He knows well
The evening star: and once when he awoke
In most
distressful
mood (some inward pain
Had made up that strange thing, an infant's dream)
I hurried with him to our orchard plot,
And he beholds the moon, and hush'd at once
Suspends his sobs, and laughs most silently,
While his fair eyes that swam with undropt tears
Did glitter in the yellow moon-beam!
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Take such
dismission
now as thou deserv'st,
Opprobrious!
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From them
I'll form an
honourable
troop.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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When he was young he little knew
Of
husbandry
or tillage;
And now he's forced to work, though weak,
--The weakest in the village.
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e
fayntyse
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Calmly she waits, and
breathes
her gathered flower
Till one shall cull for her imperial power.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Lost causes triumph like the sun; Dreams that deluded are brought true; A
resurrection
morning breaks —
The soul in him is born anew,
Then, to the old and easy path Of dull, sad inanition wanes:
And still this is the man God made, And still the love of God remains!
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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It may be
rendered
thus:--
"O Thou who burn'st in Heart for those who burn
In Hell, whose fires thyself shall feed in turn,
How long be crying, 'Mercy on them, God!
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Thanatos
is not a god,
not at all a King of Terrors.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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The person or entity that
provided
you with
the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a
refund.
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Keats - Lamia |
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<<
FRAGMENT
A.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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THE LAST CHRYSANTHEMUM
WHY should this flower delay so long
To show its
tremulous
plumes?
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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"In the
bedchamber
of the Countess.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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"
Pitying, I dropped a tear:
But I saw a glow-worm near,
Who replied, "What wailing wight
Calls the
watchman
of the night?
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blake-poems |
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Yeats' free
adaptation
is the well-known poem 'When you are old and grey and full of sleep' (In 'The Rose').
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Ronsard |
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But soone as breath out of his breast did pas,
That huge great body, which the Gyaunt bore,
Was vanisht quite, and of that
monstrous
mas 215
Was nothing left, but like an emptie bladder was.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Oh 1 why did he sing me that song,
I threw him the ring from my hand
Bitter and
treacherous
wrong
That sought me with fetters to brand.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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50
_Vesperugo
stella quae uespere oritur, a
quo eam Opilius scribit Vesperum; itaque dicitur ?
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Latin - Catullus |
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Come join, ye Nature's
sturdiest
bairns,
My wailing numbers!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Do you have hopes the lyre can soar
So high as to win
immortality?
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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"With Nature never do they wage
A foolish strife; they see
A happy youth, and their old age
Is
beautiful
and free:
"But we are press'd by heavy laws;
And often, glad no more,
We wear a face of joy, because
We have been glad of yore.
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Golden Treasury |
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[129] Would-be centurions
doubtless
bribed him to influence
the soldiers in their favour.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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_"
[Jean Armour
inspired
this very sweet song.
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Robert Forst |
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"The giant then: 'Our promis'd grace receive,
The hospitable boon we mean to give:
When all thy
wretched
crew have felt my power,
Noman shall be the last I will devour.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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And, as indeed all spring from veriest core of my bosom,
Suffer ye not the cause of grief and woe to evanish;
But wi' the Will
wherewith
could Theseus leave me in loneness, 200
Goddesses!
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Catullus - Carmina |
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In the List of Names one or two corrections have been made,
and in the Glossary numerous mistakes in gender, classification, and
translation,
apparently
unavoidable in a first edition, have been
rectified.
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Beowulf |
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What honours can a
grateful
Rome,
A grateful senate, Caesar, give
To make thy worth through days to come
Emblazon'd on our records live,
Mightiest of chieftains whomsoe'er
The sun beholds from heaven on high?
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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The bard his glory neer receives
Where summer's common flowers are seen,
But winter finds it when she leaves
The laurel only green;
And time from that eternal tree,
Shall weave a wreath to honour thee;
A sunny wreath for poets meet,
From Helicon's immortal soil,
Where sacred Time with pilgrim feet
Walks forth to worship, not to spoil,
A wreath which Fame creates and bears,
And
deathless
genius only heirs.
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John Clare |
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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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The
henchmen
saw, and straight
Flew to their spears, a host of them to set
Against those twain.
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Euripides - Electra |
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Thus Asius' steeds (their mighty master gone)
Remain the prize of Nestor's
youthful
son.
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Iliad - Pope |
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She loved dumb things: and ere she had begun
To milk,
caressed
them more than eer she'd done;
But though her tears stood watering in her eye,
I little took it as her last good-bye;
For she was tender, and I've often known
Her mourn when beetles have been trampled on:
So I neer dreamed from this, what soon befell,
Till the next morning rang her passing-bell.
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John Clare |
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We do not solicit donations in locations
where we have not
received
written confirmation of compliance.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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t as we seen by-tiden
in
gerdou{n}
of goode.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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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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Keats - Lamia |
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So great in any sort of herb thou wilt,
So great again in any river of earth
Are the distinct
diversities
of matter.
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Lucretius |
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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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Lewis Carroll |
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for a mess;
Thou
shouldst
have gotten more, or eaten less;
Now thou hast swilled thy pottage, thy demands
Are idle; Israel says the bargain stands.
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Byron |
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Preparation
is made for the feast.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Old Friesic has a version of these 15 Tokens, says Mr Skeat: see Richtofen,
Friesische
Rechtsquellen, p.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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THE THEATRE
I
I REMEMBER, some years ago, advising a distinguished, though too little
recognised, writer of
poetical
plays to write a play as unlike ordinary
plays as possible, that it might be judged with a fresh mind, and to
put it on the stage in some small suburban theatre, where a small
audience would pay its expenses.
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Yeats |
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Priam finds
Achilles
at his table, casts himself at his feet, and begs for
the body of his son: Achilles, moved with compassion, grants his request,
detains him one night in his tent, and the next morning sends him home
with the body: the Trojans run out to meet him.
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Iliad - Pope |
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I
At the foot of the
mountain
height
Where is perched Castel Cuille,
When the apple, the plum, and the almond tree
In the plain below were growing white,
This is the song one might perceive
On a Wednesday morn of Saint Joseph's Eve:
"The roads should blossom, the roads should bloom,
So fair a bride shall leave her home!
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Longfellow |
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" So full of
mistakes
as to be of very little
value, except in so far as they served to call the attention of the
European reader to this poet.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Les Amours de Cassandre: CXXXV
Sweet beauty,
murderess
of my life,
Instead of a heart you've a boulder:
Living, you make me waste and shudder,
Impassioned by amorous desire.
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Ronsard |
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Lilamani, aetat 1
Limpid jewel of delight
Severed from the tender night
Of your sheltering mother-mine,
Leap and sparkle, dance and shine,
Blithely
and securely set
In love's magic coronet.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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THE EARTH:
It would avail not to reply: _110
Thou art immortal, and this tongue is known
But to the
uncommunicating
dead.
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Shelley |
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I would not have thee believe in what I say nor trust in what I
do--for my words are naught but thy own
thoughts
in sound and my
deeds thy own hopes in action.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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TO ROSE
ROSE, when I remember you,
Little lady, scarcely two,
I am
suddenly
aware
Of the angels in the air.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Begin, then, Sisters of the sacred well
That from beneath the seat of Jove doth spring;
Begin, and
somewhat
loudly sweep the string;
Hence with denial vain and coy excuse:
So may some gentle Muse
With lucky words favour my destined urn:
And as he passes, turn
And bid fair peace be to my sable shroud.
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Golden Treasury |
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zip *****
This and all
associated
files of various formats will be found in:
http://www.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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In a minute there is time
For decisions and
revisions
which a minute will reverse.
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T.S. Eliot |
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"Sweet
FLORENCE!
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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The
croupier
raked in the money while he looked on in stupid terror.
| Guess: |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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To their encircling throng
the Sibyl spoke thus, and to Musaeus before them all; for he is midmost
of all the multitude, and stands out head and
shoulders
among their
upward gaze:
'Tell, O blissful souls, and thou, poet most gracious, what region, what
place hath Anchises for his own?
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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till to-morrow eve,
And you, my
friends!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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My words are
guiltless
of the bigot's sense;
My soul has fire to mingle with the fire
Of all these souls, within or out of doors
Of Rome's church or another.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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The sight only
increased
the
insolence of the Tarentines.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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The State of Parma had belonged originally to the
popes; but two powerful families, the Rossis and the Correggios, had
profited by the quarrels between the church and the empire to usurp the
government, and during five-and-twenty years, Gilberto Correggio and
Rolando Rossi alternately lost and won the sovereignty, till, at last,
the confederate princes took the city, and conferred the
government
of
it on Guido Correggio, the greatest enemy of the Rossis.
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Petrarch |
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ou hat3 dalt
disserued
?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Don Arias, a Castilian gentleman
Don Alonso, a Castilian gentleman
Chimene, daughter of Don Gomes
Leonor,
governess
to the Infanta
Elvire, governess to Chimene
A Page, to the Infanta
Act I Scene I (Chimene, Elvire)
Chimene
Is the report you bring me now sincere?
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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any statements
concerning
tax treatment of donations received from
outside the United States.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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(London) 1913
Visions of the Evening Erskine Macdonald (London) 1913
Irradiations
Houghton
Mifflin Co.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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The story of Orlando's ill-usage, prowess, and
banishment, in _As You Like It_,
Shakespeare
derived from this source,
and Keats is thinking of the merry life of the hero amongst the outlaws.
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Keats |
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The
frightened
horse, with broken rein,
Stood at the stable-door again;
But none came home to fill his rack,
Or take the saddle from his back;
The saddle--it was all he bore--
The man was seen alive no more!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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You may believe me when I say the
father and I were already
prepared
to die the death of martyrs.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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"Let my foes choke, and my friends shout afar,
While through the
thronged
streets your bridal car
Wheels round its dazzling spokes.
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Keats - Lamia |
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What answer was it you brought me, good
Baldazzar?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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Keats - Lamia |
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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This is a popular
Ayrshire
song, though the notes were never taken
down before.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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t'whom dost think thou'st made
This curst
confession?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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The broch'd keene javlyn hurld from honde so stronge 335
As thine came
thundrynge
on his crysted beave;
Ah!
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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org
Title:
American
Poetry, 1922
A Miscellany
Author: Edna St.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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'T was universe that did applaud
While, chiefest of the crowd,
Enabled by his royal dress,
Myself
distinguished
God.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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At the beginning of the
eighteenth
century, a Sung printed edition came
into the hands of a Mr.
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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Here, my lord, take the warrant,
And see it duly
executed
forthwith.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
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To rob a
neighbour
with a smile, to bestow gifts with a graceful
wave of the hand, to praise prudently, to blame cautiously, to
destroy a sound with a word, to burn a body with a breath, and then
to wash the hands when the day's work is done.
| Guess: |
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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I never saw sad men who looked
With such a wistful eye
Upon that little tent of blue
We prisoners called the sky,
And at every
careless
cloud that passed
In happy freedom by.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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'
She looks into me
The unknowing heart
To see if I love
She has
confidence
she forgets
Under the clouds of her eyelids
Her head falls asleep in my hands
Where are we
Together inseparable
Alive alive
He alive she alive
And my head rolls through her dreams.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Then let me rove some wild and heathy scene;
Or find some ruin midst its dreary dells,
Whose walls more awful nod
By thy
religious
gleams.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary,
compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or
proprietary
form, including any
word processing or hypertext form.
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Keats - Lamia |
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In the above
passages
the chief correspondences to be noted are
as follows:
1.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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That is the
manufacturing
spot,
And will at home and well.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Can such
delights
be in the street
And open fields and we not see't?
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Robert Herrick |
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s heart prefers to wait, doing nothing, 108 all spirit is
virtually
lost in current policy debates.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Discrecioun out of your heed is goon;
That fele I now,' quod he, `and that is routhe; 895
O tyme y-lost, wel maystow cursen
slouthe!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Contents
Le Testament: Ballade Des Dames Du Temps Jadis
Le Testament: Les Regrets De La Belle Heaulmiere
Le Testament: Ballade: 'Item: Donne A Ma Povre Mere'
Le Testament: Ballade: A S'amye
Le Testament: Ballade: Pour Robert d'Estouteville
Le Testament: Rondeau
Le Testament: Epitaph et Rondeau
Ballade: Du
Concours
De Blois
Ballade: Epistre
L'Epitaphe Villon: Ballade Des Pendus
Index of First Lines
Le Testament: Ballade Des Dames Du Temps Jadis
Tell me where, or in what country
Is Flora, the lovely Roman,
Archipiades or Thais,
Who was her nearest cousin,
Echo answering, at clap of hand,
Over the river, and the meadow,
Whose beauty was more than human?
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Villon |
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I should not dare to leave my friend,
Because -- because if he should die
While I was gone, and I -- too late --
Should reach the heart that wanted me;
If I should disappoint the eyes
That hunted, hunted so, to see,
And could not bear to shut until
They "noticed" me -- they noticed me;
If I should stab the patient faith
So sure I 'd come -- so sure I 'd come,
It listening, listening, went to sleep
Telling my tardy name, --
My heart would wish it broke before,
Since
breaking
then, since breaking then,
Were useless as next morning's sun,
Where midnight frosts had lain!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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I took the perfect
balances
and weighed;
No shaking of my hand disturbed the poise; 10
Weighed, found it wanting: not a word I said,
But silent made my choice.
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Christina Rossetti |
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In that humour he
doth many
senseless
things, and at last falls upon the Grecian flock and
kills a great ram for Ulysses: returning to his senses, he grows ashamed
of the scorn, and kills himself; and is by the chiefs of the Greeks
forbidden burial.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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, was an old figure for the way the feudal lords were
attached
to the ruler.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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She might have wept if that hand
Coldly placed against her heart,
Had ever felt dew's
heavenly
wand
Touch human clay with subtle art.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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I
summoned
the land to assemble unto him,
that heroes might kiss his feet.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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A LITTLE BOY LOST
"Nought loves another as itself,
Nor
venerates
another so,
Nor is it possible to thought
A greater than itself to know.
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blake-poems |
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