Heere abiure
The taints, and blames I laide vpon my selfe,
For
strangers
to my Nature.
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For those high songs, lo, men that moan,
And raiment black where once was white;
Who guide me
homeward
in the night,
On that waste bed to lie alone.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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when crafty eyes thy reason
With sorceries sudden seek to move,
And when in Night's
mysterious
season
Lips cling to thine, but not in love--
From proving then, dear youth, a booty
To those who falsely would trepan
From new heart wounds, and lapse from duty,
Protect thee shall my Talisman.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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They placed in the barrow that precious booty,
the rounds and the rings they had reft erewhile,
hardy heroes, from hoard in cave, --
trusting the ground with
treasure
of earls,
gold in the earth, where ever it lies
useless to men as of yore it was.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Do not say
"I love her for her smile--her look--her way
Of
speaking
gently,--for a trick of thought
That falls in well with mine, and certes brought
A sense of pleasant ease on such a day"--
For these things in themselves, Beloved, may
Be changed, or change for thee,--and love, so wrought,
May be unwrought so.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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who her
speechless
agonies
Could not in that brief moment guess!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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'
So cried I with clenched hands and
passionate
pain,
Thinking of dear ones by Potomac's side;
Again the loon laughed mocking, and again
The echoes bayed far down the night and died,
While waking I recalled my wandering brain.
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James Russell Lowell |
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For that of sin there's naught
wherewith
this sin can exceed he
---- his head on himself.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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With the slightest turn--no ill-will meant--
my own lesser, yet still
somewhat
fine-wrought
fiery-tempered, delicate, over-passionate steel.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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If you by craft
contrive
to set me free,
Silver and gold, you'll have your fill of me,
Manors and fiefs, I'll give you all your need.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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HWith your aid indiffeis
laughter
was submarine and profound
Like the old man of the sea's
Hidden under coral islands
Where worried bodies of drowned men drift down in the green silence,
Dropping from fingers of surf.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Then they followed
Where the vision led,
And saw their
sleeping
child
Among tigers wild.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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The first view of the lake at Vergennes is impressive, but
rather from association than from any
peculiarity
in the scenery.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Castilian literature will furnish us with another
parallel
case.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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O night,
And storm, and darkness, ye are
wondrous
strong,
Yet lovely in your strength, as is the light
Of a dark eye in woman!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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tarry with us still,
It is not quenched the torch of poesy,
The star that shook above the Eastern hill
Holds unassailed its argent armoury
From all the
gathering
gloom and fretful fight--
O tarry with us still!
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Wilde - Poems |
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<
Et nous
piquions
les boeufs vers les sillons des autres:
Le Chanoine au soleil filait des patenotres
Sur des chapelets clairs grenes de pieces d'or.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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'
Haec mandata prius constanti mente tenentem
Thesea ceu pulsae
ventorum
flamine nubes
Aerium nivei montis liquere cacumen.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth
in
paragraph
1.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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But Tania's heart is not at ease,
Winter's
approach
she doth not hail
Nor the frost particles inhale
Nor the first snow of winter seize
Her shoulders, breast and face to lave--
Alarm the winter journey gave.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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"The usual
duration
of man's life, in
my time, was about eight hundred years.
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Poe - 5 |
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It is enough to bear
This image still and fair,
This holier in sleep
Than a saint at prayer,
This aspect of a child
Who never sinned or smiled;
This
Presence
in an infant's face;
This sadness most like love,
This love than love more deep,
This weakness like omnipotence
It is so strong to move.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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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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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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A kinde
goodnight
to all.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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When I think of other men,
Dreaming
alone by day,
The thought of you like a strong wind
Blows the dreams away.
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Sara Teasdale |
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It is far easier to be
sensible
in cities than in many country places
I could tell you of.
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Yeats |
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Or if a
footstep
comes, 'tis mine
Sharp on the road or soft on grass:
Silence divides along my line
And shuts behind me as I pass.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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' Spanish terms were
fashionable
at this time.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Yea, thou and I who speak, are but the joy
Of our for ever mated spirits; but now
The wisdom of my gladness even through Spirit
Looks,
divinely
elate.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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" KAU}
Severe the labour, female slaves the mortar trod oppressed
Twelve halls after the names of his twelve sons composd
The golden wondrous building & three [centr f[orm]] Central Domes after the Names {Erdman posits that Blake erased the words "centr f[orm]" and
replaced
them with "Central Domes.
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Blake - Zoas |
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DEJECTION: AN ODE
Late, late
yestreen
I saw the new Moon,
With the old Moon in her arms;
And I fear, I fear, my Master dear!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Poetry in
Translation
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Joachim Du Bellay
The Ruins of Rome
(Les
Antiquites
de Rome)
Joachim du Bellay, French Renaissance poet 16th century
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OTUS AND
EPHIALTES
HOLDING MARS CAPTIVE.
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Iliad - Pope |
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but you must
persuade
your God
To have me as well the greatest king beneath you!
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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what a
pleasant
fellow and what a delightful prophecy the god
has given you!
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Aristophanes |
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Was it not enough, Stars, to have given me
This
marriage?
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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permission
for the use of the work and the
Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.
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Golden Treasury |
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5
There we heard the breath among the grasses
And the gurgle of soft-running water,
Well contented with the
spacious
starlight,
The cool wind's touch and the deep blue distance,
Till the dawn came in with golden sandals.
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Sappho |
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So, well: make a place for his corse in thy bed,
With the purples thou
sleepest
in, under and over
He's fair though a corse--a fair corse, like a sleeper.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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The Dying Words of
Stonewall
Jackson.
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Sidney Lanier |
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En cest sonnet coind'e leri
To this light tune, graceful and slender,
I set words, and shape and plane them,
So they'll be both true and sure,
With a little touch, and the file's care;
For Amor gilds and
smoothes
the flow
Of my song she alone inspires,
Who nurtures worth and is my guide.
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Troubador Verse |
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Thee have I not lock'd up in any chest,
Save where thou art not, though I feel thou art,
Within the gentle closure of my breast,
From whence at
pleasure
thou mayst come and part;
And even thence thou wilt be stol'n I fear,
For truth proves thievish for a prize so dear.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Nothing that I ever saw in
Nature left a more
delightful
impression on my mind than that which I
have attempted, alas, how feebly!
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Thou art a trouble here;
Seest thou not how all these feasting women
Pause, and the
pleasure
is distrest in them?
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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copyright
law means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works,
so the
Foundation
(and you!
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Wilde - Poems |
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Tell me where
Was
Menelaus?
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Her heart had still an answer for her lord
Murdered, but if the child's blood spoke, what word
Could meet the hate
thereof?
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Euripides - Electra |
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_
SIR,
The
gentleman
who will deliver you this is a Mr.
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Robert Forst |
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After the signature of the treaty, Petrarch departed for Milan, where he
arrived on
Christmas
eve, 1354.
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Petrarch |
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A man who can invent or embellish
an
interesting
story, and put it into a form which others may
easily retain in their recollection, will always be highly
esteemed by a people eager for amusement and information, but
destitute of libraries.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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In this couplet
Pope points out that the dispute is now forgotten, and the books of the
old
disputants
lie covered with cobwebs in Duck-lane, a street in London
where second-hand books were sold in Pope's day.
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Alexander Pope |
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e
Cardinales
twelue,
'God ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Compliance
requirements are not uniform and it takes a
considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up
with these requirements.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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It may only be
used on or
associated
in any way with an electronic work by people who
agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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The sands are bright with
moonlight
that joins the shores;
The sail is white with dew that has covered the boat.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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SIR,
The enclosed poem was written in
consequence
of your suggestion, last
time I had the pleasure of seeing you.
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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And ladies fair from silken tent
Peep forth, and every eye is bent
On the
cavalcade
that comes!
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Hugo - Poems |
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ye but show your little mense,
Just much about it wi' your scanty sense:
Will your poor, narrow foot-path of a street,
Where twa wheel-barrows tremble when they meet,
Your ruin'd,
formless
bulk o' stane and lime,
Compare wi' bonie brigs o' modern time?
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Nay, they will hire fellows to flatter them
with suits and suppers, and to
prostitute
their judgments.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Judith, be not too
scornful
of their noise.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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"
Masha still wept,
sheltered
on my breast.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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let me hear
The name I used to run at, when a child,
From
innocent
play, and leave the cowslips plied,
To glance up in some face that proved me dear
With the look of its eyes.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Then, mother of great empires, Rome,
City of the majestic past,
That o'er far leagues of alien foam
The shadows of her eagles cast,
Imperious
still; impending, vast,
The Colosseum's curving line;
Pillar and arch and colonnade;
St.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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She
smoothes
the hair of the grass.
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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Winter Stars
I went out at night alone;
The young blood flowing beyond the sea
Seemed to have
drenched
my spirit's wings--
I bore my sorrow heavily.
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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Thus bending o'er the vessel's laving side,
To gaze on Dian's wave-reflected sphere,
The soul forgets her schemes of Hope and Pride,
And flies
unconscious
o'er each backward year.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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I love and fear naught more than her,
I would receive the bitterest dart,
If only it gave my lady pleasure;
For it seems like Christmas Day
If her sweet
spiritual
eyes should stray
Towards me: yet so infrequently,
That each day's like a hundred to me!
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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Surely I have not
mistaken
the house?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Oh, 'twas strange for a pupil of Paul to recline
On
voluptuous
couch, while Falernian wine
Fill'd his cup to the brim!
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Hugo - Poems |
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Two men
drinking
together where mountain flowers grow:
One cup, one cup, and again one cup.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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The bells they sound on Bredon,
And still the
steeples
hum.
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Leaves, black leaves and smoke, are blown on the wind;
Mount upward past my window; swoop again;
In a sharp silence, loudly, loudly falls
The first cold drop,
striking
a shriveled leaf.
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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O
ruthless
Death!
| Guess: |
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Even the
assaults
of Pugatchef no longer excited great
disturbance.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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"There he sang of Hiawatha,
Sang the Song of Hiawatha,
Sang his
wondrous
birth and being,
How he prayed and how he fasted,
How he lived, and toiled, and suffered,
That the tribes of men might prosper,
That he might advance his people!
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Longfellow |
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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THE
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Tennyson |
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Dunlop with what pangs of heart he was compelled to take shelter in a
corner, lest the
rattling
equipage of some gaping blockhead should
mangle him in the mire.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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Certainly
he would
behave with discretion.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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, to plan my course of instruction, and, as
my tutor, to supervise my
bringing
up.
| Guess: |
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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The Tarentines were convinced that their countrymen were
irresistible in war; and this
conviction
had emboldened them to
treat with the grossest indignity one whom they regarded as the
representative of an inferior race.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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If one does not know how to construct, if one cannot arrange much
complicated life into a single action, one's work will not hold the
attention or linger in the memory, but if one is not in love with words
it will lack the delicate movement of living speech that is the chief
garment of life; and because of this lack the great
realists
seem to
the lovers of beautiful art to be wise in this generation, and for the
next generation, perhaps, but not for all generations that are to come.
| Guess: |
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Yeats |
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With not even one blow
landing?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
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Object most
opposite
to kindly faith!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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"For everybody said so, all our friends,
They all were sure our feelings would relate
So
closely!
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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"For everybody said so, all our friends,
They all were sure our feelings would relate
So
closely!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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death
in its
vastness
- terrible
death
to strike down so
small a being
I say to deathcoward
ah!
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But I, grown shrewder, scan the skies
With a suspicious air, --
As children, swindled for the first,
All
swindlers
be, infer.
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Sonnets Pour Helene Book II: XLII
In these long winter nights when the idle Moon
Steers her chariot so slowly on its way,
When the cockerel so tardily calls the day,
When night to the
troubled
soul seems years through:
I would have died of misery if not for you,
In shadowy form, coming to ease my fate,
Utterly naked in my arms, to lie and wait,
Sweetly deceiving me with a specious view.
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Ronsard |
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Lo now, your
garlanded
altars, 5
Are they not goodly with flowers?
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Sappho |
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fessa iacet stratis, ubi quondam conscia culpae
Lemnia
deprenso
repserunt uincula lecto.
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The real
differentia
of the poet is his
command over the secret magic of words.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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But when he heard the lady's tale,
And when she told her father's name,
Why waxed Sir Leoline so pale,
Murmuring o'er the name again,
Lord Roland de Vaux of
Tryermaine?
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Coleridge - Poems |
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At last the dead man walked no more
Amongst the Trial Men,
And I knew that he was
standing
up
In the black dock's dreadful pen,
And that never would I see his face
In God's sweet world again.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Ronsard's Cassandra, was Cassandra Salviati, the
daughter
of an Italian banker.
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Usage guidelines
Google is proud to partner with libraries to digitize public domain
materials
and make them widely accessible.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Dammit's little head--for the fact
is, my mamma was very well aware of my merely
temporary
absence from
home.
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Poe - 5 |
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