E io: <
scritture
antiche
pongon lo segno, ed esso lo mi addita,
de l'anime che Dio s'ha fatte amiche.
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1570, The Rijksmuseun
You set
yourself
against beauty.
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Appoloinaire |
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Having pried through the strata, analyzed to a hair, counsel'd with
doctors and
calculated
close,
I find no sweeter fat than sticks to my own bones.
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O
kindness
so ill repaid!
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Hark I hear the hammers of Los
PAGE 16 {The text on this page appears to have been written on top of a page of
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of roughly drafted limbs.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Strengthless are tidings, thro' another heard;
Question
is his, to whom the tale is brought.
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Aeschylus |
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Happy the man that hath freed himself from
terrestrial
chains!
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Not mother, with her first-born on her knee,
Thrills with
intenser
love than I for thee.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Nor, perchance,
If I should be, where I no more can hear
Thy voice, nor catch from thy wild eyes these gleams
Of past existence, wilt thou then forget
That on the banks of this
delightful
stream
We stood together; and that I, so long
A worshipper of Nature, hither came,
Unwearied in that service: rather say
With warmer love, oh!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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My
alteration
of it, in Johnson's, is not much
better.
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Robert Burns |
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O dass kein Flugel mich vom Boden hebt
Ihr nach und immer nach zu
streben!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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your vow
Was poured for silence, and to be released
From the
thronged
tumult of the marriage feast.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Who so
honoure?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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At the end of the day she has not
finished
her task;
Her bitter tears fall like streaming rain.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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See, I lie here
extending
my arms toward your knees.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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The French, to their credit be it said, to a certain extent
respected the Indians as a
separate
and independent people, and spoke
of them and contrasted themselves with them as the English have never
done.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Thou born for noblest life,
For action's field, for victor's car,
Thou living
champion
of the right?
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Emerson - Poems |
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Coleridge - Poems |
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And banked the kitchen-fire up,
Miss
Thompson
slipped upstairs and dressed,
Put on her black (her second best),
The bonnet trimmed with rusty plush,
Peeped in the glass with simpering blush,
From camphor-smelling cupboard took
Her thicker jacket off the hook
Because the day might turn to cold.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Keats - Lamia |
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But ere the circle
homeward
hies
Far, far must it remove:
White in the moon the long road lies
That leads me from my love.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Was I a
careless
woman set at ease
That this so bitter cup is brimmed for me?
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Christina Rossetti |
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The Handmaid is
outspoken
about him.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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See dying vegetables life sustain,
See life
dissolving
vegetate again:
All forms that perish other forms supply
(By turns we catch the vital breath, and die),
Like bubbles on the sea of matter borne,
They rise, they break, and to that sea return.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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She turned away, but with the autumn weather
Compelled
my imagination many days,
Many days and many hours:
Her hair over her arms and her arms full of flowers.
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T.S. Eliot |
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But forget not the glory
Of him whose height we try for,
A name to live and die for--
The name of
Washington!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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She is God's bribery to man
That he the world endure,
His wage for
carrying
the weight of being.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Do not be decoyed
elsewhere!
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Whitman |
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he is sunk down into a deadly sleep
But we immortal in our
strength
survive by stern debate
Till we have drawn the Lamb of god into a mortal form
And that he must be born is certain for One must be All
And comprehend within himself all things both small & great
We therefore for whose sake all things aspire to be be & live
Will so recieve the Divine Image that amongst the Reprobate
He may be devoted to Destruction from his mothers womb {This group of 9 lines, "Refusing.
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Blake - Zoas |
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WINDFAHNE (nach der einen Seite):
Gesellschaft, wie man wunschen kann:
Wahrhaftig
lauter Braute!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Before and after,
Coleridge is seen trying to write like Bowles, like Wordsworth, like
Southey, perhaps, to attain "that impetuosity of transition and that
precipitancy of fancy and feeling, which are the _essential_ qualities
of the
sublimer
Ode," and which he fondly fancies that he has attained in
the "Ode on the Departing Year," with its one good line, taken out of his
note-book.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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or how deem thee wise,
Who wouldst not leave him in his wandering
To seek for
treasure
in the jewelled skies
Albeit he soared with an undaunted wing?
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Dear is the forest
frowning
o'er his head,
And dear the green-sward to his velvet tread;
Moves there a cloud o'er mid-day's flaming eye?
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William Wordsworth |
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This distinction
was generously acknowledged by Goethe, who rejoiced at Klopstock's
success in first striking the keynote of
intellectual
freedom in
the Fatherland.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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"'
INITIAL, DAEMONIC AND
CELESTIAL
LOVE
I.
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Emerson - Poems |
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If Nature,
sovereign
mistress over wrack,
As thou goest onwards, still will pluck thee back,
She keeps thee to this purpose, that her skill
May time disgrace and wretched minutes kill.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Finally, she
remembered
a friend of hers, Count
Saint-Germain.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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) to mourn
throughout
my
days,
For what of form or figure is, which I failed to enjoy?
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Catullus - Carmina |
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In heat-waves burned
that board {34d} to the boss, and the
breastplate
failed
to shelter at all the spear-thane young.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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credidimus blandis, quorum tibi copia, uerbis,
credidimus generi
nominibusque
tuis,
credidimus lacrimis: an et hae simulare docentur?
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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O, Civil Fury, you alone are the cause,
In Macedonian fields sowing new wars,
Arming Pompey against Caesar there,
So that achieving the rich crown of all,
Roman grandeur,
prospering
everywhere,
Might tumble down in more disastrous fall.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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--Since thus they hint, nor turn a hair,
All
churchgoing
will I forswear,
And sit on Sundays in my chair,
And read that moderate man Voltaire.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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O you shunn'd persons, I at least do not shun you,
I come
forthwith
in your midst, I will be your poet,
I will be more to you than to any of the rest.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Et
cependant
je sens ma bouche aller vers toi.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Une, entre autres, a l'heure ou le soleil tombant
Ensanglante le ciel de blessures vermeilles,
Pensive, s'asseyait a l'ecart sur un banc,
Pour entendre un de ces concerts, riches de cuivre,
Dont les soldats parfois
inondent
nos jardins,
Et qui, dans ces soirs dor ou l'on se sent revivre,
Versent quelque heroisme au coeur des citadins.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Sara Teasdale |
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This is the most
powerful
canto of Book I.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Ist doch ein jedes
Blattchen
gut.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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This air, a very favourite one in Ayrshire, is
evidently
the original
of Lochaber.
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Robert Burns |
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For thirty years, he
produced
and distributed Project
Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Does my joy
sometimes
erupt?
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Appoloinaire |
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The shrivelled seeds
are spilt on the path--
the grass bends with dust,
the grape slips
under its
crackled
leaf:
yet far beyond the spent seed-pods,
and the blackened stalks of mint,
the poplar is bright on the hill,
the poplar spreads out,
deep-rooted among trees.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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--One
wandering
thought pollutes the day; _10
We feel, conceive or reason, laugh or weep;
Embrace fond woe, or cast our cares away:
It is the same!
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Shelley |
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With not even one blow
landing?
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Villon |
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Singers, singing in lawless freedom,
Jokers, pleasant in word and deed,
Run free of false gold, alloy, come,
Men of wit -
somewhat
deaf indeed -
Hurry, be quick now, he's dying poor man.
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Villon |
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should I not contemn
All objects, if
compared
with these?
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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The thing that made me more and more afraid
Was that we'd ground it sharp and hadn't known,
And now were only wasting
precious
blade.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Being but a mortal, can you
be
stronger
than a god?
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Aristophanes |
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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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Lear - Nonsense |
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320
And whisper one sweet word that I may know
This is this world--sweet dewy
blossom!
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Keats |
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1407 The British Library
This personal
selection
of Occitan poetry is of verse that I feel has true poetic merit, and nothing is included solely for its historic interest.
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Troubador Verse |
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My lord the Duke of Brittany
Has
summoned
his barons bold--
Their names make a fearful litany!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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But if one should look at me with the old hunger in Plank
her eyes,
How will I be
answering
her eyes?
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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I dance
attendance
here;
I think the Duke will not be spoke withal.
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Shakespeare |
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The thunder-lipped grey guns
Lament him, fierce and slow,
Where he found his
dreamless
bed,
Head to head with a foe.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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It is the giants, nowadays, that have
the science and the intelligence, while the chivalrous Don
Quixotes
of
Conservatism still cumber themselves with the clumsy armor of a bygone
age.
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James Russell Lowell |
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The
churches
built
under their umbrage shall be the churches of men and women.
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Whitman |
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For Troy, that was burned with fire
And
forgetteth
not?
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Euripides - Electra |
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And Trouble, knocking at my window-pane
And at my closet door, shall knock in vain;
I will not heed him with his stealthy tread,
Nor from my reverie uplift my head;
For I will plunge deep in the
pleasure
still
Of summoning the spring-time with my will,
Drawing the sun out of my heart, and there
With burning thoughts making a summer air.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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The tapers slowly fade
Thou
speedest
from these halls,
Now that thy love is dead--
And sound of weeping falls.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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is wise more clerely {and} more
witnesfully
is ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Flowed up the hill and down King William Street,
To where Saint Mary
Woolnoth
kept the hours
With a dead sound on the final stroke of nine.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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One thing alone can hope to answer your fear;
It is that which
struggles
and blinds us and burns between us.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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The Foundation is
committed
to complying with the laws regulating
charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United
States.
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Rilke - Poems |
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you will fall off behind,
You
propitious
Old Man with a beard!
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Adeste, hendecasyllabi, quot estis
Omnes undique,
quotquot
estis omnes.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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'
XIV
"This brought his
troubled
consort small content:
She that the period was too distant said,
And that 'twould be a mighty wonderment,
If her, at his return, he found not dead.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Copyright infringement
liability
can be quite severe.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
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Tell me, ye who scanned
The stars, Earth's elders, still must noblest aims
Be traced upon
oblivious
ocean-sands?
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| Question: |
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James Russell Lowell |
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Then glowed my cloud, and broke and
unveiled
thee.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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Reconnaissez
Satan a son rire vainqueur,
Enorme et laid comme le monde!
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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There is a
patent office at the seat of government of the universe, whose
managers are as much interested in the dispersion of seeds as anybody
at Washington can be, and their operations are
infinitely
more
extensive and regular.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Nay, you are great, fierce, evil--
you are the land-blight--
you have tempted men
but they
perished
on your cliffs.
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
|
XCVI
The duke within and out the town had bear
From the
surrounding
hills to the sea-side,
And of its people emptied every street.
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Now from een logges[50] fledden is selyness[51], 55
Mynsterres[52] alleyn[53] can boaste the hallie[54] Seyncte,
Now doeth
Englonde
weare a bloudie dresse
And wyth her champyonnes gore her face depeyncte;
Peace fledde, disorder sheweth her dark rode[55],
And thorow ayre doth flie, yn garments steyned with bloude.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
|
A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
|
When marching in; a seasonable recruit
Of citizens and merchants held dispute,
And charging all their pipes, a sullen band
Of
Presbyterian
Switzers made a stand.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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the world's
opinion!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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The
flaunting
flow'rs our gardens yield,
High shelt'ring woods and wa's maun shield;
But thou, beneath the random bield
O' clod or stane,
Adorns the histie stibble field,
Unseen, alane.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
LYCIDAS
Your pleas but linger out my heart's desire:
Now all the deep is into silence hushed,
And all the
murmuring
breezes sunk to sleep.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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What now,
If with such things as these
troubled
thou wert?
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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For you, on Latmos, fondling your sleeping boy,
Would always wish some languid ploy
As
restraint
for your flying chariot:
But I whom Love devours all night long,
Wish from evening onwards for the dawn,
To find the daylight that your night forgot.
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Ronsard |
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It was from this memorable spot
that
Napoleon
and the Grand Army first obtained a glimpse at the
city of the Tsars.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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And me ashamed and slow along he drew
To see your eyes their
matchless
influence shower,
Which much I shun, afraid to give you pain.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Wilde - Poems |
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accordance
with paragraph 1.
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Stephen Crane |
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Neither does he drift into fatalism or indifferentism; the energy
of his temperament, and ever-fresh sympathy with national and other
developments, being an
effectual
bar to this.
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Whitman |
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And when I'm with my
comrades
met
Beneath the greenwood bough,
What once we were we all forget,
Nor think what we are now.
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Golden Treasury |
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Will these buds be always
unblown?
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Christina Rossetti |
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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