Not Nature's self more freely speaks in crystal or in oak,
Than, through the pious builder's hand, in that gray pile she spoke;
And as from acorn springs the oak, so, freely and alone,
Sprang from his heart this hymn to God, sung in
obedient
stone.
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Shuddering
the body stood
One instant in an agony of blood,
And gasped and fell.
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Euripides - Electra |
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At such a time
When sun with beams amid the tempest-murk
Hath shone against the showers of black rains,
Then in the swart clouds there emerges bright
The
radiance
of the bow.
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Lucretius |
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The immediate cause of the
downfall of this execrable government was said to have been an
attempt made by Appius Claudius upon the
chastity
of a beautiful
young girl of humble birth.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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It was enough for my hand to touch it lightly, 750
To render it
distasteful
to that inhuman man:
And for that wretched blade to soil his hands.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Robert Forst |
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"
But
remained
on the rails of the Junction.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Oh, be it thine these glories to renew,
And John's bold path and Pedro's course pursue:[678]
Snatch from the tyrant-noble's hand the sword,
And be the rights of
humankind
restor'd.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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The
gentleman
you for a lady takes.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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And there was great
rejoicing
in that distant city of Wirani,
because its king and its lord chamberlain had regained their reason.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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There came a
companion
to her,
But, alas, he was no help,
For his name was Heart's Pain.
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Stephen Crane |
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That ev'n my buried Ashes such a Snare
Of Perfume shall fling up into the Air,
As not a True Believer passing by
But shall be
overtaken
unaware.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Shine forth, thou star of poets, and with rage,
Or influence, chide, or cheer the
drooping
stage,
Which, since thy flight from hence, hath mourned like night,
And despairs day, but for thy volume's light.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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ON THE NEW FORCERS OF
CONSCIENCE
UNDER THE LONG PARLIAMENT.
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Milton |
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Pallidly
the moon was shining
On the dewy meadows nigh;
On the silvery, silent rivers,
On the mountains far and high
On the ocean's star-lit waters,
Where the winds a-weary die.
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Poe - 5 |
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_Reprinted
January_
1909, 1913
"_Poems_, _Past and Present_": _First edition_ 1901 (dated 1902)
_Second Edition_ 1903.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Phaedra
I
predicted
it, but you'd not accept it.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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"
'Then when he asked us, knight by knight, if any
Had seen it, all their answers were as one:
"Nay, lord, and
therefore
have we sworn our vows.
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Tennyson |
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He who
therefore
can invent
With what more forcible we may offend
Our yet unwounded Enemies, or arme
Our selves with like defence, to mee deserves
No less then for deliverance what we owe.
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Milton |
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The Foundation's
principal
office is located at 4557 Melan Dr.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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You roused
yourself
on occasion of the troubles, opened your eyes wide and took a look at the enemy.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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As when one gazes from the summer sea
On some far
gossamer
cloud, with straining eye,
Fearing to see it vanish in the sky,
So, floating, wandering Cloud-Soul, I watch thee.
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Sidney Lanier |
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I do not now fool myself to let
imagination
jade me; for
every reason excites to this, that my lady loves me.
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Shakespeare |
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" pursues his way:
He soon is
downward
bound:
He lives, he suffers; in his grasp one day
Mere dust and ashes found.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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The following elaborate
descriptions
are well deserving of especial
notice:--
I.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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"
XXXV
On the idle hill of summer,
Sleepy with the flow of streams,
Far I hear the steady drummer
Drumming
like a noise in dreams.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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My queen, my slave, whose love is fear,
When you awaken shuddering,
Until that awful hour be here,
You cannot say at
midnight
drear:
"I am your equal, O my King!
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Outside the day was one of green and blue,
With touches of a
luminous
glowing red,
Across the quiet pond the small waves sped.
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Rilke - Poems |
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* You provide, in
accordance
with paragraph 1.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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"
Then God leaned over me, and in my ears whispered words of sweetness,
and even as the sea that enfoldeth a brook that runneth down to
her, he
enfolded
me.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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You've stolen away that great power
My beauty
ordained
for me
Over priests and clerks, my hour,
When never a man I'd see
Would fail to offer his all in fee,
Whatever remorse he'd later show,
But what was abandoned readily,
Beggars now scorn to know.
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Villon |
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The noon was calm and bright:--around that column
The overhanging sky and circling sea _1235
Spread forth in silentness
profound
and solemn
The darkness of brief frenzy cast on me,
So that I knew not my own misery:
The islands and the mountains in the day
Like clouds reposed afar; and I could see _1240
The town among the woods below that lay,
And the dark rocks which bound the bright and glassy bay.
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Shelley |
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Satan beheld thir plight,
And to his Mates thus in
derision
call'd.
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Milton |
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Unless you have removed all
references
to Project Gutenberg:
1.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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5
And then I knew, past doubt or peradventure,
Our loved and mighty Eleusinian mother
Had taken thought of me for her pure worship,
And of her favour had
assigned
my comrade
For the Great Mysteries,--knew I should find you 10
When the dusk murmured with its new-made lovers,
And we be no more foolish but wise children,
And well content partake of joy together,
As she ordains and human hearts desire.
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Sappho |
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It was thou, it was thou didst release
Mine
ancestress
Io from sorrow: thine healing it
was that restored,
The touch of thine hand gave her peace.
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Aeschylus |
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[13] Here this late text includes both
variants
_pasaru_ and
_zakaru_.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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'Poor fellow,'
murmured
Howard, 'he is broken-hearted.
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Yeats |
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"
And thus the words were spoken,
And this the
plighted
vow,
And, though my faith be broken,
And, though my heart be broken,
Behold the golden token
That _proves_ me happy now!
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Poe - 5 |
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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[End of the Second Night]
Ahania heard the
Lamentation
& a swift Vibration
Spread thro her Golden frame.
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Blake - Zoas |
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I'll stride out with only my thought in sight,
Seeing nothing beyond, without hearing a sound,
Alone and unknown, back bowed, folded hands,
Sad, since
daylight
to me will seem night.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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LEILI
The serpents are asleep among the poppies,
The fireflies light the soundless panther's way
To tangled paths where shy
gazelles
are straying,
And parrot-plumes outshine the dying day.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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or the beautiful
maternal
cares?
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Whitman |
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Their
Presidents
shall not be their common referee so much as
their poets shall.
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Whitman |
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So when in tears
The love of years
Is wasted like the snow,
And the fine fibrils of its life
By the rude wrong of instant strife
Are broken at a blow
Within the heart
Do springs upstart
Of which it doth now know,
And strange, sweet dreams,
Like silent streams
That from new
fountains
overflow,
With the earlier tide
Of rivers glide
Deep in the heart whose hope has died--
Quenching the fires its ashes hide,--
Its ashes, whence will spring and grow
Sweet flowers, ere long,
The rare and radiant flowers of song!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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The foll'wing days our youthful am'rous pair
Found opportunities for
pleasing
fare.
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La Fontaine |
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How the old
mountains
drip with sunset,
And the brake of dun!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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all the clustering suns and planets;
All the
dazzling
days, all the mystic nights with dreams,
Pioneers!
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Whitman |
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On the
bleakness
of my lot
Bloom I strove to raise.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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,
Anniversary
of the Coup d'Etat, 1852.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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_ Say what thou wilt,
For I
vouchsafe
all.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Its
feathers
float
Between the ends of his blue dress-coat;
With pea-green trowsers all so neat,
And a delicate frill to hide his feet
(For though no one speaks of it, every one knows
He has got no webs between his toes).
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Ah, then the angel Death's tremendous trump
Will nevermore be heard, nor thunders, then,
O'er Thy
redeemed
from the Throne will roll,
The depths will bow before Thee, and the heights
To Thee, the Judge, will folded hands uplift.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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"What came of thy quest, my kinsman Beowulf,
when thy yearnings
suddenly
swept thee yonder
battle to seek o'er the briny sea,
combat in Heorot?
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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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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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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" remarked one of the
men, addressing a young officer of the
Engineering
Corps.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Stood Venus smiling, and her boy
With
unstrung
bow.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Mein Busen drangt
Sich nach ihm hin,
Ach durft ich fassen
Und halten ihn,
Und kussen ihn,
So wie ich wollt,
An seinen Kussen
Vergehen
sollt!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Turn from me now, but always hear
The muted
laughter
in the dew
Of that one year of youth we had,
The only youth we ever knew--
Turn from me now, or you will see
What other years have done to me.
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Sara Teasdale |
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e
worschip
of god in glorie,
Out of latyn is drawen ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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He past, ran, -- rather flew across the moat,
Plunging
in filth and water to his throat.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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God love thee for the
sweetness
of thy word!
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Euripides - Electra |
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When he came into the house I
perceived
he had some scraps of paper in
his hand, and these he was quietly thrusting behind the books.
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Keats |
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Curst be the hour when from their isle they roved,
And once again thy hapless bosom gored,
And snatched thy shrinking gods to
northern
climes abhorred!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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the hour is here when travelling guests
Fresh from the daylong labour of the road,
Should win their
rightful
due.
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Aeschylus |
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Pernicious
prayer!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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In things of great receipt with ease we prove
Among a number one is reckon'd none:
Then in the number let me pass untold,
Though in thy store's account I one must be;
For nothing hold me, so it please thee hold
That nothing me, a
something
sweet to thee:
Make but my name thy love, and love that still,
And then thou lov'st me for my name is 'Will.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Whom answer'd thus the
messenger
of heav'n
Archer divine!
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Well, I will soon have a good hardy tradesman made of him now that will
live quiet and rear a family, and be maybe appointed
coachbuilder
to
the Royal Family at the last.
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Yeats |
|
The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation"
or PGLAF), owns a compilation
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in the collection of Project
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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"
"This tongue that talks, these lungs that shout,
These thews that hustle us about,
This brain that fills the skull with schemes,
And its humming hive of dreams,-"
"These to-day are proud in power
And lord it in their little hour:
The
immortal
bones obey control
Of dying flesh and dying soul.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Sonnets Pour Helene Book I: VI
Among love's
pounding
seas, for me there's no support,
And I can see no light, and yet have no desires
(O desire too bold!
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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I am aware that
Herodotus
states the conclusion
of Psammetieus to have been in favor of a dialect of the Phrygian.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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Ye taught my lips a single speech,
And a
thousand
silences.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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"
I have heard the tolling
cathedral
bell.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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"
"No; is he a
soldier?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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May a just heaven reward you, as you deserve:
And may your
punishment
forever serve 1320
To terrify those whose like cowardly address,
Nourishes wretched princes in their weakness,
Urges the inclination of their hearts, and then
Dares to smooth the path of crime for them:
Detestable flatterers, the most deadly gift 1325
That celestial anger offers royalty!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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If their high disdain
Of my vile presence made them my desert
Affect with contumelies, let thy loved heart
Beat in fixed
confines
of thy bosom still,
And see me suffer, patient of their ill.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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"
When lovely woman stoops to folly and
Paces about her room again, alone,
She smooths her hair with
automatic
hand,
And puts a record on the gramophone.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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l'humide carreau tend ses bouillons
limpides!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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What page from court with
essenced
hair
Will tender you the bowl you drain,
Well skill'd to bend the Serian bow
His father carried?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Then from the deep and
overflowing
spring _70
Of his eternal ever-moving grief
There rose to Heaven a sound of angry song.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
|
The
preposition
'to' governing 'such
as' regularizes the construction, but would very easily be omitted by
a copyist who wished to smooth the metre or did not at once catch its
reference.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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You complain of a yoke imposed long ago:
Even the gods of Olympus, those gods, we know,
Who frighten criminals with
thunderous
action, 1305
Have sometimes burned with an illicit passion.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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LXXXI
Hark, love, to the tambourines
Of the
minstrels
in the street,
And one voice that throbs and soars
Clear above the clashing time!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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And hence
the name of Indies was given to that and the
neighbouring
islands.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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from its mass
Walls, palaces, half-cities, have been reared;
Yet oft the
enormous
skeleton ye pass,
And marvel where the spoil could have appeared.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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What boots thy zeal,
O glowing friend,
That would indignant rend
The
northland
from the south?
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Emerson - Poems |
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The day came slow, till five o'clock,
Then sprang before the hills
Like
hindered
rubies, or the light
A sudden musket spills.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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`Swich wreche on hem, for
fecching
of Eleyne, 890
Ther shal be take, er that we hennes wende,
That Manes, which that goddes ben of peyne,
Shal been agast that Grekes wol hem shende.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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{a}t men
hadde{n}
ywyst hem
by-forn.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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She did so, but 'tis
doubtful
how and whence
Came, and who were her subtle servitors.
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Keats - Lamia |
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Out of my dark hours wisdom dawns apace,
Infinite Life unrolls its
boundless
space .
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Rilke - Poems |
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"Thy line, that have
struggled
for freedom with Bruce,
Shall heroes and patriots ever produce:
So thine be the laurel, and mine be the bay;
The field thou hast won, by yon bright god of day!
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Robert Burns |
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My heart replied: It's never enough
We'll never have had enough of sadness:
And don't you see that changeableness
Makes past pain dearer to us, and
sweeter?
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19th Century French Poetry |
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--Un beau soir, foin des bocks et de la limonade,
Ces cafes
tapageurs
aux lustres eclatants!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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The
significance
_is_ the
poetry.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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, and
requested
me to fashion them into some shape more
fitting for the general eye.
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James Russell Lowell |
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The driver walked round them,
settling
their harness, as if he had
nothing else to do.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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