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So long as Jove's great eagle was in flight,
Bearing the fire of Heaven's menaces,
Heaven feared not the dire audaciousness,
That so stoked the Giants'
reckless
might.
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This fierce sea-lion of the sea,
This England lacks some
stronger
lay,
This modern world hath need of thee!
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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My songs cease, I abandon them,
From behind the screen where I hid I advance
personally
solely to you.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Still laugh,
Like the
credulous
Ethiop in his faith in stars!
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Victor Hugo - 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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AS I CAME DOWN IN THE HARBOR By Louis Ginsberg
As I came down in the harbor, I saw ships careening — Tall ships with taut sails, bulging slowly away;
As I came down in the harbor, like far
swallows
flying, Delicate were the sails I saw, poised faint and dim !
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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TAUNUS, a
mountain
of Germany, on the other side of the Rhine; now
Mount _Heyrick_, over-against _Mentz_.
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Tacitus |
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Unless you have removed all
references
to Project Gutenberg:
1.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Grandson
of Atlas, wise of tongue,
O Mercury, whose wit could tame
Man's savage youth by power of song
And plastic game!
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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As I pass down the corridor
past
desperate
faces at each cell,
your eyes and my eyes may meet.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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the
language
of the Prince,
Harsh as it is, and big with threats to us.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Nothing is sure for me but what's uncertain:
Obscure, whatever is plainly clear to see:
I've no doubt, except of
everything
certain:
Science is what happens accidentally:
I win it all, yet a loser I'm bound to be:
Saying: 'God give you good even!
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Villon |
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The man who fears war and squats opposing
My words for stour, hath no blood of crimson, But is fit only to rot in
womanish
peace
Far from where worth 's won and the swords clash For the death of such sluts I go rejoicing;
Yea, I fill all the air with my music.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Above the antique mantel was displayed
As though a window gave upon the sylvan scene
The change of Philomel, by the
barbarous
king
So rudely forced; yet there the nightingale 100
Filled all the desert with inviolable voice
And still she cried, and still the world pursues,
"Jug Jug" to dirty ears.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Upon her silken
avalanche
of down,
Dying she breathes a long and swooning sigh;
And watches the white visions past her flown,
Which rise like blossoms to the azure sky.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Donne as usual is pedantically
accurate
in the details of his
metaphor.
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John Donne |
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"Brother and sister shall they be to ours,
And they will learn to climb my knee at even;
When He shall see these
strangers
in our bowers,
More fish, more food, will give the God of Heaven.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Strathallan's Lament^1
Thickest night, o'erhang my
dwelling!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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' 70
She took the packet, and the smile
Deepened
down beneath the tear.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Rome is no more: if downed architecture
May still revive some shade of Rome anew,
It's like a corpse, by some magic brew,
Drawn at deep
midnight
from a sepulchre.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Some
folks
declared
that he had taken the money to America.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Usage guidelines
Google is proud to partner with libraries to digitize public domain
materials
and make them widely accessible.
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Meredith - Poems |
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In a set
Garden beside a
channelled
rivulet,
Culling a myrtle garland for his brow,
He walked: but hailed us as we passed: "How now,
Strangers!
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Euripides - Electra |
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The word was formerly a "Cicisbeo,"[211]
But _that_ is now grown vulgar and indecent;
The
Spaniards
call the person a "_Cortejo_,"[212]
For the same mode subsists in Spain, though recent;
In short it reaches from the Po to Teio,
And may perhaps at last be o'er the sea sent:
But Heaven preserve Old England from such courses!
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Byron |
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And Freedom rear'd in that august sunrise
Her
beautiful
bold brow,
When rites and forms before his burning eyes
Melted like snow.
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Tennyson |
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" KAU}
Of his three daughters were encompassd by the twelve bright halls
Every hall surrounded by bright Paradises of Delight
In which are towns & Cities Nations Seas
Mountains
& Rivers {Minor grammatical changes, in tense ("were" mended to "are") and capitalization ("mountains" to "Mountains") KAU}
Each Dome opend toward four halls & the Three Domes Encompassd
The Golden Hall of Urizen whose western side glowd bright
With ever streaming fires beaming from his awful limbs
His Shadowy Feminine Semblance here reposd on a [bright] White Couch
Or hoverd oer his Starry head & when he smild she brightend
Like a bright Cloud in harvest.
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Blake - Zoas |
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[In the long sunny afternoon
The plain was full of ghosts:
I
wandered
up, I wandered down,
Beset by pensive hosts.
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Emerson - Poems |
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"
Queen Gulnaar sighed like a
murmuring
rose:
"Give me a rival, O King Feroz.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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the Horde has learnt to prize me;
"'Tis the Horde with gold
supplies
me.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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How now,
Ulysses!
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Shakespeare |
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And when I passed by him again I saw two crows
building
a nest
under his hat.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Additional
terms will be linked
to the Project Gutenberg-tm License for all works posted with the
permission of the copyright holder found at the beginning of this work.
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Imagists |
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"
"I think ere long 'twill be a needless task,"
Replied my friend; "thou shalt be of the train,
And know them all; this
captivating
chain
Thy neck must bear, (though thou dost little fear,)
And sooner change thy comely form and hair,
Than be unfetter'd from the cruel tie,
Howe'er thou struggle for thy liberty;
Yet to fulfil thy wish, I will relate
What I have learn'd.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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From floor to ceiling,
Like a huge organ, rise the burnished arms;
But front their silent pipes no anthem pealing
Startles the
villages
with strange alarms.
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Longfellow |
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Indian hate an'
deviltry
he braved;
'N' scores an' scores of white men's lives he saved.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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The funeral, which was
performed
without exterior pomp or a procession
of images, drew its solemnity from the loud praises and amiable memory
of his virtues.
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Tacitus |
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the Horde has learnt to prize me;
"'Tis the Horde with gold
supplies
me.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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And Betty's
drooping
at the heart,
That happy time all past and gone,
"How can it be he is so late?
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William Wordsworth |
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"You are right, lady; I only arrived
yesterday
from the country.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Skyward the souls of its
defenders
rose,
Returning soon in mist intangible
That flashed with radiance of half-hidden swords;
And those who still assaulted--though they crept
Into the inmost vantage-points, with craft--
Fell, blasted namelessly by this veiled flash,
Even as they shouted out, "The place is ours!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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As strange a question as
this was, I
hesitated
not a moment to tell him 'Stepney'; the parish in
which I live when in London.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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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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Donations
are accepted in a number of other
ways including including checks, online payments and credit card
donations.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Ite, concinite in modum
'O Hymen
Hymenaee
io, 120
O Hymen Hymenaee.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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, _stadio et gymnasiis_
mutata specie metri cum in hac quoque parte uersus (sic ut in
priore, 54 _et earum omnia adirem_)
admissus
esset in primo pede
ionicus a minore _st?
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Latin - Catullus |
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Why an Ear, a whirlpool fierce to draw
creations
in?
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blake-poems |
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And, as by sense
Of new delight, the man, who perseveres
In good deeds doth perceive from day to day
His virtue growing; I e'en thus perceiv'd
Of my ascent,
together
with the heav'n
The circuit widen'd, noting the increase
Of beauty in that wonder.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Copyright laws in most countries are
in a
constant
state of change.
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Wilde - Poems |
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To learn more about the Project
Gutenberg
Literary
Archive Foundation and how your efforts and donations can help, see
Sections 3 and 4 and the Foundation information page at
www.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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--
And yet, why am I
sorrowful?
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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The hillsides must not know it,
Where I have rambled so,
Nor tell the loving forests
The day that I shall go,
Nor lisp it at the table,
Nor
heedless
by the way
Hint that within the riddle
One will walk to-day!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Love's sun went down without a frown,
For very joy it used to grieve us;
I often think the West is gone,
Ah, cruel Time, to
undeceive
us.
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John Clare |
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To some extent this is no doubt
explained
by a fact to which
he often refers in his letters, and which, in his own opinion, hindered him
not only from writing about himself in verse, but from writing verse at
all.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Paradiso
?
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Hampered
by the shadowy boughs and his cumbrous spoil, Euryalus
in his fright misses the line of way.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Like Maia's son he stood,
And shook his Plumes, that Heav'nly
fragrance
filld
The circuit wide.
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Milton |
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After our departure,
the
servants
will probably all go out, or go to sleep.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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_a_) RVen: _sublimia_ G et plerique ||
_religans_
?
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Latin - Catullus |
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Lamachus
is well content; no doubt he is well paid, you
know.
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Aristophanes |
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Il se demene sous sa
couverture
grise
Et descend ses genoux a son ventre tremblant,
Effare comme un vieux qui mangerait sa prise,
Car il lui faut, le poing a l'anse d'un pot blanc,
A ses reins largement retrousser sa chemise!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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I do not believe that the game is to be found in
England; though the drawing on Twelfth Night may be thought to
bear some kind of coarse
resemblance
to it.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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It dawns in Asia, tombstones show
And
Shropshire
names are read;
And the Nile spills his overflow
Beside the Severn's dead.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Galba's affability only served to strengthen the gaping
ambition of his newly powerful friends, for his
weakness
and credulity
halved the risk and doubled the reward of treason.
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Tacitus |
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Within a whyl the hert [y]-founde is,
Y-halowed, and
rechased
faste
Longe tyme; and at the laste, 380
This hert rused and stal away
Fro alle the houndes a prevy way.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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LIX
"Of a
deceitful
leech she made assay,
Well fitted for the work she had in hand,
Who better knew what deadly poisons slay
Than he the force of healing syrup scanned;
And promised him his service to repay
With a reward exceeding his demand,
When he should, with some drink of deadly might,
Of her detested husband rid her sight.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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]
[Footnote 72: Leaders of the Russian faction against John Ernest, Duc de
Biren, Grand Chamberlain, and
favourite
of the Tzarina, Anne Ivanofna.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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We're dead: the souls let no man harry,
But pray that God
absolves
us all.
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| Source: |
Villon |
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He put
himself under the care of a medical man, who
promised
great things, and
made him endure severe bodily pain, without any good results.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
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Even When We Sleep
Even when we sleep we watch over each other
And this love heavier than a lake's ripe fruit
Without
laughter
or tears lasts forever
One day after another one night after us.
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Es konnte kaum ein
herziger
Narrchen sein.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Now
Vengeance
wins the day--the deed is done!
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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Does it solve readily with
the sweet milk of the breasts of the mother of many
children?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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How has my reason
strayed?
| Guess: |
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Racine - Phaedra |
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The worlde bie diffraunce ys ynne orderr founde;
Wydhoute unlikenesse
nothynge
could bee made.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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_Sweet Basil_, a
fragrant
aromatic plant.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
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She was
standing
at
the window, looking over to Knocknarea where Queen Maive is thought to
be buried, when she saw, as she told me, 'the finest woman you ever saw
travelling right across from the mountain and straight to her.
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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But at His
Excellency Hsu's house I was offered the hand of his grand-daughter,
and
lingered
there during the frosts of three autumns.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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Burke, and I have
read
something
of Mr.
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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No sleep that night the old man cheereth,
No prayer throughout next day he pray'd
Still, still, against his wish, appeareth
Before him that
mysterious
maid.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
|
LVIII
"There we awaited, till beneath the shade
Secure, we saw the beaked orc asleep;
When one along the shore of ocean made,
And one betook him to the
mountain
steep.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Even if wrong, it has its own excellence, its
special insight and its extraordinary
awakening
power.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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Don' gimme none o' yo' sass;
Better sing one song for de Baptis' crop,
Dey's
mightily
in de grass, grass,
Dey's mightily in de grass.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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Like Dionysus himself, they are
connected in ancient
religion
with the Renewal of the Earth in spring and
the resurrection of the dead, a point which students of the
_Alcestis_ may well remember.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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But to see and hear and touch Woman
Breaks our shell of this accursed world,
And turns our measured days to
measureless
gleam.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Then Aegle, fairest of the Naiad-band,
Aegle came up to the half-frightened boys,
Came, and, as now with open eyes he lay,
With juice of blood-red
mulberries
smeared him o'er,
Both brow and temples.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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the Horde has learnt to prize me;
"'Tis the Horde with gold
supplies
me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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We do not solicit donations in locations
where we have not
received
written confirmation of compliance.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
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180
XXI
The
faithfull
knight now grew in litle space,
By hearing her, and by her sisters lore,
To such perfection of all heavenly grace,
That wretched world he gan for to abhore,
And mortall life gan loath, as thing forlore, 185
Greevd with remembrance of his wicked wayes,
And prickt with anguish of his sinnes so sore,
That he desirde to end his wretched dayes:
So much the dart of sinfull guilt the soule dismayes.
| Guess: |
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in thy
sweetest
wave
Of the most living crystal that was e'er
The haunt of river nymph, to gaze and lave
Her limbs where nothing hid them, thou dost rear
Thy grassy banks whereon the milk-white steer
Grazes; the purest god of gentle waters!
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Then they seized another brave boy,--not amid the heat of
battle,
But in peace, behind his ploughshare,--and they loaded him
with chains,
And with pikes, before their horses, even as they goad their
cattle,
Drove him cruelly, for their sport, and at last blew out his
brains;
Then Old Brown,
Osawatomie
Brown,
Raised his right hand up to Heaven, calling Heaven's vengeance
down.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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The wind,
That rustles down the well-known forest road--
It hath a sound more
eloquent
than speech.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Why, now, can I
Make, aye, create this fervid
throbbing
June
Out of the chill, chill matter of my soul,
Yet cannot make a poorest penny-loaf
Out of this same chill matter, no, not one
For Mary though she starved upon my breast?
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But now the evening curdles dank and grey,
Changing her watchet hue for sombre weed;
And moping owls, to close the lids of day,
On drowsy wing proceed;
While chickering crickets, tremulous and long,
Light's
farewell
inly heed,
And give it parting song.
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We do not solicit
donations
in locations
where we have not received written confirmation of compliance.
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The addresses of the
latter were, however, favoured by the friends of the lady, and the
lovers were therefore obliged to meet in secret, and by night, in the
Churchyard of Kirkconnell, a
romantic
spot, surrounded by the river
Kirtle.
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Then this ebony bird
beguiling
my sad fancy into smiling,
By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore,
"Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou," I said, "art sure no craven,
Ghastly grim and ancient raven wandering from the Nightly shore--
Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore!
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Poe - 5 |
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Knopf 1920
To Jean
Verdenal
1889-1915
Certain of these poems first appeared in Poetry, Blast, Others, The
Little Review, and Art and Letters.
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T.S. Eliot |
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[_Attendants bring in the body of_
AEGISTHUS
_on a bier_.
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They blind all with their gleam,
Their loins encircled are by girdles bright,
Their robes are edged with bands
Of
precious
stones--the rarest earth affords--
With richly jeweled hands
They hold their slender, shining, naked swords.
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Rilke - Poems |
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But now, alas I my first tormentor came,
Who,
satisfied
with eating, but not tame,
Turns to recite : though judges most severe,
After the assizes' dinner, mild appear,
And on full stomach do condemn hut few.
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