She turned away, but with the autumn weather
Compelled
my imagination many days,
Many days and many hours:
Her hair over her arms and her arms full of flowers.
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T.S. Eliot |
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ECLOGUE VII
MELIBOEUS CORYDON THYRSIS
Daphnis beneath a rustling ilex-tree
Had sat him down; Thyrsis and Corydon
Had gathered in the flock, Thyrsis the sheep,
And Corydon the she-goats swollen with milk-
Both in the flower of age,
Arcadians
both,
Ready to sing, and in like strain reply.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Newby
Chief
Executive
and Director
gbnewby@pglaf.
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Sara Teasdale |
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5 Palace ladies sobbed on their red sleeves, 24 princes of the blood went in
commoners?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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V
Then, the far capital forgot,
Its
splendour
and its blandishments,
In poor Moldavia cast her lot,
She visited the humble tents
Of migratory gipsy hordes--
And wild among them grew her words--
Our godlike tongue she could exchange
For savage speech, uncouth and strange,
And ditties of the steppe she loved.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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710
La doucor et la melodie
Me mist ou cuer grant reverdie;
Mes quant j'oi escoute ung poi
Les oisiaus, tenir ne me poi
Que dant Deduit veoir n'alasse;
Car a savoir moult desirasse
<<
Sir Mirthe; for my desiring 725
Was him to seen, over alle thing,
His
countenaunce
and his manere:
That sighte was to me ful dere.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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VII
Enkindled
by my votive work
No burning faith I find;
The deeper thinkers sneer and smirk,
And give my toil no mind;
From nod and wink
I read they think
That I am fool and blind.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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I, however,
struggled
on with my sines and co-sines for a few
days more; but stepping into the garden one charming noon to take the
sun's altitude, there I met my angel,
"Like Proserpine gathering flowers,
Herself a fairer flower--"[176]
It was in vain to think of doing any more good at school.
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Robert Burns |
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Bosh's kindness, to present our
readers with
illustrations
of his discoveries.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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It
is vile, and a poor thing to place our
happiness
on these desires.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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_But as some
Serpents
poyson, &c.
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John Donne |
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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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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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A
pleasant
sleep, tsarevich!
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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I find flame in the dust, a word once uttered that will stir again,
And a wine-cup
reflecting
Sirius in the water held in my hands.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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The words of Tomsky made a deep impression upon her, and
she
realized
how imprudently she had acted.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Nay, more, thou hast handed wretched
me over to despiteful Love, nor hast thou ceased to agonize me in every
way, so that for me that kiss is now changed from
ambrosia
to be harsher
than harsh hellebore.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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A fire was once within my brain;
And in my head a dull, dull pain;
And
fiendish
faces one, two, three,
Hung at my breasts, and pulled at me.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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And so he kept, until the rosy veils
Mantling
the east, by Aurora's peering hand
Were lifted from the water's breast, and faun'd
Into sweet air; and sober'd morning came
Meekly through billows:--when like taper-flame
Left sudden by a dallying breath of air,
He rose in silence, and once more 'gan fare
Along his fated way.
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Keats |
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580
Oh, no--it shall not pine, and pine, and pine
More than one pretty,
trifling
thousand years;
And then 'twere pity, but fate's gentle shears
Cut short its immortality.
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Keats |
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She's got
mischief
enough already;
Wi' stanged hips, and buttocks bluidy
She's suffer'd sair;
But, may she wintle in a woody,
If she wh-e mair!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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The first edition of the poems was in ten _chuan_, and was
published
by
Li Yang-ping in the year of the poet's death.
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Li Po |
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In thieving thou art skill'd and giving answers;
For thy answers and thy thieving I'll reward thee
With a house upon the windy plain constructed
Of two pillars high,
surmounted
by a cross-beam.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Thy God in vain shall call thee if by my strong power
I can infuse my dear revenge into his glowing breast
Then jealousy shall shadow all his mountains & Ahania
Curse thee thou plague of woful Los & seek revenge on thee
So saying in deep sobs he
languishd
till dead he also fell
Night passd & Enitharmon eer the dawn returnd in bliss
She sang Oer Los reviving him to Life his groans were terrible
But thus she sang.
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Blake - Zoas |
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It is certain that, more than
three hundred and sixty years after the date
ordinarily
assigned
for the foundation of the city, the public records were, with
scarcely an exception, destroyed by the Gauls.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Africa, Spain, neither are you disgraced,
Nor that race that holds the English firth,
Nor, by the French Rhine, soldiers of worth,
Nor Germany with other
warriors
graced.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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No fear felt he,
stout old Scylfing, but
straightway
repaid
in better bargain that bitter stroke
and faced his foe with fell intent.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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This circumstance is alluded to in the first stanza of
the
following
poem.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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For you a
programme
of chants.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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There shall thy victor-glances glow,
And
cowering
foes shall shrink beneath,
Each gallant arm that strikes below,
The lovely messenger of death.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Something
o' that, I said.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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He marvels at the paradox,
drums his head with the tattoo:
how can a thing as small as he
shape and maintain an art
out of himself universal enough
to carry her daily vigil
to crystalled
immortality?
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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I
wondered
at you.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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290
No doubt you'll have a
swingeing
sum as recompense.
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| Source: |
Byron |
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E
[Illustration]
E was a little Egg,
Upon the
breakfast
table;
Papa came in and ate it up
As fast as he was able.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Tell not me-when the butt is out we will drink
water, not a drop before;
therefore
bear up, and board
'em.
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Shakespeare |
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He placed the goblet
nervously
on the table, and looked round upon the
company with a half--insane stare.
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Poe - 5 |
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XXII
When this brave city, honouring the Latin name,
Bounded on the Danube, in Africa,
Among the tribes along the Thames' shore,
And where the rising sun ascends in flame,
Her own nurslings stirred, in mutinous game
Against her very self, the spoils of war,
So dearly won from all the world before,
That same world's spoil suddenly became:
So when the Great Year its course has run,
And twenty six thousand years are done,
The elements freed from Nature's accord,
Those seeds that are the source of everything,
Will return in Time to their first discord,
Chaos' eternal womb their
presence
hiding.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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E'en as a broken mirror, which the glass
In every fragment multiplies; and makes
A thousand images of one that was,
The same, and still the more, the more it breaks;
And thus the heart will do which not forsakes,
Living in
shattered
guise, and still, and cold,
And bloodless, with its sleepless sorrow aches,
Yet withers on till all without is old,
Showing no visible sign, for such things are untold.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Stealthily
I slipped away.
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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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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Li Bai - Chinese |
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CANTO XXXII
Freely the sage, though wrapt in musings high,
Assum'd the teacher's part, and mild began:
"The wound, that Mary clos'd, she open'd first,
Who sits so
beautiful
at Mary's feet.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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PHANTOM OR FACT
A
DIALOGUE
IN VERSE
AUTHOR
A Lovely form there sate beside my bed,
And such a feeding calm its presence shed,
A tender love so pure from earthly leaven,
That I unnethe the fancy might control,
'Twas my own spirit newly come from heaven,
Wooing its gentle way into my soul!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Ah, I am
learning
now; it's truth they talk.
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Bless our poor
virginity
from underminers and blowers-up!
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Shakespeare |
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The orchard sparkled like a Jew, --
How mighty 't was, to stay
A guest in this
stupendous
place,
The parlor of the day!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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e,
And my
blessynge
y-wis.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Him Rabican, who
marvellously
flies,
Distances by a mighty length of plain.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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And how should I
presume?
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T.S. Eliot |
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8
The sleepers are very beautiful as they lie unclothed,
They flow hand in hand over the whole earth from east to west as
they lie unclothed,
The Asiatic and African are hand in hand, the European and American
are hand in hand,
Learn'd and unlearn'd are hand in hand, and male and female are hand
in hand,
The bare arm of the girl crosses the bare breast of her lover, they
press close without lust, his lips press her neck,
The father holds his grown or ungrown son in his arms with
measureless love, and the son holds the father in his arms with
measureless love,
The white hair of the mother shines on the white wrist of the daughter,
The breath of the boy goes with the breath of the man, friend is
inarm'd by friend,
The scholar kisses the teacher and the teacher kisses the scholar,
the wrong 'd made right,
The call of the slave is one with the master's call, and the master
salutes the slave,
The felon steps forth from the prison, the insane becomes sane, the
suffering of sick persons is reliev'd,
The sweatings and fevers stop, the throat that was unsound is sound,
the lungs of the consumptive are resumed, the poor distress'd
head is free,
The joints of the rheumatic move as smoothly as ever, and smoother
than ever,
Stiflings and
passages
open, the paralyzed become supple,
The swell'd and convuls'd and congested awake to themselves in condition,
They pass the invigoration of the night and the chemistry of the
night, and awake.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Whose
harshest
idea
Will to melody run,
O!
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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The flight of Cranes is most famously
mentioned
in Homer's Iliad.
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Ronsard |
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in various
countries
of Europe.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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The rail along the curving pathway
Was low in a happy place to let us cross,
And down the hill a tree that dripped with bloom
Sheltered
us,
While your kisses and the flowers,
Falling, falling,
Tangled my hair.
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Sara Teasdale |
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THE THIRD EDITION; TO
WHICH IS ADDED AN APPENDIX, CONTAINING SOME OBSERVATIONS UPON
THE
LANGUAGE
OF THESE POEMS; TENDING TO PROVE, THAT THEY WERE
WRITTEN, NOT BY ANY ANCIENT AUTHOR, BUT ENTIRELY BY THOMAS
CHATTERTON.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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"I
intended
to see good white lands
"And bad black lands,
"But the scene is grey.
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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Below thy sight the mortal cast,
And to the glorious vision give at last--
[_with a gesture_]
I must not say what
termination!
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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For he hears the lambs' innocent call,
And he hears the ewes' tender reply;
He is
watching
while they are in peace,
For they know when their Shepherd is nigh.
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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Who
assisted
thee to ravage and to plunder;
I trow thou hadst full many wicked comrades.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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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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Rilke - Poems |
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IF you were coming in the fall,
I'd brush the summer by
With half a smile and half a spurn,
As
housewives
do a fly.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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`Thow hast here maad an argument, for fyn,
How that it sholde a lasse peyne be
Criseyde
to for-goon, for she was myn,
And live in ese and in felicitee.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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At the close of autumn
following she crossed the sea to meet me at Greenock, where she had
scarce landed when she was seized with a
malignant
fever, which
hurried my dear girl to the grave in a few days, before I could even
hear of her last illness.
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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Calais, the wind is come and heaven pales And
trembles
for the love of day to be.
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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"As I was saying," resumed the visiter--"as I was
observing
a little
while ago, there are some very outre notions in that book of yours
Monsieur Bon-Bon.
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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Most gracious sir,
In humblest manner I require your Highness
That it shall please you to declare in hearing
Of all these ears-for where I am robb'd and bound,
There must I be unloos'd,
although
not there
At once and fully satisfied-whether ever I
Did broach this business to your Highness, or
Laid any scruple in your way which might
Induce you to the question on't, or ever
Have to you, but with thanks to God for such
A royal lady, spake one the least word that might
Be to the prejudice of her present state,
Or touch of her good person?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
Self-support should
maintain
strict limits:
More than enough is not what I want.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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But should uncomforted
misfortunes
steep
My daily bread in tears and bitterness;
And if at death's dread moment I should lie
With no beloved face at my bed-side,
To fix the last glance of my closing eye,
Methinks such strains, breathed by my angel-guide,
Would make me pass the cup of anguish by,
Mix with the blest, nor know that I had died!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
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(C)
Copyright
2000-2016 A.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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If this be Love, how is the evil wrought,
That all men write against his
darkened
name?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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this is my room;
there are my books, there the piano,
there the last bar I wrote,
there the last line,
and oh the
sunlight!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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For though in earth were many seeds of things
In the old time when this telluric world
First poured the breeds of animals abroad,
Still that is nothing of a sign that then
Such hybrid creatures could have been begot
And limbs of all beasts heterogeneous
Have been together knit; because, indeed,
The divers kinds of grasses and the grains
And the delightsome trees--which even now
Spring up abounding from within the earth--
Can still ne'er be
begotten
with their stems
Begrafted into one; but each sole thing
Proceeds according to its proper wont
And all conserve their own distinctions based
In nature's fixed decree.
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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L'enfant se doit surtout a la maison, famille
Des soins naifs, des bons travaux abrutissants,
Ils sortent,
oubliant
que la peau leur fourmille
Ou le Pretre du Christ a mis ses doigts puissants.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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The rider quietly
controls
the steed,
The father sways the son.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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-
Im Labyrinth der Taler hinzuschleichen,
Dann diesen Felsen zu ersteigen,
Von dem der Quell sich ewig
sprudelnd
sturzt,
Das ist die Lust, die solche Pfade wurzt!
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Tracle had a
puncheon
for him.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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org),
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 obtaining a copy upon
request, of the work in its
original
"Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other
form.
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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And though thine in the centre sit,
Yet when my other far does roam,
Thine leans and
hearkens
after it,
And rows erect as mine comes home.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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And the warbler's voice
resounds
clear :?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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They were easy to find who
elsewhere
sought
in room remote their rest at night,
bed in the bowers, {2a} when that bale was shown,
was seen in sooth, with surest token, --
the hall-thane's {2b} hate.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Clarence
and the Malmesey over again;
'Twas a delightful death.
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"So yesterday I read the acts
Of Hector and each clangorous king
With
wrathful
great AEacides:--
Old Homer leaves a sting.
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I never saw a man who looked
With such a wistful eye
Upon that little tent of blue
Which prisoners call the sky,
And at every wandering cloud that trailed
Its
ravelled
fleeces by.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Now, be off, and do your
surveying
somewhere
else.
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'But sith ye love discreven so,
And lakke and preise it, bothe two,
Defyneth
it into this letter, 4805
That I may thenke on it the better;
For I herde never [diffyne it ere],
And wilfully I wolde it lere.
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each his center basement finds;
suspended
there they stand {According to Erdman, the word "center" was originally deleted by Blake with a strong ink stroke and therefore not easily erased.
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Blake - Zoas |
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And that furnace-heated breath
Blew into my placid dreams
The heart of fire from whence it came:
Haunt of beauty and of death
Where the forest breaks in flame
Of
flaunting
blossom, where the flood
Of life pulses hot and stark,
Where a wing'd death breeds in mud
And tumult of tree-shadowed streams--
Black waters, desolately hurled
Through the uttermost, lost, dark,
Secret places of the world.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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This peace, then, and
happiness
thronged me around.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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--I have
considered
our whole life is like a play:
wherein every man forgetful of himself, is in travail with expression of
another.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Sweeney
addressed
full length to shave
Broadbottomed, pink from nape to base,
Knows the female temperament
And wipes the suds around his face.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Civilized
lands
Afford few types thereof;
Here is a man who takes his rest
Beside his very Love,
Beside the one who was his wife
In our sight up above!
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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The old man rais'd his hoary head and saw
The wilder'd stranger--seeming not to see, 220
His
features
were so lifeless.
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Keats |
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WELL-BRED _makes the proposed
arrangement
with_
BRIDGET.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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"What do you think
yourself?
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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The sonnets of Les Antiquites provide a fascinating comment on the
Classical
Roman world as seen from the viewpoint of the French Renaissance.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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sent a
memorandum
to the West.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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In the
southern
clime,
Where the summer's prime
Never fades away,
Lovely Lyca lay.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Copyright laws in most
countries
are in
a constant state of change.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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But as this angelic creature is, I am afraid, extremely rare in any
station and rank of life, and totally denied to such a humble one as
mine, we meaner mortals must put up with the next rank of female
excellence--as fine a figure and face we can produce as any rank of
life whatever; rustic, native grace; unaffected modesty, and unsullied
purity; nature's mother-wit, and the
rudiments
of taste; a simplicity
of soul, unsuspicious of, because unacquainted with, the crooked ways
of a selfish, interested, disingenuous world; and the dearest charm of
all the rest, a yielding sweetness of disposition, and a generous
warmth of heart, grateful for love on our part, and ardently glowing
with a more than equal return; these, with a healthy frame, a sound,
vigorous constitution, which your higher ranks can scarcely ever hope
to enjoy, are the charms of lovely woman in my humble walk of life.
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Robert Burns |
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She was dressed always in
clinging
dresses of Eastern silk, and
as she was so small, and her long black hair hung straight down
her back, you might have taken her for a child.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Subordinate to Urizen
And to his sons in their degrees & to his beauteous
daughters
{'In sevens & tens.
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Blake - Zoas |
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