"
The stars of Night contain the glittering Day
And rain his glory down with sweeter grace
Upon the dark World's grand,
enchanted
face --
All loth to turn away.
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Sidney Lanier |
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But with a free and graceful soul
To strike the old familiar lyre,
And to a self-appointed goal
Sweep lightly o'er the
trembling
wire,
There lies, old gentlemen, to-day
Your task; fear not, no vulgar error blinds us.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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* I have often noticed a peculiar
movement
of the fire-flies;
--they will collect in a body and fly off, from a common
centre, into innumerable radii.
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Poe - 5 |
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Unwary, they
Oft for
themselves
themselves would then outpour
The poison; now, with nicer art, themselves
They give the drafts to others.
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Lucretius |
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More bleak to view the hills at length recede,
And, less luxuriant,
smoother
vales extend:
Immense horizon-bounded plains succeed!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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10
Have the laden
galleons
been sighted
Stoutly labouring up the sea from Tyre?
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Sappho |
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Not, as upon the former battle's eve,
They choose their ground on Barcellona's beach:
But on the morn ensuing, and, fast by
A neighbouring fountain, will the
question
try.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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I deem'd
Deiphobus
had heard my call,
But he secure lies guarded in the wall.
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Iliad - Pope |
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That gaily blooms, but ev'n in
blooming
dies.
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Alexander Pope |
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Newby
Chief
Executive
and Director
gbnewby@pglaf.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Her final summer was it,
And yet we guessed it not;
If tenderer industriousness
Pervaded her, we thought
A further force of life
Developed from within, --
When Death lit all the
shortness
up,
And made the hurry plain.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Particularly I remark An English
countess
goes upon the stage.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Already my spirit, longing for better ways,
Paces through my flesh, rebelliously,
And already brings the victim fuel to feed
His
immolation
in your vision's rays.
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Ronsard |
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Or ti puote apparer quant' e nascosa
la
veritate
a la gente ch'avvera
ciascun amore in se laudabil cosa;
pero che forse appar la sua matera
sempre esser buona, ma non ciascun segno
e buono, ancor che buona sia la cera>>.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Seven of these he restored in
printing
his
second edition, as noted on p.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Silently we went round and round,
And through each hollow mind
The Memory of
dreadful
things
Rushed like a dreadful wind,
And Horror stalked before each man,
And Terror crept behind.
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Wilde - Poems |
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"
Everyone hastened, gulled by the
dissolute
boy, who feigning
Earnest, had summoned them all (Fame by no means lagged behind).
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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The labour we delight in,
Physicks
paine:
This is the Doore
Macd.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Such meed attends when soothing flatt'ry sways,
And blinded State its sacred trust
betrays!
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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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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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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19
This is the meal equally set, this the meat for natural hunger,
It is for the wicked just same as the righteous, I make appointments
with all,
I will not have a single person
slighted
or left away,
The kept-woman, sponger, thief, are hereby invited,
The heavy-lipp'd slave is invited, the venerealee is invited;
There shall be no difference between them and the rest.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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When Agnes passed, another sister came,
And ev'ry nun desired to do the same;
At length the guardian of the flock appeared,
And
likewise
passed, though much at first she feared.
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La Fontaine |
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And there Aegisthus stayed,
The omens in his hand,
dividing
slow
This sign from that; till, while his head bent low,
Up with a leap thy brother flashed the sword,
Then down upon his neck, and cleft the cord
Of brain and spine.
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Euripides - Electra |
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The gem in Eastern mine which slumbers,
Or ruddy gold 'twill not bestow;
'Twill not subdue the turban'd numbers,
Before the Prophet's shrine which bow;
Nor high through air on friendly pinions
Can bear thee swift to home and clan,
From
mournful
climes and strange dominions--
From South to North--my Talisman.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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WAITER: The
landlord
asks what you want.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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For when I come back here, behold the thing
I
murdered
in the camp leaps up and yells!
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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tate
Ouer vnto you: a trifle, a thing of nothing,
Some
eighteene
hundred.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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We do not solicit
donations
in locations
where we have not received written confirmation of compliance.
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| Question: |
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Alexander Pope |
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e wowes,
Vnder couertour ful clere,
cortyned
aboute;
& as in slomeryng he slode, sle3ly he herde
[C] A littel dyn at his dor, & derfly vpon;
1184 & he heue3 vp his hed out of ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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"Or has the sudden frost
disturbed
its bed?
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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THE TRAVELLING BEAR
Grass-blades push up between the cobblestones
And catch the sun on their flat sides
Shooting
it back,
Gold and emerald,
Into the eyes of passers-by.
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Imagists |
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| Question: |
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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A
thousand
Christmas trees I didn't know I had!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Robert Forst |
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Sei Er kein
schellenlauter
Tor!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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I see it all in dreams, such as waylay
The wandering fancy when the solid day
Has fallen in
smoldering
ruins, and night's star,
Aloft there, with its steady point of light
Mastering the eye, has wrapped the brain in sleep.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Time
consumes
words, like love.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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and John Gould
Fletcher
and F.
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Imagists |
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Dawn now breaks;
sunlight
rakes the swollen seas;
Ah, alas!
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Troubador Verse |
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practically
ANYTHING
with public domain eBooks.
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| Question: |
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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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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Stephen Crane |
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Goe Michael of Celestial Armies Prince,
And thou in Military prowess next
Gabriel, lead forth to Battel these my Sons
Invincible, lead forth my armed Saints
By Thousands and by
Millions
rang'd for fight;
Equal in number to that Godless crew
Rebellious, them with Fire and hostile Arms 50
Fearless assault, and to the brow of Heav'n
Pursuing drive them out from God and bliss,
Into thir place of punishment, the Gulf
Of Tartarus, which ready opens wide
His fiery Chaos to receave thir fall.
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Milton |
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LUSTIGE PERSON:
Wenn ich nur nichts von
Nachwelt
horen sollte.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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'Twas once & _only_ once & the wild hour
From my rememberance shall not pass--some power
Or spell had bound me--'twas the chilly wind
Came o'er me in the night & left behind
Its image on my spirit, or the moon
Shone on my
slumbers
in her lofty noon
Too coldly--or the stars--howe'er it was
That dream was as that night wind--let it pass.
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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"
WHENfirst I saw thee 'neath the silver mist,
Ruling thy bark of painted sandal-wood,
Didanyknowthee?
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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[It is seldom that painting speaks in the spirit of poetry Burns
perceived some of the
blemishes
of Allan's illustrations: but at that
time little nature and less elegance entered into the embellishments
of books.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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"Be not
disturbed!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do
practically
ANYTHING
with public domain eBooks.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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113-131; and the separation of the
Kingdoms
of Judah and Israel, 132-146; p.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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"When ripen'd fields and azure skies
Call'd forth the reapers'
rustling
noise,
I saw thee leave their ev'ning joys,
And lonely stalk,
To vent thy bosom's swelling rise,
In pensive walk.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Still in marble stone stood he,
And
stedfastly
he looked at me.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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It is in no degree calculated to excite
profound meditation; and if, by interesting the
affections
and amusing
the imagination, it awakens a certain ideal melancholy favourable to
the reception of more important impressions, it will produce in the
reader all that the writer experienced in the composition.
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Shelley |
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[_The KINGS kneel in a
semicircle
before the two WOMEN
and CUCHULAIN, who thrusts his sword into the flame.
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Yeats |
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Hall
POEMS
TO
THE NOBLEST OF HER SEX
THE AUTHOR OF
"THE DRAMA OF EXILE"--
TO
MISS ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING
OF ENGLAND
_I
DEDICATE
THIS VOLUME_
WITH THE MOST ENTHUSIASTIC ADMIRATION AND WITH
THE MOST SINCERE ESTEEM
1845 E.
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Poe - 5 |
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--Strange
gallants
should not stay
A woman's goings.
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Euripides - Electra |
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Don't close the
shutters
so soon.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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þǣr hēo ǣr mǣste
hēold worolde wynne, _in which she
formerly
possessed the highest earthly
joy_, 1080.
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Beowulf |
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I have agreed with Heaven,
My fellow in the fear of the world, to have
This day unshar'd; and it is all mine,
All that the Gods from
baseless
fires and steams
Have harden'd into the place and kind of the world:
The great high quiet journey of the stars,
And all the golden hours which the sun
Utters aloft in heaven;--the whole is mine
To fill with ceremonies of my throne.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Blood hath bene shed ere now, i'th' olden time
Ere humane Statute purg'd the gentle Weale:
I, and since too,
Murthers
haue bene perform'd
Too terrible for the eare.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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The ravening hawk pursuing,
The trembling dove thus flies,
To shun
impelling
ruin
Awhile her pinions tries:
Till of escape despairing,
No shelter or retreat,
She trusts the ruthless falconer,
And drops beneath his feet!
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Robert Forst |
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Great
standing
miracle!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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These
reformed
cities into ashes turn.
| Guess: |
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Marvell - Poems |
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Never fear for your legs if they're broken to-day;
Winds only blow straws, dust, and
feathers
away.
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John Clare |
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What has
happened
so disconcerting; come, tell your
friends.
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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GOETZ: Why
consider?
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Never so true a
liegeman
shalt thou see;--
Whate'er my fate, Christ's benison on thee!
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Longfellow |
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at sete on hym[4] semly, wyth
saylande
skyrte3,
[K] ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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The
sunbeams
scarce molest me with a smile,
So thickly the leafy armies gather round;
And where they do, the breeze blows cool the while,
Their leafy shadows dancing on the ground.
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John Clare |
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And what's this
horrible
thing to do with me?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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The Citadel of
Antiochus
at Jerusalem.
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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Hymen O Hymenaee, Hymen ades O
Hymenaee!
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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'
Whereat full
willingly
sang the little maid.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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Thou whose locks
outshine
the sun,
Golden tresses, wreathed in one,
As the braided streamlets run!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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veniam peto pudentem,
Vt, si quicquam animo tuo cupisti,
Quod castum expeteres et integellum,
Conserves
puerum mihi pudice, 5
Non dico a populo: nihil veremur
Istos, qui in platea modo huc modo illuc
In re praetereunt sua occupati:
Verum a te metuo tuoque pene
Infesto pueris bonis malisque.
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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Volupte, sois
toujours
ma reine!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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_
[449]
_So fall the bravest of the
Christian
name,
While dogs unclean.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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ofer þǣm
(mere)
hongiað
hrīmge bearwas, _over which frosty forests hang_, 1364; inf.
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Beowulf |
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I, proud of my murmur, intend to speak at length
Of goddesses: and with idolatrous paintings
Remove again from shadow their waists' bindings:
So that when I've sucked the grapes' brightness
To banish a regret done away with by my pretence,
Laughing, I raise the emptied stem to the summer's sky
And breathing into those
luminous
skins, then I,
Desiring drunkenness, gaze through them till evening.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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The mine's dire earthquake, and the pallid host
Driven by the bomb's incessant thunder-stroke
To
loathsome
vaults, where heart-sick anguish toss'd,
Hope died, and fear itself in agony was lost!
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Latin mortal
dreadful
word,
Ibis, Nile's native bird.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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_Amor con sue
promesse
lusingando.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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Ulysses, since beneath my brazen dome
Sublime thou hast arrived, like woes, I trust,
Thou shalt not in thy voyage hence sustain
By
tempests
tost, though much to woe inured.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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The well-beloved are
wretched
then.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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And this was the reason that, long ago,
In this kingdom by the sea,
A wind blew out of a cloud by night
Chilling
my ANNABEL LEE;
So that her high-born kinsmen came
And bore her away from me,
To shut her up, in a sepulchre
In this kingdom by the sea.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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And whether that my angel be turn'd fiend,
Suspect I may, yet not
directly
tell;
But being both from me, both to each friend,
I guess one angel in another's hell:
Yet this shall I ne'er know, but live in doubt,
Till my bad angel fire my good one out.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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And Betty's
standing
at the door,
And Betty's face with joy o'erflows,
Proud of herself, and proud of him,
She sees him in his travelling trim;
How quietly her Johnny goes.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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That counter-works each folly and caprice;
That disappoints th' effect of every vice;
That, happy frailties to all ranks applied,
Shame to the virgin, to the matron pride,
Fear to the statesman,
rashness
to the chief,
To kings presumption, and to crowds belief:
That, virtue's ends from vanity can raise,
Which seeks no interest, no reward but praise;
And build on wants, and on defects of mind,
The joy, the peace, the glory of mankind.
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And reck'n'st thou thy self with Spirits of Heav'n,
Hell-doomd, and breath'st
defiance
here and scorn,
Where I reign King, and to enrage thee more,
Thy King and Lord?
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Milton |
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"Or has the sudden frost
disturbed
its bed?
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But lonely
shepherd
souls
Who bask amid these knolls
May catch a faery sound
On sleepy noontides from the ground:
"O not again
Till Earth outwears
Shall love like theirs
Suffuse this glen!
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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I'd be a demi-god, kissed by her desire,
And breast on breast,
quenching
my fire,
A deity at the gods' ambrosial feast.
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Ronsard |
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"
— Current Opinion, New
York
"Each
contribution
is a gem.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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To seek of God more than we well can find,
Argues a strong
distemper
of the mind.
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Robert Herrick |
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Alone
Eurymachus
exhorts the train:
"Yon archer, comrades, will not shoot in vain;
But from the threshold shall his darts be sped,
(Whoe'er he be), till every prince lie dead?
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Odyssey - Pope |
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"
We soon saw
twinkling
the fires of Berd.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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He was really going to reform all his slack,
shiftless ways, save a large proportion of his
magnificent
salary
yearly, and, in a very short time, return to marry Agnes Laiter.
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Kipling - Poems |
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And trewelich it sit wel to be so;
For alderwysest han ther-with ben plesed;
And they that han ben aldermost in wo,
With love han ben conforted most and esed;
And ofte it hath the cruel herte apesed, 250
And worthy folk maad
worthier
of name,
And causeth most to dreden vyce and shame.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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is laye bot on littel quile,
I schal telle hit, as-tit, as I in toun herde,
32 with tonge;
As hit is stad & stoken,
In stori stif & stronge,
With lel
letteres
loken,
36 In londe so hat3 ben longe.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Kahn et Dujardin disposaient
neanmoins
de revues jeunes et d'aspect
presque imposant, un peu d'outre-Rhin et parfois, pour ainsi dire,
pedantesques; depuis il y a eu encore du plomb dans l'aile de ces
periodiques changes de direction--et Baju, naif, eut aussi son
influence, vraiment.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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He had bought a large map
representing
the sea,
Without the least vestige of land:
And the crew were much pleased when they found it to be
A map they could all understand.
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Lewis Carroll |
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