In 1831
he married a beautiful lady of the
Gontchareff
family and settled
in the neighbourhood of St.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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They are in more
danger in your own family, among ill
servants
(allowing they be safe in
their schoolmaster), than amongst a thousand boys, however immodest.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Nothing - not even old gardens mirrored by eyes -
Can restrain this heart that
drenches
itself in the sea,
O nights, or the abandoned light of my lamp,
On the void of paper, that whiteness defends,
No, not even the young woman feeding her child.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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_
In this
translation
I have in the main followed the text of Conington
and Nettleship.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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And do you remember that about the copper
coinage?
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Aristophanes |
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"
Such was the flow of that pure rill, that well'd
From forth the fountain of all truth; and such
The rest, that to my wond'ring
thoughts
I found.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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In terror then I turned
My back upon the infernal band, and fled
To my own place, and closed my door; distraught
And like a
drunkard
who sees all things twice,
With feverish troubled spirit, chilly and sick,
Wounded by mystery and absurdity!
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Out of my store I'll give you wealth untold,
Charging
ten mules with fine Arabian gold;
I'll do the same for you, new year and old.
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Chanson de Roland |
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The spirit of an age may be best expressed in the
abstract
ideal arts,
for the spirit itself is abstract and ideal.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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O rustle not, ye verdant oaken
branches!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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That little floweret's peaceful lot,
In yonder cliff that grows,
Which, save the linnet's flight, I wot,
Nae ruder visit knows,
Was mine, till Love has o'er me past,
And blighted a' my bloom;
And now, beneath the
withering
blast,
My youth and joy consume.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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--
Big
perilous
theorem, hard for king and priest:
`Pursue the West but long enough, 'tis East!
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Sidney Lanier |
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We let them pass; all
appearing
tranquil;
No soldiers at the port, the city still.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Rejoice: forever you'll be
The
Princess
of Founts to me,
Singing your issuing
From broken stone, a force,
That, as a gurgling spring,
Bring water from your source,
An endless dancing thing.
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Ronsard |
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That stand by the inward-opening door
Trade's hand doth tighten ever more,
And sigh their
monstrous
foul-air sigh
For the outside hills of liberty,
Where Nature spreads her wild blue sky
For Art to make into melody!
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Sidney Lanier |
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While we cannot and do not solicit
contributions
from states where we
have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition
against accepting unsolicited donations from donors in such states who
approach us with offers to donate.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Prove their falsehood and thy quarrel,
Vaulting
on thine airy feet.
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Tennyson |
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'Twas then in valleys lone, remote,
In spring-time, heard the cygnet's note
By waters shining tranquilly,
That first the Muse
appeared
to me.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Not thou, but customary thought is here
Molested and annoyed; the only nerve
Can carry anguish from this to thy soul,
Is that credulity which ties the mind
Firmly to notional
creature
as to real.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Beneath the moon that shines so bright,
Till she is tired, let Betty Foy
With girt and stirrup fiddle-faddle;
But
wherefore
set upon a saddle
Him whom she loves, her idiot boy?
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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The standard
Assyrian
texts regard Enkidu as the subject.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Since our ftp program has
a bug in it that
scrambles
the date [tried to fix and failed] a
look at the file size will have to do, but we will try to see a
new copy has at least one byte more or less.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Since Cid in their language is lord in ours,
I'll not
begrudge
you all such honours.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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HEPHAESTUS
Lo, 'tis toward--no
weakness
in the work!
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Aeschylus |
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I wat she was a sheep o' sense,
An' could behave hersel' wi' mense:
I'll say't, she never brak a fence,
Thro'
thievish
greed.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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"
In haste the matron parts: the king proceeds;
"Now to dispose the dead, the care remains
To you, my son, and you, my faithfull swains;
The offending females to that task we doom,
To wash, to scent, and purify the room;
These (every table cleansed, and every throne,
And all the melancholy labour done)
Drive to yon court, without the palace wall,
There the revenging sword shall smite them all;
So with the suitors let them mix in dust,
Stretch'd in a long
oblivion
of their lust.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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The Foundation makes no
representations
concerning
the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United
States.
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Lewis Carroll |
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Then it may be, O flattering tale,
Some future ignoramus shall
My famous
portrait
indicate
And cry: he was a poet great!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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To no such terminus does the greatest poet bring--
he brings neither cessation nor
sheltered
fatness and ease.
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Whitman |
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"You will be
laughing
now, remembering
We called you once Dead World, and barren thing.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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"Having occasion to visit New York soon after the
appearance
of Walt
Whitman's book, I was urged by some friends to search him out.
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Whitman |
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* * * * *
_From the
Saltriver
Pilot and Flag of Freedom.
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James Russell Lowell |
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For twenty men that you shall now send in
To France the Douce he will repair, that King;
In the rereward will follow after him
Both his nephew, count Rollant, as I think,
And Oliver, that
courteous
paladin;
Dead are the counts, believe me if you will.
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Chanson de Roland |
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He makes no
traceable
reference to Donne in his works,
and we know so little of Guilpin that it is impossible to affirm
anything with confidence.
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John Donne |
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The cross which on my arm I wear,
The flag which o'er my breast I bear,
Is but the sign
Of what you'd
sacrifice
for him
Who suffers on the hellish rim
Of war's red line.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Be assembled, all of you;
And, after, raise your triumph-song to greet
This
pitiless
Power that yawns beneath our feet.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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in mazes of
delusive
beauty
I have lookd into the secret soul of him I lovd
And in the Dark recesses found Sin & cannot return
Trembling & pale sat Tharmas weeping in his clouds
Why wilt thou Examine every little fibre of my soul *{This and the following 4 lines are written down the top right hand edge of the page.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Thine is the
stillest
night,
Thine the securest fold;
Too near thou art for seeking thee,
Too tender to be told.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Civilis makes
overtures
of peace.
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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Chimene
My honour's there, I must be avenged, still;
However we pride ourselves on love's merit,
Excuse is
shameful
to a noble spirit.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Shatter the sky with
trumpets
above my grave.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Veramente, ne forse tu t'arretri
movendo l'ali tue,
credendo
oltrarti,
orando grazia conven che s'impetri
grazia da quella che puote aiutarti;
e tu mi seguirai con l'affezione,
si che dal dicer mio lo cor non parti>>.
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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The armed men more weighty were for that,
Many of them down to the bottom sank,
Downstream
the rest floated as they might hap;
So much water the luckiest of them drank,
That all were drowned, with marvellous keen pangs.
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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There he spoke aloud for freedom, and the Borderstrife grew
warmer,
Till the Rangers fired his dwelling, in his absence, in the
night;
And Old Brown
Osawatomie
Brown,
Came homeward in the morning--to find his house burned
down.
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Hence perdition-doom'd I rove
A prey to
rankling
sorrow in this garb.
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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When you did change your ring for mine
My
yielding
heart to win,
Though mine was of the beaten gold
Yours but of burnished tin,
Though mine was all true love without,
Yours but false love within?
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John Clare |
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'
Parean l'occhiaie anella sanza gemme:
chi nel viso de li uomini legge 'omo'
ben avria quivi
conosciuta
l'emme.
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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HOW strange your conduct, cried the sprightly youth:
Extremes you seek, and overleap the truth;
Just now the fond desire to have a boy
Chased ev'ry care and filled your heart with joy;
At present quite the contrary appears
A moment changed your fondest hopes to fears;
Come, hear the rest; no longer waste your breath:
Kind Nature all can cure,
excepting
death.
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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You
scarcely
feel that in _Jason_.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Strange unto her each
childish
game,
But when the winter season came
And dark and drear the evenings were,
Terrible tales she loved to hear.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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His sly, polite, insinuating style
Could please at Court, and make
Augustus
smile:
An artful manager, that crept between
His friend and shame, and was a kind of screen.
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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Wherever runs the breathless sun,
Wherever roams the day,
There is its noiseless onset,
There is its
victory!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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--If not, wouldst have me keep her in
The women's
chambers
.
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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This and the fellow poem _Upon
Absence_
may be compared with Donne's
poems on the same theme.
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John Donne |
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When I sought to tell
Of battles and of kings, the
Cynthian
god
Plucked at mine ear and warned me: "Tityrus,
Beseems a shepherd-wight to feed fat sheep,
But sing a slender song.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Fair Burnet strikes th' adoring eye,
Heaven's
beauties
on my fancy shine;
I see the Sire of Love on high,
And own His work indeed divine!
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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NA AUDIART
"QUE BE-M VOLS MAL"
Any one who has read
anything
of the troubadours knows well the tale of Bertran of Born and My Lady Maent of Mon- taignac, and knows also the song he made when she would none
her love-lit glance, of Aelis her speech free-running, of the Vicomp- tess of Chales her throat and her two hands, at Roacoart of Anhes her hair golden as Iseult's ; and even in this fashion of Lady Audiart, " although she would that ill come unto him" he sought
and praised the lineaments of the torse.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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They, believing they'd
achieved
surprise,
Fearless, closed, anchored, disembarked,
And then they ran against us in the dark.
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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_I_ charge you, by great Saint Martino
And prodigies quickened by wrong,
Remember
your Dead on Ticino;
Be worthy, be constant, be strong--
Bah!
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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They
detested
their foreign
oppressors and awaited a favorable opportunity to rise.
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Lanier's growth in
artistic
form.
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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"I have taught
myself," she writes to me from India, "to be
commonplace
and like
everybody else superficially.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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If given my crime you await slow justice,
Honour and my
punishment
both languish.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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To learn the transport by the pain,
As blind men learn the sun;
To die of thirst, suspecting
That brooks in meadows run;
To stay the homesick, homesick feet
Upon a foreign shore
Haunted by native lands, the while,
And blue, beloved air --
This is the
sovereign
anguish,
This, the signal woe!
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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ON AN INVITATION TO THE UNITED STATES
I
MY ardours for emprize nigh lost
Since Life has bared its bones to me,
I shrink to seek a modern coast
Whose riper times have yet to be;
Where the new regions claim them free
From that long drip of human tears
Which peoples old in tragedy
Have left upon the
centuried
years.
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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My days of life approach their end,
Yet I in idleness expend
The remnant destiny concedes,
And thus each
stubbornly
proceeds.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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, but its volunteers and employees are scattered
throughout
numerous
locations.
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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how unlike those late
terrific
sleeps!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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15
O bush
unburnt!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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C'est la fee
africaine
qui fournit
La mure, et les resilles dans les coins.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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And the same may
possibly
be true of variants
in other poems.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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"He wakes--ah, maids of
Memphis!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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'Tis excellent, cried they: things well you frame;
And at the
promised
hour, the heroes came.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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His mother died,--the only friend he had,--
Some tears escaped, but his philosophy
Couched like a cat sat watching close behind
And
throttled
all his passion.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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For the Greek gods, in spite of the white and red of their fair fleet
limbs, were not really what they
appeared
to be.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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The invalidity or
unenforceability
of any
provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the
assistance they need, is
critical
to reaching Project Gutenberg-tm's
goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will
remain freely available for generations to come.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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In the midst of
pleasure
my soul suffers:
I drown in joy, and tremble with my fears.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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e couetise of straungeres vnpunysched
to{ur}mentid
alwey [[pg 15]]
wi?
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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FAUST:
Schaff mir etwas vom
Engelsschatz!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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_"
CORPORAL
ALEXANDER
ROBERTSON: To an Old Lady
Seen at a Guest-House for Soldiers
LIEUTENANT GILBERT WATERHOUSE: The Casualty
Clearing Station
LANCE-CORPORAL MALCOLM HEMPHREY: Hills of Home
XVI.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Crouching
behind my pointed wall of words,
Ramparts I built of moons and loreleys,
Enchanted roses, sphinxes, love-sick birds,
Giants, dead lads who left their graves to dance,
Fairies and phoenixes and friendly gods--
A curious frieze, half Renaissance, half Greek,
Behind which, in revulsion of romance,
I lay and laughed--and wept--till I was weak.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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In fact, the fellow, worthless we'll suppose,
Had viewed from far what accidents arose,
Then turned aside, his safety to secure,
And left his master dangers to endure;
So
steadily
be kept upon the trot,
To Castle-William, ere 'twas night, he got,
And took the inn which had the most renown;
For fare and furniture within the town,
There waited Reynold's coming at his ease,
With fire and cheer that could not fail to please.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
|
"
XLII
Thus Brandimart to Afick's cavalier;
And much would have subjoined; but, on his side,
That knight, with angry voice and haughty cheer,
The pagan interrupted, and replied:
" `Tis sure
temerity
and madness sheer
Moves you and whatsoever wight beside,
That counsels matter, be it good or ill,
Uncalled a counsellor's duty to fulfil;
XLIII
"And how to think, from love those counsels flow
Which once you bore and bear me, as you say,
(To speak the very truth) I do not know,
Who with Orlando see you here, this day.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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All human virtue, to its latest breath,
Finds envy never
conquered
but by death.
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And the Spirit,
stooping
earthward,
With his finger on the meadow
Traced a winding pathway for it,
Saying to it, "Run in this way!
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Longfellow |
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He said, and turn'd his brother's
vengeful
mind;
He stoop'd to reason, and his rage resign'd,
No longer bent to rush on certain harms;
His joyful friends unbrace his azure arms.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Love's answer soon the truth forgotten shows--
"This high pure privilege true lovers claim,
Who from mere human feelings
franchised
are!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Not that this is my own
opinion; but the author, by the time he has composed and corrected his
work, has quite pored away all his powers of
critical
discrimination.
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Robert Burns |
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But then the
beauteous
hill of moss
Before their eyes began to stir;
And for full fifty yards around,
The grass it shook upon the ground;
But all do still aver
The little babe is buried there,
Beneath that hill of moss so fair.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Marks,
notations
and other marginalia present in the original volume will appear in this file - a reminder of this book's long journey from the publisher to a library and finally to you.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Who sung the stave I filched from you that day
To
Amaryllis
wending, our hearts' joy?
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Who'ld be fuel for fire
And not the
quickening
touch that sets it flaming?
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Again a riddle which the
published
letters hardly solve.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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+------------------------------------------------------------+
SEA GARDEN
The editors and
publishers
concerned have kindly given me permission to
reprint some of the poems in this book which appeared originally in
"Poetry" (Chicago), "The Egoist" (London), "The Little Review"
(Chicago), "Greenwich Village" (New York), the first Imagist anthology
(New York: A.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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The fee is
owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he
has agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the
Project Gutenberg
Literary
Archive Foundation.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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what crueler light is borne aloft in the
heavens?
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Catullus - Carmina |
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(thus his heart he vents)
Once spread the
inviting
banquet in our tents:
Thy sweet society, thy winning care,
Once stay'd Achilles, rushing to the war.
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Iliad - Pope |
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'Tis here he slept, his coffee took,
Into
accounts
would sometimes look,
A book at early morn perused.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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XLV
So fiersly, when these knights had
breathed
once,
They gan to fight returne, increasing more
Their puissant force, and cruell rage attonce.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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