Of all the wicked Ten still the names are held accursed,
And of all the wicked Ten Appius
Claudius
was the worst.
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Where is thy boast
Of Holofernes
captured?
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Enough my
punishment
to meet,
You must forgive, I do entreat
With clasped hands praying--oh, come back,
Make peace, and you shall nothing lack.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Let no
forgetting
sully that dim grace;
Our heart's infirmity is too easily won
To set a new love in the old love's place
And seek fresh vanity under the sun.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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The house
resounds with lamentation and sobbing and bitter crying of women;
[668-700]heaven echoes their loud wails; even as though all
Carthage
or
ancient Tyre went down as the foe poured in, and the flames rolled
furious over the roofs of house and temple.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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That some
disaster
cleft Thy scheme
And tore us wide apart,
So that no cry can cross, I deem;
For Thou art mild of heart,
And would'st not shape and shut us in
Where voice can not he heard:
'Tis plain Thou meant'st that we should win
Thy succour by a word.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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He hath
forgotten
thee in all the bliss
Of his gold city, and eternal day'--
Nay peace: behind my prison's blinded bars
I do possess what none can take away,
My love and all the glory of the stars.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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--for thee I gave,
And thy
inebriating
wave
Full many a foolish prank brought forth;
And oh!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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The
footprints!
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Euripides - Electra |
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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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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Ne
cherchez
plus mon coeur; les betes l'ont mange.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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DER HERR:
Nun gut, es sei dir
uberlassen!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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The "Persae" of Aeschylus afforded me the first model of my
conception, although the decision of the
glorious
contest now waging
in Greece being yet suspended forbids a catastrophe parallel to the
return of Xerxes and the desolation of the Persians.
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Shelley |
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After having vied with
returned
favours squandered treasure
More than a red lip with a red tip
And more than a white leg with a white foot
Where then do we think we are?
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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The sabbath bells, and their delightful chime;
The gambols and wild freaks at
shearing
time;
My hen's rich nest through long grass scarce espied;
The cowslip-gathering at May's dewy prime;
The swans, that, when I sought the water-side,
From far to meet me came, spreading their snowy pride.
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William Wordsworth |
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LVIII
When I came last to Ludlow
Amidst the
moonlight
pale,
Two friends kept step beside me,
Two honest lads and hale.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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This quondam community of public
employment
induced
Thelwall to visit Coleridge at Nether Stowey, where he fell in my way.
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William Wordsworth |
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Prom
thousand
blossoms came a bubbling
'Mid purple sheen of sorcery,
The song of countless warblers singing
Broke through the Spring's first cry of glee.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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In
addition Jonson employs one purely conventional attribute
belonging
to
the tradition of the church- and morality-plays.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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And without beauty men are
scurrying
ants,
Rapid in endless purpose unenjoyed;
Or newts in holes under the banks of ponds,
Feeding and breeding without sound or light.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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poor youth,
What taste of purer air hast thou to soothe
My
essence?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
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Oft
minstrels
sang
blithe in Heorot.
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| Question: |
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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A
singularity
we needs must own,
With this the wife was long familiar grown.
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La Fontaine |
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He who passes from the trading
towns and cultured fields of England to those remote villages of
Scotland or Ireland which claim this description, is astonished at the
comparative wretchedness of their destitute inhabitants; but few
consider that these villages only exhibit a view of what Europe was ere
the spirit of commerce diffused the
blessings
which naturally flow from
her improvements.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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my meetes were ascaped {and} comen to corage
of a
p{er}fit
man.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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For, fisherman, what fresh or seawater catch
equals him, either in form or savour,
that lovely divine fish, Jesus, My
Saviour?
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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And to thee, Pontic Amastris, and to box-screened
Cytorus, the pinnace vows that this was alway and yet is of common
knowledge most notorious; states that from its primal being it stood upon
thy topmost peak, dipped its oars in thy waters, and bore its master thence
through surly seas of number frequent, whether the wind whistled 'gainst
the
starboard
quarter or the lee or whether Jove propitious fell on both
the sheets at once; nor any vows [from stress of storm] to shore-gods were
ever made by it when coming from the uttermost seas unto this glassy lake.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Resolved to win, he
meditates
the way,
By force to ravish, or by fraud betray;
For when success a lover's toil attends,
Few ask if fraud or force attained his ends.
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Alexander Pope |
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SCENE 5:
ARCHY:
I'll go live under the ivy that
overgrows
the terrace, and count the
tears shed on its old [roots?
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Shelley |
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TEMPORE
SENECTUTIS
OR we are old
And the earth passion dieth;
We have watched him die a thousand times, When he wanes an old wind crieth,
For we are old
And passion hath died for us a thousand times
But we grew never weary.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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We tore the tarry rope to shreds
With blunt and bleeding nails;
We rubbed the doors, and scrubbed the floors,
And cleaned the shining rails:
And, rank by rank, we soaped the plank,
And
clattered
with the pails.
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Wilde - Poems |
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This morning
Papers of state he sent me to peruse,
As I requir'd; and wot you what I found
There-on my conscience, put
unwittingly?
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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I had no cause to be awake,
My best was gone to sleep,
And morn a new politeness took,
And failed to wake them up,
But called the others clear,
And passed their
curtains
by.
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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where the steep
Tarpeian--fittest goal of Treason's race,
The
promontory
whence the traitor's leap
Cured all ambition?
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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--then take
yourself
off, away with you; a mountebank is no
companion for a priest.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Rosses is a little sea-dividing, sandy plain, covered with short grass,
like a green table-cloth, and lying in the foam midway between the
round cairn-headed Knocknarea and 'Ben Bulben, famous for hawks':
'But for
Benbulben
and Knocknarea
Many a poor sailor'd be cast away,'
as the rhyme goes.
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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The
hosannas
nearer roll.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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But then I
promised
ne'er to tell;
How could I break my word?
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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That
impudence
of mine, so daring,
As thou wast home from church repairing?
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Her fabulous head
reposed upon the brow of the man like one of those horrible casques by
which ancient
warriors
hoped to add to the terrors of the enemy.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Hush, beating heart of
Christabel!
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
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The children of whose
turbaned
seas,
Or what Circassian land?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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What does it mean to
American
persons, progresses, cities?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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I shall lack that forever though,
So no wonder at my hunger now;
For never did
Christian
lady seem
Fairer - nor would God wish her to -
Nor Jewess nor Saracen below.
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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"Know thou, that, from the first, these substances,
Rejoicing in the countenance of God,
Have held
unceasingly
their view, intent
Upon the glorious vision, from the which
Naught absent is nor hid: where then no change
Of newness with succession interrupts,
Remembrance there needs none to gather up
Divided thought and images remote
"So that men, thus at variance with the truth
Dream, though their eyes be open; reckless some
Of error; others well aware they err,
To whom more guilt and shame are justly due.
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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The God who made New Hampshire
Taunted the lofty land
With little men;--
Small bat and wren
House in the oak:--
If earth-fire cleave
The upheaved land, and bury the folk,
The southern
crocodile
would grieve.
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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Pour ne pas oublier la chose capitale,
Nous avons vu partout, et sans l'avoir cherche,
Du haut jusques en bas de l'echelle fatale,
Le spectacle
ennuyeux
de l'immortel peche:
La femme, esclave vile, orgueilleuse et stupide,
Sans rire s'adorant et s'aimant sans degout:
L'homme, tyran goulu, paillard, dur et cupide,
Esclave de l'esclave et ruisseau dans l'egout;
Le bourreau qui jouit, le martyr qui sanglote;
La fete qu'assaisonne et parfume le sang;
Le poison du pouvoir enervant le despote,
Et le peuple amoureux du fouet abrutissant;
Plusieurs religions semblables a la notre,
Toutes escaladant le ciel; la Saintete,
Comme en un lit de plume un delicat se vautre,
Dans les clous et le crin cherchant la volupte;
L'Humanite bavarde, ivre de son genie,
Et, folle maintenant comme elle etait jadis,
Criant a Dieu, dans sa furibonde agonie:
<< O mon semblable, o mon maitre, je te maudis!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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25-6, given also in Morris and Skeat's
Speci|mens
of Early English, 1298-1393, p.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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quid numerem euersas urbis
regumque
ruinas
inque rogo Croesum Priamumque in litore truncum,
cui nec Troia rogus?
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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They still took European consciousness as an
affair of
geography
and race rather than simply as a triumphant stage in
the general progress of man's knowledge of himself.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Byron |
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XVII
The Sarazin sore daunted with the buffe 145
Snatcheth his sword, and fiercely to him flies;
Who well it wards, and quyteth cuff with cuff:
Each others equall
puissaunce
envies,?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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atque utinam, si forte pios
eduximus
annos,
ille uir in medio fiat amore lapis!
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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The
human mind is
conscious
of its own weakness.
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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"'Tis yours, O warriors, all our hopes to raise:
Oh
recollect
your ancient worth and praise!
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Iliad - Pope |
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on what far strand
Do ye of spring the
blossoms
graze?
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Free us, for there is one Whose smile more availeth
Than all the age-old
knowledge
of thy books: And we would look thereon.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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And
he showed me above the altar an inscription graven, and I read:
"If thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out and cast it from thee;
for it is
profitable
for thee that one of thy members should perish,
and not that the whole body should be cast into hell.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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The Hill of
Posilipo
is situated to the west of the city of Naples, and is the site of Virgil's tomb.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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In the
presence
of justice,
Lo, the walls of the temple
Are visible
Through thy form of sudden shadows.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Stephen Crane |
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"
He spoke; and pass'd: Latona,
stooping
low,
Collects the scatter'd shafts and fallen bow,
That, glittering on the dust, lay here and there
Dishonour'd relics of Diana's war:
Then swift pursued her to her blest abode,
Where, all confused, she sought the sovereign god;
Weeping, she grasp'd his knees: the ambrosial vest
Shook with her sighs, and panted on her breast.
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Iliad - Pope |
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But all unconscious of the coming doom,
The feast, the song, the revel here abounds;
Strange modes of merriment the hours consume,
Nor bleed these patriots with their country's wounds;
Nor here War's clarion, but Love's rebeck sounds;
Here Folly still his votaries enthralls,
And young-eyed Lewdness walks her
midnight
rounds:
Girt with the silent crimes of capitals,
Still to the last kind Vice clings to the tottering walls.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Therewith upon his crest he stroke him so, 95
That twise he reeled, readie twise to fall;
End of the
doubtfull
battell deemed tho
The lookers on, and lowd to him gan call
The false Duessa, Thine the shield, and I, and all.
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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"Who hath conducted, or with lantern sure
Lights you
emerging
from the depth of night,
That makes the infernal valley ever black?
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Perhaps at eve as round the fire we draw,
We speak of heaven, or poetry, or law,
Or politics, or prayer;
The child comes in, 'tis now all smiles and play,
Farewell
to grave discourse and poet's lay,
Philosophy and care.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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' I said, 'Do you
see
anything
near the door?
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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The hoot of the
steamers
on the Thames is plain.
| Guess: |
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Imagists |
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Thrill of the Dawn
CAN such a pain be
branded?
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Never sadder tale was heard
By a man of woman born:
The
Marineres
all return'd to work
As silent as beforne.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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"
"Of Captain
Mironoff?
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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_)
Regret that
dropping
sun's dusk;
Love this cold stream's clearness.
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Li Po |
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Here wait we rather, till
approaching
day
Shall prompt our speed, and point the ready way.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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L'Epitaphe Villon: Ballade Des Pendus
My
brothers
who live after us,
Don't harden you hearts against us too,
If you have mercy now on us,
God may have mercy upon you.
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Villon |
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Now, Bon-Bon, do you behold the
thoughts--the thoughts, I say,--the ideas--the reflections--which are
being engendered in her
pericranium?
| Guess: |
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Poe - 5 |
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Advauncynge, as a mastie at a bull, 425
He rann his launce into Fitz Warren's harte;
From Partaies bowe, a wight unmercifull,
Within his owne he felt a cruel darte;
Close by the Norman
champyons
he han sleine,
He fell; and mixd his bloude with theirs upon the pleine.
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Then in dolorous dread he beat his head:
"No earthly prize or pelf
Is the thing I've lost in tempest tossed,
But the Body of Christ
Himself!
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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"
'Twas dark
Thyestes
spoke.
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Euripides - Electra |
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"
'Twas dark
Thyestes
spoke.
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Euripides - Electra |
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Redistribution is
subject to the trademark license,
especially
commercial
redistribution.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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sidera sunt testes et
matutina
pruina
et furtim misero ianua aperta mihi,
te nihil in uita nobis acceptius umquam:
nunc quoque erit, quamuis sis inimica, nihil.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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But to speak in
literature with the perfect rectitude and insousiance of the movements of
animals, and the unimpeachableness of the sentiment of trees in the woods
and grass by the roadside, is the
flawless
triumph of art.
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Whitman |
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Never must you be divided, in our ranks you move united,
Pioneers!
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Whitman |
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Why, untamed do you scare
At any
approach
you see?
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Ronsard |
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Shameless I left my father's home;
Shameless I cheat the
expectant
grave;
O heaven, that naked I might roam
In lions' cave!
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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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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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Thou rich-man's
lawgiver!
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Such another
peerless
queen
Only could her mirror show.
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Emerson - Poems |
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[_The_ SERVANT
_reluctantly
comes close.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Triumphant
Umbriel on a sconce's height
Clapp'd his glad wings, and sate to view the fight:
Propp'd on the bodkin spears, the Sprites survey 55
The growing combat, or assist the fray.
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Alexander Pope |
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When he was young he little knew
Of
husbandry
or tillage;
And now he's forced to work, though weak,
--The weakest in the village.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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CHATIMENT DE L'ORGUEIL
En ces temps merveilleux ou la Theologie
Fleurit avec le plus de seve et d'energie,
On raconte qu'un jour un docteur des plus grands
--Apres avoir force les coeurs indifferents,
Les avoir remues dans leurs
profondeurs
noires;
Apres avoir franchi vers les celestes gloires
Des chemins singuliers a lui-meme inconnus,
Ou les purs Esprits seuls peut-etre etaient venus,
--Comme un homme monte trop haut, pris de panique,
S'ecria, transporte d'un orgueil satanique:
<< Jesus, petit Jesus!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Throughout this vast and pathetic array of Singers now silent, few have
been honoured with the name Poet, and have not possessed a skill in
words, a sympathy with beauty, a tenderness of feeling, or seriousness
in reflection, which render their works, although never perhaps
attaining that loftier and finer
excellence
here required,--better worth
reading than much of what fills the scanty hours that most men spare for
self-improvement, or for pleasure in any of its more elevated and
permanent forms.
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Golden Treasury |
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Since, Lord, thou drawest near us once again,
And how we do, dost graciously inquire,
And to be pleased to see me once didst deign,
I too among thy
household
venture nigher.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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all,
Around the islet where the sea-doves breed,
Dashed their
defeated
heads on iron rocks;
Arcteus, who dwelt beside the founts of Nile,
Adeues, Pheresseues, and with them
Pharnuchus, from one galley's deck went down.
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Aeschylus |
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