Damned Fact,
How it did greeue
Macbeth?
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Only three manuscripts have the, to
my mind, most
probably
correct reading in _Satyre I_, l.
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John Donne |
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The
helmsman
steerd, the ship mov'd on;
Yet never a breeze up-blew;
The Marineres all 'gan work the ropes,
Where they were wont to do:
They rais'd their limbs like lifeless tools--
We were a ghastly crew.
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than a spectre from the dead
More swift the room
Tattiana
fled,
From hall to yard and garden flies,
Not daring to cast back her eyes.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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He begged
persistently
to be allowed to retire from Court.
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Li Po |
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When sense from spirit files away,
And
subterfuge
is done;
When that which is and that which was
Apart, intrinsic, stand,
And this brief tragedy of flesh
Is shifted like a sand;
When figures show their royal front
And mists are carved away, --
Behold the atom I preferred
To all the lists of clay!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Strange that the termagant winds should scold
The
Christmas
Eve so bitterly!
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Sidney Lanier |
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Chorus--O why should Fate sic pleasure have,
Life's dearest bands
untwining?
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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"
From the wood a sound is gliding,
Vapours dense the plain are hiding,
Cries the Dame in anxious measure:
"Stay, I'll wash thy head, my
treasure!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Did the
harebell
loose her girdle
To the lover bee,
Would the bee the harebell hallow
Much as formerly?
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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3, a full refund of any
money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the
electronic work is
discovered
and reported to you within 90 days
of receipt of the work.
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I doubt na, lass, that weel ken'd name
May cost a pair o' blushes;
I am nae
stranger
to your fame,
Nor his warm urged wishes.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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30 Pengya: A Ballad I recall back when we first fled the rebels, through
hardship
and danger we hurried north.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Are so
superfluous
cold,
I would as soon attempt to warm
The bosoms where the frost has lain
Ages beneath the mould.
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_The Book of Pilgrimage_
By day Thou are the Legend and the Dream
That like a whisper floats about all men,
The deep and brooding
stillnesses
which seem,
After the hour has struck, to close again.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Those grand,
majestic
pines!
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Longfellow |
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Then the Liars and
Swearers
are Fools: for there
are Lyars and Swearers enow, to beate the honest men,
and hang vp them
Wife.
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But, when he had refused the proffered gold,
To cruel injuries he became a prey,
Sore traversed in whate'er he bought and sold:
His troubles grew upon him day by day,
Till all his
substance
fell into decay.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Fair Burnet strikes th' adoring eye,
Heaven's
beauties
on my fancy shine;
I see the Sire of Love on high,
And own His work indeed divine!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Three days and nights we sailed, as thought and feeling
Number delightful hours--for through the sky
The sphered lamps of day and night, revealing _4785
New changes and new glories, rolled on high,
Sun, Moon and moonlike lamps, the progeny
Of a diviner Heaven, serene and fair:
On the fourth day, wild as a
windwrought
sea
The stream became, and fast and faster bare _4790
The spirit-winged boat, steadily speeding there.
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Shelley |
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The music has been thus harmonized for four voices by
Professor
C.
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John Donne |
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one
Whom day by day the
lightning
looks upon
Keen; while the sentenced man triples his guard
And trembles; for his hour approaches hard.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Myn herte, allas, wol brest a-two,
For
Bialacoil
I wratthed so.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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) can copy and distribute it in the United States without
permission and without paying
copyright
royalties.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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That stand by the inward-opening door
Trade's hand doth tighten ever more,
And sigh their
monstrous
foul-air sigh
For the outside hills of liberty,
Where Nature spreads her wild blue sky
For Art to make into melody!
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Sidney Lanier |
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And I'd have him say, this
messenger
I send,
That excess of pride works harm on many men.
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Troubador Verse |
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"
'Twas in the
seventeen
hunder year
O' grace, and ninety-five,
That year I was the wae'est man
Of ony man alive.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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I might not be so anguisshous,
That I mote glad and Ioly be,
Whan that I
remembre
me.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Your Beauty's a flower in the morning that blows,
And withers the faster, the faster it grows:
But the
rapturous
charm o' the bonie green knowes,
Ilk spring they're new deckit wi' bonie white yowes.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Suddhoo has lost
his
strength
and his wits.
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Kipling - Poems |
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NEIGHBOUR
But patience, if you please: attend I pray
You've no
conception
what I meant to say:
The playful fair was actively employ'd,
In plucking am'rous flow'rs--they kiss'd and toy'd.
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La Fontaine |
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Do
hundreds
play thee, or does but one play?
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Rilke - Poems |
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XXXV
His malady, whose cause I ween
It now to
investigate
is time,
Was nothing but the British spleen
Transported to our Russian clime.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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With the
appearance of the 'Essay', Pope not only sprang at once into the full
light of publicity, but seized almost undisputed that
position
as the
first of living English poets which he was to retain unchallenged till
his death.
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Alexander Pope |
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It's true, though your enemy,
I cannot blame you for fleeing infamy;
And, however strong my
outburst
of pain
I do not accuse you, I only weep again.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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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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They tell us you might sue us if there is
something
wrong with
your copy of this etext, even if you got it for free from
someone other than us, and even if what's wrong is not our
fault.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Ripe apples drop about my head;
The
luscious
clusters of the vine
Upon my mouth do crush their wine;
The nectarine and curious peach
Into my hands themselves do reach;
Stumbling on melons, as I pass,
Ensnared with flowers, I fall on grass.
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Golden Treasury |
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A death-blow is a life-blow to some
Who, till they died, did not alive become;
Who, had they lived, had died, but when
They died,
vitality
begun.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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So passed another day, and so the third:
Then did I try, in vain, the crowd's resort,
In deep despair by frightful wishes stirr'd,
Near the sea-side I reached a ruined fort:
There, pains which nature could no more support,
With blindness linked, did on my vitals fall;
Dizzy my brain, with
interruption
short
Of hideous sense; I sunk, nor step could crawl,
And thence was borne away to neighbouring hospital.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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I found the phrase to every thought
I ever had, but one;
And that defies me, -- as a hand
Did try to chalk the sun
To races
nurtured
in the dark; --
How would your own begin?
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Project
Gutenberg is a registered trademark, and may not be used if you
charge for the eBooks, unless you receive
specific
permission.
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Rilke - Poems |
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He was evidently
most scrupulously honest and
faitliful
in the dis-
charge of his duty to his constituents ; and, as we
have seen, almost punctilious in guarding against
any thing which could tarnish his fair fame, or
defile his conscience.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Silent and
motionless
we lie;
And no one knoweth more than this.
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Longfellow |
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But by my heart of love laid bare to you,
My love that you can make not void nor vain,
Love that
foregoes
you but to claim anew
Beyond this passage of the gate of death,
I charge you at the Judgment make it plain
My love of you was life and not a breath.
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Christina Rossetti |
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" He
fired, and slightly wounded his opponent,
shouting
"Bravo!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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We dealt with books, we trusted men,
And in our own blood
drenched
the pen,
As if such colours could not fly.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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I see his messengers
attending
thee.
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Longfellow |
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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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La Fontaine |
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He did not
understand
display.
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Yeats |
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Mulched with
unsavory
death,
Grow, Soul!
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Sidney Lanier |
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O'er
Cambridge
set the yeomen's mark:
Climb, patriot, through the April dark.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Whoever dies
somewhere
in the world
Dies without cause in the world
Looks at me.
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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I love all that thou lovest,
Spirit of
Delight!
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Golden Treasury |
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The Merchants reckon up their gold,
Their letters come, their ships arrive, their
freights
are glories: The profits of their treasures sold,
They tell and sum ;
Their foremen drive
, Their servants, starved to half-alive,
"
Whose labors do but make the earth a hive
THE GHOST
By Marjorie Allen Seiffert
Quiet dust is every vow We have spoken,
All alike forgotten now, Kept or broken.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Christina Rossetti |
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He was the 'first' troubadour, that is, the first recorded
vernacular
lyric poet, in the Occitan language.
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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This high-toned and lovely
Madrigal
is quite in the style, and worthy
of, the "pure Simonides.
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Golden Treasury |
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My days of life approach their end,
Yet I in idleness expend
The remnant destiny concedes,
And thus each
stubbornly
proceeds.
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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LXII
Play up, play up thy silver flute;
The
crickets
all are brave;
Glad is the red autumnal earth
And the blue sea.
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Sappho |
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He wrote histories of the Revolution,
of
Napoleon
and of France.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Like wind, leaving no
footsteps
in the grass, It will depart.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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zip *****
This and all
associated
files of various formats will be found in:
http://www.
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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"
Let the night be; it has neither
knowledge
nor pity.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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According to his
legendary
vida, he was the lover of Seremonda, or Soremonda, wife of Raimon of Castel Rossillon.
| Guess: |
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Troubador Verse |
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And yet there is in this no Gordian knot
Which one might not undo without a sabre,
If one could merely
comprehend
the plot.
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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who makes much of a
miracle?
| Guess: |
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Whitman |
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Canst hear me through the water-bass,
Cry: "To the Shore,
Sweetheart?
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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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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Boccalini, in his "Advertisements from Parnassus," tells us that Zoilus
once presented Apollo a very caustic criticism upon a very admirable
book:--whereupon the god asked him for the
beauties
of the work.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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I'm
downright
dizzy wi' the thought,
In troth I'm like to greet!
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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Riches, like insects, when
concealed
they lie,
Wait but for wings, and in their season fly.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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"
And there right suddenly Lord Raoul gave rein
And galloped
straightway
to the crowded square,
-- What time a strange light flickered in the eyes
Of the calm fool, that was not folly's gleam,
But more like wisdom's smile at plan well laid
And end well compassed.
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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In these lines as they stand in the
editions
and most of the
MSS.
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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The
violinist
had played it,
or something like it, but had not written it down; but the man with
the wind instrument said it could not be played because it contained
quarter-tones and would be out of tune.
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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How long, how long, in infinite Pursuit
Of This and That endeavour and
dispute?
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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I wat she was a sheep o' sense,
An' could behave hersel' wi' mense:
I'll say't, she never brak a fence,
Thro'
thievish
greed.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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AS I CAME DOWN IN THE HARBOR By Louis Ginsberg
As I came down in the harbor, I saw ships careening — Tall ships with taut sails, bulging slowly away;
As I came down in the harbor, like far
swallows
flying, Delicate were the sails I saw, poised faint and dim !
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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The
twinkling
stars?
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
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[Note 65: Lepage--a celebrated
gunmaker
of former days.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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No chapter met, howe'er, when morrow came;
Another day arrived, and still the same;
The sages of the convent thought it best,
In fact, to let the mystick
business
rest.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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At length they reached the sea; on ship-board got;
A quick and pleasing passage was their lot;
Delightfully
serene, which joy increased;
To land they came (from perils thought released;)
At Joppa they debarked; two days remained:
And when refreshed, the proper road they gained;
Their escort was the lover's train alone;
On Asia's shores to plunder bands are prone;
By these were met our spark and lovely fair;
New dangers they, alas!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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As a barque rights itself, -- the sheet untied,
Which held its sail, -- by growing wind opprest;
So speedily Sir
Rodomont
arose,
Though a hill had been uprooted by the blows.
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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[2] Several of the Lakes in the north of England are let out to
different Fishermen, in parcels marked out by
imaginary
lines
drawn from rock to rock.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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A
princely
lodging.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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He joined the Fourth Crusade in 1203 and was present at the siege of
Constantinople
in 1204.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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We float before the
Presence
Infinite,
We cluster round the Throne in our delight,
Revolving and rejoicing in God's sight.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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, it is most exact
measure, and yet, let them both be sung before a real critic, one
above the biases of prejudice, but a
thorough
judge of nature,--how
flat and spiritless will the last appear, how trite, and lamely
methodical, compared with the wild warbling cadence, the heart-moving
melody of the first!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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It has been thought worth while to explain these
allusions, because they illustrate the
character
of the Grecian
Mythology, which arose in the Personification of natural phenomena, and
was totally free from those debasing and ludicrous ideas with which,
through Roman and later misunderstanding or perversion, it has been
associated.
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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)
During the four succeeding years he made numerous
excursions
amid
the beautiful countries which from the basin of the Euxine--and
amongst these the Crimea and the Caucasus.
| Guess: |
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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But now to purpos as of this matere--
To rede forth hit gan me so delyte,
That al the day me
thoughte
but a lyte.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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I
promised
Toffile to be cruel to them
For helping them be cruel once to him.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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International donations are
gratefully
accepted, but we cannot make
any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from
outside the United States.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Whan fader or moder arn in grave, 4860
Hir children shulde, whan they ben deede,
Ful
diligent
ben, in hir steede,
To use that werke on such a wyse,
That oon may thurgh another ryse.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Then it may be, O flattering tale,
Some future ignoramus shall
My famous
portrait
indicate
And cry: he was a poet great!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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From his proud car the prince
impetuous
springs,
On earth he leaps, his brazen armour rings.
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Iliad - Pope |
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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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Longfellow |
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"The
blackbird
amid leafy trees--
The lark above the hill,
Let loose their carols when they please,
Are quiet when they will.
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Golden Treasury |
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"But the good monk, in
cloistered
cell,
Shall gain it by his book and bell,
His prayers and tears;
And the brave knight, whose arm endures
Fierce battle, and against the Moors
His standard rears.
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Longfellow |
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The
houseless
am I not?
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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