[49] On the verb _naku_ see the
Babylonian
Book of Proverbs ?
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But the evil one ambushed old and young
death-shadow dark, and dogged them still,
lured, or lurked in the
livelong
night
of misty moorlands: men may say not
where the haunts of these Hell-Runes {2c} be.
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"
[9] The fragments which have been
assigned
to Book II in the British
Museum collections by Haupt, Jensen, Dhorme and others belong to
later tablets, probably III or IV.
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M uch better
elsewhere
to search for
A id: it would have been more to my honour:
R etreat I must, and fly with dishonour,
T hough none else then would have cast a lure.
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Villon |
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His virtues had soon a larger field for their display, from the appointment of Petilius Cerealis, 31 a man of
consular
dignity, to the government.
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Tacitus |
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His
dwindled
body half awry,
Rests upon ancles swoln and thick;
His legs are thin and dry.
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: the
adjectives
blīð-, grom-, rūm-,
stearc-heort.
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Surprised
at trembling, though it was with cold,
Who ne'er had trembled out of fear, the veterans bold
Marched stern; to grizzled moustache hoarfrost clung
'Neath banners that in leaden masses hung.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Only those who brave its dangers
Comprehend
its mystery!
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Longfellow |
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Graces, adorning
Sons of the morning--
Shadowy wavings--
Float along over;
Yearnings
and cravings
After them hover.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Bēo þū suna mīnum
"dǣdum gedēfe drēam
healdende!
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Beowulf |
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"
He spoke--the
warriors
at his fierce command
Pour a new deluge on the Grecian band.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Erwarte nicht
Das dreimal
gluhende
Licht!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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And know, lady, that the more my tears well,
The more love grows for you and my goodwill,
A sweet pleasant thought's born in my heart thus
Who, night and day, love's
thoughts
cannot disperse.
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Troubador Verse |
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available by the
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POEMS
by
RANIER MARIA RILKE
Translated by Jessie Lamont
With an Introduction by H.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Come give me thy
loveliest
lay.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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disclaimer
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interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by
the applicable state law.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Was God so
economical?
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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till the marks
Of fire and
belching
thunder fill the dark
And, almost torn asunder, one falls stark,
Hammering upon the other!
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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e
sauuaciou{n}
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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"
Now rides our knight through the realms of England with no companion
but his foal, and no one to hold
converse
with save God alone.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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HEPHAESTUS
Kinship and
friendship
wring my heart for him.
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Aeschylus |
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Je me
souviens!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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II
Tell me ye stones and give me O
glorious
palaces answer.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Ma tu che sol per
cancellare
scrivi,
pensa che Pietro e Paulo, che moriro
per la vigna che guasti, ancor son vivi.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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derknesse
of
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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"
The
stranger
vanished .
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Is there another room in the
cottage?
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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`But certes, I am not so nyce a wight 1625
That I ne can
imaginen
a wey
To come ayein that day that I have hight.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Keats - Lamia |
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Then I went to the heath and the wild,
To the
thistles
and thorns of the waste;
And they told me how they were beguiled,
Driven out, and compelled to the chaste.
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blake-poems |
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Or soft Adonis, so
perfumed
and fine,
Drive to St.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Without
important exception, her friends have
generously
placed at the
disposal of the Editors any poems they had received from her; and
these have given the obvious advantage of comparison among several
renderings of the same verse.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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: _Cycnea_
Zanchius
de Orig.
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Latin - Catullus |
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Toward the piano they both shyly glanced
For she would sing to him on many a night,
And the child seated in the fading light
Would listen
strangely
as if half entranced,
His large eyes fastened with a quiet glow
Upon the hand which by her ring seemed bent
And slowly wandering o'er the white keys went
Moving as though against a drift of snow.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Hir love I best, and shal, whyl I may dure,
Bet than my-self an hundred thousand deel, 35
Than al this worldes
richesse
or creature.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Her love, too, is quite
different
from
his.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Half-past two,
The street-lamp said,
"Remark the cat which
flattens
itself in the gutter,
Slips out its tongue
And devours a morsel of rancid butter.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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'Twould blow like this through holt and hanger
When Uricon the city stood:
'Tis the old wind in the old anger,
But then it
threshed
another wood.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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x), and the dreamer
awakes to hear the
tinkling
of her lover's sledge approaching.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Out on the
pastures
where his horses stray.
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Euripides - Electra |
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Meantime, Mesaulius bread
dispensed
to all,
Whom, in the absence of his Lord, himself 550
Eumaeus had from Taphian traders bought
With his own proper goods, at no expence
Either to old Laertes or the Queen.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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What want these outlaws
conquerors
should have
But History's purchased page to call them great?
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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O maidens and young men I love, and that love me,
What you ask of my days, those the strangest and sudden your talking
recalls,
Soldier alert I arrive, after a long march, covered with sweat and dust;
In the nick of time I come, plunge in the fight, loudly shout in the rush
of successful charge;
Enter the
captured
works,.
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Whitman |
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Dost remember
The triumph of Dimitry, dost remember
His peaceful conquests, when, without a blow
The docile towns surrendered, and the mob
Bound the
recalcitrant
leaders?
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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To their ship the Scylding warriors bore
all the chattels the
chieftain
owned,
whatever they found in Finn's domain
of gems and jewels.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Such a cave at hand, which you can enter any day,
is worth a thousand of our churches which are open only Sundays,
hardly long enough for an airing, and then filled with a bustling
congregation,--a church where the priest is the least part, where you
do your own preaching, where the
universe
preaches to you and can be
heard.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Not the hated face of the Laconian woman, Tyndarus' daughter; not Paris
is to blame; the gods, the gods in anger
overturn
this magnificence, and
make Troy topple down.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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I cannot tell you how it was;
But this I know: it came to pass
Upon a bright and breezy day
When May was young; ah,
pleasant
May!
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Christina Rossetti |
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The only art her guilt to cover,
To hide her shame from every eye,
To give
repentance
to her lover
And wring his bosom, is--to die.
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Golden Treasury |
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I had now a good
opportunity
of examining his person.
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Poe - 5 |
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"Is she more
delicate
than me?
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La Fontaine |
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--Affliction
teacheth
a wicked person some time
to pray: prosperity never.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Pleasantly and well-suited I walk:
Whither I walk I cannot define, but I know it is good;
The whole universe indicates that it is good,
The past and the present
indicate
that it is good.
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Whitman |
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This hope hath been to me for love and fame,
Hath made me wholly lonely on the earth,
Building me up as in a thick-ribbed tower,
Wherewith enwalled my watching spirit burned,
Conquering its little island from the Dark,
Sole as a scholar's lamp, and heard men's steps,
In the far hurry of the outward world,
Pass dimly forth and back, sounds heard in dream, 130
As Ganymede by the eagle was snatched up
From the gross sod to be Jove's cup-bearer,
So was I lifted by my great design:
And who hath trod Olympus, from his eye
Fades not that broader outlook of the gods;
His life's low valleys
overbrow
earth's clouds,
And that Olympian spectre of the past
Looms towering up in sovereign memory,
Beckoning his soul from meaner heights of doom.
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James Russell Lowell |
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It occurred to me that if I
mentioned
her,
the Commission would oblige her to appear; and the idea of exposing her
name to all the scandalous things said by the rascals under
cross-examination, and the thought of even seeing her in their presence,
was so repugnant to me that I became confused, stammered, and took
refuge in silence.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Hauksbee
answered valiantly,
"Of course I will.
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Kipling - Poems |
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And I wonder how they should have been
together!
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T.S. Eliot |
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Wherefore
recruited now best thanks I give
To thee for nowise punishing my sins:
Nor do I now object if noisome writs
Of Sestius hear I, but that cold and cough
And rheum may plague, not me, but Sestius' self 20
Who asks me only his ill writs to read.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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[10,000 x 100,000,000 = 1 Trillion]
This is ten
thousand
titles each to one hundred million readers,
which is only ~5% of the present number of computer users.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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For Destiny never swerves
Nor yields to men the helm;
He shoots his thought, by hidden nerves,
Throughout
the solid realm.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Fragrant
herbs banish evil smells
And the scholar's harp has a clear note.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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--The Army of the Rebel Angels_
The poem opens with an
invocation
to the Heavenly Muse for
enlightenment and inspiration.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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DOTH still before thee rise the beauteous image
Of him who high the cliff for roses scales,
Who nigh forgets the day amidst the scrimmage,
Who fullest honey from the bunch
inhales?
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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II
No wind fanned the flats of the ocean,
Or
promontory
sides,
Or the ooze by the strand,
Or the bent-bearded slope of the land,
Whose base took its rest amid everlong motion
Of criss-crossing tides.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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The Sirens
Odysseus
and the Sirens
'Odysseus and the Sirens'
Johannes Glauber, Gerard de Lairesse, 1656 - 1726, The Rijksmuseun
Do I know where your ennui's from, Sirens,
When you grieve so widely under the stars?
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Appoloinaire |
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Scarce had night's chilly shade forsook the sky
What time to
nibbling
sheep the dewy grass
Tastes sweetest, when, on his smooth shepherd-staff
Of olive leaning, Damon thus began.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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In their baronial feuds and single fields,
What deeds of prowess
unrecorded
died!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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The noble peer he begged, upon his knees,
His penitence to hear, and
sentence
ease.
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| Question: |
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La Fontaine |
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What makes you take her
character
away so confidently?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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Ididnotknow
One half the substance of his speech with me.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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The elder encourages the younger, and shows him how: they two shall
launch off
fearlessly
together till the new world fits an orbit for itself,
and looks unabashed on the lesser orbits of the stars, and sweeps through
the ceaseless rings, and shall never be quiet again.
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Whitman |
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though
Brignall
banks be fair,
And Greta woods be gay,
Yet mickle must the maiden dare,
Would reign my Queen of May!
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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The Dove
Angels and Holy Spirit (Annunciation)
'Angels and Holy Spirit (Annunciation)'
Nicolas Pitau (I), Philippe de Champaigne, 1642 - 1671, The Rijksmuseun
Dove, both love and spirit
Who
engendered
Jesus Christ,
Like you I love a Mary.
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Appoloinaire |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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the Horde has learnt to prize me;
"'Tis the Horde with gold
supplies
me.
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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IX
I stood upon a high place,
And saw, below, many devils
Running, leaping,
And
carousing
in sin.
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| Question: |
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Stephen Crane |
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when one with such love of study's haunted,
And scarcely sees the world on holidays,
And takes a spy-glass, as it were, to read it,
How can one by
persuasion
hope to lead it?
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Little Air
I
Any solitude
Without a swan or quai
Mirrors its disuse
In the gaze I abdicate
Far from that pride's excess
Too high to enfold
In which many a sky paints itself
With the twilight's gold
But languorously flows beside
Like white linen laid aside
Such fleeting birds as dive
Exultantly at my side
Into the wave made you
Your
exultation
nude.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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enchanting
stage, profusely blest.
| Guess: |
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Robert Burns |
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understands
ealdhlāford to mean the former possessor
of the hoard.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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HE told to Matthew, (such the farmer's name,)
His situation, character, and fame:
By duns assailed, and
harassed
by a wife,
Who proved the very torment of his life,
He knew no place of safety to obtain,
Like ent'ring other bodies, where 'twas plain,
He might escape the catchpole's prowling eye,
Honesta's wrath, and all her rage defy.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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"And, father, how can I love you
Or any of my
brothers
more?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
The high successor of our Charles,[P] whose hair
The crown of his great ancestor adorns,
Already has ta'en arms, to bruise the horns
Of Babylon, and all her name who bear;
Christ's holy vicar with the honour'd load
Of keys and cloak,
returning
to his home,
Shall see Bologna and our noble Rome,
If no ill fortune bar his further road.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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We need
No
purifying
here.
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Euripides - Electra |
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There he spoke aloud for freedom, and the Borderstrife grew
warmer,
Till the Rangers fired his dwelling, in his absence, in the
night;
And Old Brown
Osawatomie Brown,
Came
homeward
in the morning--to find his house burned
down.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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[4]
Throughout
the new text the name is written with
the abbreviation _d_Gi(s), [5] whereas the standard Assyrian text
has consistently the writing _d_GIS-TU [6]-BAR.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Spengel, _est te_ Baehrens ||
_monendus
es_ Calp.
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Latin - Catullus |
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If you were
carrying
a "t?
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Shed thy soft dews on Jove's immortal eyes,
While sunk in love's
entrancing
joys he lies.
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Iliad - Pope |
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To mortify still more the silly swain,
And fill his soul with ev'ry poignant pain,
She gave a glimpse of beauties to his view,
And from his
presence
instantly withdrew.
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La Fontaine |
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General
Information
About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic
works.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Thus, like a king, erect in pride,
Raising clean hands toward heaven, he cried:
"All hail the Stars and
Stripes!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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this is holiday to what was felt
When
Isabella
by Lorenzo knelt.
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Keats |
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WASTED HOURS
How many buds in this warm light
Have burst out
laughing
into leaves!
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Phaedra, in the palace,
trembles
for her son's life, 395
From all her anxious friends she demands advice.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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