He
descended
into the Mall to inquire; and Mrs.
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{124a} No one can speak rightly unless he
apprehends
wisely.
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The poems of The Ruins of Rome belong to the beginning of his four and a half year
residence
in Italy.
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It remains, then, only to show how the seed is
transported
from where
it grows to where it is planted.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Protect me always from like excess,
Virgin, who bore, without a cry,
Christ whom we
celebrate
at Mass.
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Villon |
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in the air
I know not which thy chamber is, --
I 'm
knocking
everywhere.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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On Hearing It
Asserted
Falsehood
is expressed in the Rev.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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the agonies that swell
This panting breast, this
frenzied
brain, _10
Might wake my --'s slumb'ring tear.
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Shelley |
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King
No, no, he lives,
And bears you yet his
unchanging
love:
Quiet this sorrow borne of your distress.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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About three weeks more, I think, will at
farthest
be my time, beyond
which I cannot stay in this present house.
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Robert Forst |
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The changes
produced
by peace
following a long war, and a bad harvest, brought with them the most
heart-rending evils to the poor.
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Shelley |
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They both behold
pleasure
and profit as their
common object; but should abstain from all base pleasures, lest they
should err from their end, and, while they seek to better men's minds,
destroy their manners.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Hast thous not torn the Naiad from her flood,
The Elfin from the green grass, and from me
The summer dream beneath the
tamarind
tree?
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Matzner
suggests
brayn-wod.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Du gabst zu dieser Wonne,
Die mich den Gottern nah und naher bringt,
Mir den Gefahrten, den ich schon nicht mehr
Entbehren kann, wenn er gleich, kalt und frech,
Mich vor mir selbst
erniedrigt
und zu Nichts,
Mit einem Worthauch, deine Gaben wandelt.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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to him gave, 20
That greatest
Glorious
Queene of Faerie lond,
To winne him worship, and her grace to have,
Which of all earthly things he most did crave;
And ever as he rode, his hart did earne
To prove his puissance in battell brave 25
Upon his foe, and his new force to learne;
Upon his foe, a Dragon?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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That strange mood seemed to draw a cloud away,
And let her beauty pour through every vein
Sunlight
and life, part of me.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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+ Keep it legal Whatever your use, remember that you are responsible for
ensuring
that what you are doing is legal.
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Meredith - Poems |
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[Sidenote A: The knight abides on the bank,]
[Sidenote B: and observes the "huge height,"]
[Sidenote C: with its
battlements
and watch towers.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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The Caterpillar
Plants, Caterpillars and Insects
'Plants, Caterpillars and Insects'
Jacob l' Admiral (II),
Johannes
Sluyter, 1710 - 1770, The Rijksmuseun
Work leads us to riches.
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Appoloinaire |
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aut grauibus morbis et lenta corpora tabe
corripit exustis letalis flamma medullis
labentisque rapit populos, totasque per urbis
publica succensis peraguntur iusta sepulcris:
qualis Erechtheos pestis populata colonos
extulit
antiquas
per funera pacis Athenas,
alter in alterius labens cum fata ruebant.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Hauksbee
gave a sigh of relief when both the "I wills" had been
said, and went her way.
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Kipling - Poems |
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The same historical method seems to
me to solve most of the
difficulties
which have been felt about Admetus's
hospitality.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Ile Charme the Ayre to giue a sound,
While you
performe
your Antique round:
That this great King may kindly say,
Our duties, did his welcome pay.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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non si mihi lumina mille
quae uafer alterna tantum statione tenebat
Argus et haud umquam
uigilabat
corpore toto.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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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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Wilde - Poems |
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El Desdichado (The Disinherited)
I am the darkness - the widower - the un-consoled,
The prince of Aquitaine in the ruined tower;
My sole star is dead - and my
constellated
lute
Bears the black sun of Melancholy.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Tennyson |
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Man rising to the doom that shall not err,--
Which hath most dread: the arouse of all or each;
All
kindreds
of all nations of all speech,
Or one by one of _him_ and _him_ and _her_?
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Christina Rossetti |
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Nor do Teucrians alone pay forfeit
of their blood; once and again valour returns even in conquered hearts,
and the victorious
Grecians
fall.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Meredith - Poems |
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He
understands
his needs and
destiny.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Great grief it was, when that
Archbishop
fell.
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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49
Now let me call across the snow-clad meadows 50
There were no ruins, neither fragments 51
In sorrow day and night the disciple watched 52
Sunlight slantingly flows 53
The wild resplendence of the year
resolves
54
Doth live for thee again, Beloved that October?
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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'T is fit the forest fall,
The steep be graded,
The
mountain
tunnelled,
The sand shaded,
The orchard planted,
The glebe tilled,
The prairie granted,
The steamer built.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Ye who so many
thousand
kisses sung
Have read, deny male masculant I be?
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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ON A
STRUMPET
WHO STOLE HIS TABLETS.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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The Cat in a fright scrambled out of the doorway;
The Mice tumbled out of a bundle of hay;
The brown and white Rats, and the black ones from Norway,
Screamed
out, "They are taking the horses away!
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Moreover thou
disdainest
us and ours; _760
Thou art as God, whom thou contemplatest.
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Shelley |
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I said to my heart, my feeble heart;
Haven't we had enough of
sadness?
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19th Century French Poetry |
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at thy tomb, two
fledglings
of thy brood--
A man-child and a maid; hold them in ruth,
Nor wipe them out, the last of Pelops' line.
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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Undue brevity
degenerates
into mere epigrammatism.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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`Wot ye not wel that noble and heigh corage
Ne sorweth not, ne
stinteth
eek for lyte?
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
|
A public domain book is one that was never subject to
copyright
or whose legal copyright term has expired.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Email
contact links and up to date contact
information
can be found at the
Foundation's web site and official page at www.
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Li Po |
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Oh 1 why did he sing me that song,
I threw him the ring from my hand
Bitter and
treacherous
wrong
That sought me with fetters to brand.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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LYCIDAS
Your pleas but linger out my heart's desire:
Now all the deep is into silence hushed,
And all the
murmuring
breezes sunk to sleep.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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" The bard obeyed;
And turning from his own sweet maid,
The aged knight, Sir Leoline,
Led forth the lady
Geraldine!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Wilde - Poems |
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Pisistratus and he take leave of Menelaus, and arrive at
Pylos, where they part: and
Telemachus
sets sail, after having
received on board Theoclymenus the soothsayer.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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and tho' the stars be dim,
Yet let us think upon the vernal showers
That gladden the green earth, and we shall find
A
pleasure
in the dimness of the stars.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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If I were a dead leaf thou mightest bear;
If I were a swift cloud to fly with thee;
A wave to pant beneath thy power, and share
The impulse of thy strength, only less free
Than Thou, O
uncontrollable!
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Golden Treasury |
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"Does spring hide its joy,
When buds and
blossoms
grow?
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blake-poems |
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In vain Religion meets my shrinking eye,
I dare not combat, but I turn and fly:
Conscience in vain
upbraids
th' unhallow'd fire,
Love grasps her scorpions--stifled they expire!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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in truth the hair
exceeding
like--
CHORUS
Like to what locks and whose?
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Aeschylus |
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Twined with the wreaths Parnassian laurels yield,
Or reaped in iron
harvests
of the field?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
|
The Count, her lover, was
probably
Roger of Foix (1188-1223).
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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Without doubt
I saw, and yet it seems to pass before me,
A
headless
trunk, that even as the rest
Of the sad flock pac'd onward.
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
|
' 60
Then Walter took from next his heart
A packet small and thin,
'Now give you this to the
Princess
Anne,
The Singing Leaves are therein.
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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Admit no other way to save his life,
As I subscribe not that, nor any other,
But, in the loss of question, that you, his sister,
Finding yourself desir'd of such a person
Whose credit with the judge, or own great place,
Could fetch your brother from the manacles
Of the all-binding law; and that there were
No earthly mean to save him but that either
You must lay down the
treasures
of your body
To this supposed, or else to let him suffer-
What would you do?
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Shakespeare |
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All three are calls |
| from those
desperate
years for the South just after the Civil War.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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A
beardless
boy comes o'er the hills,
Wi' uncle's purse and a' that;
But we'll hae ane frae mang oursels,
A man we ken, and a' that.
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
The clouds above are floating across the sky:
Swiftly, swiftly passing: or
blending
together.
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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A trifle, a thing of mere weight, I have brought you
From the
Assyrian
camp.
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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[CASTOR _and_
POLYDEUCES
_disappear_.
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Euripides - Electra |
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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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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Could she have guessed that it would be;
Could but a crier of the glee
Have climbed the distant hill;
Had not the bliss so slow a pace, --
Who knows but this surrendered face
Were
undefeated
still?
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
|
"
XXXV
A man saw a ball of gold in the sky;
He climbed for it,
And
eventually
he achieved it--
It was clay.
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Stephen Crane |
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Count
Sir, to defend all that I hold sublime,
Such minor
disobedience
is no crime;
However great it seems, you will allow
My service is such as to efface it now.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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The
whole canto also has a hint of the violence and lawlessness
connected
with
the English conquest of Ireland.
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
|
CI
The monk, that to this talk has lent an ear,
Prompt with advice that
mournful
dame to stay,
And lest she quit her course, prepared to steer
His bark, like practised pilot, on her way,
A sumptuous table, rich in spiritual cheer,
Had speedily bestirred him to array;
But, born with evil taste, that paynim rude
No sooner tasted, than he loathed, the food.
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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"
Their columns drawing nearer,
We felt our patience tire,
When came the voice of Carroll,
Distinct
and measured, "Fire!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
|
XXIII
As an unperfect actor on the stage,
Who with his fear is put beside his part,
Or some fierce thing replete with too much rage,
Whose strength's abundance weakens his own heart;
So I, for fear of trust, forget to say
The perfect
ceremony
of love's rite,
And in mine own love's strength seem to decay,
O'ercharg'd with burthen of mine own love's might.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Noi passamm' oltre, e io e 'l duca mio,
su per lo scoglio infino in su l'altr' arco
che cuopre 'l fosso in che si paga il fio
a quei che
scommettendo
acquistan carco.
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
|
Depending
on the nature of subsequent use that is made, additional rights may need to be obtained independently of anything we can address.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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At the first blast, smiled
scornfully
the king,
And at the second sneered, half wondering:
"Hop'st thou with noise my stronghold to break down?
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Hugo - Poems |
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This morning came to visit me,
And,
thinking
he would find some fault,
He whispered: "I would know of thee
Among the many lovely things
That make the magic of her face,
Among the beauties, black and rose,
That make her body's charm and grace,
Which is most fair?
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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non tam latera
ecfututa
pandas,
Nei tu quid facias ineptiarum.
| Guess: |
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Catullus - Carmina |
|
1912
Sword Blades and Poppy Seed The
Macmillan
Company 1914
Men, Women and Ghosts The Macmillan Company 1916
Can Grande's Castle The Macmillan Company 1918
Pictures of the Floating World The Macmillan Company 1919
Legends Houghton Mifflin Co.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
|
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compressed, marked up,
nonproprietary
or proprietary form, including any
word processing or hypertext form.
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Fair
Bradamant
pursued her faithless guide,
Suspended there, and pondering on her doom:
And came upon the felon where he stood,
Fearing lest she might lose him in the wood.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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So take the fairest pitcher here,
Which we with
freshest
drink have filled,
I pledge it to you, praying aloud
That, while your thirst thereby is stilled,
So many days as the drops it contains
May fill out the life that to you remains.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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I have heard that on a day
Mine host's signboard flew away
Nobody knew whither, till
An astrologer's old quill
To a
sheepskin
gave the story--
Said he saw you in your glory
Underneath a new-old Sign
Sipping beverage divine,
And pledging with contented smack
The Mermaid in the Zodiac!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
IV
Here is a wound that never will heal, I know,
Being wrought not of a dearness and a death
But of a love turned ashes and the breath
Gone out of beauty; never again will grow
The grass on that scarred acre, though I sow
Young seed there yearly and the sky bequeath
Its friendly
weathers
down, far underneath
Shall be such bitterness of an old woe.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
|
This poor tooting, creaking cricket,
Pan, half asleep, rolling over
His great body in the grass,
Tooting, creaking,
Feigns to sleep, sleeping never;
'T is his manner,
Well he knows his own affair,
Piling
mountain
chains of phlegm
On the nervous brain of man,
As he holds down central fires
Under Alps and Andes cold;
Haply else we could not live,
Life would be too wild an ode.
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Emerson - Poems |
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But soone hys broder and hys syre dyd die,
And lefte to Willyam states and
renteynge
rolles,
And at hys wyll hys broder Johne supplie.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Do not copy, display, perform,
distribute
or redistribute this
electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without
prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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The flames of the Dog Days keep
Far from your green steep,
Because your shade around
Is always close and deep,
For the
shepherds
changing ground,
The weary oxen, the sheep,
And the cattle that wander round.
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Ronsard |
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1650-69_]
[25-36
_omitted
in A10_]
[30 brown, _Ed:_ brown _1650-69_]
[32 are _JC:_ were _1650-69_]
[39 crime!
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HE EXTOLS THE LAUREL AND ITS
FAVOURITE
STREAM.
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Petrarch |
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By Heaven, I should respect your claim and place,
Were your
condition
mine, and mine your case.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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In the first place Pushkin's man deposed
That
yestermorn
came to his house from Cracow
A courier, who within an hour was sent
Without a letter back.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Behind the throne then Granville's gone,
A secret word or twa, man;
While slee Dundas arous'd the class
Be-north the Roman wa', man:
An' Chatham's wraith, in heav'nly graith,
(Inspired bardies saw, man),
Wi'
kindling
eyes, cry'd, "Willie, rise!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Pavel Tomsky took his leave, and, left to herself,
Lisaveta
glanced
out of the window.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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It was playing in the great alley of poplars whose leaves, even in spring, seem
mournful
to me since Maria passed by them, on her last journey, lying among candles.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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XVII
So long as Jove's great eagle was in flight,
Bearing the fire of Heaven's menaces,
Heaven feared not the dire audaciousness,
That so stoked the Giants'
reckless
might.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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The sun turns north, the days grow long,
Later the evening star grows bright--
How can the
daylight
linger on
For men to fight,
Still fight?
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Sara Teasdale |
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For never, in all memory, as to thee,
To mortal man so sure and straight the way
Of
everlasting
honour open lay,
For thine the power and will, if right I see,
To lift our empire to its old proud state.
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Petrarch |
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For, right within, the sword of Sin
Pierced to its
poisoned
hilt,
And as molten lead were the tears we shed
For the blood we had not spilt.
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Wilde - Poems |
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