Her favour, once, and her kind aid secured,
Thenceforth
thou may'st expect thy friends to see,
Thy dwelling, and thy native soil again.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Perhaps an inadvertent word has
descended
to posterity.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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When I rise to a hilltop, a thousand of these
great oak roses, distributed on every side, as far as the
horizon!
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Thus, we do not necessarily
keep eBooks in
compliance
with any particular paper edition.
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Stephen Crane |
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Dear South, to-day,
As our country's altar made us
One forever, so we vow
Unto yours our love to render:
Strength with
strength
we here endow,
And we make your honor ours.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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My soul burns with the
quenchless
fire
That lit my lover's funeral pyre:
Alas!
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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I found the phrase to every thought
I ever had, but one;
And that defies me, -- as a hand
Did try to chalk the sun
To races
nurtured
in the dark; --
How would your own begin?
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Then,
At last, with members intertwined, when they
Enjoy the flower of their age, when now
Their bodies have sweet presage of keen joys,
And Venus is about to sow the fields
Of woman, greedily their frames they lock,
And mingle the slaver of their mouths, and breathe
Into each other, pressing teeth on mouths--
Yet to no purpose, since they're powerless
To rub off aught, or penetrate and pass
With body entire into body--for oft
They seem to strive and struggle thus to do;
So eagerly they cling in Venus' bonds,
Whilst melt away their members, overcome
By
violence
of delight.
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Lucretius |
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"
Here the Sicilian interfered:
"That was your dream, then, as you dozed
A moment since, with eyes half-closed,
And murmured
something
in your beard.
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Longfellow |
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"What are you
thinking
of?
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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An ash tree, having fallen
across the glen,
reproduced
the scene exactly as it is described in the
Fenwick note.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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This welter of atoms is the product
of chance; the very
blemishes
of the world forbid one to regard it as
divine.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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He had
set out so confidently; had boasted not a little of his powers, and
had
satirized
all the good people in Bristol _de haut en bas_.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Who with the weight of years would wish to bend,
When Youth itself
survives
young Love and Joy?
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Music-hall posters squall out:
The
passengers
shrink together,
I enter indelicately into all their souls.
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Imagists |
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The night had found (to him a night of wo)
Upon a mountain crag, young Angelo--
Beetling
it bends athwart the solemn sky,
And scowls on starry worlds that down beneath it lie.
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Poe - 5 |
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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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About Google Book Search
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information
and to make it universally accessible and useful.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Across the
threshold
many feet
Shall pass, but never Sappho's feet again.
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Sara Teasdale |
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_Jerusalem
Delivered_
and the _Lusiads_ are drenched
with the spirit of the Renaissance; and that is chiefly responsible for
their lovely poetry.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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_inserts_
hyt _after_
telle; _which_ Th.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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The
tsarevich
a boyar hath sent to us.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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- You provide, in accordance with
paragraph
1.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Cease that proud temper: Venus loves it not:
The rope may break, the wheel may backward turn:
Begetting you, no Tuscan sire begot
Penelope
the stern.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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I too will pick
Quinces all silvered-o'er with hoary down,
Chestnuts, which
Amaryllis
wont to love,
And waxen plums withal: this fruit no less
Shall have its meed of honour; and I will pluck
You too, ye laurels, and you, ye myrtles, near,
For so your sweets ye mingle.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Here PROCULEIUS and two of the guard ascend the
monument
by a ladder placed against a window,
and come behind CLEOPATRA.
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Shakespeare |
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'Tis a known
principle
in war, I.
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Robert Herrick |
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We're dead: the souls let no man harry,
But pray that God
absolves
us all.
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Villon |
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_Enter_
CARDINAL
POLE.
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Tennyson |
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Oh the dismal care
That shakes the
blossoms
of my hoary hair!
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blake-poems |
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The beach upon one side broad ocean laved,
And on the other yellow
harvests
waved.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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hem in to
destrucc{i}ou{n}
?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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His kindly lord
he first had greeted in
gracious
form,
with manly words.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
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Li Po |
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49
Now let me call across the snow-clad meadows 50
There were no ruins, neither fragments 51
In sorrow day and night the disciple watched 52
Sunlight
slantingly
flows 53
The wild resplendence of the year resolves 54
Doth live for thee again, Beloved that October?
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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faint
outstretchd
upon the plain
Wailing runs round the vValleys from the Mill & from the Barn
But most the polishd Palaces dark silent bow with dread {"Dark" written on top of "?
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Blake - Zoas |
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But your
discretions
better can persuade
Than I am able to instruct or teach;
And, therefore, as we hither came in peace,
So let us still continue peace and love.
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Shakespeare |
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XIII
Not the raging fire's furious reign,
Nor the cutting edge of
conquering
blade,
Nor the havoc ruthless soldiers made,
In sacking you, Rome, ever and again,
Nor the tricks that fickle fortune played,
Nor envious centuries corrosive rain,
Nor the spite of men, nor gods' disdain,
Nor your own power in civil strife displayed,
Nor the impetuous storms that you withstood,
Nor the river-god's winding course in flood,
That has so often drowned you in its thunder,
Not all combined have so abased your pride,
As that this nothing left you, by Time's tide,
Still makes the world halt here, and gaze in wonder.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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You are more
beautiful
than they are.
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Imagists |
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Winter kept us warm, covering
Earth in
forgetful
snow, feeding
A little life with dried tubers.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Macduffe
is missing, and your Noble Sonne
Rosse.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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But that which
Valerius
Maximus hath left
recorded of Euripides, the tragic poet, his answer to Alcestis, another
poet, is as memorable as modest; who, when it was told to Alcestis that
Euripides had in three days brought forth but three verses, and those
with some difficulty and throes, Alcestis, glorying he could with ease
have sent forth a hundred in the space, Euripides roundly replied, "Like
enough; but here is the difference: thy verses will not last these three
days, mine will to all time.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Was this taken
By any
understanding
pate but thine?
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Shakespeare |
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7989:
_clasum_
C: _classum_ GRVenAB
Laurentiani: _clussum_ Schwabe
68 _dominae_ Froehlich
69 _ad quam_ ?
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Latin - Catullus |
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"
"Our bonnets
gleaming
bright with orange hue,"
One of them answer'd, "are so leaden gross,
That with their weight they make the balances
To crack beneath them.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make
any statements concerning tax
treatment
of donations received from
outside the United States.
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Poe - 5 |
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Though not
strictly
a troubadour text, it is a first example of a form, the alba, adopted later.
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Troubador Verse |
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Purge with your
nostrums
and drugs infernal
The spouts and gargoyles of these towers,
Not me!
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Longfellow |
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"
From the wood a sound is gliding,
Vapours dense the plain are hiding,
Cries the Dame in anxious measure:
"Stay, I'll wash thy head, my
treasure!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Lycius then press'd her hand, with devout touch,
As pale it lay upon the rosy couch:
'Twas icy, and the cold ran through his veins;
Then sudden it grew hot, and all the pains
Of an
unnatural
heat shot to his heart.
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| Source: |
Keats |
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A good lad and
cheerful
is Joseph;
In the right place is his heart, and his hand is ready and willing.
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Longfellow |
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[mx]
Too brief for our passion, too long for our peace,
Were those hours--can their joy or their
bitterness
cease?
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Byron |
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And now the
careless
victors play, *»
Dancing the triumphs of the hay,
Where every mower's wholesome heat
Smells like an Alexander's sweat,
Their females fragrant as the mead
Which they in fairy ciixiles tread : *»
When at their dance's end they kiss,
Their new-made hay not sweeter is ;
When, after this, 'tis piled in cocks.
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Marvell - Poems |
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In the allegory the Earl of
Leicester
is probably
meant, though by one tradition Sir Philip Sidney is identified with Prince
Arthur.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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your
gypsying
soul
Is caught and held fast in the pipes of Pan's flute.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Listen,
Stranger!
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Slow stride appointed years across their bivouac places,
With stern, devoted faces they lie, as when they lay,
In long battalions dreaming, till dawn, to
eastward
gleaming,
Awoke the clarion greeting of the bugles to the day.
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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The
Lamentacion
of souls.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Pale fireflies pulsed within the meadow-mist
Their halos, wavering
thistledowns
of light;
The loon, that seemed to mock some goblin tryst,
Laughed; and the echoes, huddling in affright,
Like Odin's hounds, fled baying down the night.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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"
"Before you drop the curtain--I'm reminded:
You
recollect
the boy who came out here
To breathe the air one winter--had a room
Down at the Averys'?
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Robert Forst |
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2925
Right as the
derknesse
of the night
Is chased with clerenesse of the mone,
Right so is al his wo ful sone
Devoided clene, whan that the sight
Biholden may that fresshe wight 2930
That the herte desyreth so,
That al his derknesse is ago;
For than the herte is al at ese,
Whan they seen that [that] may hem plese.
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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One black night I stood
in a garden with fireflies in my hair like darting
restless
stars
caught in a mesh of darkness.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Orpheus
Orpheus
'Orpheus'
Pierre -Cecile Puvis de Chavannes, French, 1824 - 1898, Yale
University
Art Gallery
His heart was the bait: the heavens were the pond!
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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The calm we
maintained
deceived their eyes.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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From a mind thus replenished, it is no wonder, my good
friends, that we see in the compositions of that
extraordinary
man
that affluence of ideas, and that prodigious flow of eloquence.
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Tacitus |
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Another said--"Why, ne'er a peevish Boy
Would break the Bowl from which he drank in Joy;
Shall He that made the Vessel in pure Love
And Fansy, in an after Rage
destroy!
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Courts for cowards were erected,
Churches
built to please the priest.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Nay, it is deeper than my sister's
depth and
stronger
than my brother's strength, and stranger than
the strangeness of my madness.
| Guess: |
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Its movement has been
compared
to the smooth, steady,
irresistible sweep of water in a mighty river.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Now Harry he had long suspected
This trespass of old Goody Blake,
And vow'd that she should be detected,
And he on her would
vengeance
take.
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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II
Rinaldo,
unimpeded
by such thought,
Strove in all ways Rogero to o'erthrow;
Fierce and despiteous whirled his axe, and sought
Now in the arms, now head, to wound the foe.
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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If still Boris pursue his crafty ways,
Let us
contrive
by skilful means to rouse
The people.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Thy folly's past advice,
Thy heart's already won,
Thy fall's above all price,
So go, and be undone;
For all who thus prefer
The seeming great for small
Shall make wine vinegar,
And
sweetest
honey gall.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
|
Thus, we do not necessarily
keep eBooks in
compliance
with any particular paper edition.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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CLYTEMNESTRA
What, is thy cot so
friendless?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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But o'er each lower faculty supreme,
That as she list are summon'd to her bar,
Ye have that virtue in you, whose just voice
Uttereth counsel, and whose word should keep
The
threshold
of assent.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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For a description of the Manuscript, and particulars relating to the
authorship and dialect of the present work, the reader is referred to the
preface to Early English
Alliterative
Poems.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
|
Redistribution is
subject to the trademark license,
especially
commercial
redistribution.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
|
Thy
godfather
is he,
Earth's Pope,--he hails thee, child!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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General
Information
About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic
works.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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e ne
vndirstonde
nat how gret a wro{n}g ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
|
If you do not, you can receive
a refund of the money (if any) you paid for this etext by
sending a request within 30 days of
receiving
it to the person
you got it from.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Thus, from day to day,
Bow-bent, his eyes for ever on the ground, [5]
He plies his weary journey; seeing still,
And seldom [6] knowing that he sees, some straw,
Some
scattered
leaf, or marks which, in one track, 55
The nails of cart or chariot-wheel have left
Impressed on the white road,--in the same line,
At distance still the same.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
|
copyright
law in creating the Project
Gutenberg-tm collection.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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"
"AT THE GOLDEN GATE"
Before the golden gate she stands,
With
drooping
head, with idle hands
Loose-clasped, and bent beneath the weight
Of unseen woe.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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His little range of water was denied;[2]
All but the bed where his old body lay,
All, all was seized, and weeping, side by side,
We sought a home where we
uninjured
might abide.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Beaute forte a genoux devant la beaute frele,
Superbe, elle humait voluptueusement
Le vin de son triomphe, et s'allongeait vers elle
Comme pour
recueillir
un doux remerciment.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Tiger, tiger, burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Dare frame thy fearful
symmetry?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
4
THE
SALVATION
ARMY'S SONG By Phoebe Hoffman
"It's Christmas time, it's Christmas time," Echo the feet in the dusty street.
| Guess: |
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A
friendly
neighbour passing by
O'erheard our damsel's lamentation;
And kindly offered consolation:
"If death, sweet maiden, be thy bent,
"I'll aid thee in thy sad intent.
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La Fontaine |
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Qui estoit bien ung pie
retraite
340
De tele cum el soloit estre;
A paine se pooit-el pestre,
Tant estoit vielle et radotee.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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And she has
deceived
me for a second time.
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LXXII
I heard the gods reply:
"Trust not the future with its perilous chance;
The
fortunate
hour is on the dial now.
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Do not forget these asters that remain,
The scarlet leafage round the tendrils twining,
And all the rests of verdant life combining,
Resolve them in the soft
autumnal
vein.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Do you see
nothing?
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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She
wandered
in the land of clouds thro' valleys dark, listning
Dolors & lamentations: waiting oft beside the dewy grave
She stood in silence, listning to the voices of the ground,
Till to her own grave plot she came, & there she sat down.
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blake-poems |
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"Lord, sir, a mere
mechanic!
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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a cradle shall redeem thy worth--
A Cradle yet shall save the
widespread
earth!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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manis colamus, namque opertis manibus
diuina uis est
aeuiterni
temporis.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Royalty payments
must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you
prepare (or are legally required to
prepare)
your periodic tax
returns.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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