" we cry, and lo, apace
Pleasure
appears!
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Hugo - Poems |
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83
capable of
salvation
or
1
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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As through the spirit paling,
The pathways--then across the weald
Caressing breezes sailing
Respond
themselves
o'er fence and field.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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zip *****
This and all
associated
files of various formats will be found in:
http://www.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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It is a kind of
verified inspiration, something which came and went, and was as little to
be relied upon as the
inspiration
itself.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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First, rob'd in white, the Nymph intent adores,
With head uncover'd, the
Cosmetic
pow'rs.
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Alexander Pope |
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All so doted upon the
image of the absent land, that I believe they would have eaten grass
with as much
enthusiasm
as the beasts.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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, but its
volunteers
and employees are scattered
throughout numerous locations.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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der Berg ist heute zaubertoll
Und wenn ein
Irrlicht
Euch die Wege weisen soll
So musst Ihr's so genau nicht nehmen.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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And hither now he fares
To show the head, no Gorgon, that he bears,
But that
Aegisthus
whom thou hatest!
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Euripides - Electra |
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Leaves of day and moss of dew,
Reeds of breeze, smiles perfumed,
Wings
covering
the world of light,
Boats charged with sky and sea,
Hunters of sound and sources of colour
Perfume enclosed by a covey of dawns
that beds forever on the straw of stars,
As the day depends on innocence
The whole world depends on your pure eyes
And all my blood flows under their sight.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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]
Farewell
the strand,
The sails expand
Above!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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I, in my pleached garden, watched the pomp,
Forgot my morning wishes, hastily
Took a few herbs and apples, and the Day
Turned and
departed
silent.
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Emerson - Poems |
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THE NAME OF WASHINGTON
[Read before the Sons of the Revolution, New-York, February 22, 1887]
Sons of the youth and the truth of the nation,
Ye that are met to
remember
the man
Whose valor gave birth to a people's salvation,
Honor him now; set his name in the van.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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_"]
The wintry west extends his blast,
And hail and rain does blaw;
Or the stormy north sends driving forth
The
blinding
sleet and snaw;
While tumbling brown, the burn comes down,
And roars frae bank to brae;
And bird and beast in covert rest,
And pass the heartless day.
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Robert Forst |
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1 with
active links or
immediate
access to the full terms of the Project
Gutenberg-tm License.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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LIMITED WARRANTY,
DISCLAIMER
OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right
of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Death of thy Soule, those Linnen cheekes of thine
Are
Counsailers
to feare.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Dodsley lay low and said nothing, and so the
incident
closed.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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" Tiberius however returned thanks to the Senate for
such an
instance
of affection; but as he was wont to mix pleasantry with
things serious, he asked, "How was it to be executed?
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Tacitus |
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Pursue what chance or fate
proclaimeth
best;
Peace waits us on the shores of Acheron:
There no forced banquet claims the sated guest,
But Silence spreads the couch of ever welcome rest.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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"
"When shall this slough of sense be cast,
This dust of
thoughts
be laid at last,
The man of flesh and soul be slain
And the man of bone remain?
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Doubt me, my dim
companion!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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his
children
wel; sore sawe?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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]
[Sidenote D: Night
approaches
and each "to his bed was brought at the
last.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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The
wavering
corn is like gold, still,
Perhaps not so rich nor so hale,
Roses with greetings unfold still,
Be though their bloom something pale.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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He was
desperate
and
grandmother took pity on him.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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A child with
glorious
eyes
Here in our arms half sleeping--
So passion wakeful lies;
Then grows to manhood, keeping
Its wistful, young surprise:
I loved you once, but now--
I love you more than ever.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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I am courted now with a
double occasion- gold, and a means to do the Prince my master
good; which who knows how that may turn back to my
advancement?
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Shakespeare |
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Two long odes in a new and regular verse form, on Gregorian rhythm, and entitled "Flesh" and "Flower", areincluded, together with a
selection
of lyrics from those published in .
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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King
Yet, all who in my service so engage
Do not acquit themselves with such courage;
And valour that is not born of excess
Seldom
achieves
comparable success.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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34, only 19 comprise the standard text block; the rest are marginal additions, with 2
sizeable
columns at the foot of the page, a 5-line stanza written up the lower righthand side of the page, and 2 additional larger stanzas appearing in the lefthand margin.
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Blake - Zoas |
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With your air
indifferent
and imperious
At a stroke our mad poetics to confute--"
And--"Are we then so serious?
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T.S. Eliot |
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About Google Book Search
Google's mission is to organize the world's information and to make it universally
accessible
and useful.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Death, however caused,
Abhorrence moves in
miserable
man,
But death by famine is a fate of all
Most to be fear'd.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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And O thou little,
careless
brook,
Hast thou thy tender trust forgot?
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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gōdra =
_advantages
in battle_ (Gr.
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Beowulf |
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Kuhn ist das Muhen,
Herrlich
der Lohn!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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My captain, sir,
commends
him to you; my captain, Sir
John Falstaff- a tall gentleman, by heaven, and a most gallant
leader.
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Shakespeare |
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Whither fled Lamia, now a lady bright,
A full-born beauty new and
exquisite?
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Keats - Lamia |
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I have not translated the vidas, or
biographical
lives of the poets, which are highly unreliable, though charming as legend, but have referred to them where relevant.
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Troubador Verse |
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Our sailor's jacket, though in ragged trim,
His constant pipe, which never yet burned dim,
His foremast air, and somewhat rolling gait,
Like his dear vessel, spoke his former state;
But then a sort of
kerchief
round his head,
Not over tightly bound, nor nicely spread;
And, 'stead of trowsers (ah!
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Byron |
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O the vision of winning my favor makes easy
Hitherto
unexplored paths, under that powerful foot.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Latin mortal
dreadful
word,
Ibis, Nile's native bird.
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Appoloinaire |
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After a thousand years I have found my Bao Shu,2 I have achieved something by his willingness to
befriend
me.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Donne like Marvell seems to have been
influenced
by Ronsard and his peers.
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Ronsard |
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NOTE:
_50
destined]destinied
1820.
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Shelley |
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the
droppynge
pilgrim saide,
O!
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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)]
A LIST OF THE POEMS AND BITS OF VERSE SCATTERED AMONG THOREAU'S PROSE
WRITINGS EXCLUSIVE OF THE JOURNAL
* * * * *
A WEEK ON THE CONCORD AND MERRIMACK RIVERS
"The
respectable
folks" PAGE 7
"Ah, 't is in vain the peaceful din" 15
"But since we sailed" 16
"Here then an aged shepherd dwelt" 16
"On Ponkawtasset, since we took our way" 16
"Who sleeps by day and walks by night" 41
"An early unconverted Saint" 42
"Low in the eastern sky" (TO THE MAIDEN IN THE EAST) 46
"Dong, sounds the brass in the East" 50
"Greece, who am I that should remember thee" 54
"Some tumultuous little rill" 62
"I make ye an offer" 69
"Conscience is instinct bred in the house" (CONSCIENCE) 75
"Such water do the gods distill" 86
"That Phaeton of our day" 103
"Then spend an age in whetting thy desire" 111
"Though all the fates should prove unkind" 151
"With frontier strength ye stand your ground" (MOUNTAINS) 170
"The western wind came lumbering in" 180
"Then idle Time ran gadding by" 181
"Now chiefly is my natal hour" 182
RUMORS FROM AN AEOLIAN HARP 184
"Away!
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Three times
circling
beneath heaven's veil,
In devotion, round your tombs, I hail
You, with loud summons; thrice on you I call:
And, while your ancient fury I invoke,
Here, as though I in sacred terror spoke,
I'll sing your glory, beauteous above all.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Here defiled and old
I perish through unnumbered hours, I swoon,
Hacked with harsh knives to staunch a child's torn hand;
And all my hopes must with my body soon
Be but as
crouching
dust and wind-blown sand.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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To my
mistress
may he sing and whistle,
Clear, so her heart feels the sharp bristle,
Who can sing nobly, with joy and grace,
For it suits no singer vile and base.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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"
What on earth was the
helmsman
to do?
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
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I was sinking into the depth when
the green and blue and bronze that seemed to fill the world became a
sea of flame and swept me away, and as I was swirled along I heard
a voice over my head cry, 'The mirror is broken in two pieces,' and
another voice answer, 'The mirror is broken in four pieces,' and a more
distant voice cry with an exultant cry, 'The mirror is broken into
numberless pieces'; and then a multitude of pale hands were reaching
towards me, and strange gentle faces bending above me, and half wailing
and half caressing voices uttering words that were
forgotten
the moment
they were spoken.
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Yeats |
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If aught be
committed
to secret faith from a friend to one whose inner
faith of soul is known, thou wilt find me to be of that sacred faith, O
Cornelius, and may'st deem me become an Harpocrates.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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And do so, love; yet when they have devis'd,
What strained touches
rhetoric
can lend,
Thou truly fair, wert truly sympathiz'd
In true plain words, by thy true-telling friend;
And their gross painting might be better us'd
Where cheeks need blood; in thee it is abus'd.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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And now on other
purposes
intent,
The Goddess sought the palace, where with dews
Of slumber drenching ev'ry suitor's eye, 510
She fool'd the drunkard multitude, and dash'd
The goblets from their idle hands away.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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He was hunted with dogs in the mountains of Cabaret, and wore a
wolfskin
to give the scent to the dogs and masters.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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"But judge yourself," replied I; "could I declare before all your
people that she was Mironoff's
daughter?
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Nec
deprecor
iam, si nefaria scripta
Sesti recepso, quin gravidinem et tussim
Non mi, sed ipsi Sestio ferat frigus, 20
Qui tum vocat me, cum malum librum legi.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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[This is a local and political Poem composed on the contest between
Miller, the younger, of Dalswinton, and Johnstone, of Westerhall, for
the representation of the Dumfries and Galloway
district
of Boroughs.
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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Or how shall we gather what griefs destroy,
Or bless the
mellowing
year,
When the blasts of winter appear?
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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General
Information
About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic
works.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Their utmost to succeed these coxcombs tried,
And seemed
convinced
they should not be denied;
A common cause they would the business hold,
And what one knew the other must be told.
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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To be so tickled, they would change their state
And
situation
with those dancing chips,
O'er whom thy fingers walk with gentle gait,
Making dead wood more bless'd than living lips.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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XXVII
You, by Rome astonished, who gaze here
On ancient pride, once threatening the skies,
These old palaces, where the brave hills rise,
Walls, archways, baths, the temples that appear:
Judge, as you view these ruins, shattered, sere,
All that injurious Time's devoured: the wise
Architect and mason, their plans devise
Still from these fragments, these patterns clear:
Then note how Rome, still, from day to day,
Rummaging through her ancient decay,
Renews herself with hosts of sacred things:
You'd think the Roman spirit yet alive,
With destined hands
continuing
to strive,
That to these dusty ruins, new life brings.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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And
he showed me above the altar an
inscription
graven, and I read:
"If thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out and cast it from thee;
for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish,
and not that the whole body should be cast into hell.
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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FAUSTUS: One thing, good servant, let me crave of thee:
Bring that fair Helen, whose admired worth
Made Greece with ten years' war afflict poor Troy;
Whose sweet
embraces
may extinguish clean
Those thoughts that do dissuade me from my vow,
And keep my oath I made to Lucifer.
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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5200
COMMENT RAISOUN
DIFFINIST
AMISTIE.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Qu'importe le parfum, l'habit ou la
toilette?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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I never hear of prisons broad
By soldiers
battered
down,
But I tug childish at my bars, --
Only to fail again!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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"
Under the stars the air was light
But dark below the boughs,
The still air of the
speechless
night,
When lovers crown their vows.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Will it please you
question
him?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Burbank with a Baedeker:
Bleistein
with a Cigar
Tra-la-la-la-la-la-laire--nil nisi divinum stabile
est; caetera fumus--the gondola stopped, the old
palace was there, how charming its grey and pink--
goats and monkeys, with such hair too!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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Diegue
To instruct by example,
courting
envy,
Would simply be to read my history.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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All this I bore, and now,
released
from woe,
I hail my lord as watch-dog of a fold,
As saving stay-rope of a storm-tossed ship,
As column stout that holds the roof aloft,
As only child unto a sire bereaved,
As land beheld, past hope, by crews forlorn,
As sunshine fair when tempest's wrath is past,
As gushing spring to thirsty wayfarer.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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Ouvrez votre narine aux
superbes
nausees!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Yet though the hideous prison-wall
Still hems him round and round,
And a spirit may not walk by night
That is with fetters bound,
And a spirit may but weep that lies
In such unholy ground,
He is at peace--this wretched man--
At peace, or will be soon:
There is no thing to make him mad,
Nor does Terror walk at noon,
For the
lampless
Earth in which he lies
Has neither Sun nor Moon.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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My prayers were scant, my
offerings
few,
While witless wisdom fool'd my mind;
But now I trim my sails anew,
And trace the course I left behind.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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the lilies grow,
And yon-side where was woe, was woe,
-- Where the rabble of souls,' cried Sense,
`Did shrivel and turn and beg and burn,
Thrust back in the
brimstone
from above --
Is banked of violet, rose, and fern:'
`How?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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Come hither, beauteous boy; for you the Nymphs
Bring baskets, see, with lilies brimmed; for you,
Plucking pale violets and poppy-heads,
Now the fair Naiad, of
narcissus
flower
And fragrant fennel, doth one posy twine-
With cassia then, and other scented herbs,
Blends them, and sets the tender hyacinth off
With yellow marigold.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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And I mind aye the drink o' milk ye gae me yon day, when I
had been on Arthur's Seat for four-and-twenty hours, looking for the
ship that
somebody
was sailing in.
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We do not solicit donations in locations
where we have not received written
confirmation
of compliance.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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The Justice wrote
The words down in a book, and then
Continued, as he raised his pen:
"She is; and hath a mass been said
For the
salvation
of her soul?
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Longfellow |
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From pest on land, or death on ocean,
When hurricanes its surface fan,
O object of my fond
devotion!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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A LITTLE GIRL LOST
Children of the future age,
Reading this
indignant
page,
Know that in a former time
Love, sweet love, was thought a crime.
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blake-poems |
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Chimene
Sire, make this the
culmination
to my woe
And call it grief then, if you wish it so.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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I merely hinted to her: "Now, be
careful!
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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CHANT DE GUERRE PARISIEN
Le
printemps
est evident, car
Du coeur des Proprietes vertes
Le vol de Thiers et de Picard
Tient ses splendeurs grandes ouvertes.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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How can it be that thou,
Being a Jew, askest to drink of me
Which am a woman of
Samaria?
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Longfellow |
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What Whig but melts for good Sir James,
Dear to his country, by the names,
Friend, Patron,
Benefactor!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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By what devices this strange state and new
May be occasioned, and by what the soul
Can be
confounded
and the frame grow faint,
I will untangle: see to it, thou, that I
Pour forth my words not unto empty winds.
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Lucretius |
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Well I can see that shining song
Flowering there, the upward throng
Of porches, pillars and windowed walls,
Spires like piercing panpipe calls,
Up to the roof's snow-cloud flight;
All
glancing
in the Spanish light
White as water of arctic tides,
Save an amber dazzle on sunny sides.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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1600
His death gives me reason enough for tears,
Without my
searching
into other matters:
It won't restore him to me, in my grief, again:
Perhaps it would only serve to increase my pain.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Artemis
The
thirteenth
returns.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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O, Civil Fury, you alone are the cause,
In
Macedonian
fields sowing new wars,
Arming Pompey against Caesar there,
So that achieving the rich crown of all,
Roman grandeur, prospering everywhere,
Might tumble down in more disastrous fall.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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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
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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XXIV
If that blind fury that engenders wars,
Fails to rouse the creatures of a kind,
Whether swift bird aloft or
fleeting
hind,
Whether equipped with scales or sharpened claws,
What ardent Fury in her pincers' jaws
Gripped your hearts, so poisoned the mind,
That intent on mutual cruelty, we find,
Into your own entrails your own blade bores?
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No mercy now can clear her brow
From this world's peace to pray
For as love's wild prayer
dissolved
in air,
Her woman's heart gave way!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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I praise the Lion of the Royal Race,
Strongest in fight and
swiftest
in the chase:
With all my might I leap and lavish praise.
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Christina Rossetti |
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