They would naturally attribute the project of Romulus
to some divine intimation of the power and
prosperity
which it
was decreed that his city should attain.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Earth's
mightiest
deigned to wear it,--why not he?
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Even as pilgrims, who journey afar from their homes and their country,
Sing as they go, and in singing forget they are weary and wayworn,
So with songs on their lips the Acadian
peasants
descended
Down from the church to the shore, amid their wives and their daughters.
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Longfellow |
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Impatient
Issachar
kicks at the load!
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Hugo - Poems |
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with patience bear,
While life shall warm this clay;
And soothing sounds to Laura's ear
My numbers shall convey;
Numbers with
forceful
magic charm
All nature o'er the frost-bound earth,
Wake summer's fragrant buds to birth,
And the fierce serpent of its rage disarm.
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Petrarch |
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30
Enter, my
precious
son; that I may sooth
My soul with sight of thee from far arrived,
For seldom thou thy feeders and thy farm
Visitest, in the city custom'd much
To make abode, that thou may'st witness there
The manners of those hungry suitors proud.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Its broad brow was horned, armed with menace,
Its whole body scaly, yellow as jaundice,
Untameable bull, or impetuous dragon,
Hindquarters coiling like a
tortuous
serpent.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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er man; mychel
enpaired
I-wis.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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_
_Now from the Moorish town the sheets of fire,
Wide blaze
succeeding
blaze, to heaven aspire.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Half a foot long, as reward, your
glorious
rod (dear poet)
Proudly shall strut from your loins, when but your dearest commands,
Nor shall your member grow weary until you've enjoyed the full dozen
Artful positions the great poet Philainis describes.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Nor did I doubt the
entire truth of what she said to me, for my head was full of fables
that I had no longer the
knowledge
and emotion to write.
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Yeats |
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[Picture:
Unerringly
she pinned it down]
"To dine!
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Lewis Carroll |
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By what mean hast thou render'd thee so drunken,
To the clay that thou bowest down thy figure,
And the grass and the windel-straws art
grasping?
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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She that has dealt with such a pride of spirit
In all her ways of life, so that she seemed
To feel like shadow, falling on the light
Her own mind made, the common
thoughts
of men;
Ay, she that to-day came down into our woe
And stood among the griefs that buzz upon us,
Like one who is forced aside from a bright journey
To stoop in a small-room'd cottage, where loud flies
Pester the inmates and the windows darken;
This she, this Judith, out of her quiet pride,
And out of her guarded purity, to walk
Where God himself from violent whoredom could
Scarcely preserve her shuddering flesh!
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Who in this
universe?
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Keats |
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This way a goat leaps with wild blank of beard;
And here,
fantastic
fishes duskly float,
Using the calm for waters, while their fins
Throb out quick rhythms along the shallow air.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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_"
["I am at this moment," says Burns to Thomson, when he sent him this
song, "holding high
converse
with the Muses, and have not a word to
throw away on a prosaic dog, such as you are.
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Robert Forst |
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Others aspire to truth so much as they are rather
lovers of
likeness
than beauty.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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No longer the flowers are gay,
The
springtime
hath lost its caress,
Alone I will dream to-day,
Weep in the silent recess.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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The Project
Gutenberg
EBook of The Golden Threshold, by Sarojini Naidu
This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
almost no restrictions whatsoever.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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120
"Do
"You know
nothing?
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Day the stately,
Sunken lately
Into the violet sea,
Backward
hovers
Over lovers,
Over thee, Marie, and me,
Over me and thee.
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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I pray thee, take
And keep yon woman for me till I make
My
homeward
way from Thrace, when I have ta'en
Those four steeds and their bloody master slain.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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PALAEMON
Say on then, since on the greensward we sit,
And now is
burgeoning
both field and tree;
Now is the forest green, and now the year
At fairest.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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the nymph in sorrow's pomp appears,
Her eyes half-languishing, half drowned in tears; 60
Now livid pale her cheeks, now glowing red
On her heaved bosom hung her
drooping
head,
Which with a sigh she raised, and thus she said:
"For ever cursed be this detested day,
Which snatched my best, my fav'rite curl away; 65
Happy!
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Alexander Pope |
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In fact, they are so busy about it, in the
midst of the
chestnut
season, that you cannot stand long in the woods
without hearing one fall.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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omnia plena iocis, securo plena cachinno,
plena mero, laetisque uirent
conuiuia
pratis.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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[] [] The Pear tree mild, the frowning Walnut, the sharp Crab, & Apple sweet,
The rough bark opens; twittering peep forth little beaks & wings
The Nightingale, the Goldfinch, Robin, Lark, Linnet & Thrush
The Goat leap'd from the craggy Rock cliff, the Sheep awoke from the mould
Upon its green stalk the Corn, waving innumerable
Infolding the bright Infants from the desolating winds
They sulk upon her breast her hair became like snow on mountains
Weaker & weaker, weeping woful, wearier and wearier
Faded & her bright Eyes decayd melted with pity & love
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[And then they wanderd far away she sought for them in vain *
In weeping blindness stumbling she followd them oer rocks & mountains]
{These lines in the top margin were erased and
replaced
with an image of Christ in an orb.
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Blake - Zoas |
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We've no
business
down there at all.
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Villon |
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Ten
thousand
pounds of copper to the man who brings his head.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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You stars and suns, Canopus, Deneb, Rigel,
Let me, as I lie down, here in this dust,
Hear, far off, your
whispered
salutation!
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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As fades the iris after rain
In April's tearful weather,
The vision vanished as the strain
And
daylight
died together.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Thus, my dear muses, again you've beguiled the
monotony
for me.
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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For Lusian hands here blooms the
fragrant
clove,
But Lusian blood shall sprinkle ev'ry grove.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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And said: until thy latest minute
Preserve,
preserve
my Talisman;
A secret power it holds within it--
'Twas love, true love the gift did plan.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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but with honest zeal,
To rouse the watchmen of the public weal;
To virtue's work provoke the tardy hall,
And goad the prelate
slumbering
in his stall.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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I have tried to obviate a difficulty, without officiously
exercising the ungrateful prerogatives of a literary executor, by falling
back on a text which
represents
the author's first scheme for a
poem--never intended of course for recitation.
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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5 From the Capital
Secretly
Making My Way to Fengxiang and Delighting to Reach the Temporary Palace I I think back on the news from Qiyang to the west, that no one successfully got back.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Ma perche 'l tempo fugge che t'assonna,
qui farem punto, come buon sartore
che com' elli ha del panno fa la gonna;
e drizzeremo li occhi al primo amore,
si che,
guardando
verso lui, penetri
quant' e possibil per lo suo fulgore.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Can innocents the rage of parties know,
And they who ne'er
offended
find a foe?
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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And death
pursuing!
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| Question: |
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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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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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Stephen Crane |
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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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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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But what is gained, if you a whole
present?
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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THE lady was the first who thither came;
To get a nosegay was, she said, her aim;
And Nicaise
presently
her steps pursued,
Who, when the turf within the bow'r he viewed,
Exclaimed, oh la!
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La Fontaine |
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"
This just rebuke
inflamed
the Lycian crew;
They join, they thicken, and the assault renew:
Unmoved the embodied Greeks their fury dare,
And fix'd support the weight of all the war;
Nor could the Greeks repel the Lycian powers,
Nor the bold Lycians force the Grecian towers.
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Iliad - Pope |
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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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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Therein I hear the Parcae reel
The threads of man at their humming wheel,
The threads of life and power and pain,
So sweet and
mournful
falls the strain.
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Emerson - Poems |
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IF I COULD TAKE THIS LOVE FROM OUT MY HEART
By Blanche
Shoemaker
Wagstaff
If I could take this love from out my heart And go my way in silence and alone, Unweeping, and to fear and joy unknown
Forgetful of the world's bright-colored mart — Passing amidst the human throng apart
Like one who walks with beauty in the night
Remembering all the tears and vain delight,— The rapture and the pain that were my part— Then I could watch again the swallows dart
Into the sky's blue dome unenvyingly,
Knowing I am at last as they are, free.
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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The
terrible
peasant called me gently, saying to me--
"Fear nothing, come near; come and let me bless you.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Like to a moving vintage down they came,
Crown'd with green leaves, and faces all on flame;
All madly dancing through the pleasant valley,
To scare thee,
Melancholy!
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| Source: |
Keats |
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30
So he set himself by the young man's side,
And the state of his soul with questions tried;
But the heart of the stranger was hardened indeed,
Nor received the stamp of the one true creed;
And the spirit of Ambrose waxed sore to find
Such
features
the porch of so narrow a mind.
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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By
communion
of the banner,--
Crimson, white, and starry banner,--
By the baptism of the banner,
Children of one Church are we.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Thir breeks o' mine, my only pair,
That ance were plush, o' gude blue hair,
I wad hae gien them off my hurdies,
For ae blink o' the bonnie
burdies!
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Robert Forst |
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let my looks be then the eloquence
And dumb presagers of my
speaking
breast,
Who plead for love, and look for recompense,
More than that tongue that more hath more express'd.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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The
Regiment
had paid Rs.
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Kipling - Poems |
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XXXII
Home to his breast the count pulls either oar,
With the island at his back, to which he wends,
In guise that,
crawling
up the sandy shore,
The crooked crab from sea or marsh ascends.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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"Phur," spoke the Cup, "O king, dwelt as Day's god,
Ruled
Alexandria
with sword and rod.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Breathes not a zephyr but it
whispers
joy;
For him the loneliest flowers their sweets exhale;
He marks "the meanest note that swells the [ii] gale;" 1820.
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
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At eight months he peremptorily refused to put his
signature
to the
Temperance pledge.
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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And
he showed me above the altar an inscription graven, and I read:
"If thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out and cast it from thee;
for it is
profitable
for thee that one of thy members should perish,
and not that the whole body should be cast into hell.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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30
Nevermore answer thy glowing
Youth with their ardour, nor cherish
With lovely longing thy spirit,
Nor with soft laughter beguile thee,
O
Lityerses?
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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Half-past one,
The street lamp sputtered,
The street lamp muttered,
The street lamp said,
"Regard that woman
Who
hesitates
toward you in the light of the door
Which opens on her like a grin.
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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| is no hope" amended to "They say there is no hope").
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the
Project Gutenberg-tm
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as set forth in paragraphs 1.
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Sara Teasdale |
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his
radiance
is here!
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| Source: |
Keats |
|
Note: Ronsard's later
tributes
to 'Marie' were written for the Duke of Anjou (the future Henri III) whose mistress Marie de Cleves died in 1574.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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By
Richmond
I raised my knees
Supine on the floor of a narrow canoe.
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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She listened with a flitting blush,
With
downcast
eyes, and modest grace;
And she forgave me, that I gazed
Too fondly on her face!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
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Girls, lovers, youngsters, fresh to hand,
Dancers,
tumblers
that leap like lambs,
Agile as arrows, like shots from a cannon,
Throats tinkling, clear as bells on rams,
Will you leave him here, your poor old Villon?
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
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OF GRACE
(BALLATA,
FRAGMENT)
ii
FPULL well thou knowest, song, what grace I mean,
E'en as thou know'st the sunlight I have lost.
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
Son teint est pale et chaud; la brune enchanteresse
A dans le col des airs noblement manieres;
Grande et svelte en marchant comme une chasseresse,
Son sourire est
tranquille
et ses yeux assures.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
|
To him that dares 780
Arm his profane tongue with contemptuous words
Against the Sun-clad power of Chastity,
Fain would I
somthing
say, yet to what end?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
|
XXIX
Whom thus recover'd by wise Patience
And trew
Repentaunce
they to Una brought:
Who joyous of his cured conscience, 255
Him dearely kist, and fairely eke besought
Himselfe to chearish, and consuming thought
To put away out of his carefull brest.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
|
The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating
charities and charitable
donations
in all 50 states of the United
States.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
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Ein Titel muss sie erst vertraulich machen,
Dass Eure Kunst viel Kunste ubersteigt;
Zum Willkomm tappt Ihr dann nach allen Siebensachen,
Um die ein andrer viele Jahre streicht,
Versteht das
Pulslein
wohl zu drucken,
Und fasset sie, mit feurig schlauen Blicken,
Wohl um die schlanke Hufte frei,
Zu sehn, wie fest geschnurt sie sei.
| Guess: |
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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O for all that, I am yet of you unseen this hour with
irrepressible love,
Walking New England, a friend, a traveler,
Splashing my bare feet in the edge of the summer ripples on
Paumanok's sands,
Crossing the prairies, dwelling again in Chicago, dwelling in every town,
Observing shows, births, improvements, structures, arts,
Listening to orators and oratresses in public halls,
Of and through the States as during life, each man and woman my neighbor,
The Louisianian, the Georgian, as near to me, and I as near to him and her,
The Mississippian and Arkansian yet with me, and I yet with any of them,
Yet upon the plains west of the spinal river, yet in my house of adobie,
Yet returning eastward, yet in the Seaside State or in Maryland,
Yet Kanadian cheerily braving the winter, the snow and ice welcome to me,
Yet a true son either of Maine or of the Granite State, or the
Narragansett Bay State, or the Empire State,
Yet sailing to other shores to annex the same, yet
welcoming
every
new brother,
Hereby applying these leaves to the new ones from the hour they
unite with the old ones,
Coming among the new ones myself to be their companion and equal,
coming personally to you now,
Enjoining you to acts, characters, spectacles, with me.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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LVI
Him in the figure of
Atlantes
sage
She fronts, who bore the enchanter's borrowed cheer;
With that grave face, and reverend with age,
Which he was always wonted to revere;
And with that eye, which in his pupillage,
Beaming with wrath, he whilom so did fear.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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'123'
What is the
difference
between "cavil" and "criticise"?
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Alexander Pope |
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My lips were wet, my throat was cold,
My
garments
all were dank;
Sure I had drunken in my dreams
And still my body drank.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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The
governor
receives them with the
utmost indignation, assails them with a shower of vituperation.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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To
comprehend
a nectar
Requires sorest need.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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And none more
boastingly
weep his ruin than
they that procured and practised it.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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His
directions
settled all the land.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Trippers and askers surround me,
People I meet, the effect upon me of my early life or the ward and
city I live in, or the nation,
The latest dates, discoveries, inventions, societies, authors old and new,
My dinner, dress, associates, looks, compliments, dues,
The real or fancied indifference of some man or woman I love,
The
sickness
of one of my folks or of myself, or ill-doing or loss
or lack of money, or depressions or exaltations,
Battles, the horrors of fratricidal war, the fever of doubtful news,
the fitful events;
These come to me days and nights and go from me again,
But they are not the Me myself.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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quis huic deo
compararier
ausit?
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Latin - Catullus |
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Sonnets Pour Helene Book I: L
Though the human spirit gives itself noble airs
In Plato's doctrine, who calls it divine influx,
Without the body it would do nothing much,
While vainly
praising
its origin up there.
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Ronsard |
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Even the sight of a fine
flower, or the company of a fine woman (by far the finest part of God's
works below), have
sensations
for the poetic heart that the HERD of man
are strangers to.
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Robert Burns |
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Let not the lust and ravin of the sword
Bear thee adown the tide accursed,
abhorred!
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Aeschylus |
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It was included among the "Poems
referring
to the Period of Old
Age.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Such is the guilt
condemns
him to this pain.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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When
those disabilities were removed, she rapidly became more than a
match for
Carthage
and Macedon.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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e (fourth), 99-100; mesure, here, 89-90;
consaile
(obl.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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The last
documentary
mention of him is in 1269, and he is supposed to have died in Provence.
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Troubador Verse |
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We fight for it as for
a
principle
of liberty.
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Imagists |
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My heart erst alway sweet is bitter grown; As crimson ruleth in the good green's stead, So grief hath taken all mine old joy's share And driven forth my solace and all ease Where
pleasure
bows to all-usurping pain.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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The broken
fingernails
of dirty hands.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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But even in the middle of his song
He faltered, and his hand fell from the harp,
And pale he turned, and reeled, and would have fallen,
But that they stayed him up; nor would he tell
His vision; but what doubt that he foresaw
This evil work of
Lancelot
and the Queen?
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Tennyson |
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