Poor
thoughtless
wench!
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XIV
With loftie eyes, halfe loth to looke so low,
She thanked them in her disdainefull wise;
Ne other grace
vouchsafed
them to show 120
Of Princesse worthy, scarse them bad arise.
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Free us, for there is one Whose smile more availeth
Than all the age-old
knowledge
of thy books: And we would look thereon.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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As every animal assists his kind
Just so are these in blood and business joined;
Yet both in different colours hide their art,
And each as suits his ends
transacts
his part.
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John Clare |
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In
Paradise
repose the soul of thee!
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Chanson de Roland |
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For forty years, he produced and distributed Project
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Aeschylus |
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"
V
Dismissed with sneers he backed his tools and went,
And
wandered
workless; for it seemed unwise
To close with one who dared to criticize
And carp on points of taste:
To work where they were placed rude men were meant.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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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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" I am naturally anxious
that what I have written should
circulate
as I wrote it, if it circulate
at all.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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And now doth shine within its humble home
A star, that doth each other so outvie,
That
grateful
nature hails its lovely birth.
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Petrarch |
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Waley for his address and the very
felicitous
language in which he has
translated a number of these ancient poems.
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Li Po |
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images of public domain
material
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project.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Miss Nancy
Ellicott
smoked
And danced all the modern dances;
And her aunts were not quite sure how they felt about it,
But they knew that it was modern.
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T.S. Eliot |
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distribute
this work in any binary,
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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But
everything
that touches you and me
Welds us as played strings sound one melody.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Had you not slyly come to guard me now,
I should have died of fright
outright
I know.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Tankard, or spoon,
Earring, or stone,
A watch, some ancient brooch
To match the grandmamma,
Staid
sleeping
there.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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He has had nothing
whatever to do with this Selection, as to either prompting, guiding, or
even ratifying it: except only that he did not prohibit my making two or
three verbal
omissions
in the _Prose Preface to the Leaves of Grass_, and
he has supplied his own title, _President Lincoln's Funeral Hymn_, to a
poem which, in my Prefatory Notice, is named (by myself) _Nocturn for the
Death of Lincoln_.
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Whitman |
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XXXI
His heart with love of that rare beauty glowed,
And to his frozen marrow pierced the heat;
Who, after, when he saw that she bestowed
Small care on him, and thought but of retreat,
His
sluggish
courser stung with many a goad;
But with no better speed he plied his feet.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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The Caterpillar
Plants, Caterpillars and Insects
'Plants, Caterpillars and Insects'
Jacob l' Admiral (II),
Johannes
Sluyter, 1710 - 1770, The Rijksmuseun
Work leads us to riches.
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Appoloinaire |
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sequitur quod _impossibile sit esse duos Angelos
unius speciei_: sicut etiam impossibile esset dicere quod essent
plures albedines (whitenesses)
separatae
aut plures humanitates: .
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John Donne |
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The gardin was not daungerous 490
To
herberwe
briddes many oon.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Y
[Illustration]
Y was a yew,
Which
flourished
and grew
By a quiet abode
Near the side of a road.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Unless you have removed all
references
to Project Gutenberg:
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Rilke - Poems |
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Do you know that feverish malady that seizes hold of us in our cold
miseries; that
nostalgia
of a land unknown; that anguish of curiosity?
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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"Project Gutenberg" is a
registered
trademark.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Perfections
Only
themselves
understand themselves and the like of themselves,
As souls only understand souls.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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The true
artificer will not run away from Nature as he were afraid of her, or
depart from life and the likeness of truth, but speak to the
capacity
of
his hearers.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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--Some men are
tall and big, so some
language
is high and great.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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How readily
The heavy fumes of
charcoal
wind their way
Into the brain, unless beforehand we
Of water 've drunk.
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Lucretius |
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) Our
lecturer
tells us,
however, that he knows certain Chinese poets.
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Li Po |
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XII
So that
wherefore
should I be here,
Watching Adda lip the lea,
When the whole romance to see here
Is the dream I bring with me?
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Albion groand on Tyburns brook
Albion gave his loud death groan The Atlantic
Mountains
trembled
Aloft the Moon fled with a cry the Sun with streams of blood
From Albions Loins fled all Peoples and Nations of the Earth Fled {Erdman's notes indicate that "Blake first wrote ?
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Blake - Zoas |
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oh faith of ancient
prophecies!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Her life was the normal
blossoming
of a nature
introspective to a high degree, whose best thought could not exist
in pretence.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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My life's long warfare seem'd about to cease,
Peace had my spirit's contest well nigh freed;
But levelling Death, who doth to all concede
An equal doom, clipp'd Time's blest wings of peace:
As zephyrs chase the clouds of gathering fleece,
So did her life from this world's breath recede,
Their vision'd light could once my
footsteps
lead,
But now my all, save thought, she doth release.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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38 _Kymeno
kymeneae
kymenales kymeno kymene?
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Latin - Catullus |
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On the
morn he arrives at an immense forest,
wondrously
wild, surrounded by
high hills on every side, where he found hoary oaks full huge, a
hundred together.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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"
Then Maclean he set hardly his tooth to his lip that his tooth was red,
Breathed
short for a space, said: "Nay, but it never shall be!
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Sidney Lanier |
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" --Alas, what a
misapprehension!
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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'Tis strange--he prophesied my doom,
And I have smiled--I then could smile--
When
Prudence
would his voice assume, 1230
And warn--I recked not what--the while:
But now Remembrance whispers o'er[et]
Those accents scarcely marked before.
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Byron |
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Meredith - Poems |
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KAU}
The
wondrous
work flow forth like visible out of the invisible
For the Divine Lamb Even Jesus who is the Divine Vision
Permitted all lest Man should fall into Eternal Death
For when Luvah sunk down himself put on the robes of blood
Lest the state calld Luvah should cease.
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Blake - Zoas |
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To-day there is another question that we must make up our minds about,
and an even more pressing one, What is a
National
Theatre?
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Yeats |
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_
[49] If one would trace the true character of Cortez and the Americans,
he must have
recourse
to the numerous Spanish writers, who were either
witnesses of the first wars, or soon after travelled in these countries.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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But the child slept, and the fire danced, for
the one was too ignorant and the other too full of gaiety to know what
a
dreadful
being stood there.
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Yeats |
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com in Word format,
Mobipocket
Reader
format, eReader format and Acrobat Reader format.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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There's
threesome
reels, there's foursome reels,
There's hornpipes and strathspeys, man;
But the ae best dance e'er cam to the land
Was--the deil's awa wi' the Exciseman.
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Robert Forst |
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[The name of the lady to whom this and the three
succeeding
letters
were addressed, seems to have been known to Dr.
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Robert Burns |
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)
To find a friend who has these qualities,
Who has, and gives
Those
qualities
upon which friendship lives.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Well might the plant grow beautiful and strong,
Even if the air and sun had smiled not on it;
For one wept o'er it all the winter long
Tears pure as Heaven's rain, which fell upon it _70
Hour after hour; for sounds of softest song
Mixed with the stringed
melodies
that won it
To leave the gentle lips on which it slept,
Had loosed the heart of him who sat and wept.
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Shelley |
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The channel, that I know no more, Whence, to
unfathomed
oceans, rolls The current of my being, now 1
Into the dark is turning me.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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but issuing from the shades,
Why cease I straight to learn what sound
invades?
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Odyssey - Pope |
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In the edition of 1836 these two
couplets
of 1815 were compressed into
one, and in that edition lines 200-201 preceded lines 198-199.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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O rustle not, ye verdant oaken
branches!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Back to my breast,
ungrateful
sigh!
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James Russell Lowell |
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)
Erkennst
du mich?
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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And other
withered
stumps of time
Were told upon the walls; staring forms
Leaned out, leaning, hushing the room enclosed.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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"
I know not if I here too far presum'd,
But in this strain I answer'd: "Tell me now,
What
treasures
from St.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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It is
difficult
to believe from the slope of the outcrop
of rock that a wall could ever have been at the summit.
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William Wordsworth |
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, Woking_
Introduction[1]
The _Electra_ of
Euripides
has the distinction of being, perhaps, the best
abused, and, one might add, not the best understood, of ancient tragedies.
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Euripides - Electra |
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Captain Harris has had a careful
transcript
of
the poems made, and he allowed me after collating the original with
the transcript to keep the latter by me for a long time.
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John Donne |
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Who knows where
repentance
might have led?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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While yet upon the shadowy grove
Splinter
the arrows of the moon.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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The pole of the hop
Place in the aleshop
To
bethwack
us,
If ever we think
So much as to drink
Unto Bacchus.
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Robert Herrick |
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He liked the advice and then soon it essayed,
And
presents
crowd headlong to give good
example.
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Marvell - Poems |
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'Please God, now, night fail us not cruelly,
Nor my friend be parted far from me,
Nor day nor dawn, let the
watchman
see!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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Updated editions will replace the
previous
one--the old editions
will be renamed.
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| Question: |
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Or why was the
substance
not made more sure
That formed the brave fronts of these palaces?
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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The bodies made one are the Sphere
in which the two
Intelligences
meet and command.
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| Question: |
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John Donne |
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No more against my bosom press thee,
Seek no more that my hands caress thee,
Leave the sad lips thou hast known so well;
If to my heart thou lean thine ear,
There grieving thou shalt only hear
Vain
murmuring
of an empty shell.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
|
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Imagists |
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I lived on dread; to those who know
The
stimulus
there is
In danger, other impetus
Is numb and vital-less.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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But he did show them to close friends,
one of whom was the wonderful
dramatist
Friedrich Schiller.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Of
waistcoats
Harry has no lack,
Good duffle grey, and flannel fine;
He has a blanket on his back,
And coats enough to smother nine.
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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God
Almighty
shall give joy for pain,
Shall comfort him who grieves:
Lo!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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E'en as in balmy slumbers lapt to lie
(The spirit parted from the form below),
In her appear'd what th' unwise term to die;
And Death sate
beauteous
on her beauteous brow.
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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e
Emperour
whan he was brou?
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| Question: |
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Baptized before without the choice,
But this time consciously, of grace
Unto supremest name,
Called to my full, the
crescent
dropped,
Existence's whole arc filled up
With one small diadem.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
|
"
Far and faint, yet each moment clearer, Straight as an arrow down the sound,
An old-time
freighter
is drawing nearer, "City of Taunton" westward bound.
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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where she comes
creeping
yonder!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
proud courts,
withdraw
your blaze!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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Not merely to be
feasting
with delight
Man's senses, I refuse; but even his heart
I will not serve.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
|
The last edition of Donne's poems which bears evidence of recourse
to manuscript sources, and which
enlarged
the canon of the poems, was
that of 1669.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
|
It is certain that the
remaining
books of 'The Prelude' were all written
in the spring and early summer of 1805; the seventh, eighth, ninth,
tenth, eleventh, and part of the twelfth being finished about the middle
of April; the last 300 lines of book twelfth in the last week of April;
and the two remaining books--the thirteenth and fourteenth--before the
20th of May.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
|
We will swap horses with the rising moon,
And mend that funny skillet called Orion,
Color the stars like San Francisco's street-lights,
And paint our sign and signature on high
In planets like a bed of crimson pansies;
While a million fiddles shake all listening hearts,
Crying good fortune to the Universe,
Whispering
adventure
to the Ganges waves,
And to the spirits, and all winds and gods.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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Nowe bie Seyncte Marie, gyff onn all the fielde
Ycrasedd[115] speres and helmetts bee besprente[116],
Gyff everyche knyghte dydd houlde a piercedd[117] sheeld,
Gyff all the feelde wythe champyonne blodde bee stente[118],
Yett toe
encounterr
hymm I bee contente.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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" "Good morrow," quoth Gawayne, "I shall act according to your
will with great pleasure, but permit me to rise that I may the more
comfortably
converse
with you.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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You must require such a user to return or
destroy all copies of the works possessed in a physical medium
and
discontinue
all use of and all access to other copies of
Project Gutenberg-tm works.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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But see, it is Alcmena's son once more,
My lord King, cometh
striding
to thy door.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Years go, dreams go, and youth goes too,
The world's heart breaks beneath its wars,
All things are changed, save in the east
The
faithful
beauty of the stars.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Though accompanied,
during his northern excursions, by friends whose
socialities
and
conversation forbade deep thought, or even serious remark, it will be
seen by those who read his lyrics with care, that his wreath is
indebted for some of its fairest flowers to the Highlands.
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Robert Burns |
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Je suis de la
canaille!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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) And can that earth-artificer
have a freer power over his brother potsherd (both being made of the
same metal), than God hath over him, who, by the strange
fecundity
of
His omnipotent power, first made the clay out of nothing, and then him
out of that?
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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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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Li Bai - Chinese |
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MAGNIFICENT
(for her he now replied,)
This flame you'll soon no reason have to hide
Through dread or fear of my old jealous fool,
Who wisely fancies he can woman rule.
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La Fontaine |
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