Sossius,
One of my place in Syria, his lieutenant,
For quick
accumulation
of renown,
Which he achiev'd by th' minute, lost his favour.
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As for will and testament I leave none,
Save this: "Vers and canzone to the
Countess
of
Beziers
In return for the first kiss she gave me.
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I add only one further extract, which will possess a melancholy interest
to all such as have endeavored to glean the materials of revolutionary
history from the lips of aged persons, who took a part in the actual
making of it, and, finding the manufacture profitable,
continued
the
supply in an adequate proportion to the demand.
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Over the manhole, up in the iron-clad tower,
Pilot and Captain met as they turned to fly:
The
hundredth
part of a moment seemed an hour,
For one could pass to be saved, and one must die.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Within a hut of stone
To bask the
centuries
away
Nor once look up for noon?
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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E io udi' ne la luce piu dia
del minor cerchio una voce modesta,
forse qual fu da l'angelo a Maria,
risponder: <
di paradiso, tanto il nostro amore
si raggera
dintorno
cotal vesta.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Particularly
I remark An English countess goes upon the stage.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Charles was a nervous, frail youth, but unlike most
children
of genius,
he was a scholar and won brilliant honours at school.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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He, of all heroes I heard of ever
from sea to sea, of the sons of earth,
most
excellent
seemed.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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But take it: if the smack is sour,
The better for the
embittered
hour;
It should do good to heart and head
When your soul is in my soul's stead;
And I will friend you, if I may,
In the dark and cloudy day.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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There are who joy them in the Olympic strife
And love the dust they gather in the course;
The goal by hot wheels shunn'd, the famous prize,
Exalt them to the gods that rule mankind;
This joys, if rabbles fickle as the wind
Through triple grade of honours bid him rise,
That, if his granary has stored away
Of Libya's thousand floors the yield entire;
The man who digs his field as did his sire,
With honest pride, no Attalus may sway
By proffer'd wealth to tempt Myrtoan seas,
The
timorous
captain of a Cyprian bark.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Then, onward pressing fast
Through the forest rude and vast,
Hunger-wasted, fever-parch'd,
Many bitter days she marched
With
bleeding
feet that spurned the flinty pain;
One thought always throbbing through her brain:
"They shall never say, 'He was afraid,'--
They shall never cry, 'The coward stayed!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Poi fui
famiglia
del buon re Tebaldo;
quivi mi misi a far baratteria,
di ch'io rendo ragione in questo caldo>>.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Even When We Sleep
Even when we sleep we watch over each other
And this love heavier than a lake's ripe fruit
Without
laughter
or tears lasts forever
One day after another one night after us.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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So it seems, despite all your youthful vigour, you make it
your trade to denounce
strangers?
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Aristophanes |
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CITIES
Can we believe--by an effort
comfort our hearts:
it is not waste all this,
not placed here in disgust,
street after street,
each
patterned
alike,
no grace to lighten
a single house of the hundred
crowded into one garden-space.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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"
And the
daughter
of Cyprus said to me,
"Child of the earth, 10
Behold, all things are born and attain,
But only as they desire,---
"The sun that is strong, the gods that are wise,
The loving heart,
Deeds and knowledge and beauty and joy,-- 15
But before all else was desire.
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Sappho |
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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So
freehanded
and so gay!
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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"Your queen is killed,"
remarked
Tchekalinsky quietly.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Transcriber's Endnotes
Numeration Errors in the Hesperides:
Without an obvious solution to a
discrepancy
the numbers remain as
originally printed, however the following alterations have been made
to ensure any details in the NOTES section apply to the relevant
poem.
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Robert Herrick |
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And suddenly I surrender the garrison,
Feigning
treason!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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The latter overran a great extent of country,
selling strong water, and collecting its furs, and converting its
inhabitants,--or at least baptizing its dying infants (_enfans
moribonds_),--without
_improving_
it.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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I look'd around with painful search to spy
If any martial form should meet my eye
Familiar to my sight in worlds above,
The willing objects of respect or love;
And soon a well-known face my notice drew,
Sicilia's king, to whose
sagacious
view
The scenes of deep futurity display'd
Their birth, through coming Time's disclosing shade.
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Petrarch |
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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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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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Plotting
assassination
in our very fort!
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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And ever since that martial synod met,
Britannia
sickens, Cintra, at thy name;
And folks in office at the mention fret,
And fain would blush, if blush they could, for shame.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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I hear from the Mussulman mosque the muezzin calling,
I see the worshippers within, nor form nor sermon, argument nor word,
But silent, strange, devout, rais'd, glowing heads,
ecstatic
faces.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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The
catastrophe of the piece is a poor ruined female,
lamenting
her fate.
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Robert Forst |
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They cannot take us any more, --
Dungeons may call, and guns implore;
Unmeaning now, to me,
As laughter was an hour ago,
Or laces, or a travelling show,
Or who died
yesterday!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Besides, this labour--whether due to the industry of admiring friends,
or to the ambition of the literary resurrectionist--is futile; because
the verdict of Time is sure, and posterity is certain to consign the
recovered
trivialities
to kindly oblivion.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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With Cowslips wan that hang the pensive hed,
And every flower that sad
embroidery
wears:
Bid Amaranthus all his beauty shed,
Daffadillies fill their cups with tears, 150
And strew the Laureat Herse where Lycid lies.
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Milton |
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If ye but knew how
dreadful
'tis
To bear love's parching agonies--
To burn, yet reason keep awake
The fever of the blood to slake--
A passionate desire to bend
And, sobbing at your feet, to blend
Entreaties, woes and prayers, confess
All that the heart would fain express--
Yet with a feigned frigidity
To arm the tongue and e'en the eye,
To be in conversation clear
And happy unto you appear.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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One
desperate
splash--and no use to me
The noose that swung!
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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In front
The
cedarshadowy
valleys open wide.
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Tennyson |
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Our dates are brief, and
therefore
we admire
What thou dost foist upon us that is old;
And rather make them born to our desire
Than think that we before have heard them told.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Uncouth
although
the object be,
An image of perplexity;
Yet not the less it is our boast, 1819.
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William Wordsworth |
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Every man has a vacant space quite round
his own, whether for security against
accidents
from fire, or that they
want the art of building.
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Tacitus |
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Sir, you are a husband and a father: you
know what you would feel, to see the much-loved wife of your bosom,
and your helpless prattling little ones, turned adrift into the world,
degraded and disgraced, from a
situation
in which they had been
respectable and respected.
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Robert Forst |
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Replied the Tsar, our country's hope and glory:
Of a truth, thou little lad, and peasant's
bantling!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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And now have I roamed back
Unto the ancient track
Where Io roamed and
pastured
among flowers,
Watched o'er by Argus' eyes,
Through the lush grasses and the meadow bowers.
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Aeschylus |
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too soon of it we were bereft
When on that riven night and stormy sea
Panthea claimed her singer as her own,
And slew the mouth that praised her; since which time we walk alone,
Save for that fiery heart, that morning star {129}
Of re-arisen England, whose clear eye
Saw from our tottering throne and waste of war
The grand Greek limbs of young Democracy
Rise
mightily
like Hesperus and bring
The great Republic!
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Wilde - Poems |
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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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Lear - Nonsense |
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Than asked he, if folk that heer be dede 50
Have lyf and
dwelling
in another place;
And African seyde, 'ye, withoute drede,'
And that our present worldes lyves space
Nis but a maner deth, what wey we trace,
And rightful folk shal go, after they dye, 55
To heven; and shewed him the galaxye.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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That the extent of a poetical work is, _ceteris paribus, _the measure
of its merit, seems undoubtedly, when we thus state it, a proposition
sufficiently absurd--yet we are
indebted
for it to the Quarterly
Reviews.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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eue him
strength
& mygh[t]e 69
A?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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No sooner closed thine eyelids shall appear
Than either me
internal
grief will quell,
Or, has it not such power, I here protest,
I with this sword to-day will pierce my breast.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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320
Crede ratem uentis, animum ne crede puellis 314
Crimine quo merui, iuuenis, placidissime diuum 262
Cui dono lepidum nouum
libellum?
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this
electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without
prominently displaying the
sentence
set forth in paragraph 1.
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Keats - Lamia |
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Sarojini Chattopadhyay was born at Hyderabad on
February
13,
1879.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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For "IS" and "IS-NOT" though with Rule and Line,
And, "UP-AND-DOWN" without, I could define,
I yet in all I only cared to know,
Was never deep in
anything
but--Wine.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Yea, but not this my marvel: not that we
Should master with desire the sundering world,
We who bore in our hearts such destiny,
There was no force knew to be dangerous
Against it, but must turn its malice clean
Into obsequious favour
worshipping
us.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Last martyr's day I saw a cherub stand
Across my seas, one foot upon the land,
The other on the
enthralled
Gallic shore,
Proclaiming loud their time shall be no more.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Hosea Biglow was
preceded
by the
"Idyl of the Bridge and the Monument," which set forth another side
of American feeling at the British words and deeds consequent on
the unauthorized capture, by Commodore Wilkes, of the "Trent,"
conveying to England two Confederate Commissioners.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Skirmishers flung lightly forward
Moved like
scythemen
skilled to sweep
Westward o'er the field and nor'ward,
Death's first harvest there to reap.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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But there he hangs for tavern sign,
With foolish bold regard
For cock and hen and
loitering
men
And wagons down the yard.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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And in thy consulate,
This
glorious
age, O Pollio, shall begin,
And the months enter on their mighty march.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Now my
judgment
hear and mark.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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,
_gleaming
like metal_: acc.
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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The song
_Farewell
to love_, the second in the list of poems added
in _1635_, is found only in _O'F_ and _S96_.
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John Donne |
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But sad Ulysses, by himself apart,
Pour'd the big sorrows of his
swelling
heard;
All on the lonely shore he sate to weep,
And roll'd his eyes around the restless deep:
Toward his loved coast he roll'd his eyes in vain,
Till, dimm'd with rising grief, they stream'd again.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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" Three
kinds of elves are mentioned in the _Edda_: the black dwarfs, and brownies,
who both dwelt under ground, and the fair elves, who dwelt in
Fairyland
or
Alfheim.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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The tablet is said to have been found at Senkere, ancient
Larsa near Warka, modern Arabic name for and vulgar descendant
of the ancient name Uruk, the
Biblical
Erech mentioned in Genesis
X.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Poscia che m'ebbe
ragionato
questo,
li occhi lucenti lagrimando volse,
per che mi fece del venir piu presto.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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So may the lustre of your days
Outshine
the deeds Firdusi sung,
Your name within a nation's prayer,
Your music on a nation's tongue.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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A GAME OF CHESS
The Chair she sat in, like a
burnished
throne,
Glowed on the marble, where the glass
Held up by standards wrought with fruited vines
From which a golden Cupidon peeped out 80
(Another hid his eyes behind his wing)
Doubled the flames of sevenbranched candelabra
Reflecting light upon the table as
The glitter of her jewels rose to meet it,
From satin cases poured in rich profusion.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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The invalidity or unenforceability of any
provision of this agreement shall not void the
remaining
provisions.
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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TOOKS COURT,
CHANCERY
LANE, LONDON.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Love's
orchards
climbed to the heavens of the West,
And snowed the earthly sod with flowers.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
|
Ah, yes, to become legendary, too,
On the brink of a
charlatan
age!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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THE TIGER
Tiger, tiger, burning bright
In the forest of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could Frame thy fearful
symmetry?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
Speak thy desire; I grant it, if thou ask
Things possible, and
possible
to me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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And though his language differ from the vulgar somewhat, it
shall not fly from all humanity, with the Tamerlanes and Tamer-chains of
the late age, which had nothing in them but the scenical strutting and
furious
vociferation
to warrant them to the ignorant gapers.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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dead even
then;
Months, years, an echoing,
garnished
house-but dead, dead, dead!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Send me now, and I shall go;
Call me, I shall hear you call;
Use me ere they lay me low
Where a man's no use at all;
Ere the
wholesome
flesh decay,
And the willing nerve be numb,
And the lips lack breath to say,
"No, my lad, I cannot come.
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"_My future will not copy fair my past_"--
I wrote that once; and thinking at my side
My
ministering
life-angel justified
The word by his appealing look upcast
To the white throne of God, I turned at last,
And there, instead, saw thee, not unallied
To angels in thy soul!
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Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm
License as specified in
paragraph
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Keats - Lamia |
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Now the wrath of the sea-fish rose apace;
yet me 'gainst the
monsters
my mailed coat,
hard and hand-linked, help afforded, --
battle-sark braided my breast to ward,
garnished with gold.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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I reason that in heaven
Somehow, it will be even,
Some new
equation
given;
But what of that?
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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An
ordination
hymn
attributed to a maternal uncle, but perhaps a sort of production not
demanding the creative faculty.
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You left me, sweet, two legacies, --
A legacy of love
A Heavenly Father would content,
Had He the offer of;
You left me boundaries of pain
Capacious as the sea,
Between eternity and time,
Your
consciousness
and me.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Or il n'est d'horreur au monde qui surpasse
La froide cruaute de ce soleil de glace
Et cette immense nuit
semblable
au vieux Chaos;
Je jalouse le sort des plus vils animaux
Qui peuvent se plonger dans un sommeil stupide,
Tant l'echeveau du temps lentement se devide!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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To thee the pilot thus I speak, (my words
Mark thou, for at thy touch the rudder moves)
This smoke, and these
tumultuous
waves avoid;
Steer wide of both; yet with an eye intent
On yonder rock, lest unaware thou hold 260
Too near a course, and plunge us into harm.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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So when that Angel of the darker Drink
At last shall find you by the river-brink,
And,
offering
his Cup, invite your Soul
Forth to your Lips to quaff--you shall not shrink.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Lost on a desert's parched immensity,
Your eyes
I seemed to be
And thirst had
clutched
my throat
Like strangler's fingers, while unpityingly
The arrows of the sun upon me smote.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Did the
harebell
loose her girdle
To the lover bee,
Would the bee the harebell hallow
Much as formerly?
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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He was condemned to a fine of three hundred
francs, a fine which was never paid, as the
objectionable
poems were
removed.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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At the fourth turn, braving the Israelites,
Women appeared upon the
crenelated
heights--
Those battlements embrowned with age and rust--
And hurled upon the Hebrews stones and dust,
And spun and sang when weary of the game.
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Hugo - Poems |
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If, like a tower upon a headland rock,
Thou hadst been made to stand or fall alone,
Such scorn of man had helped to brave the shock;
But men's
thoughts
were the steps which paved thy throne,
THEIR admiration thy best weapon shone;
The part of Philip's son was thine, not then
(Unless aside thy purple had been thrown)
Like stern Diogenes to mock at men;
For sceptred cynics earth were far too wide a den.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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No guess could tell what instrument appear'd,
But all the soul of Music's self was heard,
Harmonious
concert rung in every part,
While simple melody pour'd moving on the heart.
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Robert Burns |
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In jenem sel'gen Augenblicke
Ich fuhlte mich so klein, so gross;
Du
stiessest
grausam mich zurucke,
Ins ungewisse Menschenlos.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Then I looked up and saw a head peering down into
the amphitheatre--the head of Dunnoo, my dog-boy, who
attended
to my
collies.
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Kipling - Poems |
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