Each wicked scheme for power all stops,
With grandeurs false and mock display,
As eve's shades from high
mountain
tops
Fade with the rest away.
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John Clare |
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Enough eternal disgrace has been heaped on me 1055
In having brought to light a son so guilty,
Without his death, a shameful future memory,
Arriving to stain my noble labours' glory:
Flee, if you don't wish my swift punishment
To add to the rascals who've known chastisement, 1060
Take care that the star that lights us never
Sees you setting a
reckless
foot here, ever.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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That use is not forbidden usury,
Which happies those that pay the willing loan;
That's for thy self to breed another thee,
Or ten times happier, be it ten for one;
Ten times thy self were happier than thou art,
If ten of thine ten times refigur'd thee:
Then what could death do if thou shouldst depart,
Leaving thee living in
posterity?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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I have waked, I have come, my
beloved!
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Sidney Lanier |
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I was just coming to myself enough
To wonder where the cold was coming from,
When I heard Toffile
upstairs
in the bedroom
And thought I heard him downstairs in the cellar.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Except for the limited right of
replacement
or refund set forth
in paragraph 1.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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This, then, is the humble, the
nameless,--
The lover, the husband and father, the
struggler
with shadows,
The one who went down under shoutings of chaos!
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Now where Colonos leans unto the sea
There lies a long and level stretch of lawn;
The rabbit knows it, and the
mountain
bee
For it deserts Hymettus, and the Faun
Is not afraid, for never through the day
Comes a cry ruder than the shout of shepherd lads at play.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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, _father's
brother_
in comp.
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Beowulf |
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The soul sees through the senses, imagines, hears,
Has from the body's powers its acts and looks:
The spirit once
embodied
has wit, makes books,
Matter makes it more perfect and more fair.
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Ronsard |
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So when she was gone I said
In rather a dreary voice
To him of the
opposite
bed:
"Ah, friend, how you must rejoice!
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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King
Yet, all who in my service so engage
Do not acquit themselves with such courage;
And valour that is not born of excess
Seldom
achieves
comparable success.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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The
merchants
brought him cedar chests of rich apparel bound with
cords:
His train was borne by Memphian lords: young kings were glad to be his
guests.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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"
The voice returns like the
insistent
out-of-tune
Of a broken violin on an August afternoon:
"I am always sure that you understand
My feelings, always sure that you feel,
Sure that across the gulf you reach your hand.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Spring will not wait the loiterer's time
Who keeps so long away;
So others wear the broom and climb
The
hedgerows
heaped with may.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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here the forest ledge slopes--
rain has
furrowed
the roots.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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What maid
retrieve
when man's flushed hope is lost?
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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"
"I saw her in a ravaged aisle,
Bowed down on bended knee;
That her poor ghost
outflickers
there
Is known to none but me.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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>>;
ma piu non dissi, ch'a l'occhio mi corse
un,
crucifisso
in terra con tre pali.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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He walked amongst the Trial Men
In a suit of shabby grey;
A cricket cap was on his head,
And his step seemed light and gay;
But I never saw a man who looked
So
wistfully
at the day.
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Wilde - Poems |
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One Evening at the Close
Of Ramazan, ere the better Moon arose,
In that old Potter's Shop I stood alone
With the clay
Population
round in Rows.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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_"
[There are many variations of this song, which was first printed by
Cromek from the oral communication of a Glasgow Lady, on whose charms,
the poet, in early life,
composed
it.
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Robert Forst |
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(39)
[Note 39: It is well known that until the reign of the late Tsar
French was the
language
of the Russian court and of Russian
fashionable society.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Who then of the Nymphs had sung,
Or who with flowering herbs bestrewn the ground,
And o'er the
fountains
drawn a leafy veil?
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Shall I not see all these and all your
treasures?
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Sara Teasdale |
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, the
subjects
of
Hygelāc, the Geats, 2961.
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Beowulf |
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each his center basement finds; suspended there they stand {According to Erdman, the word "center" was
originally
deleted by Blake with a strong ink stroke and therefore not easily erased.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Permit me; is it worth the trouble
For your instruction here to tell
What I by
relatives
conceive?
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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The quiet
nonchalance
of death
No daybreak can bestir;
The slow archangel's syllables
Must awaken her.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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I think heroic deeds were all conceiv'd in the open air, and all
free poems also,
I think I could stop here myself and do miracles,
I think
whatever
I shall meet on the road I shall like, and whoever
beholds me shall like me,
I think whoever I see must be happy.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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It was in the manner of the
time, and
doubtless
seemed to them as natural an expression of grief
as the elaborate marble and alabaster tomb which they erected to the
memory of their daughter.
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John Donne |
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As the little tiny swallow or the chaffinch,
Round their warm and cosey nest are seen to hover,
So hovers there the mother dear who bore him;
And aye she weeps, as flows a river's water;
His sister weeps as flows a streamlet's water;
His
youthful
wife, as falls the dew from heaven--
The Sun, arising, dries the dew of heaven.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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General Terms of Use and
Redistributing
Project Gutenberg-tm
electronic works
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Theseus
Your eyes have tamed that
rebellious
heart:
His first sighs resulted from your happy art.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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"The above, which was written some time ago,
scarcely
applies to the
Poem, 'Descriptive Sketches', as it now stands.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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On great pied motionless moth-wings borne along,
So effortless and so strong,
Cutting each other's paths, together they glided,
Then wheeled asunder till they soared divided
Two valleys' width (as though it were delight
To part like this, being sure they could unite
So swiftly in their empty, free dominion),
Curved
headlong
downward, towered up the sunny steep,
Then, with a sudden lift of the one great pinion,
Swung proudly to a curve and from its height
Took half a mile of sunlight in one long sweep.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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"
So the hand of the child, automatic,
Slipped out and
pocketed
a toy that was running along
the quay.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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CCLXXIX
When Tierri sees that battle shall come after,
His right hand glove he
offereth
to Chares.
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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Death reached out three crooked claws
To still my
clamoring
pain.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Remember
Tchaplitzky, who, thanks to
you, was able to pay his debts.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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***END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SONGS OF
INNOCENCE
AND SONGS OF
EXPERIENCE***
******* This file should be named 1934-0.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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_70
Would that my life could
purchase
thine!
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Shelley |
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I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be;
Am an
attendant
lord, one that will do
To swell a progress, start a scene or two,
Advise the prince; no doubt, an easy tool,
Deferential, glad to be of use,
Politic, cautious, and meticulous;
Full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse;
At times, indeed, almost ridiculous--
Almost, at times, the Fool.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Sundays and
Tuesdays
he fasts and sighs,
His teeth are as sharp as the rats' below,
After dry bread, and no gateaux,
Water for soup that floats his guts along.
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| Source: |
Villon |
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I would not care to reach the moon,
One round
monotonous
of change;
Yet even she repeats her tune
Beyond my range.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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The barrow he entered,
sought the cup, and discovered soon
that some one of mortals had
searched
his treasure,
his lordly gold.
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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I
stumbled
on him with proof sheets before
him.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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Thus, we do not necessarily
keep eBooks in
compliance
with any particular paper edition.
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| Question: |
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Lear - Nonsense |
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He that
ascended
in a cloud shall come, II.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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Ah, if I seek to
approach
what doth so haunt me,
If from this spot I dare to stir,
Dimly as through a mist I gaze on her!
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Auch er bereute seine Fehler sehr,
Ja, und
bejammerte
sein Ungluck noch viel mehr.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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THE VOICE OF THE ANCIENT BARD
Youth of
delight!
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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And since I must repeat the whole story,
Here now is what he hastened to tell me:
'She's dutiful, and both deserve her hand,
Both are of noble blood, loyal, valiant,
Young, yet it's clear to see in their eyes
The shining virtue of their ancient ties:
Don
Rodrigue
above all: in his visage,
Every trait reveals the heroic image,
His house so rich in soldiers of renown,
They seem born to wear the laurel crown.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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A poet was born in a modern time,
'Neath Saturn and his Rings,
He was a child of the world's prime,
Knew all
beautiful
things.
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY
r
CONTEMPORARY
VERSE
offers a particularly remarkable series of the year 1917.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Judith, our fates are closer to one another's
Than one might think, seeing my face and yours:
The whole divine abyss is present in your eyes,
And I feel the starry gulf within my soul;
We are both
neighbours
of the silent skies.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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XVII
Such one it was, as that
renowmed
Snake?
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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And
suddenly
the sultan kneels!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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[3] The name Gilgamish was originally written
_d_Gi-bil-aga-mis, and means "The fire god (_Gibil_) is a commander,"
abbreviated to _d_Gi-bil-ga-mis, and _d_Gi(s)-bil-ga-mis, a form
which by full labialization of _b_ to _u_ was finally
contracted
to
_d_Gi-il-ga-mis.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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102), and Lucian's work seems to have played a rather important
part in the
discussion
of witchcraft.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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For out of Shushan to the ends of the earth
Great news runs, with a hidden
soundless
speed
Through secret channels in the folks' dim mind,
As water races through smooth sloping gutters.
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm
License as specified in
paragraph
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Keats - Lamia |
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Spent and o'erpower'd, he barely
breathes
at most;
Yet scarce an army stirs him from his post;
Dangers on dangers all around him glow,
And toil to toil, and woe succeeds to woe.
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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14 Seeing Off
Administrative
Assistant Yang (6) On a Mission to Tibet Sending you afar, the autumn wind sinks away, the Kokonor weather is cold as you journey west.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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From this place, by the hand of Monzaida, he wrote a
letter to the zamorim, wherein he gave a full and
circumstantial
account
of all the plots of the catual and the Moors.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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the whole company of the
inhabitants
had each but a single
eye and but one hand.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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I saw and heard, for such a numerous host
Fled not in silence through the frighted deep
With ruin upon ruin, rout on rout,
Confusion
worse confounded; and Heav'n Gates
Pourd out by millions her victorious Bands
Pursuing.
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| Source: |
Milton |
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VI
IN Reading gaol by Reading town
There is a pit of shame,
And in it lies a
wretched
man
Eaten by teeth of flame,
In a burning winding-sheet he lies,
And his grave has got no name.
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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Receive the Law that God to us presents,
Christianity, and then I'll love thee well;
Serve and believe the King
Omnipotent!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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And since I must repeat the whole story,
Here now is what he
hastened
to tell me:
'She's dutiful, and both deserve her hand,
Both are of noble blood, loyal, valiant,
Young, yet it's clear to see in their eyes
The shining virtue of their ancient ties:
Don Rodrigue above all: in his visage,
Every trait reveals the heroic image,
His house so rich in soldiers of renown,
They seem born to wear the laurel crown.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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Through all our literature your way you took
With modest ease; yet would you soonest pore,
Smiling, with most
affection
in your look,
On the ripe ancient and the curious nook.
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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For when these quicker
elements
are gone
In tender embassy of love to thee,
My life, being made of four, with two alone
Sinks down to death, oppress'd with melancholy;
Until life's composition be recur'd
By those swift messengers return'd from thee,
Who even but now come back again, assur'd,
Of thy fair health, recounting it to me:
This told, I joy; but then no longer glad,
I send them back again, and straight grow sad.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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John Masefield is the author of "The Widow in the the Bye Street," "Good Friday," "The
Everlasting
Mercy," "Saltwater Ballads," "The Tragedy of Nan," and other volumes.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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May then those spirits, set free, a
celestial
council obeying,
Move in this rustling whisper here thro' the dark, shaken trees?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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From the root
Of toil and pain and brave endurance
Has sprung at last the perfect fruit,
The
treasure
of a rich assurance
That men who nobly work and live
A greater gift than life may give;
Yielding a promise for all time,
Which other men of newer date
Surely redeem in deeds sublime.
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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A thought went up my mind to-day
That I have had before,
But did not finish, -- some way back,
I could not fix the year,
Nor where it went, nor why it came
The second time to me,
Nor
definitely
what it was,
Have I the art to say.
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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1831 are
identical
with Vols.
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| Source: |
Byron |
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28 what
feelings
are there in this heart?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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Because
Helen was wanton, and her master knew
No curb for her: for that, for that, he slew
My
daughter!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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The Pomegranate
Once when I was living in the heart of a pomegranate, I heard a seed
saying, "Someday I shall become a tree, and the wind will sing in
my branches, and the sun will dance on my leaves, and I shall be
strong and
beautiful
through all the seasons.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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You know how high my ideal of Art is; and to me my poor casual
little poems seem to be less than beautiful--I mean with that
final
enduring
beauty that I desire.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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_The
Poetical
Works_, etc.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
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The
editions
of 1827 and 1832 omit these lines.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
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They may be
modified
and printed and given away--you may do
practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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I gave it the preliminary spin,
And poured on water (tears it might have been);
And when it almost gayly jumped and flowed,
A Father-Time-like man got on and rode,
Armed with a scythe and
spectacles
that glowed.
| Guess: |
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And doth
punishment
now give me its place for a home?
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Longfellow |
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But Don Alonzo d'Arcilla is in this, as in every other part
of his poem, greatly inferior to the
poetical
spirit of Camoens.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Each seated on his favourite post,
We chumped and chawed the
buttered
toast
They gave us for our tea.
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Today, without presuming anything about what will emerge from this in future, nothing, or almost a new art, let us readily accept that the tentative participates, with the unforeseen, in the pursuit,
specific
and dear to our time, of free verse and the prose poem.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Who are the
infants?
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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How
excellent
the heaven,
When earth cannot be had;
How hospitable, then, the face
Of our old neighbor, God!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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But in the way to this are maladies
And anguish; and as a perilous bridge
Over the
uncontrolled
demanding world,
Virginity, passionate self-possessing,
Must build itself supreme, unbreakable.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Weave, weave, for Manius Curius
The third
embroidered
gown:
Make ready the third lofty car,
And twine the third green crown;
And yoke the steeds of Rosea
With necks like a bended bow,
And deck the bull, Mevania's bull,
The bull as white as snow.
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org (Images generously made
available by the Internet Archive)
POEMS
by
RANIER MARIA RILKE
Translated by Jessie Lamont
With an
Introduction
by H.
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Rilke - Poems |
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'Twould blow like this through holt and hanger
When Uricon the city stood:
'Tis the old wind in the old anger,
But then it
threshed
another wood.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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The unhappy
churchman resembled Gulliver at the court of
Brobdignag, when the
mischievous
page stuck
him into the marrow-bone.
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Marvell - Poems |
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The harmless rabbit gambols with its young
Across the trampled towing-path, where late
A troop of laughing boys in jostling throng
Cheered with their noisy cries the racing eight;
The gossamer, with ravelled silver threads,
Works at its little loom, and from the dusky red-eaved sheds
Of the lone Farm a
flickering
light shines out
Where the swinked shepherd drives his bleating flock
Back to their wattled sheep-cotes, a faint shout
Comes from some Oxford boat at Sandford lock,
And starts the moor-hen from the sedgy rill,
And the dim lengthening shadows flit like swallows up the hill.
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Wilde - Poems |
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behold
Nature asham'd, or better to express,
Troubl'd that thou should'st hunger, hath purvey'd
From all the
Elements
her choicest store
To treat thee as beseems, and as her Lord
With honour, only deign to sit and eat.
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Milton |
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ORSINO:
'Tis thus
Men cast the blame of their
unprosperous
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Upon the abettors of their own resolve;
Or anything but their weak, guilty selves.
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Shelley |
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