Thou snatchedst me from the
despairing
state
In which my senses, well nigh crazed, were sunken.
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Are you
persecuting
her, my lord, indeed?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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"
"Fill thy hand with sands, ray
blossom!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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With not even one blow
landing?
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Villon |
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ou doest vs stronge
tourment!
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I know her worth so certainly
That I can no way turn elsewhere;
Which simply makes my poor heart brood,
When sun sets or rises swiftly:
I dare not say who inflames me;
My heart burns me
But my eyes are fed surely,
To
contemplate
| will sate,
That alone can ease me:
What keeps me alive, now see!
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Troubador Verse |
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Note: Dante Gabriel Rossetti took
Archipiades
to be Hipparchia (see Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Philosophers, Book VI 96-98) who loved Crates the Theban Cynic philosopher (368/5-288/5BC) and of whom various tales are told suggesting her beauty, and independence of mind.
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Villon |
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The sea, all water, yet receives rain still,
And in
abundance
addeth to his store;
So thou, being rich in 'Will,' add to thy 'Will'
One will of mine, to make thy large will more.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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And much as Wine has play'd the Infidel,
And robb'd me of my Robe of Honour--well,
I often wonder what the Vintners buy
One half so
precious
as the Goods they sell.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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I never cared to play
With the village boys and girls;
And I think they thought me proud,
I found so little to say
And kept so from the crowd:
But I had the longest curls,
And I had the largest eyes,
And my teeth were small like pearls;
The girls might flout and scout me,
But the boys would hang about me
In
sheepish
mooning wise.
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Christina Rossetti |
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The
Miscellany
is intended to be an American
companion to that publication.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Profecto
in aedis meas me absente neminem
Volo intromitti, atque etiam hoc praedico tibi,
Si Bona Fortuna ueniat, ne intromiseris.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Do not all charms fly
At the mere touch of cold
philosophy?
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Keats - Lamia |
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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He
answered
her he knew not what:
Like shaft from bow at random shot,
He spoke, but she regarded not.
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Lewis Carroll |
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" Lord Bathurst, who knew both
Pope and Bolingbroke, went so far as to say in later years that the
'Essay' was
originally
composed by Bolingbroke in prose and that Pope
only put it into verse.
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Alexander Pope |
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This was a hall (and gate) in the Han palace; Han palace names were
liberally
transferred to places in the Tang palace.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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From thieving light of eyes impure,
From coveting sun or wind's caress,
Her days are guarded and secure
Behind her carven lattices,
Like jewels in a
turbaned
crest,
Like secrets in a lover's breast.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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And we shall play a game of chess,
Pressing
lidless eyes and waiting for a knock upon the door.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Peaks and ridges
tottered
and broke.
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Li Po |
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Je pense aux
matelots
oublies dans une ile,
Aux captifs, aux vaincus!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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O happy port that spied the sail
Which wafted
Lafayette!
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Emerson - Poems |
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Yet, though with mis'ry worn, I will essay
My
strength
among you; for thy words had teeth
Whose bite hath pinch'd and pain'd me to the proof.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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The standard
Assyrian
texts regard Enkidu as the subject.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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I labour to lose him, lose him with regret,
From that flows all my
sorrowful
secret.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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XLVII
"But ill they suited me--those journeys dark [60] 415
O'er moor and mountain,
midnight
theft to hatch!
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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460
So manie, with such force, and with such ease,
Did Adhelm
slaughtre
on the bloudie playne;
Before hym manie dyd theyr hearts bloude lease,
Ofttymes he foughte on towres of smokynge slayne.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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the
defective
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refund.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Queen of the vales the Lily answered, ask the tender cloud,
And it shall tell thee why it
glitters
in the morning sky.
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blake-poems |
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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"
In silence Matthew lay, and eyed
The spring beneath the tree;
And thus the dear old man replied,
The gray-hair'd man of glee:
"No check, no stay, this
Streamlet
fears,
How merrily it goes!
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Golden Treasury |
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Greyhounds
on leash and bears and lions also,
Thousand mewed hawks and seven hundred camels,
Four hundred mules with gold Arabian charged,
Fifty wagons, yea more than fifty drawing.
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Chanson de Roland |
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A Cooking Egg
En l'an
trentiesme
de mon aage
Que toutes mes hontes j'ay beues.
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T.S. Eliot |
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" And thereupon he
carries Him to a mountain whence He can see "Assyria and her empire's
ancient bounds," and there suggests the
deliverance
of the Ten Tribes.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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"
{6d}
Personification
of Battle.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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In sleep I heard the
northern
gleams;
The stars they were among my dreams;
In sleep did I behold the skies,
I saw the crackling flashes drive;
And yet they are upon my eyes,
And yet I am alive.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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How if he should
counterfeit
too, and rise?
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Shakespeare |
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Users are free to copy, use, and
redistribute
the work in part or in whole.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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in my head
Many
thoughts
of trouble come,
Like to flies upon a plum.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Fourth Self: I, amongst you all, am the most miserable, for naught
was given me but odious hatred and
destructive
loathing.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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is
compayny
of court com ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Go, so all is
prepared
now for us to leave.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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I've seen a hundred fine
squadrons
shattered
By his valour, to the four winds scattered;
More than a brave soldier, a great captain,
He is.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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[Footnote V: This wind, which
announces
the spring to the Swiss, is
called in their language Foen; and is according to M.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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THE LAMB
Little Lamb, who make thee
Dost thou know who made thee,
Gave thee life, and bid thee feed
By the stream and o'er the mead;
Gave thee
clothing
of delight,
Softest clothing, wolly, bright;
Gave thee such a tender voice,
Making all the vales rejoice?
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blake-poems |
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if I may surely trust mine eye,--
It is the bark of Hermes, or the shell
Of Iris, wafted gently to the sighs
Of the light breeze along the rippling swell;
But no: it is a skiff where sweetly lies
An infant slumbering, and his
peaceful
rest
Looks as if pillowed on his mother's breast.
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Hugo - Poems |
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"
The Commandant, Iwan Ignatiitch, and I found
ourselves
in a moment
beyond the parapet.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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And after a
thousand
years I ascended the holy mountain and again
spoke unto God, saying, "Creator, I am thy creation.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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And, in the summer's heat,
Lay not your hand on it, for while the iron hours beat
Gray anvils in the sky, it glows again
With
unfulfilled
desire.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Far safer, of a
midnight
meeting
External ghost,
Than an interior confronting
That whiter host.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Loving
offenders
thus I will excuse ye,
Thou dost love her, because thou know'st I love her,
And for my sake even so doth she abuse me,
Suff'ring my friend for my sake to approve her.
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Shakespeare |
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And I would turn and answer
Among the
springing
thyme,
"Oh, peal upon our wedding,
And we will hear the chime,
And come to church in time.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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"'At the Palace Gate, the smell of wine and meat;
Out in the road, one who has frozen to death'
form only a small
proportion
of his whole work.
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Li Po |
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Now pay ye the heed that is fitting,
Whilst I sing ye the Iran adventure;
The Pasha on sofa was sitting
In his harem's
glorious
centre.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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(editorial,
November
10, 1832),
pp.
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Byron |
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What rumour without is there
breeding?
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Having thanked his host and all the
renowned
assembly for the great
kindness he had experienced at their hands, "he steps into stirrups and
strides aloft" (ll.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Yea, this:
I gently swing the door
Here, of my fane--no soul to wis--
And cross the
patterned
floor
To the rood-screen
That stands between
The nave and inner chore.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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The _Spectator_ in
speaking
of the German and French translations
says: "On the whole, the turn of the original has been followed
with surprising fidelity, and it is curious to see what slight
verbal alterations have often sufficed to preserve the humour of
the English.
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Lewis Carroll |
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A most poor
credulous
monster!
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Shakespeare |
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[698] It was the custom at Athens to draw lots to decide in which Court
each dicast should serve; Praxagora
proposes
to apply the same system to
decide the dining station for each citizen.
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Aristophanes |
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Not long will they from battle stand aloof,
When once, within my palace, in the strength
Of Mars, to sharp
decision
we shall urge
The suitors.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Ah, can I ne'er recline
One little hour upon thy bosom, pressing
My heart to thine and all my soul
confessing?
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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HE
INVEIGHS
AGAINST THE COURT OF ROME.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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--his friends came round
Supported
him--no pulse, or breath they found,
And, in its marriage robe, the heavy body wound.
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Keats - Lamia |
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Sell no honours, nor give them hastily, but bestow them with
counsel and for reward; if he do,
acknowledge
it (though late), and mend
it.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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And we on feast and working-tide,
While Bacchus' bounties freely flow,
Our wives and
children
at our side,
First paying Heaven the prayers we owe,
Shall sing of chiefs whose deeds are done,
As wont our sires, to flute or shell,
And Troy, Anchises, and the son
Of Venus on our tongues shall dwell.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Winding its dark-green wood and emerald glade,
The still vale lengthens underneath the shade;
While in soft gloom the
scattering
bowers recede,
Green dewy lights adorn the freshened mead, 1815.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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XLIV
'I sit and weep while blessed spirits sing;
I can but long and pine the while they praise,
And, leaning o'er the wall of heaven, I fling
My voice to where I deem my infant strays,
Like a robbed bird that cries in vain to bring
Her
nestlings
back beneath her wings' embrace; 630
But still he answers not, and I but know
That heaven and earth are both alike in woe.
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James Russell Lowell |
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I swear to you the
architects
shall appear without fail!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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Innocent, the succeeding
Pope, thought differently of him from his predecessor, and sent the
Cardinal
Albornoz
into Italy, with an order to establish him at Rome,
and to confide the government of the city to him under the title of
senator.
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Petrarch |
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se tu non vieni a crescer la vendetta
di Montaperti, perche mi
moleste?
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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e
euesterre
esperus whiche ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Now god and goddess give you grame
Disgrace of
Romulus!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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Here at home,
Just as in Lithuania, we're beset
By
treacherous
slaves--and tongues are ever ready
For base betrayal, thieves bribed by the State.
| Guess: |
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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We have no friends spiked on the
Scottish
Gate.
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Not only is the nunnery
Crowded; the
precincts
too are crammed with people.
| Guess: |
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Weard ǣr ofslōh
fēara sumne; þā sīo fǣhð gewearð
gewrecen
wrāðlīce.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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Surely there is
something
more in each of the trees--some living soul.
| Guess: |
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Whitman |
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When that my care could not
withhold
thy riots,
What wilt thou do when riot is thy care?
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Shakespeare |
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HIGGINSON
PREFACE
The eagerness with which the first volume of Emily Dickinson's
poems has been read shows very clearly that all our alleged modern
artificiality does not prevent a prompt
appreciation
of the
qualities of directness and simplicity in approaching the greatest
themes,--life and love and death.
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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3, a full refund of any
money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the
electronic work is
discovered
and reported to you within 90 days
of receipt of the work.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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--
But, it strikes me, 'tain't jest the time
Fer stringin' words with settisfaction:
Wut's wanted now's the silent rhyme
'Twixt upright Will an'
downright
Action.
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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Yet some, more active, for a fix^ntier town
Took in by proxy, begs a false renown ;
Another
triuraplis
at the public cost,
And will have won, if he no more have lost ;
They fight by others, but in person wrong,
And only are against their subjects strong ;
Their other wars are but a feigned contest.
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Marvell - Poems |
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145
For trewely, ther can no wight yow serve,
That half so looth your
wraththe
wolde deserve.
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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This, with his having
been put in the Commission of the Peace by our
excellent
Governor (_O,
si sic omnes!
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James Russell Lowell |
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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- You comply with all other terms of this
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distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm works.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Urizen/ Cxxxg /
xxdxding
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Blake - Zoas |
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And
fiercely
by the arm he took her,
And by the arm he held her fast, 90
And fiercely by the arm he shook her,
And cried, "I've caught you then at last!
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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[21]
Charioteer
of the Sun.
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Li Po |
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Dante had
certainly
set him the example.
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Petrarch |
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Herman
received
it and at once left
the table.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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The dogs were handsomely provided for,
But shortly
afterwards
the parrot died too.
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T.S. Eliot |
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why, that's too much;
Some things I would except, their pow'r is such;
And proper 'tis, my friend, that I should hint,
Attentions you at Rome should well imprint,
And be discrete; in France you favours boast:
Of ev'ry moment here you make the most;
The Romans to the
greatest
lengths proceed.
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La Fontaine |
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The hilt of silver, and the
unsullied
sheath
Of iv'ry recent from the carver's hand,
A gift like this he shall not need despise.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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