In a strain of
manly sorrow, and with that unprepared eloquence which the heart
inspires, he moved for a funeral at the public expence, and a monument
to the memory of virtue and
departed
genius.
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The letter is
evidently
written from London, where the plague is
prevalent.
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In Emily
Dickinson's exacting hands, the especial,
intrinsic
fitness of a
particular order of words might not be sacrificed to anything
virtually extrinsic; and her verses all show a strange cadence of
inner rhythmical music.
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The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
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O, would I had the old magician's glass
To see her as she lies in
childlike
sleep!
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On trees, I say,--
Not upon
gibbets!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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How all around, it chokes and swells
When we
approach
the things they cherished.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Title: War is Kind
Author: Stephen Crane
Release Date: October 24, 2011 [EBook #9870]
Language: English
*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WAR IS KIND ***
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To Lionel,
Though of great wealth and lineage high,
Yet through those dungeon walls there came _615
Thy thrilling light, O
Liberty!
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Shelley |
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Be added to your years what mine abate,
And in my
children
Paullus' age be blessed.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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AVARICE
Some, self-deceived, who think their lust of gold
Is but a love of fame, this maxim hold,
"No fortune is enough, since others rate
Our worth
proportioned
to a large estate.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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V
Wordless the night-wind, funereal plumes of the tree-tops swaying--
Writhing
and nodding anon at the beck of the unseen breeze!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Since his name is always
alliterated with vowels, it is
probable
that the original form was, as
Rieger (Zachers Ztschr.
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Beowulf |
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Nor could I rise with you,
Because your face
Would put out Jesus',
That new grace
Glow plain and foreign
On my
homesick
eye,
Except that you, than he
Shone closer by.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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We could not dream but that he had a soul:
What virtue breathed from out his
bravery!
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Sidney Lanier |
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Soul's Birth
When you were born, beloved, was your soul
New made by God to match your body's flower,
And were they both at one same
precious
hour
Sent forth from heaven as a perfect whole?
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Sara Teasdale |
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This, and what need full else
That call's vpon vs, by the Grace of Grace,
We will
performe
in measure, time, and place:
So thankes to all at once, and to each one,
Whom we inuite, to see vs Crown'd at Scone.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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_ O much hated
handicraft!
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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" I said,
"Be the year-bloom that
breathed
thee ever red,
Nor wither, yellow, down among the dead.
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Sidney Lanier |
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1904
THE
DRAMATIC
MOVEMENT
The National Theatre Society has had great difficulties because of
the lack of any suitable playhouse.
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Yeats |
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Whether a book is still in copyright varies from country to country, and we can't offer
guidance
on whether any specific use of any specific book is allowed.
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Meredith - Poems |
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tending to prove that the Rowley poems were written not by any ancient
author but
entirely
by Thomas Chatterton.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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It may farther be urged that if this reasoning be valid,--and if, for
the present, one text must be retained
uniformly
throughout,--the
natural plan is to take the earliest, and not the latest; and this has
some recommendations.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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For when he hath
put on the care of the public good and common safety, I am a wretch, and
put off man, if I do not
reverence
and honour him, in whose charge all
things divine and human are placed.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Wells are they without water,
Clouds carried with a tempest, unto whom
The mist of
darkness
is reserved forever.
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Longfellow |
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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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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Nearly all the individual
works in the
collection
are in the public domain in the United
States.
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Yeats |
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But the old forge and mill are shut and done,
The tower is crumbling down, stone by stone falls;
An ague doubt comes creeping in the sun,
The sun himself shudders, the day appals,
The
concourse
of a thousand tempests sprawls
Over the blue-lipped lakes and maddening groves,
Like agonies of gods the clouds are whirled,
The stormwind like the demon huntsman roves--
Still stands my friend, though all's to chaos hurled,
The unseen friend, the one last friend in all the world.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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_400
And as a shut lily stricken by the wand
Of dewy morning's vital alchemy,
'I rose; and, bending at her sweet command,
Touched with faint lips the cup she raised,
And suddenly my brain became as sand _405
'Where the first wave had more than half erased
The track of deer on desert Labrador;
Whilst the wolf, from which they fled amazed,
'Leaves his stamp visibly upon the shore,
Until the second bursts;--so on my sight _410
Burst a new vision, never seen before,
'And the fair shape waned in the coming light,
As veil by veil the silent splendour drops
From Lucifer, amid the chrysolite
'Of sunrise, ere it tinge the mountain-tops; _415
And as the presence of that fairest planet,
Although unseen, is felt by one who hopes
'That his day's path may end as he began it,
In that star's smile, whose light is like the scent
Of a jonquil when evening breezes fan it, _420
'Or the soft note in which his dear lament
The Brescian shepherd breathes, or the caress
That turned his weary slumber to content;
'So knew I in that light's severe excess
The presence of that Shape which on the stream _425
Moved, as I moved along the wilderness,
'More dimly than a day-appearing dream,
The host of a forgotten form of sleep;
A light of heaven, whose half-extinguished beam
'Through the sick day in which we wake to weep _430
Glimmers, for ever sought, for ever lost;
So did that shape its obscure tenour keep
'Beside my path, as silent as a ghost;
But the new Vision, and the cold bright car,
With solemn speed and
stunning
music, crossed _435
'The forest, and as if from some dread war
Triumphantly returning, the loud million
Fiercely extolled the fortune of her star.
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Shelley |
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Just in that instant, anxious Ariel sought
The close
recesses
of the Virgin's thought; 140
As on the nosegay in her breast reclin'd,
He watch'd th' Ideas rising in her mind,
Sudden he view'd, in spite of all her art,
An earthly Lover lurking at her heart.
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Alexander Pope |
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but when Urizen frownd She wept
In mists over his carved throne & when he turnd his back
Upon his Golden hall & sought the Labyrinthine porches
Of his wide heaven Trembling, cold in paling fears she sat
A Shadow of Despair
therefore
toward the West Urizen formd
A recess in the wall for fires to glow upon the pale
Females limbs in his absence & her Daughters oft upon
A Golden Altar burnt perfumes with Art Celestial formd
Foursquare sculpturd & sweetly Engravd to please their shadowy mother {"Pleasd" mended to "please.
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Blake - Zoas |
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The tablet of the
Assyrian
version which
carries the portion related on the new tablet has not been found.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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My Lud, if ever
Their ledgers are
balanced
true
Which of the pair?
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Tennyson |
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With unladen breasts,
Save of blown self-applause, they proudly mount
To their spirit's perch, their being's high account,
Their tiptop nothings, their dull skies, their thrones--
Amid the fierce
intoxicating
tones
Of trumpets, shoutings, and belabour'd drums,
And sudden cannon.
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Keats |
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His wise and patient heart shall share
The strong sweet
loveliness
of all things made, 10
And the serenity of inward joy
Beyond the storm of tears.
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Sappho |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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[The vehement
nationality
of this poem is but a small part of its
merit.
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Robert Forst |
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"
Thankless too for peace,
(Peace long preserved by fleets and
perilous
seas)
Secure from actual warfare, we have loved
To swell the war-whoop, passionate for war!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Half of my life has
entombed
the other,
I must revenge myself, this fatal blow,
For one no more, on one still here below.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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press me with thy little hand;
It loosens
something
at my chest;
About that tight and deadly band
I feel thy little fingers press'd.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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The gods denying, in just indignation,
Your walls,
bloodied
by that ancient instance
Of fraternal strife, a sure foundation.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Horace
describes
the noise and tumult of a
city life, and then says,
Scriptorum chorus omnis amat nemus, et fugit urbes.
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Tacitus |
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gelocen
leoðocræftum
= (1) _spell-bound_ (Th.
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Beowulf |
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FAUST:
Suss
Liebchen!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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You've stolen away that great power
My beauty
ordained
for me
Over priests and clerks, my hour,
When never a man I'd see
Would fail to offer his all in fee,
Whatever remorse he'd later show,
But what was abandoned readily,
Beggars now scorn to know.
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Villon |
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_Hee is iealous about his_ ring, _and_ Mere-craft
_deliuers
it.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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John mingles with my
friendly
bowl
The feast of reason and the flow of soul:
And he, whose lightning pierced the Iberian lines,
Now forms my quincunx, and now ranks my vines
Or tames the genius of the stubborn plain,
Almost as quickly as he conquered Spain.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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him at least thy love hath taught to sing,
And he hath been with thee at Thessaly,
And seen white
Atalanta
fleet of foot
In passionless and fierce virginity
Hunting the tusked boar, his honied lute
Hath pierced the cavern of the hollow hill,
And Venus laughs to know one knee will bow before her still.
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Wilde - Poems |
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1886), sed duodecim
fere locos attulit ex eius
carminibus
siue in opusculis post impressos,
siue in Vergili codice quodam enotatos quem itinerum comitem secum
habebat (De Nolhac _Petrarque et l'Humanisme_, p.
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Latin - Catullus |
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The
Princeton
University Press:--"To France," by Herbert Jones, from _A
Book of Princeton Verse_.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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If still Boris pursue his crafty ways,
Let us
contrive
by skilful means to rouse
The people.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Free of his
youthful
errors now, returning,
No unworthy obstacle would there delay him:
Ending his fatal inconstancy by her prayers, 25
Phaedra no longer has any such rival to fear.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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24 _Alii
dicunt hoc amplius, Ptolemaeum Beronices patrem multitudine
hostium perterritum, fuga salutem petiisse, filiam autem saepe
consuetam insiliisse in equum et reliquam exercitus copiam
constituisse et complures hostium interfecisse: pro quo etiam
Callimachus eam
magnanimam
dixit_
27 _atne_ BLa1 || _quo_ Muretus: _quam_ ?
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Latin - Catullus |
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Next Gaspar, of Mendoza's line--
Few noble stems but chose to join with mine:
Sandoval sometimes fears, and sometimes woos
Our smiles;
Manriquez
envies; Lara sues;
And Alancastre hates.
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Hugo - Poems |
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And Morn in secret shall renew the tear
Of
Consciousness
awaking to her woes,
And Fancy hover o'er thy bloodless bier,
Till my frail frame return to whence it rose,
And mourned and mourner lie united in repose.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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[555] What could be
more
contradictory?
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Aristophanes |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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It was a happy time,
when all
learning
was in manuscript, and some little
officer, like our author, did keep the keys of the
library : When the clergy needed no more knowledge
than to read the liturgy, and the laity no more clerk-
ship than to save them from hanging.
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Marvell - Poems |
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[19] This is to my
knowledge
the first occurence of the infinitive
of this verb, _paheru_, not _paharu_.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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TOOKS COURT,
CHANCERY
LANE, LONDON.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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hūru se
aldor dēah,
_especially
is the prince capable_, 369; ðonne his ellen dēah,
_if his strength avails, is good_, 573; þē him selfa dēah, _who is capable
of himself, who can rely on himself_, 1840; pres.
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Beowulf |
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Donne summarizes in these lines the old
concentric arrangement of the
Universe
as we find it in Dante.
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John Donne |
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IN THE
MOUNTAINS
ON A SUMMER DAY
Gently I stir a white feather fan,
With open shirt, sitting in a green wood.
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Li Po |
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No, but the soul
Void of words, and this heavy body,
Succumb to noon's proud silence slowly:
With no more ado,
forgetting
blasphemy, I
Must sleep, lying on the thirsty sand, and as I
Love, open my mouth to wine's true constellation!
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Mallarme - Poems |
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He must never speak to any one in equal tones,
But be by his own dazzling
weightiness
fatigued.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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But Eugene
Stood as if struck by
lightning
fire.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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strēam ūt brecan of beorge, _saw a stream break out from the rocks_,
2547; lēt se hearda
Higelāces
þegn brādne mēce .
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Beowulf |
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Well, if Albert won't leave you alone, there it is, I said,
What you get married for if you don't want
children?
| Guess: |
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Perfect-paired as eagle's wings,
Justice is the rhyme of things;
Trade and
counting
use
The self-same tuneful muse;
And Nemesis,
Who with even matches odd,
Who athwart space redresses
The partial wrong,
Fills the just period,
And finishes the song.
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Emerson - Poems |
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"*
Marvell sketches the early history and character
of Parker in both parts of the
Rehearsal
— though,
as might be expected, with greater severity in the
second than in the first.
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Marvell - Poems |
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And through the solitudes remote and strange
The golden gloss of eve, from tree to tree,
Descends, amid the yellow, flamingly,
Then
darksome
mists o'er darksome bushes range.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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The lists are oped, the
spacious
area cleared,
Thousands on thousands piled are seated round;
Long ere the first loud trumpet's note is heard,
No vacant space for lated wight is found:
Here dons, grandees, but chiefly dames abound,
Skilled in the ogle of a roguish eye,
Yet ever well inclined to heal the wound;
None through their cold disdain are doomed to die,
As moon-struck bards complain, by Love's sad archery.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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_ From the temple to your home
May a
thousand
blessings come!
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
|
If you are redistributing or
providing
access to a work
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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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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His wise and patient heart shall share
The strong sweet loveliness of all things made, 10
And the
serenity
of inward joy
Beyond the storm of tears.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
|
--Alcaeus near,
Who sung the joys of Love and toils severe,
Was seen with Pindar and the Teian swain,
A veteran gay among the
youthful
train
Of Cupid's host.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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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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Yet fals was he, but his falsnesse
Ne coude he not espye, nor gesse;
For semblant was so slye wrought,
That
falsnesse
he ne espyed nought.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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But now I must do
somethyng
more than sighe;
And then an arrowe from the bowe drew he.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Among other things, this
requires
that you do not remove, alter or modify the
etext or this "small print!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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manis colamus, namque opertis manibus
diuina uis est
aeuiterni
temporis.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Morn is supposed to be,
By people of degree,
The
breaking
of the day.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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All her hounds are dead, her beautiful hounds are dead,
That paced beside the hoofs of her high and nimble horse,
Or
streaked
in lean pursuit of the tawny hare that fled
Out of the yellow gorse.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Perhaps 'twas brought here as a pawn,
In place of
something
mother lent.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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If you
do not charge anything for copies of this eBook,
complying
with the
rules is very easy.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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LXXXIII
With warlike trumpet, drum, and sound of horn,
The people make the land and welkin roar;
Summoning thus their chieftain to return,
And end of
unfinished
warfare.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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"Or we'll into the realm of Faery,
Among the lovely shades of things;
The shadowy forms of
mountains
bare,
And streams, and bowers, and ladies fair,
The shades of palaces and kings!
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William Wordsworth |
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There are, who to my person pay their court:
I cough like _Horace_, and, tho' lean, am short,
_Ammon's_ great son one
shoulder
had too high, 115
Such _Ovid's_ nose, and "Sir!
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Alexander Pope |
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THE TALISMAN
FROM THE RUSSIAN OF
ALEXANDER
PUSHKIN
WITH OTHER PIECES
Contents:
The Talisman
The Mermaid
Ancient Russian Song
Ancient Ballad
The Renegade
THE TALISMAN
From the Russian of Pushkin.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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He is right scrupulous in one pretext
And wholesale errors
swallows
in the next.
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John Clare |
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And the charm of the singing rapt me,
As I held, as if by their hands, my
Comrades
in the night;
And the voice of my spirit tallied the song of the bird.
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Whitman |
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[Sidenote: I shall not speak of your
happiness
in being provided
for (in your orphanage) by the chief men of the city; nor of your
noble alliance with Festus and Symmachus;]
I holde me stille how ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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XX
While there is many an unpleasant sound, I hate to hear barking
Worse than
anything
else.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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NIGHT IN NEW YORK
Haunted by unknown feet--
Ways of the
midnight
hour!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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are my
Emanations
Enion [Come Forth,] O Enion
We are become a Victim to the Living We hide in secret*
I have hidden thee Enion, in Jealous Despair Jerusalem in Silent Contrition O Pity Me
I will build thee a Labyrinth also O pity me O Enionwhere we may remain for ever alone
Why hast thou taken sweet Jerusalem from my inmost Soul
Let her Lay secret in the Soft recess of darkness & silence
It is not Love I bear to Enitharmon [Jerusalem?
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Blake - Zoas |
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our sun is overcast,--
Nay, rather borne to heaven, and there is shining,
Waiting our coming, and perchance repining
At our delay; there shall we meet at last:
And there, mine ears, her angel words float past,
Those who best
understand
their sweet divining;
Howe'er, my feet, unto the search inclining,
Ye cannot reach her in those regions vast.
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Petrarch |
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Gainst four
assaults
easily did they fare,
But then the fifth brought heavy griefs to bear.
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Chanson de Roland |
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IV
Yet when within my heart I gaze
Upon my fair beyond the waters, Meseems my soul within me prays
To pass
straightway
beyond the waters.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Daughters
of Jove, assist!
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Iliad - Pope |
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My thoughts on former
pleasures
ran;
I thought of Kilve's delightful shore,
My pleasant home, when spring began,
A long, long year before.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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