But, if thou loiter loth
Or veer, however little, from the point,
This I can promise, Memmius, for a fact:
Such copious drafts my singing tongue shall pour
From the large well-springs of my
plenished
breast
That much I dread slow age will steal and coil
Along our members, and unloose the gates
Of life within us, ere for thee my verse
Hath put within thine ears the stores of proofs
At hand for one soever question broached.
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The idea of Fate 'arose from the
observation
of the
regularity of the sidereal movements'.
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And Sparta sheathe the sword;
Be none too prompt to punish,
And cast
indignant
word!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Here we perforce shall drag them; and throughout
The dismal glade our bodies shall be hung,
Each on the wild thorn of his
wretched
shade.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Here I haue a Pilots Thumbe,
Wrackt, as
homeward
he did come.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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What blow has
snatched
him?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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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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"
Full on the sire the goddess of the skies
Roll'd the large orbs of her
majestic
eyes,
And thus return'd:--"Austere Saturnius, say,
From whence this wrath, or who controls thy sway?
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Iliad - Pope |
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CCXXXI
"Fair son Malprimes," says
Baligant
to him,
"I grant it you, as you have asked me this;
Against the Franks go now, and smite them quick.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Ye gloomy ones,
brighten
'neath smiles quelling care--
Or pass--for _this_ Comfort is found ev'rywhere.
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Hugo - Poems |
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XII
As once we saw the
children
of the Earth
Pile peak on peak to scale the starry sky,
And fight against the very gods on high,
While Jove to his lightning-bolts gave birth:
Then all in thunder, suddenly reversed,
The furious squadrons earthbound lie,
Heaven glorying, while Earth must sigh,
Jove gaining all the honour and the worth:
So were once seen, in this mortal space,
Rome's Seven Hills raising a haughty face,
Against the very countenance of Heaven:
While now we see the fields, shorn of honour,
Lament their ruin, and the gods secure,
Dreading no more, on high, that fearful leaven.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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The glories of our blood and state
Are shadows, not
substantial
things;
There is no armour against fate;
Death lays his icy hand on kings:
Sceptre and Crown
Must tumble down,
And in the dust be equal made
With the poor crooked scythe and spade.
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Golden Treasury |
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Ils revent que, penches sur leur petit bras rond,
Doux geste du reveil, ils
avancent
le front,
Et leur vague regard tout autour d'eux repose.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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It is interesting also to compare Donne's series of
petitions
with
those in a Middle English Litany preserved in the Balliol Coll.
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John Donne |
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International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make
any statements concerning tax
treatment
of donations received from
outside the United States.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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)
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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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Davison_,/
_Lombard
Street, Whitefriars, London_.
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Byron |
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SGANARELLE: All our best
authorities
will tell you that
it is an impediment in the action of her tongue.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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I know my need, I know thy giving hand,
I crave thy
friendship
at thy kind command;
But there are such who court the tuneful Nine--
Heavens!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Saepe pater divom templo in
fulgente
residens,
Annua cum festis venissent sacra diebus,
Conspexit terra centum procumbere tauros.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Methinks
I find her now, and now perceive
She's distant; now I soar, and now descend;
Now what I wish, now what is true believe.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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O, may
diseases
only work upon't!
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Shakespeare |
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The
sovereign
Lord, 'gainst whom of no avail
Concealment, or resistance is, or flight,
My mind had kindled to a new delight
By his own amorous and ardent ail:
Though his first blow, transfixing my best mail
Were mortal sure, to push his triumph quite
He took a shaft of sorrow in his right,
So my soft heart on both sides to assail.
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Petrarch |
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But by my heart of love laid bare to you,
My love that you can make not void nor vain,
Love that
foregoes
you but to claim anew
Beyond this passage of the gate of death,
I charge you at the Judgment make it plain
My love of you was life and not a breath.
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Christina Rossetti |
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ere hij
schullen
it fynde.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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De workmen's few an' mons'rous slow,
De cotton's sheddin' fas';
Whoop, look, jes' look at de Baptis' row,
Hit's
mightily
in de grass, grass,
Hit's mightily in de grass.
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Sidney Lanier |
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'23 Arthur:'
Arthur Moore, a member of
Parliament
for some years and well known in
London society.
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Alexander Pope |
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May then those spirits, set free, a celestial council obeying,
Move in this
rustling
whisper here thro' the dark, shaken trees?
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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If, which our valley bars, this wall of stone,
From which its present name we closely trace,
Were by
disdainful
nature rased, and thrown
Its back to Babel and to Rome its face;
Then had my sighs a better pathway known
To where their hope is yet in life and grace:
They now go singly, yet my voice all own;
And, where I send, not one but finds its place.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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"
So proud, so grand; of that stupendous air,
Soft and
agreeable
come never there.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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And the shy stars grew bold and scattered gold,
And chanting voices ancient secrets told,
And an acclaim of angels
earthward
rolled.
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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As a wry face without pain moves laughter, or
a deformed vizard, or a rude clown dressed in a lady's habit and using
her actions; we dislike and scorn such
representations
which made the
ancient philosophers ever think laughter unfitting in a wise man.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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For pryde is founde, in every part, 2245
Contrarie
unto Loves art.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Homage
Each Dawn however numb
To raise a fist obscure
Against
trumpets
of azure
Sounded by her, the dumb,
Has the shepherd with his gourd
Joined to a rod struck harshly
Along the path to be
Till the vast stream's outpoured
Already thus solitary
You live O Puvis
De Chavannes
never alone
Lead our age to quench its thirst
From the shroud-less nymph, the one
Whom your glory will rehearse
.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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"Here, silent as thou art, I know thy doubt;
And gladly will I loose the knot, wherein
Thy subtle
thoughts
have bound thee.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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" [15]
In 'The Excursion' he passes from Langdale to Grasmere, over to
Patterdale, back to Grasmere, and again to Hawes Water, without warning;
and even in the case of the "Duddon Sonnets" he
introduces
a description
taken direct from Rydal.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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That secret rare, between the
extremes
to move
Of mad good-nature, and of mean self-love.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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I deem that I with but a crumb
Am
sovereign
of them all.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Then thus, in Mentor's
reverend
form array'd,
Spoke to Telemachus the martial maid.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Thus she
lamented
day & night, compelld to labour & sorrow
Luvah in vain her lamentations heard; in vain his love
Brought him in various forms before her still she knew him not
PAGE 32
Still she despisd him, calling on his name & knowing him not
Still hating still professing love, still labouring in the smoke
And Los & Enitharmon joyd, they drank in tenfold joy To come in
From all the sorrow of Luvah & the labour of Urizen {These two lines struck through, but then marked (to the right of the main body of text) with the following: "To come in.
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Blake - Zoas |
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(_Controlling
herself_)
Nay; when a woman once is caught about
With evil fame, there riseth in her tongue
A bitter spirit--wrong, I know!
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Euripides - Electra |
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7 and any additional
terms imposed by the
copyright
holder.
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Li Po |
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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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An' ez the North hez took to brustlin'
At bein' scrouged frum off the roost, 90
I'll tell ye wut'll save all tusslin'
An' give our side a harnsome boost,--
Tell 'em thet on the Slavery question
I'm RIGHT,
although
to speak I'm lawth;
This gives you a safe pint to rest on,
An' leaves me frontin' South by North.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Free scope he yields unto his glance,
Reviews both dress and countenance,
With all
dissatisfaction
shows.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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With the development of epic intention,
and the
subsequent
choosing of themes larger and subtler than what
common experience is wont to deal in, a certain duplicity becomes
inevitable.
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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When sense from spirit files away,
And
subterfuge
is done;
When that which is and that which was
Apart, intrinsic, stand,
And this brief tragedy of flesh
Is shifted like a sand;
When figures show their royal front
And mists are carved away, --
Behold the atom I preferred
To all the lists of clay!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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A
worshipper
raised his arm.
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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The schoolboy hears and brushes through the trees
And runs about till
drabbled
to the knees.
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John Clare |
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[2] Several of the Lakes in the north of England are let out to
different Fishermen, in parcels marked out by
imaginary
lines
drawn from rock to rock.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Is there a sky
overhead?
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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I could
not get any letter from Belogorsk, for all the roads were blocked, and
the
separation
from Marya became unbearable.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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It was playing in the great alley of poplars whose leaves, even in spring, seem
mournful
to me since Maria passed by them, on her last journey, lying among candles.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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But we have no need
To lean on foreign aid; we have enough
Of our own warlike people to repel
Traitors
and Poles.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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^1
Dearest of
distillation!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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"
"This," he cried aloud, "this, too, is holy— O dear beauty in what beggar's guise
You may hide your splendor, yet I know you; Though the ears be deaf, the eyes be blind,
"Glorious are all things, and forever
Beautiful
and holy is the real!
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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The paper intervenes each time as an image, of itself, ends or begins once more, accepting a succession of others, and, since, as ever, it does nothing, of regular sonorous lines or verse - rather prismatic subdivisions of the Idea, the instant they appear, and as long as they last, in some precise intellectual performance, that is in
variable
positions, nearer to or further from the implicit guiding thread, because of the verisimilitude the text imposes.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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den sollt Ihr noch
verlieren!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Now I, knowing of this hunting
match, or rather conspiracy, and to
insinuate
with my
young master, have got me before in this disguise, determining
here to lie in ambuscade.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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den sollt Ihr noch
verlieren!
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| Question: |
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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den sollt Ihr noch
verlieren!
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| Question: |
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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den sollt Ihr noch
verlieren!
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| Question: |
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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den sollt Ihr noch
verlieren!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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It was but now that I never more
for woes that weighed on me waited help
long as I lived, when, laved in blood,
stood sword-gore-stained this stateliest house, --
widespread woe for wise men all,
who had no hope to hinder ever
foes infernal and
fiendish
sprites
from havoc in hall.
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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den sollt Ihr noch
verlieren!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Ay, canst thou buy a single sigh
Of true love's least, least
ecstasy?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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den sollt Ihr noch
verlieren!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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den sollt Ihr noch
verlieren!
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| Question: |
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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7240
Whom shulden folk
worshipen
so
But us, that stinten never mo
To patren whyl that folk us see,
Though it not so bihinde hem be?
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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That bowe semede wel to shete
These arowes fyve, that been unmete, 990
Contrarie
to that other fyve.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Bēowulf
is mīn nama, 343; wæs þǣm hæft-mēce
Hrunting nama, 1458; acc.
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Beowulf |
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XXII
Ah, to uphold one's
respectable
name is not easy.
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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We float before the
Presence
Infinite,
We cluster round the Throne in our delight,
Revolving and rejoicing in God's sight.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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To You
Whoever you are, I fear you are walking the walks of dreams,
I fear these supposed
realities
are to melt from under your feet and hands,
Even now your features, joys, speech, house, trade, manners,
troubles, follies, costume, crimes, dissipate away from you,
Your true soul and body appear before me.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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It has been the custom of late to assign to Donne the
authorship of one
charming
lyric in the _Rhapsody_, 'Absence hear thou
my protestation.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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The mother said
gently, "Is that you,
darling?
| Guess: |
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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"
But when air's rosy birth, the morn, arose,
Telemachus did for the turn dispose
His early steps; went on with
spritely
pace,
And to the Wooers studied little grace .
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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I doubt na, lass, that weel ken'd name
May cost a pair o' blushes;
I am nae
stranger
to your fame,
Nor his warm urged wishes.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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The Chaplain would not kneel to pray
By his
dishonoured
grave:
Nor mark it with that blessed Cross
That Christ for sinners gave,
Because the man was one of those
Whom Christ came down to save.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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A strange
choice to our mind, but
apparently
the poem was greatly admired as
a masterpiece of wit.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
|
110
Dear were my walks, too, gathering
fragrant
store
Of Mother Nature's simple-minded lore:
I learned all weather-signs of day or night;
No bird but I could name him by his flight,
No distant tree but by his shape was known,
Or, near at hand, by leaf or bark alone.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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Now, Muse, recount
Pelasgic
Argos' powers,
From Alos, Alope, and Trechin's towers:
From Phthia's spacious vales; and Hella, bless'd
With female beauty far beyond the rest.
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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I'm
downright
dizzy wi' the thought,
In troth I'm like to greet!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
7 or obtain
permission
for the use of the work and the
Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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O'er
Cambridge
set the yeomen's mark:
Climb, patriot, through the April dark.
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Sidney Lanier |
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' --
`Hold
straight
into the West,' I said again.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Bayadere sans nez, irresistible gouge,
Dis donc a ces
danseurs
qui font les offusques:
<< Fiers mignons, malgre l'art des poudres et du rouge,
Vous sentez tous la mort!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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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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44:
Omnibus
historiis
se meus aptat amor.
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Robert Herrick |
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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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When he had prayed, upon his feet he stepped,
With the strong mark of virtue signed his head;
Upon his swift charger the King mounted
While Jozerans and Neimes his stirrup held;
He took his shield, his
trenchant
spear he kept;
Fine limbs he had, both gallant and well set;
Clear was his face and filled with good intent.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Theseus
Go and seek out those friends whose fatal respect 1145
Honours adultery, and praises incest:
Traitors, without law, honour, gratitude,
Worthy to shelter
criminals
like you.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Revivd her Soul with lives of beasts & birds
Slain on the Altar up ascending into her cloudy bosom
Of terrible
workmanship
the Altar labour of ten thousand Slaves
One thousand Men of wondrous power spent their lives in its formation
It stood on twelve steps namd after the names of her twelve sons
And was Erected at the chief entrance of Urizens hall
When Urizen descended returnd from his immense labours & travels
Descending She reposd beside him folding him around
In her bright skirts.
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Blake - Zoas |
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And not one word to answer him he knew;
They spurred in haste, their horses let run loose,
And,
wheresoeer
they met the pagans, strook.
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Chanson de Roland |
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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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Aye, you heap
On
baseness
loss.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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CXXVIII
How oft when thou, my music, music play'st,
Upon that blessed wood whose motion sounds
With thy sweet fingers when thou gently sway'st
The wiry concord that mine ear confounds,
Do I envy those jacks that nimble leap,
To kiss the tender inward of thy hand,
Whilst my poor lips which should that harvest reap,
At the wood's
boldness
by thee blushing stand!
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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No chapter met, howe'er, when morrow came;
Another day arrived, and still the same;
The sages of the convent thought it best,
In fact, to let the mystick
business
rest.
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La Fontaine |
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And other
withered
stumps of time
Were told upon the walls; staring forms
Leaned out, leaning, hushing the room enclosed.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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