So Rhoecus made no doubt that he was blest,
And all along unto the city's gate
Earth seemed to spring beneath him as he walked,
The clear, broad sky looked bluer than its wont,
And he could scarce believe he had not wings, 90
Such
sunshine
seemed to glitter through his veins
Instead of blood, so light he felt and strange.
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James Russell Lowell |
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" whispered a voice which
thrilled
through
me.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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It is in this wise that God
speaketh
unto me.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Note: This poem is a
consequence
of the two previous poems.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Primos passa toros et adhuc placanda marito
Merserat in nitidos se
Cleopatra
lacus,
Dum fugit amplexus: sed prodidit unda latentem,
Lucebat, totis cum tegeretur aquis.
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Robert Herrick |
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Mesmer- ism
FAMAM
LIBROSQUE
CANO songs?
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Easy
Easy and beautiful under
your eyelids
As the meeting of pleasure
Dance and the rest
I spoke the fever
The best reason for fire
That you might be pale and luminous
A thousand fruitful poses
A thousand ravaged embraces
Repeated move to erase themselves
You grow dark you unveil yourself
A mask you
control it
It deeply resembles you
And you seem nothing but lovelier naked
Naked in shadow and dazzlingly naked
Like a sky shivering with flashes of lightning
You reveal yourself to you
To reveal yourself to others
Talking of Power and Love
Between all my torments between death and self
Between my despair and the reason for living
There is injustice and this evil of men
That I cannot accept there is my anger
There are the blood-coloured fighters of Spain
There are the sky-coloured fighters of Greece
The bread the blood the sky and the right to hope
For all the innocents who hate evil
The light is always close to dying
Life always ready to become earth
But spring is reborn that is never done with
A bud lifts from dark and the warmth settles
And the warmth will have the right of the selfish
Their atrophied senses will not resist
I hear the fire talk lightly of coolness
I hear a man speak what he has not known
You who were my flesh's sensitive conscience
You I love forever you who made me
You will not
tolerate
oppression or injury
You'll sing in dream of earthly happiness
You'll dream of freedom and I'll continue you
The Beloved
She is standing on my eyelids
And her hair is wound in mine,
She has the form of my hands,
She has the colour of my eyes,
She is swallowed by my shadow
Like a stone against the sky.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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'
"'That chief (rejoin'd the god) his race derives
From Ithaca, and wondrous woes survives;
Laertes' son: girt with circumfluous tides,
He still
calamitous
constraint abides.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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'
The goddess fled away on her golden shell,
Her adored image
returning
to us on the swell,
And the sky shone beneath the scarf of Iris.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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ey wollde for no need
Com to gedur in
Flesschely
ded.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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My lord, I know your noble ear
Woe ne'er assails in vain;
Embolden'd thus, I beg you'll hear
Your humble slave complain,
How saucy Phoebus'
scorching
beams,
In flaming summer-pride,
Dry-withering, waste my foamy streams,
And drink my crystal tide.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Oh, what has
happened?
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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--Is it not a fact that this report
Is
artfully
concocted?
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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In vain bad rhymers all mankind reject,
They treat themselves with most profound respect;
'Tis to small purpose that you hold your tongue:
Each praised within, is happy all day long;
But how
severely
with themselves proceed
The men, who write such verse as we can read?
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Thou lay'st unspotted souls to rest;
Thy golden rod pale
spectres
know;
Blest power!
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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VII
The stones of that fair hall lie far and wide,
And but a few recall its ancient mould;
Yet when I pass the spot I long to hold
As truth what fancy saith:
"His protest lives where
deathless
things abide!
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Though its walls stand, shall bring the city lower :
When legislators shall their trust betray,
Saving their own, shall give the rest away ;
And those false men, by the easy people sent^
Give taxes to the king by
parliament
;
When barefaced villains shall not blush to cheat.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Hence moans are heard and fierce lashes resound, with the clank of iron
and
dragging
chains.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Is the
description
of the wood in vii
true to nature?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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l paubres quan jai el ric ostal
No more than a beggar dare complain,
Estat ai gran sazo
I've felt, for so long, so
Raimbaut de
Vaqueiras
(c1155- fl.
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Troubador Verse |
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Is
execution
done on Cawdor?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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if I
For once could have thee close to me,
With happy heart I then would die,
And my last
thoughts
would happy be,
I feel my body die away,
I shall not see another day.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a
defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can
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explanation
to the person you received the work from.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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The poor man weeps--here Gavin sleeps,
Whom canting
wretches
blam'd:
But with such as he, where'er he be,
May I be sav'd or damn'd!
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Robert Burns |
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Yet when a child, and barefoot,
I more than once, at morn,
Have passed, I thought, a whip-lash
Unbraiding in the sun, --
When,
stooping
to secure it,
It wrinkled, and was gone.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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in medio mihi Caesar erit templumque tenebit:
illi uictor ego et Tyrio conspectus in ostro
centum
quadriiugos
agitabo ad flumina currus.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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A washed-out
smallpox
cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone With all the old nocturnal smells
That cross and cross across her brain.
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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The mother said
gently, "Is that you,
darling?
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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And, anyway, its standing in the yard
Under a ruinous live apple tree
Has nothing any more to do with me,
Except that I
remember
how of old,
One summer day, all day I drove it hard,
And some one mounted on it rode it hard,
And he and I between us ground a blade.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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_"
I am a son of Mars,
Who have been in many wars,
And show my cuts and scars
Wherever
I come;
This here was for a wench,
And that other in a trench,
When welcoming the French
At the sound of the drum.
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Robert Forst |
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' Such words he uttered, and, clinging fast to the
tiller,
slackened
hold no whit, and looked up steadily on the stars.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Here, regarding the palace, and a testimony of the love that the King of England possessed for his mistress, is this
quatrain
from a poem whose Author I do not know.
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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Now there's nothing at all
So rare, such a wild adventure of glee,
As watching love for you in a man beginning;--
To see the sight of you pour into his senses
Like brandy gulpt down by a frozen man,
A thing that runs
scalding
about his blood;
To see him holding himself firm against
The sudden strength of wildness beating in him!
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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The text and
arrangement
of the poems show that this
is a reprint of Bell's edition.
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John Donne |
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The sailors, hearing the female Halycon sing,
prepared
to die, safe however around mid-December, when these birds make their nests, and one knows that then the sea will be calm.
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Appoloinaire |
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I
verified
the name next morning: Toffile;
The rural letter-box said Toffile Lajway.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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LVI
And, like a horse unbroken
When first he feels the rein,
The furious river struggled hard,
And tossed his tawny mane,
And burst the curb and bounded,
Rejoicing to be free,
And whirling down, in fierce career,
Battlement, and plank, and pier,
Rushed
headlong
to the sea.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Really any one would take us
(Any one that did not know us)
For the most
unpleasant
people!
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Lewis Carroll |
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The reason of the variety of
arrangement
is, I suppose, this: The
_Funerall Elegie_ was probably, as Chambers suggests, the first part
of the poem, composed probably in 1610.
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John Donne |
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LX
Now hollow fires burn out to black,
And lights are
guttering
low:
Square your shoulders, lift your pack,
And leave your friends and go.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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And all men kill the thing they love,
By all let this be heard,
Some do it with a bitter look,
Some with a
flattering
word,
The coward does it with a kiss,
The brave man with a sword!
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Wilde - Poems |
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28
Doth still before thee rise the
beauteous
image 29
There laughs in the heightening year, soft 30
The blissful meadows beckoned.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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It exists
because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and
donations
from
people in all walks of life.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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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 - One - Complete |
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"
And when
yourself
you come my way
My vision does not cleave, but turns
Without a shiver or salute.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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WHAT THE THUNDER SAID
After the
torchlight
red on sweaty faces
After the frosty silence in the gardens
After the agony in stony places
The shouting and the crying
Prison and palace and reverberation
Of thunder of spring over distant mountains
He who was living is now dead
We who were living are now dying
With a little patience 330
Here is no water but only rock
Rock and no water and the sandy road
The road winding above among the mountains
Which are mountains of rock without water
If there were water we should stop and drink
Amongst the rock one cannot stop or think
Sweat is dry and feet are in the sand
If there were only water amongst the rock
Dead mountain mouth of carious teeth that cannot spit
Here one can neither stand nor lie nor sit 340
There is not even silence in the mountains
But dry sterile thunder without rain
There is not even solitude in the mountains
But red sullen faces sneer and snarl
From doors of mudcracked houses
If there were water
And no rock
If there were rock
And also water
And water 350
A spring
A pool among the rock
If there were the sound of water only
Not the cicada
And dry grass singing
But sound of water over a rock
Where the hermit-thrush sings in the pine trees
Drip drop drip drop drop drop drop
But there is no water
Who is the third who walks always beside you?
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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'"
If he
astounded
them at first, much more so did he after this speech,
and fear held them all silent.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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The bloody limbs thrash through a ruddy dusk,
Till one great tusk of Behemot has gored
Leviathan, restored to his full strength,
Who, dealing fiercer blows in those last throes,
Closes on reeling Behemot at length--
Piercing
him with steel-pointed claws,
Straight through the jaws to his disjointed head.
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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The night was wide, and
furnished
scant
With but a single star,
That often as a cloud it met
Blew out itself for fear.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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In England, for example, no mere parade
of costly appurtenances would be so likely as with us, to create
an
impression
of the beautiful in respect to the appurtenances
themselves--or of taste as regards the proprietor:--this for the reason,
first, that wealth is not, in England, the loftiest object of ambition
as constituting a nobility; and secondly, that there, the true nobility
of blood, confining itself within the strict limits of legitimate taste,
rather avoids than affects that mere costliness in which a _parvenu
_rivalry may at any time be successfully attempted.
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Poe - 5 |
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þē dēað
for-nam (_I had the less friends whom death
snatched
away_), 488; so, 1437.
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Beowulf |
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Oui, meme apres la mort, dans les squelettes pales
Il veut vivre, insultant la
premiere
beaute!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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But sothely, what so men him calle,
Freres
Prechours
been good men alle;
Hir order wickedly they beren,
Suche minstrelles if [that] they weren.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Some holy Angell
Flye to the Court of England, and vnfold
His Message ere he come, that a swift blessing
May soone returne to this our
suffering
Country,
Vnder a hand accurs'd
Lord.
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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Yes, I know that Earth in the depths of this night,
Casts a strange mystery with vast
brilliant
light
Beneath hideous centuries that darken it the less.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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PERHAPS you'll tell me,
marriage
boons we shun;
'Tis true, and Heav'n be praised enough is done,
Without those duties to require our share
You know from direful sin we guard the FAIR.
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La Fontaine |
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or PGLAF), owns a
compilation
copyright in the collection of Project
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Do not dream that I speak
as one
defrauded
of delight,
sick, shaken by each heart-beat
or paralyzed, stretched at length,
who gasps:
these ripe pears
are bitter to the taste,
this spiced wine, poison, corrupt.
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Rise, Mother, rise,
regenerate
from thy gloom,
And, like a bride high-mated with the spheres,
Beget new glories from thine ageless womb!
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Now they have known her, his filled senses
Never will leave go our
wonderful
Judith.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
|
The person or entity that
provided
you
with the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in
lieu of a refund.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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ere ne were no
man{er}e
ne noon ende.
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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On her return from the drive, she
hastened
to her chamber to
read the missive, in a state of excitement mingled with fear.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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]
[Footnote 2: The Tuileries, several times stormed by mobs, was so
irreparably injured by the
Communists
that, in 1882, the Paris Town
Council decided that the ruins should be cleared away.
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Hugo - Poems |
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The night was wide, and
furnished
scant
With but a single star,
That often as a cloud it met
Blew out itself for fear.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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"
He had just
finished
a Sunday visit to Maisie,--always under the green
eyes of the red-haired impressionist girl, whom he learned to hate
at sight,--and was tingling with a keen sense of shame.
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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The rat is the
concisest
tenant.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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That all the shot of dulness now must be
From this thy blunderbuss
discharged
on me!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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My father was a good and pious man,
An honest man by honest parents bred,
And I believe that, soon as I began
To lisp, he made me kneel beside my bed,
And in his hearing there my prayers I said:
And afterwards, by my good father taught,
I read, and loved the books in which I read;
For books in every
neighbouring
house I sought,
And nothing to my mind a sweeter pleasure brought.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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To the
catalogue of lost arts I would
mournfully
add also that of listening to
two-hour sermons.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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Thou art thy mother's glass and she in thee
Calls back the lovely April of her prime;
So thou through windows of thine age shalt see,
Despite of
wrinkles
this thy golden time.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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2300
To-day he
pleyneth
for hevinesse,
To-morowe he pleyeth for Iolynesse.
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Yes, though you may think me perverse, if it were
proposed
to me to
dwell in the neighborhood of the most beautiful garden that ever human
art contrived, or else of a Dismal Swamp, I should certainly decide
for the swamp.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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S'io era corpo, e qui non si concepe
com' una
dimensione
altra patio,
ch'esser convien se corpo in corpo repe,
accender ne dovria piu il disio
di veder quella essenza in che si vede
come nostra natura e Dio s'unio.
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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To them
must also be attributed the illiberal sneers at the Greeks, the
furious party spirit, the contempt for the arts of peace, the
love of war for its own sake, the ungenerous
exultation
over the
vanquished, which the reader will sometimes observe.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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So Boyhood sets: comes Youth,
A painful night of mists and dreams;
That broods till Love's
exquisite
truth,
The star of a morn-clear manhood, beams.
| Guess: |
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AND the lord of earls, to each that came
with Beowulf over the briny ways,
an
heirloom
there at the ale-bench gave,
precious gift; and the price {16a} bade pay
in gold for him whom Grendel erst
murdered, -- and fain of them more had killed,
had not wisest God their Wyrd averted,
and the man's {16b} brave mood.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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The
variation
of readings, with the fact that she often wrote in
pencil and not always clearly, have at times thrown a good deal of
responsibility upon her Editors.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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You must require such a user to return or
destroy all copies of the works
possessed
in a physical medium
and discontinue all use of and all access to other copies of
Project Gutenberg-tm works.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Crows and hawks peck for human guts,
Carry them in their beaks and hang them on the
branches
of withered
trees.
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Li Po |
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He says
indifferently
and alike, "_How are you, friend_?
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Whitman |
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Two early night-winged butterflies together
Be-chase
themselves
from halm to halm in jest,
The balk prepares from out the shrubs and weather,
The balm of evening for the soul distressed.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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SELF-ABANDONMENT
I sat
drinking
and did not notice the dusk,
Till falling petals filled the folds of my dress.
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Li Po |
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"
Now was that people distant far in space
A
thousand
paces behind ours, as much
As at a throw the nervous arm could fling,
When all drew backward on the messy crags
Of the steep bank, and firmly stood unmov'd
As one who walks in doubt might stand to look.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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His eyes he scarcely took,
Throughout
that journey, from the vehicle
(Slow-moving ark of all his hopes!
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William Wordsworth |
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_ Gabriel, thou
Gabriel!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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MARGARETE:
Dahinaus?
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Rejoice: forever you'll be
The
Princess
of Founts to me,
Singing your issuing
From broken stone, a force,
That, as a gurgling spring,
Bring water from your source,
An endless dancing thing.
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Ronsard |
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And, to a natural sympathy resigned,
In that forsaken
building
where they sate
The Woman thus retraced her own untoward fate.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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And whether the victory crowns thee, O France the eternal,
Or whether the smoke and the dusk of a nightfall infernal
Gather about thee, and us, and the foe; and all treasures
Run with the
flooding
of war into bottomless measures--
Fall what befalls: in this hour all those who are near thee
And all who have loved thee, they rise and salute and revere thee!
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Half-past two,
The street-lamp said,
"Remark the cat which
flattens
itself in the gutter,
Slips out its tongue
And devours a morsel of rancid butter.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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What is this sudden cradle song
That
gradually
lulls my poor being?
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19th Century French Poetry |
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He is about it, the Doores are open:
And the
surfeted
Groomes doe mock their charge
With Snores.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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'
THE POOR GHOST
'Oh whence do you come, my dear friend, to me,
With your golden hair all fallen below your knee,
And your face as white as
snowdrops
on the lea,
And your voice as hollow as the hollow sea?
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Christina Rossetti |
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--Strange
gallants
should not stay
A woman's goings.
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Euripides - Electra |
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Let vs seeke out some
desolate
shade, & there
Weepe our sad bosomes empty
Macd.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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I much regret my lot was not the same,
Though
doubtless
many will my wishes blame.
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La Fontaine |
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Two years of
speechless
bliss are gone,
I thank thee, dearest, for the dream.
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Shelley |
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The
outlines
of the distant streets grow shorter,
A murmuring bids the wanderer to respite;
Is it the music of some hidden water?
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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And then her mouth, more
delicate
5
Than the frail wood-anemone,
Brushes my cheek, and deeper grow
The purple shadows.
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Sappho |
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