_Wild Bees_
These
children
of the sun which summer brings
As pastoral minstrels in her merry train
Pipe rustic ballads upon busy wings
And glad the cotters' quiet toils again.
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D oubtless, as my heart's lady you'll have being,
E ntirely now, till death
consumes
my age.
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Villon |
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Yet the
admission
is made with a smile,
and more than one suggestion is allowed to float across the scene that in
real life such conduct would be hardly wise.
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wadu
weallende
(weallendu), 546, 581; nom.
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Beowulf |
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Thence by the roots my weal hast thou uptorn,
Too blest in love hast shown me to that fair
Who
welcomed
once my chaste and humble prayer,
But seems to treat me now with hate and scorn.
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Petrarch |
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Where hardly given the
hopeless
waste to cheer,
Denied the bread of life the foodful ear, 1815.
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Do you see
nothing?
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Look down the shining peaks of all my days
Base-hidden in the valleys of deep night,
So shalt thou see the heights and depths of praise
My love would render unto love's delight;
For I would make each day an Alp sublime
Of passionate snow, white-hot yet icy-clear,
-- One crystal of the true-loves of all time
Spiring the world's
prismatic
atmosphere;
And I would make each night an awful vale
Deep as thy soul, obscure as modesty,
With every star in heaven trembling pale
O'er sweet profounds where only Love can see.
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Sidney Lanier |
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This
appeared
to soothe the Colonel, for he wanted the
Drum-Horse disposed of.
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Kipling - Poems |
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2 By the
pricking
of my Thumbes,
Something wicked this way comes:
Open Lockes, who euer knockes.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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It is
difficult
not to be unjust to what one loves.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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I considered a simple prose or free verse
translation
of these poems, but to show the Troubadours without their rhyme schemes, their form, seemed to me too great an admission of failure.
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Troubador Verse |
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Thou art Lord
Of an extended plain, where copious springs
The lotus, herbage of all savours, wheat,
Pulse, and white barley of
luxuriant
growth.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Oh Peggy was the young thing and bonny as to size;
Her lips were
cherries
of the spring and hazel were her eyes.
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John Clare |
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On me thou lookest with no
doubting
care,
As on a bee shut in a crystalline;
Since sorrow hath shut me safe in love's divine,
And to spread wing and fly in the outer air
Were most impossible failure, if I strove
To fail so.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
|
Any
alternate
format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm
License as specified in paragraph 1.
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William Wordsworth |
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originator
of the Project Gutenberg-tm
concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared
with anyone.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Why with the time do I not glance aside
To new-found methods, and to
compounds
strange?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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At bottom of this box I've found Lusace,
And
henceforth
my orchestra will have place;
To it they'll dance.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Here, foaming down the skelvy rocks,
In twisting strength I rin;
There, high my boiling torrent smokes,
Wild-roaring o'er a linn:
Enjoying
each large spring and well,
As Nature gave them me,
I am, altho' I say't mysel',
Worth gaun a mile to see.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Oh, with love and love's best care
Thy large godly
freightage
bear --
Godly Hearts that, Grails of gold,
Still the blood of Faith do hold.
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Sidney Lanier |
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That is the
manufacturing
spot,
And will at home and well.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Let song itself, and votaries of verse,
Breathe
mournful
accents o'er our Cino's bier,
Who late is gone to number with the blest!
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Petrarch |
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[h] Southward thence
We held our way, direct through hamlets, towns, [i] 350
Gaudy with reliques of that festival,
Flowers left to wither on
triumphal
arcs,
And window-garlands.
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William Wordsworth |
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When you scrape up the coals with a
delicate
sound,
You enrapture my life with delight,
Your nose is so shiny, your head is so round,
And your shape is so slender and bright!
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Lear - Nonsense |
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7 and any additional
terms imposed by the
copyright
holder.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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"And it is strange--though sad enough--
Earth's race should think that one whose call
Frames, daily, shining spheres of
flawless
stuff
Must heed their tainted ball!
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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58, where _1633_ and _A18_, _N_, _TC_ read
'not
naturally
free', while _1635-69_ and _O'F_ read 'borne
naturally free', at first sight an easier and more natural
text, and adopted by both Chambers and Grosart.
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John Donne |
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Above the antique mantel was displayed
As though a window gave upon the sylvan scene
The change of Philomel, by the
barbarous
king
So rudely forced; yet there the nightingale 100
Filled all the desert with inviolable voice
And still she cried, and still the world pursues,
"Jug Jug" to dirty ears.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Les Amours de Cassandre: CXXXV
Sweet beauty,
murderess
of my life,
Instead of a heart you've a boulder:
Living, you make me waste and shudder,
Impassioned by amorous desire.
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Ronsard |
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I regret that its length
renders it
unsuitable
for the purposes of this lecture.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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"
How all the nobles fled, and would not wait,
Because they were most noble,--which being so,
How
Liberals
vowed to burn their palaces,
Because free Tuscans were not free to go!
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Elizabeth Browning |
|
_ MARION
_comes out of the gate carrying a bundle, and
accompanied
by_ DIDIER.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Transience ne'er can rob me of aught that
has been,
Languishing just as
erewhile
on the languish-
ing field,
I lie: from languid lips there sighs " how weary
Am I of all the flowers--the lovely flowers.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
|
In 2001, the Project
Gutenberg Literary Archive
Foundation
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and permanent future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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_
MY DEAR FRIEND,
I am just
returned
from Mr.
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Robert Burns |
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My valour has no cause to disown you;
You've
emulated
it, your great daring
Shows our heroic race is still breathing.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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At last divine Cecilia came,
Inventress
of the vocal frame;
The sweet enthusiast from her sacred store
Enlarged the former narrow bounds,
And added length to solemn sounds,
With Nature's mother-wit, and arts unknown before.
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Golden Treasury |
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"
Mest he wil
vnderstonde
?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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From the Prelude ix
SEEK not to know which song or saying yields
The palm of praise or garland at the feast,
What yester tempest blew through arid fields,
Now lies 'mid laurels in the
hallowed
Bast.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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For if my mistress find me lying here
She will not ruth or gentle pity show,
But lay her boar-spear down, and with austere
Relentless fingers string the cornel bow,
And draw the feathered notch against her breast,
And loose the arched cord; aye, even now upon the quest
I hear her
hurrying
feet,--awake, awake,
Thou laggard in love's battle!
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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O rustle not, ye verdant oaken
branches!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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It's some consid'ble of a spell sence I hain't writ no letters,
An' ther' 's gret changes hez took place in all polit'cle metters:
Some
canderdates
air dead an' gone, an' some hez ben defeated,
Which 'mounts to pooty much the same; fer it's ben proved repeated
A betch o' bread thet hain't riz once ain't goin' to rise agin,
An' it's jest money throwed away to put the emptins in:
But thet's wut folks wun't never larn; they dunno how to go,
Arter you want their room, no more 'n a bullet-headed bean;
Ther' 's ollers chaps a-hangin' roun' thet can't see peatime's past,
Mis'ble as roosters in a rain, heads down an' tails half-mast: 10
It ain't disgraceful bein' beat, when a holl nation doos it,
But Chance is like an amberill,--it don't take twice to lose it.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Your fathers' guilt you still must pay,
Till, Roman, you restore each shrine,
Each temple,
mouldering
in decay,
And smoke-grimed statue, scarce divine.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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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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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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As Far As My Eye Can See In My Body's Senses
All the trees all their branches all of their leaves
The grass at the foot of the rocks and the houses en masse
Far off the sea that your eye bathes
These images of day after day
The vices the virtues so imperfect
The transparency of men passing among them by chance
And passing women breathed by your elegant obstinacies
Your obsessions in a heart of lead on virgin lips
The vices the virtues so imperfect
The likeness of looks of permission with eyes you conquer
The confusion of bodies wearinesses ardours
The imitation of words attitudes ideas
The vices the virtues so imperfect
Love is man incomplete
Barely Disfigured
Adieu Tristesse
Bonjour Tristesse
Farewell Sadness
Hello Sadness
You are inscribed in the lines on the ceiling
You are inscribed in the eyes that I love
You are not poverty absolutely
Since the poorest of lips
denounce
you
Ah with a smile
Bonjour Tristesse
Love of kind bodies
Power of love
From which kindness rises
Like a bodiless monster
Unattached head
Sadness beautiful face.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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To say and strait unsay, pretending first
Wise to flie pain,
professing
next the Spie,
Argues no Leader, but a lyar trac't,
Satan, and couldst thou faithful add?
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Milton |
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Some states do not allow disclaimers of implied warranties or
the
exclusion
or limitation of consequential damages, so the
above disclaimers and exclusions may not apply to you, and you
may have other legal rights.
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Vansuythen was only an
ordinarily
good woman.
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Kipling - Poems |
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The last of the crew needs
especial
remark,
Though he looked an incredible dunce:
He had just one idea--but, that one being "Snark,"
The good Bellman engaged him at once.
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Lewis Carroll |
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, _the life allotted to anyone, life
determined
by fate_:
acc.
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Beowulf |
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The boyars
Remember
Godunov as erst he was,
Peer to themselves; and even now the race
Of the old Varyags is loved by all.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
|
The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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The deaths of the Doge of Venice and of the Lord of Milan were soon
followed by another, which, if it had
happened
some years earlier, would
have strongly affected Petrarch.
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Petrarch |
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We are to understand by the truly honourable that which, setting aside
all consideration of utility, may be rightly praised in itself,
exclusive of any
prospect
of reward or compensation.
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Tennyson |
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Thus Providence, right understood,
Whose end and aim is doing good,
Sends nothing here without its use;
Though ignorance loads it with abuse,
And fools despise the
blessing
sent,
And mock the Giver's good intent.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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So, since this name was cut
When love and griefe their exaltation had,
No doore 'gainst this names
influence
shut;
As much more loving, as more sad, 40
'Twill make thee; and thou shouldst, till I returne,
Since I die daily, daily mourne.
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John Donne |
|
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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And thus great honour to
Morgante
paid
The Abbot: many days they did repose.
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Byron |
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That perhaps
He is a deacon run away from Moscow,
In his own district a
notorious
rogue.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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II
Fair year, fair year, thy
children
call,
But thou art deaf as death;
All in the bloomed May.
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Tennyson |
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From salty spray
The brown tint of his glowing cheek still rough;
Fruit quickly ripe,
'Neath foreign suns in
scorching
airs and heat.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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There is hardly such direct warrant for publishing the Translations;
which were only intended, many years ago, to accompany and explain
certain Engravings after ancient Gems, in the projected work of a
friend, by whose kindness they are now recovered: but as two of the
original series (the "Adonis" of Bion and "Song to the Rose" from
Achilles Tatius) have subsequently appeared, it is
presumed
that the
remainder may not improperly follow.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Mantillas elsewhere hide dull eyes--
Compared
with these, how small!
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Hugo - Poems |
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The bohemian glass on the
_étagère_
is no longer there.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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This was Nizam ul Mulk, Vizier
to Alp Arslan the Son, and Malik Shah the Grandson, of Toghrul Beg the
Tartar, who had wrested Persia from the feeble
Successor
of Mahmud the
Great, and founded that Seljukian Dynasty which finally roused Europe
into the Crusades.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Li Po |
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]
THE little white clouds are racing over the sky,
And the fields are strewn with the gold of the flower of March,
The daffodil breaks under foot, and the
tasselled
larch
Sways and swings as the thrush goes hurrying by.
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Wilde - Poems |
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"
I
straightway
rose, and show'd myself less spent
Than I in truth did feel me.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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A something, which already has been shown,
Was saved through Hispal's nervous arm alone:
Said he, far better bless a real friend,
Than have each treasure rifled in the end,
By some
successful
ruffian; think it o'er;
You little dream for whom you guard the store.
| Guess: |
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La Fontaine |
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'
Then winked at Hebe, who turned red,
And
smoothed
her apron's creases.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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She
listened
with a feeling of terror
and disgust.
| Guess: |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
|
LV
Westward on the high-hilled plains
Where for me the world began,
Still, I think, in newer veins
Frets the
changeless
blood of man.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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"
Presently my soul grew stronger;
hesitating
then no longer,
"Sir," said I, "or Madam, truly your forgiveness I implore;
But the fact is I was napping, and so gently you came rapping,
And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door,
That I scarce was sure I heard you "--here I opened wide the door;----
Darkness there and nothing more.
| Guess: |
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Poe - 5 |
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Whilst I tell the gallant stripling's tale of daring;
When this morn they led the gallant youth to judgment
Before the dread
tribunal
of the grand Tsar,
Then our Tsar and Gosudar began to question:
Tell me, tell me, little lad, and peasant bantling!
| Guess: |
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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I was bothe
anguissous
and trouble 1755
For the peril that I saw double;
I niste what to seye or do,
Ne gete a leche my woundis to;
For neithir thurgh gras ne rote,
Ne hadde I help of hope ne bote.
| Guess: |
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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that my
wakening
hands were through her tresses wound.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
|
+ Keep it legal Whatever your use, remember that you are
responsible
for ensuring that what you are doing is legal.
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
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The merry are the men of
pleasure of all denominations; the jovial lads, who have too much fire
and spirit to have any settled rule of action; but, without much
deliberation, follow the strong impulses of nature: the thoughtless,
the careless, the indolent--in particular _he_ who, with a happy
sweetness of natural temper, and a cheerful vacancy of thought, steals
through life--generally, indeed, in poverty and obscurity; but poverty
and obscurity are only evils to him who can sit gravely down and make
a
repining
comparison between his own situation and that of others;
and lastly, to grace the quorum, such are, generally, those whose
heads are capable of all the towerings of genius, and whose hearts are
warmed with all the delicacy of feeling.
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Torpenhow
found him on the floor.
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Kipling - Poems |
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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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Then the gauzes removes he which shade her,
At her beauty all wonder intensely;
One moment the Pasha survey'd her,
And,
dropping
his tchebouk, without sense lay.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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So might we talk of the old
familiar
faces,
How some they have died, and some they have left me,
And some are taken from me; all are departed;
All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.
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Golden Treasury |
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Control the present: all beside
Flows like a river seaward borne,
Now rolling on its placid tide,
Now whirling massy trunks uptorn,
And waveworn crags, and farms, and stock,
In chaos blent, while hill and wood
Reverberate to the
enormous
shock,
When savage rains the tranquil flood
Have stirr'd to madness.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Lest these
enclasped
hands should never hold,
This mutual kiss drop down between us both
As an unowned thing, once the lips being cold.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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`And thou, citee, whiche that I leve in wo, 1205
And thou, Pryam, and
bretheren
al y-fere,
And thou, my moder, farwel!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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lines 1-3,
_Poetical
Works_, 1899, ii.
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Byron |
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E come augelli surti di rivera,
quasi
congratulando
a lor pasture,
fanno di se or tonda or altra schiera,
si dentro ai lumi sante creature
volitando cantavano, e faciensi
or D, or I, or L in sue figure.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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But what foul wrong have I done to thee, Ozias,
That thou shouldst go about to put such wrong
Into my life as these
defiling
words?
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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With not even one blow
landing?
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Villon |
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They will return to the moving pillar of smoke,
The whitest toothed, the
merriest
laughers known,
The blackest haired of all the tribes of men.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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THE FUTURE
After ten thousand
centuries
have gone,
Man will ascend the last long pass to know
That all the summits which he saw at dawn
Are buried deep in everlasting snow.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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I have no ghosts,
An old man in a
draughty
house
Under a windy knob.
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Dear Smith, the slee'st, pawkie thief,
That e'er
attempted
stealth or rief!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Wars in his empire will at times arise,
And, in the field, his standard meet the eyes;
Now
stealing
secretly, with skilful lure.
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La Fontaine |
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You amid the bog-end's yellow incantation,
You sitting in the
cowslips
of the meadows above,
--Me, your shadow on the bog-flame, flowery may-blobs,
Me full length in the cowslips, muttering you love--
You, your soul like a lady-smock, lost, evanescent,
You, with your face all rich, like the sheen on a dove--!
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Imagists |
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But poets continued (and
continue
till to-day), side by side with their
_lu-shih_, to write in the old metre which disregards tone, calling such
poems _Ku shih_, "old poems.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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