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"Not intimately, thank
goodness!
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Kipling - Poems |
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If she wants me not, I'd rather
I'd died the day my service
commenced!
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Troubador Verse |
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O thou field of my delight so fair and
verdant!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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One of the earliest comic figures in the
religious
drama
is that of the clumsy or uncouth servant.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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He
is the very basis of
civilised
society.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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May we long share our odd,
inanimate
feast,
And meet at last on the Cloudy River of the Sky.
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Li Po |
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Overcome by self-laudation,
Now he calls on deeds to witness
That he is no
wretched
boaster,
That he's really great at dancing.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Weialala leia
Wallala leialala
Elizabeth
and Leicester
Beating oars 280
The stern was formed
A gilded shell
Red and gold
The brisk swell
Rippled both shores
Southwest wind
Carried down stream
The peal of bells
White towers
Weialala leia 290
Wallala leialala
"Trams and dusty trees.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Where he
is
passionate
and romantic, she is simple and homely.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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[O
Frutefull
Garden.
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John Donne |
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He had on a
gunnysack
shirt over his bones,
And he lifted an elbow socket over his head,
And he lifted a skinny signal finger.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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)
Auld Brig appear'd of ancient Pictish race,
The very
wrinkles
gothic in his face:
He seem'd as he wi' Time had warstl'd lang,
Yet, teughly doure, he bade an unco bang.
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Robert Forst |
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Hier ist das Fenster, hier die Ture,
Ein
Rauchfang
ist dir auch gewiss.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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XXII
My glass shall not
persuade
me I am old,
So long as youth and thou are of one date;
But when in thee time's furrows I behold,
Then look I death my days should expiate.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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This long and shining flank of metal is
Magic that greasy labor cannot spoil;
While this vast engine that could rend the soil
Conceals
its fury with a gentle hiss.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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HARINGTON
MS.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Into the study of the boy
There came a sudden flash of light,
The Muse
revealed
her first delight,
Sang childhood's pastimes and its joy,
Glory with which our history teems
And the heart's agitated dreams.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Alas, the deep
insufferable
doom,
The stanchless wound!
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Aeschylus |
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terms imposed by the
copyright
holder.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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It can ne be I should behight the rest, 355
That by the myghtie arme of
Alfwolde
felle,
Paste bie a penne to be counte or expreste,
How manie Alfwolde sent to heaven or helle;
As leaves from trees shook by derne Autumns hand,
So laie the Normannes slain by Alfwold on the strand.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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How few of the others,
Are men
equipped
with common sense.
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Villon |
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But the Emperour is verily come back,
--So tells me now my man, that Sulian--
Ten great columns he's set them in their ranks;
He's a proof man who sounds that olifant,
With a clear call he rallies his comrades;
These at the head come
cantering
in advance,
Also with them are fifteen thousand Franks,
Young bachelors, whom Charles calls Infants;
As many again come following that band,
Who will lay on with utmost arrogance.
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Chanson de Roland |
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With shaded eyes your vision follows
The gentle swans'
receding
train.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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MESSENGER
The very flower and crown of Persia's race,
Gallant of soul and glorious in descent,
And highest held in trust before the king,
Lies
shamefully
and miserably slain.
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Aeschylus |
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Now this wind is heavy and
turgid,
oppressing
man's heart.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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On a laisse les pieces objectionables au point de vue bourgeois, car le
point de vue chretien et surtout catholique dont je m'honore d'etre un
des plus indignes peut-etre mais a coup sur le plus sincere tenant, me
semble superieur et doit etre ecarte--j'entends,
notamment
les
_Premieres Communions_, les _Pauvres a l'eglise_ (pour mon compte,
j'eusse neglige cette piece brutale ayant pourtant ceci:
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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"
Then a silence
suffuses
the story,
And a softness the teller's eye;
And the children no further question,
And only the waves reply.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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What have we to do
With
Kaikobad
the Great, or Kaikhosru?
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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No wonder then if my soul, while grieving,
With
impatience
waits upon their wedding;
You see, my peace of mind depends on it.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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"Does spring hide its joy,
When buds and
blossoms
grow?
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blake-poems |
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"
Brings his horse his eldest sister,
And the next his arms, which glister,
Whilst the third, with
childish
prattle,
Cries, "when wilt return from battle?
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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And eek he made him Ielous over here, 120
That, what that any man had to hir seyd,
Anoon he wolde preyen hir to swere
What was that word, or make him evel apayd;
Than wende she out of hir wit have brayd;
But al this nas but sleight and flaterye, 125
Withouten
love he feyned Ielosye.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Wilde - Poems |
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Take a silver minute from your
treasured
time; Listen to it tinkle a little chime
For the poor lost sheep of the Lord.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Farewell,
unfalteringly
brave!
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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The Portuguese were driven away by
the enraged worshippers, who were afterwards with
difficulty
pacified by
a profusion of such presents as they most esteemed.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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"]
"And hear the sounds he knew of yore,
Old
shufflings
on the sanded floor,
Old knuckles tapping at the door?
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Lewis Carroll |
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`Good aventure, O bele nece, have ye
Ful lightly founden, and ye conne it take;
And, for the love of god, and eek of me, 290
Cacche it anoon, lest
aventure
slake.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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No further would the husband push the dame,
Nor be himself a witness of his shame,
But straight resumed his form, and to his wife,
Cried, O
Calista!
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La Fontaine |
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Tempests
may scath;
But love can not make smart
Again this year his heart
Who no heart hath.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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A
rustling
and a flitter
Torments and charms, makes sad and free.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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A senior
centurion
(cp.
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Tacitus |
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Come da lei l'udir nostro ebbe triegua,
ed ecco l'altra con si gran fracasso,
che somiglio tonar che tosto segua:
<>;
e allor, per
ristrignermi
al poeta,
in destro feci, e non innanzi, il passo.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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After these years
Doth my low plight still stir thy
memories?
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Euripides - Electra |
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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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Swich light [tho] sprang out of the stoon, 1125
That
Richesse
wonder brighte shoon,
Bothe hir heed, and al hir face,
And eke aboute hir al the place.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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It
requires
more unselfishness.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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In his appointed hour, all was forthcoming--
Judge, axe, and
deathsman
veiled!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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May the Gods give thee to behold again
Thy wife, and to attain thy native shore,
Whence absent long, thou hast so much
endured!
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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The yellow leopards, strained and lean,
The treacherous Russian knows so well,
With gaping blackened jaws are seen
Leap through the hail of
screaming
shell.
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| Question: |
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Wilde - Poems |
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How few of the others,
Are men
equipped
with common sense.
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Villon |
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'
`Thou seyst wel,' quod Pandare, `and now I hope
That thou the goddes
wraththe
hast al apesed; 940
And sithen thou hast wepen many a drope,
And seyd swich thing wher-with thy god is plesed,
Now wolde never god but thou were esed;
And think wel, she of whom rist al thy wo
Here-after may thy comfort been al-so.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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The dreamy
butterflies
bestir,
Lethargic pools resume the whir
Of last year's sundered tune.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Lucretius |
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I reckon
That she killed
something
too.
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Tennyson |
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It must
necessarily
be so.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Property not merely has duties, but has so
many duties that its
possession
to any large extent is a bore.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Never will you efface the
shameful
stain,
That ye, so often wronged, not only grant
Life to that king, but as your lord obey;
Lodge in his court, and serve him for his pay?
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Nor is it merely that we can discern in Christ that close union of
personality with
perfection
which forms the real distinction between the
classical and romantic movement in life, but the very basis of his nature
was the same as that of the nature of the artist--an intense and
flamelike imagination.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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While mists, suspended on the expiring gale,
Moveless o'er-hang the deep
secluded
vale, 1815.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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--to a
drunkard
in rags.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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[Burns looks back with
something
of regret to the days of rich dinners
and flowing wine-cups which he experienced in Edinburgh.
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Robert Forst |
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for, prudent though she be,
My mother,
inattentive
oft, the worse 160
Treats kindly, and the better sends away.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Thither speeds Norandine on that alarm,
And for his guard above a
thousand
arm.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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"For he
promised
that he would come:
His word was given; from earth or heaven,
He must keep his word, and must come home.
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Christina Rossetti |
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_ To us indeed Hermes appears to say not
unseasonable
things,
For he directs thee, leaving off
Self-will, to seek prudent counsel.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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But as it was
communicated
with the air of a Secret, it soon found
its way into the world.
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Alexander Pope |
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Ebb Tide
When the long day goes by
And I do not see your face,
The old wild,
restless
sorrow
Steals from its hiding place.
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Sara Teasdale |
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And yet, to times in hope, my verse shall stand
Praising
Thy worth, despite his cruel hand.
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Golden Treasury |
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_'What time I wasted
youthful
hours'_
xlvii.
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Tennyson |
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Thus an ox in fetters tied,
While death's strong pangs distend his labouring side,
His bulk
enormous
on the field displays;
His heaving heart beats thick as ebbing life decays.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Les Amours de Cassandre: XX
I'd like to turn the deepest of yellows,
Falling, drop by drop, in a golden shower,
Into her lap, my lovely Cassandra's,
As sleep is
stealing
over her brow.
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Ronsard |
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550
How dare I thinke such glory to
attaine?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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XVI
When I
consider
how my light is spent,
E're half my days, in this dark world and wide,
And that one Talent which is death to hide,
Lodg'd with me useless, though my Soul more bent
To serve therewith my Maker, and present
My true account, least he returning chide,
Doth God exact day-labour, light deny'd,
I fondly ask; But patience to prevent
That murmur, soon replies, God doth not need
Either man's work or his own gifts, who best 10
Bear his milde yoak, they serve him best, his State
Is Kingly.
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Milton |
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Our God is
marching
on.
| Guess: |
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Such was the scene,--and such the hour, when, in a
corner of my prospect, I spied one of the fairest pieces of nature's
workmanship that ever crowned a poetic landscape or met a poet's eye,
those
visionary
bards excepted, who hold commerce with aerial beings!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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Where lambs have nibbled, silent move
The feet of angels bright;
Unseen they pour blessing,
And joy without ceasing,
On each bud and blossom,
And each
sleeping
bosom.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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Their voices rouse no echo now, their
footsteps
have no speed;
They sleep, and have forgot at last the sabre and the bit--
Yon vale, with all the corpses heaped, seems one wide charnel-pit.
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Hugo - Poems |
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What adds much to the interest that attends it is its
habit of shutting itself up and opening out
according
to the degree of
light and temperature of the air.
| Guess: |
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William Wordsworth |
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que vous etes bien dans le beau cimetiere
Vous bourgmestres vous bateliers
Et vous
conseillers
de regence
Vous aussi tziganes sans papiers
La vie vous pourrit dans la panse
La croix vous pousse entre les pieds
Le vent du Rhin ulule avec tous les hiboux
Il eteint les cierges que toujours les enfants rallument
Et les feuilles mortes
Viennent couvrir les morts
Des enfants morts parlent parfois avec leur mere
Et des mortes parfois voudraient bien revenir
Oh!
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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'
Scarce had he spoken when the
encircling
cloud suddenly parts and melts
into clear air.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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'
And to Pandare he held up bothe his hondes,
And seyde, `Lord, al thyn be that I have; 975
For I am hool, al brosten been my bondes;
A
thousand
Troians who so that me yave,
Eche after other, god so wis me save,
Ne mighte me so gladen; lo, myn herte,
It spredeth so for Ioye, it wol to-sterte!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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(The soldiers in companies or regiments--some starting away, flush'd
and reckless,
Some, their time up, returning with thinn'd ranks, young, yet very
old, worn, marching,
noticing
nothing;)
Give me the shores and wharves heavy-fringed with black ships!
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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"Behold the king of simple life and plain,
Harry of England, sitting there alone:
He through his
branches
better issue spreads.
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) ('_po_ pro
_potissimum_
positum est in
Saliari carmine', _Festus_).
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what a
wretched
mother I!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Purgatorio
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Command to ripen the last fruits of thine,
Give to them two more burning days and press
The last
sweetness
into the heavy wine.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Pox of your love
letters!
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Shakespeare |
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Macneile
Dixon, of the
University of Glasgow; Professor Kemp Smith, of Princeton University;
Miss Esther C.
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receipt of the work.
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In me behold the messenger of Jove:
He bids thee from
forbidden
wars repair
To thine own deeps, or to the fields of air.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Veggiolo un'altra volta esser deriso;
veggio
rinovellar
l'aceto e 'l fiele,
e tra vivi ladroni esser anciso.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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--For in this mortal frame
Our's is the reptile's lot, much toil, much blame,
Manifold
motions making little speed,
And to deform and kill the things whereon we feed.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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For was ther never herte yet so blythe
To han his lyf, as I shal been as swythe
As I yow see; and, though no maner routhe 1385
Commeve yow, yet
thinketh
on your trouthe.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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