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Touch with thy lips and enkindle
This moon-white
delicate
body,
Drench with the dew of enchantment
This mortal one, that I also
Grow to the measure of beauty 35
Fleet yet eternal.
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Sappho |
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Run home and dress yourself in the boy's clothes
Prepared
for you.
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gret
solempnite
912
(77)
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As, in your field, I plant I lose no grain,
For the harvest
resembles
me, and ever
God orders me to plough, and sow again:
Even for this end are we come together.
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Villon |
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Double, double, toyle and trouble,
Fire burne, and
Cauldron
bubble
2 Coole it with a Baboones blood,
Then the Charme is firme and good.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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O, those were
pleasant
days,
Those college days!
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Longfellow |
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Half-past one,
The street lamp sputtered,
The street lamp muttered,
The street lamp said,
"Regard that woman
Who
hesitates
toward you in the light of the door
Which opens on her like a grin.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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My dear good man--whom God
forgive!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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" Yes,
an alchemist who
suffocated
in the fumes he created.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Mine eyes did ne'er 15
Fix on a lovely object, nor my mind
Take
pleasure
in the midst of happy thoughts,
But either she, whom now I have, who now
Divides with me this loved abode, was there,
Or not far off.
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William Wordsworth |
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CHORUS
What spur can rightly goad to
matricide?
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Aeschylus |
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No crier to the polling summons the eager throng;
No Tribune
breathes
the word of might that guards the weak from
wrong.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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And he
understood
this so literally that certain drawings to _Vala_,
had he carried them beyond the first faint pencillings, the first
faint washes of colour, would have been a pretty scandal to his time
and to our time.
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Yeats |
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Ah, witless souls of
soothsayers!
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or appearing on the
work, you must comply either with the
requirements
of paragraphs 1.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Poor Man, the flie, aft bizzes by,
And aft, as chance he comes thee nigh,
Thy damn'd auld elbow yeuks wi'joy
And hellish
pleasure!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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And his
children
set forth to seek for the spot
Where stands the great Church which he forgot.
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Rilke - Poems |
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My friend was willing to
increase
my woe,
And smiling whisper'd,--"You alone may go
Confer with whom you please, for now we are
All stained with one crime.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Love lives in sleep,
The happiness of healthy dreams:
Eve's dews may weep,
But love
delightful
seems.
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John Clare |
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_Whiskin' beard_, a beard like the
whiskers
of a cat.
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Robert Burns |
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2 My travels belong to
perilous
times, I look up and gaze at this, sighing long.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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And straightway
hereupon, arose the natural
question
of cui bono?
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Poe - 5 |
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[Till they had drawn the Spectre quite away from Enion]
And drawing in the Spectrous life in pride and haughty joy
Thus Enion gave them all her
spectrous
life in dark despair.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Galeotto
fu 'l libro e chi lo scrisse:
quel giorno piu non vi leggemmo avante>>.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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The
glorious
Lamp of Heaven, the Sun,
The higher he's a-getting
The sooner will his race be run,
And nearer he's to setting.
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Golden Treasury |
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Yet dwelt that
greatness
in his shape decayed,
That still though dead, greater than death he laid.
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Marvell - Poems |
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CXXXII
Thine eyes I love, and they, as pitying me,
Knowing thy heart torment me with disdain,
Have put on black and loving
mourners
be,
Looking with pretty ruth upon my pain.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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It may only be
used on or associated in any way with an
electronic
work by people who
agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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II
Tell me ye stones and give me O
glorious
palaces answer.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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(C)
Copyright
2000-2016 A.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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The four and twenty books of Homer he has
contracted
into twelve,
and these contain no more lines than about four books of the original.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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FINIS
Joachim du Bellay
'Joachim du Bellay'
Science and
literature
in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance - P.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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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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On them, while the beaters run up and down, and
the lawns are girt with toils, will I pour down a
blackening
rain-cloud
mingled with hail, and startle all the sky in thunder.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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International
donations
are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make
any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from
outside the United States.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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"
They wrote that word
victorious
on fields of mortal strife,
And many a valiant lad was proud to seal it with his life.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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The Scotch forts and Dunkirk, but that they
were sold,
He would have
demolished
to raise up his
walls ;
Nay e'en fi-om Tangier have sent back for the
mould,
But that he had nearer the stones of St.
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Marvell - Poems |
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7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the
Project Gutenberg-tm
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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I'd have been before her with that course,
Love would have swiftly
inspired
the thought.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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or ellys ymaginac{i}ou{n}
of
sensible
?
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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He was only
twenty-eight when
appointed
to the government of India.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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HURRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME
Well, that Sunday Albert was home, they had a hot gammon,
And they asked me in to dinner, to get the beauty of it hot--
HURRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME
HURRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME
Goonight
Bill.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Purgatorio
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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`And som of hem tok on hem, for the colde,
More than y-nough, so seydestow ful ofte;
And som han feyned ofte tyme, and tolde 920
How that they wake, whan they slepen softe;
And thus they wolde han brought hem-self a-lofte,
And
nathelees
were under at the laste;
Thus seydestow, and Iapedest ful faste.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Ay, no doubt
My spirit
answered
thee so fiercely then
Because it felt thee reading me aright,
How a mere bragging was my purity.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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V
What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why,
I have forgotten, and what arms have lain
Under my head till morning; but the rain
Is full of ghosts to-night, that tap and sigh
Upon the glass and listen for reply;
And in my heart there stirs a quiet pain,
For
unremembered
lads that not again
Will turn to me at midnight with a cry.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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And there, frae the Niddisdale borders,
The
Maxwells
will gather in droves,
Teugh Jockie, staunch Geordie, an' Wellwood,
That griens for the fishes and loaves;
And there will be Heron, the Major,
Wha'll ne'er be forgot in the Greys;
Our flatt'ry we'll keep for some other,
Him, only it's justice to praise.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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An Italian poet, Ariosto, uses this notion in a
poem with which Pope was
familiar
('Orlando Furioso', Canto XXXIV), and
from which he borrowed some of his ideas for the cave of Spleen.
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Alexander Pope |
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Or dwells
humanity
where riot reigns?
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Odyssey - Pope |
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And sees the
darkness
coming as a cloud--
***Is not its form--its voice--most palpable and loud?
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Then, worthy sir, bethink
yourself
in season.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Only Rome could mighty Rome resemble,
Only Rome force sacred Rome to tremble:
So Fate's command issued its decree,
No other power, however bold or wise,
Could boast of
matching
her who matched we see,
Her power with earth's, her courage with the sky's.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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The sonnets of Les Antiquites provide a fascinating comment on the Classical Roman world as seen from the
viewpoint
of the French Renaissance.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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_Farmer's Boy_
He waits all day beside his little flock
And asks the passing
stranger
what's o'clock,
But those who often pass his daily tasks
Look at their watch and tell before he asks.
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John Clare |
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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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every vein & lacteal
threading
them among
Her woof of terror.
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| Question: |
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Blake - Zoas |
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THE DONG WITH A
LUMINOUS
NOSE.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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The editors are confid ent that the magazine's year will be
regarded
as notable in American literature.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Parting track'd by arriving, perpetual payment of perpetual loan,
Rich showering rain, and
recompense
richer afterward.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Like
vaulters
in a circus round
Who leap from horse to horse, but never touch the ground.
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Emerson - Poems |
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, _(covered with gold),
ornamented
with gold_: nom.
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Beowulf |
|
L
When I behold the pharos shine
And lay a path along the sea,
How gladly I shall feel the spray,
Standing upon the
swinging
prow;
And question of my pilot old, 5
How many watery leagues to sail
Ere we shall round the harbour reef
And anchor off the wharves of home!
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Sappho |
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Such
cowardice
of that
knight did I never hear.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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20
"To kindle her shapely beauty,
And
illumine
her mind withal,
I give to the little person
The glowing and craving soul.
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Sappho |
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And Danaus, our sire and guide,
The king of counsel, pond'ring well
The dice of fortune as they fell,
Out of two griefs the kindlier chose,
And bade us fly, with him beside,
Heedless what winds or waves arose,
And o'er the wide sea waters haste,
Until to Argos' shore at last
Our
wandering
pinnace came--
Argos, the immemorial home
Of her from whom we boast to come--
Io, the ox-horned maiden, whom,
After long wandering, woe, and scathe,
Zeus with a touch, a mystic breath,
Made mother of our name.
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Aeschylus |
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He follows as close as a stick to a rocket,
His fingers
exploring
the prophet's each pocket.
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James Russell Lowell |
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[Illustration]
There was a Young Lady of Ryde,
Whose shoe-strings were seldom untied;
She purchased some clogs, and some small spotty Dogs,
And
frequently
walked about Ryde.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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I do not like to
remember
things any more.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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LOVE
All thoughts, all passions, all delights,
Whatever
stirs this mortal frame,
All are but ministers of Love,
And feed his sacred flame.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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1), concerning the Sarmatians: "On account of the length and
severity
of their winters, they dwell under ground, either in natural or artificial caverns.
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Tacitus |
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But see, a
handmaid
cometh, and the tear
Wet on her cheek!
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Whether the Parthian's
formidable
power
Or Indians or the Seres of the East,
With humbled pride beneath his triumph fall,
Wide o'er a willing world shall he
Contented rule, and to thy throne shall bend
Submissive.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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--What that memory gave
Of our young day, so brief and yet so brave,
Will lead us half
reluctant
to the grave.
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Tennyson |
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Ravish'd, she lifted her Circean head,
Blush'd a live damask, and swift-lisping said,
"I was a woman, let me have once more
A woman's shape, and
charming
as before.
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Keats - Lamia |
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War
will come running out and trample
everything
beneath his feet.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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Next
Coveityse
faste by,
And she was cleped AVARICE.
| Guess: |
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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And when thy vessel o'er the foaming sound
Is proud past storied coasts to
blithely
bound,
At once the point of beauty may restore
Smiles to thy lip, and smoothe thy brow once more.
| Guess: |
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Hugo - Poems |
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Robinson from this year's
_Miscellany_ is a source of regret not only to all the
contributors
but
to the poet himself.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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What shall we do
tomorrow?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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O, Civil Fury, you alone are the cause,
In Macedonian fields sowing new wars,
Arming Pompey against Caesar there,
So that achieving the rich crown of all,
Roman grandeur, prospering everywhere,
Might tumble down in more
disastrous
fall.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Ed elli a me: <
non puoi fallire a glorioso porto,
se ben m'accorsi ne la vita bella;
e s'io non fossi si per tempo morto,
veggendo
il cielo a te cosi benigno,
dato t'avrei a l'opera conforto.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Kline (C) Copyright 2008 All Rights Reserved
This work may be freely reproduced, stored, and transmitted,
electronically
or otherwise, for any non-commercial purpose.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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After the _Aeneid_, the epic style must be of
this fashion:
Ibant ovscuri sola sub nocte per umbram
Perque domos Ditis vacuas et inania regna:
Quale per
incertam
lunam sub luce maligna
Est iter in silvis, ubi caelum condidit umbra
Jupiter, et rebus nox abstulit atra colorem.
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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They sang of people left over from the time of Tao and Tang,2 the Later Han
continued
a line of emperors.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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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.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
|
A power of butterfly must be
The
aptitude
to fly,
Meadows of majesty concedes
And easy sweeps of sky.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
|
The
harlot commands him to eat and drink also:
"It is the conformity of life,
Of the
conditions
and fate of the Land.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
|
Think at last
I have not made this show purposelessly
And it is not by any concitation
Of the
backward
devils.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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But if, on t'other side, you chance to view,
A meagre figure, void of blooming hue,
With stupid, heavy eye, and gloomy mien
Conclude
at once a Pope-figir, you've seen.
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La Fontaine |
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_Mucillam_
Pleitner, Schwabe
3 _milia_ GO _in imum_ Carpentoractensis, fortasse recte, ut sit
idem quod _ad minimum_
4 _singula_ ed.
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Latin - Catullus |
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Miss
Dickinson
was born in Amherst, Mass.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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A public domain book is one that was never subject to
copyright
or whose legal copyright term has expired.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Note: The last two lines remain perplexing, but suggest that Guillaume was
inviting
a similarly ironic song, a counter or duplicate, in reply.
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Troubador Verse |
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[This is the] thurst of fals geting,
That last ever in coveiting,
And the
anguisshe
and distresse 5715
With the fire of gredinesse.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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) Then the
wrinkles
I express,
Of the heart, smile into emptiness.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Perchance
the time will come when every
house even will have not only its sleeping-rooms, and dining-room, and
talking-room or parlor, but its thinking-room also, and the architects
will put it into their plans.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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TO TIRZAH
Whate'er is born of mortal birth
Must be consumed with the earth,
To rise from
generation
free:
Then what have I to do with thee?
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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_Six
hundred_
and _?
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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310
"His forehead wrinkled was and furred;
A work, one half of which was done
By
thinking
of his '_whens_,' and '_hows_';
And half, by knitting of his brows
Beneath the glaring sun.
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William Wordsworth |
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