On the
fifteenth
day the bright moon is full,
On the twentieth day the "toad and hare" wane.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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MEMBER OF THE COUNCIL OF THE
PHILOLOGICAL
SOCIETY.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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But still the elements o' sang
In formless jumble, right an' wrang,
Wild floated in my brain;
'Till on that har'st I said before,
My partner in the merry core,
She rous'd the forming strain:
I see her yet, the sonsie quean,
That lighted up her jingle,
Her witching smile, her pauky een
That gart my heart-strings tingle:
I fired, inspired,
At every
kindling
keek,
But bashing and dashing
I feared aye to speak.
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Robert Burns |
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Straight all the mother in her soul awakes,
And, owning her Ulysses, thus she speaks;
'Comest thou, my son, alive, to realms beneath,
The
dolesome
realms of darkness and of death!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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And the brown clay is
runneled
by the rain.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Over the breast of the spring, the land, amid cities,
Amid lanes, and through old woods, where lately the violets peeped from the
ground,
spotting
the greydebris;
Amid the grass in the fields each side of the lanes--passing the endless
grass;
Passing the yellow-speared wheat, every grain from its shroud in the
dark-brown fields uprising;
Passing the apple-tree blows of white and pink in the orchards;
Carrying a corpse to where it shall rest in the grave,
Night and day journeys a coffin.
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Whitman |
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The leader then, by thy life,
besought
me
(sad was his soul) in the sea-waves' coil
to play the hero and hazard my being
for glory of prowess: my guerdon he pledged.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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_Der
Gefangene
von Chillon_.
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Byron |
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e half, or a
hundreth
of seche
1544 As I am, o?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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She loves Rodrigue, I gave her him again,
Through me
Rodrigue
conquered his disdain;
Having thus forged these lovers' heavy chains,
I wish to see an end to all their pains.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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"
Forthwith
this frame of mine was wrench'd
With a woeful agony,
Which forc'd me to begin my tale
And then it left me free.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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All crime is vulgar, just as all
vulgarity
is crime.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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_Arbor
vittoriosa
e trionfale.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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I don't blame him for not
sticking
by me--I'm not much of a
man--but I do blame him for not sticking by the Pink Hussars.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Girvan is the name of the river that suits the idea of the stanza
best, but Lugar is the most
agreeable
modulation of syllables.
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Robert Burns |
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Whether in death he waits for me, I know not;
But it had been an
unforgivable
thing
To have made this the end; not to have gone
To death as unto spousals, leaving life
As one sets down a work faithfully done,
And knows oneself by service justified,
Worthy of love, whether love be or not.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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O thou,
Parnassus!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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he hoped that Piso would accept the story with
alacrity
and thus commit himself.
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Tacitus |
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5b
He now superb with pride superfluous
Shall go
perambulate
the bedrooms all
Like white-robed dovelet or Adonis-love.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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The artisans
gathered
about him.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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XERXES
Shrill out your
simultaneous
wail!
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Aeschylus |
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Shall never the dear land in
prospect
rise,
Or the loved palace glitter in our eyes?
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Siris,
daughter
of Ninkasi, 144.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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And hear you paint with endless insolence
His woe, my crime, and your brave
defence?
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Let us ask God
To bind the men, whose greed now glares upon her,
In some strange feebleness; surely he will;
Surely not with woman's worst injury
Her noble
obedience
he will reward!
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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XIX
"But thy father loves the clashing
Of broadsword and of shield:
He loves to drink the steam that reeks
From the fresh battlefield:
He smiles a smile more dreadful
Than his own dreadful frown,
When he sees the thick black cloud of smoke
Go up from the
conquered
town.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Smearing
its gold on
the sky the fire dances, lances itself through the doors, and lisps and
chuckles along the floors.
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Imagists |
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What gladness, from the gladnesses
Futurity
is spreading under
Thy gladsome sight?
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Come to my Womans Brests,
And take my Milke for Gall, you murth'ring Ministers,
Where-euer, in your
sightlesse
substances,
You wait on Natures Mischiefe.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Oh, gentle face, radiant with happy smile,
And eager prattling tongue that knows no guile,
Quick changing tears and bliss;
Thy soul expands to catch this new world's light,
Thy mazed eyes to drink each
wondrous
sight,
Thy lips to taste the kiss.
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Hugo - Poems |
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W
[Illustration]
W was a whale
With a very long tail,
Whose
movements
were frantic
Across the Atlantic.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Mie friende, Syr Hughe, whatte
tydynges
brynges thee here?
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Or will Pity, in line with all I ask here,
Succour a poor man, without
crushing?
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Villon |
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PHERES, _his father,
formerly
King but now in retirement_.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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He began to figure as an exorcist in 1586, when he
pretended to cast out an evil spirit from
Catherine
Wright of Ridgway
Lane, Derbyshire.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Discreetly
we worship all powers,
Hoping for favor from each god and each goddess as well.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Light laughs the breeze in her castle of sunshine;
Babbles the bee in a stolid ear;
Pipe the sweet birds in
ignorant
cadence, --
Ah, what sagacity perished here!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Race d'Abel, tu crois et broutes
Comme les
punaises
des bois!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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You
answered
questions as smoothly as a rolling ball, 12 you explained, giving the gist of the texts.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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--Je rentre dans la foule
Dans la grande
canaille
effroyable qui roule,
Sire, tes vieux canons sur les sales paves;
--Oh!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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But the grim goddess, seizing from her watch-tower the moment of
mischief, seeks the steep farm-roof and sounds the pastoral war-note
from the ridge, straining the infernal cry on her twisted horn; it
spread
shuddering
over all the woodland, and echoed through the deep
forests: the lake of Trivia heard it afar; Nar river heard it with white
sulphurous water, and the springs of Velinus; and fluttered mothers
clasped their children to their breast.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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12
_concinens_
ACD: _continens_ ?
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Latin - Catullus |
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You must require such a user to return or
destroy all copies of the works
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and discontinue all use of and all access to other copies of
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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No hint of mine may hence
To theeward fly: to thy locked sense
Explain none can
Life's pending plan:
Thou wilt thy
ignorant
entry make
Though skies spout fire and blood and nations quake.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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[Till they had drawn the Spectre quite away from Enion]
And drawing in the
Spectrous
life in pride and haughty joy
Thus Enion gave them all her spectrous life in dark despair.
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Blake - Zoas |
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57 CE) allowed three
officers
separate seats in court, one of which was Vice Censor in chief.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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O lover, in this radiant world
Whence is the race of mortal men, 10
So frail, so mighty, and so fond,
That fleets into the vast
unknown?
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Sappho |
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--Oswald, I have loved
To be the friend and father of the oppressed,
A
comforter
of sorrow;--there is something
Which looks like a transition in my soul,
And yet it is not.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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That is the land of lost content,
I see it shining plain,
The happy
highways
where I went
And cannot come again.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Yes, I know that Earth in the depths of this night,
Casts a strange mystery with vast
brilliant
light
Beneath hideous centuries that darken it the less.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Whatever
promise on our books finds entry,
We strictly carry into act.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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The robin is the one
That interrupts the morn
With hurried, few, express reports
When March is
scarcely
on.
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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yon patch of heath has been her couch--
The pressure still
remains!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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These the Crabs, having resumed and screwed on
their claws, placed cheerfully upon their wrists, and walked away rapidly
on their hind-legs,
warbling
songs with a silvery voice and in a minor key.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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--The winds all silent are,
And Phoebus in his chair
Ensaffroning
sea and air
Makes vanish every star:
Night like a drunkard reels
Beyond the hills, to shun his flaming wheels:
The fields with flowers are deck'd in every hue,
The clouds with orient gold spangle their blue;
Here is the pleasant place--
And nothing wanting is, save She, alas.
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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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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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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The invalidity or unenforceability of any
provision of this agreement shall not void the
remaining
provisions.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Don't you think his
hair's
growing?
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Kipling - Poems |
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A washed-out
smallpox
cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone With all the old nocturnal smells
That cross and cross across her brain.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Then thou, whose shadow shadows doth make bright,
How would thy shadow's form form happy show
To the clear day with thy much clearer light,
When to
unseeing
eyes thy shade shines so!
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Autumn is gone: as yonder silent rill,
Slow eddying o'er thick leaf-heaps lately shed,
My spirit, as I walk, moves awed and still,
By
thronging
fancies wild and wistful led.
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Shall now
Quirinus
take his turn,
Or quiet Numa, or the state
Proud Tarquin held, or Cato stern,
By death made great?
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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I
recognise
this blade, tool of his madness,
I armed him with it for a nobler purpose.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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The
Thymbraean
god
With Mars, I saw, and Pallas, round their sire,
Arm'd still, and gazing on the giant's limbs
Strewn o'er th' ethereal field.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Soft pity touch'd the mighty master's soul;
Adown his cheek a tear
unbidden
stole,
Stole unperceived: he turn'd his head and dried
The drop humane: then thus impassion'd cried:
"What noble beast in this abandon'd state
Lies here all helpless at Ulysses' gate?
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Odyssey - Pope |
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" This is the fault of some Latin writers within these last hundred
years of my reading, and perhaps Seneca may be
appeached
of it; I accuse
him not.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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love's best habit is in seeming trust,
And age in love, loves not to have years told:
Therefore
I lie with her, and she with me,
And in our faults by lies we flatter'd be.
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Some power appears to trace
Within me Laura's face,
Whispers her name; and
straight
in verse I strive
To picture her again,
But the fond effort's vain:
Me of my solace thus doth Fate deprive.
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Petrarch |
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For the first time the sun
kissed my own naked face and my soul was
inflamed
with love for
the sun, and I wanted my masks no more.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Past utterance, and past belief,
And past the
blasphemy
of grief,
The mysteries of Nature's heart;
And though no Muse can these impart,
Throb thine with Nature's throbbing breast,
And all is clear from east to west.
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Emerson - Poems |
|
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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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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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And when the winds
Carry the
scattered
drifts along the sky
In the night-time, then seem to glide along
The radiant constellations 'gainst the clouds
And there on high to take far other course
From that whereon in truth they're borne.
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no
one owns a United States
copyright
in these works, so the Foundation
(and you!
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Stephen Crane |
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"One day, some
Spectres
chanced to call,
Dressed in the usual white:
I stood and watched them in the hall,
And couldn't make them out at all,
They seemed so strange a sight.
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
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Under date of July 1, 1637 is the record of the
assignment by Mistris Allott of certain books,
formerly
the estate
of 'Master Roberte Allotts deceased.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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SEMI-CHORUS
Be thy will for the cause of the
maidens!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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It is not you; why
disguise
yourself
Against me, to break my heart,
You evader?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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O
dullness!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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My heart more love than your
forgetfulness!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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Is't not a pity that this empty mind,
This tramp, this actor out of work, this droll,
Because he knows how to assume a role
Should dream that eagles and insects, streams and woods,
Stand still to hear him chaunt his
dolorous
moods?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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yield not thus to
culpable
despair;
But raise thine eyes to heaven and think I wait thee there!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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They turn to places known so long
I feel that joy was dwelling there,
So home-fed
pleasure
fills the song
That has no present joys to hear.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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Let the long rhythm 15
Of
crunching
rollers,
Breaking and bellowing
On the white seaboard,
Titan and tireless,
Tell, while the world stands, 20
How I adore thee.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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The Rabbit
Rabbits
'Rabbits'
Frederick Bloemaert, Abraham Bloemaert, Nicolaes
Visscher
(I), after 1635 - 1670, The Rijksmuseun
There's another cony I remember
That I'd so like to take alive.
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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And many dream withal the hour is nigh
That gives them back their fathers' heritage:
For foreign arms and aid they fondly sigh,
Nor solely dare encounter hostile rage,
Or tear their name defiled from Slavery's
mournful
page.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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In a minute there is time
For decisions and
revisions
which a minute will reverse.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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Then enter'd all
The suitors, and began
cleaving
the wood.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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And dost thou think
my untamed thoughts and speak my vast
language?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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It is difiicult in such times as these
to conceive of such a character as, by
universal
testimony, Parker is proved to have been.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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That a
passionate
intense
Love be sired,
One by my body well-desired,
Yet I'd rather of you demand
A kiss than any other woman,
So why does my love refuse me
When she knows I need her truly?
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Confucius,
who, according to their histories, had been in the West about 500 years
before the
Christian
era, appears to be only the confirmer of their old
opinions; but the accounts of him and his doctrine are involved in
uncertainty.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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I could not but obey my dream, and toil
To break the nations and to sift them fine,
Pounding them with my warfare into dust,
And
searching
with my many iron hands
Through their destruction as through crumbs of marl,
Until my palms should know the jewel-stone
Betwixt them, the Woman who is Beauty,--
Nature so long hath like a miser kept
Buried away from me in this heap of Jews!
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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I'll rather be
unmannerly
than troublesome.
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Shakespeare |
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"
"Fill thy hand with sands, ray
blossom!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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It fanned their temples, filled their lungs,
Scattered
their forelocks free;
My friends made words of it with tongues
That talk no more to me.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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We do not solicit
donations
in locations
where we have not received written confirmation of compliance.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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The
horsepond
where he dips his wings,
The wet day prints it full of rings.
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John Clare |
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The Angels of Wind and of Fire
Chant only one hymn, and expire
With the song's
irresistible
stress;
Expire in their rapture and wonder,
As harp-strings are broken asunder
By music they throb to express.
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Longfellow |
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Come rimane splendido e sereno
l'emisperio de l'aere, quando soffia
Borea da quella guancia ond' e piu leno,
per che si purga e risolve la roffia
che pria turbava, si che 'l ciel ne ride
con le bellezze d'ogne sua paroffia;
cosi fec'io, poi che mi provide
la donna mia del suo
risponder
chiaro,
e come stella in cielo il ver si vide.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Yet he with troubles did remain
And
suffered
poverty and pain.
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