_inserts_
the _after_ dreme
of; _the rest omit_.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Pour noyer la
rancoeur
et bercer l'indolence
De tous ces vieux maudits qui meurent en silence,
Dieu, touche de remords, avait fait le sommeil;
L'Homme ajouta le Vin, fils sacre du Soleil!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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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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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Beside a sea that could not cease to smile;
On
tranquil
land, beneath a sky of bliss.
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Golden Treasury |
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" Many men
Lowered their eyes, and the fierce hands that gripped
The
prisoner
began to loose their hold.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Sweet roses do not so;
Of their sweet deaths, are
sweetest
odours made:
And so of you, beauteous and lovely youth,
When that shall vade, by verse distills your truth.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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My
splendors
are menagerie;
But their competeless show
Will entertain the centuries
When I am, long ago,
An island in dishonored grass,
Whom none but daisies know.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Saturnia lends the lash; the
coursers
fly;
Smooth glides the chariot through the liquid sky.
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Iliad - Pope |
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I ween with good he will well requite
offspring of ours, when all he minds
that for him we did in his
helpless
days
of gift and grace to gain him honor!
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Porter
And on her
daughter
200
They wash their feet in soda water
Et O ces voix d'enfants, chantant dans la coupole!
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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I ought to speak out freely
With words though that will take,
For it can
scarcely
please me
When the tricksters rake
More love in than is at stake
For the lover who loves truly.
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Troubador Verse |
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XXVII
Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed,
The dear respose for limbs with travel tir'd;
But then begins a journey in my head
To work my mind, when body's work's expired:
For then my thoughts--from far where I abide--
Intend a zealous
pilgrimage
to thee,
And keep my drooping eyelids open wide,
Looking on darkness which the blind do see:
Save that my soul's imaginary sight
Presents thy shadow to my sightless view,
Which, like a jewel (hung in ghastly night,
Makes black night beauteous, and her old face new.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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distributed
Project
Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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The brown waves of fog toss up to me
Twisted faces from the bottom of the street,
And tear from a passer-by with muddy skirts
An aimless smile that hovers in the air
And
vanishes
along the level of the roofs.
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T.S. Eliot |
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but Fate to Cinara gave
A life of little space;
And now she cheats the grave
Of Lyce, spared to raven's length of days,
That youth may see, with
laughter
and disgust,
A fire-brand, once ablaze,
Now smouldering in grey dust.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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His
opponents
also raked up another charge.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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_That it is partly upon his_ ignorance _of_ future
_events, and partly upon the_ hope _of a_ future
_state, that all his
happiness
in the present
depends_.
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Alexander Pope |
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And it bears the fruit of Deceit,
Ruddy and sweet to eat,
And the raven his nest has made
In its
thickest
shade.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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In the _Masque of Augurs_ Vangoose speaks a sort
of Dutch jargon, and we know that a Flemish
cemetery
was located here
(see Wh-C).
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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--
Jealousy
fled he,
Eormenric's hate: chose help eternal.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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O pale goddess
Whom not the darkness, even, or rain or storm,
Changes; whose great wings are bright with foam,
Whose breasts are cold as the sea, whose eyes forever
Inscrutably
take that light whereon they look--
Speak to us!
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Nor is it only the family of worth that have
reason to
complain
of thee: the children of folly and vice, though in
common with thee the offspring of evil, smart equally under thy rod.
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Robert Burns |
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Though I could have gone off to my
ramshackle
gate,1 12 I could not bring myself to mention it right then.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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>>
--Sois
charmante
et tais-toi!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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That even these can make no Man happy without Virtue:
Instanced
in
Riches, v.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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The little hundred-and-fifty-pound
camel-guns posted at one corner of the square opened the ball as the
square moved forward by its right to get
possession
of a knoll of rising
ground.
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Kipling - Poems |
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The variant has
_ultaprid
ki-is-su-su_,
"he shook his murderous weapon.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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"When ripen'd fields, and azure skies,
Called forth the reaper's
rustling
noise,
I saw thee leave their evening joys,
And lonely stalk,
To vent thy bosom's swelling rise
In pensive walk.
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Robert Forst |
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TO-DAY we will not cross the garden railing,
For sometimes swiftly, yet in ways unclear,
This soft caressing or this sweet exhaling,
With long-forgotten joy again draws near:
And thus it brings us ghosts which goad and harass,
And anguish
rendering
weary and afraid.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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SAS}
Thy brother Luvah hath smitten me but pity thou his youth
Tho thou hast not pitid my Age O Urizen Prince of Light
{According
to Erdman, "Blake first wrote and erased a different text for 8, ending ?
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Blake - Zoas |
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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I keep it there as a secret debt that
I am glad to think I can never
possibly
repay.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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She made and paid for the costumes in _The Shadowy Waters_,
but in this case
followed
a colour-scheme of mine.
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Yeats |
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End of the Project
Gutenberg
EBook of Poems, by Rainer Maria Rilke
*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK POEMS ***
***** This file should be named 38594-0.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Scarcely was heard to float some gentlest sound,
Scarcely some low
breathed
word,
As in a forest fallen asleep, is found
Just one belated bird.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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_uada_ O
7
_uerentes_
OBLa1 et G m.
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Latin - Catullus |
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Note: This poem is a consequence of the two
previous
poems.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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For should Man finally be lost, should Man 150
Thy creature late so lov'd, thy youngest Son
Fall
circumvented
thus by fraud, though joynd
With his own folly?
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Milton |
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He lookd and saw wide Territorie spred
Before him, Towns, and rural works between,
Cities of Men with lofty Gates and Towrs,
Concours in Arms, fierce Faces threatning Warr,
Giants of mightie Bone, and bould emprise;
Part wield thir Arms, part courb the foaming Steed,
Single or in Array of Battel rang'd 640
Both Horse and Foot, nor idely
mustring
stood;
One way a Band select from forage drives
A herd of Beeves, faire Oxen and faire Kine
From a fat Meddow ground; or fleecy Flock,
Ewes and thir bleating Lambs over the Plaine,
Thir Bootie; scarce with Life the Shepherds flye,
But call in aide, which tacks a bloody Fray;
With cruel Tournament the Squadrons joine;
Where Cattel pastur'd late, now scatterd lies
With Carcasses and Arms th' ensanguind Field 650
Deserted: Others to a Citie strong
Lay Siege, encampt; by Batterie, Scale, and Mine,
Assaulting; others from the Wall defend
With Dart and Jav'lin, Stones and sulfurous Fire;
On each hand slaughter and gigantic deeds.
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Milton |
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Again, she may revolve upon herself,
Like to a ball's sphere--if perchance that be--
One half of her dyed o'er with glowing light,
And by the revolution of that sphere
She may beget for us her varying shapes,
Until she turns that fiery part of her
Full to the sight and open eyes of men;
Thence by slow stages round and back she whirls,
Withdrawing thus the luminiferous part
Of her sphered mass and ball, as, verily,
The Babylonian doctrine of Chaldees,
Refuting the art of Greek astrologers,
Labours, in opposition, to prove sure--
As if, forsooth, the thing for which each fights,
Might not alike be true,--or aught there were
Wherefore thou
mightest
risk embracing one
More than the other notion.
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Lucretius |
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That wretched man, the volume by whose aid
He all his battles fought, on earth had laid:
XXVI
And ran to bind her with a chain, which he,
Girt round about him for such a purpose, wore;
Because he deemed she was no less to be
Mastered
and bound than those subdued before.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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"
Thus sung they, in the English boat,
A holy and a
cheerful
note.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Half-past two,
The street-lamp said,
"Remark the cat which
flattens
itself in the gutter,
Slips out its tongue
And devours a morsel of rancid butter.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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A hermit's life
Oneguine
led,
At seven in summer rose from bed,
And clad in airy costume took
His course unto the running brook.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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6
The female of the Halcyon,
Love, the
seductive
Sirens,
All know the fatal songs
Dangerous and inhuman.
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Appoloinaire |
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Hail, O fair Sirmio, in thy lord rejoice:
And ye, O waves of Lybian Lake be glad,
And laugh what
laughter
pealeth in my home.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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XXI
BREDON HILL (1)
In
summertime
on Bredon
The bells they sound so clear;
Round both the shires they ring them
In steeples far and near,
A happy noise to hear.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Yet, even ere such
governments
are formed, is Asia no
loser by the arrival of Europeans.
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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Ay, look: high heaven and earth ail from the prime foundation;
All
thoughts
to rive the heart are here, and all are vain:
Horror and scorn and hate and fear and indignation-
Oh why did I awake?
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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O
blaspheme
de l'art!
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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His laughter was submarine and profound
Like the old man of the seats
Hidden under coral islands
Where worried bodies of drowned men drift down in the green silence,
Dropping
from fingers of surf.
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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He wept; and we
With tears prayed God to send His love and peace
Upon his
suffering
and stormy soul.
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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If you
received
the work electronically, the person or entity
providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to
receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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For if I saw thee once transform'd in me,
Then in thy bosom I would pour my soul;
Then all my
thoughts
should in thy visage shine,
And if that aught mischanced thou should'st not moan
Nor bear the burthen of thy griefs alone;
No, I would have my share in what were thine:
And whilst we thus should make our sorrows one,
This happy harmony would make them none.
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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_
For me 'tis all
sufficient
meed,
Tho' little wealth or power were won,
So I can say, _'Tis past and done.
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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High thee hither,
That I may powre my Spirits in thine Eare,
And chastise with the valour of my Tongue
All that
impeides
thee from the Golden Round,
Which Fate and Metaphysicall ayde doth seeme
To haue thee crown'd withall.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
|
Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed
editions, all of which are
confirmed
as Public Domain in the U.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Which in a moment ceased, and then
The great light clasped his brows again,
So that they shone like Stephen's when
Saul stood apart a little space
And shook with shuddering awe to trace
God's splendors
settling
o'er his face.
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
|
One leaf (pages 89-90) is thus
unaccounted
for; but it is evident
from the signatures and pagination that _The Diuell is an Asse_ was
printed with a view to having it follow _Bartholomew Fayre_.
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
|
The Literary Digest says, in a recent issue :
"There are many "poetry magazines,' but so far as we know Contemporary Verse is the only Ameriean
magazine
devoted wholly to the publication of poetry.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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And this, at least, I dare affirm,
Since genius too has bound and term,
There is no bard in all the choir,
Not Homer's self, the poet sire,
Wise Milton's odes of pensive pleasure,
Or Shakspeare, whom no mind can measure,
Nor Collins' verse of tender pain,
Nor Byron's clarion of disdain,
Scott, the delight of generous boys,
Or Wordsworth, Pan's recording voice,--
Not one of all can put in verse,
Or to this
presence
could rehearse
The sights and voices ravishing
The boy knew on the hills in spring,
When pacing through the oaks he heard
Sharp queries of the sentry-bird,
The heavy grouse's sudden whir,
The rattle of the kingfisher;
Saw bonfires of the harlot flies
In the lowland, when day dies;
Or marked, benighted and forlorn,
The first far signal-fire of morn.
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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LE JEU
Dans des fauteuils fanes des courtisanes vieilles,
Pales, le sourcil peint, l'oeil calin et fatal,
Minaudant, et faisant de leurs maigres oreilles
Tomber un cliquetis de pierre et de metal;
Autour des verts tapis des visages sans levre,
Des levres sans couleur, des machoires sans dent,
Et des doigts
convulses
d'une infernale fievre,
Fouillant la poche vide ou le sein palpitant;
Sous de sales plafonds un rang de pales lustres
Et d'enormes quinquets projetant leurs lueurs
Sur des fronts tenebreux de poetes illustres
Qui viennent gaspiller leurs sanglantes sueurs:
--Voila le noir tableau qu'en un reve nocturne
Je vis se derouler sous mon oeil clairvoyant,
Moi-meme, dans un coin de l'antre taciturne,
Je me vis accoude, froid, muet, enviant,
Enviant de ces gens la passion tenace,
De ces vieilles putains la funebre gaite,
Et tous gaillardement trafiquant a ma face,
L'un de son vieil honneur, l'autre de sa beaute!
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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They had their choice: a
wanderer
_must I_ go,
The Spectre of that innocent Man, my guide.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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And yet more--I, being lord
Of sea and land, to
Sigismond
award
The earth; to Ladislaus all the sea.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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15
I would freshen it with flowers,
And the piney hill-wind through it
Should be
sweetened
with soft fervours
Of small prayers in gentle language
Thou wouldst smile to hear.
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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O so dear
O so dear from far and near and white all
So deliciously you, Mery, that I dream
Of what
impossibly
flows, of some rare balm
Over some flower-vase of darkened crystal.
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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Vitam puriter egi_
SIQVA recordanti
benefacta
priora uoluptas
est homini, cum se cogitat esse pium,
nec sanctam uiolasse fidem, nec foedere in ullo
diuum ad fallendos numine abusum homines,
multa parata manent in longa aetate, Catulle,
ex hoc ingrato gaudia amore tibi.
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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In the middle of the town,
From its
fountains
in the hills,
Tumbling through the narrow gorge,
The Canneto rushes down,
Turns the great wheels of the mills,
Lifts the hammers of the forge.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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"
Was shown how routed in the battle fled
Th' Assyrians,
Holofernes
slain, and e'en
The relics of the carnage.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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"I
really do not know, sir," he replied; "but I hope you do not think me so
mean as to be guilty of
stealing
yours.
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| Source: |
Byron |
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So he turned to the queen and remarked:
[Illustration: THREE
VISITORS
TO THE CASTLE.
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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And, as Virginius through the press his way in silence cleft,
Ever the mighty
multitude
fell back to right and left.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Emmanuel's council were almost
unanimous
against the attempt.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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My wife and children are amazed I survived, when
surprise
settles, they wipe away tears.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
|
_N_ and _TCD_ are the larger
collections; _A18_ and _TCC_ contain each a smaller
selection
from the
same body of poems.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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It was not, like their tragedy, their
comedy, their epic and lyric poetry, a
hothouse
plant which, in
return for assiduous and skilful culture, gave only scanty and
sickly fruits.
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The City Dead-House
By the city dead-house by the gate,
As idly
sauntering
wending my way from the clangor,
I curious pause, for lo, an outcast form, a poor dead prostitute brought,
Her corpse they deposit unclaim'd, it lies on the damp brick pavement,
The divine woman, her body, I see the body, I look on it alone,
That house once full of passion and beauty, all else I notice not,
Nor stillness so cold, nor running water from faucet, nor odors
morbific impress me,
But the house alone--that wondrous house--that delicate fair house
--that ruin!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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It would be sweet to find her alone,
While she slept, or
pretended
to,
Then a sweet kiss I'd make my own,
Since I'm not worthy to ask for two.
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Troubador Verse |
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--I only
interposed
between my brother and his
impending fate by the loan of so much.
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Robert Burns |
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--Not a
thousand
prayers can gain
A man's bare bread, save an he work amain.
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Euripides - Electra |
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Three times circling beneath heaven's veil,
In devotion, round your tombs, I hail
You, with loud summons; thrice on you I call:
And, while your ancient fury I invoke,
Here, as though I in sacred terror spoke,
I'll sing your glory,
beauteous
above all.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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If ears are porches, mouth, nose, and eyes had better be doors and windows; yet the concept of micromacrocosm is better expressed in "infinite orb immoveable," with its matching of the
oxymoron
in "primum mobile.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Doubt me, my dim
companion!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Is it
something
grown
fresh out of the fields, or drawn from the sea, for use to me, to-day,
here?
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Whitman |
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--more like an out-of-tune
Worn viol, a good singer would be wroth
To spoil his song with, and which,
snatched
in haste,
Is laid down at the first ill-sounding note.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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"
"But surely," I broke in at this point, "the river-front is open, and
it is worth while dodging the bullets; while at night"--I had already
matured a rough plan of escape which a natural
instinct
of selfishness
forbade me sharing with Gunga Dass.
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Kipling - Poems |
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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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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Even after his death down to the Romantic revival, in fact,
Pope's supremacy was an article of critical faith, and this supremacy
was in no small measure founded upon the
acknowledged
merits of the
'Essay on Criticism.
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Alexander Pope |
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They still took
European
consciousness as an
affair of geography and race rather than simply as a triumphant stage in
the general progress of man's knowledge of himself.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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[142] However, I am under no apprehensions about that; for though
indolent, yet so far as an extremely delicate constitution permits, I
am not lazy; and in many things, expecially in tavern matters, I am a
strict economist; not, indeed, for the sake of the money; but one of
the principal parts in my composition is a kind of pride of stomach;
and I scorn to fear the face of any man living: above everything, I
abhor as hell, the idea of
sneaking
in a corner to avoid a
dun--possibly some pitiful, sordid wretch, who in my heart I despise
and detest.
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Robert Burns |
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From the optics it drew reasons, by which it
considered
how
things placed at distance and afar off should appear less; how above or
beneath the head should deceive the eye, &c.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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How can you
understand
that this my heart
Is but a sparrow in an eagle's nest?
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Unauthenticated Download Date | 10/1/17 7:36 AM Traveling Late:
Extempore
321 On mountain roads a bugle blows now and then?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose
such as creation of
derivative
works, reports, performances and
research.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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, _terror-guest,
stranger
causing terror_: nom.
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Beowulf |
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Is it that in some
brighter
sphere
We part from friends we meet with here?
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Shelley |
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[A] Ho ra3t hym a riche rynk[1] of red golde werke3,
Wyth a starande ston,
stondande
alofte,
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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HISTRION
r
i N:
great
At times pass through us,
And we are melted into them, and are not Save
reflexions
of their souls.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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HE TELLS OF THE PERFECT BEAUTY
O CLOUD-PALE eyelids, dream-dimmed eyes,
The poets
labouring
all their days
To build a perfect beauty in rhyme
Are overthrown by a woman's gaze
And by the unlabouring brood of the skies:
And therefore my heart will bow, when dew
Is dropping sleep, until God burn time,
Before the unlabouring stars and you.
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Yeats |
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"
What will not
Claudian
hands achieve?
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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