[Note 72: This somewhat musty joke has
appeared
in more than one
national costume.
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He is the warrior's bird of battle, exults in
slaughter
and carnage;
his joy here is a compliment to the sunrise.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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The invalidity or
unenforceability
of any
provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Apollinax
visited the United States
His laughter tinkled among the teacups.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Robespierre, with Mayor Petion, Buzot, Curate Gregoire and
some
threescore
Old Constituents; though we men had only _thirty
voices.
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William Wordsworth |
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Bright Souls [Elements] of
vegetative
life, budding and blossoming
Stretch
PAGE 14
Stretch their immortal hands to smite the gold & silver Wires
And with immortal Voice soft warbling fill all Earth & Heaven.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Orpheus loked[e]
abakwarde
on Erudice his wijf {and} 3068
lost[e] hir {and} was deed.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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O think how sweet to me the
freshening
sluice!
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Keats |
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When Orpheus played and sang, the wild animals
themselves
came to hear his singing.
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Appoloinaire |
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I never saw aught like to them,
Unless perchance it were
Brown
skeletons
of leaves that lag
My forest-brook along;
When the ivy-tod is heavy with snow,
And the owlet whoops to the wolf below,
That eats the she-wolf's young.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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And the
Ferryman
of the Dead,
His hand that hangs on the pole, his voice that cries;
"Thou lingerest; come.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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In return for your glad words
Be sure all
greeting
that mine house affords
Is yours.
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Euripides - Electra |
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]
[Sidenote M: Her body was short and thick;]
[Sidenote N: her
buttocks
broad and round.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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I may not denounce our
enemies?
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Aristophanes |
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Its Sybillic
splendor
is beaming
With Hope and in Beauty to-night--
See!
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Poe - 5 |
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And to your more bewitching, see, the proud
Plump bed bear up, and
swelling
like a cloud,
Tempting the two too modest; can
Ye see it brusle like a swan,
And you be cold
To meet it when it woos and seems to fold
The arms to hug it?
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Robert Herrick |
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Is not the body more than
raiment?
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Yeats |
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How
penetrating
is the end of an autumn day!
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT
LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE
PROVIDED IN
PARAGRAPH
F3.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Lilacs,
False blue,
White,
Purple,
Color of lilac,
Heart-leaves of lilac all over New England,
Roots of lilac under all the soil of New England,
Lilac in me because I am New England,
Because my roots are in it,
Because my leaves are of it,
Because my flowers are for it,
Because it is my country
And I speak to it of itself
And sing of it with my own voice
Since
certainly
it is mine.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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The mother said
gently, "Is that you,
darling?
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Oh the
trembling
fear!
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blake-poems |
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In that city there is no pagan now
But he been slain, or takes the
Christian
vow.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Lewis Carroll |
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Keats - Lamia |
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And yet, my brothers, well I know
The tethered feet, the
pinioned
wings,
The spirit bowed beneath the blow,
The heart grown faint from wounds and stings;
The staggering force of brutish might,
That strikes and leaves us stunned and dazed;
The long, vain waiting through the night
To hear some voice for justice raised.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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" Finding that he could not
influence
the
conduct of his prince, he drowned himself in the river Mi-lo.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Hrǣdlan, 454), the same as
Hrēðel
(cf.
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Beowulf |
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And we shall play a game of chess,
Pressing
lidless eyes and waiting for a knock upon the door.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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and all this while
Artemuxia
is escaping.
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Aristophanes |
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Here, where the dames of Rome their gilded hair
Waved to the wind, now wave the reed and
thistle!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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though all were o'er,
For us
repeopled
were the solitary shore.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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I think the
notion that no poet can form a correct estimate of his own
writings
is
another.
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Poe - 5 |
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Lady of wrong and grief,
Blameless
!
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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And maybe she wasn't so bright,
Though she talked in a merry strain,
And I closed my eyes ever so tight,
Yet I saw her ever so plain:
Her dear little tilted nose,
Her delicate, dimpled chin,
Her mouth like a budding rose,
And the
glistening
pearls within;
Her eyes like the violet:
Such a rare little queen--Fleurette.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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At Venice the
distinction
was merely
civil.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Les richesses
jaillissant
a chaque demarche!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no
one owns a United States
copyright
in these works, so the Foundation
(and you!
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Die Glocke ruft, das
Stabchen
bricht.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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I heare a
knocking
at the South entry:
Retyre we to our Chamber:
A little Water cleares vs of this deed.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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* You provide, in accordance with
paragraph
1.
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Wilde - Poems |
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It would have been easy to swell this little volume to a very
considerable bulk, by appending notes filled with quotations; but
to a learned reader such notes are not necessary; for an
unlearned reader they would have little interest; and the
judgment passed both by the learned and by the
unlearned
on a
work of the imagination will always depend much more on the
general character and spirit of such a work than on minute
details.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement
violates
the
law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be
interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by
the applicable state law.
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Keats - Lamia |
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The fervid poet would recite,
Carried away by ecstasy,
Fragments of northern poetry,
Whilst Eugene
condescending
quite,
Though scarcely following what was said,
Attentive listened to the lad.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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And I and all the souls in pain,
Who tramped the other ring,
Forgot if we
ourselves
had done
A great or little thing,
And watched with gaze of dull amaze
The man who had to swing.
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Wilde - Poems |
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O, this world's
transience!
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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But thou, who, in my voice's sink and fall
When the sob took it, thy divinest Art's
Own
instrument
didst drop down at thy foot
To harken what I said between my tears, .
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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) 3 Xiao Difei
suggests
that this refers to the cavalry.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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"I can't understand why my
grandmother
never gambles.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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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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Latin mortal
dreadful
word,
Ibis, Nile's native bird.
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Appoloinaire |
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Derriere les ennuis et les vastes chagrins
Qui chargent de leur poids l'existence brumeuse,
Heureux celui qui peut d'une aile vigoureuse
S'elancer vers les champs lumineux et
sereins!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this
electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without
prominently displaying the
sentence
set forth in paragraph 1.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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"
"Herman is a German,
therefore
economical; that explains it," said
Tomsky.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Hence a road leads to
Tartarus
and Acheron's wave.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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During the great
Licinian
contest the Plebeian poets were,
doubtless, not silent.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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To deify the object of your love was a common topic of love-poetry;
Donne does so with all the
subtleties
of scholastic theology at his
finger-ends.
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John Donne |
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Rilke - Poems |
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Some states do not allow
disclaimers
of certain implied
warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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In essence this
movement
was a protest against the irregularity
and individual license of earlier poets.
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Alexander Pope |
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'
"Then she: 'O worn by toils, O broke in fight,
Still are new toils and war thy dire
delight?
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Odyssey - Pope |
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And indeed there will be time
For the yellow smoke that slides along the street,
Rubbing its back upon the window panes;
There will be time, there will be time
To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet
There will be time to murder and create,
And time for all the works and days of hands
That lift and drop a
question
on your plate;
Time for you and time for me,
And time yet for a hundred indecisions,
And for a hundred visions and revisions,
Before the taking of a toast and tea.
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T.S. Eliot |
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The
intense melancholy which seems to well up, perforce, to the surface of
all the poet's cheerful sayings about his grave, we find
thrilling
us to
the soul--while there is the truest poetic elevation in the thrill.
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Poe - 5 |
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Thou hast brought it about that both our peoples,
sons of the Geat and Spear-Dane folk,
shall have mutual peace, and from
murderous
strife,
such as once they waged, from war refrain.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Better far to bear the future, my Leuconoe, like the past,
Whether Jove has many winters yet to give, or this our last;
THIS, that makes the
Tyrrhene
billows spend their strength against
the shore.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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He thereat was stung,
Perverse, with
stronger
fancy to reclaim
Her wild and timid nature to his aim:
Besides, for all his love, in self despite,
Against his better self, he took delight
Luxurious in her sorrows, soft and new.
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Keats - Lamia |
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Time was when, with the crowd's
farewell
'Hurrah!
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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And will this divine grace, this supreme
perfection
depart those for whom life exists only to discover and glorify them?
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Appoloinaire |
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I
bequeath
myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love,
If you want me again look for me under your boot-soles.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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To yon old Bald-pate smooths his
wrinkled
brow,
And humbly begs you'll mind the important NOW!
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Robert Burns |
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may the King perform
His whole kind
promise!
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Heorogar was dead,
my elder brother, had
breathed
his last,
Healfdene's bairn: he was better than I!
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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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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To-night what girl
When she goes home,
Dreamily
before her mirror shakes from her hair
This year's blossoms, clinging in its coils ?
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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See the snakes that they rear
How they hiss in their hair,
And the
sparkles
that flash from their eyes!
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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Hugo - Poems |
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2880
Than shal he forther, ferre and nere,
And namely to thy lady dere,
In siker wyse; ye, every other
Shal helpen as his owne brother,
In trouthe
withoute
doublenesse, 2885
And kepen cloos in sikernesse.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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90
XI
His huge long tayle wound up in hundred foldes,
Does overspred his long bras-scaly backe,
Whose wreathed boughts when ever he unfoldes,
And thicke entangled knots adown does slacke,
Bespotted
as with shields of red and blacke, 95
It sweepeth all the land behind him farre,
And of three furlongs does but litle lacke;
And at the point two stings in-fixed arre,
Both deadly sharpe, that sharpest steele exceeden farre.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Some, belike,
Groaning with
restless
enmity, expect
All change from change of constituted power;
As if a Government had been a robe,
On which our vice and wretchedness were tagged
Like fancy-points and fringes, with the robe
Pulled off at pleasure.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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"
"Hear
anything
that might prove useful?
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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du wirst mir's nicht
verwehren!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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"Les saules trempes, et des
bourgeons
sur les ronces--
C'est la, dans une averse, qu'on s'abrite.
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T.S. Eliot |
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LX
"You lose your people here, and there your reign,
If you in this emprize are obstinate;
--
Returning
-- us, the remnant of your train,
You save, together with your royal state.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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His face was as the must that lies upon a vat of new-made wine:
The seas could not
insapphirine
the perfect azure of his eyes.
| Guess: |
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Quite in the forest's heart a lighted space
Arose to view; in that deserted place
A lone,
abandoned
hall with light aglow
The long neglect of centuries did show.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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We greet
The first bright
wreathing
storm of snow
Which falls in starry flakes below.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Soon we will see the
drifting
sands cleared, 24 for this are you sent on a mission.
| Guess: |
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Through paths pine-fragrant, where the shaded ground
Is strewn with fruits of scarlet husk, I come,
As if through maidenhood's uncertainty,
Its darkness
coloured
with strange untried thoughts;
Hither I come, here to the flowery peak
Of this white cliff, high up in golden air,
Where glowing earth and sea and divine light
Are in mine eyes like ardour, and like love
Are in my soul: love's glowing gentleness,
The sunny grass of meadows and the trees,
Towers of dark green flame, and that white town
Where from the hearths, a fragrance of burnt wood,
Blue-purple smoke creeps like a stain of wine
Along the paved blue sea: yea, all this kindness
Lies amid salt immeasurable flowing,
The power of the sea, passion of love.
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| Question: |
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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"--"I thank you, friend,"
And saying this
Vladimir
drained
His cup unto his maiden dear.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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But I shall always keep a watchful eye;
Some knowing tricks
methinks
I yet can spy;
Howe'er, the horse must now be clearly mine,
And you'll the pad of course to me resign;
To you no more expense; and from to-day,
Be not displeased to see me on it, pray;
At ease I'll ride my country house to view;--
That very night he to the mansion flew,
And our good folks immediately repaired,
Where gay Magnificent no pains had spared
To get access; what passed we won't detail;
Soft scenes, you'll doubtless guess, should there prevail.
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La Fontaine |
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--Et, tout pensifs, tandis que de leurs grands yeux bleus
Silencieusement
tombe une larme amere,
ils murmurent: <
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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