Is not the slaying of the monster Time the most
ordinary and legitimate
occupation
of man?
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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I have seen eyes in the street
Trying to peer through lighted shutters,
And a crab one afternoon in a pool,
An old crab with
barnacles
on his back,
Gripped the end of a stick which I held him.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Stewart, 'tis well; if not, I hope you will forgive this liberty, and
I have at least an opportunity of
assuring
you with what truth and
respect,
I am, Sir,
Your great admirer,
And very humble servant,
R.
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Robert Forst |
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As a scholar he
displayed
no remarkable amount of
capacity, but was fond of general reading and much given to
versification.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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"
How many times these low feet staggered,
Only the
soldered
mouth can tell;
Try!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Methought
I saw, as I did dream in bed, II.
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Robert Herrick |
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XVI
As we gaze from afar on the waves roar
Mountains of water now set in motion,
A thousand
breakers
of cliff-jarring ocean,
Striking the reef, driven in the wind's maw:
View now a fierce northerly, with emotion,
Stirring the storm to its loud-whistling core,
Then folding in air its vaster wing once more
Suddenly weary, as if at some new notion:
As we see a flame, spread in a hundred places,
Gather, in one flare, towards heaven's spaces,
Then powerless fade and die: so, in its day,
This Empire passed, and overwhelming all
Like wave, or wind, or flame, along its way,
Halted at last by Fate, sank here, in fall.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Still, even in Shelley the
note of rebellion is
sometimes
too strong.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Now go we forth for
honourable
proof 120
Of our address in games of ev'ry kind,
That this our guest may to his friends report,
At home arriv'd, that none like us have learn'd
To leap, to box, to wrestle, and to run.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Les Odes: 'Pourquoy comme une jeune poutre'
Why like a
skittish
mare
Do you glance askance at me?
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Ronsard |
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Address To A Haggis
Fair fa' your honest, sonsie face,
Great
chieftain
o' the pudding-race!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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"
IX
Land of the
hurricane!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Un orchestre guerrier, au milieu du jardin,
Balance ses schakos dans la Valse des fifres:
On voit, aux premiers rangs, parader le gandin,
Les notaires montrent leurs breloques a chiffres:
Des rentiers a lorgnons soulignent tous les couacs;
Les gros bureaux bouffis trainent leurs grosses dames,
Aupres desquelles vont, officieux cornacs,
Celles dont les volants ont des airs de reclames;
Sur les bancs verts, des clubs d'epiciers retraites
Qui tisonnent le sable avec leur canne a pomme,
Fort serieusement discutent des traites,
Puis prisent en argent, mieux que
monsieur
Prud'homme!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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[Illustration]
There was an Old Person of Cheadle
Was put in the stocks by the Beadle
For
stealing
some pigs, some coats, and some wigs,
That horrible person of Cheadle.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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The strange night-wonder of your eyes Dies not, though passion flieth
Along the star fields of
Arcturus
And is no more unto our hands;
My lips are cold
And yet we twain are never weary,
And the strange night-wonder is upon us,
The leaves hold our wonder in their flutterings, The wind fills our mouths with strange words
For our wonder that grows not old.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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and suppose that a wild little Horse of Magic
Came cantering out of the sky,
With bridle of silver, and into the saddle I mounted,
To fly--and to fly;
And we stretched up into the air, fleeting on in the sunshine,
A speck in the gleam,
On galloping hoofs, his mane in the wind out-flowing,
In a shadowy stream;
And oh, when, all lone, the gentle star of evening
Came
crinkling
into the blue,
A magical castle we saw in the air, like a cloud of moonlight,
As onward we flew;
And across the green moat on the drawbridge we foamed and we snorted,
And there was a beautiful Queen
Who smiled at me strangely; and spoke to my wild little Horse, too--
A lovely and beautiful Queen;
And she cried with delight--and delight--to her delicate maidens,
'Behold my daughter--my dear!
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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The youths partake late of the pleasures of love, 121 and hence pass the age of puberty unexhausted: nor are the virgins hurried into marriage; the same maturity, the same full growth is required: the sexes unite equally matched 122 and robust; and the
children
inherit the vigor of their parents.
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Tacitus |
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Tertius van Dyke and the _Spectator_:--"Oxford
Revisited
in
War-Time.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm
License as specified in
paragraph
1.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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O'er vales that teem with fruits,
romantic
hills,
(Oh that such hills upheld a free-born race!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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In 2001, the Project
Gutenberg
Literary
Archive Foundation was created to provide a secure
and permanent future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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It exists
because of the efforts of hundreds of
volunteers
and donations from
people in all walks of life.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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In no wise daunted by this rebuff, he found the
opportunity
to send
her another note in a few days.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Dido the
Sidonian
stood astonished, first at the sight of him, then at
his strange fortunes; and these words left her lips:
'What fate follows thee, goddess-born, through perilous ways?
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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I asked the darkened sea
Down where the fishers go--
It
answered
me with silence,
Silence below.
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Sara Teasdale |
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They him saluted,
standing
far afore;
Who well them greeting, humbly did requight, 440
And asked, to what end they clomb that tedious height.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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7 and any additional
terms imposed by the
copyright
holder.
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Stephen Crane |
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3, a full refund of
any money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the
electronic work is
discovered
and reported to you within 90 days of
receipt of the work.
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Stephen Crane |
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who, sunk in beds of down,
Feel not a want but what yourselves create,
Think, for a moment, on his
wretched
fate,
Whom friends and fortune quite disown!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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"
The Great Longing
Here I sit between my brother the
mountain
and my sister the sea.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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every vein & lacteal
threading
them among
Her woof of terror.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Some do but scratch us:
Slow and
insidious
these poison our hearts over years.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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"My eyes are dim with
childish
tears,
My heart is idly stirr'd,
For the same sound is in my ears
Which in those days I heard.
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Golden Treasury |
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230
_annuit_
etiam R, sed _i_ super rasuram
231 _tum_ O: _tu_ ?
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Latin - Catullus |
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As faintly reeling he confess'd the smart,
Weak was his pace, but
dauntless
was his heart.
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Iliad - Pope |
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My master and the
neighbours
all
Make game of me and Sally,
And, but for her, I'd better be
A slave and row a galley;
But when my seven long years are out
O then I'll marry Sally,--
O then we'll wed, and then we'll bed,
But not in our alley!
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Golden Treasury |
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) can copy and distribute it in the United States without
permission and without paying
copyright
royalties.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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"
Patiently they stayed, thro' trust or doubt,
Till tow'rds
Colorado
he could scout
Some safe track.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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After what
Rodrigue
has said today,
Who is brave enough to make a play?
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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L
In haste there came the Queen forth, Bramimound;
"I love you well, sir," said she to the count,
"For prize you dear my lord and all around;
Here for your wife I have two
brooches
found,
Amethysts and jacynths in golden mount;
More worth are they than all the wealth of Roum;
Your Emperour has none such, I'll be bound.
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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XI
--Not a creature cares in Lodi
How Napoleon swept each arch,
Or where up and
downward
trod he,
Or for his memorial March!
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Haste, gentle Juga, tryppe ytte oere the meade, 40
To knowe, or wheder we muste waile agayne,
Or wythe oure fallen
knyghtes
be menged onne the plain.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Far from ye all--oh, dead,
bewailed!
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Hugo - Poems |
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e toumbe
richeliche
I-grey|?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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His poem, as might be expected, shows
a much wider
acquaintance
with the geography, manners, and
productions of remote nations, than would have been found in
compositions of the age of Camillus.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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193
Thou best of daughters, mothers, matrons, say
What forced thy birth, and got this
glorious
day ?
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Marvell - Poems |
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You must require such a user to return or
destroy all copies of the works possessed in a
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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So
moveless
in time past,
Hath Fortune girded up her loins at last?
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Euripides - Electra |
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** With
talents and acquirements which might have justi-
fied him in aspiring to almost any office, if he
could have disburdened himself of his conscience ;
with wit which, in that frivolous age, was a surer
passport to fame than any amount either of intel-
lect or virtue, and which, as we have seen, molli-
fied even the monarch himself in spite of his
prejudices ; Marvell
preferred
poverty and inde-
pendence to riches and servility.
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Marvell - Poems |
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With not even one blow
landing?
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| Question: |
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Villon |
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) Ever the
selfsame
dream!
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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'To shelter
Rosamunde
from hate
borne her by the queen,
the king had a palace made
such as had ne'er been seen'.
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Appoloinaire |
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"
The lines
referred
to are doubtless the eight (p.
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William Wordsworth |
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And, rifling prizes,'lhem
neglected?
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Marvell - Poems |
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The heron passes homeward to the mere,
The blue mist creeps among the shivering trees,
Gold world by world the silent stars appear,
And like a blossom blown before the breeze
A white moon drifts across the shimmering sky,
Mute
arbitress
of all thy sad, thy rapturous threnody.
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Wilde - Poems |
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"
They
stretched
their limbs and argued it out where they sat.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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The poets, however, who wrote on the revival of
letters have left us in no doubt; we have their own authority for it
that their
machinery
is allegorical.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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The Project
Gutenberg
EBook of Li Bu Collection, by Li Bu
This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
almost no restrictions whatsoever.
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
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As
Harrington
fell, ye likewise fell --
At the door of the House wherein ye dwell;
As Harrington came, ye likewise came
And died at the door of your House of Fame.
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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Much rage the abbess
presently
disclosed;
To have her holy mansion thus disgraced!
| Guess: |
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La Fontaine |
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Faith, would your
predece?
| Guess: |
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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CHORUS
Fare and batten on
pollution
of the right, while 'tis thy turn.
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Aeschylus |
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Whom the grand foe with
scornful
eye askance
Thus answerd.
| Guess: |
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Milton |
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Come, fill the Cup, and in the Fire of Spring
The Winter Garment of
Repentance
fling:
The Bird of Time has but a little way
To fly--and Lo!
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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]
XIX
"Then amongst strangers I was left--
But I
perceive
thou dost not heed--"
"Alas!
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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The poem is here
somewhat
shortened.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Here sways Rebekah accompanied by Zilpah;
Miriam plays to the singing of Bilhah;
Hagar has tales for us, Judith her story;
Esther exhales bright
romances
and musk.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Note: Dante Gabriel Rossetti took Archipiades to be Hipparchia (see Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Philosophers, Book VI 96-98) who loved Crates the Theban Cynic
philosopher
(368/5-288/5BC) and of whom various tales are told suggesting her beauty, and independence of mind.
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| Question: |
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Villon |
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This is the
wandring
wood,?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Yet all is well; he has but passed
To Life's appointed bourne:
And alien tears will fill for him
Pity's long-broken urn,
For his mourners will be outcast men,
And
outcasts
always mourn.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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--his friends came round
Supported
him--no pulse, or breath they found,
And, in its marriage robe, the heavy body wound.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Keats - Lamia |
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property
forfeited
to the lord of a fief.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
|
They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do
practically
ANYTHING
with public domain eBooks.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Now I know what
silenced
me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Such thou must be to me, who must
Like the other foot
obliquely
run;
Thy firmness makes my circle just,
And me to end where I begun.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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But when the story of the poem is safely concerned with some
reality, he can, of course, graft on this as much
appropriate
invention
as he pleases; it will be one of his ways of elaborating his main,
unifying purpose--and to call it "unifying" is to assume that, however
brilliant his surrounding invention may be, the purpose will always be
firmly implicit in the central subject.
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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then swift be heart and brain, to see
God's
chances!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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--
Rieuse, m'apporta des
tartines
de beurre,
Du jambon tiede, dans un plat colorie,
Du jambon rose et blanc parfume d'une gousse
D'ail,--et m'emplit la chope immense, avec sa mousse
Que dorait un rayon de soleil arriere.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Though centuries falter and decline,
Your proven
strongholds
shall remain
Embodied memories of your line,
Incarnate legends of your reign.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
|
Nearly all the
individual
works in the
collection are in the public domain in the United States.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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My friend, blood shaking my heart
The awful daring of a moment's surrender
Which an age of prudence can never retract
By this, and this only, we have existed
Which is not to be found in our obituaries
Or in memories draped by the
beneficent
spider
Or under seals broken by the lean solicitor
In our empty rooms 410
DA
Dayadhvam: I have heard the key
Turn in the door once and turn once only
We think of the key, each in his prison
Thinking of the key, each confirms a prison
Only at nightfall, aetherial rumours
Revive for a moment a broken Coriolanus
DA
Damyata: The boat responded
Gaily, to the hand expert with sail and oar 420
The sea was calm, your heart would have responded
Gaily, when invited, beating obedient
To controlling hands
I sat upon the shore
Fishing, with the arid plain behind me
Shall I at least set my lands in order?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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The hours
Are
flitting
fast, and time is precious to me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
|
A public domain book is one that was never subject to
copyright
or whose legal copyright term has expired.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
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I am the hounded slave, I wince at the bite of the dogs,
Hell and despair are upon me, crack and again crack the marksmen,
I clutch the rails of the fence, my gore dribs, thinn'd with the
ooze of my skin,
I fall on the weeds and stones,
The riders spur their unwilling horses, haul close,
Taunt my dizzy ears and beat me
violently
over the head with whip-stocks.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Drery, v, 30, gloomy; vi, 45,
dripping
with blood.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm
License as specified in
paragraph
1.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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O well done: I commend your paines,
And euery one shall share i'th' gaines:
And now about the
Cauldron
sing
Like Elues and Fairies in a Ring,
Inchanting all that you put in.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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But, O pigtails of Rome, still I'm
entrammled
in you.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Lastly, he is very young, and is swept away by his
sister's
intenser
nature.
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Euripides - Electra |
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Minerva
springing
full-fledged from
Jupiter's skull to the desk of the poet is a pretty fancy; but Balsac
and Flaubert did not encourage this fancy.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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A blast of Gabriel's horn has torn away
The last haze from our eyes, and we can see
Past the three hundred skies and gaze upon
The Ineffable Name
engraved
deep in the sun.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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I see all the menials of the earth, laboring,
I see all the prisoners in the prisons,
I see the
defective
human bodies of the earth,
The blind, the deaf and dumb, idiots, hunchbacks, lunatics,
The pirates, thieves, betrayers, murderers, slave-makers of the earth,
The helpless infants, and the helpless old men and women.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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And fear not lest Existence closing your
Account, and mine, should know the like no more;
The Eternal Saki from that Bowl has pour'd
Millions
of Bubbles like us, and will pour.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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_The Winter's Come_
Sweet
chestnuts
brown like soling leather turn;
The larch trees, like the colour of the Sun;
That paled sky in the Autumn seemed to burn,
What a strange scene before us now does run--
Red, brown, and yellow, russet, black, and dun;
White thorn, wild cherry, and the poplar bare;
The sycamore all withered in the sun.
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John Clare |
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Yet was there only one
Who fully understood his laughter, his gay quips,
One only, she alone--
She who, not so long since, when love was new--confest,
Herself toyed with light laughter while her eyes were dim,
And jested, while with reverence despite her jest
She
worshipped
God and him.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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It shall not be said that
you have with
impunity
spoilt the wares of Myrtia,[156] the daughter of
Ancylion and Sostrate.
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Aristophanes |
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Act IV Scene VI (Phaedra, Oenone)
Phaedra
Dear Oenone, do you know what I have
learned?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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TO TERZAH
Whate'er is born of mortal birth
Must be
consumed
with the earth,
To rise from generation free:
Then what have I to do with thee?
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blake-poems |
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The
footprints!
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Euripides - Electra |
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Rome is no more: if downed architecture
May still revive some shade of Rome anew,
It's like a corpse, by some magic brew,
Drawn at deep
midnight
from a sepulchre.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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