The paradoxical element of
the poems is such that one may
sometimes
find them in conflict with what
has preceded, and would not be much surprised if they said at any moment
the reverse of whatever they do say.
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Now winds live all in light,
Light has come down to earth and
blossoms
here,
And we have golden minds.
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XXII
When our two souls stand up erect and strong,
Face to face, silent, drawing nigh and nigher,
Until the
lengthening
wings break into fire
At either curved point,--what bitter wrong
Can the earth do to us, that we should not long
Be here contented?
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Is't not
laughable?
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terms imposed by the
copyright
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Were it not that his art's glory, full of fire
Till the dark
communal
moment all of ash,
Returns as proud evening's glow lights the glass,
To the fires of the pure mortal sun!
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Mallarme - Poems |
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We Have Created the Night
We have created the night I hold your hand I watch
I sustain you with all my powers
I engrave in rock the star of your powers
Deep furrows where your body's
goodness
fruits
I recall your hidden voice your public voice
I smile still at the proud woman
You treat like a beggar
The madness you respect the simplicity you bathe in
And in my head which gently blends with yours with the night
I wonder at the stranger you become
A stranger resembling you resembling everything I love
One that is always new.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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A little
swerving
and the way is lost.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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The angels,
happening
that way,
This dusty heart espied;
Tenderly took it up from toil
And carried it to God.
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Poe - 5 |
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Gallants, now sing his song below:
Rondeau
Oh, grant him now eternal peace,
Lord, and
everlasting
light,
He wasn't worth a candle bright,
Nor even a sprig of parsley.
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Villon |
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XCIX cum XCVIII
continuant
?
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Latin - Catullus |
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120
"Do
"You know
nothing?
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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O ill-starred maid, what frenzy caught thy soul
The daughters too of Proetus filled the fields
With their feigned lowings, yet no one of them
Of such
unhallowed
union e'er was fain
As with a beast to mate, though many a time
On her smooth forehead she had sought for horns,
And for her neck had feared the galling plough.
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ye knew me once no mate
For you, there sitting where ye durst not soare;
Not to know mee argues your selves unknown, 830
The lowest of your throng; or if ye know,
Why ask ye, and
superfluous
begin
Your message, like to end as much in vain?
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Milton |
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Veil'd in a mist of
fragrance
him they found,
With clouds of gold and purple circled round.
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Iliad - Pope |
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We've no
business
down there at all.
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Villon |
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VII
The Sarazin was stout, and wondrous strong, 55
And heaped blowes like yron hammers great;
For after bloud and
vengeance
he did long.
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I say that the real and
permanent
grandeur of these States must be their
religion;
Otherwise there is no real and permanent grandeur;
Nor character, nor life worthy the name, without religion;
Nor land, nor man or woman, without religion.
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Whitman |
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Then the false Libyan own'd his doom:--
"Weak deer, the wolves'
predestined
prey,
Blindly we rush on foes, from whom
'Twere triumph won to steal away.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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O I had better have shirkt it
altogether!
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Their moans
The vales
redoubled
to the hills, and they
To Heaven.
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Golden Treasury |
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On a beaucoup parle de la vie douloureuse de Baudelaire: manque
d'argent, sante precaire, absence de tendresse feminine, car sa
maitresse Jeanne Duval, une jolie fille de couleur qu'il appelait son <<
vase de
tristesse
>>, n'etait qu'une sotte dont le coeur et la pensee
etaient loin de lui.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Reasons of no less weight than the support
of a wife and family, have pointed out as the eligible, and, situated
as I was, the only
eligible
line of life for me, my present
occupation.
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Robert Forst |
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dis, si tu le sais,
A cet agonisant que le loup deja flaire
Et que
surveille
le corbeau,
A ce soldat brise, s'il faut qu'il desespere
D'avoir sa croix et son tombeau;
Ce pauvre agonisant que le loup deja flaire!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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"
"Fill thy hand with sands, ray
blossom!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Their meeting takes place under an influence, alien I know, that of Music heard in concert; one finds there several
techniques
that seem to me to belong to Literature, I reclaim them.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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The budding twigs spread out their fan
To catch the breezy air;
And I must think, do all I can,
That there was
pleasure
there.
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Golden Treasury |
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>>
Et puis, Quelqu'un parait, que tous avaient nie,
Et qui leur dit,
railleur
et fier: << Dans mon ciboire,
Vous avez, que je crois, assez communie,
A la joyeuse Messe noire?
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Say that she fixes on a lower sphere,
Beneath the glorious sun, her beauty soon
Will dim the
splendour
of inferior stars--
Of Mars, of Venus, Mercury, and the Moon.
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Petrarch |
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When winds and seas do rage
And
threaten
to undo me,
Thou dost, their wrath assuage
If I but call unto Thee.
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Robert Herrick |
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So, in the like name of that love of ours,
Take back these
thoughts
which here unfolded too,
And which on warm and cold days I withdrew
From my heart's ground.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Though ne'er to true
perfection
may arrive
This race accurs'd, yet nearer then than now
They shall approach it.
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Public domain books are our
gateways
to the past, representing a wealth of history, culture and knowledge that's often difficult to discover.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Me, as I lay on Vultur's steep,
A truant past Apulia's bound,
O'ertired, poor child, with play and sleep,
With living green the stock-doves crown'd--
A legend, nay, a miracle,
By Acherontia's
nestlings
told,
By all in Bantine glade that dwell,
Or till the rich Forentan mould.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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the
exclusion
or limitation of consequential damages, so the
above disclaimers and exclusions may not apply to you, and you
may have other legal rights.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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I never take care, yet I've taken great pain
To acquire some goods, but have none by me:
Who's nice to me is one I hate: it's plain,
And who speaks truth deals with me most falsely:
He's my friend who can make me believe
A white swan is the
blackest
crow I've known:
Who thinks he's power to help me, does me harm:
Lies, truth, to me are all one under the sun:
I remember all, have the wisdom of a stone,
Welcomed gladly, and spurned by everyone.
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Villon |
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Note: Jupiter,
disguised
as a shower of gold, raped Danae, and as a white bull carried off Europa.
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Ronsard |
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They may be
modified
and printed and given away--you may do
practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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- You provide, in
accordance
with paragraph 1.
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Rilke - Poems |
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69 Certain of these animals, milk-white, and
untouched
by earthly labor, are pastured at the public expense in the sacred woods and groves.
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Tacitus |
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_He that is hurt seeks help_: sin is the wound;
The salve for this i' th'
Eucharist
is found.
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Robert Herrick |
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VOICE OF UNSEEN SPIRITS:
Bright clouds float in heaven, _40
Dew-stars gleam on earth,
Waves
assemble
on ocean,
They are gathered and driven
By the storm of delight, by the panic of glee!
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Shelley |
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Where shall I find thy peace,
daughter
of mighty
Colla?
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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[80] Sertorius, who was invited by the
Lusitanians
to defend them
against the Romans.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Or as a traveller, who has gained the brow
Of some aerial Down, while there he halts 10
For breathing-time, is tempted to review
The region left behind him; and, if aught
Deserving notice have escaped regard,
Or been
regarded
with too careless eye,
Strives, from that height, with one and yet one more 15
Last look, to make the best amends he may:
So have we lingered.
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William Wordsworth |
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"
The melody went on some moments more
Among the trees the calm moon glistened o'er,
Then
trembled
and was hushed; the voice's thrill
Stopped like alighting birds, and all was still.
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Hugo - Poems |
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" repeated he, while his eyes still
Relented
not, nor mov'd; "from every ill
Of life have I preserv'd thee to this day,
And shall I see thee made a serpent's prey?
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Keats - Lamia |
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Dark clouds
blackened
the sun.
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Li Po |
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þūhte him eall tō rūm, wongas and
wīc-stede (_fields and
dwelling
seemed to him all too broad_, i.
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Beowulf |
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Thrice happy they that wander not life long
Beyond near succor of the
household
faith,
The guarded fold that shelters, not confines!
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James Russell Lowell |
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_, quorum of
justices
of the peace, sportively added
for the rhyme's sake.
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Robert Herrick |
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Sara Teasdale |
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Act II Scene VIII (King Ferdinand, Don Diegue, Chimene, Don Sanche, Don Arias, Don Alonso)
Chimene
Sire, Sire,
justice!
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Elle veut, elle veut pourtant, l'ame en detresse,
Le front dans l'oreiller creuse par les cris sourds,
Prolonger les eclairs
supremes
de tendresse
Et bave.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Apart from its brilliant epigrammatic
expression the 'Essay on Criticism' might have been written by almost
any man of letters in Queen Anne's day who took the trouble to think a
little about the laws of literature, and who thought about those laws
strictly in
accordance
with the accepted conventions of his time.
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Alexander Pope |
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Keep your places, objects than which none else is more
lasting!
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Whitman |
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50 net
"Sleep on, I lie at heaven's high oriels Over the stars that mumur as they go
Lighting
your lattice window (ar b low;
And every star some of the glory spells Whereof I know.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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That so your happiness in the thought of God
Stands, that he open'd man's expense of grief
To give your oars unscrupulous room, to be
The buoyancy of your delighted barges,
Sliding with fortunate lanterns and with tunes
And odorous holiday, O kings, O you
The pleasure of God, richly,
joyously
launcht
On this kind sea, the tame sorrow of Man?
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Over the city bridge Night comes majestical,
Borne like a queen to a
sumptuous
festival.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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how can Love's eye be true,
That is so vexed with
watching
and with tears?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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and to these arms
restore!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Or dubbi tu e dubitando sili;
ma io
disciogliero
'l forte legame
in che ti stringon li pensier sottili.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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),
Was there a
footfall?
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Sappho |
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And, lastly,
grandest!
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Hugo - Poems |
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13, is
probably
the source of the phrase.
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John Donne |
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Swiftly our
pleasures
glide away,
Our hearts recall the distant day
With many sighs;
The moments that are speeding fast
We heed not, but the past,--the past,
More highly prize.
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Longfellow |
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"
Never was heart in such
devotion
bound,
And with complacency so absolute
Dispos'd to render up itself to God,
As mine was at those words: and so entire
The love for Him, that held me, it eclips'd
Beatrice in oblivion.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Well,
altogether
gript by the being of love.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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e went,
Sire
Eufeniens
to calle, 879
And chalenged hym in ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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No rumor of the foe's advance
Now swells upon the wind;
No troubled thought at midnight haunts
Of loved ones left behind;
No vision of the morrow's strife
The warrior's dream alarms;
No braying horn, nor
screaming
fife,
At dawn shall call to arms.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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The statesman
and the lover must impose for the moment,
disguising
weakness or
inspiring fear in those who descry it.
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John Donne |
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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And oft
decrepid
age his lot bewails,
Whom every ill of lengthen'd life assails.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Certainly,
if this advantage (the object of all political speculation) be in any
degree attainable, it is
attainable
only by a community which holds out
no factitious incentives to the avarice and ambition of the few, and
which is internally organized for the liberty, security, and comfort of
the many.
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Shelley |
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Against him, send brave heart and hand of might,
For the god-lover is man's
fiercest
foe.
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Aeschylus |
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The speeches of Falstaff are as
perfect in their style as the
soliloquies
of Hamlet.
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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Courts for cowards were erected,
Churches
built to please the priest.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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nulla domus tales umquam
contexit
amores,
nullus amor tali coniunxit foedere amantes, 335
qualis adest Thetidi, qualis concordia Peleo.
| Guess: |
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Latin - Catullus |
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The brave boys, in their hungry plight, will shoot you and eat your
flesh;
They will pluck from your body those long
feathers
and make them into
arrow-wings!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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But the Pasha's attention is failing,
O'er his visage his fair turban stealeth;
From
tchebouk
{13a} he sleep is inhaling
Whilst round him sweet vapours he dealeth.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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The smitten rock that gushes,
The
trampled
steel that springs;
A cheek is always redder
Just where the hectic stings!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Or why was the
substance
not made more sure
That formed the brave fronts of these palaces?
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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XERXES
I bid ye now be
delicate
in grief!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
|
--for never sorrow
Shall dawn upon him
desolate!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
|
One harvest from thy field
Homeward
brought the oxen strong;
A second crop thine acres yield,
Which I gather in a song.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Emerson - Poems |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Written for the "Martha
Washington
Court Journal".
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O
vapours!
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Whitman |
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With throat unslack'd, with black lips bak'd
Agape they hear'd me call:
Gramercy!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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In the
presence
of justice,
Lo, the walls of the temple
Are visible
Through thy form of sudden shadows.
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Its
business
office is located at
809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email
business@pglaf.
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Robert Herrick |
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at
coyntlych
closed
His thik ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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I always felt we could have taken ship
And crossed the bright green seas
To
dreaming
cities set on sacred streams
And palaces
Of ivory and scarlet.
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Sara Teasdale |
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These triple threads of
threefold
colour first
I twine about thee, and three times withal
Around these altars do thine image bear:
Uneven numbers are the god's delight.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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It plays at ball in old, blue Chinese gardens,
And shakes wrought dice-cups in Pagan temples,
Amid the broken
flutings
of white pillars.
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Imagists |
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Has it
feathers
like a bird?
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Numbers of men
decrease
with pains unknown.
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Marvell - Poems |
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FROM OMAR KHAYYAM
Each spot where tulips prank their state
Has drunk the life-blood of the great;
The violets yon field which stain
Are moles of
beauties
Time hath slain.
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Emerson - Poems |
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