)
Scraps of a song keep
rumbling
in my head .
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Thus down into the vale destructive cars
Of battle roll, against th' intrepid chief
Of the advancing and
undaunted
host.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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gratefully
accepted, but we cannot make any
statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from outside
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Stephen Crane |
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of
his lord), _trusty courtier,
counsellor
of a prince_: nom.
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Beowulf |
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, in 'Rob Roy's Grave', "Vools" for "Veols," and mistakes
in
quotations
from other poets, such as "invention" for "instruction,"
in Wither's poem on the Daisy.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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In how many ways
That
unfeeling
man evaded what I had to say!
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Racine - Phaedra |
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zip *****
This and all
associated
files of various formats will be found in:
http://www.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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So that eternal love in love's fresh case,
Weighs not the dust and injury of age,
Nor gives to necessary
wrinkles
place,
But makes antiquity for aye his page;
Finding the first conceit of love there bred,
Where time and outward form would show it dead.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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'71'
Made men
suspicious
of their wives.
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Alexander Pope |
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"
As on a Alpine watch-tower
From heaven comes down the flame,
Full on the neck of Titus
The blade of Aulus came:
And out the red blood spouted,
In a wide arch and tall,
As spouts a
fountain
in the court
Of some rich Capuan's hall.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Yet though in light he dwell, no light was this
He showed to thee, but
darkness!
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Euripides - Electra |
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The shining of the sun upon the water
Is like a
scattering
of gold crocus-petals
In a long wavering irregular flight.
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Imagists |
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XLIV
Ever in memory dwells the
restless
thought,
He might a thousand times have had the fair;
And -- mad and obstinate -- had, when besought,
A thousand times refused such beauty rare;
And such sweet joy was whilom set at nought,
Such bright, such blessed moments wasted were;
And now he life would gladly give away
To have that damsel but for one short day.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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She
stretched
her hand to my cheek,
And there brake from her lips a moan;
'Mercy, my child, my own!
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Euripides - Electra |
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[396]
Sublime
Tobacco!
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Byron |
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Perhaps, indeed, we should not be far wrong if we
saw a chief reason for the pressure of
surrounding
tradition on the
early epic in this very fact, that it is poetry meant for recitation.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Wear thou in look
And gesture seemly grace of
reverent
awe,
That gladly he may forward us aloft.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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quarters
of whete,
And an hundre?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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"
His coolness gave me courage, and I
resigned
myself to pass the night on
the steppe, commending myself to the care of Providence, when suddenly
the stranger, seating himself on the driver's seat, said--
"Grace be to God, there _is_ a house not far off.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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How should I pay you
everything
you owe?
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Leopards, tigers, play
Round her as she lay;
While the lion old
Bowed his mane of gold,
And her breast did lick
And upon her neck,
From his eyes of flame,
Ruby tears there came;
While the lioness
Loosed her slender dress,
And naked they conveyed
To caves the
sleeping
maid.
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blake-poems |
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Chanson de Roland |
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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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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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There are a few
things that you can do with most Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works
even without
complying
with the full terms of this agreement.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Drink, and keep your thoughts to yourself,*
Father
Varlaam!
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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O
drooping
souls, whose destinies
Are fraught with fear and pain,
Ye shall be loved again!
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Longfellow |
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e
wasshyng
of her vessel
?
| Guess: |
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Im furchterlich verworrenen Falle
Ubereinander krachen sie alle
Und durch die
ubertrummerten
Klufte
Zischen und heulen die Lufte.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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His golden hilt he
enshrined
it underneath.
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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O
laughter
if only to royally invest
My absent tomb purple, down there, is spread.
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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Who
assisted
thee to ravage and to plunder;
I trow thou hadst full many wicked comrades.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Don Rodrigue has
convinced
his father
To propose him when the council's over,
Judge then the chance that he'll be denied.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Of Chapman's
translation
we shall speak
in the introduction to the "Odyssey.
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With these full oft have I seen Moeris change
To a wolf's form, and hide him in the woods,
Oft summon spirits from the tomb's recess,
And to new fields transport the
standing
corn.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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But let me turn from fancy-pictured scenes
To that whose
pastoral
calm before me lies:
Here nothing harsh or rugged intervenes;
The early evening with her misty dyes 200
Smooths off the ravelled edges of the nigh,
Relieves the distant with her cooler sky,
And tones the landscape down, and soothes the wearied eyes.
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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If yet, forgetful of his promise given
To Hermes, Pallas, and the queen of heaven,
To favour Ilion, that perfidious place,
He breaks his faith with half the ethereal race;
Give him to know, unless the Grecian train
Lay yon proud
structures
level with the plain,
Howe'er the offence by other gods be pass'd,
The wrath of Neptune shall for ever last.
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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These with a thousand small deliberations
Protract the profit of their chilled delirium,
Excite the membrane, when the sense has cooled,
With pungent sauces, multiply variety
In a
wilderness
of mirrors.
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T.S. Eliot |
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APPENDIX
THE BALLAD OF READING GAOL
A VERSION BASED ON THE ORIGINAL DRAFT OF THE POEM
I
HE did not wear his scarlet coat,
For blood and wine are red,
And blood and wine were on his hands
When they found him with the dead,
The poor dead woman whom he loved,
And
murdered
in her bed.
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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"Come back, come back,
Horatius!
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Gulnara, this evening when sank the red sun,
Didst thou mark how like blood in
descending
it shone?
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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It may only be
used on or associated in any way with an
electronic
work by people who
agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement.
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Tennyson |
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And near Albano's scarce divided waves
Shine from a sister valley;--and afar
The Tiber winds, and the broad ocean laves
The Latian coast where sprung the Epic war,
'Arms and the Man,' whose reascending star
Rose o'er an empire,--but beneath thy right
Tully reposed from Rome;--and where yon bar
Of girdling
mountains
intercepts the sight,
The Sabine farm was tilled, the weary bard's delight.
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Seeking myself in myself, an unsatisfied spirit, I brooded,
Spying out
pathways
dark, lost in dreary reflection.
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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My father was a good and pious man,
An honest man by honest parents bred,
And I believe that, soon as I began
To lisp, he made me kneel beside my bed,
And in his hearing there my prayers I said:
And afterwards, by my good father taught,
I read, and loved the books in which I read;
For books in every
neighbouring
house I sought,
And nothing to my mind a sweeter pleasure brought.
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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E come quei che con lena affannata,
uscito fuor del pelago a la riva,
si volge a l'acqua
perigliosa
e guata,
cosi l'animo mio, ch'ancor fuggiva,
si volse a retro a rimirar lo passo
che non lascio gia mai persona viva.
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Gaze on a god in
tortures
manifold,
Heinous to Zeus, and scorned by all
Whose footsteps tread the heavenly hall,
Because too deeply, from on high,
I pitied man's mortality!
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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UPON HIS KINSWOMAN,
MISTRESS
ELIZABETH HERRICK.
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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XCI
Non ideo, Gelli, sperabam te mihi fidum
in misero hoc nostro, hoc perdito amore fore,
quod te cognossem bene
constantemue
putarem
aut posse a turpi mentem inhibere probro;
sed neque quod matrem nec germanam esse uidebam 5
hanc tibi, cuius me magnus edebat amor.
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Latin - Catullus |
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þurfe
wyrsan wīgfrecan weorðe gecȳpan, _had need to buy with
treasures
no
inferior warrior_, 2497.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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--
"Yes, the
Christians
smile at all.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting;
The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star,
Hath had
elsewhere
its setting
And cometh from afar;
Not in entire forgetfulness
And not in utter nakedness
But trailing clouds of glory do we come
From God, who is our home:
Heaven lies about us in our infancy!
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
I heard it from a little old woman in a white cap, who
sings to herself in Gaelic, and moves from one foot to the other as
though she
remembered
the dancing of her youth.
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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"
The second verse runs:--
"They call
themselves
the Tytere-tues,
And wore a blue rib-bin;
And when a-drie would not refuse
To drink.
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
|
"
Under the stars the air was light
But dark below the boughs,
The still air of the
speechless
night,
When lovers crown their vows.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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The unpolished style of
antiquity
would now succeed as ill
at the bar, as the modern actor who should attempt to copy the
deportment of Roscius [d], or Ambivius Turpio.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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Your
trumpets
sound, as many as ye bear!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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We will not from our
plighted
oath depart.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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O tempt not the
infuriate
mood
Of that fell lion!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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No
disguise
avails!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
V
_Listen now to what is said
By the eighth opal,
flashing
red
And pale, by turns, with every breath--
The voice of the lover after death.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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The All-enfolder,
The All-upholder,
Enfolds, upholds He not
Thee, me,
Himself?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
It has
survived
long enough for the copyright to expire and the book to enter the public domain.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
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Secretly
coiled beneath bushes, where he befouls the sweet wellsprings,
Turning to poisonous drool Cupid's lifegiving dew.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Pray wait till by and by; you're much to blame;
Besides, the nights are long enough you'll find;
Heav'n genial joys for privacy design'd;
And why this place, when you've nice
chambers
got?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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Soon spreads the dismal shade
Of Mystery over his head,
And the
caterpillar
and fly
Feed on the Mystery.
| Guess: |
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blake-poems |
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Verflucht voraus die hohe Meinung
Womit der Geist sich selbst
umfangt!
| Guess: |
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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_See note_]
[37 So, _Ed:_ So _1633-69_]
[39 shut; _Ed:_ shut, _1633-69_]
[44 ope _1633-69_, _O'F_, _S96:_ out _A18_, _B_, _D_, _H40_,
_H49_, _JC_, _Lec_, _N_, _P_, _S_, _TC_]
[48
offendst]
offends _1669_]
[50 and] or _1669_, _JC_, _O'F_, _S96_]
[52-3
Disputed thou it, and tame thy rage.
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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THE NIZAM OF HYDERABAD
(Presented at the Ramzan Durbar)
Deign, Prince, my tribute to receive,
This lyric offering to your name,
Who round your jewelled scepter bind
The lilies of a poet's fame;
Beneath whose sway
concordant
dwell
The peoples whom your laws embrace,
In brotherhood of diverse creeds,
And harmony of diverse race:
The votaries of the Prophet's faith,
Of whom you are the crown and chief
And they, who bear on Vedic brows
Their mystic symbols of belief;
And they, who worshipping the sun,
Fled o'er the old Iranian sea;
And they, who bow to Him who trod
The midnight waves of Galilee.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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antiquissima
84 _cibelle_ O: _cibele_ GRB
85
_adhortans_
Ald.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
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Some do but scratch us:
Slow and
insidious
these poison our hearts over years.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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'
Prince Viazemski
Canto the First
I
"My uncle's goodness is extreme,
If seriously he hath disease;
He hath acquired the world's esteem
And nothing more
important
sees;
A paragon of virtue he!
| Guess: |
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Note: Ixion was tormented on a wheel in Hades, Tantalus by water and food just out of reach, Prometheus by having his liver torn by vultures, Sisyphus by being forced
eternally
to roll a boulder to the top of a hill and see it roll back again.
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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7 or obtain
permission
for the use of the work and the
Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
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How fairy-like a melody there floats
From their throats--
From their merry little throats--
From the silver,
tinkling
throats
Of the bells, bells, bells--
Of the bells!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
|
"
The Beaver brought paper, portfolio, pens,
And ink in unfailing supplies:
While strange creepy
creatures
came out of their dens,
And watched them with wondering eyes.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
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In 1226, while at the court of Richard of Bonifazio in Verona, he abducted his master's wife, Cunizza, at the
instigation
of her brother, Ezzelino da Romano.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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"
The Sugar-tongs
answered
distinctly, "Of course!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
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And Apollo, the Song-changer,
Was a
herdsman
in thy fee;
Yea, a-piping he was found,
Where the upward valleys wound,
To the kine from out the manger
And the sheep from off the lea,
And love was upon Othrys at the sound.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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Sythen affter yt befell soo, 165
Of
messengeres
there com too,
Ryght to the Ryche Cete, [folio 148a]
There alex lywyd In pourte.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
|
All of us know that lance, and well may speak
Whereby Our Lord was wounded on the Tree:
Charles, by God's grace,
possessed
its point of steel!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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inanius_
RVen
5 _dii_ ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
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The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating
charities and
charitable
donations in all 50 states of the United
States.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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SEA VIOLET
The white violet
is scented on its stalk,
the sea-violet
fragile as agate,
lies
fronting
all the wind
among the torn shells
on the sand-bank.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Some thought he had been bitten by a dog,
Because his
violence
took on the form
Of carrying his pillow in his teeth;
But it's more likely he was crossed in love,
Or so the story goes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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In spite of rock and tempest's roar,
In spite of false lights on the shore,
Sail on, nor fear to breast the sea
Our hearts, our hopes, are all with thee,
Our hearts, our hopes, our prayers, our tears,
Our faith
triumphant
o'er our fears,
Are all with thee,--are all with thee!
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It beseems us better
friends to avenge than
fruitlessly
mourn them.
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To Beowulf then the bale was told
quickly and truly: the king's own home,
of
buildings
the best, in brand-waves melted,
that gift-throne of Geats.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Dulcibus
est verbis mollis alendus amor.
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Naimes the Duke right haughtily regards him,
And goes to strike him, like a man of valour,
And of his shield breaks all the upper margin,
Tears both the sides of his
embroidered
ha'berk,
Through the carcass thrusts all his yellow banner;
So dead among sev'n hundred else he casts him.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Stephen Crane |
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full Project Gutenberg-tm License as specified in
paragraph
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Wilde - Poems |
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In this neighborhood, where oaks and pines are about equally
dispersed, if you look through the thickest pine wood, even the
seemingly unmixed pitch pine ones, you will
commonly
detect many
little oaks, birches, and other hard woods, sprung from seeds carried
into the thicket by squirrels and other animals, and also blown
thither, but which are overshadowed and choked by the pines.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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When they go into the world, the
world will
disagree
with them.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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It is our garden,
All black and
blossomless
this winter night,
But we bring April with us, you and I;
We set the whole world on the trail of spring.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Index of First Lines
Under the Mirabeau flows the Seine
Brushed by the shadows of the dead
The anemone and flower that weeps
The angels the angels in the sky
I've gathered this sprig of heather
The strollers in the plain
My gipsy beau my lover
The gypsy knew in advance
I am bound to the King of the Sign of Autumn
An eagle descends from this sky white with archangels
Mellifluent moon on the lips of the maddened
Autumn ill and adored
The room is free
Our story's noble as its tragic
Love is dead within your arms
In the evening light that's faded
You've not surprised my secret yet
Evening falls and in the garden
You descended through the water clear
O my abandoned youth is dead
Admire the vital power
From magic Thrace, O
delerium!
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Appoloinaire |
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_ From him, not her those orbs their
movement
learn.
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Petrarch |
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As if some little Arctic flower,
Upon the polar hem,
Went wandering down the latitudes,
Until it puzzled came
To
continents
of summer,
To firmaments of sun,
To strange, bright crowds of flowers,
And birds of foreign tongue!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Sir William Rowan
Hamilton
wrote to Mr.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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In another
unplaced
fragment of the Assyrian text [11] Enkidu rejects
his mistress also, apparently on his own initiative and for ascetic
reasons.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Perhaps my saying over bold appears,
Accounting less the pleasure of those eyes,
Whereon to look
fulfilleth
all desire.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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