O aspect sweet of
fourfold
love to me,
Whom upon thee the heart's constraint bids call
As on my father, and the claim of love
From me unto my mother turns to thee,
For she is very hate; to thee too turns
What of my heart went out to her who died
A ruthless death upon the altar-stone;
And for myself I love thee--thee that wast
A brother leal, sole stay of love to me.
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Aeschylus |
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And the host rubbed his hands and smiled at his wife; for his guests
were
spending
freely.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Christina Rossetti |
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The Tibetan Goat
Hilly Landscape with Two Goats
'Hilly Landscape with Two Goats'
Reinier van Persijn, Jacob
Gerritsz
Cuyp, Nicolaes Visscher (I), 1641, The Rijksmuseun
The fleece of this goat and even
That gold one which cost such pain
To Jason's not worth a sou towards
The tresses with which I'm taken.
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Appoloinaire |
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The maples, shedding their spinning seeds,
Called to his appleseeds in the ground,
Vast chestnut-trees, with their
butterfly
nations,
Called to his seeds without a sound.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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" Thus down our road we took
Through those
dilapidated
crags, that oft
Mov'd underneath my feet, to weight like theirs
Unus'd.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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: Animi
affectio suum cuique
tribuens
Justitia dicitur.
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Robert Herrick |
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The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating
charities and
charitable
donations in all 50 states of the United
States.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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The
Foundation
is committed to complying with the laws regulating
charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United
States.
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Tennyson |
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I never
flinched
nor fled when thou didst aim
at me in King Arthur's house.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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the poem drags from excessive length, and the
reduction
of its
twenty-three stanzas to sixteen greatly improves it.
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Robert Herrick |
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It's on your slopes, visited by Venus
Setting in your lava her heels so artless,
When a sad slumber
thunders
where the flame burns low.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the
Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in
paragraphs
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Good women have such a limited view of life, their horizon is so small,
their
interests
so petty.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Oh you, who have founded so
illustrious
a city in the air, you
know not in what esteem men hold you and how many there are who burn with
desire to dwell in it.
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Aristophanes |
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, to plan my course of instruction, and, as
my tutor, to
supervise
my bringing up.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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It rustles at the window-pane, the smooth,
streaming
rain, and he is shut
within its clash and murmur.
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Imagists |
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[220] These
accounts
are lost.
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Tacitus |
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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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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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--one, all eyes,
Philosopher!
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William Wordsworth |
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They were more than brave: they were
inspired
with the spirit of
"Wu.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Oeneone
Your wishes thwart one another,
alternately!
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Racine - Phaedra |
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The thighs now sacrificed, and entrails dress'd,
The assistants part, transfix, and broil the rest
While these officious tend the rites divine,
The last fair branch of the
Nestorean
line,
Sweet Polycaste, took the pleasing toil
To bathe the prince, and pour the fragrant oil.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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'
And the Soul was a-tremble like as a new-born thing,
Till the spark of the dawn wrought a
conscience
in heart as in wing,
Saying, `Thou art the lark of the dawn; it is time to sing.
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Sidney Lanier |
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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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The old dog snaps and grins nor
ventures
nigh.
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John Clare |
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And while in peace cows eat, and chew their cuds,
Moozing cool sheltered neath the skirting woods,
To double uses they the hours convert,
Turning the toils of labour into sport;
Till morn's long
streaking
shadows lose their tails,
And cooling winds swoon into faultering gales;
And searching sunbeams warm and sultry creep,
Waking the teazing insects from their sleep;
And dreaded gadflies with their drowsy hum
On the burnt wings of mid-day zephyrs come,--
Urging each lown to leave his sports in fear,
To stop his starting cows that dread the fly;
Droning unwelcome tidings on his ear,
That the sweet peace of rural morn's gone by.
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John Clare |
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The poems of The Ruins of Rome belong to the
beginning
of his four and a half year residence in Italy.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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_oino_, _aede_ in _ii_) is,
however, not in any way a
peculiarity
of early Latin.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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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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Liberty
On my notebooks from school
On my desk and the trees
On the sand on the snow
I write your name
On every page read
On all the white sheets
Stone blood paper or ash
I write your name
On the golden images
On the soldier's weapons
On the crowns of kings
I write your name
On the jungle the desert
The nests and the bushes
On the echo of childhood
I write your name
On the wonder of nights
On the white bread of days
On the seasons engaged
I write your name
On all my blue rags
On the pond mildewed sun
On the lake living moon
I write your name
On the fields the horizon
The wings of the birds
On the windmill of shadows
I write your name
On each breath of the dawn
On the ships on the sea
On the mountain demented
I write your name
On the foam of the clouds
On the sweat of the storm
On dark insipid rain
I write your name
On the glittering forms
On the bells of colour
On physical truth
I write your name
On the wakened paths
On the opened ways
On the scattered places
I write your name
On the lamp that gives light
On the lamp that is drowned
On my house reunited
I write your name
On the bisected fruit
Of my mirror and room
On my bed's empty shell
I write your name
On my dog greedy tender
On his listening ears
On his awkward paws
I write your name
On the sill of my door
On familiar things
On the fire's sacred stream
I write your name
On all flesh that's in tune
On the brows of my friends
On each hand that extends
I write your name
On the glass of surprises
On lips that attend
High over the silence
I write your name
On my ravaged refuges
On my fallen lighthouses
On the walls of my boredom
I write your name
On passionless absence
On naked solitude
On the marches of death
I write your name
On health that's regained
On danger that's past
On hope without memories
I write your name
By the power of the word
I regain my life
I was born to know you
And to name you
LIBERTY
Ring Of Peace
I have passed the doors of coldness
The doors of my bitterness
To come and kiss your lips
City reduced to a room
Where the absurd tide of evil
leaves a reassuring foam
Ring of peace I have only you
You teach me again what it is
To be human when I renounce
Knowing whether I have fellow creatures
Ecstasy
I am in front of this
feminine
land
Like a child in front of the fire
Smiling vaguely with tears in my eyes
In front of this land where all moves in me
Where mirrors mist where mirrors clear
Reflecting two nude bodies season on season
I've so many reasons to lose myself
On this road-less earth under horizon-less skies
Good reasons I ignored yesterday
And I'll never ever forget
Good keys of gazes keys their own daughters
in front of this land where nature is mine
In front of the fire the first fire
Good mistress reason
Identified star
On earth under sky in and out of my heart
Second bud first green leaf
That the sea covers with sails
And the sun finally coming to us
I am in front of this feminine land
Like a branch in the fire.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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If in the woodland
traveller
there had been
That eve, who lost himself, strange sight he'd seen.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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The light of her face falls from its flower,
as a hyacinth,
hidden in a far valley,
perishes
upon burnt grass.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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She dried her feet on the
riverside
grass;
She looked at me once again,
And the playful beauty then took thought.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Hast heard, he touches now his hundredth year--
And that, defying fate, in face of heaven,
On his invincible peak, no force of war
Uprooting
other holds--nor powerful Caesar--
Nor Rome--nor age, that bows the pride of man--
Nor aught on earth--hath vanquished, or subdued,
Or bent this ancient Titan of the Rhine,
The excommunicated Job?
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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The lords of war are beaten down, your
glorious
task is done;
You fought to make the whole world free, and the victory is won.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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I can't make
anything
of it
at present.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Come give me thy
loveliest
lay.
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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90-98 are probably the
interpolation
of a Christian scribe.
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Beowulf |
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When I stand where
half a dozen large elms droop over a house, it is as if I stood within
a ripe pumpkin-rind, and I feel as mellow as if I were the pulp,
though I may be
somewhat
stringy and seedy withal.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Thus, we do not necessarily
keep eBooks in compliance with any
particular
paper edition.
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Stephen Crane |
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Parliament passed "an act [in 1825] to provide for the
extinction of feudal and
seigniorial
rights and burdens on lands in
Lower Canada, and for the gradual conversion of those tenures into the
tenure of free and common socage," etc.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Very few perhaps are
familiar
with these lines--yet no less a poet
than Shelley is their author.
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Poe - 5 |
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Wilt thou not examine our hearts, O Lord God of our
strength?
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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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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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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e
Emperour
whan he was brou?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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O the
unworthy
lord!
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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_See note_]
[37 However, _1633-39:_ However _1650-69:_
Howsoever
_A18_,
_B_, _D_, _N_, _O'F_, _TC_]
[38 as] _om.
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John Donne |
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zip *****
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associated
files of various formats will be found in:
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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An awe came on the
trinket!
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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The person or entity that provided you with
the defective work may elect to provide a
replacement
copy in lieu of a
refund.
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Poe - 5 |
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Contraries
are not mixed.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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" A new American edition will be dear to many: a complete
English edition ought to be an early demand of English poetic readers, and
would be the right and
crowning
result of the present Selection.
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Whitman |
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--We who have
laboured
long and sore
Times out of mind,
And keen are yet, must not regret
To drop behind.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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What know you of her
struggles
or her grief?
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Hugo - Poems |
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Three days in the cathedral did I visit
His corpse,
escorted
thither by all Uglich.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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So, in the year, my favourite season is the last slow part of summer that just precedes autumn, and, in the day, the hour when I walk is when the sun
hesitates
before vanishing, with rays of yellow bronze over the grey walls, and rays of red copper over the tiles.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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e
same
chau{n}gyng
from one to an o?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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"
"I list no more the tuck of drum,
No more the trumpet hear;
But when the beetle sounds his hum
My
comrades
take the spear.
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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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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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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The page image should be consulted LFS}
PAGE 7 Examining the sins of Tharmas I have soon found my own
O slay me not thou art his Wrath embodied in Deceit
I thought Tharmas a Sinner & I murderd his
Emanations
*
His secret loves & Graces Ah me wretched What have I done *
For now I find that all those Emanations were my Childrens Souls *
And I have murderd them with Cruelty above atonement *
Those that remain have fled from my cruelty into the desarts
Singing with both to ownAnd thou the delusive tempter to these deeds sittest before me *
(illegible)But where is (illegible) Tharmas all thy soft delusive beauty cannot
Tempt me to murder honest lovemy own soul & wipe my tears & smile
In this thy world for ah!
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Blake - Zoas |
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To descend to those
extreme anxieties and foolish cavils of grammarians, is able to break a
wit in pieces, being a work of
manifold
misery and vainness, to be
_elementarii senes_.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Unauthenticated Download Date | 10/1/17 7:36 AM Journey North 335 I wiped away tears, yearning for the court-in-exile, and my course was still an
uncertain
blur.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Not far from here stands fast
Agylla city, an ancient pile of stone, where of old the Lydian race,
eminent in war, settled on the
Etruscan
ridges.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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"The Fourth prohibits trespassing
Where other Ghosts are quartered:
And those convicted of the thing
(Unless when
pardoned
by the King)
Must instantly be slaughtered.
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
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All these are the cobwebs of
learning, and to let them grow in us is either
sluttish
or foolish.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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"
Asked the Bedouin chief, the poet Antar;--
"Who unto the truth flings open our gates,
Or fashions new thoughts from the light of a star;
Or forges with craft of his finger and brain
Some
marvelous
weapon we copy in vain;
Or chants to the winds a wild song that shall
wander forever undying?
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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To rise 'tis trying,
It
struggles
still!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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If you
do not charge
anything
for copies of this eBook, complying with the
rules is very easy.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Is that
trembling
cry a song?
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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The last is taken from a fragment
of vellum, which
Chatterton
gave to Mr.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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--Ce qu'on ne sait pas, c'est peut-etre terrible:
Nous
saurons!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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The country was
mountaineous
and the mules were most contrary,
and the inhabitants was dispersed and solitary.
| Guess: |
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Kipling - Poems |
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Bernard, "you will
find more in the woods than in books; the forests and rocks will teach
you more than you can learn from the
greatest
Masters.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
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On this
wondrous
sea,
Sailing silently,
Ho!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Royalty payments
must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you
prepare (or are legally required to
prepare)
your periodic tax
returns.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
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Hither in
ancestral
fashion hath each borne the bodies of
his kin; the dark fire is lit beneath, and the vapour hides high heaven
in gloom.
| Guess: |
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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my friend, and clear your looks,
Why all this toil and
trouble?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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He warmed waters to bathe our feet, 32 and cut paper
streamers
to call back our souls.
| Guess: |
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Du Fu - 5 |
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enne
worschupeden
heo Alle with o steuene,
Iesu, godus sone of heuene,
and his Modur Marie.
| Guess: |
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Her leaders have taken
soundings
of every man.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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) can copy and
distribute
it in the United States without
permission and without paying copyright royalties.
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Keats |
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Always
eavesdropping
on gentlemen!
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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at may
gone by
nat{ur}el
office of feet.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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The Soudan cried: "O, Sphinxes, with the torch-like eye,
I am the Conqueror--my name is high-arrayed
In characters like flame upon the vaulted sky,
Far from oblivion's reach or an
effacing
shade.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Painting
is truly a luminous language.
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Appoloinaire |
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CLXXX
Malindo, with Andalico, he slew,
His brother, sons to the earl of
Flanders
they:
To whom has bearings (each to arms was new)
Charles had the lilies given; because that day
The monarch had beheld the valiant two
With crimsoned staves, returning from the fray;
And them with lands in Flanders vowed to glad;
And would, but that Medoro this forbad.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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And now another in my teeming brain
Prepares
itself: whence I resume the strain.
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Petrarch |
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if it
wasn't mesilf thin that was mad as a
Kilkenny
cat I shud like to be
tould who it was!
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Poe - 5 |
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My Lord, I dare to say here that heaven, 615
In this case, wished to make me an
exception!
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Racine - Phaedra |
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To the gate
He came, and with his wand touch'd it, whereat
Open without
impediment
it flew.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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It exists
because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and
donations
from
people in all walks of life.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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The
neighing
troop, the flashing blade,
The bugle's stirring blast,
The charge, the dreadful cannonade,
The din and shout are past;
Nor war's wild note nor glory's peal
Shall thrill with fierce delight
Those breasts that never more may feel
The rapture of the fight.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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You were born in Syria,
Gentle, poor in worldly goods;
Ever humble, pious, purer,
In all done, said, understood,
Fashioned by such a Master,
Without all evil, with all good,
Of such sweet company there
That in you was
harboured
God.
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Troubador Verse |
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But though I have wept and fasted, wept and prayed,
Though I have seen my head (grown
slightly
bald) brought in upon a platter,
I am no prophet--and here's no great matter;
I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker,
And I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker,
And in short, I was afraid.
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T.S. Eliot |
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And I like a guilty debtor sitting,
For fear of each casual word am
sweating!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Ask, if I caught not fair and silverly
His blessing for chief angels on my head
Until it grew there, a crown
crystallized!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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whose ne'er-spent wine
As blood doth stretch each vein,
And urge thee, sinewed like thy vine,
Through peril and all pain
To grasp Endeavor's towering Pine,
And, once ahold, remain --
Land where the strenuous-handed Wind
With sarcasm of a friend
Doth smite the man would lag behind
To frontward of his end;
Yea, where the taunting fall and grind
Of Nature's Ill doth send
Such mortal challenge of a clown
Rude-thrust upon the soul,
That men but smile where mountains frown
Or
scowling
waters roll,
And Nature's front of battle down
Do hurl from pole to pole.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Had
chastisement
for perjured truth,
Barine, mark'd you with a curse--
Did one wry nail, or one black tooth,
But make you worse--
I'd trust you; but, when plighted lies
Have pledged you deepest, lovelier far
You sparkle forth, of all young eyes
The ruling star.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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