Copyright laws in most countries are in
a
constant
state of change.
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The genius, with all his
blighting
errors and mighty
powers; the companion of Shelley's ocean-wanderings, and the sharer of
his fate, than whom no man ever existed more gentle, generous, and
fearless; and others, who found in Shelley's society, and in his great
knowledge and warm sympathy, delight, instruction, and solace; have
joined him beyond the grave.
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Shelley |
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" The
poem relates the adventures of
Odysseus
(latinised into Ulysses) on his
homeward voyages, after the fall of Troy.
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By persistently
remaining
single a man converts himself into a permanent
public temptation.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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And when the wine is in him, so men say,
Our mother's mighty master leaps thereon,
Spurning the slab, or pelteth stone on stone,
Flouting the lone dead and the twain that live:
"Where is thy son
Orestes?
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Euripides - Electra |
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A PAUSE OF THOUGHT
I looked for that which is not, nor can be,
And hope deferred made my heart sick in truth:
But years must pass before a hope of youth
Is
resigned
utterly.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Listen not to that
seductive
murmur,
That only swells my pain.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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The practice is
said to date from 1702, when an English admiral brought back fifty tons
of snuff found on board some Spanish ships which he had
captured
in Vigo
Bay.
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Alexander Pope |
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Marks, notations and other marginalia present in the original volume will appear in this file - a reminder of this book's long journey from the
publisher
to a library and finally to you.
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Meredith - Poems |
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what more can they
pretend?
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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"At thy name though
compassion
her nature resign,
"Though in virtue's proud mouth thy report be a stain,
"My care, if the arm of the mighty were mine,
"Would plant thee where yet thou might'st blossom again.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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and is Lady Mackenzie
recovering
her
health?
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Robert Forst |
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XXXVII
So forth they marchen in this goodly sort, 325
To take the solace of the open aire,
And in fresh flowring fields themselves to sport;
Emongst the rest rode that false Lady faire,
The foule Duessa, next unto the chaire
Of proud Lucifera, as one of the traine: 330
But that good knight would not so nigh repaire,
Him selfe estraunging from their
joyaunce
vaine,
Whose fellowship seemd far unfit for warlike swaine.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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The
guardian
waited
ill-enduring till evening came;
boiling with wrath was the barrow's keeper,
and fain with flame the foe to pay
for the dear cup's loss.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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* * * * *
And thou, sea-born Aphrodite, 25
In whose beneficent keeping
Earth, with her
infinite
beauty,
Colour and fashion and fragrance,
Glows like a flower with fervour
Where woods are vernal!
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Sappho |
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mi sone, 489
Whi
woldestou
?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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She had lived humble and retired, and had devoted herself to the good of
her family; virtuous amidst the
prevalence
of corrupted manners, and,
though a beautiful woman, untainted by the breath of calumny.
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Petrarch |
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The monsters of the British Muse
Deprive our
schoolgirls
of repose,
The idols of their adoration
A Vampire fond of meditation,
Or Melmoth, gloomy wanderer he,
The Eternal Jew or the Corsair
Or the mysterious Sbogar.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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For Destiny never swerves
Nor yields to men the helm;
He shoots his thought, by hidden nerves,
Throughout
the solid realm.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Ein Gluck, dass du's gesehen hast,
Ich spure schon die
ungestumen
Gaste.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Let such bethink them, if the sleepy drench
Of that
forgetful
Lake benumme not still,
That in our proper motion we ascend
Up to our native seat: descent and fall
To us is adverse.
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Milton |
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Rilke - Poems |
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Blue-gown, the livery of the
licensed
beggar.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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She often accuses me and tries me,
And lays false charges now, at will,
Yet
whenever
she acts vilely
All the fault's laid at my door still!
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Troubador Verse |
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s
earliest
poem to Yan Wu ?
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| Question: |
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Tharmas groand among his Clouds
Weeping, and then bending from his Clouds he stoopd his holy innocent head*
{innocent
replaces
holy LFS} And stretching out his holy hand in the vast Deep sublime
Turnd round the circle of Destiny with tears & bitter sighs
And said.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Grounded
in magic he knew the future and predicted the Christian coming of the Saviour.
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Appoloinaire |
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complying
with the laws regulating
charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United
States.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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I say it again, and, even though I sigh
Yet to my last sigh, I'll repeat that I
Have offended you, and yet I had to,
To wipe out my shame, and merit you;
But,
satisfying
honour and my father,
It is for your satisfaction I am here:
I am here to offer my life to you.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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That of Ange
Gardien had a dial on it, with the Middle Age Roman
numerals
on its
face, and some images in niches on the outside.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Well paid for that
the
wrathful
prince!
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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All through the night we knelt and prayed,
Mad
mourners
of a corse!
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Wilde - Poems |
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Lanier reopens in this dream
of the
Virginia
bay where poet's reveries and war's awakenings
continually alternated.
| Guess: |
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Sidney Lanier |
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But why not go and defend
yourself?
| Guess: |
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Aristophanes |
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'"
_George Edward Woodberry_
AUSTRALIA TO ENGLAND
By all the deeds to Thy dear glory done,
By all the life blood, spilt to serve Thy need,
By all the fettered lives Thy touch hath freed,
By all Thy dream in us anew begun;
By all the guerdon English sire to son
Hath given of highest vision,
kingliest
deed,
By all Thine agony, of God decreed
For trial and strength, our fate with Thine is one.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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E'en where its name is cancel'd, there came I,
Pierc'd in the heart, fleeing away on foot,
And
bloodying
the plain.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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and you, whose
sympathising
soul
Has felt the fiery shaft, may guess my pains--
Now tears and anguish are her sole remains.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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"
"Introduce me, now there's a good fellow," he said,
"If we happen to meet it
together!
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Lewis Carroll |
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From morn till night, from night till
startled
morn
Peeps blushing on the revel's laughing crew,
The song is heard, the rosy garland worn;
Devices quaint, and frolics ever new,
Tread on each other's kibes.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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With doubling Voices & loud Horns wound round wounding
Cavernous
dwellers
fill'd the enormous Revelry, Responsing!
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Blake - Zoas |
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The Emperor thanked him for having come to him in such dreadful weather,
the like of which he had
scarcely
ever felt, even in Germany.
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Petrarch |
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If I could work the enchanter's spell,
I'd make
children
of all my foes,
So none could ever spy or tell,
Nor do aught that might harm us both.
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Troubador Verse |
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Lewis Carroll |
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THE PARK
The prosperous and beautiful
To me seem not to wear
The yoke of
conscience
masterful,
Which galls me everywhere.
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Emerson - Poems |
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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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Superfetation
of [Greek text inserted here],
And at the mensual turn of time
Produced enervate Origen.
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T.S. Eliot |
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X
Much as brave Jason by the Colchian shore,
Through magic arts won the Golden Fleece,
Sowing the plain with the old serpent's teeth,
To
engender
soldiers from the furrow's store,
This city, that in youthful season bore
A Hydra's nest of warriors, raised a yeast
Of brave nurslings, who their proud glory saw
Fill the Sun's mansions, to the west and east:
But in the end, lacking a Hercules
To vanquish so fecund a progeny,
Arming themselves in civil enmity,
Mowed each other down, a cruel harvest,
Reliving thus the fraternal harsh unrest
Which had blinded that proud seeded army.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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A FOREWORD
When the first Miscellany of American Poetry
appeared
in 1920,
innumerable were the questions asked by both readers and reviewers of
publishers and contributors alike.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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The coming of the
first robin was a jubilee beyond
crowning
of monarch or birthday of
pope; the first red leaf hurrying through "the altered air," an
epoch.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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When I first saw the insignia of the
Metropolitan
Commandant,3 the aura over Nanyang was already renewed.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Half-past three,
The lamp sputtered,
The lamp
muttered
in the dark.
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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The Look
Strephon
kissed me in the spring,
Robin in the fall,
But Colin only looked at me
And never kissed at all.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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"
The
industrious
labour of some editors in disinterring the trivial works
of great men is not a commendable industry.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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But
misfortunes
new
Befel our ancient house, when to avenge
The fairest woman's wrongs the kings of Greece
Round Ilion's walls encamp'd, led by my sire.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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"The best of the batch," said the
Adjutant
to the Colonel.
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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_He hails Keats and Shelley and some of the poets
and artists who were his contemporaries_, _although his seniors_, _as the
torch-bearers of the
intellectual
life_.
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Wilde - Poems |
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XLIX
Against that time, if ever that time come,
When I shall see thee frown on my defects,
When as thy love hath cast his utmost sum,
Call'd to that audit by advis'd respects;
Against that time when thou shalt strangely pass,
And scarcely greet me with that sun, thine eye,
When love,
converted
from the thing it was,
Shall reasons find of settled gravity;
Against that time do I ensconce me here,
Within the knowledge of mine own desert,
And this my hand, against my self uprear,
To guard the lawful reasons on thy part:
To leave poor me thou hast the strength of laws,
Since why to love I can allege no cause.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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And deputy-lieutenants in their own ;
The portly burgess, through the weather hot,
Does for his
corporation
sweat and trot ;
And all with sun and choler come adust.
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Marvell - Poems |
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One is
reluctant
to disregard the verdict of a people upon its own
poets.
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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Now pay ye the heed that is fitting,
Whilst I sing ye the Iran adventure;
The Pasha on sofa was sitting
In his harem's
glorious
centre.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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550
So when derne Autumne wyth hys sallowe hande
Tares the green mantle from the lymed trees,
The leaves besprenged on the yellow strande
Flie in whole armies from the blataunte breeze;
Alle the whole fielde a carnage-howse he sees, 555
And sowles
unknelled
hover'd oer the bloude;
From place to place on either hand he slees,
And sweepes alle neere hym lyke a bronded floude;
Dethe honge upon his arme; he sleed so maynt,
'Tis paste the pointel of a man to paynte.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Did the harebell loose her girdle
To the lover bee,
Would the bee the harebell hallow
Much as
formerly?
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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" "I dreamed that I was
dead," said the rustic satirist to his superior, "and
condemned
for
the company I kept.
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Robert Burns |
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Thus shal I have unthank on every syde;
That I was born, so
weylaway
the tyde!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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As good have grown there still a
liveless
Rib.
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Milton |
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131) 'your Spanish
titillation in a glove' is
declared
to be the best perfume.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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During which time her gentle wit she plyes,
To teach them truth, which worshipt her in vaine,
And made her th' Image of
Idolatryes?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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And responding they answer all, (but not in words,)
The average earth, the witness of war and peace, acknowledges mutely;
The prairie draws me close, as the father, to bosom broad, the son:--
The
Northern
ice and rain, that began me, nourish me to the end;
But the hot sun of the South is to ripen my songs.
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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What god is worthier of solicitation by anxious
amourists?
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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Do not seek
to
dissuade
me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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It would be
horribly
selfish if it wanted all
the other flowers in the garden to be both red and roses.
| Guess: |
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Les Amours de Cassandre: CLXXIV
Now when the sky and when the earth again
Fill with ice: cold hail
scattered
everywhere,
And the horror of the worst months of the year
Makes the grass bristle across the plain:
Now when the wind mutinously prowling,
Cracks the boulders, and uproots the trees,
When the redoubled roaring of the seas
Fills all the shoreline with its wild surging:
Love burns me, and winter's bitter cold
That freezes all, cannot freeze the old
Ardour in my heart that lasts forever.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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Giu per lo mondo sanza fine amaro,
e per lo monte del cui bel cacume
li occhi de la mia donna mi levaro,
e poscia per lo ciel, di lume in lume,
ho io appreso quel che s'io ridico,
a molti fia sapor di forte agrume;
e s'io al vero son timido amico,
temo di perder viver tra coloro
che questo tempo
chiameranno
antico>>.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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[I have not hesitated to insert all letters which show what Burns was
musing on as a poet, or
planning
as a man.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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It was a short procession, --
The bobolink was there,
An aged bee
addressed
us,
And then we knelt in prayer.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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--that moment have we stept
Into a sort of oneness, and our state
Is like a
floating
spirit's.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
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'Tis
education
forms the common mind;
Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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Them quick
resentment
stung, but him the most,
Who was the cause of failure; in pursuit
He therefore sped, exclaiming; "Thou art caught.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Do not copy, display, perform,
distribute
or redistribute this
electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without
prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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To blurt all out--
I know that you desire her; without doubt
The flame that rages in my heart warms yours;
To carry out these subtle plans of ours,
We have become as gypsies near this doll,
You as her page--I dotard to control--
Pretended
gallants
changed to lovers now.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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The sight of him turns the
fortunes
of
the day, and the body of Patroclus is carried off by the Greeks.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Iliad - Pope |
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Then I would mould a world of fire and dew
With no one bitter, grave, or over-wise,
And nothing marred or old to do you wrong;
And crowd the
enraptured
quiet of the sky
With candles burning to your lonely face.
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(RAGNAR _enters with the
wreath_)
Have _you_ brought
the wreath, Ragnar?
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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As the Sun with glory and grace
In his face,
Benignantly hot,
Graciously
radiant and keen,
Ready to rise and to run,--
Not without spot,
Not even the Sun.
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In these savage, liquid plains,
Only known to wand'ring swains,
Where the mossy riv'let strays,
Far from human haunts and ways;
All on Nature you depend,
And life's poor season
peaceful
spend.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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From earth they rear him, struggling now with death;
And Nestor's
youngest
stops the vents of breath.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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[21]
_istanamma_
> _istilamma_.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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The swans, that with white chests
upheaved
in pride,
Rushing and racing came to meet me at the waterside.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Could
pensioned
Boileau lash in honest strain
Flatterers and bigots even in Louis' reign?
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Nithsdale
and Edinburgh
LXXIV.
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Robert Burns |
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Now let me call across the snow-clad meadows,
Wherein you
threatened
oft to sink away,
As you, oblivious, lead me through the shadows
Of time--my solace now--but erst in play.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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[451] Meaning 'king's son', and
therefore
portending sovereignty.
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Tacitus |
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Thou for the tsar
Hast drawn the sword, thou art stainless; but I lead you
Against your brothers; I am summoning
Lithuania against Russia; I am showing
To foes the longed-for way to
beauteous
Moscow!
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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135
XVI
The knight gan fairely couch his steadie speare,
And fiercely ran at him with rigorous might:
The pointed steele
arriving
rudely theare,
His harder hide would neither perce, nor bight,
But glauncing by forth passed forward right; 140
Yet sore amoved with so puissaunt push,
The wrathfull beast about him turned light,
And him so rudely passing by, did brush
With his long tayle, that horse and man to ground did rush.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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But where it fell
The saved will tell
On patriotic day,
Some
epauletted
brother
Gave his breath away.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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_The
Monument
of a Faire Maiden Lady.
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John Donne |
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BY THE ROADSIDE
LAST night I went to a wide place on the
Kiltartan
road to listen to
some Irish songs.
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