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Li Bai - Chinese |
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MADAM,
Permit me to present you with the
enclosed
song as a small though
grateful tribute for the honour of your acquaintance.
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Robert Forst |
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4 the
traveler
has come back across a thousand leagues.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Among these
tempests
great and manifold, II.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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[7]
It seems the art of one who walked through the world of things endowed
with the senses of a god, and able, with that perfection of effort that
looks as if it were effortless, to fashion his
experience
into
incorruptible song; whether it be the dance of flies round a byre at
milking-time, or a forest-fire on the mountains at night.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Courthope qualifies this statement somewhat on the next
page: 'From this spirit of cynical lawlessness he was
perhaps
reclaimed
by genuine love,' &c.
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John Donne |
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HOLY THURSDAY
Is this a holy thing to see
In a rich and
fruitful
land,--
Babes reduced to misery,
Fed with cold and usurous hand?
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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_The old woman comes in
burdened
with her sack_.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Mark how, possess'd, his
lashless
eyelids stretch
Around his demon eyes!
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Keats - Lamia |
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Transports, at once my
punishment
and prize!
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Petrarch |
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Act IV Scene VI (Phaedra, Oenone)
Phaedra
Dear Oenone, do you know what I have
learned?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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I
threw myself
passionately
back in my chair, and for some moments buried
my face in my hands.
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Poe - 5 |
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en he keuere3 bi a cragge, & come3 of a hole,
Whyrlande
out of a wro, wyth a felle weppen,
[F] A dene3 ax nwe dy3t, ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Saveliitch exclaimed, joy painted on his face--
"He is coming to
himself!
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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THE
SZECHWAN
ROAD
Eheu!
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Li Po |
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LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right
of
Replacement
or Refund" described in paragraph 1.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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And now his soul wears the
strength
and fury
Of a huge dun-pelted wolf; he's the wolves' king;
And the fiends have learnt from him to laugh at our flints.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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This
thoughtful
and
responsible man initiated the journal with an essay of his own,
explaining how forms of entertainment are actually at the same time our
primary modes of education.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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CXXXVIII
"Form, site, and sumptuous work doth he behold,
And royal ornament and fair device;
And oft repeats, not all this wide world's gold
To buy the
egregious
mansion wound suffice.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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unless a
copyright
notice is included.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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The rumour of our onward course now brings
A steady rustle, as of some strange ship
Darkling with
soundless
sail all set and amply filled
By volume of an ever-constant air,
At fullest night, through seas for ever calm,
Swept lovely and unknown for ever on.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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ye
Who scorn whatever actual appears;
Saints, satyrs, seekers of Infinity,
So full of cries, so full of bitter tears;
Te whom my soul has
followed
into hell,
I love and pity, O sad sisters mine,
Tour thirsts unquenched, your pains no tongue can tell,
And your great hearts, those urns of love divine!
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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As hail rebounds from a roof of slate,
Rebounds
our heavier hail
From each iron scale
Of the monster's hide.
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Longfellow |
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Who or what Durga Charan
was, Trejago never inquired; and why in the world he was not discovered
and knifed never
occurred
to him till his madness was over, and Bisesa.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Some states do not allow
disclaimers
of certain implied
warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages.
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Sara Teasdale |
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A union then of honest men,
Or union
nevermore
again.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Others will lead me towards happiness
By the horns on my brow knotted with many a tress:
You know, my passion, how ripe and purple already
Every pomegranate bursts, murmuring with the bees:
And our blood,
enamoured
of what will seize it,
Flows for all the eternal swarm of desire yet.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Yet then did
_Gildon_
draw his venal quill;--
I wish'd the man a dinner, and sat still.
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Alexander Pope |
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You know
yourself
how easy it would be
For the flood tide to carry them to me.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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He laughed--the
gauntlet
trembled at his stroke.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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The lustres of the chandelier are bright, and
clusters
of rubies leap in
the bohemian glasses on the _étagère_.
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Imagists |
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'
Sed te iam ferre
Herculei
labos est.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Why weaves she not her world-webs to
according
lutes and tabors,
With nevermore this too remorseful air upon her face,
As of angel fallen from grace?
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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O thou field of my delight so fair and
verdant!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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To eastward ringing, to westward winging, o'er mapless miles of sea,
On winds and tides the gospel rides that the furthermost
isles are free;
And the
furthermost
isles make answer, harbor, and height, and hill,
Breaker and beach cry, each to each, "'Tis the Mother who
calls!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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And when at Eve the
unpitying
sun
Smiled grimly on the solemn fun,
"Alack," he sighed, "what _have_ I done?
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Lewis Carroll |
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And so many
children
poor?
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blake-poems |
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Donations are
accepted
in a number of other
ways including including checks, online payments and credit card
donations.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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But the poetess occupies a place
of considerable importance in the first four centuries of our era,
though the classical period (T'ang and Sung)
produced
no great woman
writer.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Enter the Ghost of Banquo, and sits in
Macbeths
place.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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What he means is probably that at
Court pity, which
elsewhere
is a virtue, may not be so if it induces a
lady to lend a relenting ear to the complaint of a lover.
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John Donne |
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mallit_
GRVen a
2
_Catule_
R
4 _notorum_ O: _not.
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Latin - Catullus |
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Dit a l'autre: Vie et
splendeur!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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GRETCHEN
(heraustretend):
Wer liegt hier?
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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|| _haec_ O ||
_libelli
al.
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Latin - Catullus |
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Now is ther litel more for to doone,
But Pandare up, and shortly for to seyne,
Right sone upon the chaunging of the mone,
Whan lightles is the world a night or tweyne, 550
And that the welken shoop him for to reyne,
He
streight
a-morwe un-to his nece wente;
Ye han wel herd the fyn of his entente.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Gunga Dass clutched the coins, and
hid them at once in his ragged loin cloth, his
expression
changing to
something diabolical as he looked round to assure himself that no one
had observed us.
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Kipling - Poems |
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In our two loves there is but one respect,
Though in our lives a
separable
spite,
Which though it alter not love's sole effect,
Yet doth it steal sweet hours from love's delight.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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In other cases, as in the
few poems of shipwreck or of mental conflict, we can only wonder at
the gift of vivid
imagination
by which this recluse woman can
delineate, by a few touches, the very crises of physical or mental
struggle.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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"Some
dialects
are objected to--
For one, the _Irish_ brogue is:
And then, for all you have to do,
One pound a week they offer you,
And find yourself in Bogies!
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Lewis Carroll |
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Or the
attraction
of gravity, and the great laws and harmonious combinations
and the fluids of the air, as subjects for the savans?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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sicine discedens neglecto numine diuum,
immemor a deuota domum
periuria
portas?
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Latin - Catullus |
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--
And all the more since he was wont to give,
Concerning the immortal gods themselves,
Many
pronouncements
with a tongue divine,
And to unfold by his pronouncements all
The nature of the world.
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Lucretius |
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How can a child, when fears annoy,
But droop his tender wing,
And forget his
youthful
spring?
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blake-poems |
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The time is come, when yon
despairing
host
Shall learn the value of the man they lost:
Now at my knees the Greeks shall pour their moan,
And proud Atrides tremble on his throne.
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Iliad - Pope |
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(Enter
Politian
and Baldazzar.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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How quickly the heroic mood
Responds to its own ringing;
The scornful heart, the angry blood
Leap upward,
singing!
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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And as to trees the willows wear
Lopped heads as high as bushes are;
Some taller things the distance shrouds
That may be trees or stacks or clouds
Or may be nothing; still they wear
A
semblance
where there's nought to spare.
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John Clare |
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Moreover, I have
supplied
the arguments to the several
cantos, given a few more explanatory notes, and added a table of
contents.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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And we shall play a game of chess,
Pressing
lidless eyes and waiting for a knock upon the door.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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That will not be, if she
torments
me,
Peace and a truce are all I'm asking,
For it grieves me to exit limply,
And lose the good of all this suffering.
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Troubador Verse |
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_See note_]
[55 dignities, _Ed:_
dignities
_1633-69_]
[56 Palaces: _1633-35:_ Palaces.
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John Donne |
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Gilgamish
is enamoured of the beautiful virgin goddess Ishara, and Enkidu,
fearing the effeminate effects of his friend's attachment, prevents
him
forcibly
from entering a house.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Whispers of Immortality
Webster was much
possessed
by death
And saw the skull beneath the skin;
And breastless creatures under ground
Leaned backward with a lipless grin.
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T.S. Eliot |
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A people currish,
churlish
as the seas,
And rude almost as rudest savages,
With whom I did, and may re-sojourn when
Rocks turn to rivers, rivers turn to men.
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Robert Herrick |
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It would be an interesting task
for the student to compare the two forms printed in this edition, to
note exactly what has been added, and the reasons for its addition, and
to mark how Pope has
smoothed
the junctures and blended the old and the
new.
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| Question: |
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Alexander Pope |
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--One pays the penalty
With
interest
when one, fancy-free,
Learns love, learns shame .
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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It was set on fire either
by the
attacking
force hurling torches and heated shot and
fire-brands, or by the besieged in returning their fire.
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Tacitus |
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Its purpose is the
symbolization
of
Life.
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Rilke - Poems |
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If
bringing
them over was lucky for us,
I'm sure 'twas as lucky for them.
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Robert Forst |
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They wended forth, the crowding friends,
With
farewells
smooth and kind.
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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A Song o/Only a little while,
**f V,ir8in Sith
sleepeth
this child here
Stay ye the branches.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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So from each
Of those two pillars which from earth uphold
Our childhood, one had fall'n away, and all
The careful burthen of our tender years
Trembled
upon the other.
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Tennyson |
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Oh, March, come right
upstairs
with me,
I have so much to tell!
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Nothing - not even old gardens mirrored by eyes -
Can restrain this heart that drenches itself in the sea,
O nights, or the abandoned light of my lamp,
On the void of paper, that
whiteness
defends,
No, not even the young woman feeding her child.
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| Question: |
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Mallarme - Poems |
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with
fearless
feet
The field I keep, for death in flight were shame.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Petrarch - Poems |
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"
Thus ending loudly, as he would o'erleap
His destiny, alert he stood: but when
Obstinate
silence came heavily again,
Feeling about for its old couch of space
And airy cradle, lowly bow'd his face
Desponding, o'er the marble floor's cold thrill.
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| Source: |
Keats |
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I laughed and said I could not;--set you down,
Your gray eyes wonder-filled beneath that crown
Of bright hair
gladdening
me as you raced by.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Has it
feathers
like a bird?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Thy
shrinking
slowly hastens the blow!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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e felde
chirkynge
agrise?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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--2) _reputation, renown,
knowledge_
(with
stress upon the idea of filling up, spreading out): nom.
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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The Cloud descended and the Lily bowd her modest head:
And went to mind her
numerous
charge among the verdant grass.
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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Shall I say, I have gone at dusk through narrow streets
And watched the smoke that rises from the pipes
Of lonely men in shirt-sleeves, leaning out of
windows?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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It exists
because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and
donations
from
people in all walks of life.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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"Fly hence,
deluding
Dream!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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By this he had found it hot--
Half the fleet, in an angry ring,
Closed round the hideous Thing,
Hammering
with solid shot,
And bearing down, bow on bow--
He had but a minute to choose;
Life or renown?
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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For when these quicker
elements
are gone
In tender embassy of love to thee,
My life being made of four, with two alone,
Sinks down to death, oppressed with melancholy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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Surrender is a sort unknown
On this superior soil;
Defeat, an outgrown anguish,
Remembered as the mile
Our panting ankle barely gained
When night devoured the road;
But we stood
whispering
in the house,
And all we said was "Saved"!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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You are very much
altered indeed from what you were when I knew you, if generosity point
the path you will not tread, or
humanity
call to you in vain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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8), _The
Roxburghe
Club_.
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John Donne |
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CLYTEMNESTRA
Beware thy mother's
vengeful
hounds from hell.
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Aeschylus |
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Stephen Crane |
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Many a time I'm so deep in thought,
Ruffians could abduct me, neatly,
And of the
business
I'd know naught.
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Troubador Verse |
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Yet nor the lays of birds, nor the sweet smell
Of
different
flowers in odour and in hue,
Could make me any summer's story tell,
Or from their proud lap pluck them where they grew:
Nor did I wonder at the lily's white,
Nor praise the deep vermilion in the rose;
They were but sweet, but figures of delight,
Drawn after you, you pattern of all those.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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The
universal
world to thee
Owes warmth and lustre.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Sift this
untoward
strife
On which thy mind is bent:
See if this chaff of life
Is worth the trouble spent.
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John Clare |
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There are who ask not if thine eye
Be on them; who, in love and truth
Where no
misgiving
is, rely
Upon the genial sense of youth:
Glad hearts!
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Golden Treasury |
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