Look up and see the
casement
broken in,
The bats and owlets builders in the roof!
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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"Ev'n them he canna get attended,
Although
their face he ne'er had kend it,
Just sh---- in a kail-blade, and send it,
As soon's he smells't,
Baith their disease, and what will mend it,
At once he tells't.
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Robert Burns |
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And Betty's standing at the door,
And Betty's face with joy o'erflows,
Proud of herself, and proud of him,
She sees him in his
travelling
trim;
How quietly her Johnny goes.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Gather the north flowers to
complete
the south,
And catch the early love up in the late.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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The reticent volcano keeps
His never
slumbering
plan;
Confided are his projects pink
To no precarious man.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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For those high songs, lo, men that moan,
And raiment black where once was white;
Who guide me
homeward
in the night,
On that waste bed to lie alone.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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And no
forgetting
wabster Charlie,
I'm tauld he offers very fairly.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Chimene
But is he
wounded?
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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The reminiscence comes
Of sunless dry geraniums
And dust in crevices,
Smells of chestnuts in the streets
And female smells in
shuttered
rooms
And cigarettes in corridors
And cocktail smells in bars.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Do not say
"I love her for her smile--her look--her way
Of speaking gently,--for a trick of thought
That falls in well with mine, and certes brought
A sense of pleasant ease on such a day"--
For these things in themselves, Beloved, may
Be changed, or change for thee,--and love, so wrought,
May be
unwrought
so.
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She painted the cruelty of her husband in the darkest
colors, and ended by telling the Count that she
depended
upon his
friendship and generosity.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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N, THE HERMIT
At Ch'ang-an--a full foot of snow;
A levee at dawn--to bestow
congratulations
on the Emperor.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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The richest of all lords is Use,
And ruddy Health the
loftiest
Muse.
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Emerson - Poems |
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"
exclaimed
Lisa, drying her eyes.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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XXXVII
His owne two hands the holy knots did knit, 325
That none but death for ever can devide;
His owne two hands, for such a turne most fit,
The
housling
fire?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Thy folly's past advice,
Thy heart's already won,
Thy fall's above all price,
So go, and be undone;
For all who thus prefer
The seeming great for small
Shall make wine vinegar,
And
sweetest
honey gall.
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John Clare |
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The stray ships passing spied a face
Upon the waters borne,
With eyes in death still begging raised,
And hands
beseeching
thrown.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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permission
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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No suitor there had pow'r
To
overcome
the stubborn bow that mock'd
All our attempts; and when the weapon huge
At length was offer'd to Ulysses' hands,
With clamour'd menaces we bade the swain
Withhold it from him, plead he as he might;
Telemachus alone with loud command,
Bade give it him, and the illustrious Chief
Receiving in his hand the bow, with ease 210
Bent it, and sped a shaft through all the rings.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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E io,
continuando
al mio sermone,
dissi: <
che non farebbe, per altrui cagione.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Should Jove dire war unloose, with spear and shield,
And nodding helm, I tread the ensanguined field,
Fierce in the van: then wouldst thou, wouldst thou,--say,--
Misname me glutton, in that
glorious
day?
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Pray for us, now beyond violence,
To the Son of the Virgin Mary,
So of grace to us she's not chary,
Shields us from Hell's
lightning
fall.
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Villon |
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Apropos to
bacchanalian songs in Scottish, I
composed
one yesterday, for an air I
like much--"Lumps o' pudding.
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Robert Burns |
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The Yankee clipper is under her sky-sails, she cuts the sparkle and scud,
My eyes settle the land, I bend at her prow or shout
joyously
from the deck.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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And I watered it in fears
Night and morning with my tears,
And I sunned it with smiles
And with soft
deceitful
wiles.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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I have seen eyes in the street
Trying to peer through lighted shutters,
And a crab one
afternoon
in a pool,
An old crab with barnacles on his back,
Gripped the end of a stick which I held him.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Along the reaches of the street
Held in a lunar synthesis,
Whispering lunar incantations
Disolve the floors of memory
And all its clear relations,
Its divisions and precisions,
Every street lamp that I pass
Beats like a fatalistic drum,
And through the spaces of the dark
Midnight
shakes the memory
As a madman shakes a dead geranium.
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afraid,
She hears the bear behind her press,
Nor dares the
skirting
of her dress
For shame lift up the modest maid.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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For never a sound there comes
From out the serene regions of the sky;
But
wheresoever
in a host more dense
The clouds foregather, thence more often comes
A crash with mighty rumbling.
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Lucretius |
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So richly was this fertile race imbued
With virtuous nephews, its posterity
Surpassed the past, in brave authority,
Measured deep earth and heaven's altitude:
So that, holding all power in its hand,
No end to empire would Rome understand:
And though
Republics
Time might consume,
Time could not so diminish Roman pride,
That some head raised from the ancient tomb,
To speak her name, might be deemed to have lied.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Public domain books are our
gateways
to the past, representing a wealth of history, culture and knowledge that's often difficult to discover.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Not for mere stress of need, but purpose set,
That never day nor night God may forget
Aegisthus' sin: aye, and
perchance
a cry
Cast forth to the waste shining of the sky
May find my father's ear.
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Euripides - Electra |
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A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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"But once,
Monsieur
Bon-Bon, but once.
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Poe - 5 |
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Prepared for combat, ere the lance he toss'd,
The daring Rhodian vents his haughty boast:
"What brings this Lycian
counsellor
so far,
To tremble at our arms, not mix in war!
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Iliad - Pope |
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O rustle not, ye verdant oaken
branches!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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I dreamt I saw thee, robed in purple flakes,
Break amorous through the clouds, as morning breaks,
And, swiftly as a bright
Phoebean
dart,
Strike for the Cretan isle; and here thou art!
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Keats |
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But there were those amongst us all
Who walked with
downcast
head,
And knew that, had each got his due,
They should have died instead:
He had but killed a thing that lived,
Whilst they had killed the dead.
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Wilde - Poems |
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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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Li Bai - Chinese |
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"
She ceas'd--and buried then her burning cheek
Abash'd, amid the lilies there, to seek
A shelter from the fervour of His eye;
For the stars
trembled
at the Deity.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Sweet smiles, in the night
Hover over my
delight!
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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4 _pro
luciduli_
(_-oli_ Laur.
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Latin - Catullus |
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THE INCONSISTENT
I SAY, "She was as good as fair,"
When
standing
by her mound;
"Such passing sweetness," I declare,
"No longer treads the ground.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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And still they led him onwards, and he still
Looked back towards her
standing
there; and they, content,
Cheered him and praised him that he did their will.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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MY LADY,
The honour you have done your poor poet, in writing him so very
obliging a letter, and the pleasure the enclosed beautiful verses have
given him, came very seasonably to his aid, amid the cheerless gloom
and sinking despondency of diseased nerves and
December
weather.
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Robert Burns |
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Why, conquering
May prove as lordly and complete a thing
In lifting upward, as in
crushing
low!
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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The snuff of a candle, or a mischievous dog, might in a
moment have
deprived
the world forever of any of those fine
compositions.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Or cormorants
plunging
one by one, cutting
The flood, pearls flying from their wings?
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19th Century French Poetry |
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if your ancient, but ignoble blood
Has crept through
scoundrels
ever since the flood,
Go!
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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active links or
immediate
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Qui estoit bien ung pie
retraite
340
De tele cum el soloit estre;
A paine se pooit-el pestre,
Tant estoit vielle et radotee.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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And as I have
mentioned
the word labour.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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I love him, not one whom hell has seen descend, 635
Fickle worshipper of a thousand diverse ends,
Who'd
dishonour
the bed of the god of the dead:
But the loyal, proud, even shy man, instead,
Charming, young: drawing after him all hearts.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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The well-beloved are
wretched
then.
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Appoloinaire |
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Down the
slippery
slopes of Myrtle,
Where the early pumpkins blow,
To the calm and silent sea
Fled the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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--
Yet
silenced
cannot be this throbbing
Which dolefulness alone dispels.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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_ 'Tis true, indeed; and each of us will bring
Unto our smiling and our
blooming
king
A neat, though not so great an offering.
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Robert Herrick |
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he who just now was seen a
professed
droll, or e'en
shrewder than such in gay speech, this same becomes more boorish than a
country boor immediately he touches poesy, nor is the dolt e'er as
self-content as when he writes in verse,--so greatly is he pleased with
himself, so much does he himself admire.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Yes, indeed, by
Aphrodite!
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Aristophanes |
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To Cretheus wedded next, the lovely nymph
Yet other sons, AEson and Pheres bore,
And
Amythaon
of equestrian fame.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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The politician or the newspaper persuaded
some forty
Catholic
students to sign a protest against the play, and a
Cardinal, who avowed that he had not read it, to make another, and both
politician and newspaper made such obvious appeals to the audience to
break the peace, that some score of police[B] were sent to the theatre
to see that they did not.
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Yeats |
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The
poor girl felt that she had in a sense been an
accomplice
in the death
of her benefactress.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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As she was a Mennonite
Her rose-trees and her clothes lacked buttons
Two were missing from my coat-front
Both of us
followed
almost the same rite.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Don't think of
anything
so ugly.
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Kipling - Poems |
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The harbour-bay was clear as glass,
So
smoothly
it was strewn!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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'Tis thy
message?
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Euripides - Electra |
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_Cynthius
pluck ye by the ear.
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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Parce que vous fouillez le ventre de la Femme
Vous
craignez
d'elle encore une convulsion
Qui crie, asphyxiant votre nichee infame
Sur sa poitrine, en une horrible pression.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Seated in companies they sit, with
radiance
all their own.
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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No man:
Th'
expedition
of my violent Loue
Out-run the pawser, Reason.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Up, lad: thews that lie and cumber
Sunlit pallets never thrive;
Morns abed and
daylight
slumber
Were not meant for man alive.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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As when some heifer, seeking for her steer
Through
woodland
and deep grove, sinks wearied out
On the green sedge beside a stream, love-lorn,
Nor marks the gathering night that calls her home-
As pines that heifer, with such love as hers
May Daphnis pine, and I not care to heal.
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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III
IN Debtors' Yard the stones are hard,
And the
dripping
wall is high,
So it was there he took the air
Beneath the leaden sky,
And by each side a Warder walked,
For fear the man might die.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Low in your wintry beds, ye flowers,
Again ye'll nourish fresh and fair;
Ye birdies dumb, in
withering
bowers,
Again ye'll charm the vocal air.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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And thy
mourning
I will bear
Not one year of my life but every year,
While life shall last.
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| Question: |
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Whally, iv, 34,
streaked
(Warren).
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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O stay, sweet
warbling
woodlark, stay!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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_God's deathless plaything rolls an eye
Five hundred
thousand
cubits high.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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2 By the
pricking
of my Thumbes,
Something wicked this way comes:
Open Lockes, who euer knockes.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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For such a
name, O general unique, hast thou been to the furthest island of the west,
that this thy futtered-out Mentula should squander hundreds of
hundreds?
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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" I then:
"If soul that to the verge of life delays
Repentance, linger in that lower space,
Nor hither mount, unless good prayers befriend,
How chanc'd
admittance
was vouchsaf'd to him?
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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So saying, he number'd
carefully
the gold,
The vases, tripods bright, and tissued robes, 260
But nothing miss'd of all.
| Guess: |
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Yet here must the hand of the henchman peerless
lave with water his winsome lord,
the king and
conqueror
covered with blood,
with struggle spent, and unspan his helmet.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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SEPULTURE D'UN POETE MAUDIT
Si par une nuit lourde et sombre
Un bon chretien, par charite,
Derriere quelque vieux decombre
Enterre votre corps vante,
A l'heure ou les chastes etoiles
Ferment leurs yeux appesantis,
L'araignee y fera ses toiles,
Et la vipere ses petits;
Vous entendrez toute l'annee
Sur votre tete condamnee
Les cris lamentables des loups
Et des sorcieres fameliques,
Les ebats des vieillards lubriques
Et les
complots
des noirs filous.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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You
bewitched
the rivers, flowers and woods,
With your lyre, in vain but beguilingly,
Yet not what your soul felt, the beauty
That dealt what was festering in your blood.
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Ronsard |
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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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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Ye troopers who shot mothers down,
And marshals whose brave cannonade
Broke infant arms and split the stone
Where slumbered age and
guileless
maid--
Though blood is in the cup you fill,
Pretend it "rosy" wine, and still
Hail Cannon "King!
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Hugo - Poems |
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[560] _There wast thou call'd to thy
celestial
home.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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"
So wrote they,
mourning
him.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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]
XVIII
Long in this
fashionable
cell
Tattiana as enchanted stood;
But it grew late; cold blew the gale;
Dark was the valley and the wood
slept o'er the river misty grown.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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FAUST (wirft sich nieder):
Ein Liebender liegt dir zu Fussen,
Die
Jammerknechtschaft
aufzuschliessen.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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I saw her then, in alter'd air, alone,
So that I
recognised
her not--O shame
Be on my truant mind and faithless sight!
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Petrarch |
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'Twas NEGLIGENCE, so requisite to please
And fascinate, with airy, careless ease,
According to the taste which I pursue,
That made her charms so
exquisite
to view.
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La Fontaine |
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I was first on the list--
They may forget you tried to shield me
as the
horsemen
passed.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Copyright laws in most countries are in
a
constant
state of change.
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Imagists |
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These
opinions
receive additional authority from the power of the Semnones, who inhabit a hundred cantons, and, from the great body they compose, consider themselves as the head of the Suevi.
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Tacitus |
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SARA TEASDALE
WISDOM
It was a night of early spring,
The winter-sleep was scarcely broken;
Around us shadows and the wind
Listened
for what was never spoken.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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