In vials of ivory and coloured glass
Unstoppered, lurked her strange synthetic perfumes,
Unguent, powdered, or liquid--troubled, confused
And drowned the sense in odours; stirred by the air
That freshened from the window, these
ascended
90
In fattening the prolonged candle-flames,
Flung their smoke into the laquearia,
Stirring the pattern on the coffered ceiling.
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in foribus pugnam ex auro solidoque elephanto
Gangaridum faciam uictorisque arma Quirini,
atque hic
undantem
bello magnumque fluentem
Nilum ac nauali surgentis aere columnas.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Et
cependant
voila des siecles innombrables
Que vous vous combattez sans pitie ni remord,
Tellement vous aimez le carnage et la mort,
O lutteurs eternels, o freres implacables!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Last of all, December,
The year's sands nearly run,
Speeds on the shortest day,
Curtails
the sun;
With its bleak raw wind
Lays the last leaves low,
Brings back the nightly frosts,
Brings back the snow.
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Christina Rossetti |
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my fond regard
For ane that shares my bosom,
Inspires
my Muse to gie 'm his dues
For deil a hair I roose him.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Latin mortal
dreadful
word,
Ibis, Nile's native bird.
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Appoloinaire |
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Roused by his Ilia's plaintive woes,
He vows revenge for
guiltless
blood,
And, spite of Jove, his banks o'erflows,
Uxorious flood.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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'188 Tate':
a poetaster of the
generation
before Pope.
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Alexander Pope |
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(_Deeper than
drowning!
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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With none but my Marina doth he speak,
With no one else consorteth--and that business
Looks
dreadfully
like marriage.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Sweet smiles, mother's smile,
All the
livelong
night beguile.
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blake-poems |
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When our expert gallant had with the dame,
An hour or more indulged his ardent flame,
Though forced at length to quit the loving lass,
'Twas not without the
favourite
parting glass;
He then the garden sought, where long the 'squire,
Upon the knave had wished to vent his ire.
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La Fontaine |
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140
Some
beauties
yet no Precepts can declare,
For there's a happiness as well as care.
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Alexander Pope |
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Watson comes slip-slop
To mind the
business
of the shop.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Little use, however, is made of it in the
motivation
of
action.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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His musket falls slack--his face, dark and grim,
Grows gentle with memories tender,
As he mutters a prayer for the
children
asleep--
For their mother--may Heaven defend her!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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The fact is,
In caverns by the water-side,
And other places that I've tried,
I've had a lot of practice:
"But I have never taken yet
A strict
domestic
part,
And in my flurry I forget
The Five Good Rules of Etiquette
We have to know by heart.
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Lewis Carroll |
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Lovely And Lifelike
A face at the end of the day
A cradle in day's dead leaves
A bouquet of naked rain
Every ray of sun hidden
Every fount of founts in the depths of the water
Every mirror of mirrors broken
A face in the scales of silence
A pebble among other pebbles
For the leaves last
glimmers
of day
A face like all the forgotten faces.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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The singers of successive hours of centuries may have
ostensible
names, but
the name of each of them is one of the singers;
The name of each is eye-singer, ear-singer, head-singer,
sweet-singer, echo-singer, parlour-singer, love-singer, or something else.
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Whitman |
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She won without a single woman's wile,
Illumining
the earth with peerless smile.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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--Nor was I alone,
Nor am I now, nor shall I be alone; _130
And there was hope, and there may still be hope,
For many suffrages among His vassals
Hailed me their lord and king, and many still
Are mine, and many more,
perchance
shall be.
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Shelley |
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how
purblind
you are, you old fellows of the days of
Saturn!
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Aristophanes |
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The
President
plied me like a tool.
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Sidney Lanier |
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s
earliest
poem to Yan Wu ?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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It is my selfe I meane: in whom I know
All the
particulars
of Vice so grafted,
That when they shall be open'd, blacke Macbeth
Will seeme as pure as Snow, and the poore State
Esteeme him as a Lambe, being compar'd
With my confinelesse harmes
Macd.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Here at the fountain's sliding foot
Or at some fruit-tree's mossy root,
Casting the body's vest aside
My soul into the boughs does glide;
There, like a bird, it sits and sings,
Then whets and claps its silver wings,
And, till
prepared
for longer flight,
Waves in its plumes the various light.
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Golden Treasury |
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25
And my hero, while so human,
Should be even as the gods are,
In that shrine of utter gladness,
With the
tranquil
stars above it
And the sea below.
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Sappho |
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Minister
311 The sinking sun lights up your carriage awning, a strong wind ripples the streamers and flags.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Foule whisp'rings are abroad: vnnaturall deeds
Do breed vnnaturall troubles: infected mindes
To their deafe
pillowes
will discharge their Secrets:
More needs she the Diuine, then the Physitian:
God, God forgiue vs all.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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on ocean's wave
Thy star shall glitter o'er the brave;
When Death, careering on the gale,
Sweeps darkly round the bellied sail,
And
frighted
waves rush wildly back
Before the broadside's reeling rack,
The dying wanderer of the sea
Shall look, at once, to heaven and thee,
And smile, to see thy splendors fly,
In triumph, o'er his closing eye.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Rien ne peut l'egayer, ni gibier, ni faucon,
Ni son peuple mourant en face du balcon,
Du bouffon favori la grotesque ballade
Ne distrait plus le front de ce cruel malade;
Son lit
fleurdelise
se transforme en tombeau,
Et les dames d'atour, pour qui tout prince est beau,
Ne savent plus trouver d'impudique toilette
Pour tirer un souris de ce jeune squelette.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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'Happy at conquering these treacherous fears
My crime's to have parted the dishevelled tangle
Of kisses that the gods kept so well mingled:
For I'd
scarcely
begun to hide an ardent laugh
In one girl's happy depths (holding back
With only a finger, so that her feathery candour
Might be tinted by the passion of her burning sister,
The little one, naive and not even blushing)
Than from my arms, undone by vague dying,
This prey, forever ungrateful, frees itself and is gone,
Not pitying the sob with which I was still drunk.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Google Book Search helps readers discover the world's books while helping authors and
publishers
reach new audiences.
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Meredith - Poems |
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IF you were coming in the fall,
I'd brush the summer by
With half a smile and half a spurn,
As
housewives
do a fly.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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"I have seen," he said,
"Rome's eagle in a Punic fane,
And armour, ne'er a blood-drop shed,
Stripp'd from the soldier; I have seen
Free sons of Rome with arms fast tied;
The fields we spoil'd with corn are green,
And
Carthage
opes her portals wide.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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healsode
hrēoh-mōd þæt.
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Beowulf |
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I savoured it slowly and did not throw a coin through the window for fear of troubling my spirit and
discovering
that not only the instrument was playing.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Whereby the more
'Tis
manifest
that many particles
Even from the salt upheavings of the main
Can rise together to augment the bulk
Of massed clouds.
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Lucretius |
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Not you as some pale poetling, seated at a desk, lisping cadenzas piano;
But as a strong man, erect, clothed in blue clothes, advancing, carrying a
rifle on your shoulder,
With well-gristled body and
sunburnt
face and hands--with a knife in the
belt at your side,
As I heard you shouting loud--your sonorous voice ringing across the
continent;
Your masculine voice, O year, as rising amid the great cities,
Amid the men of Manhattan I saw you, as one of the workmen, the dwellers in
Manhattan;
Or with large steps crossing the prairies out of Illinois and Indiana,
Rapidly crossing the West with springy gait, and descending the
Alleghanies;
Or down from the great lakes, or in Pennsylvania, or on deck along the Ohio
river;
Or southward along the Tennessee or Cumberland rivers, or at Chattanooga on
the mountain-top,
Saw I your gait and saw I your sinewy limbs, clothed in blue, bearing
weapons, robust year;
Heard your determined voice, launched forth again and again;
Year that suddenly sang by the mouths of the round-lipped cannon,
I repeat you, hurrying, crashing, sad, distracted year.
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Whitman |
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Never believe though in my nature reign'd,
All frailties that besiege all kinds of blood,
That it could so preposterously be stain'd,
To leave for nothing all thy sum of good;
For nothing this wide
universe
I call,
Save thou, my rose, in it thou art my all.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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"
CANTO XX
Ill strives the will, 'gainst will more wise that strives
His
pleasure
therefore to mine own preferr'd,
I drew the sponge yet thirsty from the wave.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Have I in conquest stretch'd mine arm so far
To be afeard to tell
greybeards
the truth?
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Shakespeare |
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And then, as though the fire fainter grows,
She gathers up the flame--again it glows,
As with proud gesture and imperious air
She flings it to the earth; and it lies there
Furiously
flickering and crackling still--
Then haughtily victorious, but with sweet
Swift smile of greeting, she puts forth her will
And stamps the flames out with her small firm feet.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Round-robin
is a common enough phrase, but none of the meanings
recorded
is
applicable in this connection.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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A wretched life and worse death they'll win,
A
grievous
time, whether far or near;
And Saracen, Turk, Persian, Paynim,
Who, more than all, found you to dread,
Will grow in pride and power instead.
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Troubador Verse |
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But of all sadness this was sad,--
A woman's arms tried to shield
The head of a
sleeping
man
From the jaws of the final beast.
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Stephen Crane |
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Io fui radice de la mala pianta
che la terra
cristiana
tutta aduggia,
si che buon frutto rado se ne schianta.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Hence comes
the
epidemical
infection; for how can they escape the contagion of the
writings, whom the virulency of the calumnies hath not staved off from
reading?
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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They were for the most part the resort of
disorderly
persons.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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'That is right, that is a fair price, but I will not speak till I have
good protection, for if the Dermotts lay their hands upon me in any
boreen after sundown, or in Cool-a-vin by day, I will be left to rot
among the nettles of a ditch, or hung on the great sycamore, where they
hung the horse-thieves last
Beltaine
four years.
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Yeats |
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Not with speed so headlong do racing pairs whirl the chariots
over the plain, as they rush
streaming
from the barriers; not so do
their charioteers shake the wavy reins loose over their team, and hang
forward on the whip.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Ay, joy from super-earthly
fountains!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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s talented
thoughts
are vast, 20 a dark sea inundating the most remote isles.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Ay; civilized--but not
Christian!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Yet only noble womanhood
The wife her
dauntless
part could teach:
She shared with him the last dry food
And thronged with hopefulness her speech,
As when hard by her home the flood
Of rushing Conestoga fills
Its depth afresh from springtide rills!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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_She_ came dressed beyond description,
Dressed in jewels and in satin
Far too
gorgeous
for an empress.
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Lewis Carroll |
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(draws a cross-handled dagger, and raises it on high)
Behold the cross
wherewith
a vow like mine
Is written in Heaven!
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Poe - 5 |
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Keats |
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Then
methinks
I hear
Almost thy voice's sound,
Afar its echo falls,
And calmer grows my care.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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fees.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Updated
editions
will replace the previous one--the old editions
will be renamed.
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Chanson de Roland |
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_ ELECTRA _enters,
returning
from the
well.
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Euripides - Electra |
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Through the balmy air of night
How they ring out their
delight!
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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May all shy maids, at wonted hours,
Come forth to strew thy tomb with flowers;
May virgins, when they come to mourn,
Male-incense burn
Upon thine altar; then return,
And leave thee
sleeping
in thy urn.
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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Africa, Spain, neither are you disgraced,
Nor that race that holds the English firth,
Nor, by the French Rhine, soldiers of worth,
Nor Germany with other
warriors
graced.
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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_Tenth
Edition_,
_December_
1910.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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I have seen eyes in the street
Trying to peer through lighted shutters,
And a crab one afternoon in a pool,
An old crab with
barnacles
on his back,
Gripped the end of a stick which I held him.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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The mother at home, quietly placing the dishes on the supper-table;
The mother with mild words--clean her cap and gown, a wholesome odour
falling off her person and clothes as she walks by;
The father, strong, self-sufficient, manly, mean, angered, unjust;
The blow, the quick loud word, the tight bargain, the crafty lure,
The family usages, the language, the company, the furniture--the yearning
and
swelling
heart,
Affection that will not be gainsaid--the sense of what is real--the thought
if after all it should prove unreal,
The doubts of day-time and the doubts of night-time--the curious whether
and how--
Whether that which appears so is so, or is it all flashes and specks?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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The star about the Pole
conceals
its bright rays.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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No glass renders a man's form
or
likeness
so true as his speech.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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The sage assumed that his sovran God
he had angered, breaking ancient law,
and
embittered
the Lord.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Make haste, Brothers and Sisters, push
With might and main round the ivy-bush,
Struggle and pull at the laurel-tree,
And leave the barberries be
For poor lost
lunatics
like me,
Who set them so high
They overtop the sun in the sky.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Divinely do I know, when life is clean,
How like a noble shape of golden glass
The passions of the body, powers of the mind,
Chalice the sweet immortal wine of soul,
That, as a purple fragrance dwells in air
From vintage poured, fills the
corrupting
world
With its own savour.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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The Past--the dark unfathom'd
retrospect!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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LFS}
Rising upon his Couch of Death Albion beheld his Sons
Turning his
Eyesoutward
to Self.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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"
The mother of
Gilgamish
she that knows all things
[said unto Gilgamish:--]
.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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In his arms he bore
Her, armed with sorrow sore;
Till before their way
A
couching
lion lay.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
|
Google Book Search helps readers
discover
the world's books while helping authors and publishers reach new audiences.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
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And when the sleep has overset our frame,
The mind's intelligence is now awake,
Still for no other reason, save that these--
The self-same films as when we are awake--
Assail our minds, to such degree indeed
That we do seem to see for sure the man
Whom, void of life, now death and earth have gained
Dominion
over.
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Lucretius |
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86-88 Sansjoy
addresses
his brother, in ll.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Mendes denies that
Baudelaire
was a victim of the hemp.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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_roaring
manner_:
The fashion of picking a quarrel in a boisterous, disorderly manner.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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I
confesse
it wel q{uo}d I.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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And heard this voice of sorrow
breathed
from the hollow pit.
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blake-poems |
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NIGHT LITANY
oDIEU,
purifiez
nos coeurs!
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Hippolyte Babou
suggested
the one we know.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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(fourth century)
Green rushes with red shoots,
Long leaves bending to the wind--
You and I in the same boat
Plucking
rushes at the Five Lakes.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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The graver Prude sinks
downward
to a Gnome,
In search of mischief still on Earth to roam.
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Alexander Pope |
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Page 29
60
he
prechede
hire wi?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Melt in these
pendants
of the eyes.
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Marvell - Poems |
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onlāh (<
onlēon)
at l.
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Beowulf |
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Since such loves
naturall
lation is, may still
My love descend, and journey downe the hill,
Not panting after growing beauties, so,
I shall ebbe out with them, who home-ward goe.
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John Donne |
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Except for the limited right of
replacement
or refund set forth
in paragraph 1.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Then too, when in the middle of the stream
Sticks fast our dashing horse, and down we gaze
Into the river's rapid waves, some force
Seems then to bear the body of the horse,
Though
standing
still, reversely from his course,
And swiftly push up-stream.
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Lucretius |
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Any
alternate
format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm
License as specified in paragraph 1.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Edward Marsh, literary
executor
of the late Rupert Brooke:--"The
Soldier" and "The Dead.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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To
SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of
compliance
for any
particular state visit http://pglaf.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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How pleased they were at what you said;
You try to touch the smile,
And dip your fingers in the frost:
When was it, can you tell,
You asked the company to tea,
Acquaintance, just a few,
And chatted close with this grand thing
That don't
remember
you?
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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'You Rise the Water Unfolds'
You rise the water unfolds
You sleep the water flowers
You are water ploughed from its depths
You are earth that takes root
And in which all is grounded
You make bubbles of silence in the desert of sound
You sing nocturnal hymns on the arcs of the rainbow
You are everywhere you abolish the roads
You
sacrifice
time
To the eternal youth of an exact flame
That veils Nature to reproduce her
Woman you show the world a body forever the same
Yours
You are its likeness.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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a te principium, tibi desinam: accipe iussis
carmina coepta tuis, atque hanc sine tempora circum
inter
uictricis
hederam tibi serpere lauros.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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