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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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And the King bids me say, Rise from thy feast;
For thou must be to-night thyself a feast:
The vision of thy loveliness must now
Feed with
astonishment
my vassals' hearts.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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In 1080 Sung Min-ch'iu
published
the works in thirty _chuan_, the form
in which they still exist.
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Li Po |
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He denied the whole thing, and
vowed that he would thrash
Bronckhorst
within an inch of his life.
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But thou, who, in my voice's sink and fall
When the sob took it, thy divinest Art's
Own
instrument
didst drop down at thy foot
To harken what I said between my tears, .
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Sleep is
supposed
to be,
By souls of sanity,
The shutting of the eye.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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"Before I sawe the lyghtsome sunne, 125
Thys was
appointed
mee;
Shall mortal manne repyne or grudge
Whatt Godde ordeynes to bee?
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Jonson not
infrequently
refers to contemporary actors.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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In the 'Gardener's Daughter' we have the first of that delightful series
of poems dealing with scenes and characters from ordinary English life,
and named
appropriately
'English Idylls'.
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Tennyson |
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I am resigned to the worst; but in me still
Have
something
of the blood of brighter days,
And am not over-patient.
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Byron |
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To fancy with a motive, to
contemplate
with consideration, to be
happy sweetly, to suffer nobly--and then to empty the cup so that
tomorrow may fill it again.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Copyright laws in most
countries
are in
a constant state of change.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Such a requirement scares me not;
Such
treasures
have I in my keeping.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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She was busy winding thread,
which a little, old, one-eyed man in an officer's uniform was holding on
his
outstretched
hands.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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on
previendra
les reflux d'incendie,
Voila les quais!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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The time of
appointment
was already long past,
But of wings and coach-bells--still no sound.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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--Me voila libre et
solitaire!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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COUNTING SHEEP
Half-awake I walked
A dimly-seen sweet
hawthorn
lane
Until sleep came;
I lingered at a gate and talked
A little with a lonely lamb.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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" men shall ask,
When the world is old, and time
Has
accomplished
without haste
The strange destiny of men.
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Sappho |
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I bring an
unaccustomed
wine
To lips long parching, next to mine,
And summon them to drink.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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"
And I
believed
the second traveller;
For truth was to me
A breath, a wind,
A shadow, a phantom,
And never had I touched
The hem of its garment.
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Stephen Crane |
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Whether there was perfect consistency between this hatred to
the Pope and his thinking, as he
certainly
did for a time, of becoming
his secretary, may admit of a doubt.
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Petrarch |
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The
art of war was too laborious for their delicacy, and the generous warmth
of heroism and
patriotism
was incompatible with their effeminacy.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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How few of the others,
Are men
equipped
with common sense.
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Villon |
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If I were young as thou, if these grey hairs
Had not already
streaked
my beard--Dost take me?
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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aquae
strepentis
uitreus lambit liquor
sulcoque ductus irrigat riuus sata.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Thus the
relation between lender and
borrower
was mixed up with the
relation between sovereign and subject.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Wise is the ancient sacrament that blends
This weakling cry of children in our churches
With strength of prayer or anthem that ascends
To Him who hearts of men and children searches;
Since we are like the babe, who, soothed again,
Within her mother's cradling arm lay nested,
Bright as a new bud, now, refreshed by rain:
And on her hair, it seemed, heaven's
radiance
rested.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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A haunting music, sole perhaps and lone
Supportress
of the faery-roof, made moan
Throughout, as fearful the whole charm might fade.
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Keats - Lamia |
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What weight, and what
authority
in thy speech!
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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nū ic eom sīðes fūs,
1476; lēofra manna fūs,
_prepared
for the dear men_, i.
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Beowulf |
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Equitone,
Tell her I bring the
horoscope
myself:
One must be so careful these days.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Turn to my arms, to my
embraces
turn!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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]
245 (return)
[ The Romans, who had but an imperfect knowledge of this part of the world, imagined here those "vast insular tracts"
mentioned
in the beginning of this treatise.
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Tacitus |
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But if
Thou now beguile me, then by my son's head
I swear--an evil fate shall
overtake
thee,
Requital such that Tsar Ivan Vasilievich
Shall shudder in his grave with horror of it.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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We consider Bibles and
religions
divine--I do not say they are not divine;
I say they have all grown out of you, and may grow out of you still;
It is not they who give the life--it is you who give the life;
Leaves are not more shed from the trees, or trees from the earth, than they
are shed out of you.
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Whitman |
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Hear then, ye
warriors!
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Iliad - Pope |
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All Voices
Lord of the Universe, Lord of our being,
Father eternal,
ineffable
Om!
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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at,
And
hardiliche
held hir gate
Al ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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O Memory cast down thy
wreathed
shell!
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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they love thee least who owe thee most--
Their birth, their blood, and that sublime record
Of hero sires, who shame thy now
degenerate
horde!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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The silver lamp burns dead and dim;
But
Christabel
the lamp will trim.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Hast thou not the proud report
Heard, how Orestes hath renown acquired
With all mankind, his father's murtherer
AEgisthus slaying, the deceiver base
Who slaughter'd
Agamemnon?
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Nature's bequest gives nothing, but doth lend,
And being frank she lends to those are free:
Then, beauteous niggard, why dost thou abuse
The
bounteous
largess given thee to give?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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[4] A white robin and a white quail have
occasionally
been seen.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Has the cock's-feather, too, escaped
attention?
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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the burial of Haki on a funeral-pyre ship,
_Inglinga
Saga;_
the burial of Balder, Sinfiötli, Arthur, etc.
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Beowulf |
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they fleet away,
Our years, nor piety one hour
Can win from wrinkles and decay,
And Death's indomitable power;
Not though three hundred bullocks flame
Each year, to soothe the tearless king
Who holds huge Geryon's triple frame
And Tityos in his watery ring,
That
circling
flood, which all must stem,
Who eat the fruits that Nature yields,
Wearers of haughtiest diadem,
Or humblest tillers of the fields.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Gleams like a pool the ballroom floor--
A
burnished
solitude.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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ex illo quantos iuuenis premat anxius ignis
testis ego attonitus, quantum me nocte dieque
urgentem
ferat.
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Tu te
rappelleras
la beaute des caresses,
La douceur du foyer et le charme des soirs,
Mere des souvenirs, maitresse des maitresses!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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CCXXXI
"Fair son Malprimes," says
Baligant
to him,
"I grant it you, as you have asked me this;
Against the Franks go now, and smite them quick.
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Chanson de Roland |
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In 1553 he went to Rome as one of the secretaries of
Cardinal
Jean du Bellay, his first cousin.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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And, as the year
Grows lush in juicy stalks, I'll
smoothly
steer
My little boat, for many quiet hours,
With streams that deepen freshly into bowers.
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Keats |
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Thy
daughters
bright thy walks adorn,
Gay as the gilded summer sky,
Sweet as the dewy, milk-white thorn,
Dear as the raptur'd thrill of joy!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Ballantyne
does not choose to
interfere more in the business.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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She told her
husband of the debt, but he refused
outright
to pay it.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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at a selly in si3t summe men hit holden,
& an
outtrage
awenture of Arthure3 wondere3;
[D] If 3e wyl lysten ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Our
household
is but small, I own,
And yet needs care, if truth were known.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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the raskall routes appall,
Men into stones
therewith
he could transmew,
And stones to dust, and dust to nought at all;
And when him list the prouder lookes subdew,
He would them gazing blind, or turne to other hew.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Copyright laws in most
countries
are in
a constant state of change.
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make
any statements concerning tax treatment of donations
received
from
outside the United States.
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Rilke - Poems |
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I am to wait, though waiting so be hell,
Not blame your
pleasure
be it ill or well.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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{110a} The
interpreter
of gods and men.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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He has demonstrated that no man could have lived so
long--De Quincey was nearly seventy-five at his death--and worked so
hard, if he had consumed twelve
thousand
drops of laudanum as often as
he said he did.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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This rendered him dearer to woman's
heart than all the lyric effusions of his fancy; and when we add to
such allurements, a warm, flowing, and persuasive eloquence, we need
not wonder that woman
listened
and was won; that one of the most
charming damsels of the West said, an hour with him in the dark was
worth a lifetime of light with any other body; or that the
accomplished and beautiful Duchess of Gordon declared, in a latter
day, that no man ever carried her so completely off her feet as Robert
Burns.
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Robert Forst |
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Memory, though slow,
returned
with strength; and thence
Dismissed, again on open day I gazed,
At houses, men, and common light, amazed.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Down rushed the night: east, west, together roar;
And south and north roll
mountains
to the shore.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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VII Spatium unius uersus in O titulo carens: _AD
LESBIAM_
cett.
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Latin - Catullus |
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1 This refers either to the recall of the
northwestern
armies or to Suzong?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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>>
Une nuit que j'etais pres d'une
affreuse
Juive,
Comme au long d'un cadavre un cadavre etendu,
Je me pris a songer pres de ce corps vendu
A la triste beaute dont mon desir se prive.
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Quand, lave des odeurs du jour, le jardinet
Derriere
la maison, en hiver s'illunait,
Gisant au pied d'un mur, enterre dans la marne
Et pour des visions ecrasant son oeil darne,
Il ecoutait grouiller les galeux espaliers.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Quivi venimmo; e quindi giu nel fosso
vidi gente
attuffata
in uno sterco
che da li uman privadi parea mosso.
| Guess: |
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Perchance
she cannot meet him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
Macte toris, Latios inter
placidissime
uates,
quod durum permensus iter coeptique laboris
prendisti portus.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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"Why do you sigh, fair
creature?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
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And here his malt he pil'd,
Cautious
in vain!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
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It is a land of
poverty!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
I do not sing here to the common tune,
Claiming that
everything
beneath the moon
Is corruptible and subject to decay:
But rather I say (not wishing to displease
Those who would argue by contraries)
That this great All must perish some fine day.
| Guess: |
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Well may'st thou pause, and gloom, and stare,
A visible conscience: I arraign
Thee, criminal Cloud, of rare
Contempts on Mercy, Right, and Prayer, --
Of murders, arsons, thefts, -- of
nameless
stain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
440
His Offring soon propitious Fire from Heav'n
Consum'd with nimble glance, and
grateful
steame;
The others not, for his was not sincere;
Whereat hee inlie rag'd, and as they talk'd,
Smote him into the Midriff with a stone
That beat out life; he fell, and deadly pale
Groand out his Soul with gushing bloud effus'd.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
|
The breeze, that visits me,
Was never Love's accomplice, never raised
The tendril ringlets from the maiden's brow,
And the blue,
delicate
veins above her cheek;
Ne'er played the wanton--never half disclosed
The maiden's snowy bosom, scattering thence
Eye-poisons for some love-distempered youth,
Who ne'er henceforth may see an aspen-grove
Shiver in sunshine, but his feeble heart
Shall flow away like a dissolving thing.
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
|
Hart was the
originator
of the Project
Gutenberg-tm concept of a library of electronic works that could be
freely shared with anyone.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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But, my dear Sir, little ones that look up to you for paternal
protection are an
important
charge.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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Sick is the land to th' heart; and doth endure
More
dangerous
faintings by her desperate cure.
| Guess: |
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Robert Herrick |
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er, myn
honoured
ladye3.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Walpurgis
is the female saint
who converted the Saxons to Christianity.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Thou art a trouble here;
Seest thou not how all these feasting women
Pause, and the
pleasure
is distrest in them?
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Falls a small cry in the dark and calls--
'I see you
standing
there!
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Themistocles
used to say that he liked a man without letters
better than letters without a man.
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Petrarch |
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II
I've seen people put
A
chrysalis
in a match-box,
"To see," they told me, "what sort of moth would come.
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Imagists |
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Nun
uberlass
es meinem Witze!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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IV
Thou hast thy calling to some palace-floor,
Most
gracious
singer of high poems!
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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The
brackish
water that we drink
Creeps with a loathsome slime,
And the bitter bread they weigh in scales
Is full of chalk and lime,
And Sleep will not lie down, but walks
Wild-eyed, and cries to Time.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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And gleams, through the pallor,
A mouth with a
conquering
smile;
Red chilli, a scarlet flower,
Hearts'-blood gives it fire.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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But now in the dusk the tide is turning,
Lower the sea gulls soar,
And the waves that rose in
resistless
yearning
Are broken forevermore.
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Sara Teasdale |
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