He
received
no reply, but, evidently
understanding the female heart, he presevered, begging for an interview.
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490
Snapp'd where it join'd the keel the mast had fall'n,
But fell encircled with a leathern brace,
Which it retain'd; binding with this the mast
And keel together, on them both I sat,
Borne helpless onward by the
dreadful
gale.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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So after this quod she, `We yow biseke,
My dere brother,
Deiphebus
and I, 1675
For love of god, and so doth Pandare eke,
To been good lord and freend, right hertely,
Un-to Criseyde, which that certeinly
Receyveth wrong, as woot wel here Pandare,
That can hir cas wel bet than I declare.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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The
mysterious
grandeur
of the wind in the trees, whether in calm or storm.
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"
Now, apart from the essay and its evident application, Byron had
probably observed that among the _Phaleucia_, or Hendecasyllables, were
included some exquisite lines _Ad Sutheium_ (on the death of Herbert
Southey), followed by some
extremely
unpleasant ones on _Taunto_ and his
tongue, and would naturally conclude that "Savagius" was ready to do
battle for the Laureate if occasion arose.
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Byron |
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A Single Smile
A single smile disputes
Each star with the
gathering
night
A single smile for us both
And the blue of your joyful eyes
Against the mass of night
Finding its flame in my eyes
I have seen by needing to know
The deep night create the day
With no change in our appearance.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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[Footnote B: In the
Statistical
Account of Scotland, however--drawn up
by the parish ministers of the county, and edited by Sir John
Sinclair--both the river and the glen are spelt Almon, by the Rev.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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A gloomy wanness spoiled her rosy cheek,
And doubts hung there it was not mine to seek;
She neer so much as mentioned things to come,
But sighed oer
pleasures
ere she left her home;
And now and then a mournful smile would raise
At freaks repeated of our younger days,
Which I brought up, while passing spots of ground
Where we, when children, "hurly-burlied" round,
Or "blindman-buffed" some morts of hours away--
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Glory to the tsar
Dimitry!
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Lewis Carroll |
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With ship and mariners I now arrive,
Seeking a people of another tongue 230
Athwart the gloomy flood, in quest of brass
For which I barter steel,
ploughing
the waves
To Temesa.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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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.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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New
captives
fill the nets you weave;
New slaves are bred; and those before,
Though oft they threaten, never leave
Your godless door.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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And swift, with wondrous
swiftness
fleeting,
The pomp of earth turns round and round,
The glow of Eden alternating
With shuddering midnight's gloom profound;
Up o'er the rocks the foaming ocean
Heaves from its old, primeval bed,
And rocks and seas, with endless motion,
On in the spheral sweep are sped.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Weiss doch der Gartner, wenn das
Baumchen
grunt,
Das Blut und Frucht die kunft'gen Jahre zieren.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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And now a gusty shower wraps
The grimy scraps
Of
withered
leaves about your feet
And newspapers from vacant lots;
The showers beat
On broken blinds and chimney-pots,
And at the corner of the street
A lonely cab-horse steams and stamps.
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T.S. Eliot |
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All have not appeared in the form of
snowflakes
but many have been tamed by the Finnish or Lapp sorcerers and obey them.
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Appoloinaire |
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The
Commandant
and all the officers have been hanged, all
the soldiers are prisoners.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Upsala nee priseis impar memoratur Athenis,
JSgidaque et currus hie sua Pallas habet
mine O quales lieeat gperftsse liquores,
Quum Dea
praMideat
fontibus ipsa sacris !
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Marvell - Poems |
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Love's
orchards
climbed to the heavens of the West,
And snowed the earthly sod with flowers.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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He made this
somewhat
ironic alba in 1257, a fitting coda to the troubadour era.
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Troubador Verse |
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For oak and elm have
pleasant
leaves
That in the springtime shoot:
But grim to see is the gallows-tree,
With its adder-bitten root,
And, green or dry, a man must die
Before it bears its fruit!
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Wilde - Poems |
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Low lies the plant to whose
creation
went
Sweet influence from every element;
Whose living towers the years conspired to build,
Whose giddy top the morning loved to gild.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Out of clay
hast thou
fashioned
me and to thee I owe mine all.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Orpheus
invented
all the sciences, all the arts.
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Appoloinaire |
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Thence to my view another vale appear'd
CANTO XX
AND now the verse
proceeds
to torments new,
Fit argument of this the twentieth strain
Of the first song, whose awful theme records
The spirits whelm'd in woe.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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All
Summarised
The Soul.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Sweet is the swallow twittering on the eaves
At daybreak, when the mower whets his scythe,
And stock-doves murmur, and the milkmaid leaves
Her little lonely bed, and carols blithe
To see the heavy-lowing cattle wait
Stretching
their huge and dripping mouths across the farmyard gate.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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This is
unfinished
business with me--How is it with you?
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Whitman |
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"I
intended
to see good white lands
"And bad black lands,
"But the scene is grey.
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Stephen Crane |
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"And the tsar has
commanded
to arrest him--"
OFFICER.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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striuyng
wordes an o?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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,
_lasting
through the morning_: acc.
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Beowulf |
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Why wilt thou live when none around
reflects
thy pensive ray?
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Emerson - Poems |
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'Tis known, too much thought dazes oft a mind,
Till it can learn nought of the signed evil
God hath put in the faces of evil notions,
That spiritual sight may ken them coming
Sly and demure, and safely shut the brain
Ere they be in and swell
themselves
to lordship.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Compliance
requirements are not uniform and it takes a
considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up
with these requirements.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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I am that
creature
and creator, Change.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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O could a girl not nestle snug and happy
Against a neck, with such hair
covering
her!
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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"
LXVIII
In talk the blest apostle is diffuse
On this and that, until the day is worn:
But when the sun is sunk i' the salt sea ooze,
And overhead the moon uplifts her horn,
A chariot is prepared, erewhile in use
To scower the heavens, wherein of old was borne
From Jewry's misty
mountains
to the sky,
Sainted Elias, rapt from mortal eye.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Keep up your
courage!
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Aristophanes |
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"
"Because if true my mem'ry," I replied,
"I
heretofore
have seen thee with dry locks,
And thou Alessio art of Lucca sprung.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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In the amplitude of her joy, the Moon filled all your chamber as with a
phosphorescent air, a luminous poison; and all this living radiance
thought and said: "You shall be for ever under the
influence
of my kiss.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Here,
regarding
the palace, and a testimony of the love that the King of England possessed for his mistress, is this quatrain from a poem whose Author I do not know.
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Appoloinaire |
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I never heard of such as dare
Approach
the spot when she is there.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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--
Is there no daring Bard will rise and tell
How
glorious
Wallace stood, how hapless fell?
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Here take our homage, Chief and Sire;
Here wreathe with bay thy
conquering
brow,
And bid the prancing Mede retire,
Our Caesar thou!
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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108: _ah_ GRVen: _ha_ O
72
_ferens_
a, Bod.
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Latin - Catullus |
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If you brought us out here to fail us and to
ridicule
us,
it is the last day you will live!
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Yeats |
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Some ask'd how Pearls did grow, and where:
Then spoke I to my girl,
To part her lips, and shew me there
The
quarrelets
of Pearl.
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Robert Herrick |
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All the nobles were
summoned
to his room, and
Altun was asked to sing them a song about Tchirek, his native land.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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" said the wife, "these
gentlemen!
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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My heart more love than your
forgetfulness!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Where are these
Gentlemen?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
|
XIX
All perfection Heaven showers on us,
All imperfection born beneath the skies,
All that regales our spirits and our eyes,
And all those things that devour our pleasures:
All those ills that strip our age of treasures,
All the good the centuries might devise,
Rome in ancestral times secured as prize,
Like Pandora's box,
enclosed
the measure.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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The Norman sends his arrows up to Heaven,
They fall on those within the
palisade!
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Tennyson |
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The Foundation's
principal
office is located at 4557 Melan Dr.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Byron
describes
Suwarrow as "Now
Mars, now Momus" (_Don Juan_, Canto VII.
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Byron |
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"Thou should'st have learnt that _Not to Mend_
For Me could mean but _Not to Know_:
Hence,
Messengers!
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Where are thy
comrades?
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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XLIII
Who now is left to keepe the
forlorne
maid
From raging spoile of lawlesse victors will?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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How sweet its
streamlet
murmurs in mine ear!
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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For such a dreadful deed, that if on earth
Aught could
exculpate
murder, it were this.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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He bids them all good day, as he thought, for
evermore
(ll.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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) Ha, there's drinking going on
here; we shall get
something
here.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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How, in thy father's halls, among the maidens
Pure and reproachless of thy princely line,
Could the
dishonored
Lalage abide?
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Nothing - not even old gardens
mirrored
by eyes -
Can restrain this heart that drenches itself in the sea,
O nights, or the abandoned light of my lamp,
On the void of paper, that whiteness defends,
No, not even the young woman feeding her child.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Li Po |
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Why, 'tis I who had you taught how to
refute what is right, and now you would
persuade
me it is right a son
should beat his father.
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Aristophanes |
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If plagues or earthquakes break not Heav'n's design, 155
Why then a Borgia, or a
Catiline?
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Alexander Pope |
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Sighs ascended,
Thou
gleanest
not?
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Ah I quoties pavidum demisit conscia lumen,
Utque sua; timuit
Parrhasius
ora Dese ?
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Marvell - Poems |
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Thus to the more worthy part he held,
That, what for hope and
Pandarus
biheste,
His grete wo for-yede he at the leste.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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His attempt on her virtue was
forgiven
by Cyrus.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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You have
soured the
naturally
excellent disposition of ghosts and goblins.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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This, Madam, is a task for which I am
altogether
unfit.
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Robert Forst |
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Hither, intent the rival rout to slay,
And plan the scene of death, I bend my way;
So Pallas wills--but thou, my son, explain
The names and numbers of the
audacious
train;
'Tis mine to judge if better to employ
Assistant force, or singly to destroy.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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He is as
remorseless
and undistinguished
as some natural force, and the finest thing in his play is the way his
old companions fall out of it broken-hearted or on their way to the
gallows; and instead of that lyricism which rose out of Richard's mind
like the jet of a fountain to fall again where it had risen, instead
of that phantasy too enfolded in its own sincerity to make any thought
the hour had need of, Shakespeare has given him a resounding rhetoric
that moves men, as a leading article does to-day.
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Yeats |
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To
SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of
compliance
for any
particular state visit www.
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Eia age, praeclaros Latio
properate
nepotes,
qui leges, qui castra regant, qui carmina ludant.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Is the east
Afraid to trust the morn
With her
fastidious
forehead?
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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The shepherd, quitting here at night the plain,
Calls, to succeed his cares, the
watchful
swain;
But he that scorns the chains of sleep to wear,
And adds the herdsman's to the shepherd's care,
So near the pastures, and so short the way,
His double toils may claim a double pay,
And join the labours of the night and day.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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FINIS
Joachim du Bellay
'Joachim du Bellay'
Science and
literature
in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance - P.
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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But say, and truly; knows the prudent Queen
Already thy return, or shall we send
Ourselves
an herald with the joyful news?
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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And win them too; therefore let us devise
Some
entertainment
for them in their tents.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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Sweet is the swallow
twittering
on the eaves
At daybreak, when the mower whets his scythe,
And stock-doves murmur, and the milkmaid leaves
Her little lonely bed, and carols blithe
To see the heavy-lowing cattle wait
Stretching their huge and dripping mouths across the farmyard gate.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Waiting him, in that
territory
stay:
But, after that, would seek the flags which bore
The golden lilies, and King Charles' array.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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HE MOURNS HIS WANT OF
PERCEPTION
AT THAT MEETING.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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How I scorned the dull souls that sat guzzling around
And knew not my secret nor recked my
derision!
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James Russell Lowell |
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I have heard the
mermaids
singing, each to each.
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T.S. Eliot |
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The
inhabitants
evidently rely on
them in a great measure for music and entertainment.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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[62]
"I have begged Alexey
Ivanytch
to give me some time to think it over.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Finally, most of us believe that
concentration
is of the very essence
of poetry.
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Imagists |
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VARLAAM,
wandering
friar.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Ther was the
dougghte
Doglas slean:
The Perse never went away.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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What
opponent
can there be in pacifying the border?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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