If I, a
northern
wanderer, weep for thee,
What should thy sons do?
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Practically
a quotation from Ch'u Yuan's "Life," by Ss?
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"
Then she: "In these thy kingly walls remain
(My son) full fifty of the handmaid train,
Taught by my care to cull the fleece or weave,
And
servitude
with pleasing tasks deceive;
Of these, twice six pursue their wicked way,
Nor me, nor chaste Penelope obey;
Nor fits it that Telemachus command
(Young as he is) his mother's female band.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER
WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO
WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTIBILITY
OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE.
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But I adjure thee in thy father's name--
O tell me truly, (for I cannot hope 390
That I have reach'd fair Ithaca; I tread
Some other soil, and thou affirm'st it mine
To mock me merely, and
deceive)
oh say--
Am I in Ithaca?
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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On Hearing the
Princess
Royal Sing--_Nelson R.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Oh sea, look
graciously!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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The Phoenix was the
mythical
bird that rose again from the ashes of its own immolation.
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Ronsard |
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It exists
because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and
donations
from
people in all walks of life.
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Note: Ronsard's Helene, was Helene de Surgeres, a lady in waiting to
Catherine
de Medicis.
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Ronsard |
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"
The Baron said--His
daughter
mild
Made answer, "All will yet be well!
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--for she was a maid
More beautiful than ever twisted braid,
Or sigh'd, or blush'd, or on spring-flowered lea
Spread a green kirtle to the minstrelsy:
A virgin purest lipp'd, yet in the lore
Of love deep learned to the red heart's core:
Not one hour old, yet of sciential brain
To unperplex bliss from its
neighbour
pain;
Define their pettish limits, and estrange
Their points of contact, and swift counterchange;
Intrigue with the specious chaos, and dispart
Its most ambiguous atoms with sure art;
As though in Cupid's college she had spent
Sweet days a lovely graduate, still unshent,
And kept his rosy terms in idle languishment.
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Keats - Lamia |
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The
pastures
were covered with herds; and the houses,
built of square stones, were both elegant and magnificent.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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"
The God on half-shut
feathers
sank serene,
She breath'd upon his eyes, and swift was seen
Of both the guarded nymph near-smiling on the green.
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such the period of many worlds
Others
triangular
their right angled course maintain.
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Blake - Zoas |
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THE
SOLITUDE
OF ALEXANDER SELKIRK.
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Golden Treasury |
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Into the eternal shadow
That girds our life around,
Into the
infinite
silence
Wherewith Death's shore is bound,
Thou hast gone forth, beloved!
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The water it soon came in, it did;
The water it soon came in:
So, to keep them dry, they wrapped their feet
In a pinky paper all folded neat;
And they
fastened
it down with a pin.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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XXXVIII
On her he next a cross's handle broke;
Wherewith her back, and arms, and head he plies:
His mercy with loud voice the wretch bespoke,
And hugged that angel's knees with
suppliant
cries.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Pour lead into the hollow and fit a good, long stick to the
top; and you will have a
balanced
cottabos.
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Doch ihr, die echten Gottersohne,
Erfreut euch der
lebendig
reichen Schone!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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He hath a craft can pass th'
impassable!
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Aeschylus |
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The myrrh-hyacinth
spread across low slopes,
violets
streaked
black ridges
through the grass.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Let the contentious spirit know
At this hour when we are silent
The stalks of multiple lilies grow
Far too tall for our reason
And not as the
riverbank
weeps
When its tedious game tells lies
Claiming abundance should reach
Into my first surprise
On hearing the whole sky and the map
Behind my steps, without end, bear witness
By the ebbing wave itself that
This country never existed.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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The wise want love; and those who love want wisdom;
And all best things are thus
confused
to ill.
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Shelley |
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Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth
in
paragraph
1.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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City, and land, and waters wan
Of Inachus, and gods most high,
And ye who, deep beneath the ground,
Bring
vengeance
weird on mortal man,
Powers of the grave, on you we cry!
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Aeschylus |
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"Or when the deep green-mantled earth
Warm cherish'd ev'ry floweret's birth,
And joy and music pouring forth
In ev'ry grove;
I saw thee eye the general mirth
With
boundless
love.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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how
shouldst
thou be fear'd
By all, who read what here my eyes beheld!
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Why in that
rawnesse
left you Wife, and Childe?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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, il sollicitait l'amitie de Sainte-Beuve et de
Flaubert
(tout
recemment poursuivi pour avoir ecrit _Madame Bovary_), des moyens
de defense dont les minutes ont ete conservees et dont il transmettait
la teneur a son avocat, Me Chaix d'Est-Ange.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Thus in less than eighteen weeks they all arrived safely at home, where
they were received by their admiring
relatives
with joy tempered with
contempt, and where they finally resolved to carry out the rest of their
travelling-plans at some more favorable opportunity.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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What as a
gurgling
softly simmered through
The soil, within the dead deserted brake,
--And no more than a drop of fragrant dew
That fell from flowerlet unto deepest lake:
Becomes the clinging mist that cleaves the heights,
And which in darkest midnights as a beam
The heart of the chasm suddenly be-smites
To spring and ramble like a ruddy stream.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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What else is the
Palladium
(with Homer) that kept Troy so long
from sacking?
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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He is weak, very old--he can
scarcely
uptear
A young pine-tree for staff since his legs cease to bear;
But here's to replace him!
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Hugo - Poems |
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I hear thy voice and vow,
Perplexed, uncertain, since thou art out of sight,
As he, in his
swooning
ears, the choir's amen.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Note: The ballade was written for Robert to present to his wife
Ambroise
de Lore, as though composed by him.
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Villon |
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"Project Gutenberg" is a
registered
trademark.
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Rilke - Poems |
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If you received the work electronically, the person or entity
providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to
receive the work
electronically
in lieu of a refund.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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_The
Poetical
Works_, etc.
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Byron |
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No
lifetime
set on them,
Apparelled as the new
Unborn, except they had beheld,
Born everlasting now.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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I have a pleasant hill
Which I sit upon for hours,
Where she cropt some sprigs of thyme
And other little flowers;
And she
muttered
as she did it
As does beauty in a dream,
And I loved her when she hid it
On her breast, so like to cream,
Near the brown mole on her neck that to me a diamond shone
Then my eye was like to fire, and my heart was like to stone.
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John Clare |
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See also
Brockelman,
_Vergleichende
Grammatik_ 160 a.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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I wish to escape them both if I may;
If not, it's for
Rodrigue
that I will pray:
Not because foolish passion so decides;
But because I'll be Sanche's if he dies.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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They dropped like flakes, they dropped like stars,
Like petals from a rose,
When
suddenly
across the June
A wind with fingers goes.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Or else he sat with those who watched
His anguish night and day;
Who watched him when he rose to weep,
And when he crouched to pray;
Who watched him lest himself should rob
Their
scaffold
of its prey.
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Wilde - Poems |
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As travellers oft look back at eve
When
eastward
darkly going,
To gaze upon that light they leave
Still faint behind them glowing,--
So, when the close of pleasure's day
To gloom hath near consign'd us,
We turn to catch our fading ray
Of joy that's left behind us.
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Golden Treasury |
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Sooth, we may see from out the
stinking
dung
Live worms spring up, when, after soaking rains,
The drenched earth rots; and all things change the same:
Lo, change the rivers, the fronds, the gladsome pastures
Into the cattle, the cattle their nature change
Into our bodies, and from our body, oft
Grow strong the powers and bodies of wild beasts
And mighty-winged birds.
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Lucretius |
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This, then, is the humble, the
nameless,--
The lover, the husband and father, the struggler with shadows,
The one who went down under
shoutings
of chaos!
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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That is the dog that so bayed one time at my girl that he almost
Gave our secret away (when she was
visiting
me).
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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"
So the hand of the child, automatic,
Slipped out and
pocketed
a toy that was running along
the quay.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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how can Love's eye be true,
That is so vexed with
watching
and with tears?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Artists enjoy ateliers which are furnished
So as to make for a space Pantheon-like in decor:
Jupiter lowers that godly brow while his Juno looks upward;
Phoebus takes forward strides, shaking his curly head;
While phlegmatic Minerva peers down on us,
frivolous
Hermes
Seems to be looking askance, roguish, though tender as well.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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The first is that stage plays are known
to have been
performed
in Rome as early as the middle of the fourth
century.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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te quoque promissam Xutho, Peneie, Creusam
Phthiotum terris
occuluisse
ferunt.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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The king that
trampled
Troy
Knoweth his son Orestes.
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Euripides - Electra |
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See, Lovers, how I'm treated, in what ways
I die of cold through summer's
scorching
days:
Of heat, in the depths of icy weather.
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Ronsard |
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quis locus insidiis dabitur mihi tutus amoris,
frigore
concreta
si latet ignis aqua?
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Conversation Galante
I observe: "Our sentimental friend the moon
Or possibly (fantastic, I confess)
It may be Prester John's balloon
Or an old
battered
lantern hung aloft
To light poor travellers to their distress.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Li occhi mi cadder giu nel chiaro fonte;
ma veggendomi in esso, i trassi a l'erba,
tanta
vergogna
mi gravo la fronte.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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The influence of this "classicist" tradition has led to a timid and
unsatisfying treatment of the _Alcestis_, in which many of the most
striking and unconventional features of the whole composition were either
ignored or
smoothed
away.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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But
wretched
who anticipates,
Whose brain no fond illusions daze,
Who every gesture, every phrase
In true interpretation hates:
Whose heart experience icy made
And yet oblivion forbade.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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The Three
Emperors
were saintly men,
Yet to-day--where are they?
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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The morning sun
was
climbing
higher.
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Turning from thought to emotion, the most
conspicuous
feature of
European poetry is its pre-occupation with love.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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And if my foot returns no more
To Teme nor Corve nor Severn shore,
Luck, my lads, be with you still
By falling stream and standing hill,
By chiming tower and
whispering
tree,
Men that made a man of me.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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To glad me with his soft black eye
_My son comes
trotting
home from school_;
_He's had a fight but can't tell why_--
_He always was a little fool_!
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Lewis Carroll |
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Three times
circling
beneath heaven's veil,
In devotion, round your tombs, I hail
You, with loud summons; thrice on you I call:
And, while your ancient fury I invoke,
Here, as though I in sacred terror spoke,
I'll sing your glory, beauteous above all.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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But I am now convinc'd, and none will dare
Within thy Labours to pretend a share,
Thou hast not miss'd one thought that could be fit,
And all that was improper dost omit:
So that no room is here for Writers left,
But to detect their
Ignorance
or Theft.
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Milton |
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Ever hath Maenalus his murmuring groves
And
whispering
pines, and ever hears the songs
Of love-lorn shepherds, and of Pan, who first
Brooked not the tuneful reed should idle lie.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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His adiunxi alios quorum fides plerumque integra uisa est, in primis
Laurentianum
secundum
(Plut.
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Latin - Catullus |
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Upward I reach
To draw chill curtains and shut out the dark,
Pausing an instant, with uplifted hand,
To watch, between black ruined portals of cloud,
One star,--the
tottering
portals fall and crush it.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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_Seventh
Edition_,
_1899_.
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Wilde - Poems |
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[Illustration: "HE HAD WHOLLY
FORGOTTEN
HIS NAME"]
He would answer to "Hi!
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Lewis Carroll |
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"What frenzy
goddesses!
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Iliad - Pope |
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PART I
It is an ancient Mariner,
And he
stoppeth
one of three.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Except for the limited right of
replacement
or refund set forth
in paragraph 1.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Instead of going out of the small door
behind the screen, however, he
concealed
himself in a closet to await
the return of the old Countess.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Agamemnon's
murderer
lies
Dead!
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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It has survived long enough for the
copyright
to expire and the book to enter the public domain.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Meantime may'st thou with
happiest
speed regain
Thy stately palace, and thy wide domain.
| Guess: |
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Whereupon the peasant sprang from the bed,
quickly drew his axe from his belt, and began to
brandish
it in all
directions.
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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All his ideas merged into a single
one: how to turn to
advantage
the secret paid for so dearly.
| Guess: |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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See Ward by battered beaux invited over,
And
desperate
misery lays hold on Dover.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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at ye set you most
soverainly
my suster to gete.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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As the old lady sat
swaying to and fro, seemingly
oblivious
to her surroundings, Herman
crept out of his hiding-place.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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3, a full refund of any
money paid for a work or a
replacement
copy, if a defect in the
electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days
of receipt of the work.
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Lewis Carroll |
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Charicles and Charmides,
Much have I dreamt of hours like these,
My friends I never knew--
Whose voices and whose grave, sweet words
Were
lovelier
than the songs of birds,
And fresher than the dew.
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Tennyson |
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So please you, this friar hath been with him, and advis'd
him for th'
entertainment
of death.
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Shakespeare |
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enne such a
glauerande
glam of gedered rachche3
Ros, ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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7 and any additional
terms imposed by the
copyright
holder.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Please check the Project
Gutenberg
Web pages for current donation
methods and addresses.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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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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Stephen Crane |
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By what mean hast thou render'd thee so drunken,
To the clay that thou bowest down thy figure,
And the grass and the windel-straws art
grasping?
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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To this view of the political happiness which is sure to be introduced
in proportion to civilization, let the divine add what may be reasonably
expected from such opportunity of the
increase
of religion.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Said, Dear I love thee; and I sank and quailed
As if God's future
thundered
on my past.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Don Fernand is to this day
esteemed
as a saint and martyr in
Portugal, and his memory is commemorated on the fifth of June.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Do but look on her eyes, they do light
All that Love's world
compriseth!
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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