He was the 'first' troubadour, that is, the first recorded
vernacular
lyric poet, in the Occitan language.
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Troubador Verse |
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Gently
illuminate
a sober scene; 1827.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Pagans are come great martyrdom seeking;
Noble and fair reward this day shall bring,
Was never won by any
Frankish
King.
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Chanson de Roland |
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How can a child, when fears annoy,
But droop his tender wing,
And forget his
youthful
spring?
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blake-poems |
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Canst hear me through the water-bass,
Cry: "To the Shore,
Sweetheart?
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Sidney Lanier |
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Alfred Schone, for instance, fixing
his
attention
on just those points which the conventional critic passed
over, decides simply that the _Alcestis_ is a parody, and finds it
very funny.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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That shrinking back, like one that had
mistook!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Erdman indicates that a linking line "must have been dropped in
transcribing
from working notes.
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Blake - Zoas |
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In these lines as they stand in the
editions
and most of the
MSS.
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John Donne |
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But I know that to-morrow
A smiling peasant will come with a basket of quails
Wrapped in vine-leaves,
prodding
them with blood-stained fingers,
Saying, 'Signore, you must cook them thus, and thus,
With a sprig of basil inside them.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Timotheus
placed on high
Amid the tuneful quire
With flying fingers touch'd the lyre:
The trembling notes ascend the sky
And heavenly joys inspire.
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Golden Treasury |
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Led by that perfume to these lands of ease,
I see a port where many ships have flown
With sails
outwearied
of the wandering seas;
While the faint odours from green tamarisks blown,
Float to my soul and in my senses throng,
And mingle vaguely with the sailor's song.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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The priests were singing, and the organ sounded,
And then anon the great
cathedral
bell.
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Longfellow |
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It was reserved for Magalhaens to
discover
the
westward route to the Eastern world.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Hsi-ho, Hsi-ho,[21]
Is it true that once you loitered in the West
While Lu Yang[22] raised his spear, to hold
The
progress
of your light;
Then plunged and sank in the turmoil of the sea?
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Li Po |
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Face unto face, then, say,
Eyes mine own meeting,
Is your heart far away,
Or with mine
beating?
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Coleridge, when he was by himself,
was never sure of this; there was his _magnum opus_, the revelation of
all philosophy; and he
sometimes
has doubts of the worth of his own poetry.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Newby
Chief
Executive
and Director
gbnewby@pglaf.
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Keats - Lamia |
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The music has been thus harmonized for four voices by
Professor
C.
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John Donne |
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Since cause might be which skill could never find;
But he was frenzied by disease or woe
To that worst pitch of all, which wears a
reasoning
show.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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that
dwellest
where,
In the deep sky,
The terrible and fair,
In beauty vie!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Sur La Mort de Marie: IV
As in May month, on its stem we see the rose
In its sweet youthfulness, in its freshest flower,
Making the heavens jealous with living colour,
Dawn sprinkles it with tears in the morning glow:
Grace lies in all its petals, and love, I know,
Scenting the trees and scenting the garden's bower,
But,
assaulted
by scorching heat or a shower,
Languishing, it dies, and petals on petals flow.
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Ronsard |
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"
'Twas in the
seventeen
hunder year
O' grace, and ninety-five,
That year I was the wae'est man
Of ony man alive.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Lesbia mi dicit semper male nec tacet umquam
De me: Lesbia me
dispeream
nisi amat.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Out of my store I'll give you wealth untold,
Charging
ten mules with fine Arabian gold;
I'll do the same for you, new year and old.
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Chanson de Roland |
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_No light there is, in any house, save
presence
of the master_--
So runs the saw, ye aged men!
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Aeschylus |
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Are so
superfluous
cold,
I would as soon attempt to warm
The bosoms where the frost has lain
Ages beneath the mould.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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RETROSPECT
"I HAVE LIVED WITH SHADES"
I
I HAVE lived with shades so long,
And talked to them so oft,
Since forth from cot and croft
I went mankind among,
That sometimes they
In their dim style
Will pause awhile
To hear my say;
II
And take me by the hand,
And lead me through their rooms
In the To-be, where Dooms
Half-wove and
shapeless
stand:
And show from there
The dwindled dust
And rot and rust
Of things that were.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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So he built a new city,
ah can we believe, not ironically
but for new splendour
constructed new people
to lift through slow growth
to a beauty
unrivalled
yet--
and created new cells,
hideous first, hideous now--
spread larve across them,
not honey but seething life.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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how unlike those late
terrific
sleeps!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Go
ravisshe
hir ne canstow not for shame!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Upon this night no
sentinels
keep watch.
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Chanson de Roland |
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For you, on Latmos, fondling your sleeping boy,
Would always wish some languid ploy
As restraint for your flying chariot:
But I whom Love devours all night long,
Wish from evening onwards for the dawn,
To find the
daylight
that your night forgot.
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Ronsard |
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Tendre ot la char comme rousee,
Simple fu cum une espousee,
Et blanche comme flor de lis;
Si ot le vis cler et alis,
Et fu
greslete
et alignie;
Ne fu fardee ne guignie:
Car el n'avoit mie mestier
De soi tifer ne d'afetier.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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To Claudius
Etruscus
on the Death of his Father_
SVMMA deum, Pietas, cuius gratissima caelo
rara profanatas inspectant numina terras,
huc uittata comam niueoque insignis amictu,
qualis adhuc praesens nullaque expulsa nocentum
fraude rudis populos atque aurea regna colebas,
mitibus exsequiis ades et lugentis Etrusci
cerne pios fletus laudataque lumina terge.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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He wrote histories of the Revolution,
of
Napoleon
and of France.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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My throat sings the joy of my eyes,
The rushing
gladness
of my love.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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'
But with walls blazoned, mourning, empty,
I've scorned the lucid horror of a tear,
When, deaf to the sacred verse he does not fear,
One of those passers-by, mute, blind, proud,
Transmutes himself, a guest in his vague shroud,
Into the virgin hero of
posthumous
waiting.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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I caught a glimpse of some such thing,
Sort of pearl
bracelet
I should think it.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Undue
significance
a starving man attaches
To food
Far off; he sighs, and therefore hopeless,
And therefore good.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right
of Replacement or Refund"
described
in paragraph 1.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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For thee old legends
breathed
historic breath;
Thou sawest Poseidon in the purple sea,
And in the sunset Jason's fleece of gold!
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Longfellow |
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"
Envoi
Fair is this damsel and right courteous,
And many watch her beauty's
gracious
ways.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Yet now, before our sun grow dark at noon,
Before we come to nought beneath Thy rod,
Before we go down quick into the pit, 80
Remember us for good, O God, our God:--
Thy Name will I remember, praising it,
Though Thou forget me, though Thou hide Thy face,
And blot me from the Book which Thou hast writ;
Thy Name will I remember in my praise
And call to mind Thy
faithfulness
of old,
Though as a weaver Thou cut off my days,
And end me as a tale ends that is told.
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Christina Rossetti |
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-- Hengest is the "prince's thane,"
companion
of
Hnaef.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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In what manner shall I put him to the
question?
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Aristophanes |
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Throughout both poems, all deaths from
unforeseen or invisible causes, the ravages of pestilence, the fate
of the young child or promising adult, cut off in the germ of
infancy or flower of youth, of the old man dropping peacefully into
the grave, or of the
reckless
sinner suddenly checked in his career
of crime, are ascribed to the arrows of Apollo or Diana.
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Iliad - Pope |
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And thus thou canst remark that every act
At bottom exists not of itself, nor is
As body is, nor has like name with void;
But rather of sort more fitly to be called
An
accident
of body, and of place
Wherein all things go on.
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Lucretius |
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,
'The
perfection
o' bliss
Is in skinnin' thet same old coon,' sez he.
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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No
mightier
birth may He beget;
No like, no second has He known;
Yet nearest to her sire's is set
Minerva's throne.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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_est_ D
LXIX
Noli admirari, quare tibi femina nulla,
Rufe, uelit tenerum supposuisse femur,
non si illam rarae labefactes munere uestis
aut perluciduli
deliciis
lapidis.
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Latin - Catullus |
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In the Gates of Death
rejoice!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation"
or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project
Gutenberg-tm
electronic
works.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Num'rous as are the lion's thoughts, who sees,
Not without fear, a
multitude
with toils 960
Encircling him around, such num'rous thoughts
Her bosom occupied, till sleep at length
Invading her, she sank in soft repose.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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' In the third edition
(1661) the words were changed to 'And some say written by Sir Harry
Wotton, who I told you was an
excellent
Angler.
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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If merely a salute her wish had been,
She might have had it, easily was seen;
But bliss
unbounded
clearly was her view,
And this with anxious ardour she'd pursue.
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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Thou scene of all my happiness and
pleasure!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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Thou scene of all my
happiness
and pleasure!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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Once when the
grindstone
almost jumped its bearing
It looked as if he might be badly thrown
And wounded on his blade.
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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AUTHOR
Call it a _moment's_ work (and such it seems)
This tale's a
fragment
from the life of dreams;
But say, that years matur'd the silent strife,
And 'tis a record from the dream of life.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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ou
kyssedes
my clere wyf, ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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But, O ye Six that round him lay
And
bloodied
up that April day!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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Meredith - Poems |
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After what
Rodrigue
has said today,
Who is brave enough to make a play?
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Let him smile in triumph gay,
True heart,
victorious
over lavish hand,
By the Alban lake that day
'Neath citron roof all marble shalt thou stand:
Incense there and fragrant spice
With odorous fumes thy nostrils shall salute;
Blended notes thine ear entice,
The lyre, the pipe, the Berecyntine flute:
Graceful youths and maidens bright
Shall twice a day thy tuneful praise resound,
While their feet, so fair and white,
In Salian measure three times beat the ground.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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This is the end of human beauty:
Shrivelled arms, hands warped like feet:
The
shoulders
hunched up utterly:
Breasts.
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Villon |
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Lulled by smooth-rippling loans, in idle trance
He lay, content that
unthrift
Circumstance
Should plough for him the stony field of Chance.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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I have often studied them; these Black Stars
that compel
curiosity
and admiration.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Thus did alone, with every wand'ring wended
As goal, the shimmer of two eyelets glow,
Thus your faint song as song of the year ascended,
And all befell, since you
ordained
it so.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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How
joyfully
didst thou
Live out thy youth!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Snowballs
burst
About them.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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The Foundation's
principal
office is located at 4557 Melan Dr.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
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With joy the maid the unwary
strangers
heard
And show'd them where the royal dome appear'd.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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And they're singing, every one,
As they run
This the burden of their lay:
"Fie upon such
idleness!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose
such as creation of
derivative
works, reports, performances and
research.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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Donne like Marvell seems to have been
influenced
by Ronsard and his peers.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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XXI
BREDON HILL (1)
In summertime on Bredon
The bells they sound so clear;
Round both the shires they ring them
In
steeples
far and near,
A happy noise to hear.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Stretched
on the floor, here beside you and me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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Oppressive to a mighty state,
Contentions, feuds, the people's hate--
But who dare
question
that which fate
Has ordered to have been?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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He came down, bravely to meet the refusal of the church to
change the rite, and in a sermon preached in September, 1832, explained
his objections to it, and, because he could not
honestly
administer it,
resigned.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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Blessed, blessed were the breasts
Which the Saviour infant kiss'd;
And blessed, blessed was the mother
Who wrapp'd his limbs in
swaddling
clothes,
Singing placed him on her lap,
Hung o'er him with her looks of love,
And soothed him with a lulling motion.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
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But,
realising
he was before her eyes, at last,
She accused the heavens with one sad glance,
And cold, grieving, almost inanimate, 1585
Fell, at her lover's feet there, in a faint.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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But for us
A Tityus is he whom vultures rend
Prostrate in love, whom anxious anguish eats,
Whom troubles of any
unappeased
desires
Asunder rip.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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To tell the truth among friends, I feel a
miserable
blank in my heart,
with the want of her, and I don't think I shall ever meet with so
delicious an armful again.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
If he seldom stooped to an outright lie, he never hesitated
to equivocate; and
students
of his life have found that it is seldom
possible to take his word on any point where his own works or interests
were concerned.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
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.
| 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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Why should the
mistress
of the vales of Har, utter a sigh.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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hold
My right hand
strongly!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Elizabeth Browning |
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O Women, let your voices from this fray
Flash me a fiery signal, where I sit,
The sword across my knees,
expecting
it.
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Euripides - Electra |
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Yet shall the muses plume his humble bier,
And ever o'er him pour th'
immortal
tear;
Though by the king, alone to thee unjust,
Thy head, great chief, was humbled in the dust,
Loud shall the muse indignant sound thy praise--
'Thou gav'st thy monarch's throne its proudest blaze.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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"
To whom
Gerenian
Nestor thus replied:(194)
"Gods!
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Iliad - Pope |
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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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Polished
and smooth and half divine;
And let your elfish fingers chase
With riotous grace
The purest pearls that softly glow.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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For forty years, he
produced
and distributed Project
Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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The other shape,
If shape it might be call'd that shape had none
Distinguishable in member, joynt, or limb,
Or substance might be call'd that shadow seem'd,
For each seem'd either; black it stood as Night, 670
Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as Hell,
And shook a dreadful Dart; what seem'd his head
The
likeness
of a Kingly Crown had on.
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Milton |
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My
sovereign
lord, I do beseech your Highness
To take our brother Clarence to your grace.
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Shakespeare |
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If I should die,
And you should live,
And time should gurgle on,
And morn should beam,
And noon should burn,
As it has usual done;
If birds should build as early,
And bees as
bustling
go, --
One might depart at option
From enterprise below!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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It
contains
an
_Elegie_ by Henry Skipwith on the death of King Charles I, but most
of the poems are early Jacobean, and either the bulk of the collection
was made before this and some other poems were inserted, or it is
derived from older collections.
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John Donne |
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Alas the day,
What good could they
pretend?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Lettor, tu vedi ben com' io innalzo
la mia matera, e pero con piu arte
non ti
maravigliar
s'io la rincalzo.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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