They look upon his eyes,
Filled with deep surprise;
And
wondering
behold
A spirit armed in gold.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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DER HERR:
Wenn er mir auch nur
verworren
dient,
So werd ich ihn bald in die Klarheit fuhren.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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And where low walls confine the beating tides,
Whose humble barrier scarce the foe divides;
Where late in fight both foot and horse engaged,
And all the thunder of the battle raged,)
There join'd, the whole
Boeotian
strength remains,
The proud Iaonians with their sweeping trains,
Locrians and Phthians, and th' Epaean force;
But join'd, repel not Hector's fiery course.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Like rock or stone, it is o'ergrown
With lichens to the very top,
And hung with heavy tufts of moss,
A melancholy crop:
Up from the earth these mosses creep,
And this poor thorn they clasp it round
So close, you'd say that they were bent
With plain and
manifest
intent,
To drag it to the ground;
And all had joined in one endeavour
To bury this poor thorn for ever.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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I'd have been before her with that course,
Love would have swiftly
inspired
the thought.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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I have not used rhyme because it is
impossible
to produce in English
rhyme-effects at all similar to those of the original, where the same
rhyme sometimes runs through a whole poem.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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A word then, (for I will conquer it,)
The word final,
superior
to all,
Subtle, sent up--what is it?
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Whitman |
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But what use is it to affect a proud
display?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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_1635-69_]
[21 That fatall night we last kiss'd _1635-69_: That last
fatall night wee kiss'd _A10_, _H39_, _H40_, _L74_, _P_,
_RP31_]
[22 _in
brackets_
_1635-69_
said: _Ed_: said, _1635-69_]
[23 despaire?
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John Donne |
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Long springs, mild winters glad that spot
By Jove's good grace, and Aulon, dear
To fruitful Bacchus, envies not
Falernian
cheer.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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And even now arise
From out the loams how many living things--
Concreted
by the rains and heat of the sun.
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Lucretius |
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zip *****
This and all
associated
files of various formats will be found in:
http://www.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Aye, thus it was one
thousand
years ago.
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Keats |
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Thus, we do not necessarily
keep eBooks in
compliance
with any particular paper edition.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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9
But ere he well the barks could part,
Twas writ already in their heart ;
For they, 'tis credible, have sense^
As we, of love and
reverence^
And underneath the coarser rind,
The genius of the house do bind.
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Marvell - Poems |
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" slowly and with
upturned
eyes ejaculated the trio, as,
letting go their hold, the emancipated porker tumbled headlong among the
Philistines, "El Emanu!
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Poe - 5 |
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_De
corruptela
morum_.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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and to this plyte have ye me broght,
Withoute
gilt; me nedeth no witnesse.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Que les soleils sont beaux dans les chaudes
soirees!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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They could not endure
That last, that
defenceless
look.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Our one
philosophical
critic, Mr.
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Yeats |
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For fire and sea, that erst held bitter feud,
Now swore
conspiracy
and pledged their faith,
Wasting the Argives worn with toil and war.
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Aeschylus |
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The list at Erech
contains the names of two well known
Sumerian
deities, Lugalbanda
[2] and Tammuz.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Opium
did but confirm what the natural habits of his constitution had bred in
him: an
overwhelming
indolence, out of which the energies that still arose
intermittently were no longer flames, but the escaping ghosts of flame,
mere black smoke.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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I do not think
we have a right to
withhold
from the world a word or
a thought any more than a deed which might help a
single soul.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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They may be
modified
and printed and given away--you may do
practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks.
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Stephen Crane |
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der Herr ist gar zu gut:
Schmuck und
Geschmeide
sind nicht mein.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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And was he confident until
Ill fluttered out in
everlasting
well?
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Lilacs in dooryards
Holding quiet conversations with an early moon;
Lilacs watching a deserted house
Settling
sideways
into the grass of an old road;
Lilacs, wind-beaten, staggering under a lopsided shock of bloom
Above a cellar dug into a hill.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Ich will euch lehren
Gesichter
machen!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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This is just what the
original
contributors to the
_Miscellany_ have done.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a
copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of
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form.
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Sara Teasdale |
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When at last, far on into Winter, I got to the Northern Capital,[40] I
was moved to see how much you cared for my
reception
and how little you
cared for the cost--amber cups and fine foods on a blue jade dish.
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Li Po |
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But he
promised
to repair to his Holiness as soon as his
health should permit, not to ask benefices of the holy father, but only
his blessing.
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Petrarch |
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In thy company,
With tumult or contentment still
Of thy
delights
I drank my fill,
Enough!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Juice in
language
is somewhat less than blood; for if the
words be but becoming and signifying, and the sense gentle, there is
juice; but where that wanteth, the language is thin, flagging, poor,
starved, scarce covering the bone, and shows like stones in a sack.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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With that he gan hir humbly to saluwe
With dreedful chere, and oft his hewes muwe;
And up his look
debonairly
he caste,
And bekked on Pandare, and forth he paste.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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"
That
oracular
Lady of Prague.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Through the
straight
pass of suffering
The martyrs even trod,
Their feet upon temptation,
Their faces upon God.
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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A public domain book is one that was never subject to
copyright
or whose legal copyright term has expired.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
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Even
Baudelaire
had his sane moments.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Please be
encouraged
to tell us about any error or corrections,
even years after the official publication date.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Dost thou not know, my Queen,
That, when I taught thee songs, thou
taughtest
me
The divine secret, Beauty?
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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The Project
Gutenberg
Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation"
or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Out of that place wente I tho,
And in that gardin gan I go,
>>
Qui
estoient
de lor mesnies,
Franches gens et bien enseignies, 1290
Et gens de bel afetement
Estoient tuit communement.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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The
applause
of contemporaries, however, is not always justified by the
verdict of after-times, and does not always secure an immortality of
renown.
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Sappho |
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When he had left the mountains and received
On his smooth breast the shadow of those towers [W]
That yet survive, a shattered monument
Of feudal sway, the bright blue river passed 285
Along the margin of our terrace walk; [X]
A
tempting
playmate whom we dearly loved.
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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She did so, but 'tis
doubtful
how and whence
Came, and who were her subtle servitors.
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Keats - Lamia |
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And when I see a phantom, frail and wan,
Traverse
the swarming picture that is Paris,
It ever seems as though the delicate thing
Trod with soft steps towards a cradle new.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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'Do you see him, she cried, the old lecher dies;
Through his mouth the frosts of earth take flight;
Bind his lame feet, destroy his
squinting
sight,
He's the god of craters, king of the winter's ice!
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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" I said to Zourine; "of what gossip of
Pugatchef's are you
speaking?
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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License as
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Sara Teasdale |
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He was
therefore
unable to say goodbye to her, and sent her
three poems instead.
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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in no
necessite
to ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Be not, my son,
Too
positive
again.
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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e
Emperour
whan he was brou?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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[43] The
necessaries
of life.
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Morning at the Window
They are rattling breakfast plates in basement kitchens,
And along the
trampled
edges of the street
I am aware of the damp souls of housemaids
Sprouting despondently at area gates.
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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And I remember hidden fires that burst
Suddenly from the midnight while men slept,
Long-smouldering rages in the darkness nursed
That to an instant
ravening
fury leapt,
And the old terror menacing evermore
A crumbling world with fiery molten core.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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--
Two other
minstrels
there I spied that bore
His name, renown'd on Arno's tuneful shore.
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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The little things around, like you and I,
Are
hurrying
through the grass to shun the shower.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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'"
[which has for its first meaning material, but is also applied peculiarly
to kinds of wood, and to a wood], "from the multiplicity and variety of
the
material
contained in it.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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The Tomb of Edgar Allan Poe
Such as
eternity
at last transforms into Himself,
The Poet rouses with two-edged naked sword,
His century terrified at having ignored
Death triumphant in so strange a voice!
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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I was
hurrying
down the street when I heard myself
called by someone.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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And raiment, hung by surf-beat shore, grows moist,
The same, spread out before the sun, will dry;
Yet no one saw how sank the
moisture
in,
Nor how by heat off-driven.
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no
one owns a United States
copyright
in these works, so the Foundation
(and you!
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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An examination of these shows that the
text he used was a
manuscript
one, the readings he translates
being in more than one instance those of the manuscript, as
opposed to the printed, tradition.
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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140
at, quia nec diuis homines
componier
aequum est,
.
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Latin - Catullus |
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Free us, for there is one Whose smile more availeth
Than all the age-old
knowledge
of thy books: And we would look thereon.
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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In his arms he bore
Her, armed with sorrow sore;
Till before their way
A
couching
lion lay.
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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--C'est trop petit pour nous,
Nous
creverions
de chaud, nous serions a genoux!
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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XXXIX
The third had of their wardrobe custodie,
In which were not rich tyres, nor garments gay,
The plumes of pride, and wings of vanitie, 345
But clothes meet to keepe keene could away,
And naked nature seemely to aray;
With which bare wretched wights he dayly clad,
The images of God in earthly clay;
And if that no spare cloths to give he had, 350
His owne coate he would cut, and it
distribute
glad.
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Oft as those sainted Rocks before him spread,
An unknown power
connects
him with the dead.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
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Do you
think that in his use of hyperbole and
impossibilities
Spenser shows that
he was deficient in a sense of humor?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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folce
gestepte
ofer sǣ sīde, _went with a band of warriors
over the wide sea_, 2394; gen.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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"
Brings his horse his eldest sister,
And the next his arms, which glister,
Whilst the third, with
childish
prattle,
Cries, "when wilt return from battle?
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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I dwell in trifles like a child,
I feel as ill becomes a man,
And still my thoughts like
weedlings
wild
Grow up to blossom where they can.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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Fortune's a blind
profuser
of her own, II.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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Gather the north flowers to
complete
the south,
And catch the early love up in the late.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Can it be
possible
I have
To die so suddenly?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
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This love of ours it seems to be
Like a twig on a
hawthorn
tree
That on the tree trembles there
All night, in rain and frost it grieves,
Till morning, when the rays appear
Among the branches and the leaves.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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And forever it shall haunt you
With its mystic,
changing
ray:
Its light shall live when we lie dead,
With hearts at the heart of day!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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]
XXIX
Sound sleep, books, walking, were his bliss,
The murmuring brook, the woodland shade,
The uncontaminated kiss
Of a young dark-eyed country maid,
A fiery, yet well-broken horse,
A dinner, whimsical each course,
A bottle of a vintage white
And
solitude
and calm delight.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Great Hector sorrows for his servant kill'd,
Yet
unrevenged
permits to press the field;
Till, to supply his place and rule the car,
Rose Archeptolemus, the fierce in war.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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A vile
dependent
of the Claudian house
laid claim to the damsel as his slave.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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If she establish her abode between
Mars and the planet-star of Beauty's queen,
The sun will be obscured, so dense a cloud
Of spirits from
adjacent
stars will crowd
To gaze upon her beauty infinite.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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Long ago
Zeus in his power this
privilege
bestowed,
That with a guiding sceptre one sole man
Should rule this Asian land of flock and herd.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
|
_"
[We owe these verses to the too brief visit which the poet, in 1787,
made to Gordon Castle: he was hurried away, much against his will, by
his moody and
obstinate
friend William Nicol.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
Have no heaven-habitants e'er felt a void
In hearts sublimed with ichor
unalloyed?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
|
A Single Smile
A single smile disputes
Each star with the
gathering
night
A single smile for us both
And the blue of your joyful eyes
Against the mass of night
Finding its flame in my eyes
I have seen by needing to know
The deep night create the day
With no change in our appearance.
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) it is not my
fault,
although
'tis said so to be, nor may anyone impute any crime to me;
albeit the fabling tongues of folk make it so, who, whene'er aught is found
not well done, all clamour at me: "Door, thine is the blame!
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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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Such ecstasy and such collectedness, a way of
writing which seems to aim at nothing but the most precisely expressive
simplicity, and yet sets the whole brain dancing to its tune, can hardly be
indicated more exactly than in Coleridge's own words in reference to the
Italian lyrists of the
fifteenth
and sixteenth centuries.
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True sympathy the Sailor's looks expressed,
His looks--for
pondering
he was mute the while.
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And heard this voice of sorrow
breathed
from the hollow pit.
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blake-poems |
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They get all still and lie in safety sure
And out again when every thing's secure
And start and snap at
blackbirds
bouncing bye
To fight and catch the great white butterfly.
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Poetry in
Translation
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Joachim Du Bellay
The Ruins of Rome
(Les
Antiquites
de Rome)
Joachim du Bellay, French Renaissance poet 16th century
'Joachim du Bellay, French Renaissance poet 16th century'
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End of the Project
Gutenberg
EBook of Poems, by Rainer Maria Rilke
*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK POEMS ***
***** This file should be named 38594-0.
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[Footnote J: The reader, who has made the tour of this country, will
recognize, in this description, the
features
which characterize the
lower waterfall in the gardens of Rydale.
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