The flight of Cranes is most
famously
mentioned in Homer's Iliad.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Your
perfection
is inside of
you.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Strange that I should have grown so
suddenly
blind.
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She no more swept the house,
Tended the fowls or cows,
Fetched honey, kneaded cakes of wheat,
Brought water from the brook:
But sat down
listless
in the chimney-nook
And would not eat.
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Christina Rossetti |
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He shared among his
crowding
friends
The silver and the gold,
They clasping bland his gift,--his hand
In a somewhat slacker hold.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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HERMES
Perverse
of will!
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Aeschylus |
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Yet there is one--to whom my Memory clings, 1080
Till to these eyes her own wild
softness
springs.
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Byron |
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Then upon the march we fittest die, soon and sure the gap is filled,
Pioneers!
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Whitman |
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Wondrous
and unwonted beauty
Still adorning all did seem,
While I told my love in fables
'Neath the willows by the stream;
Would the heart have kept unspoken
Love that was its rarest dream!
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Poe - 5 |
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They
grappled
with each other
goring like an ox.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Keep us respectable, O Lord,
whatever
happens.
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Kipling - Poems |
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And
suddenly
I surrender the garrison,
Feigning treason!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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What slender youth,
besprinkled
with perfume,
Courts you on roses in some grotto's shade?
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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There you'll lie
In noon's delight, with bees to flash above you,
Drown amid
buttercups
that blaze in the wind,
Forgetting all save beauty.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Unless you have removed all
references
to Project Gutenberg:
1.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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This was Nizam ul Mulk, Vizier
to Alp Arslan the Son, and Malik Shah the Grandson, of Toghrul Beg the
Tartar, who had wrested Persia from the feeble Successor of Mahmud the
Great, and founded that
Seljukian
Dynasty which finally roused Europe
into the Crusades.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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From Marcle way,
From Dymock, Kempley, Newent, Bromesberrow,
Redmarley, all the meadowland daffodils seem
Running in golden tides to Ryton Firs,
To make the knot of steep little wooded hills
Their
brightest
show: O bella età de l'oro!
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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computers including obsolete, old, middle-aged and new computers.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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We encourage the use of public domain
materials
for these purposes and may be able to help.
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Meredith - Poems |
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O'er Heorot he lorded,
gold-bright hall, in gloomy nights;
and ne'er could the prince {2d} approach his throne,
-- 'twas
judgment
of God, -- or have joy in his hall.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Yet do I curse thy pride that aye
So
tauntingly
aspires;
For my love was a gay knight's heir,
And my father was a squire's.
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John Clare |
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1780
THEL
I
The
daughters
of Mne Seraphim led round their sunny flocks,
All but the youngest: she in paleness sought the secret air.
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blake-poems |
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nec mihi Dulichium domus est Ithaceue Samosue,
poena quibus non est grandis abesse locis,
sed quae de septem totum
circumspicit
orbem
montibus, imperii Roma deumque locus.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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She went as quiet as the dew
From a
familiar
flower.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Peire Raimon de
Toulouse
(fl.
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Troubador Verse |
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This passed at Naples--next to Rome he came,
Where, with another fair, he did the same;
But still the farmer
banished
him again,
So well he could the devil's will restrain;
Another weighty purse to him was paid
Thrice Matthew drove him out from belle and maid.
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La Fontaine |
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I thank these kinsmen of the shelf;
Their
countenances
bland
Enamour in prospective,
And satisfy, obtained.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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_ Later editions and
Chambers
read
'strives', but 'ordinance' was used as a plural: 'The goodly ordinance
which were xii great Bombardes of brasse', and 'these six small iron
ordinance.
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John Donne |
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Presently, as the day grows lighter,
the_ CHORUS _enters: it consists of
Citizens
of Pherae, who speak
severally.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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IT shall be so, the anchorite replied;
Once more the mystick art was fully tried;
Such care he took, such charity was shown,
That Hell, by use, free with the Devil grown,
His presence
pleasant
always would have found;
Could Rustick equally have kept his ground.
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La Fontaine |
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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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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Lie close until she pass; then
question
her.
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Euripides - Electra |
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Yea, here I stand for the whole earth to see
How life,
breathing
its fortune like sweet air,
Mixing it with the kindled heart of man,
May utter it proud against the double truth
Of darkness fronting him and following him,
In a prevailing, burning, marvellous lie!
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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At last, when all the opinions had been given, the General shook the
ashes out of his pipe and made the following speech:--
"Gentlemen, I must tell you, for my part, I am entirely of the opinion
of our friend the ensign, for this opinion is based on the precepts of
good tactics, in which nearly always
offensive
movements are preferable
to defensive ones.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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]
And thou, King, for the rest
Of time, be true; be
righteous
to thy guest,
As he would have thee be.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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It
follows that edition in the capitalization of nouns, the
breaking
up
of the lines, and usually in the punctuation.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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+ Maintain attribution The Google "watermark" you see on each file is essential for informing people about this project and helping them find
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Meredith - Poems |
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Turn back unto this day, and make
yourselves
afresh.
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Whitman |
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Yet some could see him cringe,
As in a place of danger,
Throwing frightened glances into the air,
A-start at
threatening
faces of the past.
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Stephen Crane |
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In a dialogue between two
inanimate
horses ?
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Marvell - Poems |
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It makes for pretty difficult reading in
our present, less
interested
epoch.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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--La dedans sont des filles, infames
Parce que,--vous saviez que c'est faible, les femmes,
Messeigneurs
de la cour,--que ca veut toujours bien,
Vous avez crache sur l'ame, comme rien!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Steady the smoke of the half-deserted village,
A dog barks somewhere in the deep lanes,
A cock crows at the top of the
mulberry
tree.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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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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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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They hanged him as a beast is hanged:
They did not even toll
A requiem that might have brought
Rest to his startled soul,
But
hurriedly
they took him out,
And hid him in a hole.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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no light
Of teaching, liberal nations, for the poor
Who sit in
darkness
when it is not night?
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Elizabeth Browning |
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XXIII
The lads in their
hundreds
to Ludlow come in for the fair,
There's men from the barn and the forge and the mill and the fold,
The lads for the girls and the lads for the liquor are there,
And there with the rest are the lads that will never be old.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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The time was scarce profaned by speech;
The symbol of a word
Was needless, as at sacrament
The
wardrobe
of our Lord.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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O, either 'twas some
stranger
passed, and shore
His locks for very ruth before that tomb:
Or, if he found perchance, to seek his home,
Some spy.
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Euripides - Electra |
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e kyng 'fore; his men
bileueden
no?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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I know how this
profession
stands to-day.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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That day,
Atrides!
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Iliad - Pope |
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Donations are accepted in a number of other
ways
including
checks, online payments and credit card donations.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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It would be a very
idle piece of work, to choose between the potency of Homer's genius and
of Milton's; but it is clear that the immediate
circumstance
of the
poet's life presses much more insistently on the _Iliad_ and the
_Odyssey_ than on _Paradise Lost_.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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She opens the door, and sees one foremost lamb, with
other sheep and lambs
bleating
and crowding towards
her.
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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A
tiresome
song!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Nay,
My
children
live.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Do you have hopes the lyre can soar
So high as to win
immortality?
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Then had you seen such sorrowing of clans,
So many a slain, shattered and
bleeding
man!
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Chanson de Roland |
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That day I strode with bridal song
Through lifted brands of Pelian pine;
A hand beloved lay in mine;
And loud behind a
revelling
throng
Exalted me and her, the dead.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Russia and Lithuania
Have long
acknowledged
him to be Dimitry;
But, for the rest, I do not vouch for it.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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insulsissimus
est homo, nec sapit pueri instar
bimuli tremula patris dormientis in ulna.
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Latin - Catullus |
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His father was a
Roman
Catholic
linen draper, who had married a second time.
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Alexander Pope |
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the pavement,
carpeted
with leaves,
Gives back a softened echo to thy tread!
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Longfellow |
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They may have some edging or
trimming
of a
scholar, a welt or so; but it is no more.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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I was
confined
to my room by severe illness,
and could not move; it was agreed that Shelley and Williams should go
to Leghorn in the boat.
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Shelley |
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37 BC
THE ECLOGUES
by Virgil
ECLOGUE I
MELIBOEUS TITYRUS
MELIBOEUS
You, Tityrus, 'neath a broad beech-canopy
Reclining, on the slender oat rehearse
Your silvan ditties: I from my sweet fields,
And home's
familiar
bounds, even now depart.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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454, 522
Tweddell,
_Remains
of the late John_, _iii.
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Byron |
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Those who
composed
his court could not endure
Avignon after they had lost their Maecenas.
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Petrarch |
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And o'er two
elements
triumphs at once.
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| Question: |
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Marvell - Poems |
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Old or archaic
spellings
have been preserved.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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She urged "No cheese is made of chalk":
And ceaseless flowed her dreary talk,
Tuned to the
footfall
of a walk.
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Lewis Carroll |
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But if we have yet resources and an army still
unbroken, and cities and peoples of Italy remain for our aid; but if
even the Trojans have won their glory at great cost of blood (they too
have their deaths, and the storm fell equally on all), why do we
shamefully faint even on the
threshold?
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| Question: |
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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"I have seen," he said,
"Rome's eagle in a Punic fane,
And armour, ne'er a blood-drop shed,
Stripp'd from the soldier; I have seen
Free sons of Rome with arms fast tied;
The fields we spoil'd with corn are green,
And
Carthage
opes her portals wide.
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| Question: |
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
|
)
12 _nil uerpa ualet_ scripsi: _inista
preualet_
O: _ni ista
preualet_ GRVen: _mi stupra ualet_ uir doctus in Ephem.
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Latin - Catullus |
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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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Li Bai - Chinese |
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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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| Question: |
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Li Po |
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Danes of the North
with fear and frenzy were filled, each one,
who from the wall that wailing heard,
God's foe sounding his grisly song,
cry of the conquered,
clamorous
pain
from captive of hell.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
Pray for us, now beyond violence,
To the Son of the Virgin Mary,
So of grace to us she's not chary,
Shields us from Hell's
lightning
fall.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
|
The lurid Deity of heretofore
Succumbs
to one of saner nod;
The Battle-god is god no more.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
|
It is no fault of mine, that ye no more
Behold, and hear, and welcome her below;
Blame Death,--or rather praise Him and adore,
Who binds and frees,
restrains
and letteth go,
And to the weeping one can joy restore.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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namque ferunt olim Pagasae naualibus Argon
egressam longe Phasidos isse uiam,
et iam praeteritis labentem
Athamantidos
undis
Mysorum scopulis applicuisse ratem.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
|
What wouldst thou have us do,
Andronicus?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
120
Now I never'll
acknowledge
(nut ef you should skin me)
'twuz wise to abandon sech works to the in'my,
An' let him fin' out thet wut scared him so long,
Our whole line of argyments, lookin' so strong,
All our Scriptur an' law, every the'ry an' fac',
Wuz Quaker-guns daubed with Pro-slavery black.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
|
The
foolhardy
ploughman I well could endure,
His praise was worth nothing, his censure was poor,
Fame bade me go on and I toiled the day long
Till the fields where he lived should be known in my song.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
|
'--
'The child of a fierce hour; he sought to win
'The world, and lost all that it did contain
Of greatness, in its hope destroyed; and more
Of fame and peace than virtue's self can gain _220
'Without the opportunity which bore
Him on its eagle pinions to the peak
From which a thousand
climbers
have before
'Fallen, as Napoleon fell.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
|
Copyright laws in most countries are in
a
constant
state of change.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
|
"
And in low
faltering
tones, yet sweet,
Did she the lofty lady greet
With such perplexity of mind
As dreams too lively leave behind.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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In distant
countries
I have been,
And yet I have not often seen
A healthy man, a man full grown
Weep in the public roads alone.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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The
Foundation
makes no representations concerning
the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United
States.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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"[518] Do you note the
harmonious
rhythm?
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Aristophanes |
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And perhaps the masts,
inviting
lightning,
Are those the gale bends over shipwrecks,
Lost, without masts, without masts, no fertile islands.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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'Tis thus the eagle, with his pinions spread,
Reposing o'er the tempest, from that height
Sees the clouds reel and roll above our head,
While he, rejoicing in his
tranquil
flight,
More upward soars sublime in heaven's eternal light.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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en erit ut liceat totum mihi ferre per orbem
sola Sophocleo tua carmina digna
coturno?
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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350
`So
sholdestow
endure, and late slyde
The tyme, and fonde to ben glad and light.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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I, proud of my murmur, intend to speak at length
Of goddesses: and with
idolatrous
paintings
Remove again from shadow their waists' bindings:
So that when I've sucked the grapes' brightness
To banish a regret done away with by my pretence,
Laughing, I raise the emptied stem to the summer's sky
And breathing into those luminous skins, then I,
Desiring drunkenness, gaze through them till evening.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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As fund-raising
requirements for other states are met,
additions
to this list will be
made and fund-raising will begin in the additional states.
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Whitman |
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