Those
blossoms
fall ere June, warm June that brings
The small white Clover.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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[ORESTES
_departs
to the right_.
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Euripides - Electra |
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On your hand as it waved adieu
There were veins of blue;
In your voice as it said good-bye
Was a
petulant
cry,
'You have only wasted your life.
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Wilde - Poems |
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"
"Have
patience!
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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apostoile had his book, [folio 26a]
His
chaunceler
he it bitook
To rede, I vnderstonde; 969
Othoo was his name,
A Man yholde of gode fame
Ouer al Rome londe.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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When he awoke, it was already night;
The church was empty, and there was no light,
Save where the lamps, that
glimmered
few and faint,
Lighted a little space before some saint.
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Longfellow |
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The artisans
gathered
about him.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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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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Imagists |
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that I had lain at rest
And lapped for ever in thy breast,
Ere I had seen my chieftain fall
Within the laver's silver wall,
Low-lying on
dishonoured
bier!
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Aeschylus |
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Redresse
me, moder, and me chastyse,
For, certeynly, my fadres chastisinge 130
That dar I nought abyden in no wyse:
So hidous is his rightful rekeninge.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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495
* * * * *
CANTO II
The guilefull great Enchaunter parts
the
Redcrosse
Knight from truth,
Into whose stead faire Falshood steps,
and workes him wofull ruth.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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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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in the world.
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Meredith - Poems |
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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90
The Normans kept aloofe, at
distaunce
stylle,
The Englysh nete but short horse-spears could welde;
The Englysh manie dethe-sure dartes did kille,
And manie arrowes twang'd upon the sheelde.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Illu-
trissimo Viro Domino Lanceloto Josepho De
Maniban,
Grammatomanti
826
In Duos MonteSf Amosclivium et Bilboreum.
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Marvell - Poems |
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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.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Now to my theme--but from thy holy haunt
Let me some remnant, some memorial bear;
Yield me one leaf of Daphne's
deathless
plant,
Nor let thy votary's hope be deemed an idle vaunt.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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A man's heart bearing,
What man has the daring
To say: I
acknowledge
him not?
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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If this fail,
The
pillared
firmament is rottenness, &c.
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Milton |
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Ask you what
provocation
I have had?
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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My travel's done,--
Before the whirlwind wakes I shall have found _40
My inn of lasting rest; but thou must still
Be
journeying
on in this inclement air.
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Shelley |
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Vain
thought!
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Byron |
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I have
offended
against heaven and earth
More grievously than any tongue can tell.
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Tennyson |
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Often a hidden god
inhabits
obscure being;
And like an eye, born, covered by its eyelids,
Pure spirit grows beneath the surface of stones!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Where is that wise girl Eloise,
For whom was gelded, to his great shame,
Peter Abelard, at Saint Denis,
For love of her
enduring
pain,
And where now is that queen again,
Who commanded them to throw
Buridan in a sack, in the Seine?
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Villon |
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But,
simply as substance, there is nothing to choose between them; while
history has the obvious
disadvantage
of being commonly too strict in the
manner of its events to allow of creative freedom.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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what more can they
pretend?
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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And all the while
Artemis and bold Athene admired him,
Slaying stags without dogs or treacherous nets;
For he
conquered
them on foot.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Chacun de vous m'a fait un temple dans son coeur;
Vous avez, en secret, baise ma fesse
immonde!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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XXVIII
He who has seen a great oak dry and dead,
Bearing some trophy as an ornament,
Whose roots from earth are almost rent,
Though to the heavens it still lifts its head;
More than half-bowed towards its final bed,
Showing its naked boughs and fibres bent,
While, leafless now, its heavy crown is leant
Support by a gnarled trunk, its sap long bled;
And though at the first strong wind it must fall,
And many young oaks are rooted within call,
Alone among the devout populace is revered:
Who such an oak has seen, let him consider,
That, among cities which have
flourished
here,
This old honoured dust was the most honoured.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the
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and reported to you within 90 days
of receipt of the work.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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can my vagrant song
O'erpass thy virtues in the
nameless
throng,
When he that sought to lure thee to thy shame
Paid with his sever'd head his frantic flame?
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Petrarch - Poems |
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--
It is
impossible
to say just what I mean!
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T.S. Eliot |
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" We the circle cross'd
To the next steep,
arriving
at a well,
That boiling pours itself down to a foss
Sluic'd from its source.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Thou never braing't, an' fetch't, an' fliskit;
But thy auld tail thou wad hae whiskit,
An' spread abreed thy weel-fill'd brisket,
Wi' pith an' power;
Till
sprittie
knowes wad rair't an' riskit
An' slypet owre.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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And, gazing deep into old days,
On faces whose dear lines I knew
Whose many-colored thoughts I guessed, I find I know not the old ways;
Dear eyes are
shadowed
that I knew, And lips are silent that confessed With burden of bright words to me Out of their woe, their ecstasy;
Or speaking, they are quick and gay, With kindly will to warn or bless.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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LXXIX
By cunning master, diligent and wise,
With much and subtle toil, the fount was made:
In open gallery or pavilion's guise;
Which from eight separate fronts,
projects
a shade.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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_
In valleys of springs of rivers,
By Ony and Teme and Clun,
The country for easy livers,
The
quietest
under the sun,
We still had sorrows to lighten,
One could not be always glad,
And lads knew trouble at Knighton
When I was a Knighton lad.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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835
Your tears
prevailed
then over my deep regret.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Beneath the moon that shines so bright,
Till she is tired, let Betty Foy
With girt and stirrup fiddle-faddle;
But
wherefore
set upon a saddle
Him whom she loves, her idiot boy?
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Here, too, the men that mend our village ways,
Vexing Macadam's ghost with pounded slate,
Their nooning take; much noisy talk they spend
On horses and their ills; and, as John Bull
Tells of Lord This or That, who was his friend,
So these make boast of intimacies long 270
With famous teams, and add large estimates,
By
competition
swelled from mouth to mouth.
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James Russell Lowell |
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only vows,
Happiness, and all our care,
And the flower that sweetly shows
Nestling
lightly in your hair.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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thy
plaintive
anthem fades
Past the near meadows, over the still stream,
Up the hill-side; and now 'tis buried deep
In the next valley-glades:
Was it a vision, or a waking dream?
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Golden Treasury |
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I loved you first: but
afterwards
your love
Outsoaring mine, sang such a loftier song
As drowned the friendly cooings of my dove.
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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The invalidity or
unenforceability
of any
provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions.
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Golden Treasury |
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Some
entrench
the gates, or bring up supply of
stones and poles.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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She is the Joy of Courage vanquishing
The unstilled tremors of the fearful heart;
And it is she that bids the poet sing,
And gives to each the
strength
to bear his part.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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But here's a villain that would face me down
He met me on the mart, and that I beat him,
And charg'd him with a
thousand
marks in gold,
And that I did deny my wife and house.
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Shakespeare |
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Enter a Sewer, and diuers
Seruants
with Dishes
and
Seruice ouer the Stage.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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'And if men wolde ther-geyn appose 6555
The naked text, and lete the glose,
It mighte sone
assoiled
be;
For men may wel the sothe see,
That, parde, they mighte axe a thing
Pleynly forth, without begging.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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But whoso will not bear my guiding hand,
Him for his corn-fed mettle I will drive
Not as a trace-horse, light-caparisoned,
But to the shafts with
heaviest
harness bound.
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Aeschylus |
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In 1831
he married a beautiful lady of the
Gontchareff
family and settled
in the neighbourhood of St.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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is the same, the same,
Perplexed and ruffled by life's
strategy?
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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(The lengthened shadow of a man
Is history, said Emerson
Who had not seen the silhouette
Of Sweeney
straddled
in the sun).
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T.S. Eliot |
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"_
[Our lyrical legends assign the
inspiration
of this strain to the
accomplished Clarinda.
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Robert Forst |
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And I rest so composedly,
Now, in my bed,
That any beholder
Might fancy me dead--
Might start at beholding me,
Thinking
me dead.
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Poe - 5 |
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If spicy-fringed pinks that blush and pale
With passions of perfume, -- if violets blue
That hint of heaven with odor more than hue, --
If perfect roses, each a holy Grail
Wherefrom the blood of beauty doth exhale
Grave raptures round, -- if leaves of green as new
As those fresh
chaplets
wove in dawn and dew
By Emily when down the Athenian vale
She paced, to do observance to the May,
Nor dreamed of Arcite nor of Palamon, --
If fruits that riped in some more riotous play
Of wind and beam that stirs our temperate sun, --
If these the products be of love and pain,
Oft may I suffer, and you love, again.
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Sidney Lanier |
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{117a} Ocean
trembles
as if indignant that you quit the land.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Think we all these are for
himself?
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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A
horrible
life and a horrible city!
| Guess: |
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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To
regulate
at the proper time; to bring timely aid to.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do
practically
ANYTHING
with public domain eBooks.
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Stephen Crane |
|
If any disclaimer or
limitation
set forth in this agreement violates the
law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be
interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by
the applicable state law.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Wi'
lightsome
heart I pu'd a rose,
Upon its thorny tree;
But my fause Luver staw my rose,
And left the thorn wi' me.
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
Dolmetsch
put us back to our first thought.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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Pugatchef went to inspect the fort; Chvabrine
followed
him, and I stayed
behind under the pretext of packing up.
| Guess: |
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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This beating heart, enriched with the hands' blood,
Stands in the midst and feels the warm joy burn
In solitude and silence, while all about
The gusts clamour like living, angry birds,
And the gorse seems hardly
tethered
to the ground.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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XI
Since Eugene in that solitude
Gifts such as these alone could prize,
A scant
attendance
Lenski showed
At neighbouring hospitalities.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Surely the
gestures
of murmuring priests must contain some deep meaning--
Impatient acolytes wait, anxiously hoping for light.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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at I la3t haue,
2508 [B] Of
couardise
& couetyse, ?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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In golden dreams the sage duennas slept;
A female
sentinel
to watch was kept.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
|
In 2001, the Project
Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation was created to provide a secure
and
permanent
future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Tree, victory's bright guerdon, wont to crown
Heroes and bards with thy
triumphal
leaf,
How many days of mingled joy and grief
Have I from thee through life's short passage known.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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How pomp
surpassing
ermine,
When simple you and I
Present our meek escutcheon,
And claim the rank to die!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
|
The impact of a million dollars
Is a crash of flunkys,
And yawning emblems of Persia
Cheeked against oak, France and a sabre,
The outcry of old beauty
Whored by pimping merchants
To
submission
before wine and chatter.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
|
)
Proceed the
torments
of my suff'ring heart.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
|
20
And you
feathered
flute-players,
Who instructed you to fill
All the blossomy orchards now
With melodious desire?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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And since of the crimes of the cruel I tell, let my singing record
The bitter wedlock and loveless, the curse on these halls outpoured,
The crafty device of a woman, whereby did a chieftain fall,
A warrior stern in his wrath; the fear of his enemies all,--
A song of dishonour,
untimely!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
|
The only spoils which
Papirius
Cursor and Fabius
Maximus could exhibit were flocks and herds, wagons of rude
structure, and heaps of spears and helmets.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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_mainly,
and note all but very trifling
variations
from it_.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
|
The poems of The Ruins of Rome belong to the
beginning
of his four and a half year residence in Italy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
|
I must wait
until the man is
properly
dressed, at least.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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But when the order came Po was already dead, having reached
the age of
somewhat
over sixty.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
|
O the dismal care
That shakes the
blossoms
of my hoary hair!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
|
'You Rise the Water Unfolds'
You rise the water unfolds
You sleep the water flowers
You are water ploughed from its depths
You are earth that takes root
And in which all is grounded
You make bubbles of silence in the desert of sound
You sing nocturnal hymns on the arcs of the rainbow
You are everywhere you abolish the roads
You sacrifice time
To the eternal youth of an exact flame
That veils Nature to
reproduce
her
Woman you show the world a body forever the same
Yours
You are its likeness.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Clouds of dust,
Crash of
collapsing
cubes.
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Imagists |
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the text of 1849-50,
reproduced
in the posthumous
edition of 1857; [9] and since opinion will doubtless differ as to the
wisdom of this selection, it may be desirable to state at some length
the reasons which have led me to adopt it.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Sweet moans, sweeter smiles,
All the
dovelike
moans beguiles.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Clouds of dust,
Crash of
collapsing
cubes.
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Imagists |
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LI
Is the day long,
O Lesbian maiden,
And the night endless
In thy lone chamber
In
Mitylene?
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Sappho |
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In 2001, the Project
Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation was created to provide a secure
and
permanent
future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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How wilt thou now endure, or how
Not now be
strangely
hurt?
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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MARMADUKE Now, whither are you
wandering?
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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No marble bust, philosopher, nor stone,
But similar
sensation
would have shown.
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La Fontaine |
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Life, that dares send
A
challenge
to his end,
And when it comes, say, "Welcome friend.
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Golden Treasury |
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No matter--wrong was right and right was wrong,
And freedom's bawl was
sanction
to the song.
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John Clare |
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Mynte se mǣra, þǣr hē meahte swā,
wīdre
gewindan
and on weg þanon
765 flēon on fen-hopu; wiste his fingra geweald
on grames grāpum.
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Beowulf |
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Most
unhappily
for me, that merit they no longer
possess; and I hope that Mrs.
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Robert Forst |
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