Yea, the lines hast thou laid unto me
in
pleasant
places, And the beauty of this thy Venice
hast thou shown unto me Until is its loveliness become unto me
a thing of tears.
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The little mothers
Will sing them in the twilight, And when the night
Shrinketh the kiss of the dawn That loves and kills,
What time the swallow fills
Her note, the little rabbit folk
That some call children,
Such as are up and wide
Will laugh your verses to each other, Pulling on their shoes for the day's business, Serious child
business
that the world Laughs at, and grows stale;
Such is the tale
Part of it of thy song-life.
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but War & Princedom
& Victory & Blood *
PAGE 12 {This page
contains
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Blake - Zoas |
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Buchanan
was committed to prison, because it was alleged that he
had eaten flesh in Lent, and because in his early youth, at St.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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You that speak lewdly of God, you yet shall see
Jerusalem
treading
upon her foes.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Have hat of floures fresh as May,
Chapelet
of roses of Whitsonday;
For sich array ne cost but lyte.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Here with cursed precepts, and with
counsels
dire.
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Marvell - Poems |
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THE FLY
Little Fly,
Thy summer's play
My
thoughtless
hand
Has brushed away.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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1
Hebrew
Melodies
p.
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Byron |
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LIX
The count Rollanz hath heard himself decreed;
Speaks then to Guenes by rule of courtesy:
"Good-father, Sir, I ought to hold you dear,
Since the
rereward
you have for me decreed.
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Chanson de Roland |
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The Season of Loves
By the road of ways
In the three-part shadow of
troubled
sleep
I come to you the double the multiple
as like you as the era of deltas.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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No matter how slow the style be at first, so it be laboured and accurate;
seek the best, and be not glad of the froward conceits, or first words,
that offer
themselves
to us; but judge of what we invent, and order what
we approve.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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as written in the character of a Soldier of Fortune
in the
Seventeenth
Century.
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Golden Treasury |
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(For with delight thy vig'rous growth I view,
And just
proportion)
be thou also bold, 380
And merit praise from ages yet to come.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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So canopied, lay an
untasted
feast
Teeming with odours.
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Keats |
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that modest swain is blest
Who reads his visionary theme
To the fair object of his dream,
A beauty
languidly
at rest,
Yes, happy--though she at his side
By other thoughts be occupied.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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After some words Charles bounded at the General's throat and
sought to
strangle
him.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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The moaning wind went
wandering
round
The weeping prison-wall:
Till like a wheel of turning steel
We felt the minutes crawl:
O moaning wind!
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Wilde - Poems |
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A lackey in the
Imperial
livery entered the room, announcing that the
Tzarina deigned to call to her presence the daughter of Captain
Mironoff.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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"'One of the greatest of the wise men of Khorassan was the Imam
Mowaffak of Naishapur, a man highly honored and reverenced,--may God
rejoice his soul; his illustrious years
exceeded
eighty-five, and it
was the universal belief that every boy who read the Koran or studied
the traditions in his presence, would assuredly attain to honor and
happiness.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Will not man find here
everything
that can please him--wisdom,
love, the divine Graces, the sweet face of gentle peace?
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Aristophanes |
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Dante
Alighieri
put this man in hell for that he was a stirrer-up of strife.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Remove yon skull from out the
scattered
heaps:
Is that a temple where a God may dwell?
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied
warranties or the
exclusion
or limitation of certain types of damages.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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'Tis
something
of this sort I deem.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Kalenda maia
Calends of May
Nor leafy spray
Nor songs of birds, nor flowers gay
Please me today
My Lady, nay,
Lest there's a fine message I pray
From your loveliness, to relay
The
pleasures
new love and joy may
Display
And I'll play
For you, true lady, I say,
And lay
By the way
The jealous ones, ere I go away.
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Troubador Verse |
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I would not kiss thy face again
Nor round thy shining
slippers
crawl.
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John Clare |
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>>
L'une, par sa patrie au malheur exercee,
L'autre, que son epoux surchargea de douleurs,
L'autre, par son enfant Madone transpercee,
Toutes
auraient
pu faire un fleuve avec leurs pleurs!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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700
>>
Tant estoit cil chans dous et biaus,
Qu'il ne
sombloit
pas chans d'oisiaus,
Ains le peust l'en aesmer
A chant de seraines de mer,
Qui par lor vois, qu'eles ont saines
Et series, ont non seraines.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Don't you
remember
the one reducing the price of salt, eh?
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Aristophanes |
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E quando innanzi a noi intrato fue,
che li occhi miei si fero a lui seguaci,
come la mente a le parole sue,
parvermi
i rami gravidi e vivaci
d'un altro pomo, e non molto lontani
per esser pur allora volto in laci.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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e
condic{i}ou{n}
of his fortune.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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So many
hurrying
home--
And thou still away.
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Sappho |
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Eldest mason, Frost, had piled
Swift
cathedrals
in the wild;
The piny hosts were sheeted ghosts
In the star-lit minster aisled.
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Emerson - Poems |
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I'd have been before her with that course,
Love would have swiftly
inspired
the thought.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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a
shuddring
ran from East to West *
A Groan was heard on high.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Meanwhile an advanced guard of cavalry were on their way from the Latin
city, while the rest of their marshalled
battalions
linger on the
plains, and bore a reply to King Turnus; three hundred men all under
shield, in Volscens' leading.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Yes, I know:
Like
swimming
against a mighty will, that wears
The cruelty, the race and scolding spray
Of monstrous passionate water.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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"
Aunt Helen
Miss Helen Slingsby was my maiden aunt,
And lived in a small house near a
fashionable
square
Cared for by servants to the number of four.
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T.S. Eliot |
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What is that sound high in the air
Murmur of maternal lamentation
Who are those hooded hordes swarming
Over endless plains, stumbling in cracked earth 370
Ringed by the flat horizon only
What is the city over the mountains
Cracks and reforms and bursts in the violet air
Falling towers
Jerusalem Athens Alexandria
Vienna London
Unreal
A woman drew her long black hair out tight
And fiddled whisper music on those strings
And bats with baby faces in the violet light 380
Whistled, and beat their wings
And crawled head downward down a blackened wall
And upside down in air were towers
Tolling reminiscent bells, that kept the hours
And voices singing out of empty
cisterns
and exhausted wells.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and
donations
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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INFANT SORROW
My mother groaned, my father wept:
Into the
dangerous
world I leapt,
Helpless, naked, piping loud,
Like a fiend hid in a cloud.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Wiser, I esteem it, to give chance
the credit of the
successful
ones.
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| Question: |
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James Russell Lowell |
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Wilde - Poems |
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While I stared, my Lady took
My hand in her spare hand,
Jewelled and soft and grand,
And looked with a long long look
Of hunger in my face;
As if she tried to trace
Features
she ought to know,
And half hoped, half feared, to find.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Thinwillow
Camp, near Chang?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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By the rough
seas I swear, fear for myself never wrung me so sore as for thy ship,
lest, the rudder lost and the pilot struck away, those
gathering
waves
might master it.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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The great men held a
large portion of the community in dependence by means of advances
at
enormous
usury.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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from whom my being sips
Such darling essence,
wherefore
may I not
Be ever in these arms?
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Keats |
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Nearly all the
individual
works in the
collection are in the public domain in the United States.
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Stephen Crane |
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Time
consumes
words, like love.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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After some
hesitation, Petrarch
ventured
to write a strong advice to the Pope to
remove the holy seat from Avignon to Rome.
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Petrarch |
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Sounds not the clang of
conflict
on the heath?
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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My heart replied: It's never enough
We'll never have had enough of sadness:
And don't you see that changeableness
Makes past pain dearer to us, and
sweeter?
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19th Century French Poetry |
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fulle sooner schulde mie hartes blodde smethe,
Fulle soonere woulde I
tortured
bee toe deathe;
Botte--Birtha ys the pryze; ahe!
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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>>
L'AMOUR DU MENSONGE
Quand je te vois passer, o ma chere indolente,
Au chant des
instruments
qui se brise au plafond,
Suspendant ton allure harmonieuse et lente,
Et promenant l'ennui de ton regard profond;
Quand je contemple, aux feux du gaz qui le colore,
Ton front pale, embelli par un morbide attrait,
Ou les torches du soir allument une aurore,
Et tes yeux attirants comme ceux d'un portrait,
Je me dis: Qu'elle est belle!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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thou vessel purposeless, unmeant,
Yet drone-hive strange of phantom
purposes!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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What last curse to sate
My pain, or river of wild words to flow
Bank-high
between?
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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Over the Carnage Rose Prophetic a Voice
Over the carnage rose prophetic a voice,
Be not dishearten'd, affection shall solve the
problems
of freedom yet,
Those who love each other shall become invincible,
They shall yet make Columbia victorious.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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My spirit kindles to
fire, and rises in wrath to avenge my dying land and take
repayment
for
her crimes.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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This poem,
although
so much lighter in spirit, bears a certain relation
in thought to Keats's other odes.
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| Question: |
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Keats |
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Was she a matron of Cornelia's mien,
Or the light air of Egypt's graceful queen,
Profuse of joy; or 'gainst it did she war,
Inveterate
in virtue?
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Copyright laws in most
countries
are in
a constant state of change.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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has olim exuuias mihi
perfidus
ille reliquit,
pignora cara sui: quae nunc ego limine in ipso,
terra, tibi mando; debent haec pignora Daphnin.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Rilke - Poems |
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The present now and here,
America's busy, teeming, intricate whirl,
Of
aggregate
and segregate for only thence releasing,
To-day's eidolons.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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"When was I ever
anything
but kind to him?
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Robert Forst |
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Fluch sei der
Hoffnung!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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The characteristic attribute of Marvell's genius
was
unquestionably
wit, in all the varieties of
which — ^brief sententious sarcasm, fierce invective,
light raillery, grave irony, and broad laughing
humour — he seems to have been by nature almost
equally fitted to excel.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Public domain books are our gateways to the past,
representing
a wealth of history, culture and knowledge that's often difficult to discover.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Those gods you
endlessly
weep will return!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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And that inverted Bowl they call the Sky,
Whereunder
crawling
coop'd we live and die,
Lift not your hands to It for help--for It
As impotently moves as you or I.
| Guess: |
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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' quod he, 850
`Nay, nay, it may not stonden in this wyse;
For, nece myn, thus wryten clerkes wyse,
That peril is with
drecching
in y-drawe;
Nay, swich abodes been nought worth an hawe.
| Guess: |
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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say,
Are all thy
playthings
snatched away?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
|
75
Claustra
pandite ianuae,
Virgo ades.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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And as a
vanquished
soldier yields his sword
To one who lifts him from the bloody earth,
Even so, Beloved, I at last record,
Here ends my strife.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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When thus they oft had sported with the ball
Thrown upward, next, with nimble interchange
They pass'd it to each other many a time,
Footing the plain, while ev'ry youth of all
The circus clapp'd his hands, and from beneath
The din of
stamping
feet fill'd all the air.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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Then - you would only
have been me
- since I am
here - lonely, sad -
- no, I remember
a
childhood
-
- yours
twin voices
but without you
I'd not have - known
18.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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(To Rodrigue)
Go, I will not
pressure
her unfairly.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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The east wind blows on the
springtime
ice, 24 far and wide the holy soil is wet.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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Captains
and soldiers are smeared on the bushes and grass;
The General schemed in vain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
|
ECLOGUE IV
POLLIO
Muses of Sicily, essay we now
A
somewhat
loftier task!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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"
"I
composed
this song as I conveyed my chest so far on my road to
Greenock, where I was to embark in a few days for Jamaica.
| Guess: |
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Leave tenantless thy crystal home, and fly,
With all thy train, athwart the moony sky--
*Apart--like fire-flies in
Sicilian
night,
And wing to other worlds another light!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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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 - Boris Gudonov |
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Take away those rosy lips,
Rich with balmy treasure;
Turn away thine eyes of love,
Lest I die with
pleasure!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Yet with a head freshly honed and
cunningly
fledged, certain others
Pierce to the marrow, inflame rapidly there our blood.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Tempo vegg' io, non molto dopo ancoi,
che tragge un altro Carlo fuor di Francia,
per far
conoscer
meglio e se e ' suoi.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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--As Tytler was most intimately acquainted with Allan Ramsay, I
think the
anecdote
may be depended on.
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Robert Burns |
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Francois and Margot and thee and me:
1 Certain
gibbeted
corpses used to be coated with tar as a pre- servative ; thus one scarecrow served as warning for considerable time.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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"By thy long grey beard and
glittering
eye,
Now wherefore stopp'st thou me?
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Coleridge - Poems |
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After leaving school in England, he spent
several months as a student and
observer
in Germany.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Come, da piu letizia pinti e tratti,
a la fiata quei che vanno a rota
levan la voce e rallegrano li atti,
cosi, a l'orazion pronta e divota,
li santi cerchi mostrar nova gioia
nel
torneare
e ne la mira nota.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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O
Rehoboam!
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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grandior
hic uero si iam seniorque queratur
atque obitum lamentetur miser amplius aequo,
non merito inclamet magis et uoce increpet acri?
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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