_ We will not speak of that until
We can repeat the same with like success:
And when you have joined, give
Rosenberg
this letter.
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Byron |
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those cursed
Gondoliers
had got
Just in the very place where they _should not.
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Byron |
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But your tresses are a tepid river,
Where the soul that haunts us drowns, without a shiver
And finds the
Nothingness
you cannot know!
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Wilt thou as fond and
faithful
be?
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Longfellow |
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The most renown'd poems would be ashes,
orations
and plays would
be vacuums.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Whiles the hero his harp bestirred,
wood-of-delight; now lays he chanted
of sooth and sadness, or said aright
legends of wonder, the wide-hearted king;
or for years of his youth he would yearn at times,
for
strength
of old struggles, now stricken with age,
hoary hero: his heart surged full
when, wise with winters, he wailed their flight.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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By Zeus, she'll take good care she does not, and you will see
her inventing a
thousand
excuses.
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Aristophanes |
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"
"For every vein and pulse
throughout
my frame
She hath made tremble.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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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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Donations are
accepted
in a number of other
ways including checks, online payments and credit card donations.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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They seek every opportunity of
distinguishing
themselves; and make war
against all cares with joking, laughing, singing, eating, and drinking.
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Petrarch |
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Sonnets Pour Helene Book I: VI
Among love's
pounding
seas, for me there's no support,
And I can see no light, and yet have no desires
(O desire too bold!
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Ronsard |
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So, through the
desolate
streets to the high fane,
The many-tongued and endless armies wind
In sad procession: each among the train _4025
To his own Idol lifts his supplications vain.
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Shelley |
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Still might she taste, and still must choke to taste,
The fragrance of sweet oils and gums aflame
Capturing the cool night with spicy riches;
Still after her through the hollow moveless air
The sounded
ceremonies
came, the cry
Of dainty lust in winding tune of fifes,
The silver fury of cymbals clamouring
Like frenzy in a woman-madden'd brain;
And drumming underneath the whole wild noise,
Like monstrous hatred underneath desire,
The thunder of the beaten serpent-skins.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Strong in thy guidance, Hector's sire
Escaped the Atridae, pass'd between
Thessalian
tents and warders' fire,
Of all unseen.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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And joy I knew and sorrow at thy voice,
And the superb
magnificence
of love,--
The loneliness that saddens solitude, 10
And the sweet speech that makes it durable,--
The bitter longing and the keen desire,
The sweet companionship through quiet days
In the slow ample beauty of the world,
And the unutterable glad release 15
Within the temple of the holy night.
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Sappho |
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This
Garibaldi
now, the Italian boys
Go mad to hear him--take to dying--take
To passion for "the pure and high";--God's sake!
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Hugo - Poems |
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Thy registers and thee I both defy,
Not
wondering
at the present nor the past,
For thy records and what we see doth lie,
Made more or less by thy continual haste.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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All right, I give thee full
permission!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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There are a few
things that you can do with most Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works
even without
complying
with the full terms of this agreement.
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Keats - Lamia |
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These
are
commonly
the off-scouring and dregs of men that do these things, or
calumniate others; yet I know not truly which is worse--he that maligns
all, or that praises all.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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The Good God and the Evil God
The Good God and the Evil God met on the
mountain
top.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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While he, the man of the steerage, goes down, down,
Feet foremost, sliding swiftly down the dim water,
Swift to escape
Those plunging shapes with pale,
empurpled
bellies
That swirl and veer about him.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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XX
Exactly as the rain-filled cloud is seen
Lifting earthly vapours through the air,
Forming a bow, and then
drinking
there
By plunging deep in Tethys' hoary sheen,
Next, climbing again where it has been,
With bellying shadow darkening everywhere,
Till finally it bursts in lightning glare,
And rain, or snow, or hail shrouds the scene:
This city, that was once a shepherd's field,
Rising by degrees, such power did wield,
She made herself the queen of sea and land,
Till helpless to sustain that huge excess,
Her power dispersed, so we might understand
That all, one day, must come to nothingness.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Stand by him, mine old friend,
Thou art a great voice in
Northumberland!
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Tennyson |
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Slow stride appointed years across their bivouac places,
With stern, devoted faces they lie, as when they lay,
In long battalions dreaming, till dawn, to
eastward
gleaming,
Awoke the clarion greeting of the bugles to the day.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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God and all His saints that I will never say that ever ye
attempted
to
flee from any man.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Most
carefully
Zaretski placed
Within his sledge the stiffened corse,
And hurried home his awful freight.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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XLV
The motion of his quickly
shifting
feet
More savours of a run than walk or trot.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Where Urizen & all his Hosts hang their
immortal
lamps
Thou neer shalt leave this cold expanse where watry Tharmas mourns
So spoke Los.
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Blake - Zoas |
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at
gouernest
?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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I saw poor Ellen
kneeling
still,
So pale!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Africa, Spain, neither are you disgraced,
Nor that race that holds the English firth,
Nor, by the French Rhine,
soldiers
of worth,
Nor Germany with other warriors graced.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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at thy tomb, two
fledglings
of thy brood--
A man-child and a maid; hold them in ruth,
Nor wipe them out, the last of Pelops' line.
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Aeschylus |
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The
Foundation
is committed to complying with the laws regulating
charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United
States.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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'I was paying sacrifice to my mother,
daughter
of Dione, and to all the
gods, so to favour the work begun, and slew a shining bull on the shore
to the high lord of [22-54]the heavenly people.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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The spite of hell is
tumbling
to its grave.
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| Source: |
Keats |
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But if in vain, down on the stubborn floor
Of Earth, and up to Heav'n's
unopening
Door,
You gaze TO-DAY, while You are You--how then
TO-MORROW, when You shall be You no more?
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Fits not to be overzealous;
Steads not to work on the clean jump,
Nor wine nor brains
perpetual
pump.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Where are these
Gentlemen?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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An ocean scene with its waves torn, a former embroidery, its
sequence
of panels shifted.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Donne is here playing with an antithesis which apparently he owes to
the
rhetoric
of Tertullian.
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John Donne |
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Copious wonder-draughts
Each gazer drank; and deeper drank more near: 850
For what poor mortals
fragment
up, as mere
As marble was there lavish, to the vast
Of one fair palace, that far far surpass'd,
Even for common bulk, those olden three,
Memphis, and Babylon, and Nineveh.
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Keats |
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hylde
hine,
_inclined
himself, lay down_, 689.
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Beowulf |
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Of all things that life or perhaps my temperament
has given me I prize the gift of
laughter
as beyond price.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Oh, the grey garner that is full of half-grown apples,
Oh, the golden
sparkles
laid extinct--!
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Imagists |
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Than, sone after al thy peyne,
To memorie shalt thou come ageyn,
As man
abasshed
wondre sore,
And after sighen more and more.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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In the beauty of poems are the tuft and final
applause
of science.
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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We are now trying to release all our eBooks one year in advance
of the
official
release dates, leaving time for better editing.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Those men also that do not now know the
punishments which are
reserved
for them, shall afterwards repent and
lament in vain: but those who believe in me I will for ever save.
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Tacitus |
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And
oftentimes
I talked to him,
In very idleness.
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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That he
obtained
by his next poem, the 'Essay on
Criticism', which appeared in 1711.
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Alexander Pope |
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"Soft and sweet urchin, still red with the lash
Of rein and of scabbard of wild Kuzzilbash,
What lack you for changing your sob--
If not unto
laughter
beseeming a child--
To utterance milder, though they have defiled
The graves which they shrank not to rob?
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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He has genius and worth which would do honour to
patronage: he is a poor and modest man; claims which from their very
_silence_ have the more forcible power on the
generous
heart.
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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Read then of faith
That shone above the fagot;
Clear strains of hymn
The river could not drown;
Brave names of men
And
celestial
women,
Passed out of record
Into renown!
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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I will depart, re-tune the songs I framed
In verse Chalcidian to the oaten reed
Of the
Sicilian
swain.
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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then swift be heart and brain, to see
God's
chances!
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Euripides - Electra |
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And I oblige myself to warrant this
disposition
and
assignation from my own proper fact and deed allenarly.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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Or do you think those
precious
drops
From Lincoln's heart were shed in vain?
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Or will Pity, in line with all I ask here,
Succour a poor man, without
crushing?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
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I pray with mosses, ferns and flowers shy
That hide like gentle nuns from human eye
To lift adoring
perfumes
to the sky.
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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Von Hammer (according to
Sprenger's
Oriental
Catalogue) speaks of Omar as "a Free-thinker, and
a great opponent of Sufism;" perhaps because, while holding much of
their Doctrine, he would not pretend to any inconsistent severity of
morals.
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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"
"As God is holy," replied he, "I said nothing to Ivan Kouzmitch; it was
Vassilissa
Igorofna
who wormed it all out of me.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Pales,
bring gifts,
bring your Phoenician stuffs,
and do you, fleet-footed nymphs,
bring offerings,
Illyrian
iris,
and a branch of shrub,
and frail-headed poppies.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Father, I bring thee not myself, --
That were the little load;
I bring thee the
imperial
heart
I had not strength to hold.
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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So modest is she and so pure,
And
somewhat
saucy, too, to be sure.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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'twas a good
preparation
you gave me!
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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The
falconer
has her sure.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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The eyes are drowned in opium
In
universal
licence
The clownish mouth bewitched
A singular geranium.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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Elvire
How can you find the
audacity
and pride
To show yourself here, where a light has died?
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To know that for
destruction
ice
Is also great,
And would suffice.
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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Since that day we have never fired
that
confounded
cannon any more.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Get thee to the Green Chapel, I charge thee, to fetch such a
dint as thou hast dealt, to be
returned
on New Year's morn.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
|
Please do not assume that a book's
appearance
in Google Book Search means it can be used in any manner anywhere in the world.
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
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"
Swift as she spoke, with rapid pace she leads;
The
footsteps
of the deity he treads.
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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FAUST:
Hor, du musst mir die Dirne
schaffen!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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--There is a necessity all men should love their country: he
that professeth the contrary may be
delighted
with his words, but his
heart is there.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Meanwhile over the surface of the watery plain,
A liquid
mountain
rose through boiling waves:
Neared us, shattered, and from the foaming breaker 1515
Vomited to our eyes a raging monster.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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I have therefore
herein
combined
'Al Aaraaf' and 'Tamerlane' with other poems hitherto
unprinted.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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travelling
along even to its destind end
Then falling down.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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In the budding chestnuts
Whose sticky buds glimmer and are half-burst open
The starlings make their clitter-clatter;
And the
blackbirds
in the grass
Are getting as fat as the pigeons.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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Alas, for their quarrel,
The
brothers
that were!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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The foolhardy
ploughman
I well could endure,
His praise was worth nothing, his censure was poor,
Fame bade me go on and I toiled the day long
Till the fields where he lived should be known in my song.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the
Project Gutenberg-tm
trademark
as set forth in paragraphs 1.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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Ah, well-a-day
Rest your old bones, ye
wrinkled
crones!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
"Thither to haste, the region to explore,
Was first my thought: but
speeding
back to shore
I deem'd it best to visit first my crew,
And send our spies the dubious coast to view.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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A noble
convent!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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I supposed that they
contained
their
dinners,--so many slices of bread and butter to each, perchance.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
|
_An Ode to Master
Endymion
Porter, upon his brother's death.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
|
"Does spring hide its joy,
When buds and
blossoms
grow?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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Strangely
you murmur below me,
Strange is your half-silent power.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Eaves-dropping seems a
favorite
game with thee.
| 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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He walked amongst the Trial Men
In a suit of shabby grey;
A cricket cap was on his head,
And his step seemed light and gay;
But I never saw a man who looked
So
wistfully
at the day.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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Meredith - Poems |
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Elizabeth Browning |
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"
The Bodleian Quatrain pleads
Pantheism
by way of Justification.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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The brown waves of fog toss up to me
Twisted faces from the bottom of the street,
And tear from a passer-by with muddy skirts
An aimless smile that hovers in the air
And
vanishes
along the level of the roofs.
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T.S. Eliot |
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When day's
oppression
is not eas'd by night,
But day by night and night by day oppress'd,
And each, though enemies to either's reign,
Do in consent shake hands to torture me,
The one by toil, the other to complain
How far I toil, still farther off from thee.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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A FOREWORD
When the first Miscellany of American Poetry appeared in 1920,
innumerable were the
questions
asked by both readers and reviewers of
publishers and contributors alike.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Yet if the dweller on holy
Itone, who deigns defend our race and Erectheus' dwellings, grant thee to
besprinkle thy right hand in the bull's blood, then see that in very truth
these
commandments
deep-stored in thine heart's memory do flourish, nor any
time deface them.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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