What,
shrinking
from thine own delightsomeness?
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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In support of this tradition, the
etymology
of their
name is adduced as a proof.
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Tacitus |
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On these
occasions his daughter Emily emerged from her wonted
retirement
and
did her part as gracious hostess; nor would any one have known from
her manner, I have been told, that this was not a daily occurrence.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Salve, o venusta Sirmio, atque ero gaude:
Gaudete vosque, o Libuae lacus undae:
Ridete,
quidquid
est domi cachinnorum.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Li tuoi
ragionamenti
sian la corti;
mentre che torni, parlero con questa,
che ne conceda i suoi omeri forti>>.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Do not copy, display, perform,
distribute
or redistribute this
electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without
prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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what
conqueror
hath committed this cruelty upon you?
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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I
cannot be a man with wishing;
therefore
I will die a woman with
grieving.
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Shakespeare |
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To Heorot came she, where
helmeted
Danes
slept in the hall.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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XXVIII
He who has seen a great oak dry and dead,
Bearing some trophy as an ornament,
Whose roots from earth are almost rent,
Though to the heavens it still lifts its head;
More than half-bowed towards its final bed,
Showing its naked boughs and fibres bent,
While,
leafless
now, its heavy crown is leant
Support by a gnarled trunk, its sap long bled;
And though at the first strong wind it must fall,
And many young oaks are rooted within call,
Alone among the devout populace is revered:
Who such an oak has seen, let him consider,
That, among cities which have flourished here,
This old honoured dust was the most honoured.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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should the branded
character
be mine!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Who else like you
Could sift the seedcorn from our chaff,
And make us with the pen we knew
Deathless at least in
epitaph?
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James Russell Lowell |
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[43] Text has
erroneous
form.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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discoverable
online.
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Meredith - Poems |
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with the permission of the
copyright
holder, your use and distribution
must comply with both paragraphs 1.
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Stephen Crane |
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It
imitates
the public riot.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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From the sweet
thoughts
of home,
And from all hope I was forever hurled.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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en
stabeled
his stede stif men in-no3e.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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XLV
Softer than the hill-fog to the forest
Are the loving hands of my dear lover,
When she sleeps beside me in the starlight
And her beauty
drenches
me with rest.
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Sappho |
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cyning
æðelum
gōd, _the king
noble in birth_, 1871; gumcystum gōd, 2544; w.
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Beowulf |
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What a
miserable
little town this
is.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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If Nature hold another heart
That knows a purer flame than me,
I too therein could
challenge
part
And learn of love a new degree.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Those who are happy regret the
shortness
of the day;
Those who are sad tire of the year's sloth.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Time doth transfix the flourish set on youth
And delves the parallels in beauty's brow,
Feeds on the
rarities
of nature's truth,
And nothing stands but for his scythe to mow:
And yet to times in hope, my verse shall stand.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Itte lacketh notte a
doughtie
honde to speke; 465
The cocke saiethe drefte[75], yett armed ys he alleyne.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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I had not told posterity this but for their
ignorance
who chose
that circumstance to commend their friend by wherein he most faulted; and
to justify mine own candour, for I loved the man, and do honour his
memory on this side idolatry as much as any.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Why joys so scantily disburse,
Why Paradise defer,
Why floods are served to us in bowls, --
I
speculate
no more.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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(16)
At the
beginning
of winter a cold spirit comes,
The North Wind blows--chill, chill.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Mak'st thou this shame thy
pastime?
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Shakespeare |
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'If
Bialacoil
be swete and free,
Dogged and fel thou shuldist be;
Froward and outrageous, y-wis;
A cherl chaungeth that curteis is.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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The
croupier
raked in the money while he looked on in stupid terror.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Lucentio
is your name?
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Shakespeare |
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_
[16] See letters on
Chivalry
and Romance.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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net
Title: Alcools
Author:
Guillaume
Apollinaire
Release Date: March 25, 2005 [EBook #15462]
[This file last updated October 31, 2010]
Language: French
*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ALCOOLS ***
Produced by Ebooks libres et gratuits; this text is also available
at http://www.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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1137-1152)
Born
apparently
in Gascony, his real name unknown, he probably spent most of his career in the courts of William X of Aquitaine and Eble III of Ventadorn.
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Troubador Verse |
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[26]
Quotation
from the Yangtze boatman's song:
"When Yen-yu is as big as a man's hat
One should not venture to make for Ch'u-t'ang.
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Li Po |
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A little oak spreads oer it,
And throws a shadow round,
A green sward close before it,
The greenest ever found:
There is not a
woodland
nigh nor is there a green grove,
Yet stood the fair maid nigh me and told me all her love.
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John Clare |
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]
[Footnote 14: It would have been _charitable_, if the author had not
pointed at
personal
characters in this Ballad of Charity.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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In thia
letter, after describing Marvell as a man of " sin-
gular desert," both from " report " and personal
"converse,*' he
proceeds
to say — "He hath spent
Digitized by VjOOQIC
XIV NOTICE OF THE AUTHOR.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Though e'er so high I sate above, though e'er so low he spake,
As clear as thunder I should hear the new oath he might take,
That hers, forsooth, were
heavenly
eyes--ah me, while very dim
Some heavenly eyes (indeed of heaven!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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The land lay steeped in peace of silent dreams, There was no sound amid the sacred boughs Nor any
mournful
music in her streams,
Only I saw the shadow on her brows,
Only I knew her for the Yearly Slain
And wept, and weep until she come again.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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There
will be none till the Southern Soudan is
reoccupied
by our troops.
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Kipling - Poems |
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I envy death the body far less than
the
oppressors
the minds of those whom they have torn from me.
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Shelley |
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Pan first with wax taught reed with reed to join;
For sheep alike and
shepherd
Pan hath care.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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A sept ans, il faisait des romans sur la vie
Du grand desert, ou luit la Liberte ravie,
Forets, soleils, rives,
savanes!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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at no cost and with
almost no restrictions whatsoever.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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'
"A little snow had fallen in the night, and
everything
was white except
the greasy fat clouds that blew down and down from the north.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Herein wonder not
How 'tis that, while the seeds of things are all
Moving forever, the sum yet seems to stand
Supremely
still, except in cases where
A thing shows motion of its frame as whole.
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Lucretius |
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distribution
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Aricia
Dear Ismene, my heart hears it so eagerly, 415
Your speech that owes so little to
reality!
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Racine - Phaedra |
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But when my simple hope I would disclose,
My o'er-fraught
faltering
tongue the crowded thoughts oppress.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Habeas corpus, new mode of
suspending
it.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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James Russell Lowell |
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Isis was the
Egyptian
mother goddess (Cybele was her equivalent in Asia Minor): consort of Osiris she bore the child Horus-Harpocrates, the new sun (De Nerval's image here for the Christ-Child).
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Time bring back the order of classic days;
Earth has shuddered with
prophetic
breath.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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When he whom I love travels with me, or sits a long while holding me by the
hand,
When the subtle air, the impalpable, the sense that words and reason hold
not, surround us and pervade us,
Then I am charged with untold and untellable wisdom--I am silent--I require
nothing further,
I cannot answer the question of appearances, or that of identity beyond the
grave;
But I walk or sit indifferent--I am satisfied,
He ahold of my hand has
completely
satisfied me.
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Whitman |
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unless a
copyright
notice is included.
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| Question: |
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Lewis Carroll |
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He has begun more Knavish suits at
Court, then ever the Kings Taylor
honestly
finish'd, but never thriv'd
by any: so that now hee's almost fallen from a Palace Begger to a
Spittle one'.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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I reason that in heaven
Somehow, it will be even,
Some new
equation
given;
But what of that?
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| Question: |
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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From vale to vale, from wood to wood, he flew,
Breathing
upon the flowers his passion new,
And wound with many a river to its head,
To find where this sweet nymph prepar'd her secret bed:
In vain; the sweet nymph might nowhere be found,
And so he rested, on the lonely ground,
Pensive, and full of painful jealousies
Of the Wood-Gods, and even the very trees.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
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Swift she descends: a train of nymphs divine
Bear the rich viands and the generous wine:
In act to speak the power of magic stands,
And graceful thus accosts the
listening
bands;
"'O sons of woe?
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Odyssey - Pope |
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What joy it will be to seek that day,
For love of God, that inn afar,
And, if she wishes, rest, I say,
Near her, though I come from afar,
For words fall in a
pleasant
shower
When distant lover has the power,
With gentle heart, joy to realise.
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Troubador Verse |
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ere,
he
brougthe
him In ful sone; 213
And [seyde]: 'sire, ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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After the
slaughter
of Julius Vindex[88] and his whole
force, the troops were in high spirits at the fame and booty they had
acquired.
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Tacitus |
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A fool I was to sleep at noon,
And wake when night is chilly
Beneath the
comfortless
cold moon;
A fool to pluck my rose too soon,
A fool to snap my lily.
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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A POEM HUMBLY
INSCRIBED
TO G.
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Robert Forst |
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Line after line the
troopers
came
To the edge of the wood that was ring'd with flame;
Rode in and sabred and shot--and fell;
Nor came one back his wounds to tell.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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The
pleasures
of those times shall never again be met with.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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His wise and patient heart shall share
The strong sweet
loveliness
of all things made, 10
And the serenity of inward joy
Beyond the storm of tears.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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You yourself,
defeating
my powers' eclipse,
Recalling my soul, already hovering on my lips, 770
You revived me with your flattering advice.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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The liberty and even the life of the
insolvent were at the mercy of the
Patrician
money-lenders.
| Guess: |
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Take hold of
wickedness!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Beside the shining scythe and
exhausted
jug.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
|
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REPLACEMENT
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written explanation to the person you received the work from.
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Keats |
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The eyes are drowned in opium
In universal licence
The clownish mouth bewitched
A
singular
geranium.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Whispers of Heavenly Death
Whispers of heavenly death murmur'd I hear,
Labial gossip of night, sibilant chorals,
Footsteps gently ascending,
mystical
breezes wafted soft and low,
Ripples of unseen rivers, tides of a current flowing, forever flowing,
(Or is it the plashing of tears?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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artis opus rarae, fulgens testudine et auro
pendebat
laeua garrula parte lyra.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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True, he was over forty when he
produced it, but it is
noticeably
different from the works of his old age.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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TO MAKE
CRUMBOBBLIOUS
CUTLETS.
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| Question: |
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Lear - Nonsense |
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The harshness died
Within me, and my heart
Was caught and
fluttered
like the palpitant heart
Of a brown quail, flying
To the call of her blind sister,
And death, in the spring night.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Then I'd like to be a bull, white as snow,
Transforming myself, for carrying her,
In April, when, through meadows so tender,
A flower, through a
thousand
flowers, she goes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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What shall we do
tomorrow?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
|
þāra þe hē cēnoste findan mihte, 207; swylce hīe at Finnes-hām
findan meahton sigla searo-gimma, 1157; similarly, 2871; mæg þǣr fela
frēonda findan, 1839; wolde guman findan, 2295; swā hyt weorðlīcost
fore-snotre men findan mihton, _so
splendidly
as only very wise men could
devise it_, 3164; pret.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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Yet we dream that he still,--in that shadowy region
Where the dead form their ranks at the wan drummer's sign,--
Rides on, as of old, down the length of his legion,
And the word still is
Forward!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Arme, Arme, and out,
If this which he auouches, do's appeare,
There is nor flying hence, nor
tarrying
here.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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But this makes surety once more of my thought,
And gives again my reason its lost station;
For it may come now in my privilege
(A thing that could cure madness in my brain)
That thou from me persuasion hast to endure
What well I know thy soul, thy upright soul,
Feels as abominable harness on it
Fastening thee unwillingly to crime,--
The
wickedness
that hath delighted in thee.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
|
'T was sooner when the cricket went
Than when the winter came,
Yet that
pathetic
pendulum
Keeps esoteric time.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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"Oh, Pray, sir, "the lady " spake all
laughter
riven,
"What means this?
| Guess: |
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Except for the limited right of
replacement
or refund set forth
in paragraph 1.
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"Some dialects are objected to--
For one, the _Irish_ brogue is:
And then, for all you have to do,
One pound a week they offer you,
And find
yourself
in Bogies!
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No longer delay, let us hasten away in the
track of the sea-gull's call,
The sea is our mother, the cloud is our brother,
the waves are our
comrades
all.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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HILDA _(with
quivering
lips): Almost_--I was going to say.
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But when he heard the lady's tale,
And when she told her father's name,
Why waxed Sir Leoline so pale,
Murmuring
o'er the name again,
Lord Roland de Vaux of Tryermaine?
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Terms as low as
those of any other
contractor
for the same kind and style of work.
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Public domain books are our gateways to the past, representing a wealth of history, culture and
knowledge
that's often difficult to discover.
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Meredith - Poems |
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My
cheerless
suns no pleasure know;
Night's horrid car drags, dreary slow;
My dismal months no joys are crowning,
But spleeny English hanging, drowning.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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She does not heed thee, wherefore should she heed,
She knows
Endymion
is not far away;
'Tis I, 'tis I, whose soul is as the reed
Which has no message of its own to play,
So pipes another's bidding, it is I,
Drifting with every wind on the wide sea of misery.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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every vein & lacteal
threading
them among
Her woof of terror.
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Blake - Zoas |
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She went as quiet as the dew
From a
familiar
flower.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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To learn more about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation
and how your efforts and donations can help, see
Sections
3 and 4
and the Foundation web page at http://www.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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