Like the fierce
northern
hurricane
That sweeps his great plateau,
Flushed with the triumph yet to gain,
Came down the serried foe.
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And did he give
Some privy
message?
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Euripides - Electra |
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Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth
in
paragraph
1.
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of his grieved hed
His
gorgeous
ryder from her loftie sted
Would have cast downe, and trod in durtie myre, 150
Had not the Gyant soone her succoured;
Who all enrag'd with smart and franticke yre,
Came hurtling in full fierce, and forst the knight retyre.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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The hours that feed on war go heavy-hearted,
Death is no fare
wherewith
to make hearts fain.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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and John Gould
Fletcher
and F.
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Imagists |
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Squire Hal, besides, had in this case
Pretensions rather brassy;
For talents, to deserve a place,
Are
qualifications
saucy.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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1 Thrice the brinded Cat hath mew'd
2 Thrice, and once the Hedge-Pigge whin'd
3 Harpier cries, 'tis time, 'tis time
1 Round about the Caldron go:
In the poysond Entrailes throw
Toad, that vnder cold stone,
Dayes and Nights, ha's thirty one:
Sweltred Venom
sleeping
got,
Boyle thou first i'th' charmed pot
All.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Riddel, has
informed
you
that I have made you the subject of some verses.
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Robert Forst |
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In guiltless ignorance, in ignorant guilt,
He
delivered
his secrets to the riven multitude.
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Stephen Crane |
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Beneath this green see what a stem is
growing!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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"
"Fill thy hand with sands, ray
blossom!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Sonnets Pour Helene Book I: VI
Among love's
pounding
seas, for me there's no support,
And I can see no light, and yet have no desires
(O desire too bold!
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Ronsard |
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You're dreaming, Phoebe, or the morning light
Mixing and
mingling
with the dying night
Makes shapes out of the darkness, and you see
Some dream-remembered phantasy maybe.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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I Tiresias, old man with wrinkled dugs
Perceived the scene, and foretold the rest--
I too awaited the
expected
guest.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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When
sometimes
by my labour
I earn a little money, O,
Some unforeseen misfortune
Comes gen'rally upon me, O:
Mischance, mistake, or by neglect,
Or my goodnatur'd folly, O;
But come what will, I've sworn it still,
I'll ne'er be melancholy, O.
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Robert Forst |
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That window where my sun is ever seen,
Dazzling and bright, and Nature's at the none;
And that where still, when Boreas rude has blown
In the short days, the air thrills cold and keen:
The stone where, at high noon, her seat has been,
Pensive and parleying with herself alone:
Haunts where her bright form has its shadow thrown,
Or trod her fairy foot the carpet green:
The cruel spot where first Love spoil'd my rest,
And the new season which, from year to year,
Opes, on this day, the old wound in my breast:
The seraph face, the sweet words, chaste and dear,
Which in my suffering heart are deep impress'd,
All melt my fond eyes to the
frequent
tear.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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" He traced these lines with his diamond, and said, "That
will be a
companion
to 'The Toast.
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Robert Forst |
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But when the king offered the magician his league of
golden mines, the province with a hundred miles of sea coast, the palace
and the princess, the old man turned away, went back to his wilderness
and lived on grass and
vanished
away.
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Tennyson |
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The whole world were wrecked
If every mere great man, who lives to reach
A little leaf of popular respect,
Attained
not simply by some special breach
In the age's customs, by some precedence
In thought and act, which, having proved him higher
Than those he lived with, proved his competence
In helping them to wonder and aspire.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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, _bite_,
figuratively
of the cut of the sword: acc.
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Beowulf |
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What a scream
Of agony by torture
lengthened
out
That lute sent forth!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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I'm but a
nameless
wight,
Trode i' the mire out o' sight?
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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_Le Giaour_,
fragments
d'un cante turc, poeme traduit de l'anglais de
lord Byron, par J.
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Byron |
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The generall end
therefore
of all the booke, is to
fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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One
desperate
splash--and no use to me
The noose that swung!
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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The holy father then was always prone,
To send the
servants
off and be alone.
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La Fontaine |
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It has
survived
long enough for the copyright to expire and the book to enter the public domain.
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Meredith - Poems |
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My breath caught, I lurched forward--
stumbled
in the ground-myrtle.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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A washed-out smallpox cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone With all the old
nocturnal
smells
That cross and cross across her brain.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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"
interrupted
his Majesty; "say no more--I
see how it is.
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Poe - 5 |
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Hasten
to the Senate, for he will rush there like a tornado to
calumniate
us all
and give vent to his fearful bellowings.
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Aristophanes |
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Meredith - Poems |
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Baudelaire
admired Thackeray, and when the
Englishman
praised the illustrations of
Guys, he was delighted.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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If I have found
Another, true to save me at the bound
Of life and death, that other's child am I,
That other's
fostering
friend, until I die.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Bring ye
therefore
food 260
And wine, my maidens, for the guest's regale,
And lave him where the stream is shelter'd most.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we
have not met the
solicitation
requirements, we know of no prohibition
against accepting unsolicited donations from donors in such states who
approach us with offers to donate.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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About seven minutes later, there was a wild
hurroosh
at the Club.
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Kipling - Poems |
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So, lost in grief, was lovely Venus[250] seen,
When Jove, her sire, the
beauteous
mourner pray'd
To grant her wand'ring son the promis'd aid.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Soon was God Bacchus at
meridian
height;
Flush'd were their cheeks, and bright eyes double bright:
Garlands of every green, and every scent
From vales deflower'd, or forest-trees branch rent,
In baskets of bright osier'd gold were brought
High as the handles heap'd, to suit the thought
Of every guest; that each, as he did please,
Might fancy-fit his brows, silk-pillow'd at his ease.
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Keats - Lamia |
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Behold Villario's ten years' toil complete:
His quincunx darkens, his espaliers meet;
The wood
supports
the plain, the parts unite,
And strength of shade contends with strength of light;
A waving glow the bloomy beds display,
Blushing in bright diversities of day,
With silver-quivering rills meandered o'er--
Enjoy them, you!
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Then if to see my verses burn,
Should seem to you a
pleasant
turn,
Take them to freely tear away
Or burn.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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The way I read a letter 's this:
'T is first I lock the door,
And push it with my fingers next,
For
transport
it be sure.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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take one breath from my
tremulous
lips;
Take one tear, dropped aside as I go, for thought of you,
Dead house of love!
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Whitman |
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Were those
Achaians
silent, thou shouldst hear,
O Queen!
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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But not so:--a natural manner is
difficult
only to him who
should never meddle with it--to the unnatural.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Sara Teasdale |
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This is the season (New-year's-day is now my date) of wishing; and
mine are most
fervently
offered up for you!
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Robert Burns |
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Silence thou thy savage cymbals, and the
Berecyntine
horn;
In their train Self-love still follows, dully, desperately
blind,
And Vain-glory, towering upwards in its empty-headed scorn,
And the Faith that keeps no secrets, with a window in its mind.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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THE
FORGOTTEN
GRAVE.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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is Athens yet
inviolate?
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Aeschylus |
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unless a
copyright
notice is included.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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And when thy vessel o'er the foaming sound
Is proud past storied coasts to
blithely
bound,
At once the point of beauty may restore
Smiles to thy lip, and smoothe thy brow once more.
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Hugo - Poems |
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She's
promised
to me,
Fortuitously!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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It was but now that I never more
for woes that weighed on me waited help
long as I lived, when, laved in blood,
stood sword-gore-stained this stateliest house, --
widespread woe for wise men all,
who had no hope to hinder ever
foes infernal and
fiendish
sprites
from havoc in hall.
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Gentlemen
rise, his Highnesse is not well
Lady.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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He speaks of his first poems, the 'Pastorals' and
'Windsor Forest',
harmless
as Hervey's own verses, and tells how even
then critics like Dennis fell foul of him.
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Alexander Pope |
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Vos
omoplates
se deboitent
O mes amours!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Ah,
hapless brother, heavily
snatched
from me.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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CLXVIII
Then, turning to his mate, cries: "Cloridane,
I cannot tell thee what a cause of woe
It is to me, my lord upon the plain
Should lie,
unworthy
food for wolf or crow!
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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This, cumbered in the earthen kind of man,
Which ceaseless waters would be wearing down,
Alone giveth him
stubborn
substance, holds him
Upright and hard against impious fate.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO
REMEDIES
FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT
LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE
PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH F3.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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NATURE
I
A subtle chain of
countless
rings
The next unto the farthest brings;
The eye reads omens where it goes,
And speaks all languages the rose;
And, striving to be man, the worm
Mounts through all the spires of form.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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witless how mighty a deity sinks into her breast; but he,
mindful of his mother the Acidalian, begins touch by touch to efface
Sychaeus, and sows the surprise of a living love in the
long-since-unstirred spirit and
disaccustomed
heart.
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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_All_
counseyl; _I
propose_
reed.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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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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SYRTES, the
_deserts
of Barbary_: also two dangerous sandy gulfs in
the Mediterranean, on the coast of Barbary; one called _Syrtis Magna_,
now the _Gulf of Sidra_; the other _Syrtis Parva_, now the _Gulf of
Cassos_.
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Tacitus |
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at is
Maidenes
spouse.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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_How much further this_ order _and_ subordination _of
living creatures may extend, above and below us; were
any part of which broken, not that part only, but the
whole connected_
creation
_must be destroyed_.
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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MEPHISTOPHELES:
Und die Physiognomie versteht sie meisterlich:
In meiner
Gegenwart
wird's ihr, sie weiss nicht wie,
Mein Maskchen da weissagt verborgnen Sinn;
Sie fuhlt, dass ich ganz sicher ein Genie,
Vielleicht wohl gar der Teufel bin.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Among them one,
Who seem'd to me much wearied, sat him down,
And with his arms did fold his knees about,
Holding his face between them
downward
bent.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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I fled, but he pursu'd (though more, it seems, 790
Inflam'd with lust then rage) and swifter far,
Me overtook his mother all dismaid,
And in embraces forcible and foule
Ingendring with me, of that rape begot
These yelling Monsters that with
ceasless
cry
Surround me, as thou sawst, hourly conceiv'd
And hourly born, with sorrow infinite
To me, for when they list into the womb
That bred them they return, and howle and gnaw
My Bowels, their repast; then bursting forth 800
Afresh with conscious terrours vex me round,
That rest or intermission none I find.
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| Source: |
Milton |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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The boys are up the woods with day
To fetch the
daffodils
away,
And home at noonday from the hills
They bring no dearth of daffodils.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Cold he lies, as cold as stone,
With his clotted curls about his face:
The
comeliest
corpse in all the world
And worthy of a queen's embrace.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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Grounded
in magic he knew the future and predicted the Christian coming of the Saviour.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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ai
schullen
wende
To ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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XLIII
THE
IMMORTAL
PART
When I meet the morning beam,
Or lay me down at night to dream,
I hear my bones within me say,
"Another night, another day.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Ther was the tyraunt with his fethres donne
And greye, I mene the goshauk, that doth pyne 335
To briddes for his
outrageous
ravyne.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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hic, qualis flatu
placidum
mare matutino
horrificans Zephyrus procliuas incitat undas, 270
aurora exoriente uagi sub limina Solis:
quae tarde primum clementi flamine pulsae
procedunt, leni et resonant plangore cachinni,
post uento crescente magis magis increbescunt,
purpureaque procul nantes ab luce refulgent: 275
sic tum uestibuli linquentis regia tecta
ad se quisque uago passim pede discedebant.
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
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zip
Produced by Robert Prince, David Starner, Juliet Sutherland
Charles Franks and the Online
Distributed
Proofreading Team.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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in the orient when the gracious light
Lifts up his burning head, each under eye
Doth homage to his new-appearing sight,
Serving with looks his sacred majesty;
And having climb'd the steep-up heavenly hill,
Resembling strong youth in his middle age,
Yet mortal looks adore his beauty still,
Attending on his golden pilgrimage:
But when from
highmost
pitch, with weary car,
Like feeble age, he reeleth from the day,
The eyes, 'fore duteous, now converted are
From his low tract, and look another way:
So thou, thyself outgoing in thy noon:
Unlook'd, on diest unless thou get a son.
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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LIV
With rue my heart is laden
For golden friends I had,
For many a rose-lipt maiden
And many a
lightfoot
lad.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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ay kallen hym of a quoyntaunce, & he hit quyk aske3
976 [D] To be her
seruaunt
sothly, if hem-self lyked.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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If they had swallow'd poison 'twould appear
By
external
swelling; but she looks like sleep,
As she would catch another Antony
In her strong toil of grace.
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Shakespeare |
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THE AMERICAN FLAG
JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE
[Sidenote: May 29, 1819]
_The penultimate quatrain [enclosed in brackets] ended the poem
as Drake wrote it, but Fits Greene Halleck suggested the final four
lines, and Drake
accepted
his friend's quatrain in place of his
own.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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When she dashed by me I seized her,
mistaking
her not.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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discoverable
online.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Up the sky
The
hesitating
moon slow trembles on,
Faint as a new-washed soul but lately up
From out a buried body.
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Sidney Lanier |
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--
Wandering
exiles
sought him o'er seas, the sons of Ohtere,
who had spurned the sway of the Scylfings'-helmet,
the bravest and best that broke the rings,
in Swedish land, of the sea-kings' line,
haughty hero.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Meredith - Poems |
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_ Share of action;
allotted
duty.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Even
when his
failings
were admitted, it must still be said that _even his
failings leaned to virtue's side_, and, altogether we may pronounce that
His life was gentle, and the elements
So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up
And say to all the world, "This was a man!
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Petrarch |
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a word that must be, and hath been--
A sound which makes us linger; yet,
farewell!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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The
wavering
corn is like gold, still,
Perhaps not so rich nor so hale,
Roses with greetings unfold still,
Be though their bloom something pale.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Now list to my morning's romanza;
To the cities and farms I sing, as they spread in the
sunshine
before me.
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Whitman |
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<
vagliami
'l lungo studio e 'l grande amore
che m'ha fatto cercar lo tuo volume.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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A layman from the suburb; I have
conducted
the
old men as far as the frontier; from here I am going to
my own home.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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When the bee sips in the bean, and grey willow branches lean,
And the
moonbeam
looks between,
Bonny lassie O!
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John Clare |
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A sort of curse against its guzzling
And its age-lasting wallow for red greed
And yet, full speed
Though it should run for its own getting, Will turn aside to sneer at
'Cause he hath
No coin, no will to snatch the
aftermath
Of Mammon.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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