Ask you what
provocation
I have had?
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Vaster and still more vast,
Peak after peak, pile after pile,
Wilderness still untamed,
To which the future is as was the past,
Barrier spread by Gods,
Sunning their shining foreheads,
Barrier broken down by those who do not need
The joy of time-resisting storm-worn stone,
The
mountains
swing along
The south horizon of the sky;
Welcoming with wide floors of blue-green ice
The mists that dance and drive before the sun.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Thanatos
is not a god,
not at all a King of Terrors.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Note: Ixion was tormented on a wheel in Hades,
Tantalus
by water and food just out of reach, Prometheus by having his liver torn by vultures, Sisyphus by being forced eternally to roll a boulder to the top of a hill and see it roll back again.
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Ronsard |
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O the vision of winning my favor makes easy
Hitherto unexplored paths, under that
powerful
foot.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Mournful is thine
approach
to me,
O Spring, thou chosen time of love
He usually left St.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Lewis Carroll |
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Gives too late
What's not believed in, or if still believed,
In memory only,
reconsidered
passion.
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T.S. Eliot |
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What eyes,
and what
insolence!
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Kipling - Poems |
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Still it
delights
my heart to hope once more
The welcome sight of that enchanting face,
The glory of our age, and life to me.
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Petrarch |
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Blessed are you whose
worthiness
gives scope,
Being had, to triumph; being lacked, to hope.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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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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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Without doubt he has entered on quite a new
path, and has pursued it to the utmost of his power,
choosing
now one
road, now another, and always treading with surer step when he has
followed the manner of our old poets "quorum in hae re imitari
negligentiam exoptat potius quam istorum diligentiam.
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La Fontaine |
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- You provide, in
accordance
with paragraph 1.
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Imagists |
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In singing-bouts
I'll see you play the
challenger
no more.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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'You Rise the Water Unfolds'
You rise the water unfolds
You sleep the water flowers
You are water
ploughed
from its depths
You are earth that takes root
And in which all is grounded
You make bubbles of silence in the desert of sound
You sing nocturnal hymns on the arcs of the rainbow
You are everywhere you abolish the roads
You sacrifice time
To the eternal youth of an exact flame
That veils Nature to reproduce her
Woman you show the world a body forever the same
Yours
You are its likeness.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Two young boys,
Caught in a boyish
quarrel!
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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O how charmingly Nature hath array'd thee
With the soft green grass and juicy clover,
And with corn-flowers
blooming
and luxuriant.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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She has a baby on her arm,
Or else she were alone;
And
underneath
the hay-stack warm,
And on the green-wood stone,
She talked and sung the woods among;
And it was in the English tongue.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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--Can't--reserve--attainable--market--obscure--"
But his speech seemed to freeze in him, and--just as the lightning shot
two tongues that cut the whole sky into three pieces and the rain fell
in
quivering
sheets--the Blastoderm was struck dumb.
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Kipling - Poems |
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And the living sigh:
Forgotten
ones, so soon your memories die.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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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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You descend from them, you are my issue;
Your first sword-thrust
equalled
mine too;
And with fine ardour your lively youth
Attains my fame with this single proof.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Do you still
Remember our first
meeting?
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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only
that bends not to this _Center_, to _Ruine_; that which was not made
of _Nothing_, is not
thretned
with this annihilation.
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John Donne |
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Whatever
comes from you wakens always up
the better blood about my heart, which your kind little recollections
of my parental friends carries as far as it will go.
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Robert Forst |
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In the
stillness
of the night my sister murmurs in her sleep the
fire-god's unknown name, and my brother calls afar upon the cool
and distant goddess.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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O grant me, Phoebus, calm content,
Strength unimpair'd, a mind entire,
Old age without
dishonour
spent,
Nor unbefriended by the lyre!
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Him wander-weary, warrior-guest
from far, a hall-thane
heralded
forth,
who by custom courtly cared for all
needs of a thane as in those old days
warrior-wanderers wont to have.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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editions
will replace the previous one--the old editions
will be renamed.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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And (of the kind) the comic comes nearest; because in
moving the minds of men, and stirring of
affections
(in which oratory
shows, and especially approves her eminence), he chiefly excels.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Howbeit, weak is trust reposed in Heaven--
Yet are we upon Zeus'
victorious
side,
The foe, with those he worsted--if in sooth
Zeus against Typhon held the upper hand,
And if Hyperbius, (as well may hap
When two such foes such diverse emblems bear)
Have Zeus upon his shield, a saving sign.
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Aeschylus |
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_ 'Tis chill; the
tapestry
lets through
The wind to which it waves: my blood is frozen.
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Byron |
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The Goal of Project Gutenberg is to Give Away 1
Trillion
eBooks!
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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at
necessite
nis nat in
?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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The heart asks
pleasure
first,
And then, excuse from pain;
And then, those little anodynes
That deaden suffering;
And then, to go to sleep;
And then, if it should be
The will of its Inquisitor,
The liberty to die.
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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But he is a learned poet, and he is a
philosophical poet, and without some attention to the philosophy
and science underlying his
conceits
and his graver thought it is
impossible to understand or appreciate either aright.
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John Donne |
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And I notice that many judges who display nothing but
a fierce
satisfaction
in sending other plays of that author to the block
or the treadmill, show a certain human weakness in sentencing the gentle
daughter of Pelias.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Redistribution
is
subject to the trademark license, especially commercial
redistribution.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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_ D
104
_suspendit_
ed.
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Latin - Catullus |
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Pray for us, now beyond violence,
To the Son of the Virgin Mary,
So of grace to us she's not chary,
Shields us from Hell's
lightning
fall.
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Villon |
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Al was for nought, she herde nought his pleynte;
And whan that he
bithoughte
on that folye, 545
A thousand fold his wo gan multiplye.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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For here
availeth
no Swete-Thought, 4505
And Swete-Speche helpith right nought.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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'You Rise the Water Unfolds'
You rise the water unfolds
You sleep the water flowers
You are water
ploughed
from its depths
You are earth that takes root
And in which all is grounded
You make bubbles of silence in the desert of sound
You sing nocturnal hymns on the arcs of the rainbow
You are everywhere you abolish the roads
You sacrifice time
To the eternal youth of an exact flame
That veils Nature to reproduce her
Woman you show the world a body forever the same
Yours
You are its likeness.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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IV
Elfish I may rightly name thee; 50
We enslave, but cannot tame thee;
With fierce snatches, now and then,
Thou pluckest at thy right again,
And thy down-trod instincts savage
To stealthy insurrection creep
While thy wittol masters sleep,
And burst in undiscerning ravage:
Then how thou shak'st thy
bacchant
locks!
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James Russell Lowell |
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One watched beside the dreary mound that veiled the battered
thing,
And him the King with
laughter
called the Herald of the King.
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Kipling - Poems |
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How a Ship having passed the Line was driven by Storms to the cold
Country towards the South Pole; and how from thence she made her course
to the tropical Latitude of the Great Pacific Ocean; and of the strange
things that befell; and in what manner the Ancyent
Marinere
came back to
his own Country.
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Who's the old trader that has lent this girl
The glittering cash of
pleasure
to pay me with?
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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That ev'n my buried Ashes such a Snare
Of Perfume shall fling up into the Air,
As not a True Believer passing by
But shall be
overtaken
unaware.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Therefore what he gives
(Whose praise be ever sung) to man in part
Spiritual, may of purest Spirits be found
No ingrateful food: and food alike those pure
Intelligential
substances
require
As doth your Rational; and both contain
Within them every lower facultie 410
Of sense, whereby they hear, see, smell, touch, taste,
Tasting concoct, digest, assimilate,
And corporeal to incorporeal turn.
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Milton |
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22; and nudus does not
necessarily
imply absolute nakedness (see note 4, p.
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Tacitus |
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e kyng Edward com
corouned
myd gret blis; 80
?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Come, see him bear the bell,
With laurels decked, with true love graced,
While in his bold hands, fitly placed,
The
bounding
cymbals swell!
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Hugo - Poems |
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"You are a
monster!
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Royalty
payments should be clearly marked as such and sent to the Project
Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the address specified in
Section 4, "Information about
donations
to the Project Gutenberg
Literary Archive Foundation.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Memories
How sweet the silent backward
tracings!
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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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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| Question: |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Pero disse 'l maestro: <
qualche
fraschetta
d'una d'este piante,
li pensier c'hai si faran tutti monchi>>.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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I confess to a
satisfaction
in the
self act of preaching, nor do I esteem a discourse to be wholly thrown
away even upon a sleeping or unintelligent auditory.
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James Russell Lowell |
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mettlesome, mad,
extravagant
city!
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| Question: |
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Whitman |
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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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CXVII
Accuse me thus: that I have scanted all,
Wherein I should your great deserts repay,
Forgot upon your dearest love to call,
Whereto all bonds do tie me day by day;
That I have frequent been with unknown minds,
And given to time your own dear-purchas'd right;
That I have hoisted sail to all the winds
Which should transport me
farthest
from your sight.
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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"
"Tears may be ours, but proud, for those who win
Death's royal purple in the foeman's lines;
Peace, too, brings tears; and 'mid the battle-din,
The wiser ear some text of God divines,
For the
sheathed
blade may rust with darker sin.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Pennant has a pleasing remark concerning the soil and climate of our island, well agreeing with that of Tacitus:—"The climate of Great Britain is above all others productive of the greatest variety and abundance of wholesome vegetables, which, to crown our happiness, are almost equally diffused through all its parts: this general fertility is owing to those clouded skies, which
foreigners
mistakenly urge as a reproach on our country: but let us cheerfully endure a temporary gloom, which clothes not only our meadows, but our hills, with the richest verdure.
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Tacitus |
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GD}
And then they wanderd far away she sought for them in vain *
In weeping blindness stumbling she followd them oer rocks & mountains
Rehumanizing from the Spectre in pangs of maternal love
Ingrate they wanderd
scorning
her drawing her life majesticSpectrous Life
Repelling her away & away by a dread repulsive power
Into Non Entity revolving around in dark despair.
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Blake - Zoas |
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--O spectres saints et blancs de Bethleem,
Charmez plutot le bleu de leur
fenetre!
| Guess: |
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Hoc tibi, qua potui,
confectum
carmine munus
Pro multis, Alli, redditur officiis, 150
Ne vostrum scabra tangat rubigine nomen
Haec atque illa dies atque alia atque alia.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Mangeons
l'air,
Le roc, les terres, le fer,
Charbons.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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"
"I
perceive
that," said Mr.
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Poe - 5 |
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In all the rage of shame and grief aghast,
The monarch, falt'ring, takes the word at last:
"By whom, great chief, are these proud war-ships sway'd,
Are there thy
mandates
honour'd and obey'd?
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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How great her
insolence
to laugh and jeer,
When sins so heavily upon her rest,
And ev'ry thing remains quite unconfessed.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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"
But here she paused; our eyes had met,
And I was
whitening
with the jeer;
She rose: "I went too far," she said;
Spoke low: "Forgive me, dear.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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The only good
of these
inspectors
is to worry passers-by and rob us poor
folk.
| Guess: |
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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He dressed, and ready to disfumish now
His chamber, whose
compactness
did allow
No empty place for complimenting doubt,
But who came last is forced first to go out ;
I meet one on the stairs who made me stand,
Stopping the passage, and did him demand ;
I answered, " he is here.
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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Wenn ich so sass bei einem Gelag,
Wo mancher sich beruhmen mag,
Und die Gesellen mir den Flor
Der Magdlein laut gepriesen vor,
Mit vollem Glas das Lob verschwemmt,
Den
Ellenbogen
aufgestemmt,
Sass ich in meiner sichern Ruh,
Hort all dem Schwadronieren zu
Und streiche lachelnd meinen Bart
Und kriege das volle Glas zur Hand
Und sage: "Alles nach seiner Art!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Now close, ye Nymphs,
Ye Nymphs of Dicte, close the forest-glades,
If haply there may chance upon mine eyes
The white bull's
wandering
foot-prints: him belike
Following the herd, or by green pasture lured,
Some kine may guide to the Gortynian stalls.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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Et Lappos Christina potest et solvere Finnos,
Ultima quos Borese carcere claustra premunt ;
JSoIiis quales venti fremuere sub antris,
Et tentant montis
corripuisse
moras.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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Then, closing the door, he made
everybody
sit down, except the
"_ouriadnik_," who remained standing, drew a letter from his pocket, and
said to us--
"Gentlemen, important news.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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His busy circling orbs, two
restless
spies.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
|
* * * * *
In the first decade of the new century Rilke reached the height of his
art and with a few exceptions the poems represented in this volume are
selected from the poems which were
published
between the years 1900 and
1908.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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Mild
thoughts
of man's ungentle race _5
Shall our contented exile reap;
For who that in some happy place
His own free thoughts can freely chase
By woods and waves can clothe his face
In cynic smiles?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
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that he
should bestow and
withhold
crowns and sceptres, and decide that this or
that poet was or was not to count.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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As furious, Hector thunder'd threats aloud,
And rush'd enraged before the Trojan crowd;
Then swift invades the ships, whose beaky prores
Lay rank'd contiguous on the bending shores;
So the strong eagle from his airy height,
Who marks the swans' or cranes'
embodied
flight,
Stoops down impetuous, while they light for food,
And, stooping, darkens with his wings the flood.
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Iliad - Pope |
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AELLA, a
tragycal
enterlude.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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The Goal of Project Gutenberg is to Give Away One
Trillion
Etext
Files by December 31, 2001.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Her mother in the chimney nook
Heard a startled sea-gull screech,
But never turned her head to look
Towards the
darkening
beach:
Neighbors here and neighbors there
Heard one scream, as if a bird
Shrilly screaming cleft the air:--
That was all they heard.
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Christina Rossetti |
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As 't were a spur upon the soul,
A fear will urge it where
To go without the spectre's aid
Were
challenging
despair.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Therwith
she lough, and seyde, `Go we dyne.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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And never a human voice comes near
To speak a gentle word:
And the eye that watches through the door
Is
pitiless
and hard:
And by all forgot, we rot and rot,
With soul and body marred.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Booths are there none; a stall or two is here; 25
A lame man or a blind, the one to beg,
The other to make music; hither, too,
From far, with basket, slung upon her arm,
Of hawker's wares--books, pictures, combs, and pins--
Some aged woman finds her way again, 30
Year after year, a
punctual
visitant!
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William Wordsworth |
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what more can they
pretend?
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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How bold advance
The num'rous Moors, and with the rested lance
Hem round the
trembling
Lusians.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Dead calm
succeeded
to the fuss,
As when the loaded omnibus
Has reached the railway terminus:
When, for the tumult of the street,
Is heard the engine's stifled beat,
The velvet tread of porters' feet.
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Lewis Carroll |
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Arthur, whose giddy son
neglects
the Laws,
Imputes to me and my damn'd works the cause:
Poor Cornus sees his frantic wife elope, 25
And curses Wit, and Poetry, and Pope.
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Alexander Pope |
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Now am I war
That Pirous and tho swifte stedes three,
Whiche that drawen forth the sonnes char,
Han goon som by-path in despyt of me; 1705
That maketh it so sone day to be;
And, for the sonne him hasteth thus to ryse,
Ne shal I never doon him
sacrifyse!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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For who would trust the seeming sighs
Of wife or
paramour?
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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But harnessed to the cart as he was, we
heard him barking after we had passed, though we looked
anywhere
but
to the cart to see where the dog was that barked.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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'Of all this world is
emperour
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Gyle my fader, the trechour,
And emperesse my moder is,
Maugre the Holy Gost, y-wis.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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But this bold Lord with manly strength endu'd,
She with one finger and a thumb subdu'd: 80
Just where the breath of life his nostrils drew,
A charge of Snuff the wily virgin threw;
The Gnomes direct, to ev'ry atom just,
The pungent grains of
titillating
dust.
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Alexander Pope |
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