(for all races are here,
All the lands of the earth make
contributions
here;)
City of the sea!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Or what if the tsarevich
Should
suddenly
arise from out the grave,
Should cry, "Where are ye, children, faithful servants?
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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XXXVI
The Three stood calm and silent,
And looked upon the foes,
And a great shout of laughter
From all the vanguard rose:
And forth three chiefs came spurring
Before that deep array;
To earth they sprang, their swords they drew,
And lifted high their shields, and flew
To win the narrrow way;
XXXVII
Aunus from green Tifernum,
Lord of the Hill of Vines;
And Seius, whose eight hundred slaves
Sicken in Ilva's mines;
And Picus, long to Clusium
Vassal in peace and war,
Who led to fight his Umbrian powers
From that gray crag where, girt with towers,
The fortress of
Nequinum
lowers
O'er the pale waves of Nar.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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A nunnery was spied ashore,
We lowered away the cutter,
And, landing, seized the
youngest
nun
Ere she a cry could utter;
Beside the creek, deaf to our oars,
She slumbered in green alley,
As, eighty strong, we sent along
The dreaded Pirate Galley.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Created by the Lamb of God around
On all sides within & without the Universal Man
The Daughters of Beulah follow
sleepers
in all their Dreamst
Creating Spaces lest they fall into Eternal Death
The Circle of Destiny complete they gave to it a Space
And namd the Space Ulro & brooded over it in care & love*
{this entire passage is written vertically down the right margin and appears to have been first entered lightly (pencil?
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Blake - Zoas |
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Therefore
come, or recreant be
called.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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forth from the abyss a voice proceeds,
A long, low distant murmur of dread sound,
Such as arises when a nation bleeds
With some deep and
immedicable
wound;
Through storm and darkness yawns the rending ground.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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XXVIII
Minded to take the hippogryph, he flung
The saddle on him, which lay near, and bitted
The steed, by choosing, all the reins among,
This part or that, until his mouth was fitted:
For in that place were many bridles hung,
Belonging to the
coursers
which flitted.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Umsonst, dass trocknes Sinnen hier
Die heil'gen Zeichen dir erklart:
Ihr schwebt, ihr Geister, neben mir;
Antwortet
mir, wenn ihr mich hort!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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The Muses made
Me too a singer; I too have sung; the swains
Call me a poet, but I believe them not:
For naught of mine, or worthy Varius yet
Or Cinna deem I, but account myself
A cackling goose among
melodious
swans.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Le braccia aperse, e indi aperse l'ale;
disse: <
e
agevolemente
omai si sale.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Through his whole body
something
ran,
A most strange something did I see;
--As if he strove to be a man,
That he might pull the sledge for me.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Haste was hers; she would hie afar
and save her life when the
liegemen
saw her.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Now, Mistress, how chance you went not with Master
Slender?
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Shakespeare |
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And while the pony moves his legs,
In Johnny's left-hand you may see,
The green bough's
motionless
and dead;
The moon that shines above his head
Is not more still and mute than he.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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The dogs were handsomely
provided
for,
But shortly afterwards the parrot died too.
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T.S. Eliot |
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JOURNEYING ALONG THE RHONE TO AVIGNON, PETRARCH BIDS THE RIVER KISS
LAURA'S HAND, AS IT WILL ARRIVE AT HER
DWELLING
BEFORE HIM.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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He whom it pleased in all our bitterness
To come to earth to raise us from misery,
And died His death, to bring us victory,
Him do we ask, of mercy, Lord of right
And of humility, that the young English king
He please to pardon, if pardon be for us,
And with honoured
companions
grant him rest,
There where there is no grief, nor any sadness.
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Troubador Verse |
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It must have been
framed by the dark spirit itself, and so I
understand
it.
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Yeats |
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Pan first with wax taught reed with reed to join;
For sheep alike and
shepherd
Pan hath care.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Plead you for peace to the
lifeless
bodies that the battle-lot hath
slain?
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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And much as Wine has play'd the Infidel,
And robb'd me of my Robe of Honour--well,
I often wonder what the
Vintners
buy
One half so precious as the Goods they sell.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Such charges pass me like the idle wind;
A man who has right work in mind
Must choose the
instruments
most fitting.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
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Keats - Lamia |
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[Note 61: Hospitality is a
national
virtue of the Russians.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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--thou manufacturer of warm
Shetland
hose, and
comfortable surtouts!
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Robert Forst |
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Have you got a brook in your little heart,
Where bashful flowers blow,
And
blushing
birds go down to drink,
And shadows tremble so?
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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La bella donna che mi trasse al varco
e Stazio e io
seguitavam
la rota
che fe l'orbita sua con minore arco.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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e
whiche nac{i}ou{n}s what for
difficulte
of weyes.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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" Then you grasped my hand
With a
brotherly
grip, and you made me feel
Something that Time would surely reveal.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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; nū is þīnes
mægenes
blǣd āne
hwīle (_the prime [fame?
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Beowulf |
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Grounded in magic he knew the future and
predicted
the Christian coming of the Saviour.
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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WITH secret pleasure, this, Astolphus learn'd;
The Roman, for his brother, risks discern'd,
Whose secret griefs were carefully conceal'd,
(And these Joconde could never wish reveal'd;)
Yet, spite of gloomy looks and hollow eyes,
His graceful
features
pierc'd the wan disguise,
Which fail'd to please, alone through want of life,
Destroy'd by thinking on a guilty wife.
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La Fontaine |
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and strows
The fruits and cornel, as their feast, around;
Now prone and
grovelling
on unsavoury ground.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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If any
neighbours
came in she would say she had let the fire out
because she was just going to bed.
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Yeats |
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And so it was that, going day by day
Unto the church to praise and pray,
And crossing the green
churchyard
thoughtfully,
I saw how on the graves the flowers
Shed their fresh leaves in showers,
And how their perfume rose up to the sky
Before it passed away.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Pietinez mes
vieilles
terrines
De sentiment;
Hop donc soyez-moi ballerines
Pour un moment!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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L'une,
insidieuse
et ferme,
Disait: << La Terre est un gateau plein de douceur;
Je puis (et ton plaisir serait alors sans terme!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Lovely And Lifelike
A face at the end of the day
A cradle in day's dead leaves
A bouquet of naked rain
Every ray of sun hidden
Every fount of founts in the depths of the water
Every mirror of mirrors broken
A face in the scales of silence
A pebble among other pebbles
For the leaves last
glimmers
of day
A face like all the forgotten faces.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Those whom last thou sawst
In triumph and luxurious wealth, are they
First seen in acts of prowess eminent
And great exploits, but of true vertu void;
Who having spilt much blood, and don much waste
Subduing Nations, and achievd thereby
Fame in the World, high titles, and rich prey,
Shall change thir course to pleasure, ease, and sloth, 790
Surfet, and lust, till wantonness and pride
Raise out of
friendship
hostil deeds in Peace.
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Milton |
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aut ubi sub lucem densa inter nubila sese
diuersi rumpent radii, aut ubi pallida surget
Tithoni croceum linquens Aurora cubile,
heu, male tum mitis
defendet
pampinus uuas;
tam multa in tectis crepitans salit horrida grando.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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org),
you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a
copy, a means of
exporting
a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon
request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other
form.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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** In ail the trials he set himself,
even with indecent earnestness, to get the
prisoners
to be
always cast"
t One of the same principles with Scroggs.
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Marvell - Poems |
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--'tis but a viper
Whom thou hast
cherished
to sting thee to the soul!
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Poe - 5 |
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"
I regret that, as in many of our old songs, the
delicacy
of this old
fragment is not equal to its wit and humour.
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| Question: |
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Robert Burns |
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Canary;
And they said, "Did ever you see
Any spot so
charmingly
airy?
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Lear - Nonsense |
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His
large water-dog was
acquainted
with the fact, and upon the approach
of his master, betrayed his sense of inferiority by a sanctity of
deportment, a debasement of the ears, and a dropping of the lower jaw
not altogether unworthy of a dog.
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Poe - 5 |
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Laura stared but did not stir,
Longed but had no money:
The whisk-tailed
merchant
bade her taste
In tones as smooth as honey,
The cat-faced purr'd,
The rat-paced spoke a word
Of welcome, and the snail-paced even was heard;
One parrot-voiced and jolly
Cried "Pretty Goblin" still for "Pretty Polly";--
One whistled like a bird.
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
|
7 and any additional
terms imposed by the
copyright
holder.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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Your orange hair in the void of the world
The
sentiments
apparent
Would you see
You rise the water unfolds
I only wish to love you
The world is blue as an orange
We have created the night I hold your hand I watch
Even when we sleep we watch over each other
Donkey or cow, cockerel or horse
I looked in front of me
If I speak it's to hear you more clearly
We two take each other by the hand
At dawn I love you I've the whole night in my veins
She looks into me
A single smile disputes
Translated by A.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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And in the pool's clear idleness,
Moving like dreams through happiness,
Shoals of small bright fishes were;
In and out weed-thickets bent
Perch and carp, and sauntering went
With mounching jaws and eyes a-stare;
Or on a lotus leaf would crawl,
A brinded loach to bask and sprawl,
Tasting the warm sun ere it dipt
Into the water; but quick as fear
Back his shining brown head slipt
To crouch on the gravel of his lair,
Where the cooled
sunbeams
broke in wrack,
Spilt shatter'd gold about his back.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Sleepily lull the wasps in the noon-day song,
And through the meagre shelter of the blades
Upon his
sunburnt
forehead slowly trickle
The poppy-petals: large red drops of blood.
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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I want a Shakspeare; I want
likewise
an English dictionary--Johnson's,
I suppose, is best.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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The oath of the inseparableness of two together, of the woman that
loves me and whom I love more than my life, that oath swearing,
(O I
willingly
stake all for you,
O let me be lost if it must be so!
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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It happened thus: One day, long
before many gods were born, I woke from a deep sleep and found all
my masks were stolen,--the seven masks I have fashioned and worn in
seven lives,--I ran
maskless
through the crowded streets shouting,
"Thieves, thieves, the cursed thieves.
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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[HERACLES _signs to the
Attendants
to take_ ALCESTIS _away again.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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"
Thereat she
vanished
by the Cross
That, entering Kingsbere town,
The two long lanes form, near the fosse
Below the faneless Down.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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The noble peer he begged, upon his knees,
His penitence to hear, and
sentence
ease.
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
|
The fee is owed
to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he has
agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the Project
Gutenberg
Literary
Archive Foundation.
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Strong,
Governor
Caleb, a patriot.
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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Atqui putate: namque totius vobis
Frontem tabernae
scorpionibus
scribam.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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Loosed on the flowers Siroces to my bane,
And the wild boar upon my crystal
springs!
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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As Christ in the parable of the rich young man
demands the abandonment of all treasures, so in this book the poet sees
the coming of the Kingdom, the
fulfilment
of all our longings for a
nearness to God when we have become simple again like little children
and poor in possessions like God Himself.
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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A fog about the coppice drifts,
Or slowly thickens up and lifts
Into the moist,
despondent
air.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Finally, most of us believe that
concentration
is of the very essence
of poetry.
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Imagists |
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There's a queer grim Dutch touch about your
painting
that I like; but
I've a notion that you're weak in drawing.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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See,
threatening
thee, poor guileless child,
Apollo claims, in angry tone,
His cattle;--all at once he smiled,
His quiver gone.
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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"
The Two Hermits
Upon a lonely mountain, there lived two hermits who
worshipped
God
and loved one another.
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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The artisans
gathered
about him.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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I can relish love no more,
Nor
flattering
hopes that tell me hearts are true,
Nor the revel's loud uproar,
Nor fresh-wreathed flowerets, bathed in vernal dew.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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And for ther is so greet diversitee
In English and in wryting of our tonge,
So preye I god that noon miswryte thee, 1795
Ne thee
mismetre
for defaute of tonge.
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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After having vied with returned favours
squandered
treasure
More than a red lip with a red tip
And more than a white leg with a white foot
Where then do we think we are?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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If I glance up
it is written on the walls,
it is cut on the floor,
it is
patterned
across
the slope of the roof.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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MISS
THOMPSON
GOES SHOPPING
Miss Thompson In her lone cottage on the downs,
at Home.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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"--
His meaning was obscure, but in my breast
I felt the substance of his words impress'd,
As
sculptured
stone, or monumental brass,
Keeps the firm record, or heroic face.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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My good I seek in the good of another,
This
marriage
means so much to all three;
Make my soul strong, or complete it swiftly.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
|
Although Erdman does not address this issue in his notes, he does make some silent decisions regarding the order of the text, the most significant being his placement of this 4-line stanza at the very end of his
transcription
of p.
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you
discover
a
defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can
receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a
written explanation to the person you received the work from.
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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Girt by her theatre of hills, she reaps
Her corn, and wine, and oil, and Plenty leaps
To
laughing
life, with her redundant horn.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
|
It is on account of this latter
meaning, that Aristophanes adds "and her spouse," because in cases in
which women were sued at law, their
husbands
were summoned as conjointly
liable.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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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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Whereat the star of Lethe not delay'd
His rosy eloquence, and thus inquired:
"Thou smooth-lipp'd serpent, surely high
inspired!
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My hand in dedicative worship lifts
In shame on high to thee the scattered off'ring,
No more a token of imagined glory,
--Although with many a precious tear-drop shining--
No more a choice of rare and
wondrous
jewels,
That fain from destiny for thee I'd conquer,
Than e'er the tale of hellish love and hatred
Can spread by this subdued and falt'ring voice.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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diliuere
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Sed quae causa toros inopinaque gaudia uati
attulit, hic mecum, dum feruent agmine postes
atriaque
et multa pulsantur limina uirga,
hic, Erato iucunda, doce.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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With what stiff step he
travels!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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1097, for deal, =_proud, elated,
exulting_;
_Phoenix_
(Bright), l.
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Beowulf |
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Then he that
patiently
want's burden bears,
No burden bears, but is a king, a king!
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Golden Treasury |
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The
preterite
of _ederu_,
to be in misery, has not been found.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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And full in the midst rose Keenan, tall,
In the gloom like a martyr
awaiting
his fall,
While the circle-stroke of his sabre, swung
'Round his head, like a halo there, luminous hung.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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But by this Lock, this sacred Lock I swear,
(Which never more shall join its parted hair;
Which never more its honours shall renew, 135
Clipp'd from the lovely head where late it grew)
That while my
nostrils
draw the vital air,
This hand, which won it, shall for ever wear.
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Alexander Pope |
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, but its volunteers and
employees
are scattered
throughout numerous locations.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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To-day I thought what boots it what I
thought?
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Nearing the sea, the river grows broader and broader:
Approaching
autumn,--the nights longer and longer.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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XVII
To
eastward
and to westward
Have spread the Tuscan bands;
Nor house, nor fence, nor dovecote
In Crustumerium stands.
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Les Amours de Cassandre: CLX
Now, when Jupiter, fired by his lusts,
Wants to conceive the jewels of his eyes,
And with the heat of his burning thighs
Fills Juno's moist womb with his thrusts:
Now, when the sea, or when violent gusts
Of wind grant way to great ships of war,
And when the nightingale, in forest far,
Renews her grievance against Tereus:
Now, when the meadows and when the flowers
With
thousands
upon thousands of colours
Paint the breast of the earth so bright all round,
Alone and thoughtful among the secret cliffs,
With a silent heart I tell over my regrets,
And through the woods I go, hiding my wound.
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Ronsard |
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However, I
mastered
myself
and for a while said nothing.
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Aristophanes |
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_Finis
exspectandus
est in unoquoque hominum_; _animali ad
mutationem promptissmo_.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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I have seen eyes in the street
Trying to peer through lighted shutters,
And a crab one afternoon in a pool,
An old crab with
barnacles
on his back,
Gripped the end of a stick which I held him.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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