But what matters an
eternity
of damnation to him who
has found in one second an eternity of enjoyment?
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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--They shall not see thee, when I display at large
The riches and the honour; I've enough
Possession, without thee, to stupify
The
assembly
of my men, my herd of kings.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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"And vital feelings of delight
Shall rear her form to stately height,
Her virgin bosom swell;
Such thoughts to Lucy I will give
While she and I
together
live
Here in this happy dell.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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The son of Philip, when he saw the tomb
Of fierce Achilles, with a sigh, thus said:
"O happy, whose
achievements
erst found room
From that illustrious trumpet to be spread
O'er earth for ever!
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Petrarch |
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So, when thou
Beneath
Sicanian
billows glidest on,
May Doris blend no bitter wave with thine,
Begin!
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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'The slavery
question
aint no ways bewilderin,'
North an' South hev one int'rest, it's plain to a glance;
No'thern men, like us patriarchs, don't sell their childrin,
But they _du_ sell themselves, ef they git a good chance,' 60
Sez John C.
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James Russell Lowell |
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But ere the circle
homeward
hies
Far, far must it remove:
White in the moon the long road lies
That leads me from my love.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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She has no
sympathy
with the myrtles.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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s own
position
at court.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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The wasps
flourish
greenly
Dawn goes by round her neck
A necklace of windows
You are all the solar joys
All the sun of this earth
On the roads of your beauty.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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For what is life, if
measured
by the space
Not by the act?
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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The exploits of Athelstane were commemorated
by the Anglo-Saxons and those of Canute by the Danes, in rude
poems, of which a few
fragments
have come down to us.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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And could not all his
troubles
sore
Arrest his vile career, I wonder?
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Each twig was tipped with gold, each leaf was edged
And veined with gold from the gold-flooded west;
Each mother-bird, and mate-bird, and unfledged
Nestling, and curious nest,
Displayed
a gilded moss or beak or breast.
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Christina Rossetti |
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With honest fervour I commend
Those lips, those eyes; you need not fear
A rival, hurrying on to end
His
fortieth
year.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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The Cat
The Large Cat
'The Large Cat'
Cornelis Visscher (II), 1657, The Rijksmuseun
I wish there to be in my house:
A woman
possessing
reason,
A cat among books passing by,
Friends for every season
Lacking whom I'm barely alive.
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Appoloinaire |
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Versatility is seldom given its real
name--which is
protracted
labour.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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5
I wander through life,
With the
searching
mind
That is never at rest,
Till I reach the shade
Of my lover's door.
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Sappho |
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[592] The proverb runs, "_There is a
scorpion
beneath every stone.
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Aristophanes |
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Though most
obstinately
attached to their old customs, yet
there is a tide in the manners of nations which is sudden and rapid, and
which acts with a kind of instinctive fury against ancient prejudice and
absurdity.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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14 sic Auantius _colisque_ ||
_amathunta_
(_-tam_ O) _queque
alcos_ ?
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Latin - Catullus |
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And now, perhaps, he's hunting sheep,
A fierce and
dreadful
hunter he!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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And then some one
Began the stairs, two
footsteps
for each step,
The way a man with one leg and a crutch,
Or little child, comes up.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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LXIX
He made for Arles, where yet he hoped would ride
The fleet which him to Africa might bear;
Nor in the port nor offing ships espied,
Nor
Saracens
save dead beheld he there.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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v
Voices
speaking
to the sun.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Sir, we are private with our women here--
Ever a rough, blunt, and
uncourtly
fellow--
Thou light a torch that never will go out!
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Tennyson |
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1780
THEL
I
The daughters of Mne Seraphim led round their sunny flocks,
All but the youngest: she in
paleness
sought the secret air.
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blake-poems |
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No boughs have
withered
because of the wintry wind;
The boughs have withered because I have told them my dreams.
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Yeats |
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And when I
descended
to the valleys and the plains God was there
also.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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er is
chau{n}ged
in to a lyou{n} of ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Before his might, to theirs, as hardest rock to dust,
There have recoiled a horde of savage, warlike chiefs,
Who have been into Afric's fiery furnace thrust--
Its
scorching
heat to his rage greatest of reliefs.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Jolly and Jilly bite and scratch all day,
But yet get children (as the
neighbours
say).
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Robert Herrick |
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X
That Emperour
inclined
his head full low;
Hasty in speech he never was, but slow:
His custom was, at his leisure he spoke.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Nor would it, had the tree not fed
A traitor worm, within it bred,
(As first our flesh, corrupt within,
Tempts impotent and bashful sin,)
And yet that worm
triumphs
not long,
But serves to feed the hewel's young.
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Marvell - Poems |
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gret
solempnite
912
(77)
?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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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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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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"
So your
chimneys
I sweep, and in soot I sleep.
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blake-poems |
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He, of all heroes I heard of ever
from sea to sea, of the sons of earth,
most
excellent
seemed.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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For myself,
although
I had corresponded
with her for many years, I saw her but twice face to face, and
brought away the impression of something as unique and remote as
Undine or Mignon or Thekla.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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This poem tells the well-known story of Sarah Hoggins who married under
the
circumstances
related in the poem.
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Tennyson |
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The hippo's feeble steps may err
In compassing
material
ends,
While the True Church need never stir
To gather in its dividends.
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T.S. Eliot |
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>>,
rispuos' io lui con
vergognosa
fronte.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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"
Thus spake he, and that moment felt endued
With power to dream deliciously; so wound 710
Through a dim passage,
searching
till he found
The smoothest mossy bed and deepest, where
He threw himself, and just into the air
Stretching his indolent arms, he took, O bliss!
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Keats |
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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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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Pale ghosts who planted you
Came in the night time
And let their thin hair blow through your
clustered
stems.
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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"
But Pallas clouds with
intellectual
gloom
The suitors' souls, insensate of their doom!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Unnatural
vices
Are fathered by our heroism.
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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Sweeney
addressed
full length to shave
Broadbottomed, pink from nape to base,
Knows the female temperament
And wipes the suds around his face.
| Guess: |
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T.S. Eliot |
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--This was an actual
incident
in the
experience of the late Colonel (formerly Captain) Albert J.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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I have seen eyes in the street
Trying to peer through lighted shutters,
And a crab one
afternoon
in a pool,
An old crab with barnacles on his back,
Gripped the end of a stick which I held him.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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For
additional
contact information:
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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er
faltered
ne fel ?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Thou art thy mother's glass and she in thee
Calls back the lovely April of her prime;
So thou through windows of thine age shalt see,
Despite of
wrinkles
this thy golden time.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Time
consumes
words, like love.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Lo
principe
d'i novi Farisei,
avendo guerra presso a Laterano,
e non con Saracin ne con Giudei,
che ciascun suo nimico era cristiano,
e nessun era stato a vincer Acri
ne mercatante in terra di Soldano,
ne sommo officio ne ordini sacri
guardo in se, ne in me quel capestro
che solea fare i suoi cinti piu macri.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Beside the gate the reverend minstrel stands;
The lyre now silent trembling in his hands;
Dubious to supplicate the chief, or fly
To Jove's
inviolable
altar nigh,
Where oft Laertes holy vows had paid,
And oft Ulysses smoking victims laid.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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In 1080 Sung Min-ch'iu
published
the works in thirty _chuan_, the form
in which they still exist.
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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By the same Author
THE SHADOWS OF SILENCE AND
THE SONGS OF YESTERDAY
THE GRAVE OF EROS AND THE
BOOK OF
MOURNFUL
MELODIES
WITH DREAMS FROM THE EAST
BAUDELAIRE--THE FLOWERS OF EVIL
In preparation
THE VOICE OF THE ANCIENT
?
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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If, anxious for a safe return, thou spare
Those herds and flocks, though after much endured, 160
Ye may at last your Ithaca regain;
But should'st thou violate them, I foretell
Destruction
of thy ship and of thy crew,
And though thyself escape, thou shalt return
Late, in ill plight, and all thy friends destroy'd.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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Hate not a thing too much, lest you be drawn
Wry from
yourselves
and close to the thing ye hate.
| Guess: |
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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And so a preacher, in the
invention of matter,
election
of words, composition of gesture, look,
pronunciation, motion, useth all these faculties at once: and if we can
express this variety together, why should not divers studies, at divers
hours, delight, when the variety is able alone to refresh and repair us?
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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It tells the tale of Erec, one of Arthur's knights, and the conflict between love and
knighthood
he experiences in his marriage to Enide.
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Troubador Verse |
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Yet a single
atheling
up she seized
fast and firm, as she fled to the moor.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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"
Then an eight spoke--and a ninth--and a tenth--and then many--until
all were speaking, and I could
distinguish
nothing for the many
voices.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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But nought to me returns save
sorrowing
sighs,
Forced from my inmost heart by her who bore
Those keys which govern'd it unto the skies:
The blossom'd meads, the choristers of air,
Sweet courteous damsels can delight no more;
Each face looks savage, and each prospect drear.
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Petrarch |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Funeral Libation (At Gautier's Tomb)
To you, gone emblem of our
happiness!
| Guess: |
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Mallarme - Poems |
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1530
De la
fontaine
m'apressai,
Quant ge fui pres, si m'abessai
Por veoir l'iaue qui coroit,
Et la gravele qui paroit
Au fons plus clere qu'argens fins,
De la fontaine c'est la fins.
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
|
XXII
When our two souls stand up erect and strong,
Face to face, silent, drawing nigh and nigher,
Until the
lengthening
wings break into fire
At either curved point,--what bitter wrong
Can the earth do to us, that we should not long
Be here contented?
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Our Hercules, they told us, Rome,
Had sought the laurel Death bestows:
Now Glory brings him
conqueror
home
From Spaniard foes.
| Guess: |
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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, but its volunteers and employees are scattered
throughout
numerous
locations.
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| Question: |
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Stuff sharp thorns beneath the head
Of them thou
shouldst
have comforted;
For out of woe and out of crime
Draws the heart a lore sublime.
| Guess: |
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Emerson - Poems |
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In the
communications
of the Gesellschaft fur Natur und Volkerkunde,
1889, Dr.
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Li Po |
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Nor given to ill adulteries, nor seeking lawless shames, shall thy husband
ever wish to lie away from thy soft breasts,
But as the lithe vine amongst neighbouring trees doth cling, so shall he be
enclasped in thine
encircled
arms.
| Guess: |
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Tempests
may scath;
But love can not make smart
Again this year his heart
Who no heart hath.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Round the laps of their mothers
Many sisters and brothers,
Like birds in their nest,
Are ready for rest,
And sport no more seen
On the
darkening
green.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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He, on the earth who lay,
meanwhile
extends
His sharpen'd visage, and draws down the ears
Into the head, as doth the slug his horns.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Lynceus
advanced
to meet him, calling up his
comrades; from the rampart the glittering sword sweeps to the left and
catches him; struck off by the one downright blow, head and helmet lay
far away.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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II
But, be it a hint of rose
That an instant hues her,
Or some early light or pose
Wherewith thought renews her--
Seen by him at full, ere woes
Practised
to abuse her--
Sparely comes it, swiftly goes,
Time again subdues her.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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terms imposed by the
copyright
holder.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Wherefore
dost thou start?
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Keats - Lamia |
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What cave shall hearken to my melodies,
Tuned to tell of Caesar's praise
And throne him high the
heavenly
ranks among?
| Guess: |
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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A God hath
counselled
ye.
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Euripides - Electra |
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--There is almost no man but he
sees
clearlier
and sharper the vices in a speaker, than the virtues.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Ich take to
witnesse
god of heuene,
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Hart is the originator of the Project Gutenberg(TM)
concept of a library of
electronic
works that could be freely shared
with anyone.
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Stephen Crane |
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Do you have hopes the lyre can soar
So high as to win
immortality?
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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We have roamed on horseback under the
flowering
trees;
We have walked in the snow and warmed our hearts with wine.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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was it thy desire
That I should hide thee with my power & delight thee with my beauty
And now there
darknest
in my presence, never from my sight
Shalt thou depart to weep in secret.
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Blake - Zoas |
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You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose
such as creation of derivative works, reports,
performances
and
research.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Not much he kens, I ween, of woman's breast,
Who thinks that wanton thing is won by sighs;
What careth she for hearts when once
possessed?
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Not far I wander'd o'er the peopled field,
Till
Socrates
and Laelius I beheld.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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His enemies' spilt blood drowns out justice,
As a new trophy for his crimes does service;
We swell the pomp, and
scornful
of the law,
Follow his chariot, with two kings before.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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What gives you fresh hope, in what happy depths 15
Do you think to
discover
traces of his steps?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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He healed the sick and sent abroad
The dumb
rejoicing
in the Lord.
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John Clare |
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