Down bent the harsh new-comer
To lift with loving arm
The
wanderer
mute and fallen;
And lo!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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ei may
chau{n}gen
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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net),
you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a
copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon
request, of the work in its
original
"Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other
form.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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As she leans, so sweet and soft,
Flitting oft,
O'er the mirror to and fro,
Seems that airy
floating
bat,
Like a feather
From some sea-gull's wing of snow.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Questo
triforme
amor qua giu di sotto
si piange: or vo' che tu de l'altro intende,
che corre al ben con ordine corrotto.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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There, take the darkling gold, the gentle gray
From birches and from box--the zephyrs sway,
Few lingering roses yet their
perfumes
breathe,
Select them, kiss them and a crown enwreathe.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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--
nam quid ego immensi memorem studia ista laboris,
horrida quid durae tempora
militiae?
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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I do not know but they interest me more than the maples, they are so
widely and equally dispersed
throughout
the forest; they are so hardy,
a nobler tree on the whole; our chief November flower, abiding the
approach of winter with us, imparting warmth to early November
prospects.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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We encourage the
use of public domain materials for these
purposes
and may be able to help.
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Marvell - Poems |
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And then a
Princess
I became
To whom men bend their knees;
To princes things are not the same
As those a beggar sees.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Under the firelight, under the brush, her hair
Spread out in fiery points
Glowed into words, then would be
savagely
still.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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So to the bull Europa gave
Her beauteous form, and when she saw
The
monstrous
deep, the yawning grave,
Grew pale with awe.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Ever the fiery Pentecost
Girds with one flame the countless host,
Trances the heart through
chanting
choirs,
And through the priest the mind inspires.
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Emerson - Poems |
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The
Arab, both hands to his forehead,
screamed
aloud, then snatched up his
spear and rushed at Torpenhow, who was panting under shelter of Dick's
revolver.
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Kipling - Poems |
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His
resentment was all the more bitter since he fancied that Addison, now at
the height of his power and prosperity in the world of letters and of
politics, had
attempted
to ruin an enterprise on which the younger man
had set all his hopes of success and independence, for no better reason
than literary jealousy and political estrangement.
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Alexander Pope |
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"
"Comrades all, that stand and gaze,
Walk henceforth in other ways;
See my neck and save your own:
Comrades
all, leave ill alone.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Now that sword began,
from blood of the fight, in battle-droppings, {23c}
war-blade, to wane: 'twas a
wondrous
thing
that all of it melted as ice is wont
when frosty fetters the Father loosens,
unwinds the wave-bonds, wielding all
seasons and times: the true God he!
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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That were leeched with clamorous skill,
(Surgery savage and hard),
Splinted with bolt and beam,
Probed in
scarfing
and seam,
Rudely linted and tarred
With oakum and boiling pitch,
And sutured with splice and hitch
At the Brooklyn Navy-Yard!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Such is the
pleasure
of Bassus and Caecina.
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Tacitus |
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Thou'lt wake the guards with thy loud
screaming!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a
considerable effort, much
paperwork
and many fees to meet and keep up
with these requirements.
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Wilde - Poems |
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* This work the Saints best
represents
* That serves for altar's ornaments.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Jonson's moral
purpose is here plainly visible, especially in contrast to Plautus,
with whom the youthful
intriguer
is also the stock figure.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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If you
received the work on a
physical
medium, you must return the medium with
your written explanation.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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4870
This hadde sotil dame Nature;
For noon goth right, I thee ensure,
Ne hath entent hool ne parfyt;
For hir desir is for delyt,
The which
fortened
crece and eke 4875
The pley of love for-ofte seke,
And thralle hem-silf, they be so nyce,
Unto the prince of every vyce.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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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 have been changed to a hound with one red ear;
I have been in the Path of Stones and the Wood of Thorns,
For
somebody
hid hatred and hope and desire and fear
Under my feet that they follow you night and day.
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Yeats |
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It follows from all this that the ultimate,
aggregate, or absolute effect of even the best epic under the sun, is a
nullity:--and this is
precisely
the fact.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Note: Ronsard's Helene, was Helene de Surgeres, a lady in waiting to
Catherine
de Medicis.
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Ronsard |
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Thus, Woman, Principle of Life, Speaker of the Ideal
Would you see
The dark form of the sun
The contours of life
Or be truly dazzled
By the fire that fuses all
The flame
conveyer
of modesties
In flesh in gold that fine gesture
Error is as unknown
As the limits of spring
The temptation prodigious
All touches all travels you
At first it was only a thunder of incense
Which you love the more
The fine praise at four
Lovely motionless nude
Violin mute but palpable
I speak to you of seeing
I will speak to you of your eyes
Be faceless if you wish
Of their unwilling colour
Of luminous stones
Colourless
Before the man you conquer
His blind enthusiasm
Reigns naively like a spring
In the desert
Between the sands of night and the waves of day
Between earth and water
No ripple to erase
No road possible
Between your eyes and the images I see there
Is all of which I think
Myself inderacinable
Like a plant which masses itself
Which simulates rock among other rocks
That I carry for certain
You all entire
All that you gaze at
All
This is a boat
That sails a sweet river
It carries playful women
And patient grain
This is a horse descending the hill
Or perhaps a flame rising
A great barefooted laugh in a wretched heart
An autumn height of soothing verdure
A bird that persists in folding its wings in its nest
A morning that scatters the reddened light
To waken the fields
This is a parasol
And this the dress
Of a lace-maker more seductive than a bouquet
Of the bell-sounds of the rainbow
This thwarts immensity
This has never enough space
Welcome is always elsewhere
With the lightning and the flood
That accompany it
Of medusas and fires
Marvellously obliging
They destroy the scaffolding
Topped by a sad coloured flag
A bounded star
Whose fingers are paralysed
I speak of seeing you
I know you living
All exists all is visible
There is no fleck of night in your eyes
I see by a light exclusively yours.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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585
LXVI
Thence she thee brought into this Faerie lond,
And in an heaped furrow did thee hyde,
Where thee a Ploughman all unweeting fond,
As he his toylesome teme that way did guyde,
And brought thee up in
ploughmans
state to byde 590
Whereof Georgos?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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"When the _high_ Helen _her fair cheeks
Showed to the army of the Greeks;_
At which I'll _rise_
(_Blind though as
midnight
in my eyes_),
And hearing it,
Flutter and crow, _and_, in a fit
Of _young_ concupiscence, and _feel
New flames within the aged steal_.
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Robert Herrick |
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begirt with bowers
And
shouting
with a thousand rills.
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Poe - 5 |
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(C)
Copyright
2000-2016 A.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Thus, Woman, Principle of Life, Speaker of the Ideal
Would you see
The dark form of the sun
The contours of life
Or be truly dazzled
By the fire that fuses all
The flame conveyer of modesties
In flesh in gold that fine gesture
Error is as unknown
As the limits of spring
The temptation prodigious
All touches all travels you
At first it was only a thunder of incense
Which you love the more
The fine praise at four
Lovely motionless nude
Violin mute but palpable
I speak to you of seeing
I will speak to you of your eyes
Be
faceless
if you wish
Of their unwilling colour
Of luminous stones
Colourless
Before the man you conquer
His blind enthusiasm
Reigns naively like a spring
In the desert
Between the sands of night and the waves of day
Between earth and water
No ripple to erase
No road possible
Between your eyes and the images I see there
Is all of which I think
Myself inderacinable
Like a plant which masses itself
Which simulates rock among other rocks
That I carry for certain
You all entire
All that you gaze at
All
This is a boat
That sails a sweet river
It carries playful women
And patient grain
This is a horse descending the hill
Or perhaps a flame rising
A great barefooted laugh in a wretched heart
An autumn height of soothing verdure
A bird that persists in folding its wings in its nest
A morning that scatters the reddened light
To waken the fields
This is a parasol
And this the dress
Of a lace-maker more seductive than a bouquet
Of the bell-sounds of the rainbow
This thwarts immensity
This has never enough space
Welcome is always elsewhere
With the lightning and the flood
That accompany it
Of medusas and fires
Marvellously obliging
They destroy the scaffolding
Topped by a sad coloured flag
A bounded star
Whose fingers are paralysed
I speak of seeing you
I know you living
All exists all is visible
There is no fleck of night in your eyes
I see by a light exclusively yours.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Once when the Emperor was sitting in the Pavilion of Aloes Wood, he had
a sudden stirring of heart, and wanted Po to write a song
expressive
of
his mood.
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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For doubt is none that by the work of soul
Exist in us this sense, and when by slumber
That sense is thwarted, we are bound to think
The soul confounded and expelled abroad--
Yet not entirely, else the frame would lie
Drenched
in the everlasting cold of death.
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Lucretius |
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The Paphlagonians
Pylaemenes
rules,
Where rich Henetia breeds her savage mules,
Where Erythinus' rising cliffs are seen,
Thy groves of box, Cytorus!
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Iliad - Pope |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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And just as drama,
whatever
grandeur of purpose it may attempt,
must be a good play, so epic must be a good story.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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nat to 2020
enchaufen
{and} *to ben hote.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Meredith - Poems |
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His
principal patrons were Henry Burgum and George Catcott, a pair of
pewterers, the former vulgar and uneducated but very
ambitious
to be
thought a man of good birth and education, the latter a credulous,
selfish and none too scrupulous fellow, a would-be antiquary, of
whom there is the most delightfully absurd description in Boswell's
_Johnson_.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Something
from
The Doge; it may be also from a parent.
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Byron |
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And
worschiped
hym in word & dede,
Alle ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Avoid, thou
smellest
all of kitchen-grease.
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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At
Edinburgh
I was in a new world; I mingled
among many classes of men, but all of them new to me, and I was all
attention to "catch" the characters and "the manners living as they
rise.
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Robert Burns |
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to spreden his
clerenesse
w{i}t{h}
rosene chariettes.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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"
"Felon be I," said Guenes, "aught to
conceal!
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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It is not enough to have this globe or a certain time,
I will have
thousands
of globes and all time.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Nevertheless
it often
drops to the ground before the bird has done with it.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Evening falls and in the garden
Women tell their histories
to Night that not without disdain
spills their dark hair's mysteries
Little children little children
Your wings have flown away
But you rose that defend yourself
Throw your
unrivalled
scents away
For now's the hour of petty theft
Of plumes of flowers and of tresses
Gather the fountain jets so free
Of whom the roses are mistresses
?
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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If the
greatnesses
are in
conjunction in a man or woman, it is enough--the fact will prevail through
the universe: but the gaggery and gilt of a million years will not prevail.
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Whitman |
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If Fortune now compel thee to forego
The prize, and do my will in thy despite,
Grieve not at this, but rather grieve that thou
Art found a
perjured
traitor to thy vow.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Have you by any chance heard how that mystical, strange celebration
Followed
victorious
troops back from Eleusis to Rome?
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Had any one told me of
it, I would have
rejected
it.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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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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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Would you cast your jewels all to the breezes
blowing?
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Neglected the kettle,
scorched
the Frau!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Phaedra
What benefit do you hope for from this
violence?
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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Note: The ballade was written for Robert to present to his wife Ambroise de Lore, as though
composed
by him.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
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Then we our steps
Toward that
territory
mov'd, secure
After the hallow'd words.
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Oh soon, and better so than later
After long
disgrace
and scorn,
You shot dead the household traitor,
The soul that should not have been born.
| Guess: |
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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* Except for the limited right of
replacement
or refund set forth
in paragraph 1.
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Stephen Crane |
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Transcriber's Notes
Some text styles have been
preserved
in this text by enclosing between
special characters.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right
of Replacement or Refund"
described
in paragraph 1.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
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To thee, my son, the
suppliant
I resign;
I gave him my protection, grant him thine.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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A washed-out smallpox cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone With all the old
nocturnal
smells
That cross and cross across her brain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Farewell,
farewell!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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Herewarde, borne of parentes brave and wyse, 545
Within this vylle fyrste adrewe the ayre,
A
blessynge
to the erthe sente from the skies,
In anie kyngdom nee coulde fynde his pheer;
Now rybbd in steele he rages yn the fyghte,
And sweeps whole armies to the reaulmes of nyghte.
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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th be
honoured
so,
bot libbe in woo & wrake; 792
(67)
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| Guess: |
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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But Britain,
changeful
as a child at play,
Now calls in princes, and now turns away.
| Guess: |
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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I
compleyned
and sighed sore, 3485
And languisshed evermore,
For I durst not over go
Unto the rose I loved so.
| Guess: |
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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If you
do not charge
anything
for copies of this eBook, complying with the
rules is very easy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
|
The tyrant Death, with grim control,
May seize my
fleeting
breath;
But tearing Peggy from my soul
Must be a stronger death.
| Guess: |
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Purgatorio
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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But let them look over all the great
and
monstrous
wickednesses, they shall never find those in poor families.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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She's
followed
him, of course; she's heard of this
Mad escapade and followed after him.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Et Saint Apollinaire, raide et ascetique,
Vieille usine desaffectee de Dieu, tient encore
Dans ses pierres
ecroulantes
la forme precise de Byzance.
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T.S. Eliot |
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When near the famed Phaeacian walls he drew,
The beauteous city opening to his view,
His step a virgin met, and stood before:
A polish'd urn the seeming virgin bore,
And
youthful
smiled; but in the low disguise
Lay hid the goddess with the azure eyes.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Let me, I pray, your
teachings
share!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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There sit an old one and a young together;
They've skipped it well along the
heather!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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He was
fond of long walks, unlike the
generality
of his countrymen, and
at one time of his career used daily to foot it into St.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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But she, the child, knew not the solemn words,
And suddenly yielded to a troublous wailing,
As helpless as the cry of
frightened
birds
Whose untried wings for flight are unavailing.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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But it's to Bacchus, the
sensuous
dreamer, Cythera sends glances
Bathed in sweetest desire--even in marble they're damp.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Thick through the
changing
year
The unexpected, rich-charged moments come,
That you twixt wake and sleep
In the lids of the closed eyes shall make appear.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Now
wrinkled
forehead, hair gone grey:
Sparse eyelashes: eyes so dim,
That laughed and flashed once every way,
And reeled their roaming victims in:
Nose bent from beauty, ears thin,
Hanging down like moss, a face,
Pallid, dead and bleak, the chin
Furrowed, a skinny-lipped disgrace.
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Villon |
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Yea, if thou wilt die of a
parching
mouth.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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'
Than aftir, ful deliverly, 3005
Through the breres anoon wente I,
Wherof
encombred
was the hay.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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that sacred pledge,[214]
Which, once partaken, blunts the sabre's edge,
Makes even contending tribes in peace unite,
And hated hosts seem
brethren
to the sight!
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Byron |
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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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John Donne |
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In the
long run, I fancy, the effect of gracious
loveliness
which Alcestis
certainly makes is not so much due to any words of her own as to what the
Handmaid and the Serving Man say about her.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Now the ancient river,
That all day under the arch was
polished
jade,
Becomes the ghost of a river, thinly gleaming
Under a silver cloud.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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But why this
mourning
hair, this garb of woe?
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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What are her
feelings
toward the
Knight?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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The song you may keep, as I
remember
it.
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Robert Burns |
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" he says,
"For winning me from one
Who ever in her living days
Was pure as
cloistered
nun!
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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