Slugs leave their lair--
The bees are stirring--birds are on the wing--
And Winter,
slumbering
in the open air,
Wears on his smiling face a dream of Spring!
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Robinson
he
Sez be wunt vote fer Guvener B.
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It's likely Michael himself was not
thinking
much of the fortune
either, but of what sort the girl was to look at.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Ah, what a pity 't is that she should listen
Unto such songs, when in her orisons
She might have heard in heaven the angels
singing!
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e noumbre of
whiche accuso{ur}s one
basilius
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Like phantom he
Moved with a
horrible
tranquillity.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Can they in gems bid pallid Hippia glow,
In Fulvia's buckle ease the throbs below;
Or heal, old Narses, thy obscener ail,
With all th' embroid'ry
plastered
at thy tail?
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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But then we first must make the journey
thither?
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Back to books and
sheltered
home,
And wood-fire flickering on the walls,
To hear, when, 'mid our talk and games,
Without the baffled North-wind calls.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Quand, ainsi qu'un poete, il descend dans les villes,
Il
ennoblit
le sort des choses les plus viles,
Et s'introduit en roi, sans bruit et sans valets,
Dans tous les hopitaux et dans tous les palais.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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It is one to me that they come or go
If I have myself and the drive of my will,
And
strength
to climb on a summer night
And watch the stars swarm over the hill.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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I offered Being for it;
The mighty
merchant
smiled.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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{2e} That is, in formal or
prescribed
phrase.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Nor know I then if passion's
votaries
rest.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Sometimes you will see many small ones in a swamp turned quite crimson
when all other trees around are still
perfectly
green, and the former
appear so much the brighter for it.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Thou art a gay an' a bonnie lass,
But thou has a
waukrife
minnie.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Quinci fuor quete le lanose gote
al
nocchier
de la livida palude,
che 'ntorno a li occhi avea di fiamme rote.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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THE RIVER
And I behold once more
My old
familiar
haunts; here the blue river,
The same blue wonder that my infant eye
Admired, sage doubting whence the traveller came,--
Whence brought his sunny bubbles ere he washed
The fragrant flag-roots in my father's fields,
And where thereafter in the world he went.
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Emerson - Poems |
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won't you hurry
yourself?
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Aristophanes |
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'Do you see him, she cried, the old lecher dies;
Through his mouth the frosts of earth take flight;
Bind his lame feet, destroy his
squinting
sight,
He's the god of craters, king of the winter's ice!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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"I see a horse and woman on it now,"
Said Gasclin, "and
companions
also show.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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["The Lady
protests
too much, methinks.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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For--by their holy hearts
Which pass in long
tranquillity
of peace
Untroubled ages and a serene life!
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Lucretius |
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They interpreted the age to itself--hence
the many phases of thought and style they present:--to sympathise with
each,
fervently
and impartially, without fear and without fancifulness,
is no doubtful step in the higher education of the Soul.
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Golden Treasury |
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I say, as if this little flower
To Eden
wandered
in --
What then?
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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_
JOHN GOULD FLETCHER
A REBEL
Tie a bandage over his eyes,
And at his feet
Let rifles
drearily
patter
Their death-prayers of defeat.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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tene Thetis tenuit pulcerrima
Neptunine?
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Latin - Catullus |
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How
joyfully
didst thou
Live out thy youth!
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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So our foe is here--
Like, as I deem, to ply no stinted trade
In blood and broil, but traffick as is meet
In fierce exchange for his long
wayfaring!
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Aeschylus |
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The Foundation's
principal
office is located at 4557 Melan Dr.
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Sara Teasdale |
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I'll no say, men are
villains
a';
The real, harden'd wicked,
Wha hae nae check but human law,
Are to a few restricked;
But, Och!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Let those, whom sleep invites, the call obey,
Their cares
resuming
with the dawning day:
Here let us feast, and to the feast be join'd
Discourse, the sweeter banquet of the mind;
Review the series of our lives, and taste
The melancholy joy of evils pass'd:
For he who much has suffer'd, much will know,
And pleased remembrance builds delight on woe.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Fecket, waistcoat; sleeve
waistcoat
(used by farm-servants as both
vest and jacket).
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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For Wyrd oft saveth
earl
undoomed
if he doughty be!
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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'
Tho
Pandarus
a litel gan to smyle, 505
And seyde, `By my trouthe, I shal yow telle.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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_And shed a tear_,
And
twisting
my Iulus _hair_,
Doting, I'll weep and say (in truth)
Baucis, these were _the_ sins of youth.
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Robert Herrick |
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ere to-morrow's dawn be here,
"Send forth my
messengers
over the sea,
To seek seven beautiful brides for me;
"Radiant of feature and regal of mien,
Seven handmaids meet for the Persian Queen.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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What cloud o'er
Tiridates
lowers,
I care not, I.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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_ My heart is
troubled
for my pet.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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OUR spark approached the dame with easy air,
Which seemed the man of fashion to declare;
His compliments were made with ev'ry grace,
That minds most
difficult
could wish to trace.
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La Fontaine |
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"And, father, how can I love you
Or any of my
brothers
more?
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blake-poems |
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"
To this observation I was not immediately
prepared
to reply.
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Poe - 5 |
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Tho gan I go a ful gret pas 525
Envyroning
even in compas
The closing of the square wal,
Til that I fond a wiket smal
So shet, that I ne mighte in goon,
And other entree was ther noon.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Here schoolboys lingered in the way,
Here the bent packman laboured by,
And lovers at the end o' the day
Whispered
their secret blushingly.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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My poor heart op'ning with his puissant hand,
Love planted there, as in its home, to dwell
A Laurel, green and bright, whose hues might well
In rivalry with proudest emeralds stand:
Plough'd by my pen and by my heart-sighs fann'd,
Cool'd by the soft rain from mine eyes that fell,
It grew in grace,
upbreathing
a sweet smell,
Unparallel'd in any age or land.
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Petrarch |
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when crafty eyes thy reason
With
sorceries
sudden seek to move,
And when in Night's mysterious season
Lips cling to thine, but not in love--
From proving then, dear youth, a booty
To those who falsely would trepan
From new heart wounds, and lapse from duty,
Protect thee shall my Talisman.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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XX
Beloved, my Beloved, when I think
That thou wast in the world a year ago,
What time I sat alone here in the snow
And saw no footprint, heard the silence sink
No moment at thy voice, but, link by link,
Went counting all my chains as if that so
They never could fall off at any blow
Struck by thy
possible
hand,--why, thus I drink
Of life's great cup of wonder!
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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"
Swift at the word descending to the shores,
They moor the vessel and unlade the stores:
Then, moving from the strand, apart they sate,
And full and
frequent
form'd a dire debate.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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The young graduate of the
Gymnasium
was to enter upon the career of an
army officer in accordance with the traditions of the family, an old
noble house which traces its lineage far back to Carinthian ancestry.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Here end the memoirs of Petr' Andrejitch Grineff; but family tradition
asserts that he was released from
captivity
at the end of the year 1774,
that he was present at the execution of Pugatchef, and that the latter,
recognizing him in the crowd, made him a farewell sign with the head
which, a few moments later, was held up to the people, lifeless and
bleeding.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Woman and love of her
Is as a
dragging
ivy on the growth
Of that strong tree, man's nature!
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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And fear not lest
Existence
closing your
Account, and mine, should know the like no more;
The Eternal Saki from that Bowl has pour'd
Millions of Bubbles like us, and will pour.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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`And if that at myn owene lust I brenne,
Fro whennes cometh my wailing and my
pleynte?
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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The
sleeping
blood and the shame and the doom!
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Euripides - Electra |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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I have three sons, who, I see already, have
brought into the world souls ill
qualified
to inhabit the bodies of
SLAVES.
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Robert Forst |
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[466] Shame on the infamous
nuptials[467] that you
introduce
into the tragic art!
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Aristophanes |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Older than Saturn, 5
Older than Rhea,
That
mournful
music,
Falling and surging
With the vast rhythm
Ceaseless, eternal, 10
Keeps the long tally
Of all things mortal.
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Sappho |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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But even the deified Julius, even the deified Augustus, bore all
these
invectives
and disdained them; whether with greater moderation or
wisdom, I cannot easily say.
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Tacitus |
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Forget the anguish and the ancient bleedings,
The wounds
engendered
by the thorny rind,
And leaves of arid hours, and empty pleadings,
O'ertrample them and leave them all behind.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Thou scene of all my happiness and
pleasure!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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'Tis heavy sacks, borne each by
voiceless
dusky slaves;
And could you dare to sound the depths of yon dark tide,
Something like human form would stir within its side.
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Hugo - Poems |
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It is manifestly
appropriate
that the poems belonging to a series--such
as the "Ecclesiastical Sonnets," or those referring to the
"Duddon"--should be brought together, as Wordsworth finally arranged
them; even although we may be aware that some of them were written
subsequently, and placed in the middle of the series.
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William Wordsworth |
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No bone had he to bind him,
His speech was like the push
Of
numerous
humming-birds at once
From a superior bush.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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To reine[27] anente[28] a fele[29]
embodiedd
knyghte,
Ytt gettes ne rennome[30] gyff hys blodde bee spylte.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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I saw him, drunk with knowledge, take
From aching brows the aureole crown,--
His locks writhed like a cloven snake,--
He left his throne to grovel down
And lick the dust of Seraphs' feet:
For what is
knowledge
duly weighed?
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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16: 'Many men shall be so venturously given, as they
shall go into
Petticoat
Lane, and yet come out again as honestly
as they went first in.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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To the sailor, wrecked,
The sea was dead grey walls
Superlative in vacancy,
Upon which
nevertheless
at fateful time
Was written
The grim hatred of nature.
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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More I know not; he had there
A
wreathed
ox, as for some weighty prayer.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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Still from side to side his eyes went roaming, As in fever earnestly he moaned
Old forgotten ecstasies and
splendors
Ebbed from out my heart forevermore.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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And while they wept,
they looked out into the
distance
and saw the deep mountain of Tsang-wu.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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7 and any additional
terms imposed by the
copyright
holder.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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7630
And if his herte him
streyned
so
Unto the Rose for to go,
Ye shulde him seen so ofte nede,
That ye shulde take him with the dede.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Condemned
perpetual frowns to prove,
How often weep thy altered love,
Who thee, too credulous, hopes to find,
As now, still golden and still kind!
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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875
`Can I not seyn what may the cause be
But-if for love of som Troyan it were,
The which right sore wolde athinken me
That ye, for any wight that
dwelleth
there,
Sholden spille a quarter of a tere, 880
Or pitously your-selven so bigyle;
For dredelees, it is nought worth the whyle.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Oh that I were from great Ulysses sprung,
Or that these wither'd nerves like thine were strung,
Or,
heavens!
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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The man and his wine's sae
bewitching!
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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26 to 45 The
multitude
of Critics, and causes of them.
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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Emily
Dickinson
appears to have written her first poems in the
winter of 1862.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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And when I reached the market place, a youth
standing
on a house-top
cried, "He is a madman.
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Cuchulain has killed kings,
Kings and sons of kings,
Dragons out of the water and witches out of the air,
Banachas and
Bonachas
and people of the woods.
| Guess: |
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Yeats |
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dicere possemus quae proelia gesta sub Haemo
quaeque cruentarint fumantem Strymona pugnae,
quam notus clipeo, quanta ui fulminet hastam,
ni
prohiberet
Hymen.
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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No, neither he, nor his
compeers
by night
Giving him aid, my verse astonished.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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But I'll
suppress
a secret that touches you.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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at
neuermore
schal blinne.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Rilke - Poems |
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And I felt the night between us deepen,
Heard the clock that ticked upon the shelf,
The great silence closing in around us,
And his hand that he
withdrew
from mine.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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The barges wash
Drifting
logs
Down Greenwich reach
Past the Isle of Dogs.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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All in the Downs the fleet was moor'd,
The
streamers
waving in the wind,
When black-eyed Susan came aboard;
"O!
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Golden Treasury |
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replacement
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Keats - Lamia |
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I
expected
'fore this, 'thout no gret of a row,
Jeff D.
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James Russell Lowell |
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But as man's unbelieving taste came round,
She furious stampt her shoeless foot aground,
Wiped bye her soot-black hair with
clenching
fist,
While through her yellow teeth the spittle hist,
Swearing by all her lucky powers of fate,
Which like as footboys on her actions wait,
That fortune's scale should to my sorrow turn,
And I one day the rash neglect should mourn;
That good to bad should change, and I should be
Lost to this world and all eternity;
That poor as Job I should remain unblest:--
(Alas, for fourpence how my die is cast!
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John Clare |
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So the hand of the child, automatic,
Slipped out and
pocketed
a toy that was running along
the quay.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Your further
condition
seems fair to me.
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Aristophanes |
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