_, sic enim ex codice
transcripsit
Rhys Roberts p.
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Latin - Catullus |
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It seems
to hover in the air, like one of the island
enchantments
of Prospero.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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impair the memory of that hour
Of thy
communion
with my nobler mind
By pity or grief, already felt too long!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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What holy mystery e'er was noosed in
thought?
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Even I myself may well hereafter dread
Your prowess,
offspring
of Cyllenian May,
When you grow strong and tall.
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Shelley |
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HALPINE
[Sidenote: 1861-1865]
Comrades known in marches many,
Comrades, tried in dangers many,
Comrades, bound by memories many,
Brothers
let us be.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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tu solus, tu multus item, tu primus et idem
postremus mediusque simul mundique superstes
(nam sine fine tui
labentia
tempora finis),
altera ab alterno spectans fera turbine certo
rerum fata rapi uitasque inuoluier aeuo
atque iterum reducis supera in conuexa referri,
scilicet ut mundo redeat quod partubus astra
perdiderint refluumque iterum per corpora fiat.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Oh Thou, who didst with pitfall and with gin
Beset the Road I was to wander in,
Thou wilt not with
Predestined
Evil round
Enmesh, and then impute my Fall to Sin!
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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What
blessedness
within this prison pent!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Sleeping
or dying there?
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Tennyson |
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Quel regret
incapable
le mord?
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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XI
Mars, now ashamed to have granted power
To his
offspring
who, with mortal frailty,
Engorged with pride in Rome's bravery,
Looked to infringe on Heaven's grandeur,
Cooling again from his initial ardour,
With which Roman hearts he'd filled completely,
Blew new fires, with ardent breath, and fiercely,
Warmed the chilly Goths with his hot valour.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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XXXIX
I grow weary of the foreign cities,
The sea travel and the
stranger
peoples.
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Sappho |
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]
Myn
aristotul
q{uo}d 4340
she.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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If Leland never
mentioned
Rowley it is equally true he says nothing
of Canynge, Lydgate, or Occleve.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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_ so
_before_
fro; Tn.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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--that is gospel good,
Howe'er the text you handle; 150
From common wood the cross was hewed,
By love turned
priceless
sandal.
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James Russell Lowell |
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A man who
moralises
is usually a hypocrite, and a woman who moralises is
invariably plain.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Note the feeling of fate in the first
appearance
of
Apollonius.
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Keats |
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In that alone is my joy expressed,
More than if I were the
emperor!
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Troubador Verse |
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LXI
In scaping Durindane, a flame in show
(He shifts so
quickly)
is the Scottish lord.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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inges
vncerteyne
as me{n} don.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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The weary war where fierce Numantia bled,
Fell Hannibal, the swoln Sicilian main
Purpled with Punic blood--not mine to wed
These to the lyre's soft strain,
Nor cruel Lapithae, nor, mad with wine,
Centaurs, nor, by
Herculean
arm o'ercome,
The earth-born youth, whose terrors dimm'd the shine
Of the resplendent dome
Of ancient Saturn.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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On nous a fait savoir que le terme "le voile" dans la
derniere
ligne du
poeme <>, doit etre corrigee en "la voile".
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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"
--Yet when we came back, late, from the
Hyacinth
garden,
Your arms full, and your hair wet, I could not
Speak, and my eyes failed, I was neither
Living nor dead, and I knew nothing, 40
Looking into the heart of light, the silence.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Contributions to the Project Gutenberg
Literary Archive
Foundation
are tax deductible to the full extent
permitted by U.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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If a concatenation of events centred in one great action--events which
gave birth to the present commercial system of the world--if these be of
the first importance in the civil history of mankind, then the Lusiad,
of all other poems,
challenges
the attention of the philosopher, the
politician, and the gentleman.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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& the hHuman form is no more
The
listning
Stars heard, & the first beam of the morning started back
He cried out to his father, depart!
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Blake - Zoas |
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Right glad they were to
struggle
back, blood streaming from their
heads,
With axes all in splinters, and raiment all in shreads.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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The Men have recieved their death wounds & their
Emanations
are fled
To me for refuge & I cannot turn them out for Pitys sake *{inserted vertically, up the left side of the page.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Or even upon the measured pulpitings
Of the
familiar
false and true?
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Stephen Crane |
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One day, as Lisaveta was
standing
on the pavement about to enter the
carriage after the Countess, she felt herself jostled and a note was
thrust into her hand.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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_The God
unshorn_
of l.
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Robert Herrick |
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Yet happy they whom grief doth bless,
That weep the more, and see the less,
And, to
preserve
their sight more true.
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Marvell - Poems |
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All things within it would the world possess,
And have them in the tide of its desire:
Man hath his nature of the
vehement
world;
He is a torrent like the stars and beasts
Flowing to answer the fierce world's desire.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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WINTER IN
DURNOVER
FIELD
SCENE.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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As melts the iceberg in the seas,
As clouds give rain to the eastern breeze,
As snow-banks thaw in April's beam,
The solid
kingdoms
like a dream
Resist in vain his motive strain,
They totter now and float amain.
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Emerson - Poems |
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And I would turn and answer
Among the
springing
thyme,
"Oh, peal upon our wedding,
And we will hear the chime,
And come to church in time.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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So in your freshness, so in all your first newness,
When earth and heaven both honoured your loveliness,
The Fates
destroyed
you, and you are but dust below.
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Ronsard |
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It
would be easily dropped from its likeness to 'let'
suggesting
a
duplication of that word.
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John Donne |
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Could she have guessed that it would be;
Could but a crier of the glee
Have climbed the distant hill;
Had not the bliss so slow a pace, --
Who knows but this surrendered face
Were
undefeated
still?
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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So
strongly
iron seems
To crave to flee that rock.
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Lucretius |
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Pass I on Unto Lady "Miels-de-Ben,"
Having praised thy girdle's scope, How the stays ply back from it; I breathe no hope
That thou
shouldst
.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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We
remained
for a while in Tongjia Swamp, about to go through Luzi Barrier.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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What fate
For
charming
dwarfs who never meant
To anger Hercules!
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Hugo - Poems |
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Therefore
thou must
Come with me to the kings of all the nations;
For the whole earth must know of thee.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Alas for him that is gone,
And for thee, O wandering one:
That now, methinks, in a land
Of the
stranger
must toil for hire,
And stand where the poor men stand,
A-cold by another's fire,
O son of the mighty sire:
While I in a beggar's cot
On the wrecked hills, changing not,
Starve in my soul for food;
But our mother lieth wed
In another's arms, and blood
Is about her bed.
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Euripides - Electra |
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He settled himself
comfortably
on Torpenhow's table and turned over the
pages.
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Kipling - Poems |
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[50]
At the third cup I
penetrate
the Great Way;
A full gallon--Nature and I are one.
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Li Po |
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+ be, as
myndgiend
wǣre here, is comparatively
rare in original A.
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Beowulf |
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Baudelaire
worked
and worried.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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But Pallas knew (thy friends and navy lost)
Once more 'twas given thee to behold thy coast;
Yet how could I with adverse Fate engage,
And mighty Neptune's
unrelenting
rage?
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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How barb'rous rage subsided at your word,
And nations
wondered
while they dropped the sword!
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Your wings,
brushing
it, spill never a drop
From the glass I fill, from which my thirst I quench.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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) A Persian would naturally wish to
vindicate
a
distinguished Countryman; and a Sufi to enroll him in his own sect,
which already comprises all the chief Poets of Persia.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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A GAME OF CHESS
The Chair she sat in, like a burnished throne,
Glowed on the marble, where the glass
Held up by standards wrought with fruited vines
From which a golden Cupidon peeped out 80
(Another hid his eyes behind his wing)
Doubled the flames of
sevenbranched
candelabra
Reflecting light upon the table as
The glitter of her jewels rose to meet it,
From satin cases poured in rich profusion.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Ruin above, and anarchy below;
Terror without, and treachery within;
The Chalice of
destruction
full, and all _270
Thirsting to drink; and who among us dares
To dash it from his lips?
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Shelley |
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"
[Illustration]
There was an old man of Cashmere,
Whose
movements
were scroobious and queer;
Being slender and tall, he looked over a wall,
And perceived two fat ducks of Cashmere.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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But through her brain of weal and woe
So many
thoughts
moved to and fro,
That vain it were her lids to close;
So half-way from the bed she rose,
And on her elbow did recline
To look at the lady Geraldine.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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So please you, it is true: our Thane is comming:
One of my
fellowes
had the speed of him;
Who almost dead for breath, had scarcely more
Then would make vp his Message
Lady.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Into the narrowing channel, between the shore
And the sunk
torpedoes
lying in treacherous rank;
She turned but a yard too short; a muffled roar,
A mountainous wave, and she rolled, righted, and sank.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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:
syððan
niht becōm (_after night had
come on_), 115; so, 6, 132, 723, 887, 902, 1078, 1149, 1236, 1262, 1282,
1979, 2013, 2125; or pret.
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Beowulf |
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3, this work is
provided
to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER
WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO
WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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O les grands pres,
La grande
campagne
amoureuse!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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my
nostrils
drink the lives of mMen
[[line]]
The Villages Lament.
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Blake - Zoas |
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' Here live beloved and obeyed^
' Each one your sister, each your maid,
* And, if our rule seem
strictly
penned,
* The rule itself to you shall bend.
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Marvell - Poems |
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From the
forgotten
you call forth dreams; the
child
Reposing on the ground in the corn-clad fields,
In harvest-glow beside the naked mowers.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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'You Rise the Water Unfolds'
You rise the water unfolds
You sleep the water flowers
You are water
ploughed
from its depths
You are earth that takes root
And in which all is grounded
You make bubbles of silence in the desert of sound
You sing nocturnal hymns on the arcs of the rainbow
You are everywhere you abolish the roads
You sacrifice time
To the eternal youth of an exact flame
That veils Nature to reproduce her
Woman you show the world a body forever the same
Yours
You are its likeness.
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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The Warders with their shoes of felt
Crept by each
padlocked
door,
And peeped and saw, with eyes of awe,
Grey figures on the floor,
And wondered why men knelt to pray
Who never prayed before.
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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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.
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Rilke - Poems |
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I pray you, let the proofs
Be in the past acts you were pleased to praise
This very night, and in my further bearing, 500
Beside,
wherever
you are borne by fate.
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| Source: |
Byron |
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The smallest
housewife
in the grass,
Yet take her from the lawn,
And somebody has lost the face
That made existence home!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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By Me
created?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
|
10
Have the laden galleons been sighted
Stoutly
labouring
up the sea from Tyre?
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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tympana tenta tonant palmis et cymbala circum
concaua, raucisonoque minantur cornua cantu,
et Phrygio stimulat numero caua tibia mentis,
telaque praeportant
uiolenti
signa furoris,
ingratos animos atque impia pectora uulgi
conterrere metu quae possint numini' diuae.
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Diuellish
Macbeth,
By many of these traines, hath sought to win me
Into his power: and modest Wisedome pluckes me
From ouer-credulous hast: but God aboue
Deale betweene thee and me; For euen now
I put my selfe to thy Direction, and
Vnspeake mine owne detraction.
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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Since a Norman duke broke your gods of clay,
Eternally, beneath Virgil's laurel spray,
The pale
hydrangea
is wed to the green myrtle.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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You've stolen away that great power
My beauty
ordained
for me
Over priests and clerks, my hour,
When never a man I'd see
Would fail to offer his all in fee,
Whatever remorse he'd later show,
But what was abandoned readily,
Beggars now scorn to know.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
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The Governor was strong upon
The Regulations Act:
The Doctor said that Death was but
A scientific fact:
And twice a day the
Chaplain
called,
And left a little tract.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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The water
caressed
the shore so gently!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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O, nymph divine
Of virgin springs, with
sunniest
flowers
A chaplet for my Lamia twine,
Pimplea sweet!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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La ne venimmo; e lo
scaglion
primaio
bianco marmo era si pulito e terso,
ch'io mi specchiai in esso qual io paio.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Lazily I lounge through labyrinthine corridors,
And with eyes
suddenly
altered,
I peer into an office I do not know,
And wonder at a startled face that penetrates my own.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
|
Porter
And on her daughter 200
They wash their feet in soda water
Et O ces voix d'enfants, chantant dans la
coupole!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
|
Lais, exultant,
tyrannizing
Greece,
Lais who kept her lovers in the porch,
lover on lover waiting
(but to creep
where the robe brushed the threshold
where still sleeps Lais),
so she creeps, Lais,
to lay her mirror at the feet
of her who reigns in Paphos.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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In Argos about the fold,
A story lingereth yet,
A voice of the
mountains
old,
That tells of the Lamb of Gold:
A lamb from a mother mild,
But the gold of it curled and beat;
And Pan, who holdeth the keys of the wild,
Bore it to Atreus' feet:
His wild reed pipes he blew,
And the reeds were filled with peace,
And a joy of singing before him flew,
Over the fiery fleece:
And up on the based rock,
As a herald cries, cried he:
"Gather ye, gather, O Argive folk,
The King's Sign to see,
The sign of the blest of God,
For he that hath this, hath all!
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Against the leader's prow, her lovely breast
With more than mortal force the goddess press'd;
The ship recoiling
trembles
on the tide,
The nymphs, in help, pour round on every side,
From the dread bar the threaten'd keels to save;
The ship bounds up, half lifted from the wave,
And, trembling, hovers o'er the wat'ry grave.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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to gōdum,
referring
to
Beowulf.
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Beowulf |
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Sam: I know no Spells, use no forbidden Arts;
My trust is in the living God who gave me 1140
At my
Nativity
this strength, diffus'd
No less through all my sinews, joints and bones,
Then thine, while I preserv'd these locks unshorn,
The pledge of my unviolated vow.
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Milton |
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an, the
soldiers
lit his navel; he was so fat that the fire burned for several days.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Here by the
labouring
highway
With empty hands I stroll:
Sea-deep, till doomsday morning,
Lie lost my heart and soul.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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You may copy it, give it away or
re-use it under the terms of the Project
Gutenberg
License included
with this eBook or online at www.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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"
So even now, too,
Come and release me
From mordant love pain,
And all my heart's will 35
Help me
accomplish!
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Sappho |
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Tall and slender ash trees, whose foliage is turned to a
dark
mulberry
color, are frequent.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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See, the juice is
scarcely
dried
On the fine skin!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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'Tis all the same, Colonel:
You'll find lovely
fighting
along the whole line!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Soon wilt thou
know how windy
boasting
brings one to harm.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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LXXII
The boatman then: "Erewhile was of this town
One Anselm, that of worthy lineage came;
A wight that spent his youth in flowing gown,
Studying his Ulpian: he of honest fame,
Beauty, and state
assorting
with his own,
A consort sought, and one of noble name:
Nor vainly; in a neighbouring city, crowned
With superhuman beauty, one he found.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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For books they follow
fashions
new
And throw all old esteems away,
In crowded streets flowers never grew,
But many there hath died away.
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John Clare |
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He stalked along the Forum like King Tarquin in his pride:
Twelve axes waited on him, six
marching
on a side;
The townsmen shrank to right and left, and eyed askance with fear
His lowering brow, his curling mouth which always seemed to
sneer;
That brow of hate, that mouth of scorn, marks all the kindred
still;
For never was there Claudius yet but wished the Commons ill;
Nor lacks he fit attendance; for close behind his heels,
With outstretched chin and crouching pace, the client Marcus
steals,
His loins girt up to run with speed, be the errand what it may,
And the smile flickering on his cheek, for aught his lord may
say.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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