"
Poor Avarice one torment more would find;
Nor could
Profusion
squander all in kind.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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"
She kissed the pillow as she knelt, and wet
With
flooding
tears was that fair coverlet.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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That was the reason, as some folks say,
He fought so well on that
terrible
day.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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"
So your
chimneys
I sweep, and in soot I sleep.
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blake-poems |
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He came down, bravely to meet the refusal of the church to
change the rite, and in a sermon preached in September, 1832, explained
his
objections
to it, and, because he could not honestly administer it,
resigned.
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Emerson - Poems |
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And, as our happy circle sat,
The fire well capp'd the company:
In grave debate or
careless
chat,
A right good fellow, mingled he:
He seemed as one of us to sit,
And talked of things above, below,
With flames more winsome than our wit,
And coals that burned like love aglow.
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Sidney Lanier |
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By birth and
temperament
he was singularly fitted for the task, and this
fitness is proved by the unique extent to which his productions were
accepted by his countrymen, and have passed into the life and feeling of
his race.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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- All this transformation
once
barbarous
and
material
external -
now
moral
and within
21.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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4 How the Central Plain has been cast in
darkness!
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Du Fu - 5 |
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who dost oft return,
Ministering comfort to my nights of woe,
From eyes which Death,
relenting
in his blow,
Has lit with all the lustres of the morn:
How am I gladden'd, that thou dost not scorn
O'er my dark days thy radiant beam to throw!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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But sure the eye of Time beholds no name
So bless'd as thine in all the rolls of fame;
Alive we hail'd thee with our
guardian
gods,
And dead thou rulest a king in these abodes.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Ye houlets, frae your ivy bow'r
In some auld tree, or eldritch tow'r,
What time the moon, wi' silent glow'r,
Sets up her horn,
Wail thro' the dreary
midnight
hour,
Till waukrife morn!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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{13}
The Jew in Celsus further observes, on comparing Christ with robbers,
"Some might in a similar manner unblushingly say of a robber and a
homicide, who was
punished
for his crimes, that he was not a robber but
a God; for he predicted to his associates that he should suffer what he
did suffer.
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Tacitus |
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Copyright
laws in most countries are in
a constant state of change.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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The Curve Of Your Eyes
The curve of your eyes embraces my heart
A ring of sweetness and dance
halo of time, sure
nocturnal
cradle,
And if I no longer know all I have lived through
It's that your eyes have not always been mine.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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It is most
singular
that you should laugh
'At nothing at all!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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If, which our valley bars, this wall of stone,
From which its present name we closely trace,
Were by
disdainful
nature rased, and thrown
Its back to Babel and to Rome its face;
Then had my sighs a better pathway known
To where their hope is yet in life and grace:
They now go singly, yet my voice all own;
And, where I send, not one but finds its place.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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What tho' their Phoebus kinder warms,
While fragrance blooms and beauty charms,
When
wretches
range, in famish'd swarms,
The scented groves;
Or, hounded forth, dishonour arms
In hungry droves!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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It exists
because of the efforts of
hundreds
of volunteers and donations from
people in all walks of life.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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First I must bring a
reproach
against you that applies equally
to both sides.
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Aristophanes |
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Quare aut hendecasyllabos trecentos 10
Expecta aut mihi linteum remitte,
Quod me non movet aestimatione,
Verumst
mnemosynum
mei sodalis.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Do
hundreds
play thee, or does but one play?
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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I have tiding,
Glad tiding, behold how in duty
From far
Lehistan
the wind, gliding.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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The many men, so
beautiful!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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[2] Several of the Lakes in the north of England are let out to
different Fishermen, in parcels marked out by
imaginary
lines
drawn from rock to rock.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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(One's arm is almost in half with
continual
fanning:
The sweat is pouring down one's neck in streams.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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The paper intervenes each time as an image, of itself, ends or begins once more, accepting a succession of others, and, since, as ever, it does nothing, of regular sonorous lines or verse - rather prismatic subdivisions of the Idea, the instant they appear, and as long as they last, in some precise intellectual performance, that is in
variable
positions, nearer to or further from the implicit guiding thread, because of the verisimilitude the text imposes.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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I regret that I am unable to
remember
them.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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The music has been thus harmonized for four voices by
Professor
C.
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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Then should I spur, though mounted on the wind,
In winged speed no motion shall I know,
Then can no horse with my desire keep pace;
Therefore
desire, of perfect'st love being made,
Shall neigh--no dull flesh--in his fiery race;
But love, for love, thus shall excuse my jade,--
'Since from thee going, he went wilful-slow,
Towards thee I'll run, and give him leave to go.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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She was
purely an Indian deity--an Anglo-Indian deity, that is to say--and
we called her THE Venus Annodomini, to
distinguish
her from other
Annodominis of the same everlasting order.
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Kipling - Poems |
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But the prince's
prudence
is his chief art and
safety.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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To Be, contents his natural desire,
He asks no Angel's wing, no Seraph's fire; 110
But thinks, admitted to that equal sky,
His
faithful
dog shall bear him company.
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Alexander Pope |
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'
But with walls blazoned, mourning, empty,
I've scorned the lucid horror of a tear,
When, deaf to the sacred verse he does not fear,
One of those passers-by, mute, blind, proud,
Transmutes himself, a guest in his vague shroud,
Into the virgin hero of
posthumous
waiting.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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My
Bridegroom
Death is come o'er the meres
To wed a bride with bloody tears.
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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By what mean hast thou render'd thee so drunken,
To the clay that thou bowest down thy figure,
And the grass and the windel-straws art
grasping?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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^1
Dearest of
distillation!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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King Marsilie's of his right hand bereft,
And the
Emperour
chased him enow from thence.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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MOPSUS
"For Daphnis cruelly slain wept all the Nymphs-
Ye hazels, bear them witness, and ye streams-
When she, his mother,
clasping
in her arms
The hapless body of the son she bare,
To gods and stars unpitying, poured her plaint.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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and from my
graspless
hand
Drop Friendship's precious pearls, like hour-glass sand.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Thel is like a watry bow, and like a parting cloud,
Like a
reflection
in a glass: like shadows in the water
Like dreams of infants, like a smile upon an infants face.
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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if our souls but poise and swing
Like the compass in its brazen ring,
Ever level and ever true
To the toil and the task we have to do,
We shall sail securely, and safely reach
The
Fortunate
Isles, on whose shining beach
The sights we see, and the sounds we hear,
Will be those of joy and not of fear!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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The attempt would only hurry me into that sphere of
acute
feelings
from which abstruse research, the mother of self-oblivion,
presents an asylum.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
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'
And they laughed till all the forest
Rang with their
unseemly
laughter.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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Unheeded Night has
overcome
the vales,
On the dark earth the baffl'd vision fails,
If peep between the clouds a star on high,
There turns for glad repose the weary eye;
The latest lingerer of the forest train,
The lone-black fir, forsakes the faded plain;
Last evening sight, the cottage smoke no more,
Lost in the deepen'd darkness, glimmers hoar;
High towering from the sullen dark-brown mere,
Like a black wall, the mountain steeps appear,
Thence red from different heights with restless gleam
Small cottage lights across the water stream,
Nought else of man or life remains behind
To call from other worlds the wilder'd mind,
Till pours the wakeful bird her solemn strains
[viii] Heard by the night-calm of the watry plains.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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A story born out of the dreaming eyes
And crazy brain and
credulous
ears of famine.
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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I have seen eyes in the street
Trying to peer through lighted shutters,
And a crab one afternoon in a pool,
An old crab with
barnacles
on his back,
Gripped the end of a stick which I held him.
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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A Fan
(Of Mademoiselle Mallarme's)
With nothing of
language
but
A beating in the sky
From so precious a place yet
Future verse will rise.
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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LI
Loitering with a vacant eye
Along the Grecian gallery,
And
brooding
on my heavy ill,
I met a statue standing still.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Since Cid in their language is lord in ours,
I'll not
begrudge
you all such honours.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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If you
do not charge
anything
for copies of this eBook, complying with the
rules is very easy.
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| Question: |
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Stephen Crane |
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Our
household
is but small, I own,
And yet needs care, if truth were known.
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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I have not followed original spacing exactly, except where it
genuinely
appears to add impact to the verse.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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"
Love's answer soon the truth forgotten shows--
"This high pure privilege true lovers claim,
Who from mere human feelings
franchised
are!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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m platz lo gais temps de pascor
The joyful
springtime
pleases me
Ai!
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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Let darkness unto darkness tell
Our deep
unspoken
prayer,
For, while our souls in darkness dwell,
We know that Thou art there.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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If you want to
download any of these eBooks directly, rather than using the regular
search system you may utilize the following
addresses
and just
download by the etext year.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Although no home were half so fair;
No
simplest
duty is forgot,
Life hath no dim and lowly spot
That doth not in her sunshine share.
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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Yet now, before our sun grow dark at noon,
Before we come to nought beneath Thy rod,
Before we go down quick into the pit, 80
Remember us for good, O God, our God:--
Thy Name will I remember, praising it,
Though Thou forget me, though Thou hide Thy face,
And blot me from the Book which Thou hast writ;
Thy Name will I remember in my praise
And call to mind Thy
faithfulness
of old,
Though as a weaver Thou cut off my days,
And end me as a tale ends that is told.
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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Therefore
the operations of the dawn
Stay'd in their birth, even as here 'tis told.
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| Source: |
Keats |
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Among other things, this
requires
that you do not remove, alter or modify the
eBook or this "small print!
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| Question: |
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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We do not solicit donations in locations
where we have not
received
written confirmation of compliance.
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
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Canst hear me through the water-bass,
Cry: "To the Shore,
Sweetheart?
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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But thou thyself, it seems, hast
business
with me,
And I would listen first to thee.
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Well I
descried
the whiteness on their heads;
But in their visages the dazzled eye
Was lost, as faculty that by too much
Is overpower'd.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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One after one by the horned Moon
(Listen, O
Stranger!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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The next thing most important to mention,
Metaphysics will claim your
attention!
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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One moment, one more word,
While my heart beats still,
While my breath is stirred
By my
fainting
will.
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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I rule them as I ought, discreetly,
An' aften labour them completely;
An' ay on Sundays, duly, nightly,
I on the Questions targe them tightly;
Till, faith, wee Davock's turn'd sae gleg,
Tho'
scarcely
langer than your leg,
He'll screed you aff Effectual calling,
As fast as ony in the dwalling.
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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Revivd her Soul with lives of beasts & birds
Slain on the Altar up ascending into her cloudy bosom
Of terrible
workmanship
the Altar labour of ten thousand Slaves
One thousand Men of wondrous power spent their lives in its formation
It stood on twelve steps namd after the names of her twelve sons
And was Erected at the chief entrance of Urizens hall
When Urizen descended returnd from his immense labours & travels
Descending She reposd beside him folding him around
In her bright skirts.
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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He said Burns had little to learn in
matters of levity, when he became
acquainted
with him.
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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* * * * *
The
background
against which the figure of Rainer Maria Rilke is
silhouetted is so varied, the influences which have entered into his
life are so manifold, that a study of his work, however slight, must
needs take into consideration the elements through which this poet has
matured into a great master.
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Rilke - Poems |
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e
emperour
al-so
Ne my?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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VIII
With arms and vassals Rome the world subdued,
So that one might judge this single city
Had found her
grandeur
held in check solely
By earth and ocean's depth and latitude.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Vienne la nuit sonne l'heure
Les jours s'en vont je demeure
Les mains dans les mains restons face a face
Tandis que sous
Le pont de nos bras passe
Des eternels regards l'onde si lasse
Vienne la nuit sonne l'heure
Les jours s'en vont je demeure
L'amour s'en va comme cette eau courante
L'amour s'en va
Comme la vie est lente
Et comme l'Esperance est violente
Vienne la nuit sonne l'heure
Les jours s'en vont je demeure
Passent les jours et passent les semaines
Ni temps passe
Ni les amours reviennent
Sous le pont Mirabeau coule la Seine
LA CHANSON DU MAL-AIME
A Paul Leautaud
Et je
chantais
cette romance
En 1903 sans savoir
Que mon amour a la semblance
Du beau Phenix s'il meurt un soir
Le matin voit sa renaissance.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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They tell us you might sue us if there is
something
wrong with
your copy of this etext, even if you got it for free from
someone other than us, and even if what's wrong is not our
fault.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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_"
CORPORAL
ALEXANDER
ROBERTSON: To an Old Lady
Seen at a Guest-House for Soldiers
LIEUTENANT GILBERT WATERHOUSE: The Casualty
Clearing Station
LANCE-CORPORAL MALCOLM HEMPHREY: Hills of Home
XVI.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Couchlet
which to me and all
* * * *
* * * *
* * * * 110
With bright white bedstead foot.
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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The invalidity or
unenforceability
of any
provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions.
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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Thus Hafiz, copying Omar in so many ways: "When thou
drinkest
Wine
pour a draught on the ground.
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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I wot the
stranger
worketh woe within--
For lo!
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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In such a fight, there's little
strength
in wood,
Iron and steel should here their valour prove.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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' The
interjected
'O knottie riddle' does not mean, 'Who is
to say which is the worst?
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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So--satire is no more--I feel it die--
No Gazetteer more
innocent
than I--
And let, a' God's name, every fool and knave
Be graced through life, and flattered in his grave.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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And the shy stars grew bold and scattered gold,
And chanting voices ancient secrets told,
And an acclaim of angels
earthward
rolled.
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Sidney Lanier |
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they love thee least who owe thee most--
Their birth, their blood, and that sublime record
Of hero sires, who shame thy now
degenerate
horde!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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But the heedless youth, flying
away, beats the waves with his oars, leaving his
perjured
vows to the gusty
gales.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Then it may be, O flattering tale,
Some future ignoramus shall
My famous
portrait
indicate
And cry: he was a poet great!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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How does he conquer every
element?
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Ay, canst thou buy a single sigh
Of true love's least, least
ecstasy?
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Sidney Lanier |
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Our
teachers
teach that one and one make two:
Later, Love rules that one and one make one:
Abstruse the problems!
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Christina Rossetti |
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Strange unto her each
childish
game,
But when the winter season came
And dark and drear the evenings were,
Terrible tales she loved to hear.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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From the stump of the arm, the
amputated
hand,
I undo the clotted lint, remove the slough, wash off the matter and blood;
Back on his pillow the soldier bends, with curved neck, and side-falling
head;
His eyes are closed, his face is pale, he dares not look on the bloody
stump,
And has not yet looked on it.
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Whitman |
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"Project Gutenberg" is a
registered
trademark.
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Sara Teasdale |
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I do not sing here to the common tune,
Claiming that everything beneath the moon
Is
corruptible
and subject to decay:
But rather I say (not wishing to displease
Those who would argue by contraries)
That this great All must perish some fine day.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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PORTRAIT OF A MACHINE
What nudity is beautiful as this
Obedient monster purring at its toil;
These naked iron muscles
dripping
oil
And the sure-fingered rods that never miss.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Je l'ai dit tout a
l'heure et je sais que je ne suis pas le seul a le penser: Rimbaud en
prose est peut-etre
superieur
a celui en vers.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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My days of life approach their end,
Yet I in idleness expend
The remnant destiny concedes,
And thus each
stubbornly
proceeds.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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He will admit that the most important parts of the narrative have
some
foundation
in truth.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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SONG
Two doves upon the selfsame branch,
Two lilies on a single stem,
Two
butterflies
upon one flower:--
Oh happy they who look on them.
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Christina Rossetti |
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