Our master made
That order, that the
stranger
must not know.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Condescendingly
accept
This poor fruit of my earnest toil.
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Robert Herrick |
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Who shames a
Scribbler?
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Alexander Pope |
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Shall I say, I have gone at dusk through narrow streets
And watched the smoke that rises from the pipes
Of lonely men in shirt-sleeves, leaning out of
windows?
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T.S. Eliot |
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Shall self-wrapt
husbands
aye forget
Kiss-pardons for the daily fret
Wherewith sweet wifely eyes are wet --
Blind to lips kiss-wise set --
Fair Lady?
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Sidney Lanier |
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How many gazers mightst thou lead away,
if thou wouldst use the
strength
of all thy state!
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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necessarily keep eBooks in compliance with any
particular
paper
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Prior's 'echo' of this poem is well known:
'SO when I am weary of
wandering
all day,
To thee, my delight, in the evening I come;
No matter what beauties I saw in my way,
They were but my visits, but thou art my home.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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at clerkes
schullen
fordo ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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And then he
stretched
his arms, how wild!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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A twofold curse, for wronging stranger-guests
Who are akin withal, confrontingly
Should rise before this city and be shown
A
ruthless
monster, fed on human doom.
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Aeschylus |
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auspice terras
linquo Ioue et celsam reserat dux
Iuppiter
aethram.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Thy ward is higher up: but have ye slain
The damsel's
champion?
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Tennyson |
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But the danger was past--they had landed at last,
With their boxes, portmanteaus, and bags:
Yet at first sight the crew were not pleased with the view
Which
consisted
of chasms and crags.
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Lewis Carroll |
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) I see thou art ashamed
Of love not princely; so
pronounce
on me
The fatal word; my fate is in thy hands.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Tliee, the year's monster, let thy dam devour,
And constant Time, to keep his course yet right,
Fill up thy space with a
redoubled
night.
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Marvell - Poems |
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There
is much more holds us than
presseth
us.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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" These we know to
have been jewels of a radiance so
imperishable
that the broken gleams of
them still dazzle men's eyes, whether shining from the two small brilliants
and the handful of star-dust which alone remain to us, or reflected merely
from the adoration of those poets of old time who were so fortunate as to
witness their full glory.
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Sappho |
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Cart ruts and horses'
footings
scarcely yield
A slur for boys, just crizzled and that's all.
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John Clare |
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of
matchless
mind,
Thou knowest now the whole; and that, which else
No other can, is nought to thy great power:
Deign then my grief to end,
Thus honour shall be thine, and safe my peace at last!
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Petrarch |
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(Bronzing under the tan and
bringing
down his hand very
quickly.
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Kipling - Poems |
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_ Plainly
homeward
thy words remand me.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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In poetry as in
everything
else
_urbem fecit quod prius orbis erat_.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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The star of Love, all stars above,
Now reigns o'er earth and sky,
And high and low the
influence
know--
But where is County Guy?
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Golden Treasury |
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On visionary views would fancy feed,
Till his eye
streamed
with tears.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Let no unkind 'No' fair
beseechers
kill;
Think all but one, and me in that one 'Will.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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MEPHISTOPHELES:
Nein, ein Discours wie dieser da
Ist grade der, den ich am
liebsten
fuhre!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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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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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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But Beowulf, on general principles and from his observation
of the
particular
case, foretells trouble.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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But mine is the
midnight
of Death,
And Nature's morn
To my bosom forlorn
Brings but a gloomier night, implants a deadlier thorn.
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Shelley |
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Oh, in that blest, ecstatic hour,
I felt myself so small, so great;
Thou drovest me with cruel power
Back upon man's
uncertain
fate
What shall I do?
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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The hag be
confounded!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Music-hall posters squall out:
The passengers shrink together,
I enter
indelicately
into all their souls.
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Imagists |
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"
whispered
the oaks from oracular caverns of darkness:
And, from the moonlit meadow, a sigh responded, "To-morrow!
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Longfellow |
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Where fierce the surge with awful bellow
Doth ever lash the rocky wall;
And where the moon most
brightly
mellow
Dost beam when mists of evening fall;
Where midst his harem's countless blisses
The Moslem spends his vital span,
A Sorceress there with gentle kisses
Presented me a Talisman.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Only the houses are
blocking
the sun there, it's not yet the mountains.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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--
Yet less for loss of your dear
presence
there
Than that I thus found lacking in your make
That high compassion which can overbear
Reluctance for pure lovingkindness' sake
Grieved I, when, as the hope-hour stroked its sum,
You did not come.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Let my foes choke, and my friends shout afar,
While through the thronged streets your bridal car
Wheels round its
dazzling
spokes.
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Keats |
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»3
GHOSTS
By Samuel Roth
She stood half leaning in the dark doorway, Light
kindling
softly in her anxious eyes:
"I tire," she pleaded, "tire of all that's wise And witty.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Yit hath the
merveilous
cristal
Swich strengthe, that the place overal, 1580
Bothe fowl and tree, and leves grene,
And al the yerd in it is sene.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Alike for those who for TO-DAY prepare,
And those that after a TO-MORROW stare,
A Muezzin from the Tower of
Darkness
cries
"Fools!
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Therefore it suits that even the soul's dissolved,
Like smoke, into the lofty winds of air;
Since we behold the same to being come
Along with body and grow, and, as I've taught,
Crumble and crack,
therewith
outworn by eld.
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Lucretius |
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Huge sea-wood fed with copper
Burned green and orange, framed by the
coloured
stone,
In which sad light a carved dolphin swam.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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The
Foundation
makes no representations concerning
the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United
States.
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Sara Teasdale |
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"
* * * * *
Yet what are all such
gaieties
to me
Whose thoughts are full of indices and surds?
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Lewis Carroll |
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"In Poverty's low barren vale,
Thick mists obscure involv'd me round;
Though oft I turn'd the wistful eye,
Nae ray of fame was to be found:
Thou found'st me, like the morning sun
That melts the fogs in limpid air,
The friendless bard and rustic song
Became alike thy
fostering
care.
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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The old graves are
ploughed
up into fields,
The pines and cypresses are hewn for timber.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Though many a wounded bosom bleeds
For sire, for son, for lover dear,
Yet Sorrow smiles amid her weeds,--
Affliction
dries her tender tear;
Oh!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Look, see how I play with them, while all the time they think
themselves such adepts at
cheating
me.
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Aristophanes |
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"
Incensed was Kate by this denial
After so
promising
a trial,
Nor would be beat, but firmly swore
To give more trouble than before.
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La Fontaine |
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_The_ DOGE _and his Nephew_
BERTUCCIO
FALIERO.
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Byron |
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Unto
Gilgamish
king of Erech of the wide places
open, addressing thy speech
as unto a husband.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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All our lone journey laughs for joy, the hours
Like honey-bees go home in new-found light
Past the cow pond amazed with
twinkling
flowers
And antique chalk-pit newly delved to white,
Or idle snow-plough nearly hid from sight.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Of long passed I knew him wele;
Ungoodly
first though men him fele,
He wol meek aftir, in his bering,
Been, for service and obeysshing.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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A
FLEETING
GLIMPSE OF A VILLAGE.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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95
Is my humiliation the gods
concern?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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were brought some time after, in
consequence
of Mr.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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"
How fair her glorious
features
shine,
Whereon the hand of God hath set
An angel's attributes divine,
With all a woman's sweetness met.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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What
lightning
struck?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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what thy memory cannot contain,
Commit to these waste blanks, and thou shalt find
Those
children
nursed, deliver'd from thy brain,
To take a new acquaintance of thy mind.
| Guess: |
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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The years went by and never knew
That each one brought me nearer you;
Their path was narrow and apart
And yet it led me to your heart--
Oh
sensitive
shy years, oh lonely years,
That strove to sing with voices drowned in tears.
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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By Sidney and
Clifford
Lanier.
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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The stains that war hath wrought upon the land
Show but as faint white flecks, if seen o' the side
Of those blood-covered images that stalk
Through yon cold
chambers
of the future, as
The prophet-mood, now stealing on my soul,
Reveals them, marching, marching, marching.
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Sidney Lanier |
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restores thus:
Þǣr on innan gīong
niðða nāthwylc, nēode tō gefēng
hǣðnum horde; hond ætgenam
seleful since fāh; nē hē þæt syððan āgeaf,
þēah þe hē slǣpende besyrede hyrde
þēofes cræfte: þæt se þīoden onfand,
bȳ-folc beorna, þæt hē
gebolgen
wæs.
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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Chimene
complains
he has killed her father,
Yet I'd have done so, if I'd been younger.
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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Gradually
they began to be
aware of a sound of distant music.
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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Shameless
I left my father's home;
Shameless I cheat the expectant grave;
O heaven, that naked I might roam
In lions' cave!
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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distributed
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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They also
defeated
a band of
Nervian volunteers who had been recruited in the Roman interest.
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Tacitus |
|
Updated
editions
will replace the previous one--the old editions
will be renamed.
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| Source: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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--
And how the other tiny things
Will leave their moonlight meadow-rings,
And, unperceived, through key-holes creep,
When all around have sunk to sleep,
To feast on what the cotter leaves,--
Mice are not
reckoned
greater thieves.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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but, fond elf,
He was content to let her amorous plea
Faint through his
careless
arms; content to see
An unseiz'd heaven dying at his feet;
Content, O fool!
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| Source: |
Keats |
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A
Farewell
to Sack.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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Besides, unless my memory fail,
Your some one with an iron flail
Is not an ancient myth at all,
But comes much later on the scene
As Talus in the Faerie Queene,
The iron groom of Artegall,
Who threshed out
falsehood
and deceit,
And truth upheld, and righted wrong,
As was, as is the swallow, fleet,
And as the lion is, was strong.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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shall I ever in aftertime behold
My native bounds- see many a harvest hence
With
ravished
eyes the lowly turf-roofed cot
Where I was king?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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The T'ang History relates the episode as follows: "Yuan was
staying the night at the Fu-shui Inn; just as he was
preparing
to go to
sleep in the Main Hall, the court-official Li Shih-yuan also arrived.
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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There long time sad at heart he stayed:
"Poor Yorick," mournfully he said,
"How often in thine arms I lay;
How with thy medal I would play,
The Medal
Otchakoff
conferred!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Let it be your grief
That he is dead
And your
opportunity
gone;
For, in that, you were a coward.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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Arous'd from this sad mood
By one, who at a distance loud halloo'd,
Uplifting his strong bow into the air,
Many might after brighter visions stare:
After the Argonauts, in blind amaze
Tossing about on Neptune's restless ways,
Until, from the horizon's vaulted side,
There shot a golden splendour far and wide, 350
Spangling those million poutings of the brine
With
quivering
ore: 'twas even an awful shine
From the exaltation of Apollo's bow;
A heavenly beacon in their dreary woe.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
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dreadful
price of being to resign
All that is dear _in_ being!
| Guess: |
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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that record could with a backward look,
Even of five hundred courses of the sun,
Show me your image in some antique book,
Since mind at first in
character
was done!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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But I adjure thee in thy father's name--
O tell me truly, (for I cannot hope 390
That I have reach'd fair Ithaca; I tread
Some other soil, and thou affirm'st it mine
To mock me merely, and
deceive)
oh say--
Am I in Ithaca?
| Guess: |
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Shall woman scorch for a single sin
That her
betrayer
may revel in,
And she be burnt, and he but grin
When that the flames begin,
Fair Lady?
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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And I have found both freedom of loneliness and the safety from
being understood, for those who
understand
us enslave something in
us.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Infanta
I know it well; though virtue seems to fade,
How love
flatters
the heart it does invade.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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Meredith - Poems |
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Her first book of poems was "Sonnets to Duse" (1907), [at least one poem
in the current volume, "Faults", is from this book,] but "Helen of Troy"
(1911) was the true launch of her career,
followed
by "Rivers to the Sea"
(1915), "Love Songs" (1917), "Flame and Shadow" (1920) and more.
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"
Thereat she
vanished
by the Cross
That, entering Kingsbere town,
The two long lanes form, near the fosse
Below the faneless Down.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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My father sends you, probably for the last time in this world, his
warmest wishes for your welfare and happiness; and my mother and the
rest of the family desire to enclose their kind
compliments
to you,
Mrs.
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Looking, therefore, to
the
resemblances
of the gods, we do not think them to be either stones
or wood; for neither do we
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think that the gods are these resemblances; since neither do we say that
royal images are wood, or stone, or brass, nor that they are the kings
therefore, but the images of kings.
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Tacitus |
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Half-past three,
The lamp sputtered,
The lamp
muttered
in the dark.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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He said, then shook the ponderous lance, and flung;
On his broad shield the
sounding
weapon rung,
Pierced the tough orb, and in his cuirass hung,
"He bleeds!
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Iliad - Pope |
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"And you are
thinking
of marching on Moscow?
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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1230 - 1292)
One of the last, if not the last, of the true Provencal troubadours, Guiraut survived the Albigensian Crusade and the wars that effectively destroyed the cultured society that had
supported
them.
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Troubador Verse |
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Three sets of doolie-bearers came to the
bungalow late last night when I was
sleeping
outside, and said that it
was their custom to rest in the rooms set apart for the English people!
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Kipling - Poems |
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This morning the
dynastic
altars of Han 8 will begin a new count: the Restoration years.
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at ben
plounged
in ?
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