Diegue
Yes, see, she's fainting, and from perfect love,
In this swoon, Sire, see how her
passions
move.
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charities and charitable
donations
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States.
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But
stronger
again
Than brass
Sovereign lines remain.
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In Fiesone she
The
fairest!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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THE SONG OF THE AIRMAN By Phoebe Hoffman
In the moonless night when the
searchlight
goes sneaking over the sky, I rise with a whirr of engines from the foam-tracked gloom of the sea, And shoot alone through the midnight where each star seems an Argos eye, To fence with Death in the darkness where the swift Valkyrie fly.
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1160
I have loved you: and despite your offence,
My heart is
troubled
for you in advance.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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It lingered in my heart but could not rise
The word that would have wrought the sweet surmise Which turns to
godliness
the common clay.
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Henceforward
I am ever rul'd by you.
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Shakespeare |
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I moved my fingers off
As
cautiously
as glass,
And held my ears, and like a thief
Fled gasping from the house.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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The
ponderous
babe, descending in its scale,
Leaped on my shore
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Marvell - Poems |
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If you
received the work on a
physical
medium, you must return the medium with
your written explanation.
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Tennyson |
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And whan I was not fer therfro, 1660
The savour of the roses swote
Me smoot right to the herte rote,
As I hadde al
embawmed
[be.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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LIFE OF LI PO, FROM THE "NEW HISTORY OF THE T'ANG DYNASTY,"
COMPOSED
IN
THE ELEVENTH CENTURY.
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Li Po |
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10
puella nam mei, quae meo sinu fugit,
amata tantum quantum amabitur nulla,
pro qua mihi sunt magna bella pugnata,
consedit
istic.
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Latin - Catullus |
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So my Lady holds her own
With
condescending
grace,
And fills her lofty place
With an untroubled face
As a queen may fill a throne.
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Christina Rossetti |
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" "They are also bound to grind their corn
at the _moulin banal_, or the lord's mill, where one
fourteenth
part
of it is taken for his use" as toll.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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wherefore
thus aloof
Shunn'st thou my father, neither at his side
Sitting affectionate, nor utt'ring word?
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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A fisher folk
Live there in houses stilted over the water,
And the stars walk like
spectres
of white fire
Upon the misty waters of the mere.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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In recent years there has arisen a great body of literature upon the
subject of Sappho, most of it the abstruse work of
scholars
writing for
scholars.
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Sappho |
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If you have the
practical
it does not necessarily follow that you are
lacking in the spiritual.
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Li Po |
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_
CHORUS
O king Apollo, rule what is thine own,
But in this thing what share
pertains
to thee?
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Aeschylus |
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in the cross-ways used you not
On grating straw some
miserable
tune
To mangle?
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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30
Returning
then, to her of all thy train
Whom thou shalt most approve, the charge commit
Of thy concerns domestic, till the Gods
Themselves shall guide thee to a noble wife.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Tra l'erba e ' fior venia la mala striscia,
volgendo
ad ora ad or la testa, e 'l dosso
leccando come bestia che si liscia.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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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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"
These pictures of town and landscape are never
separated
from their
personal relation to the poet.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Following its course
The adverse way, my
strained
eyes were bent
On that one spot.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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n (779-831) wrote a famous essay
comparing
Li Po with
Tu Fu.
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Li Po |
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--How have I seen the casual passer through the cloisters stand
still, entranced with
admiration
(while he weighed the disproportion
between the _speech_ and the _garb_ of the young Mirandula), to hear
thee unfold, in thy deep and sweet intonations, the mysteries of
Jamblichus, or Plotinus (for even in those years thou waxedst not pale
at such philosophic draughts), or reciting Homer in his Greek, or
Pindar--while the walls of the old Grey Friars re-echoed to the
accents of the _inspired charity boy_!
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William Wordsworth |
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Thyself thou gav'st, thy own worth then not knowing,
Or me, to whom thou gav'st it, else mistaking;
So thy great gift, upon
misprision
growing,
Comes home again, on better judgement making.
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Golden Treasury |
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Thrusting to thin air o'er our cloudy bars,
A sea-mark now, now lost in vapors blind; 180
Broad prairie rather, genial, level-lined,
Fruitful
and friendly for all human kind,
Yet also nigh to heaven and loved of loftiest stars.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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'
Bialacoil
nist what to sey;
Ful fayn he wolde have fled awey,
For fere han hid, nere that he 3855
Al sodeynly took him with me.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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The
daughter
of beauty wip'd her pitying tears with her white veil,
And said, Alas!
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blake-poems |
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Now, during the three years which Burns stayed
in Ellisland, he neither wrought with that
constant
diligence which
farming demands, nor did he bestow upon it the unremitting attention
of eye and mind which such a farm required: besides his skill in
husbandry was but moderate--the rent, though of his own fixing, was
too high for him and for the times; the ground, though good, was not
so excellent as he might have had on the same estate--he employed more
servants than the number of acres demanded, and spread for them a
richer board than common: when we have said this we need not add the
expensive tastes induced by poetry, to keep readers from starting,
when they are told that Burns, at the close of the third year of
occupation, resigned his lease to the landlord, and bade farewell for
ever to the plough.
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Robert Burns |
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Hir eyen two were cleer and light
As any candel that
brenneth
bright; 3200
And on hir heed she hadde a crown.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Equitone,
Tell her I bring the
horoscope
myself:
One must be so careful these days.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Let them fight, as you wish: but then,
Will
Rodrigue
be as you've imagined him?
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Her life was the normal
blossoming
of a nature
introspective to a high degree, whose best thought could not exist
in pretence.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Do you have hopes the lyre can soar
So high as to win
immortality?
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Venator:
_pastus_
Voss: _crassus_
Loewe: num _spurcus_?
| Guess: |
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Latin - Catullus |
|
As I have walked in Alabama my morning walk,
I have seen where the she-bird, the mocking-bird, sat on her nest in the
briars,
hatching
her brood.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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Through kindred scenes,
For purpose, at a time, how
different!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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But to win
A
princess!
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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Ismene
You alone doubt, Madame: Theseus is no more:
Athens laments it, Troezen knows of it,
And has
recognised
Hippolytus already.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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In all the pines, a very thin membrane, in appearance much like an
insect's wing, grows over and around the seed, and
independent
of it,
while the latter is being developed within its base.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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VII
But now no stroke of woodman
Is heard by Auser's rill;
No hunter tracks the stag's green path
Up the
Ciminian
hill;
Unwatched along Clitumnus
Grazes the milk-white steer;
Unharmed the water fowl may dip
In the Volsminian mere.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Lines 9-20, and 28-42,
appeared
in Hunt's
"Literary Pocket-Book", 1823, under the titles, respectively, of
"Sunset.
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| Source: |
Shelley |
|
Now, Bon-Bon, do you behold the
thoughts--the thoughts, I say,--the ideas--the reflections--which are
being
engendered
in her pericranium?
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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Till
fattening
the winds of the morning, an odour of new-mown hay
Came, and my forehead fell low, and my tears like berries fell down;
Later a sound came, half lost in the sound of a shore far away,
From the great grass-barnacle calling, and later the shore-weeds brown.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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They grip their withered edge of stalk
In brief excitement for the wind;
They hold a
breathless
final talk,
And when their filmy cables part
One almost hears a little cry.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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wherefore
with thee
Came not all Hell broke loose?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
|
Solemn Dances
THERE laughs in the
heightening
year, Sweet,
The scent from the garden benign.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Or the stars to be put in
constellations
and named fancy names?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
|
Howe'er great is pharaoh, the magi, king,
Encompassed
by an idolizing ring,
None is so high as Tiglath Pileser.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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The invalidity or unenforceability of any
provision of this
agreement
shall not void the remaining provisions.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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You did-and yet 'tis
strange!
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Poe - 5 |
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Sixteen years ago, when I first
landed in Bombay, I had been told by a wandering
Armenian
of the
existence, somewhere in India, of a place to which such Hindus as had
the misfortune to recover from trance or catalepsy were conveyed and
kept, and I recollect laughing heartily at what I was then pleased to
consider a traveler's tale.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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The last alone a kind
illusion
wrought,
And to my bed my loved Ulysses brought,
In manly bloom, and each majestic grace,
As when for Troy he left my fond embrace;
Such raptures in my beating bosom rise,
I deem it sure a vision of the skies.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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The person or entity that provided you with
the defective work may elect to provide a
replacement
copy in lieu of a
refund.
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
|
A swan from time past remembers it's he
Magnificent yet
struggling
hopelessly
Through not having sung a liveable country
From the radiant boredom of winter's sterility.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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The wrinkles which thy glass will truly show
Of mouthed graves will give thee memory;
Thou by thy dial's shady stealth mayst know
Time's thievish
progress
to eternity.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
|
MELIBOEUS
But we far hence, to burning Libya some,
Some to the Scythian steppes, or thy swift flood,
Cretan Oaxes, now must wend our way,
Or Britain, from the whole world
sundered
far.
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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From bonds of this
tyrannic
soul.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
|
We've no
business
down there at all.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
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Wilt thou not beware
Lest thy mood now press our minds to
venturous
despair?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
|
All at
once my driver looked round, and
addressing
himself to me--
"Sir," said he, taking off his cap, "will you not order me to turn
back?
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Howsoe'er,
I let my
business
wait upon their sport.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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I only knew what hunted thought
Quickened
his step, and why
He looked upon the garish day
With such a wistful eye;
The man had killed the thing he loved,
And so he had to die.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Nearly all the
individual
works in the
collection are in the public domain in the United States.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Royalty payments
must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you
prepare (or are legally required to
prepare)
your periodic tax
returns.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
|
Je regrette les temps de l'antique jeunesse,
Des satyres lascifs, des faunes animaux,
Dieux qui mordaient d'amour l'ecorce des rameaux
Et dans les nenufars
baisaient
la Nymphe blonde!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
|
MEPHISTOPHELES:
Bei aller
verschmahten
Liebe!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
|
Voices that called with
ceaseless
crying,
The broken and the blind, the dying,
And those grown dumb
Beneath oppression, and he heard
Upon their lips a single word,
"Come!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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Righteous
is her doom this day,
But not thy deed.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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Do you see
nothing?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
|
"
So the hand of the child, automatic,
Slipped out and
pocketed
a toy that was running along
the quay.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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The
attending
heralds, as by office bound,
With kindled flames the tripod-vase surround:
To cleanse his conquering hands from hostile gore,
They urged in vain; the chief refused, and swore:(282)
"No drop shall touch me, by almighty Jove!
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Iliad - Pope |
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Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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voila qu'au milieu de la danse macabre
Bondit dans le ciel rouge un grand squelette fou
Emporte par l'elan, comme un cheval se cabre:
Et, se sentant encor la corde raide au cou,
Crispe ses petits doigts sur son femur qui craque
Avec des cris pareils a des ricanements,
Et, comme un baladin rentre dans la baraque,
Rebondit
dans le bal au chant des ossements.
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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The gods deliberate in council concerning the Trojan war: they agree upon
the
continuation
of it, and Jupiter sends down Minerva to break the truce.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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To-morrow's light (O haste the
glorious
morn!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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Inside, above the din and fray,
We heard the loud
musicians
play
The 'Treues Liebes Herz' of Strauss.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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The pious wind took it away,
The
reverent
darkness hid the lay.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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SIR, I have expressly sent this my Foot-boy to prevent your
departure without som
acknowledgement
from me of the
receipt of your obliging Letter, having myself through som
busines, I know not how, neglected the ordinary conveyance.
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| Source: |
Milton |
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No more beneath soft Eve's
consenting
star
Fandango twirls his jocund castanet:
Ah, monarchs!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Yet I feel that I shall stand
Henceforward
in thy shadow.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Their
hauberks
tear; the girths asunder start,
The saddles slip, and fall upon the grass.
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Chanson de Roland |
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The old
graveyards
of the hills have hurried to see!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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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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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Then such a rearing without bridle,
A raging which no arm could fend,
An opening of new
fragrant
spaces,
A thrill in which all senses blend.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Why cannot the Ear be closed to its own
destruction?
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blake-poems |
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The Portuguese prince even visited the
Kingdoms
of Prester John and returned to his own country after three years and four months.
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Appoloinaire |
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I am moved by fancies that are curled
Around these images, and cling:
The notion of some infinitely gentle
Infinitely
suffering thing.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Beighton
did her best to bear up; but she wept in the presence of
the people.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Mist and Snow,
And it grew wond'rous cauld:
And Ice mast-high came
floating
by
As green as Emerauld.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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--Overtaken on the way by a
curious old fish of a shoemaker, and miner, from
Cumberland
mines.
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Robert Forst |
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