Talk with
prudence
to a beggar
Of 'Potosi' and the mines!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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MEROPS
What care I, so they stand the same,--
Things of the
heavenly
mind,--
How long the power to give them name
Tarries yet behind?
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Emerson - Poems |
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II
Morning and evening opened and closed above me:
Houses were built above me; trees let fall
Yellowing leaves upon me, hands of ghosts,
Rain has
showered
its arrows of silver upon me
Seeking my heart; winds have roared and tossed me;
Music in long blue waves of sound has borne me
A helpless weed to shores of unthought silence;
Time, above me, within me, crashed its gongs
Of terrible warning, sifting the dust of death;
And here I lie.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Even Burns
contrived
to write very poor verse and prose
in English.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Unless our
philosophy
hears the cock crow in
every barn-yard within our horizon, it is belated.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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+ Keep it legal Whatever your use, remember that you are responsible for
ensuring
that what you are doing is legal.
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Meredith - Poems |
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O,
fiercely
doth it draw
Them to its chasm'd maw,
And against it in vain
They linger and strain;
And as they slip away
Into the seething gray
Fill all the thunderous air
With the horror of their despair,
And their wild terror wreak
In one hoarse, wailing shriek.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Therefore
abide ye, and with prayer entreat
The country's gods to compass your desire;
The while I go, this matter to provide,
Persuasion and fair fortune at my side.
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Aeschylus |
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Thou
catamite
Romulus, this thou'lt see and bear?
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Come, pluck up
courage, cram
yourself
till you burst!
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Aristophanes |
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Alfred Prufrock
Portrait
of a Lady
Preludes
Rhapsody on a Windy Night
Morning at the Window
The Boston Evening Transcript
Aunt Helen
Cousin Nancy
Mr.
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T.S. Eliot |
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He was also
attracted
by El Greco--not an
unnatural admiration, considering the sombre extravagance of his own
genius.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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--for all that, I am yet of you unseen, this hour, with
irrepressible love,
Walking New England, a friend, a traveller,
Splashing my bare feet in the edge of the summer ripples, on Paumanok's
sands,
Crossing the prairies--dwelling again in Chicago--dwelling in every town,
Observing shows, births, improvements, structures, arts,
Listening to the orators and the oratresses in public halls,
Of and through the States, as during life[4]--each man and woman my
neighbour,
The Louisianian, the Georgian, as near to me, and I as near to him and her,
The Mississippian and Arkansian yet with me--and I yet with any of them;
Yet upon the plains west of the spinal river--yet in my house of adobie,
Yet returning eastward--yet in the Sea-Side State, or in Maryland,
Yet
Canadian
cheerily braving the winter--the snow and ice welcome to me,
or mounting the Northern Pacific, to Sitka, to Aliaska;
Yet a true son either of Maine, or of the Granite State,[5] or of the
Narragansett Bay State, or of the Empire State;[6]
Yet sailing to other shores to annex the same--yet welcoming every new
brother;
Hereby applying these leaves to the new ones, from the hour they unite with
the old ones;
Coming among the new ones myself, to be their companion and equal--coming
personally to you now;
Enjoining you to acts, characters, spectacles, with me.
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Whitman |
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Beloved, I, amid the darkness greeted
By a
doubtful
spirit-voice, in that doubt's pain
Cry, "Speak once more--thou lovest!
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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{20a} He
surmises
presently where she is.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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s instinct is to leap forward, a serious
gentleman?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Then in full noon above my head a cloud
Descended tempest-swollen, and a crowd
Of wild, lascivious spirits huddled there,
The cruel and curious demons of the air,
Who coldly to consider me began;
Then, as a crowd jeers some unhappy man,
Exchanging
gestures, winking with their eyes--
I heard a laughing and a whispering rise:
"Let us at leisure contemplate this clown,
This shadow of Hamlet aping Hamlet's frown,
With wandering eyes and hair upon the wind.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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"
Later he saw that each weed
Was a
singular
knife.
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Stephen Crane |
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O gentle Lady,
'Tis not for you to heare what I can speake:
The
repetition
in a Womans eare,
Would murther as it fell.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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It is the
spectator
and not life that art really mirrors.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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The blanks of meditating flags
Stand high along our avenue:
But I've your naked tresses too
To bury there my
contented
eyes.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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I set my hand on the Hoogli; as a hooded snake she rose,
And I flung your stoutest
steamers
to roost with the startled crows.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Half-past two,
The street-lamp said,
"Remark the cat which
flattens
itself in the gutter,
Slips out its tongue
And devours a morsel of rancid butter.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Track the gazing of mine eyes,
Naming God within thine heart
That its
weakness
may depart
And the vision rise!
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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'Twas granted him not
that ever the edge of iron at all
could help him at strife: too strong was his hand,
so the tale is told, and he tried too far
with
strength
of stroke all swords he wielded,
though sturdy their steel: they steaded him nought.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Hildr is the name of one of the Scandinavian Walkyries, or battle-maidens,
who
transport
the spirits of the slain to Walhalla.
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Beowulf |
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crude_ GVen et
sic R, in quo tamen _crude_
recentius
exaratum uidetur ||
_lucei_ Scaliger: _lucet_ ?
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Latin - Catullus |
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But if ever its offence distressed your mind, 775
Can you forget the
scornfulness
of his pride?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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]
O
Canaris!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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'
She looks into me
The
unknowing
heart
To see if I love
She has confidence she forgets
Under the clouds of her eyelids
Her head falls asleep in my hands
Where are we
Together inseparable
Alive alive
He alive she alive
And my head rolls through her dreams.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Be where you list, your charter is so strong
That you
yourself
may privilage your time
To what you will; to you it doth belong
Yourself to pardon of self-doing crime.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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THE TROLL'S NOSEGAY
A simple
nosegay!
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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That April should be
shattered
by a gust,
That August should be leveled by a rain,
I can endure, and that the lifted dust
Of man should settle to the earth again;
But that a dream can die, will be a thrust
Between my ribs forever of hot pain.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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By what mean hast thou render'd thee so drunken,
To the clay that thou bowest down thy figure,
And the grass and the windel-straws art
grasping?
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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As yellow morn
Runs on the
slippery
waves of the spread sea,
Thy feet are on the griefs and joys of men
That sheen to be thy causey.
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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For they doe
As Angels out of clouds, from Pulpits speake,
must have suggested 'always
preaching
to himself, like an angel from a
cloud, but in none'.
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John Donne |
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In the vale of Ronceval,
On the very spot where whilom
Charlemagne's
peerless
nephew
Gasped away his fleeting spirit,
There fell also Atta Troll,
Fell through treason, like the other,
Whom the traitor, knighthood's Judas,
Ganelon of Mainz, betrayed.
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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His eyes
reed
sparclyng
as the fyre-glowe (_too long_); F.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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"And certainly you've given me
The best of wine and victual--
Excuse my violence," said he,
"But
accidents
like this, you see,
They put one out a little.
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Lewis Carroll |
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But say through what waste regions hast thou stray'd
What customs noted, and what coasts survey'd;
Possess'd by wild
barbarians
fierce in arms,
Or men whose bosom tender pity warms?
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Odyssey - Pope |
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With
darkling
hook the Farmer of the Skies
Goes reaping stars: they flicker, one by one,
Nodding a little; tumble,--and are gone.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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"
And I
answered
them all, and said:
"Remember only that I smiled.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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THE NATURE OF EPIC
Rigid definitions in
literature
are, however, dangerous.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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the defective work may elect to provide a
replacement
copy in lieu of a
refund.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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[*The Russian text has here a play on the words which cannot
be satisfactorily
rendered
into English.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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An old man's love
Who casts no second line, is hard to cure;
His
jealousy
is like his love.
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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- You provide, in accordance with
paragraph
1.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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"--
"True," I replied; "but I
survived
the strife:
His arrows reach'd me, but were short of life.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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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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Next hearing Argalia, whom he slew,
(So was the warrior hight) that stream beside,
Thus his
unknightly
breach of promise blame,
He burned all over, flushed with rage and shame.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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" In
other words, then, the 'Essay on Criticism' is at once the result of
Pope's early studies, the
embodiment
of the received literary doctrines
of his age, and, as a consecutive study of his poems shows, the
programme in accordance with which, making due allowance for certain
exceptions and inconsistencies, he evolved the main body of his work.
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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"
Once a man clambering to the housetops
Appealed
to the heavens.
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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Yes, Heaven is thine; but this
Is a world of sweets and sours;
Our flowers are merely--flowers,
And the shadow of thy perfect bliss
Is the
sunshine
of ours.
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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_insert_ the
_before_
servyse; _but_ Tn.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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forwards
to hart@prairienet.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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The boy, that scareth from the spiry wheat
The melancholy crow--in hurry weaves,
Beneath an ivied tree, his
sheltering
seat,
Of rushy flags and sedges tied in sheaves,
Or from the field a shock of stubble thieves.
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John Clare |
|
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away--you may do practically ANYTHING in the United States with eBooks
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protected
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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How oft shall he
Bewail thy false
inconstancy!
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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It is a myth which has begotten some exquisite literature,
both in prose and verse, from Ovid's famous epistle to Addison's gracious
fantasy and some impassioned and
imperishable
dithyrambs of Mr.
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Sappho |
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28
Doth still before thee rise the beauteous image 29
There laughs in the
heightening
year, soft 30
The blissful meadows beckoned.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Poi ch'io potei di me fare a mio senno,
trassimi
sovra quella creatura
le cui parole pria notar mi fenno,
dicendo: <
quel sanza 'l quale a Dio tornar non possi,
sosta un poco per me tua maggior cura.
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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some hag of hell,
Raving a
truceless
curse upon her kin?
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Aeschylus |
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Imagists |
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Hearke, who lyes i'th' second
Chamber?
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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My every power's
incipient
decay--
My wearied soul--alike, in warning say
"Thyself no more deceive, thy youth hath fled.
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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XXIV
If that blind fury that engenders wars,
Fails to rouse the creatures of a kind,
Whether swift bird aloft or fleeting hind,
Whether equipped with scales or
sharpened
claws,
What ardent Fury in her pincers' jaws
Gripped your hearts, so poisoned the mind,
That intent on mutual cruelty, we find,
Into your own entrails your own blade bores?
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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th
fful
richeliche
al a-ry?
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Royalty payments
must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you
prepare (or are legally
required
to prepare) your periodic tax
returns.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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that the
farthest
post
Hath been assign'd you, from this face remove
The harden'd veil, that I may vent the grief
Impregnate at my heart, some little space
Ere it congeal again!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Nay, how will you do for a
husband?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
Why was she early born, or
wherefore
late was I?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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_
Ere my steel leap, and compassed round with death
Low he shall lie: and thus, full-fed with doom,
The Fury of the house shall drain once more
A deep third draught of rich
unmingled
blood.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
|
Note: Selene, the Moon, loved
Endymion
on Mount Latmos, while he slept.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
|
Who stirs the waves by the women's
seraglio?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
|
There were also several packets of stamps,
Yellow and blue
Guatemala
parrots,
Blue stags and red baboons and birds from Sarawak,
Indians and Men-of-war
From the United States,
And the green and red portraits
Of King Francobollo
Of Italy.
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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Your orange hair in the void of the world
The sentiments apparent
Would you see
You rise the water unfolds
I only wish to love you
The world is blue as an orange
We have created the night I hold your hand I watch
Even when we sleep we watch over each other
Donkey or cow,
cockerel
or horse
I looked in front of me
If I speak it's to hear you more clearly
We two take each other by the hand
At dawn I love you I've the whole night in my veins
She looks into me
A single smile disputes
Translated by A.
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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The holy man a knotted
cincture
wore;
But, 'neath his garb:--heart-rotten to the core.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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And, since it is perfectly true that in the same
Desert is a wonderful city where all the rich money lenders retreat
after they have made their fortunes (fortunes so vast that the owners
cannot trust even the strong hand of the
Government
to protect them,
but take refuge in the waterless sands), and drive sumptuous C-spring
barouches, and buy beautiful girls and decorate their palaces with gold
and ivory and Minton tiles and mother-of-pearl, I do not see why Jukes's
tale should not be true.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Newby
Chief
Executive
and Director
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Sara Teasdale |
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permission and without paying
copyright
royalties.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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CXLVII
My love is as a fever longing still,
For that which longer nurseth the disease;
Feeding on that which doth preserve the ill,
The uncertain sickly
appetite
to please.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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And only yesterday it was I saw
Veil'd in
streamers
of grey wavering smoke
My shapely Malvern Hills.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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) And Li T'ai-po lived many hundred years
ago, but
Shakespeare
lived at a more recent period.
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Li Po |
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The distant clock forgot, and chilling dew,
Pleas'd thro' the dusk their
breaking
smiles to view,
Only in the edition of 1793.
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quibus anticyris, quibus est
sauabilis
herbis,
Iniproba scribendi pestis, avanis amor !
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Marvell - Poems |
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When Po entered in obedience to the summons, he was so drunk
that the
courtiers
were obliged to dab his face with water.
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swā him ǣr gescōd hild æt Heorote,
1588; sē þe him sāre ge-sceōd (_who injured him sorely_), 2224; nō þȳ ǣr
in gescōd hālan līce, 1503; bill ǣr gescōd eald-hlāfordes þām þāra māðma
mund-bora wæs (_the weapon of the ancient chieftain had before laid low the
dragon, the guardian of the treasure_), 2778 (or,
_sheathed
in brass_?
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Forslagenn
atte thie fote lette wylde beastes bee,
Lett thie floes drenche yer blodde, yett do ne bredrenn slee.
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[_She
releases
him.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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She wakes; and I
entreated
her come forth
And bear this work of heaven with patience;
But then a noise did scare me from the tomb,
And she, too desperate, would not go with me,
But, as it seems, did violence on herself.
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Shakespeare |
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Herman watched the proceedings with a
curiosity
not unmingled with
superstitious fear.
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Easy
Easy and beautiful under
your eyelids
As the meeting of pleasure
Dance and the rest
I spoke the fever
The best reason for fire
That you might be pale and luminous
A thousand fruitful poses
A thousand ravaged embraces
Repeated move to erase themselves
You grow dark you unveil yourself
A mask you
control it
It deeply resembles you
And you seem nothing but lovelier naked
Naked in shadow and dazzlingly naked
Like a sky shivering with flashes of lightning
You reveal yourself to you
To reveal yourself to others
Talking of Power and Love
Between all my torments between death and self
Between my despair and the reason for living
There is injustice and this evil of men
That I cannot accept there is my anger
There are the blood-coloured fighters of Spain
There are the sky-coloured fighters of Greece
The bread the blood the sky and the right to hope
For all the innocents who hate evil
The light is always close to dying
Life always ready to become earth
But spring is reborn that is never done with
A bud lifts from dark and the warmth settles
And the warmth will have the right of the selfish
Their atrophied senses will not resist
I hear the fire talk lightly of coolness
I hear a man speak what he has not known
You who were my flesh's
sensitive
conscience
You I love forever you who made me
You will not tolerate oppression or injury
You'll sing in dream of earthly happiness
You'll dream of freedom and I'll continue you
The Beloved
She is standing on my eyelids
And her hair is wound in mine,
She has the form of my hands,
She has the colour of my eyes,
She is swallowed by my shadow
Like a stone against the sky.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Many
confused
voices cry.
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Euripides - Electra |
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The two Battles of Hastings were written during this
period, and it appears that Barrett the surgeon, on being shown the
first poem, was for once very insistent in asking for the original,
whereupon
Chatterton
in a momentary panic confessed he had written the
verses for a friend; but he had at home, he said, the copy of what was
really the translation of Turgot's Epic--Turgot was a Saxon monk of
the tenth century--by Rowley the secular priest of the fifteenth.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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no light
Of teaching, liberal nations, for the poor
Who sit in
darkness
when it is not night?
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