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Poor Avarice one torment more would find;
Nor could
Profusion
squander all in kind.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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This is a digital copy of a book that was
preserved
for generations on library shelves before it was carefully scanned by Google as part of a project to make the world's books discoverable online.
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Meredith - Poems |
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ROME
THE VATICAN--SALA DELLE MUSE
(1887)
I SAT in the Muses' Hall at the mid of the day,
And it seemed to grow still, and the people to pass away,
And the
chiselled
shapes to combine in a haze of sun,
Till beside a Carrara column there gleamed forth One.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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, _king in battle, king
directing
a battle_: nom.
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Beowulf |
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I yearn deeply for that moment of joyous reunion 32 and fear becoming a poor and
solitary
old man.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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:
_flexanimum
mentis
p.
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Latin - Catullus |
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Fits not to be overzealous;
Steads not to work on the clean jump,
Nor wine nor brains
perpetual
pump.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Or even upon the
measured
pulpitings
Of the familiar false and true?
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Stephen Crane |
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"
It would be difficult
Application for entry at Second Clan matter at the Post Office i
By JOHN HALL WHEELOCK
Love and
Liberation
$1.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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--
Regardent le
boulanger
faire
Le lourd pain blond.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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At six months' end, she parted hence,
With safety of her innocence;
Whose soul heaven's queen, whose name she bears,
In comfort of her mother's tears,
Hath placed amongst her virgin-train;
Where, while that severed doth remain,
This grave
partakes
the fleshly birth;
Which cover lightly, gentle earth!
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Caves I long for and cold rocks,
Minnow-peopled country brooks,
Blundering gales of Equinox,
Sunless valley-nooks,
Daily so I might restore
Calcined heart and
shrivelled
skin,
A morning phoenix with proud roar
Kindled new within.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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I have tiding,
Glad tiding, behold how in duty
From far
Lehistan
the wind, gliding.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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A reflecting glass or
combination
of glasses
producing some kind of optical delusion when viewed in one way, but
presenting objects in their true forms when viewed in another;
used _fig.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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It shows but little love or
judgment
in him.
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Shakespeare |
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12
Democracy!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Not mine such themes, Agrippa; no, nor mine
To chant the wrath that fill'd Pelides' breast,
Nor dark Ulysses'
wanderings
o'er the brine,
Nor Pelops' house unblest.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Assent, and you are sane;
Demur, -- you're
straightway
dangerous,
And handled with a chain.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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And I would turn and answer
Among the
springing
thyme,
"Oh, peal upon our wedding,
And we will hear the chime,
And come to church in time.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Death -
whispers
low
- I am no one -
do not even know myself
(for the dead do not
know they're
dead - nor that they're
dying
- children
at least
- or
heroes - sudden
deaths
for my beauty's
made otherwise
of last
moments -
lucidity, beauty
face - of
what would be
I, without I
for as soon as
(one is,
I am -
dead) I cease
to be -
made then of
premonitions, of
intuitions, ultimate
frissons - I
am not -
yet in the ideal
state
and for those
others, tears,
mourning, all that -
and it's my
shade, ignorance
of myself, that
dresses in mourning
35.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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'Tis his maine hope:
For where there is aduantage to be giuen,
Both more and lesse haue giuen him the Reuolt,
And none serue with him, but
constrained
things,
Whose hearts are absent too
Macd.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Hence, as
with his morning's breath brushing the still sea Zephyrus makes the sloping
billows uprise, when Aurora mounts 'neath the threshold of the wandering
sun, which waves heave slowly at first with the breeze's gentle motion
(plashing with the sound as of low laughter) but after, as swells the wind,
more and more
frequent
they crowd and gleam in the purple light as they
float away,--so quitting the royal vestibule did the folk hie them away
each to his home with steps wandering hither and thither.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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What is this earth to our
affections?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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The
Foundation
makes no representations concerning
the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United
States.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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that
þūsendo
means a hide of land (see Schmid, _Ges.
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Beowulf |
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4
What do you see Walt
Whitman?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Is your sole virtue
committing
outrage?
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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There
Cerberus
with all his jaws shall gnash,
Megj^ra thee with all her serpents lash ;
Thou, riveted unto Ixion's wheel,
Shalt break and the perpetual vulture feel !
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Marvell - Poems |
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"
Then a silence suffuses the story,
And a softness the teller's eye;
And the
children
no further question,
And only the waves reply.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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In her embrace--it's by no means unusual--I've composed poems
And the hexameter's beat gently tapped out on her back,
Fingertips
counting
in time with the sweet rhythmic breath of her slumber.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Now Phoebe in her
midnight
reign,
Dark-muff'd, view'd the dreary plain;
Still crowding thoughts, a pensive train,
Rose in my soul,
When on my ear this plantive strain,
Slow, solemn, stole:--
"Blow, blow, ye winds, with heavier gust!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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how thy ducal
pageants
shrink
From thee!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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O I could play the woman with mine eyes,
And
Braggart
with my tongue.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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What will you do with such as
disagree?
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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The particulars of such
poetry could be enumerated for pages; and this is the poetry which is
filled, more than any other literature, in the _Iliad_ with the nobility
of men and women, in the
_Odyssey_
with the light of natural magic.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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org/dirs/1/9/3/1934
Updated
editions
will replace the previous one--the old editions
will be renamed.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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e
loueloker
he lappe3 a lyttel in arme3,
[C] He kysses hir comlyly, & kny3tly he mele3;
?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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"Would,"
exclaims
Cicero, "that
we still had the old ballads of which Cato speaks!
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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The vigor of this poem is no less
remarkable
than its pathos.
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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With chariots and with steeds he sent her forth 10
To the
illustrious
city where the prince,
Achilles' offspring, ruled the Myrmidons.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Epitaph On A
Henpecked
Country Squire
As father Adam first was fool'd,
(A case that's still too common,)
Here lies man a woman ruled,
The devil ruled the woman.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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"
So pass the
wondering
words away.
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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Lovingly
Kiss and embrace she returned, knowing and
teaching
me how.
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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We do not require in him mere
elocution, or an
excellent
faculty in verse, but the exact knowledge of
all virtues and their contraries, with ability to render the one loved,
the other hated, by his proper embattling them.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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A
princely
lodging.
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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The
absolutions
granted by the clergy.
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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And the charm of the singing rapt me,
As I held, as if by their hands, my
Comrades
in the night;
And the voice of my spirit tallied the song of the bird.
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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Redistribution is
subject to the trademark license,
especially
commercial
redistribution.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
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Jove and Jove's daughter first implore in prayer,
Then, whirling high,
discharge
thy lance in air.
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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"
So saying, I was drunk all the day,
Lying
helpless
at the porch in front of my door.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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I, with none beside,
Save hoarse cicalas shrilling through the brake,
Still track your
footprints
'neath the broiling sun.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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Love, now an
universal
birth.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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'Tis the
securest
policy we have,
To make our sense our slave.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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goddes hous in
Ierusalems
burgh?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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What makes all
physical
or moral ill?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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She, in free peoples
planting
sovereignty,
Orbs half the civil world in British peace;
And though time dispossess her, and she cease,
Rome-like she greatens in man's memory.
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
|
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fees.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Non tuos levis in mala
Deditus vir adultera
Probra turpia persequens
A tuis teneris volet 100
Secubare papillis,
Lenta quin velut adsitas
Vitis inplicat arbores,
Inplicabitur
in tuom
Conplexum.
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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, but its volunteers and employees are scattered
throughout
numerous
locations.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
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This Hypsicratea is, the
virtuous
fair,
Who for her husband's dear love cut her hair,
And served in all his wars: this is the wife
Of Brutus, Portia, constant in her life
And death: this Julia is, who seems to moan,
That Pompey loved best, when she was gone.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Amilau, or Millau in Aveyron, on the banks of the Tarn, was the major source of
earthenware
in the Roman Empire, and site of one of the major bridges over the Tarn.
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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The
charioteers
119 and horsemen filled the middle of the field with their tumult and careering.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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A
thousand
times I fondly ask the boon;
Let's take it to the woods: 'tis not too soon;
Young as it is, I'll feed it morn and night,
And always make it my supreme delight.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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Many small donations
($1 to $5,000) are particularly
important
to maintaining tax exempt
status with the IRS.
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Sara Teasdale |
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e hit bee,
I haue powre and
dyngnytee
320
For to lousse and for to bynde
Thym ?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary,
compressed, marked up,
nonproprietary
or proprietary form, including any
word processing or hypertext form.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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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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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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crede Polioni
Fratri, qui tua furta vel talento
Mutari velit: est enim leporum
Disertus
puer ac facetiarum.
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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_ Then I did not go from the truth when I said that
some things referred to the Divine knowledge are necessary, while
considered in
themselves
they are not under the bond of
necessity.
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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IDONEA Do not
reproach
me:
I pondered patiently your wish and will
When I gave way to your request; and now,
When I behold the ruins of that face,
Those eyeballs dark--dark beyond hope of light,
And think that they were blasted for my sake,
The name of Marmaduke is blown away:
Father, I would not change that sacred feeling
For all this world can give.
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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Tes grandes visions etranglaient ta parole:
--Un Infini
terrible
effara ton oeil bleu!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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When Fate hath taunted last
And thrown her
furthest
stone,
The maimed may pause and breathe,
And glance securely round.
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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This of
course is rendered necessary by the great distances which
separate the
residences
of the gentry.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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3, a full refund of any
money paid for a work or a
replacement
copy, if a defect in the
electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days
of receipt of the work.
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
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E'en now amid our misery
The germ of Union many see,
And through the hedge of thorn,
Like to a bee that dawn awakes,
On,
Progress
strides o'er shattered stakes,
With solemn, scathing scorn.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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The beach upon one side broad ocean laved,
And on the other yellow
harvests
waved.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Would thou hadst
something
else to do,
That thus to spoil my joy thou burnest.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
Prom thousand blossoms came a bubbling
'Mid purple sheen of sorcery,
The song of countless
warblers
singing
Broke through the Spring's first cry of glee.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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'Buried alive from light and air
This year is the hundredth year, 200
I feed my fire with a sleepless care,
Watching my potion wane or wax:
Elixir of Life is
simmering
there,
And but one thing lacks.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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"
TORU DUTT
THE
TRUMPETS
OF THE MIND.
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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_ O
Strength
and Force, for you, our Zeus's will
Presents a deed for doing, no more!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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My every power's
incipient
decay--
My wearied soul--alike, in warning say
"Thyself no more deceive, thy youth hath fled.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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Then the Corporal, our old cripple (he would swear sometimes
and tipple),--
He had heard the bullets whistle (in the old French war) before,--
Calls out in words of jeering, just as if they all were hearing,--
And his wooden leg thumps
fiercely
on the dusty belfry floor:--
"Oh!
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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8•
Of
stinking
stories; a tale, a dream.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Soe the tall oake the ivie twysteth rounde; 15
Soe the neshe[17] flowerr grees[18] ynne the
woodeland
shade.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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While thus they spake, the angelic caravan,
Arriving
like a rush of mighty wind,
Cleaving the fields of space, as doth the swan
Some silver stream (say Ganges, Nile, or Inde,
Or Thames, or Tweed), and midst them an old man
With an old soul, and both extremely blind,
Halted before the gate, and, in his shroud,
Seated their fellow-traveller on a cloud.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
|
Such the hour
Of deep enjoyment, following love's brief feuds;
And hark, the noise of a near
waterfall!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
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Beneath two trees he climbed the hill and looked,
And Rollant's strokes on three
terraces
knew,
On the green grass saw lying his nephew;
`Tis nothing strange that Charles anger grew.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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By perfect, we understand that
to which nothing is wanting, as place to the
building
that is raised, and
action to the fable that is formed.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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[SHE RETIRES,
ABSORBED
IN THOUGHT.
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Shelley |
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Die Hand, die
samstags
ihren Besen fuhrt
Wird sonntags dich am besten karessieren.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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how may vows or shrines help her
madness?
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Se' tu si tosto di quell' aver sazio
per lo qual non temesti torre a 'nganno
la bella donna, e poi di farne
strazio?
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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His beauty once their beauty tried;
They could not feed him, and he died,
And wandered
backward
as in scorn,
To wait an aeon to be born.
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Emerson - Poems |
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"You'll
probably
think of some place to go to while you're moving," said
Dick.
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Kipling - Poems |
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The scholar's knife cuts best at its first use
And my dreams hurried on to the
completion
of my plan.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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The storms that
sometimes
varied our day showed themselves most
picturesquely as they were driven across the ocean; sometimes the dark
lurid clouds dipped towards the waves, and became water-spouts that
churned up the waters beneath, as they were chased onward and
scattered by the tempest.
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Shelley |
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It may be
rendered
thus:--
"O Thou who burn'st in Heart for those who burn
In Hell, whose fires thyself shall feed in turn,
How long be crying, 'Mercy on them, God!
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Hast thou not heard how young Orestes, fired
With great revenge,
immortal
praise acquired?
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Odyssey - Pope |
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O gibt es Geister in der Luft,
Die zwischen Erd und Himmel
herrschend
weben
So steiget nieder aus dem goldnen Duft
Und fuhrt mich weg zu neuem, buntem Leben!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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