I do not sing here to the common tune,
Claiming that
everything
beneath the moon
Is corruptible and subject to decay:
But rather I say (not wishing to displease
Those who would argue by contraries)
That this great All must perish some fine day.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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And through the solitudes remote and strange
The golden gloss of eve, from tree to tree,
Descends, amid the yellow, flamingly,
Then
darksome
mists o'er darksome bushes range.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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A haunting music, sole perhaps and lone
Supportress
of the faery-roof, made moan
Throughout, as fearful the whole charm might fade.
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Keats - Lamia |
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LXXXIX
The holy man next made the damsel see,
That save in God there was no true content,
And proved all other hope was transitory,
Fleeting, of little worth, and quickly spent;
And urged withal so earnestly his plea,
He changed her ill and
obstinate
intent;
And made her, for the rest of life, desire
To live devoted to her heavenly sire.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Here's a
knocking
indeede: if a man were
Porter of Hell Gate, hee should haue old turning the
Key.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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_
_Josephine Preston Peabody_
MY SON
Here is his little cambric frock
That I laid by in
lavender
so sweet,
And here his tiny shoe and sock
I made with loving care for his dear feet.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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And in the silence
I hear a woman's voice make answer then:
"Well, they are green,
although
no ship can sail them.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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To you all honour and all praise is due--
Myself a barren soil, and
cultured
but by you.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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" Fire shall devour
and wan flames feed on the
fearless
warrior
who oft stood stout in the iron-shower,
when, sped from the string, a storm of arrows
shot o'er the shield-wall: the shaft held firm,
featly feathered, followed the barb.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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It is a pity to doubt
this green hair legend;
presently
a man of genius will not be able to
enjoy an epileptic fit in peace--as does a banker or a beggar.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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let me hear
The name I used to run at, when a child,
From innocent play, and leave the
cowslips
plied,
To glance up in some face that proved me dear
With the look of its eyes.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Erewhile 'twas corn resplendent and unstained,
Or crystal, that through morning radiance shone,
Now flowing agate, deep and sombre-veined,
Then like a crimson
sparkling
precious stone.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Jehovah, still we refrain from crying to the
infamous
gates
That open easily into the heavens thy mind of jealousy hates.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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]
[Sidenote G:
Meanwhile
many a weary way goes Sir Gawayne.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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death
in its
vastness
- terrible
death
to strike down so
small a being
I say to deathcoward
ah!
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Mallarme - Poems |
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VII
Dead leaves and
stricken
boughs
She heaped o'er the fallen form--
Wolf nor hawk nor lawless storm
Him from his rest should rouse;
But first, with solemn vows,
Took rifle, pouch, and horn,
And the belt that he had worn.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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They burn with an unquenched and smothered fire
Consumed by longings over which they brood,
Oblivious
of time, without desire,
Alone and lost in their great solitude.
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Rilke - Poems |
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At once she pitch'd headlong into the bilge
Like a sea-coot, whence heaving her again, 580
The seamen gave her to be fishes' food,
And I
survived
to mourn her.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this
agreement
violates the
law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be
interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by
the applicable state law.
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Stephen Crane |
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And he hath kissed the lips of Proserpine,
And sung the Galilaean's requiem,
That wounded
forehead
dashed with blood and wine
He hath discrowned, the Ancient Gods in him
Have found their last, most ardent worshipper,
And the new Sign grows grey and dim before its conqueror.
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Wilde - Poems |
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And mused, how grand
If all of this could last beyond a doubt--
This placid moon, this plump _gemuthlichkeit_;
Pipe, breath and summer never going out--
To vegetate through all
eternity
.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
|
While an author is alive, or while those are
alive to whom he has made reference in the course of his allusions to
place, it may even be right that works
designed
for posterity should not
be dealt with after the fashion of the modern "interviewer.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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One thought is comfort--that her scorn to bear,
Excels e'er
prosperous
love, with other earthly fair.
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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The disdain and
calmness
of martyrs,
The mother of old, condemn'd for a witch, burnt with dry wood, her
children gazing on,
The hounded slave that flags in the race, leans by the fence,
blowing, cover'd with sweat,
The twinges that sting like needles his legs and neck, the murderous
buckshot and the bullets,
All these I feel or am.
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Chimene
My honour's there, I must be avenged, still;
However we pride ourselves on love's merit,
Excuse is
shameful
to a noble spirit.
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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The budding twigs spread out their fan,
To catch the breezy air;
And I must think, do all I can,
That there was
pleasure
there.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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' 205
At which the god of love gan loken rowe
Right for despyt, and shoop for to ben wroken;
He kidde anoon his bowe nas not broken;
For
sodeynly
he hit him at the fulle;
And yet as proud a pekok can he pulle.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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net/2/4/6/8/24689
An
alternative
method of locating eBooks:
http://www.
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Sappho |
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Above all law is might:--'twill take its course;
Entire
submission
is the last resource.
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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It was the custom then to bring away
The bride from home at
blushing
shut of day,
Veil'd, in a chariot, heralded along
By strewn flowers, torches, and a marriage song,
With other pageants: but this fair unknown 110
Had not a friend.
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Keats |
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The deed he saw could not have rated higher
Than his most
worthless
life:--it angers me!
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| Source: |
Shelley |
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First I must bring a
reproach
against you that applies equally
to both sides.
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Aristophanes |
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SEMI-CHORUS
Be thy will for the cause of the
maidens!
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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Some think it service in the place
Where we, with late,
celestial
face,
Please God, shall ascertain!
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
Of all
the qualities we assign to the author and
director
of nature, by far
the most enviable is--to be able "to wipe away all tears from all
eyes.
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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The priests were singing, and the organ sounded,
And then anon the great
cathedral
bell.
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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Their office is to illumine and enkindle--
My duty, to be saved by their bright light,
And purified in their
electric
fire,
And sanctified in their elysian fire.
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Poe - 5 |
|
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Foundation
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501(c)(3) educational
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Sisyphus
in uita quoque nobis ante oculos est
qui petere a populo fascis saeuasque securis
imbibit et semper uictus tristisque recedit.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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"
From him we now had parted, and essay'd
With utmost efforts to
surmount
the way,
When I did feel, as nodding to its fall,
The mountain tremble; whence an icy chill
Seiz'd on me, as on one to death convey'd.
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Chacun de vous m'a fait un temple dans son coeur;
Vous avez, en secret, baise ma fesse
immonde!
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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The inmates of the
Pyramids
assume
The hue of Rhamesis, black with the gloom.
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Hugo - Poems |
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And don't you see that changeableness,
Is to lose time's joy in heart's
yearning?
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19th Century French Poetry |
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"
So the hand of the child, automatic,
Slipped out and
pocketed
a toy that was running along
the quay.
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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GHOST OF DARIUS
Alas, that power in malice came, to his
bewilderment!
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Aeschylus |
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Holy Satyr _151_
Lais _153_
Heliodora _156_
Toward the Piraeus _161_
_Slay with your eyes, Greek_
_You would have broken my wings_
_I loved you_
_What had you done_
_If I had been a boy_
_It was not chastity that made me cold_
CONRAD AIKEN
Seven Twilights _171_
_The ragged pilgrim on the road to nowhere_
_Now by the wall of the ancient town_
_When the tree bares, the music of it changes_
_"This is the hour," she says, "of transmutation"_
_Now the great wheel of
darkness
and low clouds_
_Heaven, you say, will be a field in April_
_In the long silence of the sea_
Tetelestai _184_
EDNA ST.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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That bowe semede wel to shete
These arowes fyve, that been unmete, 990
Contrarie
to that other fyve.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Trenchant time behoves to hurry
All to yean and all to bury:
All the forms are fugitive,
But the
substances
survive.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Then was my spirit vibrant with the spheres;
Its strings across the ringing vault lay hot
Where passed to God the
laughter
and the tears And all the million prayers He heeded not.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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But when loud-thund'ring Jove that voyage dire
Ordain'd, which loos'd the knees of many a Greek,
Then, to
Idomeneus
and me they gave
The charge of all their fleet, which how to avoid
We found not, so importunate the cry 290
Of the whole host impell'd us to the task.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Seek thou
straight
Athena's land,
And round her awful image clasp thine hand,
Praying: and she will fence them back, though hot
With flickering serpents, that they touch thee not,
Holding above thy brow her gorgon shield.
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Euripides - Electra |
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The invalidity or
unenforceability
of any
provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions.
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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[185] Come, Trochilus, do
us the
kindness
to call your master.
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Aristophanes |
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YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO
REMEDIES
FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT
LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE
PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH F3.
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
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"Why do you sigh, fair
creature?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
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The glories of our blood and state
Are shadows, not
substantial
things;
There is no armour against fate;
Death lays his icy hand on kings:
Sceptre and Crown
Must tumble down,
And in the dust be equal made
With the poor crooked scythe and spade.
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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DRI Fr
an
cois and and thee and
Margot Drink we the
comrades
merrily
?
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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This is a digital copy of a book that was preserved for generations on library shelves before it was carefully scanned by Google as part of a project to make the world's books
discoverable
online.
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Meredith - Poems |
|
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Meredith - Poems |
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Artists enjoy ateliers which are furnished
So as to make for a space Pantheon-like in decor:
Jupiter lowers that godly brow while his Juno looks upward;
Phoebus takes forward strides, shaking his curly head;
While phlegmatic Minerva peers down on us,
frivolous
Hermes
Seems to be looking askance, roguish, though tender as well.
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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WHAT THE THUNDER SAID
After the torchlight red on sweaty faces
After the frosty silence in the gardens
After the agony in stony places
The shouting and the crying
Prison and palace and reverberation
Of thunder of spring over distant mountains
He who was living is now dead
We who were living are now dying
With a little patience 330
Here is no water but only rock
Rock and no water and the sandy road
The road winding above among the mountains
Which are mountains of rock without water
If there were water we should stop and drink
Amongst the rock one cannot stop or think
Sweat is dry and feet are in the sand
If there were only water amongst the rock
Dead mountain mouth of carious teeth that cannot spit
Here one can neither stand nor lie nor sit 340
There is not even silence in the mountains
But dry sterile thunder without rain
There is not even solitude in the mountains
But red sullen faces sneer and snarl
From doors of
mudcracked
houses
If there were water
And no rock
If there were rock
And also water
And water 350
A spring
A pool among the rock
If there were the sound of water only
Not the cicada
And dry grass singing
But sound of water over a rock
Where the hermit-thrush sings in the pine trees
Drip drop drip drop drop drop drop
But there is no water
Who is the third who walks always beside you?
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Farewel happy Fields
Where Joy for ever dwells: Hail horrours, hail 250
Infernal world, and thou
profoundest
Hell
Receive thy new Possessor: One who brings
A mind not to be chang'd by Place or Time.
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| Source: |
Milton |
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632
625 _The Arbiter of
pleasure
and of play_.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
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_Enter_
JOSEPHINE
_and_ IDA.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
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My harsh dreams knew the riding of you
The fleece of this goat and even
You set
yourself
against beauty.
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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And the Spirit,
stooping
earthward,
With his finger on the meadow
Traced a winding pathway for it,
Saying to it, "Run in this way!
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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This and all
associated
files of various formats will be found in:
http://www.
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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at herest my bone,
whi
helestou
my leoue sone
So long in my house, 477
?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
|
If you
do not charge
anything
for copies of this eBook, complying with the
rules is very easy.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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Now proud as an enjoyer, and anon
Doubting
the filching age will steal his treasure;
Now counting best to be with you alone,
Then better'd that the world may see my pleasure:
Sometime all full with feasting on your sight,
And by and by clean starved for a look;
Possessing or pursuing no delight,
Save what is had, or must from you be took.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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THE SONG OF PRINCESS ZEB-UN-NISSA
IN PRAISE OF HER OWN BEAUTY
(From the Persian)
When from my cheek I lift my veil,
The roses turn with envy pale,
And from their pierced hearts, rich with pain,
Send forth their
fragrance
like a wail.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
|
Why do I want this,
when even last night
you
startled
me from sleep?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
|
460
Wild blasts of music thus could find their way
Into the midst of
turbulent
events;
So that worst tempests might be listened to.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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Some do but scratch us:
Slow and
insidious
these poison our hearts over years.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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And, so knowing,
For mere insane delight in violent things,
Wilt thou awake in the fickle mood of men
Again that ancient
ignominy
which once,
Till beauty freed them, loaded the souls of women?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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For gods
infernal
bury deep, and cast
The blood into a trench.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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Among the fields she breathed again:
The master-current of her brain
Ran
permanent
and free;
And, coming to the banks of Tone,
There did she rest; and dwell alone
Under the greenwood tree.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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CX
Now marvellous and weighty the combat,
Right well they strike, Olivier and Rollant,
A
thousand
blows come from the Archbishop's hand,
The dozen peers are nothing short of that,
With one accord join battle all the Franks.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
|
Hart is the originator of the Project Gutenberg-tm
concept of a library of
electronic
works that could be freely shared
with anyone.
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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No sooner have
you
obtained
them, than you cease to be secure.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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They look into the beauty of thy mind,
And that in guess they measure by thy deeds;
Then--churls--their thoughts,
although
their eyes were kind,
To thy fair flower add the rank smell of weeds:
But why thy odour matcheth not thy show,
The soil is this, that thou dost common grow.
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'Tis possible, besides,
That a big bulk of piled sand may bar
His mouths against his onward waves, when sea,
Wild in the winds, tumbles the sand to inland;
Whereby the river's outlet were less free,
Likewise less headlong his
descending
floods.
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'And if men wolde ther-geyn appose 6555
The naked text, and lete the glose,
It mighte sone
assoiled
be;
For men may wel the sothe see,
That, parde, they mighte axe a thing
Pleynly forth, without begging.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Though I could have gone off to my
ramshackle
gate,1 12 I could not bring myself to mention it right then.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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--my
thoughts
do twine and bud
XXX I see thine image through my tears to-night
XXXI Thou comest!
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Amorous Prince, the
greatest
lover,
I want no evil that's of your doing,
But, by God, all noble hearts must offer
To succour a poor man, without crushing.
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Villon |
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Redistribution
is
subject to the trademark license, especially commercial
redistribution.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Sick is the land to th' heart; and doth endure
More
dangerous
faintings by her desperate cure.
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We verily,
that Turnus [371-406]may have his royal bride, must lie scattered on
the plains,
worthless
lives, a crowd unburied and unwept.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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He's hidden in the grass, Verlaine
Only to catch, naively, not drying with his breath
And without his lip
drinking
there, at peace again,
A shallow stream that's slandered, and named Death.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and
sent to the Project Gutenberg
Literary
Archive Foundation at the
address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to
the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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, wīgend mine (_awake, my
warriors!
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Beowulf |
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The son's
destruction
waits the mother's fame:
For, till she leaves thy court, it is decreed,
Thy bowl to empty and thy flock to bleed.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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de Crousaz, Professor of
Philosophy and Mathematics in the University of Lausanne, and defended by
Warburton, then
chaplain
to the Prince of Wales, in six letters published
in 1739, and a seventh in 1740, for which Pope (who died in 1744) was
deeply grateful.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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But
the others cried for
Leagerie
or Conal, and because I have a big voice
they got down the horns to drown my voice, and as neither I nor they
would keep silent we have come here to settle it.
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Yeats |
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Jealously
she seeks me out, sweet secret love to expose.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Her lover sinks--she sheds no ill-timed tear;
Her chief is slain--she fills his fatal post;
Her fellows flee--she checks their base career;
The foe retires--she heads the
sallying
host:
Who can appease like her a lover's ghost?
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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on my unworthy ills:
Fix all my thoughts in
contemplation
high;
How on the cross this day a Saviour died.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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unless a
copyright
notice is included.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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do not dread thy mother's door,
Think not of me with grief and pain:
I now can see with better eyes;
And worldly
grandeur
I despise
And fortune with her gifts and lies.
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Golden Treasury |
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