Her body was a thing grown thin,
Hungry for love that never came;
Her soul was frozen in the dark
Unwarmed
forever by love's flame.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Pope uses it here
for some conceited dramatist who thinks none the less of himself because
his tragedy is
rejected
with shouts of laughter.
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Alexander Pope |
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How I heard you flap and rustle, cloth
defiant!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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On dirait qu'ils
penetrent
le verre.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Full swells the deep pure fountain of young life,
Where ON the heart and FROM the heart we took
Our first and
sweetest
nurture, when the wife,
Blest into mother, in the innocent look,
Or even the piping cry of lips that brook
No pain and small suspense, a joy perceives
Man knows not, when from out its cradled nook
She sees her little bud put forth its leaves--
What may the fruit be yet?
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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At morn my sick heart hunger
scarcely
stung,
Nor to the beggar's language could I frame my tongue.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Guillaume
Apollinaire
(1880-1918)
Guillaume Apollinaire
'Guillaume Apollinaire'
Guillaume Apollinaire - Wybor Poezji", Zak?
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Iris would ever have more
justly
suffered
death.
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Aristophanes |
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Arrows fall thick: the
warriors
press forward.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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145
When, as becomes a man who would prepare
For such an arduous work, I through myself
Make
rigorous
inquisition, the report
Is often cheering; for I neither seem
To lack that first great gift, the vital soul, 150
Nor general Truths, which are themselves a sort
Of Elements and Agents, Under-powers,
Subordinate helpers of the living mind:
Nor am I naked of external things,
Forms, images, nor numerous other aids 155
Of less regard, though won perhaps with toil
And needful to build up a Poet's praise.
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William Wordsworth |
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Hast thou found any fire
Will draw from our hearts a smoke of burn'd
idolatrous
desire?
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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She Who Was the Helmet-Maker's
Beautiful
Wife
'She Who Was the Helmet-Maker's Beautiful Wife'
Auguste Rodin (France, 1840 - 1917)
LACMA Collections
That's how the bon temps we regret
Among us, poor old idiots,
Squatting on our haunches, set
All in a heap like woollen lots
Round a hemp fire men forgot,
Soon kindled, and soon dust,
Once so lovely, that cocotte.
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Villon |
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The pestilential
influence
of this horrid place
empoisons the pure air of Vaucluse, and will compel me to quit my
retirement.
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Petrarch |
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Day had
awakened
all things that be,
The lark and the thrush and the swallow free,
And the milkmaid's song and the mower's scythe
And the matin-bell and the mountain bee: _20
Fireflies were quenched on the dewy corn,
Glow-worms went out on the river's brim,
Like lamps which a student forgets to trim:
The beetle forgot to wind his horn,
The crickets were still in the meadow and hill: _25
Like a flock of rooks at a farmer's gun
Night's dreams and terrors, every one,
Fled from the brains which are their prey
From the lamp's death to the morning ray.
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Shelley |
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Now have they made a
sleepless
winter for us.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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In my
intercourse
with the Chinese I cannot recall a modern
Chinese who was a poet.
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Li Po |
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That ground will take no
footprint!
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Euripides - Electra |
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) Dear Marmaduke,
My words were rashly spoken; I recal them:
I feel my error;
shedding
human blood
Is a most serious thing.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Yonder,
lightening
other loads,
The seasons range the country roads,
But here in London streets I ken
No such helpmates, only men;
And these are not in plight to bear,
If they would, another's care.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Often they stood to face the enemies' ranks
All upright as a flame in
windless
air,
Wearing their arm and the bright skill of swords
Like spirits clad in flashing fire of heaven;
And now in darken'd rooms they lie afraid
And whimper if the nurse moves suddenly.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Or the
glistening
Eye to the poison of a smile!
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blake-poems |
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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) (To
GREGORY)
Why don't you join
in the song?
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth
in
paragraph
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Rilke - Poems |
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It seemed to me that the snowstorm
continued, and that we were
wandering
in the snowy desert.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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behold
Nature asham'd, or better to express,
Troubl'd that thou should'st hunger, hath purvey'd
From all the
Elements
her choicest store
To treat thee as beseems, and as her Lord
With honour, only deign to sit and eat.
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Milton |
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The American bards shall be marked for generosity and affection and for
encouraging competitors: they shall be kosmos--without
monopoly
or
secrecy--glad to pass anything to any one--hungry for equals night and day.
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Whitman |
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By his first
marriage
the elder Baudelaire had one son,
Claude, who, like his half-brother Charles, died of paralysis, though a
steady man of business.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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A grave, on which to rest from
singing?
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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What groves or lawns
Held you, ye Dryad-maidens, when for love-
Love all
unworthy
of a loss so dear-
Gallus lay dying?
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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The glory of evening was spread through the west;
--On the slope of a
mountain
I stood;
While the joy that precedes the calm season of rest
Rang loud through the meadow and wood.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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And if his herte to love be set,
His
companye
is muche the bet,
For resoun wol, he shewe to thee 2875
Al uttirly his privite;
And what she is he loveth so,
To thee pleynly he shal undo,
Withoute drede of any shame,
Bothe telle hir renoun and hir name.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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The tradition apparently rests on no better basis than
Herrick's Christian name, and of the poems in the issues of the
_Almanack_ which I have seen, it may be said, that, while the worst of
them, save for some lack of
neatness
of turn, might conceivably have
been by Herrick--on the principle that if Herrick could write some of
his epigrams, he could write anything--the more ambitious poems it is
quite impossible to attribute to the author of the _Hesperides_.
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Robert Herrick |
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You used
occasionally
to sermonize too; I wish
you would, in charity, favour me with a sheet full in your own way.
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Robert Forst |
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She is
immortal
made!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any
word
processing
or hypertext form.
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Stephen Crane |
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It surely is far sweeter and more wise
To water love, than toil to leave anon
A name whose glory-gleam will but advise
Invidious minds to quench it with their own,
And over which the
kindliest
will but stay
A moment, musing, "He, too, had his day!
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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and even of the other wealth
That is collected among woods and fields,
Far more: for Nature's
secondary
grace 315
Hath hitherto been barely touched upon,
The charm more superficial that attends
Her works, as they present to Fancy's choice
Apt illustrations of the moral world,
Caught at a glance, or traced with curious pains.
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William Wordsworth |
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"
{29c} On the historical raid into Frankish
territory
between 512 and
520 A.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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"
To whom incensed: "Should we, O prince, engage
In rival tasks beneath the burning rage
Of summer suns; were both constrain'd to wield
Foodless the scythe along the burden'd field;
Or should we labour while the
ploughshare
wounds,
With steers of equal strength, the allotted grounds,
Beneath my labours, how thy wondering eyes
Might see the sable field at once arise!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Thus, we do not necessarily
keep eBooks in
compliance
with any particular paper edition.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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And their friends, the
loitering
heirs of city directors; 180
Departed, have left no addresses.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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But the night wind
Is chilly--and these
melancholy
boughs
Throw over all things a gloom.
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Poe - 5 |
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* * * * *
In the above
criticisms
I feel that I may have done what critics are so
apt to do.
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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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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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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"--"How in the light supreme
Thou harbour'st, and from thence the virtue bring'st,
That,
sparkling
in thine eyes, denotes thy joy,
I mark; but, who thou art, am still to seek;
Or wherefore, worthy spirit!
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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There are twenty of Roslin's baron's bold
Lie buried within that proud chapelle;
Each one the holy vault doth hold,
But the sea holds lovely
Rosabelle!
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Golden Treasury |
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unless a
copyright
notice is included.
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Golden Treasury |
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YESTERDAY
This Day's Madness did prepare;
TO-MORROW's Silence, Triumph, or Despair:
Drink!
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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And then I thought there grew
Still waters on my sight,
unshored
and blue.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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He can lowliest change
And loftiest; bring the mighty down
And lift the weak; with
whirring
flight
Comes Fortune, plucks the monarch's crown,
And decks therewith some meaner wight.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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zip *****
This and all
associated
files of various formats will be found in:
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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THE HUMAN ABSTRACT
Pity would be no more
If we did not make
somebody
poor,
And Mercy no more could be
If all were as happy as we.
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blake-poems |
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)
Bestows one final
patronising
kiss,
And gropes his way, finding the stairs unlit .
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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' The pregnant use of the
verb
_timing_
and the unusual use of the word _terms_ for a period of
time render the meaning peculiarly difficult.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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We do not solicit
donations
in locations
where we have not received written confirmation of compliance.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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He warmed waters to bathe our feet, 32 and cut paper
streamers
to call back our souls.
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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I do dine to-day at the father's of a certain pupil of
mine; where, if, before repast, it shall please you to gratify
the table with a grace, I will, on my
privilege
I have with the
parents of the foresaid child or pupil, undertake your ben
venuto; where I will prove those verses to be very unlearned,
neither savouring of poetry, wit, nor invention.
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Shakespeare |
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Fierce in the fight their nostrils
breathed
a flame,
Their height, their colour, and their age the same;
O'er fields of death they whirl the rapid car,
And break the ranks, and thunder through the war.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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or is this the play
Of fond
illusion?
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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But howling Winter fled afar
To hills that prop the polar star;
And loves on deer-borne car to ride
With barren darkness at his side
Round the shore where loud Lofoden
Whirls to death the roaring whale,
Round the hall where Runic Odin
Howls his war-song to the gale--
Save when adown the ravaged globe
He travels on his native storm,
Deflowering Nature's grassy robe
And trampling on her faded form;
Till light's returning Lord assume
The shaft that drives him to his
northern
fields,
Of power to pierce his raven plume
And crystal-cover'd shield.
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Golden Treasury |
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Rilke - Poems |
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Said the Duck to the Kangaroo,
"Good
gracious!
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Lear - Nonsense |
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O, this world's
transience!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Parsifal
Parsifal has conquered the girls, their sweet
Chatter, amusing lust - and his inclination,
A virgin boy's, towards the Flesh, tempted
To love the little tits and gentle babble;
He's conquered lovely Woman, of subtle
Heart, showing her cool arms,
provoking
breast;
He's conquered Hell, returned to his tent,
With a weighty trophy on his boyish arm.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Keats
called him "the poets' poet," a title which has been
universally
approved.
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Take up the basket, 'tis a
question
of getting to the feast.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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[_The Attendant leads_
HERACLES
_into the house_.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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Shuttleworthy had met with foul play, I never saw
any one so profoundly
affected
as "Old Charley Goodfellow.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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The willows
Are
yellowed
with bud.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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Gavin Hamilton--Holy Willie and his
priest, Father Auld, after full hearing in the
presbytery
of Ayr, came
off but second best; owing partly to the oratorical powers of Mr.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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your use, remember that you are responsible for ensuring that what you are doing is legal.
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
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O wonder now
unfurled!
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| Question: |
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Still at the water's side she holds her place,
Her bodice bright is set with Genoa lace;
O'er her rich robe, through every satin fold,
Wanders an
arabesque
in threads of gold.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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on ocean's wave
Thy star shall glitter o'er the brave;
When Death,
careering
on the gale,
Sweeps darkly round the bellied sail,
And frighted waves rush wildly back
Before the broadside's reeling rack,
The dying wanderer of the sea
Shall look, at once, to heaven and thee,
And smile, to see thy splendors fly,
In triumph, o'er his closing eye.
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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He lifted his head from his drinking, as cattle do,
And looked at me vaguely, as drinking cattle do,
And
flickered
his two-forked tongue from his lips, and mused a moment,
And stooped and drank a little more,
Being earth-brown, earth-golden from the burning bowels of the earth
On the day of Sicilian July, with Etna smoking.
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Hrothgar
will set aside this feud by giving his daughter as
"peace-weaver" and wife to the young king Ingeld, son of the slain
Froda.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Here Hector, plunging through the
thickest
fight,
Broke the dark phalanx, and let in the light:
(By the long lance, the sword, or ponderous stone.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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uxor in thalamo tibi est,
ore
floridulo
nitens
Alba parthenice uelut
luteumue papauer.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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But that's little use to me,
She holds me in
suspense
I vow
Like a ship upon the sea.
| Guess: |
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Can I, said she, the paths of honour quit,
And in my bed a
loathsome
brute permit?
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Quant l'aura doussa s'amarzis
When the sweet air turns bitter,
Rigaut de
Berbezilh
(fl.
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Lest there grow
From thee the
avenger?
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She has a world of ready wealth,
Our minds and hearts to bless--
Spontaneous
wisdom breathed by health,
Truth breathed by cheerfulness.
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He is
charming
when he says, 'Take no thought
for the morrow; is not the soul more than meat?
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When a Northern Indian, from sickness, is unable to continue his journey
with his companions; he is left behind, covered over with Deer-skins,
and is supplied with water, food, and fuel if the
situation
of the place
will afford it.
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But within this fretted shell,
The wonder of Love made visible,
The King a private gentle mood
There placed, of
pleasant
quietude.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Lotus-maiden, may you be
Fragrant
of all ecstasy.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Canynge was ordained _Acolythe_ by Bishop Carpenter on
19
September
1467, and received the higher orders of _Sub-deacon,
Deacon_, and _Priest_, on the 12th of March, 1467, O.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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To learn more about the Project
Gutenberg
Literary Archive Foundation
and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4
and the Foundation web page at http://www.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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"
Struck with horror, I
followed
her into the bedroom.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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What shape by exile dreamed elates the mind
Like hers whose hand, a fortress of the poor,
No blood in
vengeance
spilt, though lawful, stains?
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James Russell Lowell |
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So great in any sort of herb thou wilt,
So great again in any river of earth
Are the distinct
diversities
of matter.
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Lucretius |
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Let him to whose ears the low-voiced Best seems stilled by the clash
of the First,
Who holds that if way to the Better there be, it exacts a full look at
the Worst,
Who feels that delight is a delicate growth cramped by crookedness,
custom, and fear,
Get him up and be gone as one shaped awry; he
disturbs
the order here.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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[163]
_Vimen erat dum stagna subit,
processerat
undis
Gemma fuit.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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And hear my vow: Nor king, nor loftiest peer
Shall e'er from me the song of flatt'ry hear;
Nor crafty tyrant, who in office reigns,
Smiles on his king, and binds the land in chains;
His king's worst foe: nor he whose raging ire,
And raging wants, to shape his course, conspire;
True to the clamours of the blinded crowd,
Their changeful Proteus,
insolent
and loud:
Nor he whose honest mien secures applause,
Grave though he seem, and father of the laws,
Who, but half-patriot, niggardly denies
Each other's merit, and withholds the prize:
Who spurns the muse,[496] nor feels the raptur'd strain,
Useless by him esteem'd, and idly vain:
For him, for these, no wreath my hand shall twine;
On other brows th' immortal rays shall shine:
He who the path of honour ever trod,
True to his king, his country, and his God,
On his blest head my hands shall fix the crown
Wove of the deathless laurels of renown.
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