That, he says, which offends the ear, will not
easily gain
admission
to the mind.
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Tacitus |
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All the happy songs he wrought
From
remembrance
soon must fade,
As the wash of silver moonlight 15
From a purple-dark ravine.
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Sappho |
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hem
as ful large muche golde {and}
app{ar}aile?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Copyright
laws in most countries are in
a constant state of change.
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Lewis Carroll |
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Ye Powers
And Spirits of this nethermost Abyss,
Chaos and Ancient Night, I come no Spie, 970
With purpose to explore or to disturb
The secrets of your Realm, but by constraint
Wandring this darksome desart, as my way
Lies through your
spacious
Empire up to light,
Alone, and without guide, half lost, I seek
What readiest path leads where your gloomie bounds
Confine with Heav'n; or if som other place
From your Dominion won, th' Ethereal King
Possesses lately, thither to arrive
I travel this profound, direct my course; 980
Directed, no mean recompence it brings
To your behoof, if I that Region lost,
All usurpation thence expell'd, reduce
To her original darkness and your sway
(Which is my present journey) and once more
Erect the Standerd there of Ancient Night;
Yours be th' advantage all, mine the revenge.
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Milton |
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_Now_ your dull eyes
glisten!
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no
one owns a United States
copyright
in these works, so the Foundation
(and you!
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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myn herte is wonder wo
That I ne can
discryven
hit!
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Our own literature,
indeed, will furnish an exact
parallel
to what may have taken
place at Rome.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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[58] He had
therefore
held by the fig-tree from sunrise till afternoon.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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De nos jours une
pareille
note ressemblerait
fort a une reclame deguisee:
<< Ce qui nous parait ici meriter l'interet, disait-elle, c'est
l'expression vive, curieuse, meme dans sa violence, de quelques
defaillances, de quelques douleurs morales, que, sans les partager ni
les discuter, on doit tenir a connaitre comme un des signes de notre
temps.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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"
A
thousand
voices called to me.
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Stephen Crane |
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And yet who is there that has never
doubted?
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Longfellow |
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But if that Heaven
Should give me life, his childhood shall grow up
Familiar
with these songs, that with the night
He may associate Joy!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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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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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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In recent years there has arisen a great body of literature upon the
subject of Sappho, most of it the abstruse work of
scholars
writing for
scholars.
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Sappho |
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" The epigram
might just as
reasonably
have been the other way round.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Who is it
clutches
me
By the neck behind?
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition
against
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unsolicited donations from donors in such states who
approach us with offers to donate.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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'
`By god,' quod he, `I hoppe alwey
bihinde!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Thou olden ducal
dungeon!
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Hugo - Poems |
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1570, The Rijksmuseun
You set
yourself
against beauty.
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Appoloinaire |
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She turned away, but with the autumn weather
Compelled my
imagination
many days,
Many days and many hours:
Her hair over her arms and her arms full of flowers.
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T.S. Eliot |
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"
When lovely woman stoops to folly and
Paces about her room again, alone,
She smooths her hair with
automatic
hand,
And puts a record on the gramophone.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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I wish to stand as on a boat and dare
The sweeping storm, mighty, like flag unrolled
In
darkness
but with helmet made of gold
That shimmers restlessly.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Melder, a
grinding
corn.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a
copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of
obtaining
a copy upon
request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other
form.
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Be
favorable
eek, thou Polymnia, 15
On Parnaso that, with thy sustres glade,
By Elicon, not fer from Cirrea,
Singest with vois memorial in the shade,
Under the laurer which that may not fade,
And do that I my ship to haven winne;
First folow I Stace, and after him Corinne.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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short of memory, false to
comrades
dearest-dear,
Now hast no pity (hardened Soul!
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Catullus - Carmina |
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The servant bids his master remain
awhile, saying, "I have brought you hither at this time, and now ye are
not far from that noted place that ye have so often
enquired
after.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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The hare that ran by among the dew might have sat
upon his haunches when the first man was made, and the poor bunch of
rushes under their feet might have been a goddess laughing among the
stars; and with but a little magic, a little waving of the hands, a
little
murmuring
of the lips, they too could become a hare or a bunch
of rushes, and know immortal love and immortal hatred.
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Yeats |
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Ah, ah,
Heosphoros!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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The grasshopper's horn, and far off, high in the maples
The wheel of a locust leisurely
grinding
the silence,
Under a moon waning and worn and broken,
Tired with summer.
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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What is this, that rises like the issue of a King,
And weares vpon his Baby-brow, the round
And top of
Soueraignty?
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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Never the treasures in her nest
The cautious grave exposes,
Building where schoolboy dare not look
And
sportsman
is not bold.
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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See ready Pallas waits thy high commands
To raise in arms the Greek and Phrygian bands;
Their sudden
friendship
by her arts may cease,
And the proud Trojans first infringe the peace.
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the
law of the state
applicable
to this agreement, the agreement shall be
interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by
the applicable state law.
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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GATHERING
SONG OF DONALD THE BLACK.
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Golden Treasury |
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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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These three
manuscripts
are obviously derived from one common source.
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John Donne |
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He ended, and the Prince, at his command,
Guided by flaming torches, sought the couch
Where he was wont to sleep, and there he slept
On that night also, waiting the
approach
60
Of sacred dawn.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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She-wolf of France, with
unrelenting
fangs
That tear'st the bowels of thy mangled mate,
From thee be born, who o'er thy country hangs
The scourge of Heaven!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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And so I would, were it not for fear,
For never has one so shaped and made
For love such
diffidence
displayed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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"
Among the windings of the violins
And the ariettes
Of cracked cornets
Inside my brain a dull tom-tom begins
Absurdly hammering a prelude of its own,
Capricious
monotone
That is at least one definite "false note.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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The Serpent
The Fall
'The Fall'
Anonymous,
Hieronymus
Cock, c.
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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It is a land of
poverty!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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you,
abandoned
quite
Within the rosy sheen.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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There are as many perfections as there are
imperfect
men.
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Allor si volse a noi e puose mente,
movendo 'l viso pur su per la coscia,
e disse: <
valente!
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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There within,
The desert that remains where she hath been
Will drive me forth, the bed, the empty seat
She sat in; nay, the floor beneath my feet
Unswept, the
children
crying at my knee
For mother; and the very thralls will be
In sobs for the dear mistress that is lost.
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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Still hangs the hedge without a gust,
Still, still the shadows stay:
My feet upon the moonlit dust
Pursue the
ceaseless
way.
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Nous avons dit souvent d'imperissables choses
Les soirs
illumines
par l'ardeur du charbon.
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Your person somewhat takes the eye,
Boldness you'll find an easy science,
And if you on
yourself
rely,
Others on you will place reliance.
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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I feel, this moment, a mighty yearning
To expound for once the ground text of all,
The venerable original
Into my own loved German
honestly
turning.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Nought is there for man too high;
Our impious folly e'en would climb the sky,
Braves the dweller on the steep,
Nor lets the bolts of
heavenly
vengeance sleep.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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through all my limbs 'tis
crawling!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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I had no cause to be awake,
My best was gone to sleep,
And morn a new
politeness
took,
And failed to wake them up,
But called the others clear,
And passed their curtains by.
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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She waited not for his reply,
But with a downward leaden eye
Went on as if he were not by
Sound argument and grave defence,
Strange
questions
raised on "Why?
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
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Richardson indeed might perhaps be excepted; but unhappily, _dramatis
personae_ are beings of another world; and however they may captivate
the unexperienced, romantic fancy of a boy or a girl, they will ever,
in proportion as we have made human nature our study,
dissatisfy
our
riper years.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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Take none of these for perfect: they are moods
Purifying my women to become
My unexpressive,
uttermost
intent.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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In this edition the
topographical
Notes usually follow the Poems to
which they refer.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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He
gathered
all that springs to birth
From the many-venomed earth;
First a little, thence to more,
He sampled all her killing store;
And easy, smiling, seasoned sound,
Sate the king when healths went round.
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Prom
leaflets
that bedeck the ground
Renewed and goodly scents arise,
The coloured volume I expound,
While you repeat the words I prize.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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--And besides
Thou markst that
likewise
with this body of ours
Suffers the mind and with our body feels.
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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They fledde; he followed close upon their heels, 495
Vowynge
vengeance
for his deare countrymanne;
And Siere de Sancelotte his vengeance feels;
He peerc'd hys backe, and out the bloude ytt ranne.
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Tu
fermeras
l'oeil, pour ne point voir, par la glace,
Grimacer les ombres des soirs,
Ces monstruosites hargneuses, populace
De demons noirs et de loups noirs.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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THE AUDIT
Mere living wears the most of life away:
Even the lilies take thought for many things,
For frost in April and for drought in May,
And from no
careless
heart the skylark sings.
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Yet have they many baits, and guilefull spells
To
inveigle
and invite th' unwary sense
Of them that pass unweeting by the way.
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| Source: |
Milton |
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the Online Distributed
Proofreading
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http://www.
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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quodsi dolentem nec
Phrygius
lapis
nec purpurarum sidere clarior
delenit usus nec Falerna
uitis Achaemeniumque costum,
cur inuidendis postibus et nouo
sublime ritu moliar atrium?
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Death I would have them till thou comest; yea,
The earthly stone whereof man's fortune here
Is made,
strongly
into deliberate death
I have built about my soul, to fend its life
From gazes of the world.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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The sorrows and pains took up so much space
There was no room left to talk about the
weather!
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
|
Disloyalty
is a better bond for war than it ever proves
in peace.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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Let me clasp my dear boy,
embracing
what is left,
To expiate the madness of a prayer I now detest.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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And my lord he loves me well;
But, when first he
breathed
his vow,
I felt my bosom swell--
For the words rang as a knell,
And the voice seemed _his_ who fell
In the battle down the dell,
And who is happy now.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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With the great gale we journey
That breathes from gardens thinned,
Borne in the drift of blossoms
Whose petals throng the wind;
Buoyed on the heaven-heard whisper
Of dancing leaflets whirled
From all the woods that autumn
Bereaves
in all the world.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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you,
abandoned
quite
Within the rosy sheen.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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When one has
weighed the sun in the balance, and
measured
the steps of the moon, and
mapped out the seven heavens star by star, there still remains oneself.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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It will be long ere the marshes resume,
It will be long ere the
earliest
bird:
So close the windows and not hear the wind,
But see all wind-stirred.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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What is this sudden cradle song
That
gradually
lulls my poor being?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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This made you dumb; ignorant
knowledge
of this,
Blind vision of virginity's mightiness,
Did chide the exclamation in your hearts.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Jove, pouring darkness o'er the mingled fight,
Conceals the warriors' shining helms in night:
To him, the chief for whom the hosts contend
Had lived not hateful, for he lived a friend:
Dead he
protects
him with superior care.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth
in
paragraph
1.
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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though such felicity
In our vext world here may not be,
Yet, as
sometimes
the peasant's hut
Shows stones which old religion cut
With text inspired, or mystic sign
Of the Eternal and Divine,
Torn from the consecration deep
Of some fallen nunnery's mossy sleep,
So, from the ruins of this day
Crumbling in golden dust away, 100
The soul one gracious block may draw,
Carved with, some fragment of the law,
Which, set in life's prosaic wall,
Old benedictions may recall,
And lure some nunlike thoughts to take
Their dwelling here for memory's sake.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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But whoever should read the debates in
Congress
might
fancy himself present at a meeting of the city council of some city of
Southern Gaul in the decline of the Empire, where barbarians with a
Latin varnish emulated each other in being more than Ciceronian.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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This Venus bore down, her shape girt in a dim halo; this she steeps with
secret healing in the river-water poured out and sparkling abrim, and
sprinkles life-giving juice of
ambrosia
and scented balm.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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I prayed hir cessen of hir speche,
Outher to
chastyse
me or teche,
To bidde me my thought refreyne,
Which Love hath caught in his demeyne:-- 3310
What?
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Your beauty is your life and my content,
And I will liken you to an apple-tree,
Mary and Margaret playing under the branches,
And everywhere soft shadows like your eyes,
And
scattered
blossom like your little smiles.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Comes that river
From forth the sultry places down the south,
Rising far up in midmost realm of day,
Among black
generations
of strong men
With sun-baked skins.
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Lucretius |
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FAUST:
Mein Herr Magister Lobesan,
Lass Er mich mit dem Gesetz in
Frieden!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose
such as
creation
of derivative works, reports, performances and
research.
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Li Po |
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What fate shall dare uncrown thee from this breast,
O god-born lover, whom my love doth gird
And armour with
impregnable
delight
Of Hope's triumphant keen flame-carven sword?
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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He was not content with falling in love quietly,
but brought all the strength of his
miserable
little nature into the
business.
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Kipling - Poems |
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And while, to thee, I tune the duteous lay,
Assume, O potent king, thine empire's sway;
With thy brave host through Afric march along,
And give new triumphs to immortal song:
On thee with earnest eyes the nations wait,
And, cold with dread, the Moor expects his fate;
The barb'rous mountaineer on Taurus' brows
To thy expected yoke his shoulder bows;
Fair Thetis woos thee with her blue domain,
Her nuptial son, and fondly yields her reign,
And from the bow'rs of heav'n thy grandsires[77] see
Their various virtues bloom afresh in thee;
One for the joyful days of peace renown'd,
And one with war's triumphant laurels crown'd:
With joyful hands, to deck thy manly brow,
They twine the laurel and the olive-bough;
With joyful eyes a
glorious
throne they see,
In Fame's eternal dome, reserv'd for thee.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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And it may be, some
Christmas
night,
When angels walk, they'll say:
"'O strange interment!
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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"You are a
monster!
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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36_, _Challenge_, 1613, and
probably
_Devil is
an Ass_, 1616.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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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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how oft through summer hours,
Long listless summer hours when the noon
Being enamoured of a damask rose
Forgets to journey westward, till the moon
The pale usurper of its tribute grows
From a thin sickle to a silver shield
And chides its loitering car--how oft, in some cool grassy field
Far from the cricket-ground and noisy eight,
At Bagley, where the rustling bluebells come
Almost before the
blackbird
finds a mate
And overstay the swallow, and the hum
Of many murmuring bees flits through the leaves,
Have I lain poring on the dreamy tales his fancy weaves,
And through their unreal woes and mimic pain
Wept for myself, and so was purified,
And in their simple mirth grew glad again;
For as I sailed upon that pictured tide
The strength and splendour of the storm was mine
Without the storm's red ruin, for the singer is divine;
The little laugh of water falling down
Is not so musical, the clammy gold
Close hoarded in the tiny waxen town
Has less of sweetness in it, and the old
Half-withered reeds that waved in Arcady
Touched by his lips break forth again to fresher harmony.
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Wilde - Poems |
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And through the world the fawning, fawning lusts
Hound me with worship of a ravenous yearning:
And I am weary of
maddening
men with beauty.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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