To Riddell, much lamented man,
This ivied cot was dear;
Wandr'er, dost value
matchless
worth?
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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The first requisite is fuel for your crate;
and for this purpose the roots of the pitch pine are
commonly
used,
found under decayed stumps, where the trees have been felled eight or
ten years.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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MY
HAPPIEST
DREAM.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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For common instinct of our race declares
That body of itself exists: unless
This primal faith, deep-founded, fail us not,
Naught will there be
whereunto
to appeal
On things occult when seeking aught to prove
By reasonings of mind.
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Lucretius |
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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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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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E 'l mio maestro: <
e
ritrarre
a color che vi mandaro
che 'l corpo di costui e vera carne.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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_ Plainly
homeward
thy words remand me.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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LOVE, HOPE, AND
PATIENCE
IN EDUCATION
O'er wayward childhood would'st thou hold firm rule,
And sun thee in the light of happy faces;
Love, Hope, and Patience, these must be thy graces,
And in thine own heart let them first keep school.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Je sentis a l'aspect de tes membres flottants,
Comme un vomissement, remonter vers mes dents
Le long fleuve de fiel des
douleurs
anciennes;
Devant toi, pauvre diable au souvenir si cher,
J'ai senti tous les becs et toutes les machoires
Des corbeaux lancinants et des pantheres noires
Qui jadis aimaient tant a triturer ma chair.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Ethuiusmodistantiaeususestfereinomnibuscantionibussuis
"
A rnaldus
Danielis
et nos eum.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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"I was reading it to
Maisie the other day from The City of
Dreadful
Night.
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Kipling - Poems |
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As
brighter
ladies do not count it strange,
For love, to give up acres and degree,
I yield the grave for thy sake, and exchange
My near sweet view of heaven, for earth with thee!
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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1069-1160,
containing
the Finn episode, cf.
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Beowulf |
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O thou field of my delight so fair and
verdant!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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This, with his having
been put in the Commission of the Peace by our excellent
Governor
(_O,
si sic omnes!
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James Russell Lowell |
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" cried the
Commandant
for all answer.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Wharton, in whose
altogether
admirable little
volume we find all that is known and the most apposite of all that has been
said up to the present day about
"Love's priestess, mad with pain and joy of song,
Song's priestess, mad with joy and pain of love.
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Sappho |
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THE LITTLE BOY FOUND
The little boy lost in the lonely fen,
Led by the wandering light,
Began to cry, but God, ever nigh,
Appeared
like his father, in white.
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blake-poems |
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O little Cloud the virgin said, I charge thee to tell me
Why thou
complainest
now when in one hour thou fade away:
Then we shall seek thee but not find: ah Thel is like to thee.
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blake-poems |
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InTem- Hesaith:"Redspearsborethewarriordawn Of old
**:
Strange!
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Looks at sleeper, and shakes his head
murmuring
"Poor Gaddy.
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Kipling - Poems |
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I wept tears of pity when I saw an Archer[227]
maltreat this old man, who, by Ceres, when he was young and the true
Thucydides, would not have permitted an insult from Ceres
herself!
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Aristophanes |
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alternate
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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And
unreluctant
Hermes 15
Shall give me words to say.
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Sappho |
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'
Psyche is supposed to symbolize the human soul made
immortal
through
love.
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Keats |
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You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose
such as
creation
of derivative works, reports, performances and
research.
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Imagists |
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'--
'Or did you spy a ruddy hound,
Sister fair and tall,
Went snuffing round my garden bound,
Or
crouched
by my bower wall?
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Christina Rossetti |
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Born to no pride, inheriting no strife,
Nor marrying discord in a noble wife,
Stranger to civil and religious rage,
The good man walked
innoxious
through his age.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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law of the state
applicable
to this agreement, the agreement shall be
interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by
the applicable state law.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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No, but the soul
Void of words, and this heavy body,
Succumb to noon's proud silence slowly:
With no more ado, forgetting blasphemy, I
Must sleep, lying on the thirsty sand, and as I
Love, open my mouth to wine's true
constellation!
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Mallarme - Poems |
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She heard a voice like voice of doves
Cooing all together:
They sounded kind and full of loves
In the
pleasant
weather.
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Christina Rossetti |
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O Queen o'er Argos throned high,
O Woman, sister of the twain,
God's Horsemen, stars without a stain,
Whose home is in the deathless sky,
Whose glory in the sea's wild pain,
Toiling to succour men that die:
Long years above us hast thou been,
God-like for gold and
marvelled
power:
Ah, well may mortal eyes this hour
Observe thy state: All hail, O Queen!
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Euripides - Electra |
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Lashing their tails
They trod and hustled her,
Elbowed and jostled her, 400
Clawed with their nails,
Barking, mewing, hissing, mocking,
Tore her gown and soiled her stocking,
Twitched her hair out by the roots,
Stamped upon her tender feet,
Held her hands and
squeezed
their fruits
Against her mouth to make her eat.
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Christina Rossetti |
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He had lately found Jonson
describing his lady, and Jonson's words, he says, are
descriptive
of
Cupid's own mother, Venus.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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And dost thou think
my untamed thoughts and speak my vast
language?
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Will ever the lit mountains of To-morrow
Begin to gleam athwart the
mournful
plain?
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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L'eure soit ore la maudite,
Que povres homs fu
conceus!
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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When her son appeared she
received
him with a
smile.
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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The Nightingale that in the
Branches
sang,
Ah, whence, and whither flown again, who knows!
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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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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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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The strong light only
increases
its effect.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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O glistening,
perfumed
South!
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Whitman |
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O think of Phaethon half burn'd,
And moderate your passion's greed:
Think how
Bellerophon
was spurn'd
By his wing'd steed.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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10 _quis_ GRCA
Laurentiani
|| _fama loquetur anus_ Calp.
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Latin - Catullus |
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the experienced sisters and the
inexperienced
sisters!
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Whitman |
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That thou shouldst live 620
I neither ask nor wish--forgive me, but
forgive!
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William Wordsworth |
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Did I dream, or did I hear
Politian was a
melancholy
man?
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Poe - 5 |
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<
Et nous piquions les boeufs vers les sillons des autres:
Le
Chanoine
au soleil filait des patenotres
Sur des chapelets clairs grenes de pieces d'or.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Notes: The Lord of
Excideuil
is Richard Coeur-de-Lion.
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Troubador Verse |
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"
"You, madam, are the eternal humorist,
The eternal enemy of the absolute,
Giving our vagrant moods the
slightest
twist!
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T.S. Eliot |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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The strong sea-lion of England's wars
Hath left his
sapphire
cave of sea,
To battle with the storm that mars
The stars of England's chivalry.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Lord Byron's/ Cain, A Mystery:/ with/ Notes:/ Wherein the/
Religion
of
the Bible/ Is considered, in reference to acknowledged/ Philosophy and
Reason.
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Byron |
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Next he sings
Of Gallus wandering by Permessus' stream,
And by a sister of the Muses led
To the Aonian mountains, and how all
The choir of Phoebus rose to greet him; how
The shepherd Linus, singer of songs divine,
Brow-bound with flowers and bitter parsley, spake:
"These reeds the Muses give thee, take them thou,
Erst to the aged bard of Ascra given,
Wherewith in singing he was wont to draw
Time-rooted ash-trees from the
mountain
heights.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Then show me, if you can, upon the earth,
A queen, a princess, of the highest birth,
Who would not virtue
presently
concede,
If such excuses for it she could plead;
Particularly if the giver proved
A handsome lad that elegantly moved.
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La Fontaine |
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After
lurking awhile under the clothes considering what it all meant, Gawayne
unlocked
his eyelids, and put on a look of surprise, at the same time
making the sign of the cross, as if afraid of some hidden danger (ll.
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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But I have,
And I'm off now to
practise
with my notions.
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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The Fountain
All through the deep blue night
The
fountain
sang alone;
It sang to the drowsy heart
Of the satyr carved in stone.
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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THE HARLOT'S HOUSE
WE caught the tread of dancing feet,
We
loitered
down the moonlit street,
And stopped beneath the harlot's house.
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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_ Verily,
It would be hard for thee to bear my woe
For whom it is
appointed
not to die.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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Eliot
To Jean Verdenal 1889-1915
Certain of these poems
appeared
first in "Poetry" and "Others"
Contents
The Love Song of J.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Calvin's sons, seize your
spiritual
guns,
Ammunition you never can need;
[Footnote 12: David Grant, Ochiltree.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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A bristly bear of
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Upon the gallows hung a wretch,
Too sullied for the hell
To which the law
entitled
him.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Perfectly
unconscious that they are indebted to their stupidity
for the consistency of their conduct, they plume themselves on an
imaginary virtue which has its origin in what is really their
disgrace.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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The Good God and the Evil God
The Good God and the Evil God met on the
mountain
top.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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The pleasure soon
Becomes a shame, scarce to be spoken aloud;
And in best minds, either
detested
doting
Man's joy in woman's beauty will become;
Or a strict binding fire, holding him down
In lust of beauty where no beauty is.
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Adieu, too, to you too,
My Smith, my bosom frien';
When kindly you mind me,
O then
befriend
my Jean!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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The cowart Norman
knyghtes
before hym fledde, 415
And from a distaunce sent their arrowes keene;
But noe such destinie awaits his hedde,
As to be sleyen by a wighte so meene.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Or else he sat with those who watched
His anguish night and day;
Who watched him when he rose to weep,
And when he crouched to pray;
Who watched him lest himself should rob
Their
scaffold
of its prey.
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Wilde - Poems |
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I turned my head back to
Fengxiang
County,1 late in the day its banners appeared and faded from view.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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MARY VIRGIN
How came, how came from out thy night
Mary, so much light
And so much gloom:
Who was thy
bridegroom?
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
|
He was just
twenty at the Restoration, and
immediately
com-
menced and soon completed his transformation
into one of the most arrogant and time-serving of
high churchmen.
| Guess: |
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Marvell - Poems |
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A hundred pages followed them, who prest
A hundred puissant steeds, for warfare bown;
And by those pages backed, the portly steeds
Went,
sweeping
wide the ground with sable weeds.
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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To the good old man
sad in heart, 'twas
heaviest
sorrow.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Famine is in thy cheeks,
Need and oppression starveth in thine eyes,
Contempt
and beggary hangs upon thy back:
The world is not thy friend, nor the world's law;
The world affords no law to make thee rich;
Then be not poor, but break it and take this.
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
Tabernacle or tomb,
Or dome of worm,
Or porch of gnome,
Or some elf's
catacomb?
| Guess: |
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Having
secured the only
unengaged
berths in the Lord Sydenham steamer, which
was to leave Quebec before sundown, and being resolved, now that I had
seen somewhat of the country, to get an idea of the city, I proceeded
to walk round the Upper Town, or fortified portion, which is two miles
and three quarters in circuit, alone, as near as I could get to the
cliff and the walls, like a rat looking for a hole; going round by the
southwest, where there is but a single street between the cliff and
the water, and up the long wooden stairs, through the suburbs
northward to the King's Woodyard, which I thought must have been a
long way from his fireplace, and under the cliffs of the St.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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'Mid the green
mountains
many and many a song
We two had sung, like little birds in May.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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_pro quibus_) G ||
_pregestit
apisci_ G,
sed rasura est sub litteris _re_, et spatium ante _apisci_:
_p'gestit adipisci_ O: _apisci_ RVenBLa1ACDh
148 _meminere_ Czalina
151 _falaci_ G m.
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Latin - Catullus |
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_hu_ reduced to the
breathing
_'u_; read _i-ni-'u_.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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XXIX
Do you have hopes that posterity
Will read you, my Verse, for
evermore?
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Your
property
will be carefully guarded.
| Guess: |
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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_ And this love's sweetest
language
is.
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' Then he asks them about their villages,
and learns that they was
fighting
one against the other, and were sick
and tired of it.
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Kipling - Poems |
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It exists
because of the efforts of
hundreds
of volunteers and donations from
people in all walks of life.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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My long thread
trembles
almost at the knife;
The breeze, that takes you, lifts me up alive,
And I'll follow those I loved, I the exile.
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XXXV
Scarce, with much labour, the two
captains
led
Her, gazing on the waters, from the shore,
And to the palace drew, where on her bed
They left the lady, grieved and trembling sore.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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What if I file this mortal off,
See where it hurt me, -- that 's enough, --
And wade in
liberty?
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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_ Prometheus, art thou
ignorant
of this,
That words do medicine anger?
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A day it was when I could bear
To think, and think, and think again;
With so much
happiness
to spare,
I could not feel a pain.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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For Troy, that was burned with fire
And
forgetteth
not?
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Euripides - Electra |
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Let not him mourn who best
entitled
was,
Nay, mourn not one: let him exult,
Yea, plant the tree that bears best apples, plant,
And water it with wine, nor watch askance
Whether thy sons or strangers eat the fruit:
Enough that mankind eat and are refreshed.
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Emerson - Poems |
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The Dove
Angels and Holy Spirit (Annunciation)
'Angels and Holy Spirit (Annunciation)'
Nicolas Pitau (I), Philippe de Champaigne, 1642 - 1671, The Rijksmuseun
Dove, both love and spirit
Who
engendered
Jesus Christ,
Like you I love a Mary.
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Appoloinaire |
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"
Meanwhile, he satirized the Third Napoleon and his congeners with ceaseless
shafts, the principal being the famous "Napoleon the Little," based on the
analogical reasoning that as the earth has moons, the lion the jackal, man
himself his simian double, a minor Napoleon was
inevitable
as a standard
of estimation, the grain by which a pyramid is measured.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Soon, a young officer
appeared
at the corner of the
street; the girl blushed and bent her head low over her canvas.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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