One feature of your character I shall ever with
grateful
pleasure
remember;--the reception I got when I had the honour of waiting on you
at Stair.
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Robert Burns |
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He cased his limbs in brass; and first around
His manly legs, with silver buckles bound
The clasping greaves; then to his breast applies
The flaming cuirass of a thousand dyes;
Emblazed with studs of gold his
falchion
shone
In the rich belt, as in a starry zone:
Achilles' shield his ample shoulders spread,
Achilles' helmet nodded o'er his head:
Adorn'd in all his terrible array,
He flash'd around intolerable day.
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Iliad - Pope |
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IX
Constrained
at length, his sword Rogero drew
To clear the rabble, who his course delay;
And in the animals' or villain's view
Did now its point, and now its edge display.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Leisurely
flocks and herds,
Cool-eyed cattle that come
Mildly to wonted words,
Swine that in orchards roam,--
A man and his beasts make a man and his home.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt
In solitude, where we are LEAST alone;
A truth, which through our being then doth melt,
And purifies from self: it is a tone,
The soul and source of music, which makes known
Eternal harmony, and sheds a charm,
Like to the fabled Cytherea's zone,
Binding all things with beauty;--'twould disarm
The spectre Death, had he
substantial
power to harm.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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And I watered it in fears
Night and morning with my tears,
And I sunned it with smiles
And with soft
deceitful
wiles.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Reconnaissez
Satan a son rire vainqueur,
Enorme et laid comme le monde!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Therefore, we usually do NOT keep any
of these books in
compliance
with any particular paper edition.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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' In the 1812 reprint the editor observes that in Jonson's
time 'fanciful or artful wives would often
persuade
their husbands
to take them up to town for the advantage of _physick_, when the
principal object was dissipation.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Va, si tu veux,
chercher
un fiance stupide;
Cours offrir un coeur vierge a ses cruels baisers;
Et, pleine de remords et d'horreur, et livide,
Tu me rapporteras tes seins stigmatises;
On ne peut ici-bas contenter qu'un seul maitre!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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What central flowing forces, say,
Make up thy splendor,
matchless
day?
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Emerson - Poems |
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+ Keep it legal
Whatever
your use, remember that you are responsible for ensuring that what you are doing is legal.
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Meredith - Poems |
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to Britain's pride
Once so
faithful
and so true,
On the deck of fame that died
With the gallant good Riou:
Soft sigh the winds of heaven o'er their grave!
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Golden Treasury |
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In an old accompt of the
Procurators
of St.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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But ay the oynement wente abrood;
Throughout
my woundes large and wyde
It spredde aboute in every syde; 1900
Through whos vertu and whos might
Myn herte Ioyful was and light.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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When God at first made Man,
Having a glass of blessings standing by;
Let us (said he) pour on him all we can:
Let the world's riches, which
dispersed
lie,
Contract into a span.
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Golden Treasury |
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This he could endure, but
the coldness and even jealousy of such a man as Addison--and here
appears the famous
portrait
of Atticus--was another matter, serious
enough to draw tears from all lovers of mankind.
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Alexander Pope |
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LXXXVI
This vainly to the sea resorts, whom spear
Or hatchet, brandished close at hand, dismay;
For stone or arrow
following
in his rear,
Permit the craven to make little way.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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XV
The day is spent, and commeth drowsie night,
When every creature
shrowded
is in sleepe;
Sad Una downe her laies in wearie plight,
And at her feete the Lyon watch doth keepe: 130
In stead of rest, she does lament, and weepe
For the late losse of her deare loved knight,
And sighes, and grones, and ever more does steepe
Her tender brest in bitter teares all night,
All night she thinks too long, and often lookes for light.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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XLI
In my own shire, if I was sad
Homely comforters I had:
The earth, because my heart was sore,
Sorrowed for the son she bore;
And
standing
hills, long to remain,
Shared their short-lived comrade's pain.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Note the feeling of fate in the first
appearance
of
Apollonius.
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Keats |
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Ever, evermore the while in a slow silence she kept smiling,
And approached him slowly, slowly, in a gliding
measured
pace;
With her two white hands extended as if praying one offended,
And a look of supplication gazing earnest in his face.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Then
homeward
slow returning
To slumbers deep I fare,
Filled with an infinite yearning,
With thoughts that rise and fall
To the sound of the sea's hollow call,
Breathed now from white-lit waves that reach
Cold fingers o'er the damp, dark beach,
To scatter a spray on my dreams;
Till the slow and measured rote
Brings a drowsy ease
To my spirit, and seems
To set it soothingly afloat
On broad and buoyant seas
Of endless rest, lulled by the dirge
Of the melancholy surge.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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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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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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He hath beene in
vnusuall
Pleasure,
And sent forth great Largesse to your Offices.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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The windel-straw nor grass so shook and trembled;
As the good and gallant stripling shook and trembled;
A linen shirt so fine his frame invested,
O'er the shirt was drawn a bright pelisse of scarlet
The sleeves of that pelisse
depended
backward,
The lappets of its front were button'd backward,
And were spotted with the blood of unbelievers;
See the good and gallant stripling reeling goeth,
From his eyeballs hot and briny tears distilling;
On his bended bow his figure he supporteth,
Till his bended bow has lost its goodly gilding;
Not a single soul the stripling good encounter'd,
Till encounter'd he the mother dear who bore him:
O my boy, O my treasure, and my darling!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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"Begin, my flute, with me
Maenalian
lays.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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And after three and thirty years, during which my mother, and the
nurse, and the priest have all died, (the shadow of God be upon
their spirits) the
soothsayer
still lives.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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So in lone Poverty's dominion drear,
Sits meek Content with light,
unanxious
heart;
Welcomes the rapid moments, bids them part,
Nor asks if they bring ought to hope or fear.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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]_ I like at times to
exchange
with him a word,
And take care not to break with him.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Happy art thou, Vashti, to have wedded
One who so dearly rates
possession
of thee.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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"_The play was first performed when
Glaukinos
was Archon, in the 2nd
year of the 85th Olympiad_ (438 B.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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360
XLI
Much was the man
encombred
with his hold,
In feare to lose his weapon in his paw,
Ne wist yet, how his talaunts to unfold;
For harder was from Cerberus greedy jaw
To plucke a bone, then from his cruell claw 365
To reave by strength the griped gage?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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--C'est que les vents tombant des grands monts de Norwege
T'avaient parle tout bas de l'apre
liberte!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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A wearied pilgrim, I have
wandered
here, II.
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Robert Herrick |
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If I lay here dead
XXIV Let the world's sharpness like a
clasping
knife
XXV A heavy heart, Beloved, have I borne
XXVI I lived with visions for my company
XXVII My own Beloved, who hast lifted me
XXVIII My letters!
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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LX
Now hollow fires burn out to black,
And lights are
guttering
low:
Square your shoulders, lift your pack,
And leave your friends and go.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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If he be hungry, one huge fin
Drives seven
thousand
fishes in;
And when he drinks what he may need,
The rivers of the earth recede.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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This first phase in Rilke's work may be
defined as the phase of
reposeful
nature.
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Rilke - Poems |
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What shameful ways have women trod
At
beckoning
of Trade's golden rod!
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Sidney Lanier |
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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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Nay, when it cannot do
all these, it is offended with his own narrowness, that excludes it from
the
universal
delights of mankind, and oftentimes dies of a melancholy,
that it cannot be vicious enough.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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What
blessing
shall the bard entreat
The god he hallows, as he pours
The winecup?
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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The Editor in this and in other
instances
has risked the addition (or
the change) of a Title, that the aim of the verses following may be
grasped more clearly and immediately.
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Golden Treasury |
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Und wollt Ihr recht ins Innre gehen,
Habt Ihr davon, Ihr musst es grad gestehen,
So viel als von Herrn
Schwerdtleins
Tod gewusst!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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How
did she know of your
arrival?
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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"
Fear had
stupified
me.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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--Many hearts deplored
The fate of those old trees; and oft with pain
The traveller at this day will stop and gaze
On wrongs, which Nature
scarcely
seems to heed:
For shelter'd places, bosoms, nooks, and bays,
And the pure mountains, and the gentle Tweed,
And the green silent pastures, yet remain.
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Golden Treasury |
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Poi che noi fummo in su l'orlo suppremo
de l'alta ripa, a la
scoperta
piaggia,
<>, diss' io, <
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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The two are
different
things in most men's eyes.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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O
159
_homine_
R m.
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Latin - Catullus |
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"
He is the
corporate
Silence: dread him not!
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Poe - 5 |
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So unsuspected violets
Within the fields lie low,
Too late for
striving
fingers
That passed, an hour ago.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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II
"Considerabam ad dexteram, et videbam; et non erat qui
cognosceret
me
.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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--
And if I hadde y-taken for to wryte 1765
The armes of this ilke worthy man,
Than wolde I of his
batailles
endyte.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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The
Macmillan
Co.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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LXVIII
When the new dawn, with streaks of red and white,
Broke in the east, and cleared the hemisphere,
Rinaldo took his steed and armour bright:
A squire that abbey
furnished
to the peer.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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: _extremam_ Dp:
_extremo_
uindicauit Schmidt ex Nep.
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Latin - Catullus |
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Other
amenities
of his life at this time were a
recipe for making sweet wine, the gift of Ch'?
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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--tell me--tell me, I
implore!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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Great
exploits
his whom the Lord God endows!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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How had he
squandered
his money?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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We do not solicit donations in locations
where we have not
received
written confirmation of compliance.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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One stands before the window, drinks his glass,
And sees the ships with flags glide slowly down the river;
Comes home at night, when out of sight they pass,
And sings with joy, "Oh, peace
forever!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Wiglaf spake, -- and his words were sage;
sad in spirit, he said to his comrades: --
"I
remember
the time, when mead we took,
what promise we made to this prince of ours
in the banquet-hall, to our breaker-of-rings,
for gear of combat to give him requital,
for hard-sword and helmet, if hap should bring
stress of this sort!
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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on hye;
Yet wist no creature whence that heavenly sweet
Proceeded, yet eachone felt secretly
Himselfe thereby reft of his sences meet, 350
And ravished with rare
impression
in his sprite.
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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And did you follow Amenalk, the God of
Heliopolis?
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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MY DEAR SIR,
Your _duty-free_ favour of the 26th April I received two days ago; I
will not say I perused it with pleasure; that is the cold compliment
of ceremony; I perused it, Sir, with
delicious
satisfaction;--in
short, it is such a letter, that not you, nor your friend, but the
legislature, by express proviso in their postage laws, should frank.
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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Even the
splendid
courage of its hero
Milos, who counters an imputation of treachery by riding in full
daylight into the Ottoman camp and murdering the Sultan, even this
courage is rather near to desperation.
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Even for this, let us divided live,
And our dear love lose name of single one,
That by this
separation
I may give
That due to thee which thou deserv'st alone.
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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_ Though mine be brighter than the star,
Thou lighter than the cork by far,
Rough as the
Adriatic
sea, yet I
Will live with thee, or else for thee will die.
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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)
And so to-day--they lay him away--
the boy nobody knows the name of--
the buck private--the unknown soldier--
the
doughboy
who dug under and died
when they told him to--that's him.
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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)
names the other archangels, "Uriel, Rufael, Raguel, Michael, Saraqael,
and Gabriel, who is over Paradise and the
serpents
and the cherubin.
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| Source: |
Byron |
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And we shall play a game of chess,
Pressing
lidless eyes and waiting for a knock upon the door.
| Guess: |
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Steadily nearing the head,
The great Flag-Ship led,
Grandest
of sights!
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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There, when hueless is the west
And the
darkness
hushes wide,
Where the lad lies down to rest
Stands the troubled dream beside.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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that ye
displeasen
might,
That should as death?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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A washed-out
smallpox
cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone With all the old nocturnal smells
That cross and cross across her brain.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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his little floating bed
Swims on the mighty river's fickle flow,
A white dove's nest; and there at hazard led
By the faint winds, and
wandering
to and fro,
The cot comes down; beneath his quiet head
The gulfs are moving, and each threatening wave
Appears to rock the child upon a grave.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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Down by the field along the river
Usk where it was held the gilded
parapets
were crowned with faces and
the great tower filled with eyes up to its top.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
|
If you
received
the work electronically, the person or entity
providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to
receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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The ripe hour came,
And with it light, and light, engendering
Upon its own producer, forthwith touch'd
The whole
enormous
matter into life.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
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{29b} This is
generally
assumed to mean hides, though the text
simply says "seven thousand.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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For in a people pledged to idleness,
Like swollen tumour in diseased flesh,
Ambition is
engendered
readily.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Green paddocks have but little charms
With gain the merchandise of farms;
And, muse and marvel where we may,
Gain mars the
landscape
every day--
The meadow grass turned up and copt,
The trees to stumpy dotterels lopt,
The hearth with fuel to supply
For rest to smoke and chatter bye;
Giving the joy of home delights,
The warmest mirth on coldest nights.
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John Clare |
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It is possible that current copyright holders, heirs or the estate of the authors of individual portions of the work, such as
illustrations
or photographs, assert copyrights over these portions.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Finally, most of us believe that
concentration
is of the very essence
of poetry.
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Imagists |
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Even When We Sleep
Even when we sleep we watch over each other
And this love heavier than a lake's ripe fruit
Without
laughter
or tears lasts forever
One day after another one night after us.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Called Mar's year from the
rebellion
of
Erskine, Earl of Mar.
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Robert Forst |
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{16f}
Innocent
both
were the loved ones she lost at the linden-play,
bairn and brother, they bowed to fate,
stricken by spears; 'twas a sorrowful woman!
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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1330
`For which to yow, with dredful herte trewe,
I wryte, as he that sorwe dryfth to wryte,
My wo, that every houre encreseth newe,
Compleyninge
as I dar or can endyte.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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1 That is, the Emperor has set up his
temporary
capital there.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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but with an angel's air,
Astonished, eager, unaware,
Or elfin's,
wandering
with a grace
Foreign to any fireside race,
And with a gaiety unknown
In the light feet and hair backblown,
And with a sadness yet more strange,
In meagre cheeks which knew to change
Or faint or fired more swift than sight,
And forlorn hands and lips pressed white,
And fragile voice, and head downcast,
Hiding tears, lifted at the last
To speed with one pale smile the wise
Glance of the grey immortal eyes.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Therefore, if aught
Thou of our beams wouldst borrow for thine aid,
Spare not; and of our
radiance
take thy fill.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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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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While quaestor
in Baetica[100] he had
promptly
joined Galba's party, and in spite of
his youth had been given command of a legion.
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Tacitus |
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Myrtho
Myrtho, I think of you divine enchantress,
And of proud Posilipo, lit with a
thousand
fires,
Of your brow flooded with Eastern light,
And the black grapes twined in your golden hair.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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83
capable of
salvation
or
1
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Full of this whim was thoughtful Madeline:
The music, yearning like a God in pain,
She scarcely heard: her maiden eyes divine,
Fix'd on the floor, saw many a
sweeping
train
Pass by--she heeded not at all: in vain
Came many a tiptoe, amorous cavalier, 60
And back retir'd; not cool'd by high disdain,
But she saw not: her heart was otherwhere:
She sigh'd for Agnes' dreams, the sweetest of the year.
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Keats |
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The sweet
creature
left you all alone;
'Twas your own hand hung the cage door open,
Mother, and your pretty bird is flown.
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Hugo - Poems |
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