And my soul is a sepulchre where I,
Ill cenobite, have spent eternity:
On the vile
cloister
walls no pictures rise.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Who
assisted
thee to ravage and to plunder;
I trow thou hadst full many wicked comrades.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Above all these
varying moods lay the sensation of dull, numbing wonder that the Seen
and the Unseen should mingle so
strangely
on this earth to hound one
poor soul to its grave.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Among his war
writings
are _The Human Boy and the
War_, and _Plain Song, 1914-16_.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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XI
Mars, now ashamed to have granted power
To his offspring who, with mortal frailty,
Engorged with pride in Rome's bravery,
Looked to
infringe
on Heaven's grandeur,
Cooling again from his initial ardour,
With which Roman hearts he'd filled completely,
Blew new fires, with ardent breath, and fiercely,
Warmed the chilly Goths with his hot valour.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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During more than a century after the
institution
of the
Tribuneship, the Commons struggled manfully for the removal of
the grievances under which they labored; and, in spite of many
checks and reverses, succeeded in wringing concession after
concession from the stubborn aristocracy.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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III
IN Debtors' Yard the stones are hard,
And the
dripping
wall is high,
So it was there he took the air
Beneath the leaden sky,
And by each side a Warder walked,
For fear the man might die.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Then to deprive them of water and forage, he
straitened
his
entrenchment by degrees, and hemmed them in still closer.
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Tacitus |
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El Desdichado (The Disinherited)
I am the darkness - the widower - the un-consoled,
The prince of Aquitaine in the ruined tower;
My sole star is dead - and my
constellated
lute
Bears the black sun of Melancholy.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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We encourage the use of public domain materials for these
purposes
and may be able to help.
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Meredith - Poems |
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A blare
Of squalling
trumpets
clots the air.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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whose flying changes frame
Errors and snares for mortals poor and blind;
O days more swift than arrows or the wind,
Experienced now, I know your
treacherous
aim.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Bro: Unmuffle ye faint stars, and thou fair Moon
That wontst to love the
travailers
benizon,
Stoop thy pale visage through an amber cloud,
And disinherit Chaos, that raigns here
In double night of darknes, and of shades;
Or if your influence be quite damm'd up
With black usurping mists, som gentle taper
Though a rush Candle from the wicker hole
Of som clay habitation visit us
With thy long levell'd rule of streaming light.
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Milton |
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"
Among the windings of the violins
And the ariettes
Of cracked cornets
Inside my brain a dull tom-tom begins
Absurdly
hammering
a prelude of its own,
Capricious monotone
That is at least one definite "false note.
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T.S. Eliot |
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What fire could ever equal the
sunshine
of a winter's day,
when the meadow mice come out by the wall-sides, and the chickadee
lisps in the defiles of the wood?
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Roused by the prince of Air, the whirlwinds sweep
The surge, and plunge his father in the deep;
Then full against his Cornish lands they roar,
And two rich
shipwrecks
bless the lucky shore.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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The parent of modern nonsense-writers, he is distinguished
from all his followers and
imitators
by the superior consistency with which
he has adhered to his aim,--that of amusing his readers by fantastic
absurdities, as void of vulgarity or cynicism as they are incapable of
being made to harbor any symbolical meaning.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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"
"Listen, my little peasant," said I to him, "do you know this part of
the
country?
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Clasp Wife, and kiss, and lift the head,
Harrington lies at his
doorstep
dead.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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The stray ships passing spied a face
Upon the waters borne,
With eyes in death still begging raised,
And hands
beseeching
thrown.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Which is an argument that the good counsellors to princes are the
best
instruments
of a good age.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Into Moses' wholesale shop:
There they bought a hat and bonnet,
And a gown with spots upon it,
A satin sash of Cloxam blue,
And a pair of
slippers
too.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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XXVII
But Tania ne'er displayed a passion
For dolls, e'en from her
earliest
years,
And gossip of the town and fashion
She ne'er repeated unto hers.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Yet, as we proceeded, the
sounds of human life revived by sure degrees, and at length large bands
of the most abandoned of a London
populace
were seen reeling to and fro.
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Poe - 5 |
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Hunchbacked
and broken, crooked though they be,
Let us still love them, for they still have souls.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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The gem in Eastern mine which slumbers,
Or ruddy gold 'twill not bestow;
'Twill not subdue the turban'd numbers,
Before the Prophet's shrine which bow;
Nor high through air on
friendly
pinions
Can bear thee swift to home and clan,
From mournful climes and strange dominions--
From South to North--my Talisman.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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He drew new music from our tongue,
A music subtly wrought,
And moulded words to his desire,
As wind doth mould a wave of fire;
From
strangely
fashioned harps slow golden tones he wrung.
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Sara Teasdale |
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-1891" and beside this: "Perhaps it is all an insertion
designed
to preceed 'Enion blind & age bent wept upon the desolate wind,-(373 in the 1st printed numbering-suggestion of Mr F G Fleay 1904".
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Blake - Zoas |
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Against the
Teucrians
the forces of sky and sea are spent.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Lesbia's Sparrow_
_a_
PASSER, deliciae meae puellae,
quicum ludere, quem in sinu tenere,
quoi primum digitum dare adpetenti
et acris solet incitare morsus,
cum desiderio meo nitenti
carum nescio quid libet iocari,
et
solaciolum
sui doloris,
credo, et cum grauis acquiescit ardor:
tecum ludere, sicut ipsa, possem,
et tristis animi leuare curas.
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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LIMITED WARRANTY,
DISCLAIMER
OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right
of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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In the
wandering
transparency
of your noble face
these floating animals are wonderful
I envy their candour their inexperience
Your inexperience on the bed of waters
Finds the road of love without bowing
By the road of ways
and without the talisman that reveals
your laughter at the crowd of women
and your tears no one wants.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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THE ASHANTEE
(Jardin d'Acclimatation, Paris)
No vision of exotic southern countries,
No dancing women, supple, brown and tall
Whirling
from out their falling draperies
To melodies that beat a fierce mad call;
No sound of songs that from the hot blood rise,
No langorous, stretching, dusky, velvet maids
Flashing like gleaming weapon their bright eyes,
No swift, wild thrill the quickening blood pervades.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Sweet dreams of
pleasant
streams
By happy, silent, moony beams!
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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" The
following
four lines were written over lines erased by Blake; they cannot now be retrieved.
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Blake - Zoas |
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WIT PUNISHED,
PROSPERS
MOST.
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Robert Herrick |
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LI _AD
LESBIAM_
?
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Latin - Catullus |
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, _to dash against, to encounter_, here of the
collision
of
hostile bands: pret.
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Beowulf |
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Now the fact _that this quintessence cures all diseases_
does not arise from temperature, but from an innate property, namely
its great
cleanliness
and purity, by which, after a wonderful manner,
it alters the body into its own purity, and entirely changes it.
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John Donne |
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"
So that ere yet the vessel made the shore
Unploughed remained a mighty space of sea;
But that this king reproved the Sarzan sore,
Ruling that to appeal upon that plea
No more with
Mandricardo
could avail,
And made the moody Sarzan strike his sail.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Break off the parley; for scarce I can refrain
The
execution
of my big-swol'n heart
Upon that Clifford, that cruel child-killer.
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Shakespeare |
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Doubt me, my dim
companion!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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" 460
An impious oath
confirmed
the threat--
Whereat from the earth on which he lay [47]
To all the echoes, south and north,
And east and west, the Ass sent forth
A long and clamorous bray!
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William Wordsworth |
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To him that dares 780
Arm his profane tongue with contemptuous words
Against the Sun-clad power of Chastity,
Fain would I
somthing
say, yet to what end?
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| Source: |
Milton |
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Strange broken
thoughts
are beating in my brain,
They come and vanish and again they come.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Looke to the Lady:
And when we haue our naked Frailties hid,
That suffer in exposure; let vs meet,
And
question
this most bloody piece of worke,
To know it further.
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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Not long ago Boris sent two boyars
To
execution
merely because in secret
They drank thy health.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Amid the jagged shadows
Of mossy leafless boughs,
Kneeling in the moonlight,
To make her gentle vows;
Her slender palms together prest,
Heaving sometimes on her breast;
Her face
resigned
to bliss or bale--
Her face, oh call it fair not pale,
And both blue eyes more, bright than clear,
Each about to have a tear.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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LIMITED WARRANTY,
DISCLAIMER
OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right
of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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And if thy
right hand offend thee, cut it off and cast it from thee; for it
is
profitable
for thee that one of thy members should perish, and
not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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COROMANDEL FISHERS
Rise, brothers, rise, the
wakening
skies pray
to the morning light,
The wind lies asleep in the arms of the dawn
like a child that has cried all night.
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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This
appearance
of the officer had become a daily occurrence.
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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And the host rubbed his hands and smiled at his wife; for his guests
were
spending
freely.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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DING DONG[17]
When the world grows old by the chimney-side
Then forth to the
youngling
nooks I glide,
Where over the water and over the land
The bells are booming on either hand.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Once I thought to scale so soon
Heights above the
changing
moon;
Now, I thank God for delay--
To-day, it yet is called to-day.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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Like strange
mechanical
grotesques,
Making fantastic arabesques,
The shadows raced across the blind.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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"In the latter end of the sixteenth century, the Chisolms were
proprietors of the estate of Cromlecks (now
possessed
by the
Drummonds).
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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I've half a mind to shake myself
Free just for once from London,
To set my work upon the shelf
And leave it done or undone;
To run down by the early train,
Whirl down with shriek and whistle, 50
And feel the bluff North blow again,
And mark the
sprouting
thistle
Set up on waste patch of the lane
Its green and tender bristle.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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O all ye
blissfullest
of men, who more gladsome or
more blissful is than I am?
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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The grass, that elsewhere grows as best it may
Under the larches, countable long nesh blades,
Here in clear sky pads the ground thick and close
As wool upon a
Southdown
wether's back;
And as in Southdown wool, your hand must sink
Up to the wrist before it find the roots.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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To you old Bald-pate
smoothes
his wrinkled brow,
And humbly begs you'll mind the important--Now!
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Was I a
careless
woman set at ease
That this so bitter cup is brimmed for me?
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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I'll tell you a story--the kings have story-tellers while they are
waiting for their dinner--I will tell you a story with a fight in it, a
story with a champion in it, and a ship and a queen's son that has his
mind set on killing
somebody
that you and I know.
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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"
XXXVII
Well I found you in the twilit garden,
Laid a lover's hand upon your shoulder,
And we both were made aware of loving
Past the reach of reason to unravel,
Or the much
desiring
heart to follow.
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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Tiger, tiger, burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What
immortal
hand or eye
Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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He
wondered
why it was so
hard to write so simple a thing.
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Yeats |
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This man, by some fatal impulse (for he had never
before shown any instance of magnanimity) or blinded by deceitful
policy, while forgetful of present and
impending
dangers, he dreaded
future possibilities, joined the party that hesitated, and even warned
the Consuls "not to begin the debate:" he argued "that in a short moment
the highest affairs might take a new turn: and an interval ought to be
allowed to the old man to change his passion into remorse.
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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That, barking busy 'mid the glittering rocks,
Hunts, where he points, the
intercepted
flocks; 1793.
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
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The person or entity that provided you with
the defective work may elect to provide a
replacement
copy in lieu of a
refund.
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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_L' avara
Babilonia
ha colmo 'l sacco.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Trusteth
wel, and understondeth me.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Some ugly
witchcraft
must be here!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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But by my heart of love laid bare to you,
My love that you can make not void nor vain,
Love that foregoes you but to claim anew
Beyond this passage of the gate of death,
I charge you at the
Judgment
make it plain
My love of you was life and not a breath.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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III
She dwelt forever in a region bright,
Peopled with living fancies of her own,
Where naught could come but visions of delight,
Far, far aloof from earth's eternal moan: 20
A summer cloud thrilled through with rosy light,
Floating
beneath the blue sky all alone,
Her spirit wandered by itself, and won
A golden edge from some unsetting sun.
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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PRINCESS
OF FRANCE.
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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A Seneschal and usher would appear,
And troops of
servants
many baskets bear.
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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anne alio positas ultra sub cardine gentis
atque alium proris intactum
quaerimus
orbem?
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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He was picked
up, and, at the same moment,
Lisaveta
was carried out in a faint.
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Hamet Taba stood by the curtains of the carriage, opened them
from time to time, and gave out orders as if he had
received
them from
the Emperor.
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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Busy in her
handsome
house
Known as Space, she falls a-drowse;
Yet, in seeming, works on dreaming,
While beneath her groping hands
Fiends make havoc in her bands.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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No mercy now can clear her brow
From this world's peace to pray
For as love's wild prayer
dissolved
in air,
Her woman's heart gave way!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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must have this sense
interpreted
by what follows.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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Touch it not; let it stand
Ragged, forlorn, still looking at the land;
The dry blue chaos of mountains in the distance,
The slender blades of grass it
shelters
are
Its own dark thoughts of what is near and far.
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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O haste and beat
The blunted steel we yet may draw
On Arab and on
Massagete!
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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_
O
Brothers
mine, to-day we stand
Where half a century sweeps our ken,
Since God, through Lincoln's ready hand,
Struck off our bonds and made us men.
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That all the tributes
of her
contemporaries
show reverence not less for her personality than for
her genius is sufficient answer to the calumnies with which the ribald
jesters of that later period, the corrupt and shameless writers of Athenian
comedy, strove to defile her fame.
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Sappho |
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For out of Shushan to the ends of the earth
Great news runs, with a hidden soundless speed
Through secret
channels
in the folks' dim mind,
As water races through smooth sloping gutters.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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The Hare
River Landscape with Hare
'River Landscape with Hare'
Abraham Genoels, Adam Frans van der Meulen,
Lodewijk
XIV, 1650 - 1690, The Rijksmuseun
Don't be fearful and lascivious
Like the hare and the amorous.
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Appoloinaire |
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Some Spanish writers have labored to show, by an
examination
of
dates and circumstances, that this story is untrue.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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We require an
infusion
of hemlock spruce or arbor-vitae
in our tea.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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And then I go the
furthest
off
To counteract a knock;
Then draw my little letter forth
And softly pick its lock.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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O muse, o alto ingegno, or m'aiutate;
o mente che
scrivesti
cio ch'io vidi,
qui si parra la tua nobilitate.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Artemis
The
thirteenth
returns.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Ferries cross thru the darkness
Weaving a golden thread into the night,
Their
whistles
weird shadows of sound.
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Sara Teasdale |
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The grey-green woods impassive
Had watched the
threshing
of his limbs.
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Stephen Crane |
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Ye
cheaters
in the tricksters' fane,
Who dupe yourself and trickster-chief,
In blazing _cafes_ spend the gain,
But draw the blind, lest at _his_ thief
Some fresh-made beggar gives a glance
And interrupts with steel the dance!
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Hugo - Poems |
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A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Donations are accepted in a number of other
ways including checks, online
payments
and credit card donations.
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Rilke - Poems |
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[3] The name Gilgamish was
originally
written
_d_Gi-bil-aga-mis, and means "The fire god (_Gibil_) is a commander,"
abbreviated to _d_Gi-bil-ga-mis, and _d_Gi(s)-bil-ga-mis, a form
which by full labialization of _b_ to _u_ was finally contracted to
_d_Gi-il-ga-mis.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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replied the doctor with delight,
The honour which you do us is not slight;
I pity men quite fresh and raw like you;
Our town, I see, you've hardly travelled through,
You fancy then, such wily snares are set,
'Tis
difficult
intrigues in Rome to get.
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La Fontaine |
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