The golden ewer a nymph obsequious brings,
Replenish'd from the cool
translucent
springs;
With copious water the bright vase supplies
A silver laver of capacious size.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Cease thy
softening
spells to prove
On this old heart, by fifty years made hard,
Cruel Mother of sweet Love!
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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modified
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Lewis Carroll |
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Qu'importe le parfum, l'habit ou la
toilette?
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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The shape of your heart is chimerical
And your love
resembles
my lost desire.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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The son of Kurbsky, nurtured in exile,
Forgetting
all the wrongs borne by thy father,
Redeeming his transgression in the grave,
Ready art thou for the son of great Ivan
To shed thy blood, to give the fatherland
Its lawful tsar.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Tankard, or spoon,
Earring, or stone,
A watch, some ancient brooch
To match the grandmamma,
Staid
sleeping
there.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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provided
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WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Thus spake he to the abbot
And all the brothers: "My fathers, soon will come
The longed-for day; here shall I stand before you,
Hungering
for salvation; Nicodemus,
Thou Sergius, Cyril thou, will all accept
My spiritual vow; to you I soon shall come
Accurst in sin, here the clean habit take,
Prostrate, most holy father, at thy feet.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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With envious dark rage I bear,
Stars, your cold
complacent
stare;
Heart-broken in my hate look up,
Moon, at your clear immortal cup,
Changing to gold from dusky red--
Age after age when I am dead
To be filled up with light, and then
Emptied, to be refilled again.
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Sara Teasdale |
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"Of the
remarkable
man," was the reply.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Now, as the stars fill heaven with their bright throng,
List a fine piece,
artistic
purely:
I sing her here a moral song,
To make a fool of her more surely.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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There
is indeed little doubt that oblivion covers many English songs
equal to any that were
published
by Bishop Percy, and many
Spanish songs as good as the best of those which have been so
happily translated by Mr.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Thus she
lamented
day & night, compelld to labour & sorrow
Luvah in vain her lamentations heard; in vain his love
Brought him in various forms before her still she knew him not
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Still she despisd him, calling on his name & knowing him not
Still hating still professing love, still labouring in the smoke
And Los & Enitharmon joyd, they drank in tenfold joy To come in
From all the sorrow of Luvah & the labour of Urizen {These two lines struck through, but then marked (to the right of the main body of text) with the following: "To come in.
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Blake - Zoas |
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"Fair Hermes, crown'd with feathers, fluttering light,
I had a splendid dream of thee last night:
I saw thee sitting, on a throne of gold,
Among the Gods, upon Olympus old,
The only sad one; for thou didst not hear
The soft, lute-finger'd Muses
chaunting
clear,
Nor even Apollo when he sang alone,
Deaf to his throbbing throat's long, long melodious moan.
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Keats - Lamia |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Azzo's
daughter
Beatriz was the addressee of one of his poems.
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Troubador Verse |
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But a man cannot put a word so in sense but
something
about it
will illustrate it, if the writer understand himself; for order helps
much to perspicuity, as confusion hurts.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Then swoll'n with pride into the snare I fell
Of fair fallacious looks,
venereal
trains,
Softn'd with pleasure and voluptuous life;
At length to lay my head and hallow'd pledge
Of all my strength in the lascivious lap
Of a deceitful Concubine who shore me
Like a tame Weather, all my precious fleece,
Then turn'd me out ridiculous, despoil'd,
Shav'n, and disarm'd among my enemies.
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Milton |
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begirt with bowers
And shouting with a
thousand
rills.
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Poe - 5 |
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Theseus
Rogues always have
recourse
to perjuries.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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This, then, is the one who implores, as he
dwindles
to silence,
A fanfare of glory.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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XVII
But from the
interview
what flowed?
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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what a life is this,
That your poor friends must woo your
company?
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Shakespeare |
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Daughter
Pholoe may succeed,
But mother Chloris what she touches mars.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Flowed up the hill and down King William Street,
To where Saint Mary
Woolnoth
kept the hours
With a dead sound on the final stroke of nine.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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his boat and
twinkling
oar.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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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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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Valour hath saved alive fierce lion-breeds
And many another
terrorizing
race,
Cunning the foxes, flight the antlered stags.
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Lucretius |
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The hum of multitudes was there, but multitudes of lambs,
Thousands of little boys and girls raising their
innocent
hands.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Its
feathers
float
Between the ends of his blue dress-coat;
With pea-green trowsers all so neat,
And a delicate frill to hide his feet
(For though no one speaks of it, every one knows
He has got no webs between his toes).
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Lear - Nonsense |
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By what was done and wrought
In season, and so brought
To light: her
measures
are, how well
Each syllabe answered, and was formed, how fair;
These make the lines of life, and that's her air!
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Him, whom it pleased for our great bitterness To come to earth to draw us from misventure, Who drank of death for our salvacioun,
Him do we pray as to a Lord most righteous And humble eke, that the young English King He please to pardon, as true pardon is,
And bid go in with
honoured
companions
There where there is no grief, nor shall be sadness.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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A
thousand
fingers pointed.
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Stephen Crane |
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JOHAN: The wind is good, and in three weeks I shall
be across the
Atlantic
unless the _Indian Girl_ should go to
the bottom.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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From the ilex grove there comes soft laughter,-- 5
My
companions
at their glad love-making,--
While that curly-headed boy from Naxos
With his jade flute marks the purple quiet.
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Sappho |
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Certainly not, replied Aper, nor shall the present age, unheard and
undefended, be
degraded
by a conspiracy.
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Tacitus |
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1115
Phaedra alone
bewitched
your lustful senses.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Vpon my Head they plac'd a fruitlesse Crowne,
And put a barren Scepter in my Gripe,
Thence to be wrencht with an vnlineall Hand,
No Sonne of mine succeeding: if't be so,
For Banquo's Issue haue I fil'd my Minde,
For them, the
gracious
Duncan haue I murther'd,
Put Rancours in the Vessell of my Peace
Onely for them, and mine eternall Iewell
Giuen to the common Enemie of Man,
To make them Kings, the Seedes of Banquo Kings.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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And while he hears,
I speak this word for omen in his ears:
"Aegisthus dies,
Aegisthus
dies.
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Euripides - Electra |
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"
Then a dream of great pomp rises o'er,
And it
conquers
the god that it bore,
Till a shout casts us down far beneath;
We so small, and so stript before death.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Till Laura dwindling 320
Seemed
knocking
at Death's door:
Then Lizzie weighed no more
Better and worse;
But put a silver penny in her purse,
Kissed Laura, crossed the heath with clumps of furze
At twilight, halted by the brook:
And for the first time in her life
Began to listen and look.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Whiter she is than Helen was,
The
loveliest
flower of May,
Full of courtesy, sweet lips she has,
And ever true word does say.
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Troubador Verse |
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_Quae per salebras_,
_altaque
saxa cadunt_.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Page [80]
636
Page 81
King Solomon's Book of Wisdom,
A BOOK OF MORAL PRECEPTS AND
PRACTICAL
ADVICE (lines 1-105),
Taken from the Laud MS.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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But I would
comprehend
Thee
As the wide Earth unfolds Thee.
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Rilke - Poems |
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THE INDIAN GIPSY
In
tattered
robes that hoard a glittering trace
Of bygone colours, broidered to the knee,
Behold her, daughter of a wandering race,
Tameless, with the bold falcon's agile grace,
And the lithe tiger's sinuous majesty.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Here is no sap for seed,
No ferment for your need--
Ungrateful
ground!
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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" The General turned towards me, and
smilingly
said--
"Mr.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Then a little
spindling
tutor
Ran importantly to the father, crying:
"Pray, come hither!
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Stephen Crane |
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"Gentle breeze, that wanderest unseen,
And bendest the thistles round Loira of storms,
Traveler
of the windy glens,
Why hast thou left my ear so soon?
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Fir'd at first sight with what the Muse imparts,
In
fearless
youth we tempt the heights of Arts, 220
While from the bounded level of our mind
Short views we take, nor see the lengths behind;
But more advanc'd, behold with strange surprise
New distant scenes of endless science rise!
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Alexander Pope |
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_"
[This
lamentation
was written, it is said, in allusion to the
sufferings of Jean Armour, when her correspondence with Burns was
discovered by her family.
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Robert Burns |
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Along the reaches of the street
Held in a lunar synthesis,
Whispering lunar incantations
Disolve the floors of memory
And all its clear relations,
Its
divisions
and precisions,
Every street lamp that I pass
Beats like a fatalistic drum,
And through the spaces of the dark
Midnight shakes the memory
As a madman shakes a dead geranium.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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and how your efforts and
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can help, see Sections 3 and 4
and the Foundation web page at http://www.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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What though my
healthful
days are fled,
And I lie number'd with the dead?
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Robert Herrick |
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e, 3if yow lyke3,
3if any were so
vilanous
?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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To SEND
DONATIONS or determine the status of compliance for any
particular
state
visit http://www.
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Stephen Crane |
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Ye vales, made vocal by my plaintive lay;
Ye streams, embitter'd with the tears of love;
Ye tenants of the sweet melodious grove;
Ye tribes that in the grass fringed
streamlet
play;
Ye tepid gales, to which my sighs convey
A softer warmth; ye flowery plains, that move
Reflection sad; ye hills, where yet I rove,
Since Laura there first taught my steps to stray;--
You, you are still the same!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Then, when so
completely
dressed,
Back they flew, and reached their nest.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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[The
Tragedie
of Macbeth by William Shakespeare 1603]
Actus Primus.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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du wirst mir's nicht
verwehren!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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"
Truly, I had the right to be proud of a so
courageous
renunciation.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Thou maruell'st at my words: but hold thee still,
Things bad begun, make strong
themselues
by ill:
So prythee goe with me.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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"Aloft, oh speed, down, down the
topsails!
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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XXVI
BEOWULF spake, bairn of Ecgtheow: --
"Lo, we
seafarers
say our will,
far-come men, that we fain would seek
Hygelac now.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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For the
puruyance
of god
hat yeuen to thinges ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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The Earl of
Leicester
here!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Perfumes were much in fashion, and Stubbes'
_Anatomy_
has a great
deal to say on the subject.
| Guess: |
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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My
meditations
were broken by
Saveliitch, who came into my room with a cup of tea.
| Guess: |
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Before ye want a drop of rain,
Hear the
sentiment
of Spain.
| Guess: |
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Emerson - Poems |
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But why this dwelling place, this life
Of
loneliness?
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Euripides - Electra |
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interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by
the applicable state law.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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since thee, of all mankind, I first
Encounter
in this land unknown, all hail!
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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And oft has heav'n
Before their troops the proud Castilians driv'n;
While Victory her eagle-wings display'd
Where'er their warriors wav'd the shining blade,
Nor rests unknown how Lusus' heroes stood
When Rome's ambition dyed the world with blood;
What
glorious
laurels Viriatus[79] gain'd,
How oft his sword with Roman gore was stain'd;
And what fair palms their martial ardour crown'd,
When led to battle by the chief renown'd,
Who[80] feign'd a daemon, in a deer conceal'd,
To him the counsels of the gods reveal'd.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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[621] Hyperbolus is incessantly railed at by
Aristophanes
as a traitor
and an informer.
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Aristophanes |
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von keiner Menschenseele zu fassen, dass mehr als ein Geschopf in die Tiefe
dieses Elendes versank, dass nicht das erste genugtat fur die Schuld aller
ubrigen in seiner windenden
Todesnot
vor den Augen des ewig Verzeihenden!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Now, at the present moment that peculiar British shyness for quoting
poetry seems to have largely
disappeared
in consequence of the writings
of soldier poets.
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Li Po |
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who is not
calumnious?
| Guess: |
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Then having bound the friar hand and foot,
And in another room his lady put,
He sallied forth his hapless lot to tell,
And to the mayor exposed the wily spell;
The corporation next; then up and down,
The secret he divulged
throughout
the town.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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or if those women you note
Reflect your
fabulous
senses' desire!
| Guess: |
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Mallarme - Poems |
|
1775
Ye may hir gilt in othere bokes see;
And
gladlier
I wole wryten, if yow leste,
Penolopees trouthe and good Alceste.
| Guess: |
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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"Yu, yu" / cry the
wandering
deer
As they carry fodder / to their young in the wood.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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I would be
heartily
out of humour with myself
if I thought I were capable of having so poor a notion of the sex,
which were designed to crown the pleasures of society.
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Robert Burns |
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I don't want to start
bellowing
the battle-cry.
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Aristophanes |
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Good-bye, two happy
children
in the light.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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the White Czar,
Batyushka!
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Longfellow |
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My throat sings the joy of my eyes,
The rushing
gladness
of my love.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Protect me always from like excess,
Virgin, who bore, without a cry,
Christ whom we
celebrate
at Mass.
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Villon |
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Then the priest bent
likewise
to the sod
And thanked the Lord of Love,
And Blessed Mary, Mother of God,
And all the saints above.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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_June_ 27, 1897
(_The_ 110_th_
_anniversary
of the completion of the_ "_Decline and
Fall_" _at the same hour and place_)
A SPIRIT seems to pass,
Formal in pose, but grave and grand withal:
He contemplates a volume stout and tall,
And far lamps fleck him through the thin acacias.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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I lay in the ether recesses,
I ate of the heavenly bread,
Ye sang of
celestial
journeys,
Ye sang of the glorious dead.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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This my long
sufferance
and my day of grace
They who neglect and scorn, shall never taste;
But hard be hard'nd, blind be blinded more, 200
That they may stumble on, and deeper fall;
And none but such from mercy I exclude.
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Milton |
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Say, do you know the
reprobate?
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Thus let thy rural
sanctuary
be
Elysium to thy wife and thee;
There to disport yourselves with golden measure:
_For seldom use commends the pleasure_.
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Robert Herrick |
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HORACE
_furtively
tugs at_ FUSCUS'S _gown, pinches him,
nods and winks to_ FUSCUS _to rescue him_.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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So, when you had risen
from all the lethargy of love and its heat,
you would have
summoned
me, me alone,
and found my hands,
beyond all the hands in the world,
cold, cold, cold,
intolerably cold and sweet.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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And if I were to die, it seemed sweeter
To give my life
fighting
in your honour.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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; and among the
translations
are "The
Destruction of Sennacherib," "On Waterloo," "To the Duke of Dorset,"
etc.
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Byron |
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