The
pretence
for this appropriation was to prevent
simony--in others, not in his Holiness--as the sale of benefices was
carried by him to an enormous height.
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As vocative: mīn wine, 2048; wine mīn,
Bēowulf
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1705; acc.
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but true as strange,
How much I was
mistaken!
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Poe - 5 |
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Half-past three,
The lamp sputtered,
The lamp
muttered
in the dark.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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In Erech of the wide spaces [57]
he hurled the axe,
and they
assembled
about him.
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[178] The preface to the speech of Gama, and the description of Europe
which follows, are happy
imitations
of the manner of Homer.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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The thridde, ferthe, fifte, sixte day 1205
After tho dayes ten, of which I tolde,
Bitwixen hope and drede his herte lay,
Yet som-what
trustinge
on hir hestes olde.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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"
"What are you
muttering
there, old owl?
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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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There is a
blessing
in the air,
Which seems a sense of joy to yield
To the bare trees, and mountains bare,
And grass in the green field.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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LE COUCHER DU SOLEIL ROMANTIQUE
Que le Soleil est beau quand tout frais il se leve,
Comme une explosion nous lancant son
bonjour!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Thou
weariest
me.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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O thou field of my delight so fair and
verdant!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Wherof the herte
reioyseth
so
That a gret party of his wo
Is voided, and put awey to flight.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Her lips began to borrow
Their former
wondrous
smile;
Her fair eyes, faint with sorrow,
Grew sparkling as erstwhile.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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all of her heart-strength,
All of her sprite, her mind, forlorn, were
evermore
hanging.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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A space is created between them there,
Like a level pass between two hills
That the snowdrift's
whiteness
softly fills,
When the gusts of wind have dropped in winter.
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Ronsard |
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The prescient poet projects himself centuries ahead, and judges
performer or
performance
after the changes of time.
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Whitman |
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Es kann nicht anders sein,
Ich tret heran und fuhre dich herein,
Und ich
verbinde
dich aufs neue.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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In Birgham trees and hedges rocked,
The moon was drowned in black;
At Hirsel woods I
shrieked
to find
A fiend astride my back.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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HE
DESCRIBES
HIS SAD STATE.
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Petrarch |
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now what Fortune wills I see full sure:
That
loathing
life, yet living I should see
How few its joys, how little they endure!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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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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Still it cry'd, Sleepe no more to all the House:
Glamis hath murther'd Sleepe, and
therefore
Cawdor
Shall sleepe no more: Macbeth shall sleepe no more
Lady.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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During the night he awoke with a start; the moon shone into his chamber,
making
everything
plainly visible.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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A washed-out smallpox cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone With all the old
nocturnal
smells
That cross and cross across her brain.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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She feared lest Hippolytus,
learning
of my ardour,
Might reveal a passion that filled him with horror.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Note: Dante Gabriel Rossetti took Archipiades to be Hipparchia (see
Diogenes
Laertius, Lives of the Philosophers, Book VI 96-98) who loved Crates the Theban Cynic philosopher (368/5-288/5BC) and of whom various tales are told suggesting her beauty, and independence of mind.
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Villon |
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Otium et reges prius et beatas
Perdidit
urbes.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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"But say'st thou 'tis by pangs distraught,
And strife, and silent
suffering?
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Yet was displayed amid the
mournful
gloom
Some copper vessels, and some crockery ware.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Keats - Lamia |
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Although
I pleaded tenderly,
And you and I were all alone.
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Tennyson |
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Through the garden it stole
Like
wandering
steps, like a whisper--then mute;
What play you, O Boy?
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Rilke - Poems |
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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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The direct trial of him who would be the
greatest
poet is to-day.
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Whitman |
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Few roods of ground the piles we raise
Will leave to plough; ponds wider spread
Than Lucrine lake will meet the gaze
On every side; the plane unwed
Will top the elm; the violet-bed,
The myrtle, each delicious sweet,
On olive-grounds their scent will shed,
Where once were fruit-trees
yielding
meat;
Thick bays will screen the midday range
Of fiercest suns.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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-- As morn by morn I rise with fresh delight,
Time through my casement cheerily doth call
`Nature is new, 'tis
birthday
every day,
Come feast with me, let no man say me nay,
Whate'er befall.
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Sidney Lanier |
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BUT as to you:--decline Love's choice
pursuit!
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La Fontaine |
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Some lowly cot in the rough fields our home,
Shoot down the stags, or with green osier-wand
Round up the
straggling
flock!
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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There are the
strangest
echoes in that place!
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Protect me always from like excess,
Virgin, who bore, without a cry,
Christ whom we
celebrate
at Mass.
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Villon |
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how
beautiful
it is, and how glad I am
that I am alive to-day!
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Oh, he who should seek again
A new bride after thee,
Were loathed of thy
children
twain,
And loathed of me.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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(5)
Chill and harsh the year draws to its close:
In my cotton dress I seek
sunlight
on the porch.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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No
pleasures
vain did chime,
Of rhymes, or riots, at your feasts,
Orgies of drink, or feigned protests:
But simple love of greatness and of good,
That knits brave minds and manners more than blood.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Straight
to the king, as friends to gen'rous friends,
A captive Moor the valiant GAMA sends.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Defeat means nothing but defeat,
No drearier can
prevail!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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You amid the bog-end's yellow incantation,
You sitting in the cowslips of the meadows above,
--Me, your shadow on the bog-flame, flowery may-blobs,
Me full length in the cowslips,
muttering
you love--
You, your soul like a lady-smock, lost, evanescent,
You, with your face all rich, like the sheen on a dove--!
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Imagists |
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Two lovers murmur and are still In mutual oblivion
Of any soul that
saunters
by
Or smiles and blesses and is gone.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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because of the efforts of hundreds of
volunteers
and donations from
people in all walks of life.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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[30]
And now those vivid hours are gone,
Like mine own life to me thou art,
Where Past and Present, wound in one,
Do make a garland for the heart:
So sing [31] that other song I made,
Half anger'd with my happy lot,
The day, when in the
chestnut
shade
I found the blue Forget-me-not.
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Tennyson |
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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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Lear - Nonsense |
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"Project Gutenberg" is a
registered
trademark.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Knowledge advances; manners change;
great foreign models of
composition
are studied and imitated.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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What is the use of
fighting
with a man whose head laughs when it has
been cut off?
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Yeats |
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From the circle of your cropped hair
there is light,
and about your male torse
and the foot-arch and the
straight
ankle.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Pitying the propless climber of mankind,
She cast about a standard tree to find;
And, to support his helpless woodbine state,
Attach'd him to the
generous
truly great,
A title, and the only one I claim,
To lay strong hold for help on bounteous Graham.
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Robert Burns |
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Who hath a better claim then to the crown
So that ye will not crown the
Atheling?
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Tennyson |
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And eke huge mountaines from their native seat
She would commaund,
themselves
to beare away,
And throw in raging sea with roaring threat.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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THEY SAY--
They say I have a constant heart, who know
Not anything of how it turns and yields
First here, first there; nor how in
separate
fields
It runs to reap and then remains to sow;
How, with quick worship, it will bend and glow
Before a line of song, an antique vase,
Evening at sea; or in a well-loved face
Seek and find all that Beauty can bestow.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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He gaz'd, and, fear his mind surprising,
Himself no more the hermit knows:
He sees with foam the waters rising,
And then
subsiding
to repose,
And sudden, light as night-ghost wanders,
A female thence her form uprais'd,
Pale as the snow which winter squanders,
And on the bank herself she plac'd.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Impair thou not the memory of that hour
Of thy
Communion
with my nobler mind
By pity or grief, already felt too long!
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William Wordsworth |
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Just then the waterman
descried
them from the Stygian wave advancing
through the silent woodland and turning their feet towards the bank, and
opens on them in these words of challenge: 'Whoso thou art who marchest
in arms towards our river, forth and say, there as thou art, why thou
comest, and stay thine advance.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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While at Plymouth Donne wrote a prose
letter, to whom is not clear,
preserved
in the Burley Commonplace
Book.
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John Donne |
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Still what avails it that she sought her cave
That murderous mother of red
harlotries?
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth
in
paragraph
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Meredith - Poems |
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I do not know, of all those offerings, how much the Dragon eats;
But the mice of the woods and the foxes of the hills are
continually
drunk and sated.
| Guess: |
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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All
Summarised
The Soul.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Truly they say, and it's my belief:
'All are my
brothers!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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Sleepily lull the wasps in the noon-day song,
And through the meagre shelter of the blades
Upon his sunburnt
forehead
slowly trickle
The poppy-petals: large red drops of blood.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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modified
and printed and given away--you may do
practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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--Je connais
Des
vieilles
qui s'en vont pleurant sous leurs bonnets
Parce qu'on leur a pris leur garcon ou leur fille:
C'est la crapule.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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I often drank when not adry
To pledge her health in
draughts
divine;
Smiles made it nectar from the sky,
Love turned een water into wine.
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| Question: |
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John Clare |
|
Please take a look at the important
information
in this header.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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"And, father, how can I love you
Or any of my
brothers
more?
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blake-poems |
|
1435
Encresen
gan the wo fro day to night
Of Troilus, for taryinge of Criseyde;
And lessen gan his hope and eek his might,
For which al doun he in his bed him leyde;
He ne eet, ne dronk, ne sleep, ne word he seyde, 1440
Imagininge ay that she was unkinde;
For which wel neigh he wex out of his minde.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
|
Copyright
laws in most countries are in
a constant state of change.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
|
When Orpheus played and sang, the wild animals
themselves
came to hear his singing.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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I was about to speak, when--'We are even
Now at the point I meant,' said Maddalo,
And bade the
gondolieri
cease to row.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
|
The winners ate with relish; the losers, on the
contrary, pushed back their plates and sat
brooding
gloomily.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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He is a
Corporal
in the Twelfth York and Lancaster
Regiment.
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Your wings,
brushing
it, spill never a drop
From the glass I fill, from which my thirst I quench.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Sister, dost thou hear them
singing?
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Longfellow |
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"Not you," sighed I, "but my own
inconstancy!
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Along the river there are
on one side most verdant plains and meadows, here and there
shadowed
by
trees.
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Petrarch |
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And I, could I stand by
And see you freeze,
Without my right of frost,
Death's
privilege?
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Yet again is heard the trample
Of the surges high and ample:
Their
dreadful
meeting--
The wild and sudden breaking--
The dinting, and battering, and beating,
And swift forsaking.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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A washed-out smallpox cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone With all the old
nocturnal
smells
That cross and cross across her brain.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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"
"Small is the faith the prince and queen ascribe
(Replied
Eumaeus)
to the wandering tribe.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Cheer up youre hartes, chase sorrowe farre awaie,
Godde and Seyncte
Cuthbert
be the worde to daie.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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It
mattered
nothing then.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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