Perhaps 't is some strange charm to draw him here, 'Thout which he may not leave his new-found crew That ride the two-foot
coursers
of the deep,
And laugh in storms and break the fishers' nets.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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ABOUT THE ELEGIES
Goethe cultivated a special, italianate hand for this
portfolio
of
twenty-four "elegies," so called because he was emulating the elegiasts
of Imperial Rome, Tibullus, Propertius, Catullus.
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XXIX
Ferrau and Roland came upon the maid;
For one and the other
champion
equally
Within the palace and without it strayed
In quest of her, who was their deity.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Alone for
Holofernes
am I come.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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" Or there 's no
Purgatory
for the dead ?
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Marvell - Poems |
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We've no
business
down there at all.
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Villon |
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As vocative: mīn wine, 2048; wine mīn,
Bēowulf
(Hunferð), 457, 530,
1705; acc.
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Beowulf |
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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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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Go together,
You
precious
winners all; your exultation
Partake to every one.
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Shakespeare |
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O cordial
delicious!
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Longfellow |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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ou
remembrest
wele as I gesse ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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"Give
smoother
answers, lying page,
Or perish in the lying!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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He
threatens
to punish severely any of the
townspeople who shall dare to bring complaints of any kind to the
visiting official.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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So, when we experiment in planting
forests, we find
ourselves
at last doing as Nature does.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Arias
To the great cost of their leaders, and their fleet,
They know your
presence
assures their defeat.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Caines, 107):
descended
from him are Grendel and his kin, 107,
1262 ff.
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Beowulf |
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tous les
agenouillages
anciens et les
peines _releves_ a sa suite.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Since
I have been unwilling to intrude with learned notes, I must apologize
for Goethe's many classical allusions, which were as familiar to his own
readership as are, in our publications today, the dense
references
to
media celebrities.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Shalt thou be vanquished, whose imperial feet
Have
shattered
armies and stamped empires dead?
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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I am just
returned
from visiting Mr.
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Robert Burns |
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How many lovers
Hath not its lulling
Cradled to slumber
With the ripe flowers, 15
Ere for our pleasure
This golden summer
Walked through the corn-lands
In gracious
splendour!
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Sappho |
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The
matrimonial
bond is, nevertheless, strict and severe among them; nor is there anything in their manners more commendable than this.
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Tacitus |
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--but could I
therefore
know
How soon would end the bliss that never stays?
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Petrarch - Poems |
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I fear, I fear
What they may be
That
secretly
bind her:
What hand holds the reins
Of those sightless forces
That govern her courses.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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"
V
Hear how it
babbles!
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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"
Quoth she, and
whistled
thrice.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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The real blunder
would have been to represent these old poets as deeply versed in
general history, and studious of
chronological
accuracy.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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think of my beloved,
When my heart is
thinking
of him,
O my sweetheart, my Algonquin!
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Longfellow |
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Death of thy Soule, those Linnen cheekes of thine
Are
Counsailers
to feare.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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they espide,
Where
stretcht
he lay upon the sunny side,?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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at wil founden hym
a
p{er}durable
sete {and} ne wil not be cast doune 1156
wi?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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You sad Andronici, have done with woes;
Give sentence on the
execrable
wretch
That hath been breeder of these dire events.
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Shakespeare |
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Part pays, and justly, the
deserving
steer:
The hog, that ploughs not nor obeys thy call,
Lives on the labours of this lord of all.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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the
Grandsyre
of them all,
Proud Tarquin,?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Forty years of my life have I labored among you, and taught you,
Not in word alone, but in deed, to love one
another!
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Longfellow |
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The earlier readings then follow, in
chronological order, with the year to which they belong; [12] and it is
in every case to be assumed that the last of the changes
indicated
was
continued in all subsequent editions of the works.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Yet, yet awhile thy generous ardour stay;
Assured, I meet thee at the dawn of day,
Charged with refulgent arms (a glorious load),
Vulcanian
arms, the labour of a god.
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Iliad - Pope |
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'Et Anglice sermonicari solebat populo, sed
secundum
linguam Norfolchie
ubi natus et nutritus erat.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Thus the joint contact of the body and soul
Learns from their
earliest
age the vital motions,
Even when still buried in the mother's womb;
So no dissevering can hap to them,
Without their bane and ill.
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Lucretius |
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He spread over the table a light layer of cinders, bending an
iron rod the while; then he took up a pair of compasses and at the same
moment
unhooked
a piece of the victim which was hanging in the
palaestra.
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Aristophanes |
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I was reading then one of those dear poems (whose flakes of rouge have more charm for me than young flesh), and dipping a hand into the pure animal fur, when a street organ sounded
languishingly
and sadly under my window.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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PAY HIS DEWTIES LAST, pay his last duty to the shade of the slain man
by
sacrificing
his murderer.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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"
LIV
Back darted Spurius Lartius;
Herminius
darted back:
And, as they passed, beneath their feet
They felt the timbers crack.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Both are fouled with foulest blight,
One urban being, Formian t'other wight,
And deeply printed with
indelible
stain: 5
Morbose is either, and the twin-like twain
Share single Couchlet; peers in shallow lore,
Nor this nor that for lechery hungers more,
As rival wenchers who the maidens claim
Right well are paired these Cinaedes sans shame.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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]
[Sub-Footnote iii: The lily of the valley is found in great
abundance
in
the smaller islands of Winandermere.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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XLI
Those pretty wrongs that liberty commits,
When I am sometime absent from thy heart,
Thy beauty, and thy years full well befits,
For still
temptation
follows where thou art.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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That new-born nation, the new sons of Earth,
With war's lightning bolts
creating
dearth,
Beat down these fine walls, on every hand,
Then vanished to the countries of their birth,
That not even Jove's sire, in all his worth,
Might boast a Roman Empire in this land.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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--
That was a wonderful look he had in his eyes:
'Tis a heart, I believe, that will burn
marvellously!
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Through those thousand years poets and critics vied with one
another in proclaiming her verse the one
unmatched
exemplar of lyric art.
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Sappho |
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at
cortaysly
hade hym kydde, & his cry herkened.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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* * * * *
[When Li Po came to the capital and showed this poem to Ho Chih-ch'ang,
Chih-ch'ang raised his
eyebrows
and said: "Sir, you are not a man of
this world.
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Li Po |
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For he has a pall, this
wretched
man,
Such as few men can claim:
Deep down below a prison-yard,
Naked, for greater shame,
He lies, with fetters on each foot,
Wrapt in a sheet of flame!
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Why dost thou pause,
Politian?
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Poe - 5 |
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_ Either the bell rung for a condemned man
the night before his execution, or the bell rung when a man was dying
that men might pray for the
departing
soul.
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Keats |
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Righteous
is her doom this day,
But not thy deed.
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Euripides - Electra |
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Night and the Madman
"I am like thee, O, Night, dark and naked; I walk on the flaming
path which is above my day-dreams, and
whenever
my foot touches
earth a giant oak tree comes forth.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Other ones this year no more bestows,
No
petitions
can recall them here,
Other ones with springtide may appear.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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The touch of Zephyr and of Spring has loosen'd Winter's thrall;
The well-dried keels are wheel'd again to sea:
The
ploughman
cares not for his fire, nor cattle for their stall,
And frost no more is whitening all the lea.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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When the grave _260
Has swallowed up thy memory and thyself,
Dost thou desire the bane that poisons earth
To twine its roots around thy
coffined
clay,
Spring from thy bones, and blossom on thy tomb,
That of its fruit thy babes may eat and die?
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Shelley |
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But
still, if you are a
skillful
gleaner, you may get many a pocketful
even of grafted fruit, long after apples are supposed to be gone
out-of-doors.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Methinks
we might elevate
ourselves a little more.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Recovery
came with food: but still, my brain
Was weak, nor of the past had memory.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Donations are accepted in a number of other
ways including checks, online
payments
and credit card donations.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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God could have made all rich, or all men poor;
But why He did not, let me tell wherefore:
Had all been rich, where then had
patience
been?
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Robert Herrick |
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"Give
smoother
answers, lying page,
Or perish in the lying!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Methinks
that would you tarry one day more
(The news was sudden) I could mould myself
To bear your going better; will you do it?
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Tennyson |
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What pleases me, as simple and _naive_, disgusts you as
ludicrous
and
low.
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Robert Forst |
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The lily I condemned for thy hand,
And buds of marjoram had stol'n thy hair;
The roses fearfully on thorns did stand,
One
blushing
shame, another white despair;
A third, nor red nor white, had stol'n of both,
And to his robbery had annex'd thy breath;
But, for his theft, in pride of all his growth
A vengeful canker eat him up to death.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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A rat crept softly through the vegetation
Dragging
its slimy belly on the bank
While I was fishing in the dull canal
On a winter evening round behind the gashouse 190
Musing upon the king my brother's wreck
And on the king my father's death before him.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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destroy all copies of the works possessed in a physical medium
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Elizabeth Browning |
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42), rich merchants and
aldermen
(Glapthorne,
_Wit for a Constable_, _Wks.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Unauthenticated
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Which fact once known to thee,
Good friend, will serve thee
opportune
in else.
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Lucretius |
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Not built, created seems the frowning mound; }
O'er
loftiest
mountain tops, and vales profound }
Extends the wondrous length, with warlike castles crown'd.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Nor they cannot sate their lust
By merely gazing on the bodies, nor
They cannot with their palms and fingers rub
Aught from each tender limb, the while they stray
Uncertain
over all the body.
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Lucretius |
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What rumour without is there
breeding?
| Guess: |
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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MEPHISTOPHELES:
Und doch ist nie der Tod ein ganz
willkommner
Gast.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Change is the one quality we can
predicate
of it.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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--
First he gan hir his righte lady calle, 1065
His hertes lyf, his lust, his sorwes leche,
His blisse, and eek these othere termes alle,
That in swich cas these loveres alle seche;
And in ful humble wyse, as in his speche,
He gan him
recomaunde
un-to hir grace; 1070
To telle al how, it axeth muchel space.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Thine eyes, that taught the dumb on high to sing
And heavy ignorance aloft to fly,
Have added
feathers
to the learned's wing
And given grace a double majesty.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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*9
LAND OF THE FREE By Gertrude
Cornwell
Hopkins
There is a man within a grimy window-square; —
I do not know how long it is he has been there
Three years of working-days I've passed on trains high in the air, And always he was there.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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"They planted
groves and walks of Platanes," where they took _subdiales
ambulationes_ in
porticos
open to the air.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Going home--I shed a few tears,
Grieving
about things,--not sorry for you.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Aristophanes |
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' 525
Assented
were to this conclusioun
The briddes alle; and foules of ravyne
Han chosen first, by pleyn eleccioun,
The tercelet of the faucon, to diffyne
Al hir sentence, and as him list, termyne; 530
And to Nature him gonnen to presente,
And she accepteth him with glad entente.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Deep from within she seems half-way
To lift some weight with sick assay,
And eyes the maid and seeks delay;
Then suddenly, as one defied,
Collects
herself in scorn and pride,
And lay down by the Maiden's side!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
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"Give
smoother
answers, lying page,
Or perish in the lying!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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General Information About Project Gutenberg-tm
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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"
He spurs his horse, that on with speed doth strain;
Which should forfeit, they both
together
came.
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Chanson de Roland |
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I saw the
whelming
vintage hotly pierce
Old Tartary the fierce!
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Keats |
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New feet within my garden go,
New fingers stir the sod;
A
troubadour
upon the elm
Betrays the solitude.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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"Her eyes are closed as now my fist I make;
She is in mystic and
unearthly
sleep;
The potion still its power o'er her must keep.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Phaeacia's ship-ennobled sons meantime
Conferring
stood, and thus, in accents wing'd,
Th' amazed spectator to his fellow spake.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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The hierodule called unto the man
and came unto him
beholding
him.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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If you do not charge
anything
for copies of this
eBook, complying with the rules is very easy.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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There would be no
burlesque in introducing the
Rosicrucian
sylphs and gnomes into a
mock-heroic poem, for few people, certainly not the author of the 'Comte
de Gabalis', took them seriously.
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Alexander Pope |
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The
pedantic
epistle had no effect on
Humbert.
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Petrarch |
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