In my jealous wings
I
evermore
will hold thee when though goest out or comest in
Tis thou hast darkend all My World O Woman lovely bare
Thus they contended?
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Blake - Zoas |
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But the Judge said he never had summed up before;
So the Snark
undertook
it instead,
And summed it so well that it came to far more
Than the Witnesses ever had said!
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Lewis Carroll |
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Did ever Proteus, Merlin, any witch, }
Transform
themselves
so strangely as the rich?
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Then would they try
Ever new modes of tilling their loved crofts,
And mark they would how earth improved the taste
Of the wild fruits by fond and
fostering
care.
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Lucretius |
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out of whose rift there came
Small drops of gory bloud, that
trickled
down the same.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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HIS HEART,
REJECTED
BY LAURA, WILL PERISH, UNLESS SHE RELENT.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Thus far have I
proceeded
in a theme
Renewed with no kind auspices:--to feel
We are not what we have been, and to deem
We are not what we should be, and to steel
The heart against itself; and to conceal,
With a proud caution, love or hate, or aught,--
Passion or feeling, purpose, grief, or zeal,--
Which is the tyrant spirit of our thought,
Is a stern task of soul:--No matter,--it is taught.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Then Eno [Ono] a daughter of Beulah took a Moment of Time *
And drew it out to twenty years Seven thousand years with much care & affliction *
And many tears & in the twenty Every years gave visions toward heaven made windows into Eden *
She also took an atom of space & opend its center
Into Infinitude &
ornamented
it with wondrous art
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Blake - Zoas |
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Quels
delirants
cul-nus!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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My thoughts on former pleasures ran;
I thought of Kilve's delightful shore,
My
pleasant
home, when spring began,
A long, long year before.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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e
clerenesse
{and} ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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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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He which that is my lord so dere, 330
That trewe man, that noble gentil knight,
That nought
desireth
but your freendly chere,
I see him deye, ther he goth up-right,
And hasteth him, with al his fulle might,
For to be slayn, if fortune wol assente; 335
Allas!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Never, never look to find
A
faithful
heart in him whose rage can harm
Sweetest lips, which Venus kind
Has tinctured with her quintessential charm.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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This is not heaven, even in a dream, nor earth,
As earth was once, first breathed among the stars,
Articulate
glory from the mouth divine,
To which the myriad spheres thrilled audibly,
Touched like a lute-string, and the sons of God
Said AMEN, singing it.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Apollinax
Hysteria
Conversation
Galante
La Figlia Che Piange
The Love Song of J.
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T.S. Eliot |
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I sit with sad civility, I read
With honest anguish, and an aching head;
And drop at last, but in
unwilling
ears,
This saving counsel, "Keep your piece nine years.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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"
My words made such an
impression
on Saveliitch that he clasped his hands
and remained dumb and motionless.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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No ruddy fires on the hearth,
No brimming
tankards
flow.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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The very mud in the road, where the ice had melted,
was crystallized with deep rectilinear fissures, and the crystalline
masses in the sides of the ruts resembled exactly
asbestos
in the
disposition of their needles.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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He glares blank and wide;
Then suddenly turning he kisseth the bride;
His lips stung her with cold; she glanced
upwardly
mute:
"Mine own wife," he said, and fell stark at her foot
In the word he was saying.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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And their friends, the
loitering
heirs of city directors; 180
Departed, have left no addresses.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Who wishes to receive
visitations
often,
Mustn't load with too many flowers the stone
My finger raises with a dead power's boredom.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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While now I sojourn with sorrow, 5
Having remorse for my comrade,
What town is blessed with thy beauty,
Gladdened and
prospered?
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Sappho |
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Two we were, with one heart blessed:
If heart's dead, yes, then I foresee,
I'll die, or I must
lifeless
be,
Like those statues made of lead.
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Villon |
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In quiet let me live:
I ask no
kindness
at thy hand,
For thou hast none to give.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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' Pope Innocent, _De
Contemptu
Mundi_; and
With Goddes owene finger wroght was he,
And nat begeten of mannes sperme unclene.
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John Donne |
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A
different
matter troubles and consumes me!
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Thither, all parch'd with thirst, a heartless train,
Hoary with dust, they beat the hollow plain:
And gasping, panting, fainting, labour on
With heavier strides, that
lengthen
toward the town.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Soon he reached the fiery serpents,
The Kenabeek, the great serpents,
Lying huge upon the water,
Sparkling, rippling in the water,
Lying coiled across the passage,
With their blazing crests uplifted,
Breathing
fiery fogs and vapours,
So that none could pass beyond them.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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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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How does he stir each deep
emotion?
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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"
He even borrowed Milton's line for his own poem, only
weakening
the verb,
and said that he sought to "vindicate the ways of God to Man.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Published monthly at 622 South
Washington
Square, Philadelphia, Pa.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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The reminiscence comes
Of sunless dry geraniums
And dust in crevices,
Smells of chestnuts in the streets
And female smells in shuttered rooms
And cigarettes in corridors
And
cocktail
smells in bars.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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The morning sun
was
climbing
higher.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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"
[Illustration: "THIS IS HARDER THAN
BEZIQUE!
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Lewis Carroll |
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It was a question of real difficulty; and,
although the result reached could now be put into two or three lines, I
have thought it
desirable
that the opinions of those who wrote about it,
and helped toward the solution, should be recorded.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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He spoke; the spirits from the sails descend;
Some, orb in orb, around the nymph extend;
Some thrid the mazy
ringlets
of her hair;
Some hang upon the pendants of her ear: 140
With beating hearts the dire event they wait,
Anxious, and trembling for the birth of Fate.
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Alexander Pope |
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Vainly he strove to rise; and Evangeline,
kneeling
beside him,
Kissed his dying lips, and laid his head on her bosom.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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a-na pa-ni- su
it-tam-ha-ru i-na ri-bi-tu ma-ti
iluEn-ki-du ba-ba-am ip-ta-ri-ik
i-na si-pi-su
iluGilgamis
e-ri-ba-am u-ul id-di-in
is-sa-ab-tu-ma ki-ma li-i-im
i- lu- du [50]
zi-ip-pa-am 'i-bu- tu
i-ga-rum ir-tu-tu [51]
iluGilgamis u iluEn-ki- du
is-sa-ab-tu-u- ma
ki-ma li-i-im i-lu-du
zi-ip-pa-am 'i-bu- tu
i-ga-rum ir-tu-tu
ik-mi-is-ma iluGilgamis
i-na ga-ga-ag-ga-ri si-ip-su
ip-si-ih [52] us-sa-su- ma
i-ni-'i i-ra-az-zu
is-tu i-ra-zu i-ni-hu [53]
iluEn-ki-du a-na sa-si-im
iz-za-kar-am a-na iluGilgamis
ki-ma is-te-en-ma um-ma-ka
u- li- id- ka
ri-im-tum sa zu- pu-ri
ilat-Nin- sun- na
ul-lu e-li mu-ti ri-es-su
sar-ru-tam sa ni-si
i-si-im-kum iluEn-lil
duppu 2 kam-ma
su-tu-ur e-li .
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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)
Is it perfume from a dress
That makes me so
digress?
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T.S. Eliot |
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'
Thus taught and preched hath Resoun, 5135
But Love spilte hir sermoun,
That was so imped in my thought,
That hir
doctrine
I sette at nought.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Thou canst not
understand
my seafaring thoughts, nor would I have
thee understand.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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I love to see the shaking twig
Dance till the shut of eve,
The sparrow on the cottage rig,
Whose chirp would make believe
That Spring was just now
flirting
by
In Summer's lap with flowers to lie.
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John Clare |
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But it
happened
that Sung Jo-ss?
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Li Po |
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May God never grant me power
Not
inspired
by true love's art!
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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XXXIV
With the same heart, I said, I'll answer thee
As those, when thou shalt call me by my name--
Lo, the vain
promise!
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Get their comportment and the gliding tongue
Of those mild men thou art to live among;
Then, being seated in that smoother sphere,
Decree thy
everlasting
topic there;
And to the farm-house ne'er return at all:
Though granges do not love thee, cities shall.
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Robert Herrick |
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Long she stood and gazed, and twice she tried at the name,
But two great crystal tears were all that
faltered
and came.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Seest thou that black dog through stalks and stubble
roaming?
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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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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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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")_
Sweet sister, if you knew, like me,
The charms of
guileless
infancy,
No more you'd envy riper years,
Or smiles, more bitter than your tears.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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5
The place where a great city stands is not the place of stretch'd
wharves, docks, manufactures, deposits of produce merely,
Nor the place of ceaseless salutes of new-comers or the
anchor-lifters of the departing,
Nor the place of the tallest and costliest
buildings
or shops
selling goods from the rest of the earth,
Nor the place of the best libraries and schools, nor the place where
money is plentiest,
Nor the place of the most numerous population.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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I tell Thee this--When, starting from the Goal,
Over the
shoulders
of the flaming Foal
Of Heav'n Parwin and Mushtari they flung,
In my predestin'd Plot of Dust and Soul
LV.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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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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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Vermesse
dich, die Pforten aufzureissen,
Vor denen jeder gern voruberschleicht!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Here the
tableaus
of life, and here the groupings of death;
Here, do you know this?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can
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Milton |
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XLV
Tattiana would have gladly heard
The converse of the world polite,
But in the drawing-room all appeared
To find in gossip such delight,
Speech was so tame and colourless
Their slander e'en was weariness;
In their
sterility
of prattle,
Questions and news and tittle-tattle,
No sense was ever manifest
Though by an error and unsought--
The languid mind could smile at nought,
Heart would not throb albeit in jest--
Even amusing fools we miss
In thee, thou world of empty bliss.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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And preyede hir, she wolde hir sorwe apese,
And seyde, `Y-wis, we Grekes con have Ioye
To
honouren
yow, as wel as folk of Troye.
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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What waves and soils
exuding?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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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.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Here, as of old, your neighbour's
bordering
hedge,
That feasts with willow-flower the Hybla bees,
Shall oft with gentle murmur lull to sleep,
While the leaf-dresser beneath some tall rock
Uplifts his song, nor cease their cooings hoarse
The wood-pigeons that are your heart's delight,
Nor doves their moaning in the elm-tree top.
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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Were the centuries
steadily
footing it that way, all the while unknown, for
you, for reasons?
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Whitman |
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It shows they themselves
would never have been of the
professions
they are but for the profits and
fees.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Seeing me he became uneasy, but soon
recovered
himself.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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The next long hour slowly strikes at last,
The whole house stirs again, the feast is past,
And sadly passes by the
afternoon
.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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7 and any additional
terms imposed by the
copyright
holder.
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| Question: |
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Hugo - Poems |
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And in
regard to Truth, if, to be sure, through the
attainment
of a truth
we are led to perceive a harmony where none was apparent before,
we experience at once the true poetical effect; but this effect is
referable to the harmony alone, and not in the least degree to the truth
which merely served to render the harmony manifest.
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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To whom Ulysses,
glorious
Chief, replied.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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Though bitter sneers and
stinging
scorns
Did throng the muse's dangerous way,
Thy powers were past such little thorns,
They gave thee no dismay;
The scoffer's insult passed thee by,
Thou smild'st and mad'st him no reply.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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LXXIX
By cunning master, diligent and wise,
With much and subtle toil, the fount was made:
In open gallery or pavilion's guise;
Which from eight separate fronts,
projects
a shade.
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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"
The burning fever of domestic rage
Now wildly rav'd, and mark'd the barb'rous age;
Through every rank the
headlong
fury ran,
And first, red slaughter in the court began.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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NEATH
trembling
tree tops to and fro we wander
Along the beech-grove, nearly to the bower,
And see within the silent meadow yonder,
The almond tree a second time in flower.
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Each one
therefore
was joyful; his evil humour left him.
| Guess: |
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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And then I saw, hard by,
A
shepherd
lad with shining eyes,
And round him gathered one by one
Countless sheep, snow-white;
More and more they crowded
With tender cries,
Till all the field was full
Of voices and of coming sheep.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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There is nothing so
interesting
as telling a good man or woman how bad
one has been.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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_
HE EXTOLS THE LAUREL AND ITS
FAVOURITE
STREAM.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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PUBLIC SQUARE IN MOSCOW
PUSHKIN enters,
surrounded
by the people
THE PEOPLE.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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II I accept frailty and white hair in my life, in lonely
isolation
now at the ends of the earth.
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MICHAEL:
Und Sturme brausen um die Wette
Vom Meer aufs Land, vom Land aufs Meer,
und bilden wutend eine Kette
Der
tiefsten
Wirkung rings umher.
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"
Again her soft
mysterious
voice:
"I am thy only Love.
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This poem deals with the overthrow of the
primaeval
order of Gods by
Jupiter, son of Saturn the old king.
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Tout le jour, ou tu veux, tu menes tes pieds nus,
Et
fredonnes
tout bas de vieux airs inconnus;
Et quand descend le soir au manteau d'ecarlate,
Tu poses doucement ton corps sur une natte,
Ou tes reves flottants sont pleins de colibris,
Et toujours, comme toi, gracieux et fleuris.
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But whilst, to learn their lots in nuptial love,
Bright Cytherea sought the bower of Jove
(The God supreme, to whose eternal eye
The registers of fate expanded lie;
Wing'd Harpies snatch the unguarded charge away,
And to the Furies bore a
grateful
prey.
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" Endymion started back
Dismay'd; and, like a wretch from whom the rack
Tortures
hot breath, and speech of agony,
Mutter'd: "What lonely death am I to die
In this cold region?
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Still as death are the places of life;
The city seems
crumbled
and gone,
Sunk 'mid invisible deeps--
The city so lately rife
With the stir of brain and brawn.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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IV
Lastly I ask--now old and chill--
If aught of him remain
unperished
still;
And find, in me alone, a feeble spark,
Dying amid the dark.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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And that too often we receive
Professions eagerly for deeds,
That crass
stupidity
misleads,
That we by cant ourselves deceive,
That mediocrity alone
Without disgust we look upon?
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Calico jam,
The little Fish swam
Over the
Syllabub
Sea.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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No thing is far or near; and
therefore
we
Float neither far nor near; but where we be
Weave dances round the Throne perpetually.
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To an Aeolian Harp
The winds have grown
articulate
in thee,
And voiced again the wail of ancient woe
That smote upon the winds of long ago:
The cries of Trojan women as they flee,
The quivering moan of pale Andromache,
Now lifted loud with pain and now brought low.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Was this, Romans, your harsh destiny,
Or some old sin, with
discordant
mutiny,
Working on you its eternal vengeance?
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'nate mihi longa iucundior unice uita, 215
nate, ego quem in dubios cogor dimittere casus,
reddite in extrema nuper mihi fine senectae,
quandoquidem
fortuna mea ac tua feruida uirtus
eripit inuito mihi te, cui languida nondum
lumina sunt nati cara saturata figura, 220
non ego te gaudens laetanti pectore mittam,
nec te ferre sinam fortunae signa secundae,
sed primum multas expromam mente querellas,
canitiem terra atque infuso puluere foedans,
inde infecta uago suspendam lintea malo, 225
nostros ut luctus nostraeque incendia mentis
carbasus obscurata dicet ferrugine Hibera.
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Keats - Lamia |
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HIS WIDE
DEVOURING
OVEN, the furnace of his maw, or belly.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Great
businesse
must be wrought ere Noone.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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