Our more modern
Scholiasts
are
equally acute.
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Poe - 5 |
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Sarojini
Chattopadhyay
was born at Hyderabad on February 13,
1879.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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One fearful knowledge holds me: that I am
A spirit walking
dangerously
here.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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200
A giant moan along the forest swells
Protracted, and the
twilight
storm foretells,
And, ruining from the cliffs their deafening load
Tumbles, the wildering Thunder slips abroad;
On the high summits Darkness comes and goes, 205
Hiding their fiery clouds, their rocks, and snows;
The torrent, travers'd by the lustre broad,
Starts like a horse beside the flashing road;
In the roof'd [J] bridge, at that despairing hour,
She seeks a shelter from the battering show'r.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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His canvas is the
beautiful
bright veil
Through which her sorrow shines.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Can I pour thy wine
While my hands
tremble?
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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25
In loves and gentle jollities arrayd,
After his
murdrous
spoiles and bloudy rage allayd.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Aucassin and
Nicolette
has a similar context.
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Troubador Verse |
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THE STAND
Go now, and tell out days summed up with fears,
And make them years;
Produce thy mass of
miseries
on the stage,
To swell thine age;
Repeat of things a throng,
To show thou hast been long,
Not lived: for life doth her great actions spell.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Is this how the
presumptuous
subject
Shows his consideration, and respect?
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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They part; while, lessening from the hero's view
Swift to the town the well-row'd galley flew:
The hero trod the margin of the main,
And reach'd the mansion of his
faithful
swain.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Maupassant
went insane
because he would work and he would play the same day.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Had it been
To save some falling city,
leaguered
in
With foemen; to prop up our castle towers,
And rescue other children that were ours,
Giving one life for many, by God's laws
I had forgiven all!
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Euripides - Electra |
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God, grasping as a thunderbolt
The man's rejected nature,
Smote him
therewith
i' the presence high
Of his so worshipped earth and sky
That looked on all indifferently--
A wailing human creature.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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After that day
Aegisthus thus decreed: whoso should slay
The old king's
wandering
son, should win rich meed
Of gold; and for Electra, she must wed
With me, not base of blood--in that I stand
True Mycenaean--but in gold and land
Most poor, which maketh highest birth as naught.
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Euripides - Electra |
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_1770
Those sanguine slaves amid ten
thousand
dead
Stabbed in their sleep, trampled in treacherous war
The gentle hearts whose power their lives had sought to spare.
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Shelley |
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e mon, my
mournyng
to lassen.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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To access Project
Gutenberg
etexts, use any Web browser
to view http://promo.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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But by dint of
thinking
the livelong
night, I have discovered a road to salvation, both miraculous and divine.
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Aristophanes |
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What god shall echo's voice repeat
In mocking game
To Helicon's sequester'd shade,
Or Pindus, or on Haemus chill,
Where once the
hurrying
woods obey'd
The minstrel's will,
Who, by his mother's gift of song,
Held the fleet stream, the rapid breeze,
And led with blandishment along
The listening trees?
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Fast and faster worked the gunner,
Soiled with powder, blood, and dust,
English bayonets shone before him,
Shot and shell around him burst;
Still he fought with
reckless
daring,
Stood and manned her long and well,
Till at last the gallant fellow
Dead--beside his cannon fell.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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She loves Rodrigue, I gave her him again,
Through me Rodrigue
conquered
his disdain;
Having thus forged these lovers' heavy chains,
I wish to see an end to all their pains.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Do thou but for one night feign his form, and, boy as thou art, put on
the familiar face of a boy; so when in festal cheer, amid royal dainties
and Bacchic juice, Dido shall take thee to her lap, shall fold thee in
her clasp and kiss thee close and sweet, thou mayest imbreathe a hidden
fire and
unsuspected
poison.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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XVII
Nay; I'll sing "The Bridge of Lodi"--
That long-loved,
romantic
thing,
Though none show by smile or nod he
Guesses why and what I sing!
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Now stand you on the top of happy hours,
And many maiden gardens, yet unset,
With
virtuous
wish would bear you living flowers,
Much liker than your painted counterfeit:
So should the lines of life that life repair,
Which this, Time's pencil, or my pupil pen,
Neither in inward worth nor outward fair,
Can make you live your self in eyes of men.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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In vain bad rhymers all mankind reject,
They treat themselves with most profound respect;
'Tis to small purpose that you hold your tongue:
Each praised within, is happy all day long;
But how
severely
with themselves proceed
The men, who write such verse as we can read?
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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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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Villon |
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XXXVIII
"When on the newly printed sand his eyes
Norandine
fixt, he with the swiftness sped
With which the rage of love a man supplies,
Until he reached the cave of which I said,
Where we, enduring greater agonies
Than e'er were suffered, there await in dread
The orc, and deem at every sound we hear,
The famished brute about to re-appear.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Nay, you are great, fierce, evil--
you are the land-blight--
you have tempted men
but they
perished
on your cliffs.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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When Pope was working on the 'Epistle',
however, he saw an opportunity to vindicate his own independence of
patronage by a satiric portrait of the great Maecenas of his younger
days, Lord Halifax, who had ventured some foolish
criticisms
on Pope's
translation of the 'Iliad', and seems to have expected that the poet
should dedicate the great work to him in return for an offer of a
pension which he made and Pope declined.
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Alexander Pope |
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Not mine such themes, Agrippa; no, nor mine
To chant the wrath that fill'd Pelides' breast,
Nor dark Ulysses'
wanderings
o'er the brine,
Nor Pelops' house unblest.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Long stood I there
And wondered, of all men what man had gone
In
mourning
to that grave.
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Euripides - Electra |
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Your present aid this godlike
stranger
craves,
Toss'd by rude tempest through a war of waves;
Perhaps from realms that view the rising day,
Or nations subject to the western ray.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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O le pauvre
amoureux
des pays chimeriques!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Go thou to him, speak soft and
soothing
words--
Thee, and none other, will he bear to hear,
As well I know.
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Aeschylus |
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(The boys
surround
him again.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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At
midnight
in the month of June,
I stand beneath the mystic moon.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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"Bebeorh þē þone bealo-nīð, Bēowulf lēofa,
1760 "secg se betsta, and þē þæt sēlre gecēos,
"ēce rǣdas;
oferhȳda
ne gȳm,
"mǣre cempa!
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Beowulf |
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End of the Project
Gutenberg
EBook of Beowulf, by Anonymous
*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BEOWULF ***
***** This file should be named 981.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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A light is shining but the distant star
From which it still comes to me has been dead
A
thousand
years .
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Rilke - Poems |
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"
Can you see it still," he cried, "my
brother?
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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With three bold sons was generous
Prothous
bless'd,
Who Pleuron's walls and Calydon possess'd;
Melas and Agrius, but (who far surpass'd
The rest in courage) OEneus was the last.
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Iliad - Pope |
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The sonnets of Les Antiquites provide a fascinating comment on the Classical Roman world as seen from the
viewpoint
of the French Renaissance.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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As Killigrew
buffoons
his master, they
Droll on their god, but a much duller way.
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Marvell - Poems |
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There she stood
About a young bird's flutter from a wood,
Fair, on a sloping green of mossy tread,
By a clear pool, wherein she passioned
To see herself escap'd from so sore ills,
While her robes
flaunted
with the daffodils.
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Keats - Lamia |
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An
instance is the
agonising
sacrifice of sweet Iphigenia, slain at the
altar to appease divine wrath.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Thence issuing often with
unwieldly
stalk,
With broad black feet ye crush your flow'ry walk; 1820.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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[432] Here, on a spot protected by
the mountains on one side and the Moselle on the other,
Valentinus
had
already taken his stand with a large force of Treviri.
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Tacitus |
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But blame him not, he
squandered
ne'er a copper.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Alas for Tully's voice, and Virgil's lay,
And Livy's
pictured
page!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Possibly Wordsworth would have
approved
of both of those titles: but,
that they are not his, should have been indicated.
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William Wordsworth |
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Ah
heavens!
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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The rhyme-scheme follows Du Bellay, unlike Edmund Spenser's fine Elizabethan translation which offers a simpler scheme, more suited to the lack of rhymes in
English!
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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CC
"Sir admiral," said to him Clariens,
"In Rencesvals was
yesterday
battle.
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Chanson de Roland |
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50 net
"Sleep on, I lie at heaven's high oriels Over the stars that mumur as they go
Lighting
your lattice window (ar b low;
And every star some of the glory spells Whereof I know.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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As when a prowling Wolfe,
Whom hunger drives to seek new haunt for prey,
Watching where Shepherds pen thir Flocks at eeve
In hurdl'd Cotes amid the field secure,
Leaps o're the fence with ease into the Fould:
Or as a Thief bent to unhoord the cash
Of some rich Burgher, whose
substantial
dores,
Cross-barrd and bolted fast, fear no assault, 190
In at the window climbes, or o're the tiles;
So clomb this first grand Thief into Gods Fould:
So since into his Church lewd Hirelings climbe.
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Milton |
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MEANWHILE
the house-keeper for linen sought;
Knives, forks, plates, spoons, cups, glass and chairs she
brought;
The fricassee was served, the dame partook,
And on the dish with pleasure seemed to look.
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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There was an ancient City,
stricken
down
With a strange frenzy, and for many a day
They paced from morn to eve the crowded town,
And danced the night away.
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Lewis Carroll |
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To talk of anger and to treat with death;
Where the fond verses, where the happy rhyme
Welcomed
by gentle hearts with pensive joy?
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Petrarch |
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The empty
cartridges
clashed on the floor
and the smoke blew back through the truck.
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Kipling - Poems |
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At the awful sight
tottered that guest, and terror seized him;
yet the
wretched
fugitive rallied anon
from fright and fear ere he fled away,
and took the cup from that treasure-hoard.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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A
chaplain
of Cortes, writing about thirty years
after the conquest of Mexico, in an age of printing presses,
libraries, universities, scholars, logicians, jurists, and
statesmen, had the face to assert that, in one engagement against
the Indians, St.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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And if I can speak and do my share,
I've her to thank, who every learning
Granted me, and all understanding,
And made me a singer debonair,
And
anything
I make that's fine,
From her sweet lovely body's mine,
True-hearted thought including.
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Troubador Verse |
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For then the mind
And all the power of soul are shook so sore,
And these so totter along with all the frame,
That any cause a little stronger might
Dissolve
them altogether.
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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The oaks of the mountains fall; the
mountains themselves decay with years; the ocean shrinks and grows
again; the moon herself is lost in heaven; but thou art for ever the
same,
rejoicing
in the brightness of thy course.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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4
For since the time when Adam first
Embraced
his Eve in happy hour,
And every bird of Eden burst
In carol, every bud to flower,
What eyes, like thine, have waken'd hopes?
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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Many small donations
($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to
maintaining
tax exempt
status with the IRS.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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I have heard your quick breaths
And seen your arms writhe toward me;
At those times
--God help us--
I was
impelled
to be a grand knight,
And swagger and snap my fingers,
And explain my mind finely.
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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Tell her a
bleeding
hand
Bound it and tied it;
Tell her the knot will stand
Though she deride it.
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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Hart was the originator of the Project
Gutenberg-tm concept of a library of
electronic
works that could be
freely shared with anyone.
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Thus, we do not necessarily
keep eBooks in
compliance
with any particular paper edition.
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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It
degrades
those who
exercise it, and degrades those over whom it is exercised.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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"
And we walked on, till in a quiet cover we saw a man scooping up
the foam and putting it into an
alabaster
bowl.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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For learning glorious,
glorious
for the sword,
While Rome's proud monarch reign'd the world's dread lord,
Here Italy her beauteous landscapes shows;
Around her sides his arms old ocean throws;
The dashing waves the ramparts aid supply;
The hoary Alps high tow'ring to the sky,
From shore to shore a rugged barrier spread,
And lower destruction on the hostile tread.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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The cuckoo that one listens far away
Sung in the orchard trees for half the day;
And where the robin lives, the village guest,
In the old weedy hedge the leafy nest
Of the coy
nightingale
was yearly found,
Safe from all eyes as in the loneliest ground;
And little chats that in bean stalks will lie
A nest with cobwebs there will build, and fly
Upon the kidney bean that twines and towers
Up little poles in wreaths of scarlet flowers.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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Then from the smitten surface flashed, as it were,
Diamonds
to meet them, and they past away.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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III
Days of the future, prophetic days,--
Silence engulfs the roar of war;
Yet, through all coming years, repeat the praise
Of those leal
comrades
brave, who come no more!
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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[This review of our Scottish lyrics is well worth the
attention
of all
who write songs, read songs, or sing songs.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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Such a favour
tarnishes
his glory:
Let him not blush now for his victory.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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Perhaps some
favouring
god his soul may bend;
The voice is powerful of a faithful friend.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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Entbehren
sollst du!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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In direful hunger craving
Summers & Winters round
revolving
in the frightful deep.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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Near to the altar stands the priest,
There
offering
up the holy-grist;
Ducking in mood and perfect tense,
With (much good do't him) reverence.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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Perhaps
He's but
exhausted
by the loss of blood,
And will recover.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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WINDOWS where I gazed with you
At eve upon the
landscape
once
Are now illumed with other lights.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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That, in the merry months o' spring,
Delighted
me to hear thee sing,
What comes o' thee?
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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And if thy
right hand offend thee, cut it off and cast it from thee; for it
is
profitable
for thee that one of thy members should perish, and
not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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M uch better
elsewhere
to search for
A id: it would have been more to my honour:
R etreat I must, and fly with dishonour,
T hough none else then would have cast a lure.
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Villon |
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Slow stride appointed years across their bivouac places,
With stern, devoted faces they lie, as when they lay,
In long
battalions
dreaming, till dawn, to eastward gleaming,
Awoke the clarion greeting of the bugles to the day.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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His sons around him mild
obeisance
pay,
And duteous take the orders of the day.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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I am to wait, though waiting so be hell,
Not blame your
pleasure
be it ill or well.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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The
standard
Assyrian texts regard Enkidu as the subject.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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O steadfast dweller on the selfsame spot
Where thou wast born, that still
repinest
not --
Type of the home-fond heart, the happy lot!
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Sidney Lanier |
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_The author's name first
appeared
on the title-page of the Seventh
Edition_.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Rilke - Poems |
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But 'twixt the
branches
gazers could descry
The blackened hall lit up most brilliantly.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Le Testament: Epitaph et Rondeau
Epitaph
Here there lies, and sleeps in the grave,
One whom Love killed with his scorn,
A poor little scholar in every way,
He was named
Francois
Villon.
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Villon |
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Broadly speaking, Russian art and literature may be
described
as
springing from an ethical impulse and as having for their motive power
and _raison d'etre_ the tendency toward socio-political reform, in
contradistinction to the art and literature of Western culture, whose
motives and aims are primarily of an aesthetic nature and seek in art the
reconciliation of the dualism between spirit and matter.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Hit had forgete the
povertee
410
That winter, through his colde morwes,
Had mad hit suffren, and his sorwes;
Al was forgeten, and that was sene.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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But his
intellectual
outlook was low and sordid.
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Li Po |
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