Miss
Dickinson
was born in Amherst, Mass.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Light is light which radiates,
Blood is blood which circulates,
Life is life which generates,
And many-seeming life is one,--
Wilt thou
transfix
and make it none?
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Emerson - Poems |
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Some do but scratch us:
Slow and
insidious
these poison our hearts over years.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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but from the Universal
Brotherhood
of Eden John I c.
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Blake - Zoas |
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The same day
As many
entertainments
be!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Ajax and
Menelaus
came to rescue Patroclus' body; Hector fled, but
had already stripped off the armour of Achilles, which he now put on
in place of his own.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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XXXVIII cum XXXVII
continuant
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Latin - Catullus |
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Know you aught
That doth concern this
Herbert?
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William Wordsworth |
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The withdrawn and
tense sky seems groined like the aisles of a cathedral, and the
polished air sparkles as if there were crystals of ice
floating
in it.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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t ful of
souereyne
p{er}fit
goode.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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During my
residence
at Alfoxden, I used to see much of him, and had
frequent occasions to admire the course of his daily life, especially
his conduct to his labourers and poor neighbours; their virtues he
carefully encouraged, and weighed their faults in the scales of charity.
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William Wordsworth |
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wherefore
weep you so?
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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]
[Footnote 50: Torture of the "_batogs_," little rods, the
thickness
of a
finger, with which a criminal is struck on the bare back.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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The lady's
delightful
and greatly pleases
Her beauty draws to her many gazes,
Yet in her heart love loyally blazes,
Ah, God, Ah, God, the dawn!
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Troubador Verse |
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Hence the definition is liable either to be too strict, or to admit work
which does not properly satisfy the
criterion
of feeling.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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--
Strange that I should have grown so
suddenly
blind.
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Stephen Crane |
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3, a full refund of any
money paid for a work or a
replacement
copy, if a defect in the
electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days
of receipt of the work.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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An
individual
who has to make things for the use of others, and with
reference to their wants and their wishes, does not work with interest,
and consequently cannot put into his work what is best in him.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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My Mary, dear
departed
shade!
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Robert Forst |
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Now comes our
constantly
increased reward.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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By which means it happens that what they have
discredited
and
impugned in one week, they have before or after extolled the same in
another.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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ecquid, ubi audieris, tota
turbabere
mente,
et feries pauida pectora fida manu?
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Must I thus leave thee
Paradise?
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Milton |
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= Catapuce is one of the laxatives that Dame
Pertelote recommended to
Chauntecleer
in Chaucer's _Nonne Preestes
Tale_, l.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Where is that wise girl Eloise,
For whom was gelded, to his great shame,
Peter Abelard, at Saint Denis,
For love of her
enduring
pain,
And where now is that queen again,
Who commanded them to throw
Buridan in a sack, in the Seine?
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Villon |
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One stroke
Rolled the smith's head from his neck, and gave
him
remembrance
undying.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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"
IX
Two and two behind the twins
Their trusty
comrades
go,
Four and forty valiant men,
With club, and axe, and bow.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Draghignazzo
anco i volle dar di piglio
giuso a le gambe; onde 'l decurio loro
si volse intorno intorno con mal piglio.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Thou scene of all my
happiness
and pleasure!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Like ape or clown, in
monstrous
garb
With crooked arrows starred,
Silently we went round and round
The slippery asphalte yard;
Silently we went round and round,
And no man spoke a word.
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Wilde - Poems |
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{15a} There is no
horrible
inconsistency here such as the critics
strive and cry about.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Schaff du ihr gleich ein neu
Geschmeid!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
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Tacitus |
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Have you eyes to find the five
Which five hundred did
survive?
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Emerson - Poems |
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At morn, I heard, was the murderer killed
by kinsman for kinsman, {33a} with clash of sword,
when
Ongentheow
met Eofor there.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Hardly the
springtime
knows
For which today the cuckoo calls,
And the white blossom blows.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Have you not felt, I mean, a serious
intention?
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Horatius
There can be little doubt that among those parts of early Roman
history which had a
poetical
origin was the legend of Horatius
Cocles.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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"
He would joke with hyaenas, returning their stare
With an
impudent
wag of the head:
And he once went a walk, paw-in-paw, with a bear,
"Just to keep up its spirits," he said.
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Lewis Carroll |
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The King of Castile is
Ferdinand
III of Castile and Leon.
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Troubador Verse |
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Be she too wealthy or too poor, be sure
_Love in
extremes
can never long endure_.
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Robert Herrick |
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A pact he offered:
another dwelling the Danes should have,
hall and high-seat, and half the power
should fall to them in Frisian land;
and at the fee-gifts, Folcwald's son
day by day the Danes should honor,
the folk of Hengest favor with rings,
even as truly, with
treasure
and jewels,
with fretted gold, as his Frisian kin
he meant to honor in ale-hall there.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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805
Pandare, which that sent from Troilus
Was to Criseyde, as ye han herd devyse,
That for the beste it was
accorded
thus,
And he ful glad to doon him that servyse,
Un-to Criseyde, in a ful secree wyse, 810
Ther-as she lay in torment and in rage,
Com hir to telle al hoolly his message,
And fond that she hir-selven gan to trete
Ful pitously; for with hir salte teres
Hir brest, hir face, y-bathed was ful wete; 815
The mighty tresses of hir sonnish heres,
Unbroyden, hangen al aboute hir eres;
Which yaf him verray signal of martyre
Of deeth, which that hir herte gan desyre.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Ours to mould our weakling sons
To nobler
sentiment
and manlier deed:
Now the noble's first-born shuns
The perilous chase, nor learns to sit his steed:
Set him to the unlawful dice,
Or Grecian hoop, how skilfully he plays!
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Must I the
warriors
weep,
Whelm'd in the bottom of the monstrous deep?
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Odyssey - Pope |
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The wretch should have died;
But age robbed me of my noble pride;
And this blade my hand can
scarcely
bear,
I place in yours to punish and repair.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Unauthenticated Download Date | 10/1/17 7:36 AM
Returning
Home On Foot: A Ballad 323 I suffer being tied down by a minor post, 8 lowering my head, I am shamed before men of the wilds.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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This cherubim
One may
distinguish
among the angelic hierarchies, vowed to the service and glory of the divine, beings with unknown forms and the most amazing beauty.
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Appoloinaire |
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The warden of Geats,
with bolt from bow, then balked of life,
of wave-work, one monster, amid its heart
went the keen war-shaft; in water it seemed
less doughty in
swimming
whom death had seized.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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HILDA (_with happy,
wondering
eyes_): Oh, heavens, how
lovely!
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Sharply thou hast
insisted
on rebuke,
And urg'd me hard with doings, which not will
But misery hath rested from me; where 470
Easily canst thou find one miserable,
And not inforc'd oft-times to part from truth;
If it may stand him more in stead to lye,
Say and unsay, feign, flatter, or abjure?
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Milton |
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"
In this little book we have some of the best thoughts of one of the most
vigorous minds that ever added to the
strength
of English literature.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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zip *****
This and all
associated
files of various formats will be found in:
http://www.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Newby
Chief
Executive
and Director
gbnewby@pglaf.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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XXV
Now this, now that she sought with
fruitless
care,
Before she lit on either warrior's trace,
By city or by farm, now here, now there,
In forest now, and now in other place.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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compares this Dantesque tarn and scenery with the
poetical
accounts
of _AEneid_, vii.
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Beowulf |
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"The Raven" was first published on the 29th January, 1845, in the New
York "Evening Mirror"-a paper its author was then
assistant
editor of.
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Poe - 5 |
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One morn we stroll'd on our dry walk,
Our quiet house all full in view,
And held such
intermitted
talk
As we are wont to do.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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that our knowledge of
the dates--both as to the composition and first
publication
of the poems
--is now much more exact than before.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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And then,
foreseeing
all thy life, I added:
But these thou wilt forget; and at the end
Of life the Lord will punish thee.
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Longfellow |
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II
Perhaps no poetry of equal power and range is so deeply
infected
with
rhetoric as the Roman.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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See here my sword, that is both good and long
With
Durendal
I'll lay it well across;
Ye'll hear betimes to which the prize is gone.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Minutely limned on a foot of
painting
silk--
What can I do with a portrait such as _that_?
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Well, if Albert won't leave you alone, there it is, I said,
What you get married for if you don't want
children?
| Guess: |
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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He did: and with an
absolute
Sir, not I
The clowdy Messenger turnes me his backe,
And hums; as who should say, you'l rue the time
That clogges me with this Answer
Lenox.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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I would, that he who bears the silver bow
As sure might pierce
Telemachus
this day
In his own house, or that the suitors might,
As that same wand'rer shall return no more!
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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The brooding and
blissful
halcyon days!
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Which voyage, all in Ithaca, but most
The haughty suitors, obstinate impede, 350
Now hear my suit and gracious
interpose!
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Noble Hesperian dragon, I call you
courageous
and forthright.
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Mine, by the grave's repeal
Titled, confirmed, --
delirious
charter!
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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'142'
The
breaking
of the bottle of sorrows, etc.
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Alexander Pope |
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IN
Florence
once there dwelled a gentle youth,
Who loved a certain beauteous belle with truth;
O'er all his actions she had full controul;--
To please he would have sold his very soul.
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La Fontaine |
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Redistribution is subject to the
trademark license,
especially
commercial redistribution.
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Prayest thou haply for thy mother, who
Slept over into long, long pain, on thy
account?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
Brendan
Updated editions will replace the
previous
one--the old editions
will be renamed.
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| Question: |
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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I shall wear the bottoms of my
trousers
rolled.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
|
The Tartar horse prefers the North wind,
The bird from Yueh nests on the
Southern
branch.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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1050
`For al-though that, for thing shal come, y-wis,
Therfore is it purveyed, certaynly,
Nat that it comth for it purveyed is:
Yet nathelees,
bihoveth
it nedfully,
That thing to come be purveyed, trewely; 1055
Or elles, thinges that purveyed be,
That they bityden by necessitee.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Faith, oh my faith, what fragrant breath,
What sweet odour from her mouth's excess,
What rubies and what
diamonds
were there.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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By them is
breathed
the purest air,
Where'er their wanderings may chance!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
|
)
During the four succeeding years he made numerous
excursions
amid
the beautiful countries which from the basin of the Euxine--and
amongst these the Crimea and the Caucasus.
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
|
V
Oh see how thick the goldcup flowers
Are lying in field and lane,
With
dandelions
to tell the hours
That never are told again.
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
|
3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER
WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED,
INCLUDING
BUT NOT LIMITED TO
WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
|
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Gutenberg
volunteers and employees expend considerable
effort to identify, do copyright research on, transcribe and proofread
public domain works in creating the Project Gutenberg-tm
collection.
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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She
requires
meat only, and hunger is not ambitious.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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He sang who knew {1d}
tales of the early time of man,
how the Almighty made the earth,
fairest fields
enfolded
by water,
set, triumphant, sun and moon
for a light to lighten the land-dwellers,
and braided bright the breast of earth
with limbs and leaves, made life for all
of mortal beings that breathe and move.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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The gorger or wimple is stated first to have
appeared
in Edward the
First's reign, and an example is found on the monument of Aveline,
Countess of Lancaster, who died in 1269.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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"
PINE
By John Russell McCarthy
You must have dreamed a little every year For fifty years: you must have been a child, Shy and diffident with the violets, School-girlish with the daisies, or perhaps
A
youthful
Indian with the hickory tree;
You must have been a lover with the beech, A wise young father walking with your sons Beneath the maple; then have battled long Grim and defiant with the oak : all these
You must have been for fifty dreaming years Before you may hold converse with the pine.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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If thought is life
And
strength
and breath
And the want
Of thought is death;
Then am I
A happy fly,
If I live,
Or if I die.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
'
The dramatists seem never to grow tired of this joking
allusion
to
the devil and his pipe of tobacco.
| Guess: |
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Slaves, at his angry call,
In to him hastily, a candelabra bore,
And set it,
branching
o'er the table, in the hall,
From whose wide bounds it hunted instantly the gloom.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Now pay ye the heed that is fitting,
Whilst I sing ye the Iran adventure;
The Pasha on sofa was sitting
In his harem's
glorious
centre.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Dhorme _Choix de Textes
Religieux_
198, 33.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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For all I knew it may have
sharpened
spears
And arrowheads itself.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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The
manuscript
reading of the last two lines has proved contentious, a grat de lieis que de sa vergua l'arma, son Dezirat, c'ab pretz en cambra intra is assumed.
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Troubador Verse |
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The place of practice
was the
Artillery
Garden in Bunhill Fields (see note 3.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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)
Bestows one final
patronising
kiss,
And gropes his way, finding the stairs unlit .
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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As when a Scout
Through dark and desart wayes with peril gone
All night; at last by break of
chearful
dawne
Obtains the brow of some high-climbing Hill,
Which to his eye discovers unaware
The goodly prospect of some forein land
First-seen, or some renownd Metropolis
With glistering Spires and Pinnacles adornd, 550
Which now the Rising Sun guilds with his beams.
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Milton |
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"The
blackbird
amid leafy trees--
The lark above the hill,
Let loose their carols when they please,
Are quiet when they will.
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Golden Treasury |
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Naught, save of her who is my death, mine ear
Consents
to learn; and from my tongue there flows
No accent save the name to me so dear;
Love to no other chase my spirit spurs,
No other path my feet pursue; nor knows
My hand to write in other praise but hers.
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Petrarch |
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