The moon was bright, the air was free,
And fruits and flowers
together
grew,
On many a shrub and many a tree:
And all put on a gentle hue,
Hanging in the shadowy air
Like a picture rich and rare.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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what ails poor
Geraldine?
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Amis de la science et de la volupte,
Ils
cherchent
le silence et l'horreur des tenebres;
L'Erebe les eut pris pour ses coursiers funebres,
S'ils pouvaient au servage incliner leur fierte.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Is it
not, on the contrary, true, if not absolutely, yet with a most genuine and
substantial
approximation?
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Whitman |
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Touching
those letters, sir, I wot not of them.
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Poe - 5 |
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To
SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of
compliance
for any
particular state visit www.
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Hugo - Poems |
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{117b} You might believe that the
uprooted
Cyclades were floating in.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Hast thou turnd the least of these
To flight, or if to fall, but that they rise
Unvanquisht, easier to transact with mee
That thou
shouldst
hope, imperious, & with threats
To chase me hence?
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Milton |
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Prince, why wilt thou smite
The
smitten?
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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"
The offer of the
kingdoms
of the world incurs the stern rebuke:
"Get thee behind me!
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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And princes, shining through their windows, start ;
Who their suspected
counsellors
refuse.
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Marvell - Poems |
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"
CLXXI
Then Rollanz feels that he has lost his sight,
Climbs to his feet, uses what
strength
he might;
In all his face the colour is grown white.
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Chanson de Roland |
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O words of
heavenly
sound!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Canst thou be thus
incredulous?
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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After him Servaeus, Veranius, and Vitellius, all with equal
zeal, but Vitellius with great eloquence urged "that Piso, in hatred to
Germanicus, and passionate for innovations, had by tolerating general
licentiousness, and the oppression of the allies, corrupted the common
soldiers to that degree, that by the most profligate he was styled
_Father of the Legions_: he had, on the contrary, been
outrageous
to the
best men, above all to the friends and companions of Germanicus; and, at
last, by witchcraft and poison destroyed Germanicus himself: hence the
infernal charms and immolations practised by him and Plancina: he had
then attacked the Commonwealth with open arms; and, before he could be
brought to be tried, they were forced to fight and defeat him.
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Tacitus |
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XVIII
Afterwards
I think:
Poppies bloom when it thunders.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Hwæðere hē his folme forlēt
"tō līf-wraðe lāst weardian,
"earm and eaxle; nō þǣr ǣnige swā þēah
"fēa-sceaft guma frōfre gebohte:
975 "nō þȳ leng leofað lāð-getēona
"synnum geswenced, ac hyne sār hafað
"in nȳd-gripe nearwe befongen,
"balwon bendum: þǣr
ābīdan
sceal
"maga māne fāh miclan dōmes,
980 "hū him scīr metod scrīfan wille.
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Beowulf |
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)
Tomorrow
evening at eleven, beside
The fountain in the avenue of lime-trees.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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the Suliotes stretched the welcome hand,
Led them o'er rocks and past the dangerous swamp,
Kinder than polished slaves, though not so bland,
And piled the hearth, and wrung their garments damp,
And filled the bowl, and trimmed the
cheerful
lamp,
And spread their fare: though homely, all they had:
Such conduct bears Philanthropy's rare stamp--
To rest the weary and to soothe the sad,
Doth lesson happier men, and shames at least the bad.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Turn again, thou fair Eliza;
If to love thy heart denies,
For pity hide the cruel sentence
Under friendship's kind
disguise!
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Robert Forst |
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To learn more about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation
and how your efforts and donations can help, see
Sections
3 and 4
and the Foundation web page at http://www.
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Chanson de Roland |
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In Anna's wars, a soldier poor and old
Had dearly earned a little purse of gold;
Tired with a tedious march, one
luckless
night,
He slept, poor dog!
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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e I-wys
In
pilerynage
at Galys,
To bryngen hym to Rome.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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With unawed hand a god he grasps,
He thrusts, to stiffen, in a narrow case,
Or cell, where struggling air-blasts
constant
moan;
Walling them round with huge, damp, slimy stone;
And (leaving mem'ry of bloodshed as drink,
And thoughts of crime as food) he stops each chink.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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These hemlocks
whispered
over his head, these
hickory logs were his fuel, and these pitch pine roots kindled his
fire; yonder fuming rill in the hollow, whose thin and airy vapor
still ascends as busily as ever, though he is far off now, was his
well.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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In the
editions
1820-1832 this couplet preceded the four lines above
quoted.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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The
invalidity
or
unenforceability of any provision of this agreement shall not void the
remaining provisions.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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This well-known
Canadian
poet has lately published
_Sagas of Vaster Britain, War Lyrics_, and _Canada's Responsibility to
the Empire_.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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And by the time of night
O'ertaken, they would throw, like bristly boars,
Their wildman's limbs naked upon the earth,
Rolling
themselves
in leaves and fronded boughs.
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Lucretius |
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And it hath
devoured
me!
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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International
donations
are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make
any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from
outside the United States.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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--What hopes can Troy retain,
Thy
matchless
son, her guard and glory, slain?
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Iliad - Pope |
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And on these barren rocks, with juniper,
And heath, and thistle, thinly
sprinkled
o'er.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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In a sweat he arose; and the storm
shrieked
shrill,
And smote as in savage joy;
While High-Stoy trees twanged to Bubb-Down Hill,
And Bubb-Down to High-Stoy.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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TH'
enchantress
presently a hint received,
That those suspicions much the husband grieved;
And better to succeed and make him fret,
She told him of a thing, 'mong witches met,
'Twas metamorphose-water (such the name)
With this could Damon take Erastus' frame;
His gait, his look, his carriage, air and voice
Thus changed, he easily could mark her choice,
Each step observe:--enough, he asked no more,
Erastus' shape the husband quickly bore;
His easy manner, and appearance caught:
With captivating smiles his wife he sought.
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La Fontaine |
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It was the
whooping
of Namgay Doola.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Come give me thy
loveliest
lay.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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If to enter life
Needed some courage, 'twere a kind of wages,
As they let sacking
soldiers
take home loot:
But we are shuffled into life like puppets
Emptied out of a showman's bag; and then
Made spenders of the joys current in heaven!
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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We dare do aught becomes Old Scratch,
But like a
treatment
civil,
So, spite of buffet, prayers, and calls--
Too late her friends to rally--
We, eighty strong, bore her along
Unto the Pirate Galley.
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Hugo - Poems |
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A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Then she, 'Let some one sing to us:
lightlier
move
The minutes fledged with music:' and a maid,
Of those beside her, smote her harp, and sang.
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Tennyson |
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Then the Butcher contrived an ingenious plan
For making a separate sally;
And had fixed on a spot
unfrequented
by man,
A dismal and desolate valley.
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Lewis Carroll |
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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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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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The first is raised of men from Butenrot,
The next, after, Micenes, whose heads are gross;
Along their backs, above their spinal bones,
As they were hogs, great
bristles
on them grow.
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Chanson de Roland |
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* * * * *
ROBERT GRAVES
LOST LOVE
His eyes are quickened so with grief,
He can watch a grass or leaf
Every instant grow; he can
Clearly through a flint wall see,
Or watch the
startled
spirit flee
From the throat of a dead man.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Many small donations
($1 to $5,000) are particularly
important
to maintaining tax exempt
status with the IRS.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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310
Between them, o'er the mantel, hung in state
Solomon's temple, done in copperplate;
Invention pure, but meant, we may presume,
To give some Scripture
sanction
to the room.
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James Russell Lowell |
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She left two little ones,
So small, so frail--William and Madeline;
The one just lisps, the other
scarcely
runs.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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And when it showed this relic, damp,
To that father attempting an inimical smile,
The
solitude
shuddered, azure, sterile.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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XXXV
Whom when the damned feend so fresh did spy,
No wonder if he wondred at the sight,
And doubted, whether his late enemy
It were, or other new
supplied
knight.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Is't not
laughable?
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Conrade of
Stauffen
is no name of yours,
But Guy of Filnek--mark.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Quid sum miser tunc
dicturus?
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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V
Yet faithful still 'mid woe and doubt
One woman's loyal heart--whose pain
Filled it with pure celestial light--
Shone starry-constant like the North,
Or that still
radiance
beaming forth
From sacred lights in some lone fane.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Through green bamboos a deep road ran
Where dark
creepers
brushed our coats as we passed.
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Li Po |
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But with our ears we get
The thunder after eyes behold the flash,
Because forever things arrive the ears
More tardily than the eyes--as thou mayst see
From this example too: when markest thou
Some man far yonder felling a great tree
With double-edged ax, it comes to pass
Thine eye beholds the swinging stroke before
The blow gives forth a sound athrough thine ears:
Thus also we behold the flashing ere
We hear the thunder, which
discharged
is
At same time with the fire and by same cause,
Born of the same collision.
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Lucretius |
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Was it not
madness?
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Aeschylus |
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There is no reason to believe
that Pope
cherished
any very bitter resentment toward Halifax.
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Alexander Pope |
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A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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The noble warrior, who has claimed her,
Said when he
disarmed
me: 'Have no fear.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Straightway
Virginius led the maid a little space aside,
To where the reeking shambles stood, piled up with horn and hide,
Close to yon low dark archway, where, in a crimson flood,
Leaps down to the great sewer the gurgling stream of blood.
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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`But god, that al wot, take I to witnesse, 260
That never I this for
coveityse
wroughte,
But only for to abregge that distresse,
For which wel nygh thou deydest, as me thoughte.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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And all this to make ""
Una dompna soiseubuda a
borrowed
lady or, as the Italians
translated it,
" Una donna ideale.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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"And we are put on earth a little space,
That we may learn to bear the beams of love
And these black bodies and this
sunburnt
face
Is but a cloud, and like a shady grove.
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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232
A Wise
prophete
was in ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Thrice he essayed either way; thrice queenly Juno checked
and
restrained
him in pity of heart.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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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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Keats - Lamia |
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Thou art the mystic
homeless
One;
Into the world Thou never came,
Too mighty Thou, too great to name;
Voice of the storm, Song that the wild wind sings,
Thou Harp that shatters those who play Thy strings!
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Rilke - Poems |
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O God of the night,
What great sorrow
Cometh unto us,
That thou thus
repayest
us
Before the time of its coming?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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In Thee is all my hope, is all my trust,
On Thee I centre all my self that dies,
And self that dies not with its mortal crust,
But sleeps and wakes, and in the end will rise
With hymns and
hallelujahs
on its lips,
Thee loving with the love that satisfies.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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Gulnara,
farewell!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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At home this old fellow is
the most
sensible
of men, but the instant he is seated on those cursed
stone seats,[85] he is there with mouth agape as if he were hanging up
figs by their stems to dry.
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Aristophanes |
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say I love thee not,
When I against myself with thee
partake?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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By my troth, the fool has an
excellent
breast.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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"And now the land," said Othere,
"Bent southward suddenly,
And I
followed
the curving shore
And ever southward bore
Into a nameless sea.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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And there is only
Holofernes
here.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Here, regarding the palace, and a
testimony
of the love that the King of England possessed for his mistress, is this quatrain from a poem whose Author I do not know.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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We Have Created the Night
We have created the night I hold your hand I watch
I sustain you with all my powers
I engrave in rock the star of your powers
Deep furrows where your body's goodness fruits
I recall your hidden voice your public voice
I smile still at the proud woman
You treat like a beggar
The madness you respect the simplicity you bathe in
And in my head which gently blends with yours with the night
I wonder at the
stranger
you become
A stranger resembling you resembling everything I love
One that is always new.
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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distributed
Project
Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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"
XLIII
There came
whisperings
in the winds
"Good bye!
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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It's so unkind of science
To go and
interfere!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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date contact
information
can be found at the Foundation's web site and
official page at www.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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What balks or breaks others is fuel for
his burning
progress
to contact and amorous joy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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One should reserve
that to give an
interest
to one's old age.
| Guess: |
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Then forward by a way which, beaten broad,
Led from the
territory
of false Limours
To the waste earldom of another earl,
Doorm, whom his shaking vassals called the Bull,
Went Enid with her sullen follower on.
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Tennyson |
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They may be
modified
and printed and given away--you may do
practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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By what mean hast thou render'd thee so drunken,
To the clay that thou bowest down thy figure,
And the grass and the windel-straws art
grasping?
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Where's my smooth brow gone:
My arching lashes, yellow hair,
Wide-eyed glances, pretty ones,
That took in the
cleverest
there:
Nose not too big or small: a pair
Of delicate little ears, the chin
Dimpled: a face oval and fair,
Lovely lips with crimson skin?
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Villon |
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Newby
Chief
Executive
and Director
gbnewby@pglaf.
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Li Po |
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The
harlot commands him to eat and drink also:
"It is the
conformity
of life,
Of the conditions and fate of the Land.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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LVI
It never can be mine
To sit in the door in the sun
And watch the world go by,
A pageant and a dream;
For I was born for love, 5
And fashioned for desire,
Beauty, passion, and joy,
And sorrow and unrest;
And with all things of earth
Eternally must go, 10
Daring the
perilous
bourn
Of joyance and of death,
A strain of song by night,
A shadow on the hill,
A hint of odorous grass, 15
A murmur of the sea.
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Sappho |
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" The "trunk" described in the Fenwick note, as on the road between
Rosthwaite and Stonethwaite, has
disappeared
long ago; but the "solemn
and capacious grove" existed till 1883 in its integrity.
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William Wordsworth |
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It has led
Individualism
entirely astray.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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We were approaching a
little town where,
according
to the bearded Commandant, there ought to
be a strong detachment on the march to join the usurper.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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mine is
Hercules' face;
All sorrow, labour, suffering, I,
tallying
it, absorb in myself;
Many times have I been rejected, taunted, put in prison, and crucified--and
many times shall be again;
All the world have I given up for my dear brothers' and sisters' sake--for
the soul's sake;
Wending my way through the homes of men, rich or poor, with the kiss of
affection;
For I am affection--I am the cheer-bringing God, with hope, and all-
enclosing charity;
Conqueror yet--for before me all the armies and soldiers of the earth shall
yet bow--and all the weapons of war become impotent:
With indulgent words, as to children--with fresh and sane words, mine only;
Young and strong I pass, knowing well I am destined myself to an early
death:
But my Charity has no death--my Wisdom dies not, neither early nor late,
And my sweet Love, bequeathed here and elsewhere, never dies.
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Whitman |
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The orchard
sparkled
like a Jew, --
How mighty 't was, to stay
A guest in this stupendous place,
The parlor of the day!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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A wearied pilgrim, I have
wandered
here
Twice five-and-twenty, bate me but one year;
Long I have lasted in this world, 'tis true,
But yet those years that I have lived, but few.
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Robert Herrick |
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XXXIV
Dianae sumus in fide
puellae et pueri integri:
Dianam pueri integri
puellaeque
canamus.
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Latin - Catullus |
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