on what far strand
Do ye of spring the
blossoms
graze?
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Then, before a voice
As
dreadful
as the shout of one who sees
To one who sins, and deems himself alone
And all the world asleep, they swerved and brake
Flying, and Arthur called to stay the brands
That hacked among the flyers, 'Ho!
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Tennyson |
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Refuge
III
The Flight
Dew
To-night
Ebb Tide
I Would Live in Your Love
Because
The Tree of Song
The Giver
April Song
The Wanderer
The Years
Enough
Come
Joy
Riches
Dusk in War Time
Peace
Moods
Houses of Dreams
Lights
"I Am Not Yours"
Doubt
The Wind
Morning
Other Men
Embers
Message
The Lamp
IV
A
November
Night
Love Songs
I
Barter
Life has loveliness to sell,
All beautiful and splendid things,
Blue waves whitened on a cliff,
Soaring fire that sways and sings,
And children's faces looking up
Holding wonder like a cup.
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Sara Teasdale |
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If you received the work electronically, the person or entity
providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to
receive the work
electronically
in lieu of a refund.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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This is a digital copy of a book that was preserved for generations on library shelves before it was
carefully
scanned by Google as part of a project to make the world's books discoverable online.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Now right across proud Tarquin
A corpse was Julius laid;
And Titus groaned with rage and grief,
And at
Valerius
made.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Ringdoves
coo again,
All things woo again.
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Tennyson |
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My
consolations
rather come
to me in gusts of feeling, than are the quiet growth of my mind.
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William Wordsworth |
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If it is thou who punishest; but rather
It is that, when we slacken in perceiving
The world's intent towards us, and fatally,
Enticed out of suspicion by fair signs,
Go from ignoring its proposals, down
To parley,--thou our
weakness
dost permit.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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So far as to mine eyes its light heaven show'd,
So far as love and study train'd my wings,
Novel and beautiful but mortal things
From every star I found on her bestow'd:
So many forms in rare and varied mode
Of
heavenly
beauty from immortal springs
My panting intellect before me brings,
Sunk my weak sight before their dazzling load.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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'" Hereupon some
little squibbing and
bickering
occurred among various members of
the crowd, and especially between "Old Charley" and Mr.
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Poe - 5 |
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Because he filched away
Thine own bright flower, the glory of plastic fire,
And gifted mortals with it,--such a sin
It doth behove he expiate to the gods,
Learning
to accept the empery of Zeus
And leave off his old trick of loving man.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Banquets and game tables, operas, balls,
promenades
down the Corso?
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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hic Solis nemus est et consitus arbore multa
lucus
perpetuae
frondis honore uirens.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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But Trivia the
bountiful
hides Hippolytus in a secret habitation, and
sends him away to the nymph Egeria and the woodland's keeping, where,
solitary in Italian forests, he should spend an inglorious life, and
have Virbius for his altered name.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Those times: the times when I was quite alone
By memories wrapt that
whispered
to me low,
My silence was the quiet of a stone
Over which rippling murmuring waters flow.
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Rilke - Poems |
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These shores none passes in his sable ship 220
Till, first, the
warblings
of our voice he hear,
Then, happier hence and wiser he departs.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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The person or entity that
provided
you with
the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a
refund.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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that fair and kindly face
Now hidest from me in thy close embrace;
Why leave me here,
disconsolate
and blind,
Since she who of mine eyes the light has been,
Sweet, loving, bright, no more with me is seen?
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Petrarch - Poems |
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The abolition of the
feudal system, a system of absolute slavery, and that equality of
mankind which affords the protection of property, and every other
incitement to industry, are the glorious gifts which the spirit of
commerce, awakened by Prince Henry of Portugal, has bestowed upon Europe
in general; and, as if
directed
by the manes of his mother, a daughter
of England, upon the British empire in particular.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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TO THE
COUNTESSE
OF BEDFORD.
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John Donne |
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Soft were my numbers; who could take offence, 145
While pure
Description
held the place of Sense?
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Alexander Pope |
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O tonet fort, ihr sussen
Himmelslieder!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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In me thou see'st the
twilight
of such day
As after sunset fadeth in the west;
Which by and by black night doth take away,
Death's second self, that seals up all in rest.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Quick to the country let us wend
In
vehicles
surcharged with freight;
In coach or post-cart duly placed
Beyond the city-barriers haste.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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We are like bees that, having fed all day
On mountain-heather, go to a tumbling stream
To please their little honey-heated thirsts;
And soon as they have toucht the singing relief,
The
swiftness
of the water seizes them.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Show thy heart's secret to an ancient Power
Who hath forsaken old and sacred thrones
For
prophecies
of thee, and for the sake
Of loveliness new born.
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Keats |
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Free of his youthful errors now, returning,
No
unworthy
obstacle would there delay him:
Ending his fatal inconstancy by her prayers, 25
Phaedra no longer has any such rival to fear.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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nihil, nisi ita ut deceat, et uti omnes moveat, atque
delectet?
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Tacitus |
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Soles
occidere
et redire possunt:
Nobis cum semel occidit brevis lux, 5
Nox est perpetua una dormienda.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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The broils that from Metellus date,
The secret springs, the dark intrigues,
The freaks of Fortune, and the great
Confederate
in disastrous leagues,
And arms with uncleansed slaughter red,
A work of danger and distrust,
You treat, as one on fire should tread,
Scarce hid by treacherous ashen crust.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Perhaps a
squirrel
may remain,
My sentiments to share.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Sad Souvenaunce 53
ECHOES 58
A SEA DIRGE 59
Y{E} CARPETTE KNYGHTE 64
HIAWATHA'S PHOTOGRAPHING 66
MELANCHOLETTA 78
A VALENTINE 84
THE THREE VOICES:--
The First Voice 87
The Second Voice 98
The Third Voice 109
TEMA CON
VARIAZIONI
118
A GAME OF FIVES 120
POETA FIT, NON NASCITUR 123
THE HUNTING OF THE SNARK, an Agony in Eight Fits:--
I.
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
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Maggot
frequents
those houses of good cheer, 391.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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THANKSGIVING TURKEY
Valleys lay in sunny vapor,
And a
radiance
mild was shed
From each tree that like a taper
At a feast stood.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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ce sont la les plats
Que tu nous sers bourgeois, quand nous sommes feroces
Quand nous brisons deja les
sceptres
et les crosses!
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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swum the deep
{These fragments
penciled
in above the ink line.
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Blake - Zoas |
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The
bonniest
lad that e'er I saw,
Bonnie laddie, Highland laddie,
Wore a plaid, and was fu' braw,
Bonnie Highland laddie.
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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Contributions
to the Project Gutenberg
Literary Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent
permitted by U.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Half-past three,
The lamp sputtered,
The lamp
muttered
in the dark.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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' I have gone through so many yesterdays when I
strove with Death that I have
realised
to its full the wisdom of that
sentence; and it is to me not merely a figure of speech, but a
literal fact.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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I will say,
That I repent me of the day
When I spake words of fierce disdain
To Roland de Vaux of
Tryermaine!
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| Source: |
Coleridge - 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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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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ONE, day, old Satan, sov'reign dread of hell;
Reviewed
his subjects, as our hist'ries tell;
The diff'rent ranks, confounded as they stood,
Kings, nobles, females, and plebeian blood,
Such grief expressed, and made such horrid cries,
As almost stunned, and filled him with surprise.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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"
Who
calleth?
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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A "hair-brain'd,
sentimental
trace"
Was strongly marked in her face;
A wildly-witty, rustic grace
Shone full upon her;
Her eye, ev'n turn'd on empty space,
Beam'd keen with honour.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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O, how I long to be agen
That poor and independent man,
With labour's lot from morn to night
And books to read at candle light;
That followed labour in the field
From light to dark when toil could yield
Real happiness with little gain,
Rich
thoughtless
health unknown to pain:
Though, leaning on my spade to rest,
I've thought how richer folks were blest
And knew not quiet was the best.
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John Clare |
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He
was, in truth, the father of the second school of Latin poetry,
the only school of which the works have
descended
to us.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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O fearful
meditation!
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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]
Sara Teasdale
Sara
Teasdale
was born in St.
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Sara Teasdale |
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The
exploits
of Athelstane were commemorated
by the Anglo-Saxons and those of Canute by the Danes, in rude
poems, of which a few fragments have come down to us.
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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the ripe moon hangs above
Weaving
enchantment
o'er the shadowy lea.
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Rilke - Poems |
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For-thy be glad, myn owene dere brother, 405
If she be lost, we shal
recovere
another.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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In she plunged boldly,
No matter how coldly
The rough river ran,--
Over the brink of it,
Picture it,--think of it,
Dissolute
Man!
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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-- Lo, Cloud, thy downward
countenance
stares
Blank on the blank-faced marsh, and thou
Mindest of dark affairs;
Thy substance seems a warp of cares;
Like late wounds run the wrinkles on thy brow.
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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And only not to
desperation
driven,
Because not altogether of such clay
As rots into the souls of those whom I survey.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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"
Two early night-winged
butterflies
together
Be-chase themselves from halm to halm in jest,
The balk prepares from out the shrubs and weather,
The balm of evening for the soul distressed.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Many small donations
($1 to $5,000) are
particularly
important to maintaining tax exempt
status with the IRS.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
|
cm Street Boston
SELECTED POEMS OF
Gustaf Froeding
The greatest poet of a great poetic literature, adequately
introduced
to English readers.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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We gazed with terror on the gloomy sleep
Of them that perished in the whirlwind's sweep,
Untaught that soon such anguish must ensue,
Our hopes such harvest of
affliction
reap,
That we the mercy of the waves should rue.
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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)]
106 (return)
[ The
chastity
of the Germans, and their strict regard to the laws of marriage, are witnessed by all their ancient codes of law.
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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I touch this flower of silken leaf,
Which once our
childhood
knew;
Its soft leaves wound me with a grief
Whose balsam never grew.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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And faith, 'tis pleasant till 'tis past:
The
mischief
is that 'twill not last.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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It is not content to be the servant, but will be the
master; and every day it goes out to the Plains of Abraham or to the
Champ de Mars and
exhibits
itself and toots.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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He was appointed
Commissary
of
the estates of deceased persons, in the island of Macao, a Portuguese
settlement on the coast of China.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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John Hunt)
The Deformed
Transformed
p.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
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And in his heart kind
influences
shed
Of country's love, by truth and justice bred.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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Say, for such wonder claims
attention
due.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
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Farms the sunny landscape dappled,
Swandown
clouds dappled the farms,
Cattle lowed in mellow distance
Where far oaks outstretched their arms.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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That
throughout the whole visible world, an
universal
order and gradation in
the sensual and mental faculties is observed, which cause is a
subordination of creature to creature, and of all creatures to Man.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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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.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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_
qui est d'un net et d'un vrai, quant a ce qui
concerne
un beau jour de
premier janvier.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Protect me always from like excess,
Virgin, who bore, without a cry,
Christ whom we
celebrate
at Mass.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
|
550
And now, the mistress of the
household
charge
Summon'd him to his bath; glad he beheld
The steaming vase, uncustom'd to its use
E'er since his voyage from the isle of fair
Calypso, although, while a guest with her,
Ever familiar with it, as a God.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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[End of the Second Night]
Ahania heard the
Lamentation
& a swift Vibration
Spread thro her Golden frame.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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on fresh snow like roses thrown,
Wherein I read myself and mend apace;
O
pleasures!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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Two we were, with one heart blessed:
If heart's dead, yes, then I foresee,
I'll die, or I must
lifeless
be,
Like those statues made of lead.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
|
This too I know--and wise it were
If each could know the same--
That every prison that men build
Is built with bricks of shame,
And bound with bars lest Christ should see
How men their
brothers
maim.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
|
At last they slowed their
impetuous
flight.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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STRENGTH
Lo, the earth's bound and
limitary
land,
The Scythian steppe, the waste untrod of men!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
|
The invalidity or unenforceability of any
provision of this agreement shall not void the
remaining
provisions.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
|
Is that
trembling
cry a song?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
Now she is a
wandering
man's wife.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
|
I was not
conscious
of it.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
|
But if one should look at me with the old hunger in Plank
her eyes,
How will I be
answering
her eyes?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
Thy voice is lovely, Darthula, between the
rustling
blasts!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
|
Witness the Spartan
mother's speech to her son,
delivered
with his buckler: "either _with_
this _or on_ this" (B.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
|
Across the
threshold
many feet
Shall pass, but never Sappho's feet again.
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" then Helen's beauty must
be
accepted
by the faith of all the world.
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The fire glows and the smoke puffs and curls;
From the incense-burner rises a
delicate
fragrance.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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the ripe moon hangs above
Weaving
enchantment
o'er the shadowy lea.
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Note: Dante Gabriel Rossetti took Archipiades to be Hipparchia (see Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Philosophers, Book VI 96-98) who loved Crates the Theban Cynic philosopher (368/5-288/5BC) and of whom various tales are told
suggesting
her beauty, and independence of mind.
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Villon |
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As they seemed to me to have
an
individual
beauty of their own, I thought they ought to be
published.
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'Tis
grieving
for thy loss that makes me ill;
Did ever I in aught deny thy will?
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My LORD,
This Poem, which receiv'd its first occasion of Birth from your
Self, and others of your Noble Family, and much honour from
your own Person in the performance, now returns again to
make a finall
Dedication
of it self to you.
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Milton |
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Please do not assume that a book's
appearance
in Google Book Search means it can be used in any manner anywhere in the world.
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Meredith - Poems |
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" The return to Hell is received with loud
acclaim, which comes in the form of a hiss, and Satan and all his
hosts are turned into
grovelling
snakes.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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compressed, marked up,
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or proprietary form, including any
word processing or hypertext form.
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At Venice the
distinction
was merely
civil.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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