The fleet we feared,
entering
the estuary,
Seeks to surprise the town, scorch the country.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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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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Li Bai - Chinese |
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And never come
mischance
between us twain!
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Shakespeare |
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That others feeds on
planetary
schemes,
And pays his host with hideous noon-day dreams.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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The
conversation
is
represented as taking place in the evening (see l.
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William Wordsworth |
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"
Thankless
too for peace,
(Peace long preserved by fleets and perilous seas)
Secure from actual warfare, we have loved
To swell the war-whoop, passionate for war!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Hither I steer; and it
welcomes
my weary crew to
the quiet shelter of a safe haven.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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In the red sky, and in the purple streak,
Like
friendly
kings who would each other seek,
Two meeting suns were shown.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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For AEgypt teems with drugs,
yielding
no few
Which, mingled with the drink, are good, and many
Of baneful juice, and enemies to life.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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The stormy blast of hell
With
restless
fury drives the spirits on
Whirl'd round and dash'd amain with sore annoy.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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I skoal to the eyes as grey-blown mere (Who knows whose was that
paragon?
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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'Everybody,' he said, 'who plans some great exploit is bound
to consider whether his enterprise serves both the public
interest
and
his own reputation, and whether it is easily practicable or, at any
rate, not impossible.
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Tacitus |
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Loosen thou mine arm, yet
steadfast
stay,
Leave the park ere sunlight's parting ray,
And the mists descend o'er mount and lea,
Let's depart ere winter bids us flee.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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thus ariseth our sphere
Like heroes we banish both
mountain
and mere,
Young and great beams the spirit, unbound
On the fields, on the floods that surround.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Greenfield--my bardship almost in love with her--come through the rich
harvests and fine hedge-rows of the Carse of Gowrie, along the
romantic margin of the
Grampian
hills, to Perth--fine, fruitful,
hilly, woody country round Perth.
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Robert Burns |
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What's honey to a cat, corn to a dog,
Or a green apple to a ghost in a
churchyard?
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Yeats |
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]
[Sidenote C: Gawayne returns thanks for the honour and
kindness
shown to
him by all.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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"
As day was dawning the party now broke up, each one
draining
his glass
and taking his leave.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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O shame,
Thou Pope that cheatest God at Avignon,
Thou that shouldst be the Father of the world
And Regent of it whilst our God is gone;
Thou that shouldst blaze with
conferred
majesty
And smite old Lust-o'-the-Flesh so as by flame;
Thou that canst turn thy key and lock Grief up
Or turn thy key and unlock Heaven's Gate,
Thou that shouldst be the veritable hand
That Christ down-stretcheth out of heaven yet
To draw up him that fainteth to His heart,
Thou that shouldst bear thy fruit, yet virgin live,
As she that bore a man yet sinned not,
Thou that shouldst challenge the most special eyes
Of Heaven and Earth and Hell to mark thee, since
Thou shouldst be Heaven's best captain, Earth's best friend,
And Hell's best enemy -- false Pope, false Pope,
The world, thy child, is sick and like to die,
But thou art dinner-drowsy and cannot come:
And Life is sore beset and crieth `help!
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Sidney Lanier |
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As by the dead we love to sit,
Become so
wondrous
dear,
As for the lost we grapple,
Though all the rest are here, --
In broken mathematics
We estimate our prize,
Vast, in its fading ratio,
To our penurious eyes!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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It would be sweet to find her alone,
While she slept, or
pretended
to,
Then a sweet kiss I'd make my own,
Since I'm not worthy to ask for two.
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Troubador Verse |
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What are they, pray, but spiritual
Excisemen?
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Robert Burns |
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Ballade: Du Concours De Blois
I'm dying of thirst beside the fountain,
Hot as fire, and with
chattering
teeth:
In my own land, I'm in a far domain:
Near the flame, I shiver beyond belief:
Bare as a worm, dressed in a furry sheathe,
I smile in tears, wait without expectation:
Taking my comfort in sad desperation:
I rejoice, without pleasures, never a one:
Strong I am, without power or persuasion,
Welcomed gladly, and spurned by everyone.
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Villon |
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The war stood still, and all around them gazed,
When great Achilles' shining armour blazed:
Troy saw, and thought the dread
Achilles
nigh,
At once they see, they tremble, and they fly.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Copyright
laws in most countries are in
a constant state of change.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Its
business
office is located at 809 North 1500 West, Salt
Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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]
From great Dundee, who smiling Victory led,
And fell a Martyr in her arms,
(What breast of
northern
ice but warms!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Rise, Nestor's son,
Pisistratus!
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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" In
Milton's day the questioning all centred in the doctrine of the "Fall of
Man," and
questions
of God's Justice were associated with debate on fate,
fore-knowledge, and free will.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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qu'ont donc crie ces entrecotes
Ces grands pates ces os a moelle et mirotons
Langues de feu ou sont-elles mes pentecotes
Pour mes pensees de tous pays de tous les temps
CHANTRE
Et l'unique cordeau des trompettes marines
CREPUSCULE
A Mademoiselle Marie Laurencin
Frolee par les ombres des morts
Sur l'herbe ou le jour s'extenue
L'arlequine s'est mise nue
Et dans l'etang mire son corps
Un charlatan crepusculaire
Vante les tours que l'on va faire
Le ciel sans teinte est constelle
D'astres pales comme du lait
Sur les treteaux l'arlequin bleme
Salue d'abord les spectateurs
Des sorciers venus de Boheme
Quelques fees et les enchanteurs
Ayant decroche une etoile
Il la manie a bras tendu
Tandis que des pieds un pendu
Sonne en mesure les cymbales
L'aveugle berce un bel enfant
La biche passe avec ses faons
Le nain regarde d'un air triste
Grandir l'arlequin trismegiste
ANNIE
Sur la cote du Texas
Entre Mobile et Galveston il y a
Un grand jardin tout plein de roses
Il contient aussi une villa
Qui est une grande rose
Une femme se promene souvent
Dans le jardin toute seule
Et quand je passe sur la route bordee de tilleuls
Nous nous regardons
Comme cette femme est mennonite
Ses rosiers et ses vetements n'ont pas de boutons
Il en manque deux a mon veston
La dame et moi suivons presque le meme rite
LA MAISON DES MORTS
A Maurice Raynal
S'etendant sur les cotes du cimetiere
La maison des morts l'encadrait comme un cloitre
A l'interieur de ses vitrines
Pareilles a celles des boutiques de modes
Au lieu de sourire debout
Les mannequins grimacaient pour l'eternite
Arrive a Munich depuis quinze ou vingt jours
J'etais entre pour la premiere fois et par hasard
Dans ce
cimetiere
presque desert
Et je claquais des dents
Devant toute cette bourgeoisie
Exposee et vetue le mieux possible
En attendant la sepulture
Soudain
Rapide comme ma memoire
Les yeux ses rallumerent
De cellule vitree en cellule vitree
Le ciel se peupla d'une apocalypse
Vivace
Et la terra plate a l'infini
Comme avant Galilee
Se couvrit de mille mythologies immobiles
Un ange en diamant brisa toutes les vitrines
Et les morts m'accosterent
Avec des mines de l'autre monde
Mais leur visage et leurs attitudes
Devinrent bientot moins funebres
Le ciel et la terre perdirent
Leur aspect fantasmagorique
Les morts se rejouissaient
De voir leurs corps trepasses entre eux et la lumiere
Ils riaient de voir leur ombre et l'observaient
Comme si veritablement
C'eut ete leur vie passee
Alors je les denombrai
Ils etaient quarante-neuf hommes
Femmes et enfants
Qui embellissaient a vue d'oeil
Et me regardaient maintenant
Avec tant de cordialite
Tant de tendresse meme
Que les prenant en amitie
Tout a coup
Je les invitai a une promenade Loin des arcades de leur maison
Et tous bras dessus bras dessous
Fredonnant des airs militaires
Oui tous vos peches sont absous
Nous quittames le cimetiere
Nous traversames la ville
Et rencontrions souvent
Des parents des amis qui se joignaient
A la petite troupe des morts recents
Tous etaient si gais
Si charmants si bien portants
Que bien malin qui aurait pu
Distinguer les morts des vivants
Puis dans la campagne
On s'eparpilla
Deux chevau-legers nous joignirent
On leur fit fete
Ils couperent du bois de viorne
Et de sureau
Dont ils firent des sifflets
Qu'ils distribuerent aux enfants
Plus tard dans un bal champetre
Les couples mains sur les epaules
Danserent au son aigre des cithares
Ils n'avaient pas oublie la danse
Ces morts et ces mortes
On buvait aussi
Et de temps a autre une cloche
Annoncait qu'un autre tonneau
Allait etre mis en perce
Une morte assise sur un banc
Pres d'un buisson d'epine-vinette
Laissait un etudiant
Agenouille a ses pieds
Lui parler de fiancailles
Je vous attendrai
Dix ans vingt ans s'il le faut
Votre volonte sera la mienne
Je vous attendrai
Toute votre vie
Repondait la morte
Des enfants
De ce monde ou bien de l'autre
Chantaient de ces rondes
Aux paroles absurdes et lyriques
Qui sans doute sont les restes
Des plus anciens monuments poetiques
De l'humanite
L'etudiant passa une bague
A l'annulaire de la jeune morte
Voici le gage de mon amour
De nos fiancailles
Ni le temps ni l'absence
Ne nous feront oublier nos promesses
Et un jour nous auront une belle noce
Des touffes de myrte
A nos vetements et dans vos cheveux
Un beau sermon a l'eglise
De longs discours apres le banquet
Et de la musique
De la musique
Nos enfants
Dit la fiancee
Seront plus beaux plus beaux encore
Helas!
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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We need
No
purifying
here.
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Euripides - Electra |
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CXX
That you were once unkind befriends me now,
And for that sorrow, which I then did feel,
Needs must I under my
transgression
bow,
Unless my nerves were brass or hammer'd steel.
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Once having found the beloved,
However sorry or woeful,
However
scornful
of loving, 15
Little it matters.
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Sappho |
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The critic occupies the same
relation
to the work of art that
he criticises as the artist does to the visible world of form and colour
or the unseen world of passion and thought.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Then did I chide
With
warrantable
zeal the hardihood
Of our first parent, for that there were earth
Stood in obedience to the heav'ns, she only,
Woman, the creature of an hour, endur'd not
Restraint of any veil: which had she borne
Devoutly, joys, ineffable as these,
Had from the first, and long time since, been mine.
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Copyright laws in most
countries
are in
a constant state of change.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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)
Hippolytus
My plans are made, dear Theramenes, I go:
I'll end my stay in
pleasant
Troezen so.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Famed in close fight, and dreadful face to face:
Now call to mind your ancient
trophies
won,
Your great forefathers' virtues, and your own.
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Iliad - Pope |
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How superior it
is in these respects to the pear, whose blossoms are neither colored
nor
fragrant!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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I saw thee sit there in
disconsolate
sighs,
Where the hall of thy fathers a ruined heap lies.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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You've stolen away that great power
My beauty
ordained
for me
Over priests and clerks, my hour,
When never a man I'd see
Would fail to offer his all in fee,
Whatever remorse he'd later show,
But what was abandoned readily,
Beggars now scorn to know.
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Villon |
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Some hopes they gave, but it could not be soon;
In short a year he lay upon the floor:
Just food for life received, and nothing more,
Each day on bread and water he was fed,
And o'er his back the cat-o'nine-tails spread:
Full twenty lashes were the number set,
Unless the friar should from Heav'n first get
Permission
to remit at times a part,
For charity was glowing in his heart.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this
agreement
violates the
law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be
interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by
the applicable state law.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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Cheetah
I
remember
a slice of lemon, and a bitten macaroon.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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'
Pandare gan him thonke, and to him seyde, 1415
`Lo, sire, I have a lady in this toun,
That is my nece, and called is Criseyde,
Which some men wolden doon oppressioun,
And
wrongfully
have hir possessioun:
Wherfor I of your lordship yow biseche 1420
To been our freend, with-oute more speche.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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It's The Sweet Law Of Men
It's the sweet law of men
They make wine from grapes
They make fire from coal
They make men from kisses
It's the true law of men
Kept intact despite
the misery and war
despite danger of death
It's the warm law of men
To change water to light
Dream to reality
Enemies to friends
A law old and new
That
perfects
itself
From the child's heart's depths
To reason's heights.
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Newby
Chief
Executive
and Director
gbnewby@pglaf.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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At Midnight
Now at last I have come to see what life is,
Nothing is ever ended, everything only begun,
And the brave
victories
that seem so splendid
Are never really won.
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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and all
For our sake, for the lives she hath in scorn,
This horrible
Assyrian
risk she ventures.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
|
--
Rips up your
toughest
sail
And tears your anchor-hold.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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LV
Softly he stroked the child, who lay outstretched
With face to earth; and, as the boy turned round
His battered head, a groan the Sailor fetched
As if he saw--there and upon that ground-- 490
Strange
repetition
of the deadly wound
He had himself inflicted.
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
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Aye, let her scatter far and wide
Her terror, where the land-lock'd waves
Europe from Afric's shore divide,
Where
swelling
Nile the corn-field laves--
Of strength more potent to disdain
Hid gold, best buried in the mine,
Than gather it with hand profane,
That for man's greed would rob a shrine.
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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_ I have
followed
the MSS.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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Return O
Wanderer
when the Day of Clouds is oer
So saying he sunk down into the sea a pale white corse*
{this and the following 2 lines appear written over an erased strata LFS} So saying In torment he sunk down & flowd among her filmy Wooft
His Spectre issuing from his feet in flames of fire
In dismal gnawing pain drawn out by her lovd fingers every nerve t
She counted.
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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Oh, with what
patience
I have tried to win
The favour of the hostess of the Inn!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
|
"
Then with his sable brow he gave the nod
That seals his word; the
sanction
of the god.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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You'd only hear my voice and see my eyes And the remembrance of old ecstasies Awakening within you solemn-grand
Would flood my words; you would forget my hand Lay tremulous on yours, you would arise
And go from me as night when silence dies
And dawn and
shouting
harrow all the land.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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The Project Gutenberg eBook,
Nonsense
Books, by Edward Lear
This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
almost no restrictions whatsoever.
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
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He warmed waters to bathe our feet, 32 and cut paper
streamers
to call back our souls.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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DRAMATIS
PERSONAE.
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| Source: |
Byron |
|
If you are outside the United States, check
the laws of your country in addition to the terms of this agreement
before downloading, copying, displaying, performing,
distributing
or
creating derivative works based on this work or any other Project
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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KAU}
Of God clothed in Luvahs garments little knowest thou
Of death Eternal that we all go to Eternal Death
To our Primeval Chaos in fortuitous concourse of incoherent
Discordant principles of Love & Hate I suffer
affliction
Because I love for I am I was love & but hatred awakes in me
And Urizen who was Faith & Certainty is changd to Doubt
The hand of Urizen is upon me because I blotted out
That Human terror delusion to deliver all the sons of God
From bondage of the Human form, O first born Son of Light
O Urizen my enemy I weep for thy stern ambition
But weep in vain O when will you return Vala the Wanderer
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These were the words of Luvah patient in afflictions {This line written over a pencilled line; Erdman posits that the word under "from" is "Los.
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Blake - Zoas |
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June Night
Oh Earth, you are too dear to-night,
How can I sleep while all around
Floats rainy
fragrance
and the far
Deep voice of the ocean that talks to the ground?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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It slopes gently,
either
directly
from the shore or from the edge of an interval, till,
at the distance of about a mile, it attains the height of four or five
hundred feet.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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HIS RETURN TO LONDON
From the dull confines of the drooping west,
To see the day spring from the
pregnant
east,
Ravish'd in spirit, I come, nay more, I fly
To thee, blest place of my nativity!
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Another young man, who was in love with the girl, grew jealous
of the monk, who was allowed to converse so familiarly with her, whilst
he, her lay admirer, could only have stolen
glimpses
of her as she
passed to church or to public spectacles.
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Petrarch |
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We have few moments in the longest life
Of such delight and wonder as there grew,--
Nor yet unsuited to that solitude:
A burst of joy, as if we told the fact
To ears intelligent; as if gray rock
And cedar grove and cliff and lake should know
This feat of wit, this triumph of mankind;
As if we men were talking in a vein
Of
sympathy
so large, that ours was theirs,
And a prime end of the most subtle element
Were fairly reached at last.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Oh, gentle face, radiant with happy smile,
And eager
prattling
tongue that knows no guile,
Quick changing tears and bliss;
Thy soul expands to catch this new world's light,
Thy mazed eyes to drink each wondrous sight,
Thy lips to taste the kiss.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Till
Darkness
and silence of the hill
Received her in their restful care
And stars came dropping through the air.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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(fourth century)
Green rushes with red shoots,
Long leaves bending to the wind--
You and I in the same boat
Plucking
rushes at the Five Lakes.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Half-past two,
The street-lamp said,
"Remark the cat which
flattens
itself in the gutter,
Slips out its tongue
And devours a morsel of rancid butter.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Nor am I
So ill to look on: lately on the beach
I saw myself, when winds had stilled the sea,
And, if that mirror lie not, would not fear
Daphnis to challenge, though
yourself
were judge.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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With difficulty they gain entrance to the cottage of Corceca and her
daughter Abessa, the
paramour
of Kirkrapine.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Many men
schullen
turne; to yuel, men may drede, 285
ffor on er?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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who has lighted up reason in my breast, and
blessed me with
immortality!
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Robert Burns |
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The
reminiscence
comes
Of sunless dry geraniums
And dust in crevices,
Smells of chestnuts in the streets
And female smells in shuttered rooms
And cigarettes in corridors
And cocktail smells in bars.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Botte doe reste mee uponne mie AElla's breaste;
I wylle to thee bewryen the
woefulle
gare.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Shall it be offensively or
defensively?
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Now rest in peace, our patriot band;
Though far from Nature's limits thrown,
We trust they find a happier land,
A brighter
sunshine
of their own.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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David's, by
Professor
Malde,
and by the lamented Arnold.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Not falsely to
constrain!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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"
I thus inquiring; he forthwith replied:
"If I have power to show one truth, soon that
Shall face thee, which thy
questioning
declares
Behind thee now conceal'd.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Lucilius was the
earliest
satirist whose works
were held in esteem under the Caesars.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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let me not perish now,
In the budding of my
Paradisal
Hope!
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Poe - 5 |
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Yet force of wind must not be rashly deemed
As altogether and
entirely
cold--
That force which is discharged from on high
With such stupendous power; but if 'tis not
Upon its course already kindled with fire,
It yet arriveth warmed and mixed with heat.
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Lucretius |
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LXIII
I Hoed and
trenched
and weeded,
And took the flowers to fair:
I brought them home unheeded;
The hue was not the wear.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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was not successful in
composition
in the evening.
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William Wordsworth |
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for whensoe'er the sire
Breathed forth rebellious fire--
What time his household overflowed the measure
Of bliss and health and treasure--
His children's children read the
reckoning
plain,
At last, in tears and pain.
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Aeschylus |
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A similar
criticism
might be made of their liberty in neglecting Goethe's
method of alternating different measures with each other.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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[91] You
dare to compare
yourself
to Themistocles, who found our city half empty
and left it full to overflowing, who one day gave us the Piraeus for
dinner,[92] and added fresh fish to all our usual meals.
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Aristophanes |
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Then we said,
"Our feast, too, shall soon be spread,
Of good
Thanksgiving
turkey.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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ergo postque
magisque
uiri nunc gloria claret.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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- You provide, in accordance with
paragraph
1.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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--The
clepsydra
was a kind of
water-clock; the other vessel is compared to it, because of the liquid in
it.
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Aristophanes |
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I shunned his eyes, that
faithful
man's,
I shunned the toiling Hassan's glance.
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Emerson - Poems |
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'
The much-moved pathos of her voice,
Her almost tearful eyes, her cheek
Grown pale,
confessed
the strength of love
Which only made her speak: 160
For mild she was, of few soft words,
Most gentle, easy to be led,
Content to listen when I spoke
And reverence what I said;
I elder sister by six years;
Not half so glad, or wise, or good:
Her words rebuked my secret self
And shamed me where I stood.
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Christina Rossetti |
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5
LIBATION
By
Marjorie
Allen Seiffert .
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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And then and then came Spring, and Rose-in-hand
My thread-bare
Penitence
apieces tore.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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