Drizza la testa, drizza, e vedi a cui
s'aperse a li occhi d'i Teban la terra;
per ch'ei gridavan tutti: "Dove rui,
Anfiarao?
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Yea, what is all
The world, but an awning
scaffolded
amid
The waste perilous Eternity, to lodge
This Heaven-wander'd princess, woman's beauty?
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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During the same summer, a cohort of Usipii, 107 which had been levied in Germany, and sent over into Britain,
performed
an extremely daring and memorable action.
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Tacitus |
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Rule 42 of the Code, "_No one shall speak to the Man at
the Helm_," had been
completed
by the Bellman himself with the words "_and
the Man at the Helm shall speak to no one_.
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Lewis Carroll |
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at
tourne{n}
aboute{n} hym.
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_
This is
unquestionably
the same John who afterward (1711) married
Tabitha Hagg or Ragg.
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James Russell Lowell |
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I measure every grief I meet
With
analytic
eyes;
I wonder if it weighs like mine,
Or has an easier size.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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at ille
felix, cui
placidus
leniter adflat Amor.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Public domain books are our gateways to the past, representing a wealth of history, culture and knowledge that's often
difficult
to discover.
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Meredith - Poems |
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She's
promised
to me,
Fortuitously!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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There the grey guinea-fowl stands in the way,
The young black heifer and the raw-ribbed mare,
And scorn to move for tumbril or for dray,
And feel
themselves
as good as farmers there.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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, but its
volunteers
and employees are scattered
throughout numerous locations.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Ich kenne manchen schonen Platz
Und manchen altvergrabnen Schatz;
Ich muss ein
bisschen
revidieren.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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These had deep calm; but all around
There was a deadly
smothered
sound, 240
The choking cry of agony
From wounded men who could not die;
Who watched the black wing of the raven
Rise like a cloud 'twixt them and heaven,
And in the distance flying fast
Beheld the eagle come at last.
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Christina Rossetti |
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_Market Day_
With arms and legs at work and gentle stroke
That urges switching tail nor mends his pace,
On an old ribbed and weather beaten horse,
The farmer goes
jogtrotting
to the fair.
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John Clare |
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57 CE) allowed three
officers
separate seats in court, one of which was Vice Censor in chief.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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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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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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The days went by, the monk was gone,
The summer passed, the winter came;
Though seasons changed, yet still the same
The daily round of life went on;
The daily round of
household
care,
The narrow life of toil and prayer.
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Longfellow |
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Miss
Thompson
floated in a dream.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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[12]
[11] The
opposite
of a parting by death.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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' So saying, he
fiercely
plunges the steel full in his
breast.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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In infinite succession light and
darkness
shift,
And years vanish like the morning dew.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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The
laughter
ended abruptly, and Kurrell was the first to speak.
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Kipling - Poems |
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I have tiding,
Glad tiding, behold how in duty
From far
Lehistan
the wind, gliding.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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The
immutable
calm of this white burning,
O my fearful kisses, makes you say, sadly,
'Will we ever be one mummified winding,
Under the ancient sands and palms so happy?
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Mallarme - Poems |
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fessa iacet stratis, ubi quondam conscia culpae
Lemnia
deprenso
repserunt uincula lecto.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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THE
APOTHEOSIS
OF HOMER.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Shakespeare |
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Across the mid-stream white waves rise
Flute and drum keep time to sound of the rowers' song;
Amidst revel and feasting, sad
thoughts
come;
Youth's years how few!
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Thy spirits have a fainter flow,
I see thee daily weaker grow--
'Twas my
distress
that brought thee low,
My Mary!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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Me then my friends first
importuned
to take
A portion of his cheeses, then to drive
Forth from the sheep-cotes to the rapid bark
His kids and lambs, and plow the brine again.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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XL
Ah, what detains thee, Phaon,
So long from Mitylene,
Where now thy
restless
lover
Wearies for thy coming?
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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Thou saviour of my son, thou staff in need
To our wrecked age,
farewell!
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Look on the
brightest
eye,
Nor teach it to be proud;
View but the clearest sky,
And thou shalt find a cloud;
Nor call each face ye meet
An angel's, cause it's fair,
But look beneath your feet,
And think of what they are.
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John Clare |
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It is through disobedience that
progress
has been
made--through disobedience and rebellion.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Glory no other thing is, Tully says,
Than a man's
frequent
fame spoke out with praise.
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Robert Herrick |
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I do not sing here to the common tune,
Claiming that
everything
beneath the moon
Is corruptible and subject to decay:
But rather I say (not wishing to displease
Those who would argue by contraries)
That this great All must perish some fine day.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Your
messengers
were all checked like myself;
And, seeing the case hopeless, I await
The current's pleasure.
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Byron |
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Elizabeth Browning |
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`But nathelees, myn owene lady bright, 1485
Yit were it so that I wiste outrely,
That I, your humble
servaunt
and your knight,
Were in your herte set so fermely
As ye in myn, the which thing, trewely,
Me lever were than thise worldes tweyne, 1490
Yet sholde I bet enduren al my peyne.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Her answer'd then
Telemachus
discrete.
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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Or how shall we gather what griefs destroy,
Or bless the
mellowing
year,
When the blasts of winter appear?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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How can you shame to act this part
Of unswerving
indifference
to me?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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Two figures, one Conon, in the midst he set,
And one- how call you him, who with his wand
Marked out for all men the whole round of heaven,
That they who reap, or stoop behind the plough,
Might know their several
seasons?
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| Question: |
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Is he not
valiant?
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| Question: |
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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The feling of his sorwe, or of his fere, 1090
Or of ought elles, fled was out of towne;
And doun he fel al
sodeynly
a-swowne.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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registered
trademark.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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"
When the painted birds laugh in the shade,
Where our table with
cherries
and nuts is spread:
Come live, and be merry, and join with me,
To sing the sweet chorus of "Ha, ha, he!
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blake-poems |
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Upon the glazen shelves kept watch
Matthew and Waldo,
guardians
of the faith,
The army of unalterable law.
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T.S. Eliot |
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The
Foundation
makes no representations concerning
the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United
States.
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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All
creation
slept and smiled.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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THIS is just the kind of morning;
Balmy breaths o'er brook and tree
Make thine ear more keen and tender
Unto vows I hid for thee;
Sweet
petitions
softly dawning.
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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unsolicited
donations from donors in such states who
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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I have no reason to
complain
about him.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Lest the smooth forehead
wrinkled
sit :
Yet your own face shall at you grin.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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The gem in Eastern mine which slumbers,
Or ruddy gold 'twill not bestow;
'Twill not subdue the turban'd numbers,
Before the Prophet's shrine which bow;
Nor high through air on
friendly
pinions
Can bear thee swift to home and clan,
From mournful climes and strange dominions--
From South to North--my Talisman.
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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After
suffering a temporary eclipse during the Sung dynasty, he came back
into favour in the
sixteenth
century, when most of the popular
anthologies were made.
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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O often and often couldst thou then have seen
On lifeless
children
lifeless parents prone,
Or offspring on their fathers', mothers' corpse
Yielding the life.
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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"
Oure lord hym
graunted
?
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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When I have devoured a good hot
tunny-fish and drunk on top of it a great jar of unmixed wine, I hold up
the
Generals
of Pylos to public scorn.
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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'
CXXXVI
If thy soul check thee that I come so near,
Swear to thy blind soul that I was thy 'Will',
And will, thy soul knows, is
admitted
there;
Thus far for love, my love-suit, sweet, fulfil.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Your orange hair in the void of the world
The
sentiments
apparent
Would you see
You rise the water unfolds
I only wish to love you
The world is blue as an orange
We have created the night I hold your hand I watch
Even when we sleep we watch over each other
Donkey or cow, cockerel or horse
I looked in front of me
If I speak it's to hear you more clearly
We two take each other by the hand
At dawn I love you I've the whole night in my veins
She looks into me
A single smile disputes
Translated by A.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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You've not
surprised
my secret yet
Already the cortege moves on
But left to us is the regret
of there being no connivance none
The rose floats at the water's edge
The maskers have passed by in crowds
It trembles in me like a bell
This heavy secret you ask now
?
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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whom I will send 300
Far hence at a
convenient
time on board
My bark, and sell him at no little gain.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Po himself, soon realizing that he was
unsuited
to Court life, allowed
his conduct to become more and more reckless and unrestrained.
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Li Po |
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You may convert to and
distribute
this work in any binary,
compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any
word processing or hypertext form.
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Sara Teasdale |
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See note on _The Dreame_
with the
quotation
from Aquinas.
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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Ther were so many trees yit,
That I sholde al
encombred
be
Er I had rekened every tree.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Hast nothing for our
edification?
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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The ice did split with a thunder-fit;
The helmsman steered us
through!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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How space quivers
Like an
enormous
kiss
That, wild to be born for no one, can neither
Burst out or be soothed like this.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Pere adoptif de ceux qu'en sa noire colere
Du Paradis
terrestre
a chasses Dieu le Pere,
O Satan, prends pitie de ma longue misere!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Concreato
fu ordine e costrutto
a le sustanze; e quelle furon cima
nel mondo in che puro atto fu produtto;
pura potenza tenne la parte ima;
nel mezzo strinse potenza con atto
tal vime, che gia mai non si divima.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Hence let me trace
The latent
grandeur
of thy dwelling-place.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Or cormorants
plunging
one by one, cutting
The flood, pearls flying from their wings?
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19th Century French Poetry |
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light]] Let us plat a Scourge O Sister City
cChildren are nourishd for the Slaughter; once the Child was fed
With Milk; but wherefore now are
Children
fed with blood
PAGE 15 {This page appears to be a later insert by Blake, for it was not numbered in his original sequence.
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Blake - Zoas |
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It is an accustom'd action with her, to seeme
thus washing her hands: I haue knowne her
continue
in
this a quarter of an houre
Lad.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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"
O, what a shout there went
From the black
regiment!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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_
Here, in my rude log cabin,
Few poorer men there be
Among the
mountain
ranges
Of Eastern Tennessee.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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The story of the Pied Piper becomes for the first time
credible to me (albeit
confirmed
by the Hameliners dating their legal
instruments from the period of his exit), as I behold how those strains,
without pretence of magical potency, bewitch the pupillary legs, nor
leave to the pedagogic an entire self-control.
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James Russell Lowell |
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]
ULYSSES:
Come, boys of Bacchus,
children
of high race,
This man within is folded up in sleep, _595
And soon will vomit flesh from his fell maw;
The brand under the shed thrusts out its smoke,
No preparation needs, but to burn out
The monster's eye;--but bear yourselves like men.
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Shelley |
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All the happy songs he wrought
From
remembrance
soon must fade,
As the wash of silver moonlight 15
From a purple-dark ravine.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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But that she goes to this old thorn,
The thorn which I've
described
to you,
And there sits in a scarlet cloak,
I will be sworn is true.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Again the neighing of the horse, is that
Not seen to differ likewise, when the stud
In buoyant flower of his young years raves,
Goaded by winged Love, amongst the mares,
And when with
widening
nostrils out he snorts
The call to battle, and when haply he
Whinnies at times with terror-quaking limbs?
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Lucretius |
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O old pagodas of my soul, how you
glittered
across green trees!
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Imagists |
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Though Homer makes no mention of this horrible usage,
the example of the Roman Vestals affords reasons for believing that,
in ascribing it to the heroic ages, Sophocles
followed
an authentic
tradition.
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Iliad - Pope |
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I moved my fingers off
As
cautiously
as glass,
And held my ears, and like a thief
Fled gasping from the house.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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No, for she would neither touch bread nor cake; she is used to
licking
ambrosia
at the table of the gods.
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Aristophanes |
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At the end of three months, Lispeth made daily pilgrimage to Narkunda
to see if her
Englishman
was coming along the road.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Harsnet, his chaplain, when Somers,
Catherine
Wright, and Mary
Cooper confessed that they had been instructed in their simulations
by Darrel.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Thie Brystowe
knyghtes
for thie forth-comynge lynge[64];
Echone athwarte hys backe hys longe warre-shield dothe slynge.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Now am I war
That Pirous and tho swifte stedes three,
Whiche that drawen forth the sonnes char,
Han goon som by-path in despyt of me; 1705
That maketh it so sone day to be;
And, for the sonne him hasteth thus to ryse,
Ne shal I never doon him
sacrifyse!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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No, no,
rejoined
the daughter, I am right:
I clearly heard, dear mother, spite of fright.
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La Fontaine |
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VI
Time was, his raillery was gay,
He loved the
simpleton
to mock,
To make wise men the idiot play
Openly or 'neath decent cloak.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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