,
(Those are pearls that were his eyes.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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All fine
literature is the disinterested contemplation or expression of life,
but hardly any Irish writer can liberate his mind
sufficiently
from
questions of practical reform for this contemplation.
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Yeats |
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Then, too, the reason which entices us
At times to attribute colours to the seeds
Falls quite to pieces, since white things are not
Create from white things, nor are black from black,
But
evermore
they are create from things
Of divers colours.
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Lucretius |
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For wel thow wost, my leve brother dere,
That alwey
freendes
may nought been y-fere.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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I have not now at least one
battlemented
tower.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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* * * *
Shall I say, I have gone at dusk through narrow streets
And watched the smoke that rises from the pipes
Of lonely men in shirt-sleeves, leaning out of
windows?
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T.S. Eliot |
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But music mixt with music are, in love,
Bodily senses; and as flame hath light,
Spirit this nature hath imagined round it,
No way
concealed
therein, when love comes near,
Nor in the perfect wedding of desires
Suffering any hindrance.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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NIGHTFALL IN THE CITY OF HYDERABAD
See how the
speckled
sky burns like a pigeon's throat,
Jewelled with embers of opal and peridote.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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How
beautiful
they were, too beautiful
To look upon!
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Tennyson |
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Only one other god before, in sufferings
Subdued by injuries
Of adamantine bonds, I've seen, Titanian
Atlas, who always with
superior
strength
The huge and heavenly globe
On his back bears;
And with a roar the sea waves
Dashing, groans the deep,
And the dark depth of Hades murmurs underneath
The earth, and fountains of pure-running rivers
Heave a pitying sigh.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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tum legit aerio sublimem uertice palmam,
quae Graium Phoenix ex aue nomen habet,
in quam nulla nocens animans prorepere possit,
lubricus
aut serpens aut auis ulla rapax.
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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He had no power left to bear the weight;
A
thousand
famous prizes hardly gain'd
She took; and thousand glorious palms obtained.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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All of you now,
farewell!
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Unless you have removed all
references
to Project Gutenberg:
1.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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As Ruskin
wrote in his earlier and better days, "No weight nor mass nor beauty
of
execution
can outweigh one grain or fragment of thought.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Acknowledging
his present to Mrs.
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Robert Burns |
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3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER
WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO
WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTIBILITY
OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE.
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La Fontaine |
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Firm to the mast with chains thyself be bound,
Nor trust thy virtue to the
enchanting
sound.
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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Now
wooded Zacynthos appears amid the waves, and
Dulichium
and Same and
Neritos' sheer rocks.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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We were now in imminent danger of being discomfited; but, as good luck
would have it, Doctor Ponnonner, having rallied,
returned
to our rescue,
and inquired if the people of Egypt would seriously pretend to rival the
moderns in the all--important particular of dress.
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Poe - 5 |
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Gbeat Charles, who full of merc^ might'st coiu-
mandy
In peace and pleasure, this thj native land,
At last take pity of thy tottering throne,
Shook bj the faults of others, not thine own ;
Let not thy life and crown
together
end.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Continued
use of this site implies consent to that usage.
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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Why
Must life be all one scope for the hawking wings
Of Love, that none the
mischief
can escape?
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Further
evidence
may show that I have erred as to one or other.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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Sab: By the rushy-fringed bank, 890
Where grows the Willow and the Osier dank,
My sliding Chariot stayes,
Thick set with Agat, and the azurn sheen
Of Turkis blew, and Emrauld green
That in the
channell
strayes,
Whilst from off the waters fleet
Thus I set my printless feet
O're the Cowslips Velvet head,
That bends not as I tread,
Gentle swain at thy request 900
I am here.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
|
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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Li Bai - Chinese |
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_
Wheat sways heavy, oats are airy,
Barley bows a
graceful
head,
Short and small shoots up canary,
Each of these is some one's bread;
Bread for man or bread for beast,
Or at very least
A bird's savory feast.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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So
freehanded
and so gay!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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I'll
sprinkle
thee with holy water.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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36_, and a
reference
to the husband who
is the 'just excuse' for the wife's infidelity, which occurs in _U.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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LOVELL: I admire
The
toughness
of your nature.
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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_
(Lines for a
monument
to the American and British soldiers
of the Revolutionary War who fell on the Princeton
battlefield and were buried in one grave.
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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And you climbed yet
further!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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His foul
proscription
passes without blame.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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nō þȳ ǣr
fēasceafte findan meahton æt þām
æðelinge
þæt hē Heardrēde hlāford wǣre
(_could by no means obtain it from the prince_), 2374.
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Beowulf |
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Now upward will he soar,
And little less than angel, would be more;
Now looking downwards, just as grieved appears
To want the strength of bulls, the fur of bears
Made for his use all
creatures
if he call,
Say what their use, had he the powers of all?
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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O thou,
Parnassus!
| Guess: |
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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"How dare you bother me with such
nonsense?
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Cryseyde
al this aspyede wel y-nough, 85
For she was wys, and lovede him never-the-lasse,
Al nere he malapert, or made it tough,
Or was to bold, to singe a fool a masse.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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The flames of the Dog Days keep
Far from your green steep,
Because your shade around
Is always close and deep,
For the shepherds
changing
ground,
The weary oxen, the sheep,
And the cattle that wander round.
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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What honours can a grateful Rome,
A grateful senate, Caesar, give
To make thy worth through days to come
Emblazon'd on our records live,
Mightiest
of chieftains whomsoe'er
The sun beholds from heaven on high?
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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'
'By our lord,' quod I, 'I trow yow wel,
Right so me
thinketh
by your chere.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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How space quivers
Like an
enormous
kiss
That, wild to be born for no one, can neither
Burst out or be soothed like this.
| Guess: |
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Mallarme - Poems |
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I was within there, and all I viewed,
the chambered treasure, when chance allowed me
(and my path was made in no
pleasant
wise)
under the earth-wall.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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CXLV
Those lips that Love's own hand did make,
Breathed forth the sound that said 'I hate',
To me that languish'd for her sake:
But when she saw my woeful state,
Straight
in her heart did mercy come,
Chiding that tongue that ever sweet
Was us'd in giving gentle doom;
And taught it thus anew to greet;
'I hate' she alter'd with an end,
That followed it as gentle day,
Doth follow night, who like a fiend
From heaven to hell is flown away.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Howsoe'er,
I let my
business
wait upon their sport.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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while a third we bring
Select to Jove, the
inviolable
king.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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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.
| Guess: |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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And as one sees most fearful things
In the crystal of a dream,
We saw the greasy hempen rope
Hooked to the blackened beam,
And heard the prayer the hangman's snare
Strangled
into a scream.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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High on their yards, at their mast-heads they place
Lanterns enough, and carbuncles so great
Thence, from above, such light they dissipate
The sea's more clear at
midnight
than by day.
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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quam bene texentum laudabas carmina tutus
et matutinis
pellebas
frigora mensis!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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, New York
CONTEMPORARY VERSE
offers a
particularly
remarkable series of poems for
the year 1917.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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= Fleay's
identification
of Fitzdottrel with Coke rests
chiefly on the fact that Coke was Lady Hatton's husband.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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A
thousand
gallons of red wine
We carry in the ship's hold;
With girls on board at the waves' will
We are glad to drift or stay.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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And when he died
The palace was with holy
fragrance
filled.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
|
Nearly all the
individual
works in the
collection are in the public domain in the United States.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
|
--When through this little wreck of fame,
Cipher and
syllable!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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William Wordsworth |
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legally required to prepare) your annual (or equivalent
periodic) tax return.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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The Season of Loves
By the road of ways
In the three-part shadow of
troubled
sleep
I come to you the double the multiple
as like you as the era of deltas.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Nearly all the
individual
works in the
collection are in the public domain in the United States.
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Keats - Lamia |
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It has already been remarked that the ultimate
significance
of great
drama is the same as that of epic.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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"Now,
Matthew!
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William Wordsworth |
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Will you no give me your
promised
word
For the love that I do feel?
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Tennyson |
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But you don't care to be
reminded
of old lies?
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Kipling - Poems |
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Now, among the
Greeks, the eating of beans was
strictly
forbidden to all such as had it
in mind to consult those expert amphibologists, and this same
prohibition on the part of Pythagoras to his disciples is understood to
imply an abstinence from politics, beans having been used as ballots.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Time
consumes
words, like love.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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I am happy in being conscious that I shall have one reader who will
approach the
conclusion
of these few pages with regret.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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The Hippopotamus
The big-bellied hippopotamus
Inhabits the jungles of Java,
Where in the depths of each lair, cuss
More
monsters
than haunt the dreamer.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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