", 1870,
from the Trelawny
manuscript
of Edward Williams's play, "The Promise:
or, A Year, a Month, and a Day".
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Shelley |
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The real you is fierce, of
pitiless
cruelty:
The false you one enjoys, in true intimacy,
I sleep beside your ghost, rest by an illusion:
Nothing's denied me.
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Ronsard |
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LXXXVI
Was it the proud full sail of his great verse,
Bound for the prize of all too
precious
you,
That did my ripe thoughts in my brain inhearse,
Making their tomb the womb wherein they grew?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Redistribution is
subject to the trademark license,
especially
commercial
redistribution.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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" I
decided that if the shaking of her breasts could be
stopped, some of the fragments of the afternoon might
be collected, and I concentrated my
attention
with
careful subtlety to this end.
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T.S. Eliot |
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'
'Of his speculations as to what will befall this
inestimable
spirit
when we appear to die,' Mrs.
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Yeats |
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His father revell'd in the heart of France,
And tam'd the King, and made the Dauphin stoop;
And had he match'd according to his state,
He might have kept that glory to this day;
But when he took a beggar to his bed
And grac'd thy poor sire with his bridal day,
Even then that sunshine brew'd a show'r for him
That wash'd his father's fortunes forth of France
And heap'd
sedition
on his crown at home.
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Shakespeare |
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Ulysses plann'd
With no
disapprobation
of the Gods 520
The deed that ye deplore.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Apart from his depth
and beauty, he has created a new form, endowed
verse with new colour and sound, and greatly ex-
tended the possibilities of
expression
in the German
language.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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"Now Thou hast avenged
Supplanted Adam, and, by vanquishing
Temptation, hast
regained
lost Paradise.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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We fight for it as for
a
principle
of liberty.
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Imagists |
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E quelli a me: <
che di lor suona su ne la tua vita,
grazia
acquista
in ciel che si li avanza>>.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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She burnt, she lov'd the tyranny,
And, all subdued,
consented
to the hour
When to the bridal he should lead his paramour.
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Keats - Lamia |
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A constant Vapour o'er the palace flies;
Strange
phantoms
rising as the mists arise; 40
Dreadful, as hermit's dreams in haunted shades,
Or bright, as visions of expiring maids.
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Alexander Pope |
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"
Kimberly shouted--
The ship, with her hearts of oak,
Was going, mid roar and smoke,
On to
victory!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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MARTIN'S STREET, LONDON
1911
* * * * *
RICHARD CLAY AND SONS, LIMITED
BRUNSWICK STREET,
STAMFORD
STREET, S.
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Lewis Carroll |
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the
illustrious
Swede hath done
The thing which ought to be .
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William Wordsworth |
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I saw them coming in: O
horrible!
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Oft
minstrels
sang
blithe in Heorot.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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I advance and
recognise
a little
Troy, and a copy of the great Pergama, and a dry brook with the name of
Xanthus, and clasp a Scaean gateway.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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But why this
dwelling
place, this life
Of loneliness?
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Euripides - Electra |
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[Sidenote: But it is the nature of these perturbations (which thou
endurest)
to unsettle men's minds.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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as on the midway slope
Of yonder hill I stretch my limbs at noon,
Whilst through my half-closed eye-lids I behold
The sunbeams dance, like diamonds, on the main,
And
tranquil
muse upon tranquillity;
Full many a thought uncalled and undetained,
And many idle flitting phantasies,
Traverse my indolent and passive brain,
As wild and various as the random gales
That swell and flutter on this subject lute!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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And across these seas
We who cry Peace and
treasure
life and cling
To cities, happiness, or daily toil
For daily bread, or trail the long routine
Of seventy years, taste not the terrible wine
Whereof you drink, who drain and toss the cup
Empty and ringing by the finished feast;
Or have it shaken from your hand by sight
Of God against the olive woods.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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322) he says: 'In _The Devil's an Ass_, acted in 1616,
all his
historical
plays are obliquely censured.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Some fancied they heard in the air
A weary and
wandering
sigh
That sounded like "--jum!
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Lewis Carroll |
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Or how shall we gather what griefs destroy,
Or bless the
mellowing
year,
When the blasts of winter appear?
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blake-poems |
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--Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing; settled
in the imagination, but never arriving at the understanding, there to
obtain the
tincture
of reason.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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WITH force a poinard in her bosom thrust;
Watch well th' occasion:--die, I say, she must,
The deed performed, escape; here's for you aid;
The money take:--pursuit you can evade;
As I request, proceed; then trust to me:--
You naught shall want
wherever
you may be.
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La Fontaine |
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Then came what might come, to wit: three men and
one woman,
Beziers off at Mont-Ausier, I and his lady Singing the stars in the turrets of Beziers, And one lean
Aragonese
cursing the seneschal To the end that you see, friends:
Aragon cursing in Aragon, Beziers busy at Beziers Bored to an inch of extinction,
Tibors all tongue and temper at Mont-Ausier, Me!
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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O father and mother if buds are nipped,
And
blossoms
blown away;
And if the tender plants are stripped
Of their joy in the springing day,
By sorrow and care's dismay,--
How shall the summer arise in joy,
Or the summer fruits appear?
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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How shall a blind man dare
Venture along the roaring crowded street,
Or
branching
roads where I may never hit
The way he has gone?
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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We do not solicit
donations
in locations
where we have not received written confirmation of compliance.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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_Love is
maintained
by wealth.
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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A God hath
counselled
ye.
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Euripides - Electra |
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Gives too soon
Into weak hands, what's thought can be dispensed with
Till the refusal
propagates
a fear.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Those speeches were not
delivered
in court.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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"This is a 'one-ghost' house, and you
When you arrived last summer,
May have
remarked
a Spectre who
Was doing all that Ghosts can do
To welcome the new-comer.
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Lewis Carroll |
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The
tendency
to make this change where _i_ follows _d_ is common.
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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Clinging
round his brawny neck, she clasped her fingers white and
small,
And then whispered, "Quick!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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"When first she enter'd on this life below,
Which, to say sooth, not worthy was to hold,
'Twas strange to see her so
Angelical
and dear in baby mould;
A snowy pearl she seem'd in finest gold;
Next as she crawl'd, or totter'd with short pace,
Wood, water, earth, and stone
Grew green, and clear, and soft; with livelier grace
The sward beneath her feet and fingers shone;
With flowers the champain to her bright eyes smiled;
At her sweet voice, babbling through lips that yet
From Love's own fount were wet,
The hoarse wind silent grew, the tempest mild:
Thus clearly showing to the dull blind world
How much in her was heaven's own light unfurl'd.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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But Typhon, Mimas, what could these,
Or what Porphyrion's
stalwart
scorn,
Rhoetus, or he whose spears were trees,
Enceladus, from earth uptorn,
As on they rush'd in mad career
'Gainst Pallas' shield?
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right
of Replacement or Refund"
described
in paragraph 1.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Woitsch, "Aus den
Gedichten
Po Chu-i's.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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He waked her--spake in tone that would not fail,
He hoped, to calm her mind; but ill he sped,
For of that ruin she had heard a tale 170
Which now with freezing thoughts did all her powers assail;
XX
Had heard of one who, forced from storms to shroud,
Felt the loose walls of this decayed Retreat
Rock to incessant neighings shrill and loud,
While his horse pawed the floor with furious heat; 175
Till on a stone, that sparkled to his feet,
Struck, and still struck again, the troubled horse:
The man half raised the stone with pain and sweat,
Half raised, for well his arm might lose its force
Disclosing
the grim head of a late murdered corse.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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The lamp has not yet been lighted and the world is to
be
consumed!
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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And a woman I used to know
Who loved one man from her youth,
Against the
strength
of the fates
Fighting in lonely pride,
Never spoke of this thing,
But hearing his name by chance,
A light would pass over her face.
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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She hath called me from mine old ways, She hath hushed my rancour of council, Bidding me praise
Naught but the wind that
flutters
in the leaves.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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How happy is the little stone
That rambles in the road alone,
And does n't care about careers,
And exigencies never fears;
Whose coat of elemental brown
A passing
universe
put on;
And independent as the sun,
Associates or glows alone,
Fulfilling absolute decree
In casual simplicity.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Greek sang and Tcherkass for his pleasure,
And
Kergeesian
captive is dancing;
In the eyes of the first heaven's azure,
And in those black of Eblis is glancing.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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If thou wouldst,
There shouldst thou find one heinous article,
Containing the deposing of a king
And
cracking
the strong warrant of an oath,
Mark'd with a blot, damn'd in the book of heaven.
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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But
judgment
when it is
greatest, if reason doth not accompany it, is not ever absolute.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Well, I am
persuaded
that it was
of me the Hebrew sage prophesied, when he foretold--"And behold, on
whatsoever this man doth set his heart, it shall not prosper!
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Robert Burns |
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Thus, we do not necessarily keep eBooks
in
compliance
with any particular paper edition.
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Stephen Crane |
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Despite these efforts, Project Gutenberg-tm
electronic works, and the medium on which they may be stored, may
contain "Defects," such as, but not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate
or corrupt data,
transcription
errors, a copyright or other
intellectual property infringement, a defective or damaged disk or
other medium, a computer virus, or computer codes that damage or
cannot be read by your equipment.
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Yeats |
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Just now I saw through a corner of my eye a
ravishing young girl, the
companion
of our sports; I saw the nipple of
her bosom peeping through a rent in her tunic.
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Aristophanes |
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That is why,
according
to my will,
Castile was ruled these ten years from Seville,
To be nearer them, and be the swifter
To oppose whatever threat they offer.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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In the
letter just mentioned he gives the following account of his reception,
with some curious observations upon political writing: "The Lord
Mayor
received
me as politely as a citizen could.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Thou fear'st, as I perceive,
Some other snare, but idle is that fear, 460
For I have sworn the
inviolable
oath.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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O shade, so sedate and
decorous
by day, with calm countenance and regulated
pace;
But away, at night, as you fly, none looking--O then the unloosened ocean
Of tears!
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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The _reem_, those great beasts with
eighteen
horns,
Who mate but once in seventy years and die
In their own tears which flow ten stadia high.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Therefore we gladly confess to singling a special immortal
And our devotions each day
pledging
but solely to her.
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| Question: |
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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His offence in the eyes of de Crousaz was that he had
left out of account all doctrines of
orthodox
theology.
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| Question: |
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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With lovely
leathery
throats and chins!
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Lear - Nonsense |
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) can copy and distribute it in the United States without
permission and without paying
copyright
royalties.
| Guess: |
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Rilke - Poems |
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Clap on the extinguisher, pull up the blinds,
And soon the
ventilated
spirit finds
Its natural daylight.
| Guess: |
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Coleridge - Poems |
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With equal pomp the captain leaves the fleet,
Melinda's monarch on the tide to greet:
His barge nods on amidst a splendid train,
Himself adorn'd in[171] all the pride of Spain:
With fair embroidery shone his armed breast,
For polish'd steel supplied the warrior's vest;
His sleeves, beneath, were silk of paly blue,
Above, more loose, the purple's
brightest
hue
Hung as a scarf in equal gath'rings roll'd,
With golden buttons and with loops of gold:
Bright in the sun the polish'd radiance burns,
And the dimm'd eyeball from the lustre turns.
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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Shall he alone, whom
rational
we call,
Be pleased with nothing, if not blessed with all?
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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- You provide, in
accordance
with paragraph 1.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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By these
arguments
and others of the same nature they brought 66
matters to such a pass, that even the generals and party leaders
despaired of cooling the army's indignation.
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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They might have cropt the myriad flower of May,
And butt each other here, like
brainless
bulls,
Dead for one heifer!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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God that made all that goes or stays
And formed this love from afar
Grant me the power to hope one day
I'll see this love of mine afar,
Truly, and in a
pleasant
hour,
So that her chamber and her bower,
Might seem a palace to my eyes.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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Note: Ixion tried to seduce Juno, but Jupiter
substituted
a cloud for her person.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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"
They wrote that word
victorious
on fields of mortal strife,
And many a valiant lad was proud to seal it with his life.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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At once I dare to read
And write: "In the
beginning
was the _deed_.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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M uch better
elsewhere
to search for
A id: it would have been more to my honour:
R etreat I must, and fly with dishonour,
T hough none else then would have cast a lure.
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| Source: |
Villon |
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ic
maguþegnas
mīne hāte .
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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Tell me, friends,
Am I not sung and
proverbed
for a fool
In every street?
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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520
Then answer thus her
paramour
return'd.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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My holiday shall be
That they
remember
me;
My paradise, the fame
That they pronounce my name.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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And these with lavish'd sense
Listenist the lordly music flowing from
The
illimitable
years.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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Les formes s'effacaient et n'etaient plus qu'un reve,
Une ebauche lente a venir
Sur la toile oubliee, et que l'artiste acheve
Seulement
par le souvenir.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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We are content with Cupid's delights, authentic and naked--
And with the
exquisite
creak /crack of the bed as it rocks.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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"
Ben Jonson was of a north-country family from the Annan
district
that
produced Thomas Carlyle.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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--Of Adam and Eve in Paradise_
Coming within sight of Paradise Satan's
conscience
is aroused, and he
grieves over the suffering his dire work will entail, exclaiming
"Me miserable; which way shall I fly
Infinite wrath and infinite despair?
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Yet then with foot as
stumbling
as his tongue.
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Marvell - Poems |
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As the Evian on the height,
Roused from her sleep, looks
wonderingly
abroad,
Looks on Thrace with snow-drifts white,
And Rhodope by barbarous footstep trod,
So my truant eyes admire
The banks, the desolate forests.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Copyright
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Ronsard |
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Never,
incredible
as it may sound in this clerical city,
Has any cleric brought me--swear it I will--to his bed.
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LXXIII
Roland who saw
Gradasso
in such guise,
As showed that to return he little cared,
-- Nor can return; so Brandimart aye plies,
And presses Sericana's monarch hard,
Turns round, and, like himself, afoot descries
Sobrino, in the doubtful strife unpaired:
At him he sprang; and, at his haughty look,
Heaven, as the warrior trod, in terror shook.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Such a favour
tarnishes
his glory:
Let him not blush now for his victory.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Pass I on Unto Lady "Miels-de-Ben,"
Having praised thy girdle's scope, How the stays ply back from it; I breathe no hope
That thou
shouldst
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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For, to say truth, all
garlands
are thy due:
The laurel, myrtle, oak, and ivy too.
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Robert Herrick |
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LXII
"Terence, this is stupid stuff:
You eat your
victuals
fast enough;
There can't be much amiss, 'tis clear,
To see the rate you drink your beer.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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The
frailest
leaf, the mossy bark,
The acorn's cup, the raindrop's arc,
The swinging spider's silver line,
The ruby of the drop of wine,
The shining pebble of the pond,
Thou inscribest with a bond,
In thy momentary play,
Would bankrupt nature to repay.
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Emerson - Poems |
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406
Taylor, Thomas,
translation
of the _Periegesis Graeciae_, _iv.
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Byron |
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To weapons such as these, sharp, burning, bright,
To the green
glorious
banner waved above,
--'Gainst which would fail in fight
Mars, Polypheme, Apollo, mighty Jove--
While still my sorrow fresh and verdant throve,
I stood defenceless, doom'd; her easy prey
She led me as she chose
Whence to escape I knew nor art nor way;
But, as a friend, who, haply, grieves yet goes,
Sees something still to lure his eyes and heart,
Just so on her, for whom I am in thrall,
Sole perfect work of all
That graced her age, unable to depart,
With such desire my rapt regards I set,
As soon myself and misery to forget.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Yet though the hideous prison-wall
Still hems him round and round,
And a spirit may not walk by night
That is with fetters bound,
And a spirit may but weep that lies
In such unholy ground,
He is at peace--this
wretched
man--
At peace, or will be soon:
There is no thing to make him mad,
Nor does Terror walk at noon,
For the lampless Earth in which he lies
Has neither Sun nor Moon.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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at 3e put on me,
& soberly your
seruaunt
my souerayn I holde yow,
& yowre kny3t I be-com, & Kryst yow for-3elde.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Who is the Bard thus
magnified?
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Emerson - Poems |
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