Many small donations
($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to
maintaining
tax exempt
status with the IRS.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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He'll
certainly
take her for his wife.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Or why was the substance not made more sure
That formed the brave fronts of these
palaces?
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Hast du noch keinen Mann, nicht Manneswort
gekannt?
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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(Among pigeon corners of the Congressional Library--they
file documents quietly, casually, all in a day's work--
this human document, the buck private nobody knows the
name of--they file away in granite and steel--with music
and roses, salutes,
proclamations
of the honorable
orators.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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When you
announced
your departure so soon, 16 a hundred cares again beset me.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Here is Satan's picture,
Like a bizzard gled,
Pouncing
poor Redcastle,[133]
Sprawlin' as a taed.
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Robert Forst |
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"By the
time that the cock had crowed and cackled thrice" the lord was up, and
after "meat and mass" were over the hunters make for the woods, where
they give chase to a wild boar who had grown old and
mischievous
(ll.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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_ A means of
conveying
secret intelligence:
used vaguely.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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And forthe went the sextayne, 203
And fownde
alexknelyng
In ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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ou haddest for
most
p{re}cious
in alle ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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And thus the soul,
By that sweet taste of
pleasure
unpursued
Doth find herself [13] insensibly disposed
To virtue and true goodness.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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If an
individual
work is unprotected by copyright law in the
United States and you are located in the United States, we do not
claim a right to prevent you from copying, distributing, performing,
displaying or creating derivative works based on the work as long as
all references to Project Gutenberg are removed.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Un soir fait de rose et de bleu mystique,
Nous
echangerons
un eclair unique,
Comme un long sanglot, tout charge d'adieux;
Et plus tard un Ange, entr'ouvrant les portes,
Viendra ranimer, fidele et joyeux,
Les miroirs ternis et les flammes mortes.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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You have an
excellent
armour; but let my horse have his
due.
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Shakespeare |
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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.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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More than I, if truth were told,
Have stood and sweated hot and cold,
And through their reins in ice and fire
Fear
contended
with desire.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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his nunc
ademptis
maesta coniunx maceror,
felix, maritum si superstitem mihi
diui dedissent, sed tamen felix, tua
quia sum fuique postque mortem mox ero.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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SOLNESS: Tell me, doctor, did you notice
anything
odd
about Aline?
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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At all events, it is not presented as poetry, and it is in no
way connected with the Author's judgment
concerning
poetic diction.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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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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Aeschylus |
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And justly so; for all that time creates,
He does well who
annihilates!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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With eyes up-raised, as one inspired,
Pale
Melancholy
sat retired;
And from her wild sequester'd seat,
In notes by distance made more sweet,
Pour'd through the mellow horn her pensive soul:
And dashing soft from rocks around
Bubbling runnels join'd the sound;
Through glades and glooms the mingled measure stole,
Or, o'er some haunted stream, with fond delay,
Round an holy calm diffusing,
Love of peace, and lonely musing,
In hollow murmurs died away.
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Golden Treasury |
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Thy wife, and with a tainted memory-
MY seared and
blighted
name, how would it tally
With the ancestral honors of thy house,
And with thy glory?
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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the Horde has learnt to prize me;
"'Tis the Horde with gold
supplies
me.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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130
Aut nihil aut paulo cui tum concedere digna
Lux mea se nostrum
contulit
in gremium,
Quam circumcursans hinc illinc saepe Cupido
Fulgebat crocina candidus in tunica.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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' He is also the
author of some astronomical tables, entitled 'Ziji-Malikshahi,' and
the French have lately republished and
translated
an Arabic Treatise
of his on Algebra.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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qu'il fait doux danser quand pour vous se declare
Un mirage ou tout chante et que les vents d'horreur
Feignent d'etre le rire de la lune hilare
Et d'effrayer les fantomes avants-coureurs
J'ai fait des gestes blancs parmi les solitudes
Des lemures couraient peupler les cauchemars
Mes tournoiements exprimaient les beatitudes
Qui toutes ne sont rien qu'un pur effet de l'Art
Je n'ai jamais cueilli que la fleur d'aubepine
Aux printemps finissants qui voulaient defleurir
Quand les oiseaux de proie proclamaient leurs rapines
D'agneaux mort-nes et d'enfants-dieux qui vont mourir
Et j'ai vieilli vois-tu pendant ta vie je danse
Mais j'eusse ete tot lasse et l'aubepine en fleurs
Cet avril aurait eu la pauvre confidence
D'un corps de vieille morte en mimant la douleur
Et leurs mains s'elevaient comme un vol de colombes
Clarte sur qui la nuit fondit comme un vautour
Puis Merlin s'en alla vers l'est disant Qu'il monte
Le fils de ma Memoire egale de l'Amour
Qu'il monte de la fange ou soit une ombre d'homme
Il sera bien mon fils mon ouvrage immortel
Le front nimbe de feu sur le chemin de Rome
Il marchera tout seul en regardant le ciel
La dame qui m'attend se nomme Viviane
Et vienne le printemps des nouvelles douleurs
Couche parmi la marjolaine et les pas-d'ane
Je m'eterniserai sous l'aubepine en fleurs
SALTIMBANQUES
A Louis Dumur
Dans la plaine les baladins
S'eloignent au long des jardins
Devant l'huis des auberges grises
Par les villages sans eglises
Et les enfants s'en vont devant
Les autres suivent en revant
Chaque arbre
fruitier
se resigne
Quand de tres loin ils lui font signe
Ils ont des poids ronds ou carres
Des tambours des cerceaux dores
L'ours et le singe animaux sages
Quetent des sous sur leur passage
LE LARRON
CHOEUR
Maraudeur etranger malheureux malhabile
Voleur voleur que ne demandais-tu ces fruits
Mais puisque tu as faim que tu es en exil
Il pleure il est barbare et bon pardonnez-lui
LARRON
Je confesse le vol des fruits doux des fruits murs
Mais ce n'est pas l'exil que je viens simuler
Et sachez que j'attends de moyennes tortures
Injustes si je rends tout ce que j'ai vole
VIEILLARD
Issu de l'ecume des mers comme Aphrodite
Sois docile puisque tu es beau Naufrage
Vois les sages te font des gestes socratiques
Vous parlerez d'amour quand il aura mange
CHOEUR
Maraudeur etranger malhabile et malade
Ton pere fut un sphinx et ta mere une nuit
Qui charma de lueurs Zacinthe et les Cyclades
As-tu feint d'avoir faim quand tu volas les fruits
LARRON
Possesseurs de fruits murs que dirai-je aux insultes
Ouir ta voix ligure en nenie o maman
Puisqu'ils n'eurent enfin la pubere et l'adulte
De pretexte sinon de s'aimer nuitamment
Il y avait des fruits tout ronds comme des ames
Et des amandes de pomme de pin jonchaient
Votre jardin marin ou j'ai laisse mes rames
Et mon couteau punique au pied de ce pecher
Les citrons couleur d'huile et a saveur d'eau froide
Pendaient parmi les fleurs des citronniers tordus
Les oiseaux de leur bec ont blesse vos grenades
Et presque toutes les figues etaient fendues
L'ACTEUR
Il entra dans la salle aux fresques qui figurent
L'inceste solaire et nocturne dans les nues
Assieds-toi la pour mieux ouir les voix ligures
Au son des cinyres des Lydiennes nues
Or les hommes ayant des masques de theatre
Et les femmes ayant des colliers ou pendaient
La pierre prise au foie d'un vieux coq de Tanagre
Parlaient entre eux le langage de la Chaldee
Les autans langoureux dehors feignaient l'automne
Les convives c'etaient tant de couples d'amants
Qui dirent tour a tour Voleur je te pardonne
Recois d'abord le sel puis le pain de froment
Le brouet qui froidit sera fade a tes levres
Mais l'outre en peau de bouc maintient frais le vin blanc
Par ironie veux-tu qu'on serve un plat de feves
Ou des beignets de fleurs trempes dans du miel blond
Une femme lui dit Tu n'invoques personne
Crois-tu donc au hasard qui coule au sablier
Voleur connais-tu mieux les lois malgre les hommes
Veux-tu le talisman heureux de mon collier
Larron des fruits tourne vers moi tes yeux lyriques
Emplissez de noix la besace du heros
Il est plus noble que le paon pythagorique
Le dauphin la vipere male ou le taureau
Qui donc es-tu toi qui nous vins grace au vent scythe
Il en est tant venu par la route ou la mer
Conquerants egares qui s'eloignaient trop vite
Colonnes de clins d'yeux qui fuyaient aux eclairs
CHOEUR
Un homme begue ayant au front deux jets de flammes
Passa menant un peuple infime pour l'orgueil
De manger chaque jour les cailles et la manne
Et d'avoir vu la mer ouverte comme un oeil
Les puiseurs d'eau barbus coiffes de bandelettes
Noires et blanches contre les maux et les sorts
Revenaient de l'Euphrate et les yeux des chouettes
Attiraient quelquefois les chercheurs de tresors
Cet insecte jaseur o poete barbare
Regagnait chastement a l'heure d'y mourir
La foret precieuse aux oiseaux gemmipares
Aux crapauds que l'azur et les sources murirent
Un triomphe passait gemir sous l'arc-en-ciel
Avec de blemes laures debout dans les chars
Les statues suant les scurriles les agnelles
Et l'angoisse rauque des paonnes et des jars
Les veuves precedaient en egrenant des grappes
Les eveques noir reverant sans le savoir
Au triangle isocele ouvert au mors des chapes
Pallas et chantaient l'hymne a la belle mais noire
Les chevaucheurs nous jeterent dans l'avenir
Les alcancies pleines de cendre ou bien de fleurs
Nous aurons des baisers florentins sans le dire
Mais au jardin ce soir tu vins sage et voleur
Ceux de ta secte adorent-ils un signe obscene
Belphegor le soleil le silence ou le chien
Cette furtive ardeur des serpents qui s'entr'aiment
L'ACTEUR
Et le larron des fruits cria Je suis chretien
CHOEUR
Ah!
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Copyright
laws in most countries are in
a constant state of change.
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Keats - Lamia |
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Now would you see this aged thorn,
This pond and
beauteous
hill of moss,
You must take care and chuse your time
The mountain when to cross.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Great in the council,
glorious
in the field.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Elvire
How can you find the audacity and pride
To show
yourself
here, where a light has died?
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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res est forma fugax: quis sapiens bono
confidat
fragili?
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do
practically
ANYTHING
with public domain eBooks.
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Christina Rossetti |
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His family: a mass of dense
coloured
globes.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Some
folks
declared
that he had taken the money to America.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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_
_Grant us your mantle, Greek;
grant us but one
to fright (as your eyes) with a sword,
men, craven and weak,
grant us but one to strike
one blow for you,
passionate
Greek.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Then down he sat,
And as he milk'd his ewes and bleating goats
All in their turns, her yeanling gave to each;
Coagulating, then, with brisk dispatch,
The half of his new milk, he thrust the curd
Into his wicker sieves, but stored the rest
In pans and bowls--his
customary
drink.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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is also used
reflexively
in _Exod.
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Beowulf |
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Flushed and decided, he
assaults
at once;
Exploring hands encounter no defence; 240
His vanity requires no response,
And makes a welcome of indifference.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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And never yet, since high in Paradise
O'er the four rivers the first roses blew,
Came purer
pleasure
unto mortal kind
Than lived through her, who in that perilous hour
Put hand to hand beneath her husband's heart,
And felt him hers again: she did not weep,
But o'er her meek eyes came a happy mist
Like that which kept the heart of Eden green
Before the useful trouble of the rain:
Yet not so misty were her meek blue eyes
As not to see before them on the path,
Right in the gateway of the bandit hold,
A knight of Arthur's court, who laid his lance
In rest, and made as if to fall upon him.
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Tennyson |
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The
influence
of this "classicist" tradition has led to a timid and
unsatisfying treatment of the _Alcestis_, in which many of the most
striking and unconventional features of the whole composition were either
ignored or smoothed away.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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107, 1262) derives all the demons,
eotens, elves, and
dreadful
sea-beasts from the race of Cain.
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Beowulf |
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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!
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Sappho |
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"
But
O O O O that
Shakespeherian
Rag--
It's so elegant
So intelligent 130
"What shall I do now?
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Nearer To Us
Run and run towards deliverance
And find and gather everything
Deliverance and riches
Run so quickly the thread breaks
With the sound a great bird makes
A flag always soared beyond
Open Door
Life is truly kind
Come to me, if I go to you it's a game,
The angels of
bouquets
grant the flowers a change of hue.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Himmlischer Sohne
Geistige
Schone,
Schwankende Beugung
Schwebet voruber.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Ah, yonder leaneth
limbless
Gris Grillon.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
"
The King
commands
his provost then, Basbrun:
"Go hang them all on th' tree of cursed wood!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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Laudantes Walking
silently
among them,
So have the thoughts of my heart
Gone out slowly in the twilight Toward my beloved,
Toward the crimson rose, the fairest.
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
192) held power, he built a fort at Mei with
treasures
and provisions to last thirty years.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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Even at the very start my
strength
fails:
What will become of me before it's all over?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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What sholden
straunge
to me doon,
Whan he, that for my beste freend I wende,
Ret me to love, and sholde it me defende?
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
|
XLIV
O but my delicate lover,
Is she not fair as the
moonlight?
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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And,
sickened
with excess of dread,
Prone to the dust he bent his head,
And lay like one three-quarters dead.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
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_
HE
COMPLAINS
THAT TO HIM ALONE IS FAITH HURTFUL.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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The chosen angels, and the blest above,
Heaven's
citizens!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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Its
business
office is located at
809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email
business@pglaf.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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And should Carcinus come to
beg thee for
admission
with his sons to thy chorus, refuse all traffic
with them; remember they are but gelded birds, stork-necked dancers,
mannikins about as tall as a pat of goat's dung, in fact machine-made
poets.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
|
at I
p{ro}che
a litel to ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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I dreamed I scaled
By winding stairs a turret, from whose height
Moscow
appeared
an anthill, where the people
Seethed in the squares below and pointed at me
With laughter.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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A Book of Verses underneath the Bough,
A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread--and Thou
Beside me singing in the Wilderness--
Oh,
Wilderness
were Paradise enow!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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nothing perfect is
vouchsafed
to man:
I feel it now!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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But when by shame
constraiiutl
to go on board,
He heard how the wild cannon iK^uier roared.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
|
' And then
Hanrahan
called out very loud: 'Where have I been
since then?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
|
STOUT SCIPIO, Cornelius Scipio
Africanus
(B.
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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When Ali prayed and loved
Where Syrian waters roll,
Upward the ninth heaven thrilled and moved;
At the tread of the
jubilant
soul.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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I broidered him a
knightly
scarf
With letters of my name
Margret, Margret.
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After a
hopeless
struggle he is struck down
by the giant's club and is thrust into a dungeon.
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CXXII
Grandonie
was both proof and valiant,
And virtuous, a vassal combatant.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Laudantes Walking silently among them,
So have the
thoughts
of my heart
Gone out slowly in the twilight Toward my beloved,
Toward the crimson rose, the fairest.
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He feels too keenly his
dependence
upon
them, as a child views flowers and stars as personal possessions.
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Rilke - Poems |
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A reward was oflTered by the government for
the
discovery
of the author of this " libel," as it
was pleasantly designated.
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Marvell - Poems |
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quid loquar
inclusas
inter laquearia siluas,
uernula quae uario carmine laudat auis?
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Spectacles, bals, me
plaisent
fort,
Et d'apres ma pensee,
Je dirais ce que j'aime encore,
Si je n'etais au Lycee.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Sweet friend, so good so gracious
When shall I have you in my power,
And lie with you at midnight hour,
And grant you kisses
amorous?
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Troubador Verse |
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Afton's Laird, Afton's Laird,
When your pen can be spar'd,
A copy o' this I bequeath,
On the same sicker score
I
mentioned
before,
To that trusty auld worthy Clackleith,
Afton's Laird,
To that trusty auld worthy Clackleith.
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Robert Burns |
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The
kingfisher
flies like an arrow, and wounds the air.
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Wilde - Poems |
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So fickle fortune, in a luckless hour,
Had close consigned me to a tyrant's power,
Who cut the nerves that, with elastic force,
Had borne me on in Freedom's generous course--
So I, in noble
independence
bred,
Free as the roebuck in the sylvan glade,
By passion lured, a voluntary slave--
My ready name to Cupid's muster gave.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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[_He goes forth, just as he is, in the
direction
of the grave.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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e
prophete
mete; in wildernesse ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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After a thousand years I have found my Bao Shu,2 I have achieved something by his willingness to
befriend
me.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Unto thy
judgment
my soul have I given!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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The stone-chat, or the sand-lark,
restless
Bird
Piping along the margin of the lake; 1815.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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It is a brilliant
performance, and a deliberate effort to carry on the
development
of
epic.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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'You Rise the Water Unfolds'
You rise the water unfolds
You sleep the water flowers
You are water ploughed from its depths
You are earth that takes root
And in which all is grounded
You make bubbles of silence in the desert of sound
You sing nocturnal hymns on the arcs of the rainbow
You are everywhere you abolish the roads
You sacrifice time
To the eternal youth of an exact flame
That veils Nature to
reproduce
her
Woman you show the world a body forever the same
Yours
You are its likeness.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Wer sich behaglich
mitzuteilen
weiss,
Den wird des Volkes Laune nicht erbittern;
Er wunscht sich einen grossen Kreis,
Um ihn gewisser zu erschuttern.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Not marking how the knighthood mock thee, fool--
"Fear God: honour the King--his one true knight--
Sole follower of the vows"--for here be they
Who knew thee swine enow before I came,
Smuttier than blasted grain: but when the King
Had made thee fool, thy vanity so shot up
It
frighted
all free fool from out thy heart;
Which left thee less than fool, and less than swine,
A naked aught--yet swine I hold thee still,
For I have flung thee pearls and find thee swine.
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Tennyson |
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Tchaplitzky,
who died in poverty after having squandered millions, lost at one time,
at play, nearly three hundred
thousand
rubles.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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And yet more--I, being lord
Of sea and land, to Sigismond award
The earth; to
Ladislaus
all the sea.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Driving the Female Emanations all away from Los *
I have refusd to look upon the Universal Vision
And wilt thou slay with death him who devotes himself to thee *
If thou drivst all the Males Females away from Vala Luvah I will drive all
The Males away from thee
Once born for the sport &
amusement
of Man now born to drink up all his Powers
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I heard the sounding sea; I heard the voice weaker and weaker;
The voice came & went like a dream, I awoke in my sweet bliss.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Madden
suggests
blunk (horse).
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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His first book,
"Nature," which he was
meditating
while in Europe, was finished here,
and published in 1836.
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Emerson - Poems |
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A heauie Summons lyes like Lead vpon me,
And yet I would not sleepe:
Mercifull Powers,
restraine
in me the cursed thoughts
That Nature giues way to in repose.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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It was his custom once a year to hold a large
reception at his house, attended by all the
families
connected with
the institution and by the leading people of the town.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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They then,
according
to Caesar (Bell.
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Tacitus |
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quam ieiuna pium
desideret
ara cruorem,
docta est amisso Laudamia uiro, 80
coniugis ante coacta noui dimittere collum,
quam ueniens una atque altera rursus hiems
noctibus in longis auidum saturasset amorem,
posset ut abrupto uiuere coniugio,
quod scibant Parcae non longo tempore abisse, 85
si miles muros isset ad Iliacos.
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Latin - Catullus |
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THE
COMPLEYNT
OF MARS.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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