"Shut, shut those juggling eyes, thou
ruthless
man!
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Keats - Lamia |
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What me is tid a sory
chaunce!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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"Against the subtleties which would make poetry a study-not a passion-it
becomes the
metaphysician
to reason-but the poet to protest.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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The fifth fair morn we stem the
Aegyptian
tide,
And tilting o'er the bay the vessels ride:
To anchor there my fellows I command,
And spies commission to explore the land.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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The moss
reprints
more tenderly
The hard types of the mason's knife,
As heaven's sweet life renews earth's life
With which we're tired, my heart and I.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Was peynted POVERT al aloon, 450
That not a peny hadde in wolde,
Al-though [that] she hir clothes solde,
And though she shulde
anhonged
be;
For naked as a worm was she.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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SCHULER:
An ihrem Hals will ich mit Freuden hangen;
Doch sagt mir nur, wie kann ich
hingelangen?
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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_Ninth Edition_,
_December
1909_.
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Wilde - Poems |
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also
_mahasu_
break, hammer and construct.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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There is no time like Spring,
Like Spring that passes by;
There is no life like Spring-life born to die,--
Piercing the sod,
Clothing
the uncouth clod,
Hatched in the nest,
Fledged on the windy bough,
Strong on the wing:
There is no time like Spring that passes by,
Now newly born, and now
Hastening to die.
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Christina Rossetti |
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At length she ope'd a door, and pushed the sage,
Where most
unpleasantly
he must engage,
Though doubtless ev'ry way his proper place:--
The school where he was used the LAWS to trace!
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La Fontaine |
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_
Speak but so loud as doth a wasted moon
To
Tyrrhene
waters.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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In a sweat he arose; and the storm
shrieked
shrill,
And smote as in savage joy;
While High-Stoy trees twanged to Bubb-Down Hill,
And Bubb-Down to High-Stoy.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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As I held out my arms 1495
The gods
impatiently
hastened to do him harm?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Two we were, with one heart blessed:
If heart's dead, yes, then I foresee,
I'll die, or I must
lifeless
be,
Like those statues made of lead.
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Villon |
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I
have been much
indebted
since that time to your story and sentiments
for steeling my mind against evils, of which I have had a pretty
decent share.
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Robert Burns |
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and when it meets,
They'll torture him again; and he and I
Must purchase by renewal of the rack
The interview of husband and of wife,
The holiest tie beneath the
Heavens!
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Byron |
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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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Emerson - Poems |
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A temple worthy of so
important
a
city was then built in the quarter called Rhacotis, on the site of an
ancient temple of Serapis and Isis.
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Tacitus |
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those lustrous eyes,
Which
tearfully
beheld the cruel prints
In the fair limbs of thy beloved Son,
Ah!
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Petrarch |
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Such
men could not well
flourish
in any other age than
that of Charles II.
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Marvell - Poems |
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The
embassy of the young
Tarquins
to the oracle at Delphi is just
such a story as would be told by a poet whose head was full of
the Greek mythology; and the ambiguous answer returned by Apollo
is in the exact style of the prophecies which, according to
Herodotus, lured Croesus to destruction.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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thine
uttermost
hope:
Level red gold with blue sky-slope,
And base it deep as devils grope:
When all's done, what hast thou won
Of the only sweet that's under the sun?
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Sidney Lanier |
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This is
also a good way to get them
instantly
upon announcement, as the
indexes our cataloguers produce obviously take a while after an
announcement goes out in the Project Gutenberg Newsletter.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Compliance
requirements are not uniform and it takes a
considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up
with these requirements.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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But why should I keep my
thoughts
to myself?
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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- You provide, in accordance with
paragraph
1.
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| Question: |
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Hugo - Poems |
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Thus, we do not necessarily
keep eBooks in compliance with any
particular
paper edition.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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29) says that 'overlashing
in apparel is so common a fault, that the verye
hyerlings
of
some of our plaiers, which stand at reversion of vi^s by
the weeke, jet under gentlemens noses in sutes of silke.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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All
creation
slept and smiled.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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CHORUS:
May I, as in libations to a God,
Share in the
blinding
him with the red brand?
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Shelley |
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Till Love even from fierce Desire it bought,
And from the very wound of tender thought
Drew solace, and the pity of sweet eyes
Gave
strength
to bear those gentle agonies, _35
Surmount the loss, the terror, and the sorrow.
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Shelley |
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A spirit
heavenly
pure, a living sun,
Was what I saw; and if no more 'twere seen,
T' unbend the bow will never heal the wound.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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They listen to the beat
Of the
hammered
bell,
And think of the feet
Which beat upon their tops;
But what they think they do not tell.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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It was not ripe yet to sustain
A genius of so fine a strain,
Who gazed upon the sun and moon
As if he came unto his own,
And,
pregnant
with his grander thought,
Brought the old order into doubt.
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Emerson - Poems |
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It may be
wilderness
without,
Far feet of failing men,
But holiday excludes the night,
And it is bells within.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Warden he'd been to king Marsilion,
And lord, by sea, of four hundred dromonds;
No sailor was but called his name upon;
Jerusalem he'd taken by treason,
Violated the Temple of Salomon,
The
Partiarch
had slain before the fonts.
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Chanson de Roland |
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The poems of The Ruins of Rome belong to the
beginning
of his four and a half year residence in Italy.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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the few words which, like great thunder-drops,
Thy large heart down to earth shook doubtfully,
Thrilled by the inward
lightning
of its might,
Serene and pure, like gushing joy of light,
Shall track the eternal chords of Destiny,
After the moon-led pulse of ocean stops.
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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Saint Peter sat by the celestial gate:
His keys were rusty, and the lock was dull,
So little trouble had been given of late;
Not that the place by any means was full,
But since the Gallic era "eighty-eight"
The Devils had ta'en a longer,
stronger
pull,
And "a pull altogether," as they say
At sea--which drew most souls another way.
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Byron |
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Lastly, too, all wit
In utter
darkness
did, and still will sit,
Sleeping the luckless age out, till that she
Her resurrection has again with thee.
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Robert Herrick |
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IVVENES
Vt uidua in nudo uitis quae nascitur aruo,
numquam se extollit, numquam mitem educat uuam, 50
sed tenerum prono deflectens pondere corpus,
iam iam contingit summum radice flagellum,
hanc nulli agricolae, nulli coluere iuuenci:
at si forte eadem est ulmo coniuncta marito,
multi illam agricolae, multi
accoluere
iuuenci: 55
sic uirgo dum intacta manet, dum inculta senescit;
cum par conubium maturo tempore adepta est,
cara uiro magis et minus est inuisa parenti.
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Latin - Catullus |
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Ni quod inomati Triviae sint forte capilli,
Huic sed
sollicit^
distribuantur acu.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Gilgamish
is enamoured of the beautiful virgin goddess Ishara, and Enkidu,
fearing the effeminate effects of his friend's attachment, prevents
him
forcibly
from entering a house.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Then my Joy grew pale and weary because no other heart but mine
held its
loveliness
and no other lips kissed its lips.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Across the glittering pastures
And empty upland still
And solitude of shepherds
High in the folded hill,
By hanging woods and hamlets
That gaze through orchards down
On many a windmill turning
And far-discovered town,
With gay regards of promise
And sure
unslackened
stride
And smiles and nothing spoken
Led on my merry guide.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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They hoy't out Will, wi' sair advice;
They hecht him some fine braw ane;
It chanc'd the stack he faddom't thrice^13
Was timmer-propt for thrawin:
He taks a swirlie auld moss-oak
For some black,
grousome
carlin;
An' loot a winze, an' drew a stroke,
Till skin in blypes cam haurlin
Aff's nieves that night.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Three drops alone
Mix with her drink, and nature
Into a deep and
pleasant
sleep is thrown.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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'
So spoke he, his face wet with
abundant
weeping.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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_ cernis ut adtrito diffusus caespite pagus
annua uota ferat
sollemnisque
imbuat aras?
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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O the
darkness
of the corners,
the warm air, and the stars
framed in the casement of the ships' lights!
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Imagists |
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A washed-out
smallpox
cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone With all the old nocturnal smells
That cross and cross across her brain.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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deceased
and other Gentlemen.
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John Donne |
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_ Reverence thou,
Adore thou, flatter thou,
whomever
reigns,
Whenever reigning!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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At midnight once the
storming
Army came,
Yet do I see the miserable sight,
The Bayonet, the Soldier, and the Flame
That followed us and faced us in our flight:
When Rape and Murder by the ghastly light
Seized their joint prey, the Mother and the Child!
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Whanne Dacya's sonnes, whose hayres of bloude-redde hue 5
Lyche kynge-cuppes brastynge wythe the morning due,
Arraung'd ynne dreare arraie,
Upponne the lethale daie,
Spredde farre and wyde onne Watchets shore;
Than dyddst thou
furiouse
stande, 10
And bie thie valyante hande
Beesprengedd all the mees wythe gore.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Must I go starved because some
stranger
dies?
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Benbow, and
Lawrence
_v_.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
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Who will be happier,
shouldst
thou always weep?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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He who but yesterday pleaded so glibly the cause of another,
Stood there
embarrassed
and silent, and seeking in vain for an answer.
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| Question: |
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Longfellow |
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--
Awaking with a start,
The waters heave around me; and on high
The winds lift up their voices: I depart,
Whither I know not; but the hour's gone by,
When Albion's
lessening
shores could grieve or glad mine eye.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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And on her head, lest spirit should invade,
A
pentacle
for more assurance tied.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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O how charmingly Nature hath array'd thee
With the soft green grass and juicy clover,
And with corn-flowers
blooming
and luxuriant.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Th' ascent is easie then;
Th' event is fear'd; should we again provoke
Our stronger, some worse way his wrath may find
To our destruction: if there be in Hell
Fear to be worse destroy'd: what can be worse
Then to dwell here, driv'n out from bliss, condemn'd
In this
abhorred
deep to utter woe;
Where pain of unextinguishable fire
Must exercise us without hope of end
The Vassals of his anger, when the Scourge 90
Inexorably, and the torturing houre
Calls us to Penance?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
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'And we are put on earth a little space,
That we may learn to bear the beams of love;
And these black bodies and this
sunburnt
face
Are but a cloud, and like a shady grove.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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old with young, the
Bactrian
force hath perished at our side!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Aeschylus |
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"Begin, my flute, with me
Maenalian
lays.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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"
All tenants of an ancient place
And heirs of noble heritage,
Coeval they with Adam's race
And blest with more
substantial
age.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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O my abandoned youth is dead
Like a garland faded
Here the season comes again
Of suspicion and disdain
The landscape's formed of canvasses
A false stream of blood flows down
And under the tree the stars glow fresh
The only passer by's a clown
The glass in the frame has cracked
An air defined uncertainly
Hovers between sound and thought
Between 'to be' and memory
O my abandoned youth is dead
Like a garland faded
Here the season comes again
Of suspicion and disdain
The Bestiary: or Orpheus's Procession
(Le Bestiaire ou Cortege d'Orphee)
Orpheus
Orpheus, Making Music for the Animals
'Orpheus, Making Music for the Animals'
Adriaen Collaert, 1570 - 1618, The Rijksmuseun
Admire the vital power
And nobility of line:
It's the voice that the light made us understand here
That Hermes
Trismegistus
writes of in Pimander.
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Appoloinaire |
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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_
You see my hurried life, Madam: I can only command starts of time;
however, I am glad of one thing; since I finished the other sheet, the
political blast that
threatened
my welfare is overblown.
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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his comes umbra tuast; siquast modo
corporis
umbra,
auxisti numeros, culte Tibulle, pios.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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"
So your
chimneys
I sweep, and in soot I sleep.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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FAUST:
Und mach, und richt's nach meinem Sinn,
Hang dich an ihre
Nachbarin!
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Since you refuse justice to all my claims,
Sire, let me have my recourse to weapons;
That's how he
perpetrated
his offence,
And that is how I now seek vengeance.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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Sonnet On
Receiving
A Favour
10 Aug.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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The lizard leapt: the
sunlight
played:
She heard the callow nestling lisp,
And brimful meadow-runnels crisp.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
|
The variation in printed characters between the dominant motif, a secondary one and those adjacent, marks its importance for oral utterance and the scale, mid-way, at top or bottom of the page will show how the
intonation
rises or falls.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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"
The Wind that blows between the worlds, it cut him like a knife,
And
Tomlinson
took up the tale and spoke of his sin in life:--
"Once I ha' laughed at the power of Love and twice at the grip of the Grave,
And thrice I ha' patted my God on the head that men might call me brave.
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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Copyright laws in most
countries
are in
a constant state of change.
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| Question: |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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-yang[37]
summoned
us, blowing on his jade _sh?
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When America does what was promised,
When there are
plentiful
athletic bards, inland and sea-board,
When through these States walk a hundred millions of superb persons,
When the rest part away for superb persons, and contribute to them,
When breeds of the most perfect mothers denote America,
Then to me my due fruition.
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100) gives a list of famous
executions
at this place, and says that
'in the year 1399, Henry IV.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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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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) At the Close of the Fasting Month, Ramazan (which makes the
Mussulman unhealthy and unamiable), the first Glimpse of the New Moon
(who rules their
division
of the Year) is looked for with the utmost
Anxiety, and hailed with Acclamation.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Hardly the
springtime
knows
For which today the cuckoo calls,
And the white blossom blows.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Conversing with the visions of Beulah in dark slumberous bliss *
Nine years they view the turning spheres of Beulah reading the Visions of Beulah
Night the Second {inserted above the following lines LFS}
But the two
youthful
wonders wanderd in the world of Tharmas *
Thy name is Enitharmon; said the bright fierce prophetic boy *
[While they.
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Blake - Zoas |
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how shall you look for
wit from him whose leisure and head,
assisted
with the examination of his
eyes, yield you no life or sharpness in his writing?
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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The Project
Gutenberg
EBook of The Oxford Book of Latin Verse, by Various
This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
almost no restrictions whatsoever.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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The person or entity that provided you with
the
defective
work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a
refund.
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Rilke - Poems |
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But fresh, as from the mint, the
courtiers
fine
Salute them, smiling at their vain design ;
And Turner gay up to his perch doth march.
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Marvell - Poems |
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I was allowing myself to be completely cast
down, and I dreaded either becoming mad or dissolute, when events
suddenly occurred which
strongly
influenced my life, and gave my mind a
profound and salutary rousing.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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And in thy
footsteps
firmly plant my steps,
Not bent so much to rival as for love
To copy.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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When the shadow with fatal law menaced me
A certain old dream, sick desire of my spine,
Beneath
funereal
ceilings afflicted by dying
Folded its indubitable wing there within me.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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No matter--wrong was right and right was wrong,
And freedom's bawl was
sanction
to the song.
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John Clare |
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Already my spirit, longing for better ways,
Paces through my flesh, rebelliously,
And already brings the victim fuel to feed
His
immolation
in your vision's rays.
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Ronsard |
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that record could with a backward look,
Even of five hundred courses of the sun,
Show me your image in some antique book,
Since mind at first in
character
was done!
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Thus disencumber'd from the heavier weight,
The lesser may aside be easier laid,
And the freed pilgrim win the crystal gate;
So teaching us, since all things that are made
Hasten to death, how light must be his soul
Who treads the perilous pass,
unscathed
and whole!
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Petrarch |
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