Though they sleep or wake to torment
and wish to
displace
our old cells--
thin rare gold--
that their larve grow fat--
is our task the less sweet?
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There are many chimaeras that exist today, and before combating one of them, the greatest enemies of poetry, it is
necessary
to bridle Pegasus and even yoke him.
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Appoloinaire |
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And must none close my dying feet,
And must none close my hands,
And will none do the last kind deeds
That death for all
demands?
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HODGSON
YE
MARINERS
WHO SPREAD YOUR SAILS.
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There is a young man sitting
On the right side, clothed in a long white
garment!
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Longfellow |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Passions cry round me with the yelling cry
Of dogs chained and
starving
and smelling blood.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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1922
JOHN GOULD FLETCHER
Fire and Wine Grant Richards (London) 1913
The Dominant City Max Goschen (London) 1913
Fool's Gold Max Goschen (London) 1913
The Book of Nature
Constable
& Co.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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uincire corona;
insere te nostris
contempto
iure choreis.
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"--"If I should stay,"
Said Lamia, "here, upon this floor of clay,
And pain my steps upon these flowers too rough,
What canst thou say or do of charm enough
To dull the nice
remembrance
of my home?
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Keats - Lamia |
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As by the kindling of the self-same fire
Harder this clay, this wax the softer grows,
So by my love may Daphnis;
sprinkle
meal,
And with bitumen burn the brittle bays.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Copyright laws in most
countries
are in
a constant state of change.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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"Well,
Sourine?
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Stood Venus smiling, and her boy
With
unstrung
bow.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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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.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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mankind are unco weak,
An' little to be trusted;
If self the wavering balance shake,
It's rarely right
adjusted!
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Robert Burns |
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_--Under this interpretation the
Redcross Knight is a
personification
of Protestant England, or the church
militant, while Una represents the true religion of the Reformed Church.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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5 Reed pipes were
associated
with the music of non-Han peoples.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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nec seruat natura uices: hic Sirius alget,
bruma tepet, uersumque domus sibi
temperat
annum.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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these, and more, are
flashing
to us from the procession;
As it moves changing, a kaleidoscope divine it moves changing before us.
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Whitman |
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Virtue is
generally
merely a form of deficiency, just as vice is an
assertion of intellect.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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For out of Shushan to the ends of the earth
Great news runs, with a hidden soundless speed
Through secret
channels
in the folks' dim mind,
As water races through smooth sloping gutters.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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The former suggests that the next two lines are an expansion
or
explanation
of this statement.
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John Donne |
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What is't but ill-placed
munificence?
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Catullus - Carmina |
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"
retorted
the lady, flushing up to her eyes.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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For fair Enipeus, as from
fruitful
urns
He pours his watery store, the virgin burns;
Smooth flows the gentle stream with wanton pride,
And in soft mazes rolls a silver tide.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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"`And even while you're thus harassed,
I do believe, if out you went,
You'd go, in spite of all that's passed,
To the
children
of that President!
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Sidney Lanier |
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Nun komm herab,
kristallne
reine Schale!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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In 1820 he was transferred to the bureau of Lieutenant-General
Inzoff, at
Kishineff
in Bessarabia.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Pour l'enfance d'Helene
frissonnerent
les fourres et les ombres, et le
sein des pauvres, et les legendes du ciel.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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him beo, 465
he fel in
swounyng
on ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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" The other
withheld
his weapon, and then reproved the prince with
many proud words.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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The poet here follows a belief as old as Pliny
that the young of
serpents
fed on their mother's blood.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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She was the
mother of Charles Baudelaire, and
inquired
rather anxiously of Du Camp:
"My son has talent, has he not?
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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One may notice in passing that
when Chatterton, more than a year later, committed suicide there were
not wanting a great many persons absurd enough to accuse Walpole of
having driven him to his death--a
contemptible
suggestion.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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I
have here the
hostages
of Acharnae;[198] I shall disembowel them.
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Aristophanes |
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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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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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When the storm-cloud that lowers o'er the day-beam is gone, _5
Unchanged,
unextinguished
its life-spring will shine;
When Erin has ceased with their memory to groan,
She will smile through the tears of revival on thine.
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Shelley |
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Was't not enough that thou didst dart thy fires 35
Into our blouds,
inflaming
our desires,
And made'st us sigh and glow, and pant, and burn,
And then thy self into our flame did'st turn?
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John Donne |
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The little Pony glad may be,
But he is milder far than she, 395
You hardly can
perceive
his joy.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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in soft
Delight they die & they revive in spring with music & songs
Enion said
Farewell
I die I hide.
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Blake - Zoas |
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The old Chief, feeling now
wellnigh
his end,
Called his two eldest children to his side,
And gave them, in few words, his parting charge!
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James Russell Lowell |
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But, if at the Church they would give us some ale,
And a pleasant fire our souls to regale,
We'd sing and we'd pray all the
livelong
day,
Nor ever once wish from the Church to stray.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Lovely And Lifelike
A face at the end of the day
A cradle in day's dead leaves
A bouquet of naked rain
Every ray of sun hidden
Every fount of founts in the depths of the water
Every mirror of mirrors broken
A face in the scales of silence
A pebble among other pebbles
For the leaves last glimmers of day
A face like all the
forgotten
faces.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Look on yonder earth:
The golden harvests spring; the
unfailing
sun
Sheds light and life; the fruits, the flowers, the trees,
Arise in due succession; all things speak _195
Peace, harmony, and love.
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Shelley |
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Long as the wild boar
Shall love the mountain-heights, and fish the streams,
While bees on thyme and
crickets
feed on dew,
Thy name, thy praise, thine honour, shall endure.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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No man doth bear his sin,
But many sins
Are
gathered
as a cloud about man's way.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Since I have touched my lips to your brimming cup,
Since I have bowed my pale brow in your hands,
Since I have sometime breathed the sweet breath
Of your soul, a perfume buried in shadow lands;
Since it was granted to me to hear you utter
Words in which the
mysterious
heart sighs,
Since I have seen smiles, since I have seen tears
Your mouth on my mouth, your eyes on my eyes;
Since I have seen over my enraptured head
A light from your star shine, ah, ever veiled!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Public domain books are our gateways to the past, representing a wealth of history, culture and
knowledge
that's often difficult to discover.
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Meredith - Poems |
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And heard this voice of sorrow
breathed
from the hollow pit.
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blake-poems |
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Worthy Macduffe, and wee
Shall take vpon's what else
remaines
to do,
According to our order
Sey.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Meredith - Poems |
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Moved with marvel at the
confused
throng: 'Say, O
maiden,' cries Aeneas, 'what means this flocking to the river?
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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From
trellised
balconies, languid and luminous
Faces gleam, veiled in a splendour voluminous.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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" The ancient tower
Sends out, above the houses and the trees,
And the wide fields below the ancient walls,
A
measured
phrase of bells.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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He a
bewildered
answer gave,
Drowned in the sullen moaning wave,
Lost in the echoes of the cave.
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Lewis Carroll |
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Aricia,
princess
of the royal blood of Athens.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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" It was no palace-hall
Lofty and
luminous
wherein we stood,
But natural dungeon where ill footing was
And scant supply of light.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Wert thou made to set alight
Such
splendour
of desire in man, and yet,
For a grave's sake, keep all thy beauty null,
And nothing be of good nor help to thy kind?
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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We're going along the
quietest
road we can find.
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Kipling - Poems |
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To them that have it shall be given; For him that hath
not—all
is well.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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For the first time now
with his leader-lord the
liegeman
young
was bidden to share the shock of battle.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Somehow my soul seems suddenly free
From the weighing of fate and the sad
discussion
of sin,
By the length and the breadth and the sweep of the marshes of Glynn.
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Sidney Lanier |
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I am
inclined
to keep to
the reading of the MS.
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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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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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Or in one word,
whatever
you'd like best.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Poetry in
Translation
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From Dawn to Dawn
Troubadour Poetry
(A selection of sixty
Provencal
poems, translated from the Occitan)
'Per solatz revelhar,
Que s'es trop enformitz,
E per pretz, qu'es faiditz
Acolhir e tornar,
Me cudei trebalhar'
'To wake delight once more,
That's been too long asleep,
And worth that's exiled deep
To gather and restore:
These thoughts I've laboured for'
Guiraut de Bornelh
Home Download
Translated by A.
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Troubador Verse |
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_Siebel_ [_while Mephistopheles
approaches
his seat_].
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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[6]
XXIII
"By Derwent's side my father dwelt--a man
Of virtuous life, by pious parents bred; [7] 200
And I believe that, soon as I began
To lisp, he made me kneel beside my bed,
And in his hearing there my prayers I said:
And afterwards, by my good father taught,
I read, and loved the books in which I read; 205
For books in every neighbouring house I sought,
And nothing to my mind a sweeter
pleasure
brought.
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William Wordsworth |
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_("Il
semblait
grelotter.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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enterd his world of love]
Not long in harmony they dwell, their life is drawn away
And wintry woes succeed;
successive
driven into the Void
Where Enion craves: successive drawn into the golden feast
[In beauty love & scorn ?
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Blake - Zoas |
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but by causes couenable {and}
necessarie
?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Public domain books are our gateways to the past, representing a wealth of history, culture and knowledge that's often
difficult
to discover.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
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Singers, singing in lawless freedom,
Jokers,
pleasant
in word and deed,
Run free of false gold, alloy, come,
Men of wit - somewhat deaf indeed -
Hurry, be quick now, he's dying poor man.
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| Source: |
Villon |
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6
The female of the Halcyon,
Love, the
seductive
Sirens,
All know the fatal songs
Dangerous and inhuman.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
|
(_To
himself_)
I suppose not.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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While now I sojourn with sorrow, 5
Having remorse for my comrade,
What town is blessed with thy beauty,
Gladdened
and prospered?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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let me hear
The name I used to run at, when a child,
From
innocent
play, and leave the cowslips plied,
To glance up in some face that proved me dear
With the look of its eyes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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When he had done, some followers of mine own
At lower end of the hall hurl'd up their caps,
And some ten voices cried 'God save King
Richard!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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--Mais comme il est change, le logis d'autrefois:
Un grand feu petillait, clair, dans la cheminee,
Toute la vieille chambre etait illuminee;
Et les reflets vermeils, sortis du grand foyer,
Sur les meubles vernis
aimaient
a tournoyer.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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The new tablet, which belongs to the same
period, also differs radically from the diction of the Ninevite text
in the few lines where they
duplicate
each other.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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A Farm Picture
Through the ample open door of the
peaceful
country barn,
A sunlit pasture field with cattle and horses feeding,
And haze and vista, and the far horizon fading away.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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XV
Accuse me not, beseech thee, that I wear
Too calm and sad a face in front of thine;
For we two look two ways, and cannot shine
With the same
sunlight
on our brow and hair.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Sweet is the shade of the
cocoanut
glade, and
the scent of the mango grove,
And sweet are the sands at the full o' the
moon with the sound of the voices we love.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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" When I would
recreate
myself, I seek the
darkest wood, the thickest and most interminable and, to the citizen,
most dismal, swamp.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Is it real,
Or is this the thrice damned memory of a
better
happiness?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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Elizabeth Browning |
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SECOND, In the case of each Poem, any Note written by Wordsworth
himself, as
explanatory
of it, comes first, and has the initials W.
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"Project Gutenberg" is a
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trademark.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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By James and Frederick his realms are held;
Neither the better
heritage
obtains.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Tacitus thought less of their capacity, upon the
whole, than it is usual to think now: "The Chatti," he says, "for
Germans, have much intelligence;" "Leur
intelligence
et leur finesse
étonnent, dans des Germains.
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Tacitus |
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And sometimes a
dreadful
voice issuing from the
adyta has destroyed them*.
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Tacitus |
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luit ipse incendia mundus,
et noua uicinis flagrarunt sidera flammis
nunc quoque praeteriti faciem
referentia
casus.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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theye were allwaye blythe and hende,
In hope that god shollde hem sende
[folio 145b] Some maydyn chyllde, or some man,
That theyre
herytages
myght hane;
So long theye prayed with good entent, 33
that a man chyllde god hem sent;
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whan they wyst ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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The
Cathedral
is a torch, and the houses next to it begin to scorch.
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Imagists |
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The celebrated Quintus Fabius Maximus, who died
about twenty years before the First Punic War, and more than
forty years before Ennius was born, is said to have been interred
with
extraordinary
pomp.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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' However, Blake seems to indicate a re-sequencing of the material to the order shown here, indicating the insertion of these 3 lines with a letter X at their head and a corresponding X at the end of the
preceding
section [ending '.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Fabius
says that, in his time, his
countrymen
were still in the habit of
singing ballads about the Twins.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Unless you have removed all
references
to Project Gutenberg:
1.
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James Russell Lowell |
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