_strings
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Sweet smiles, in the night
Hover over my
delight!
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No portion where the maidens throng to praise
Castor--my Castor, whom in ancient days,
Ere he passed from us and men worshipped him,
They named my
bridegroom!
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The chain of iron, the
Scythian
sword,
It yields and shivers at thy word;
Thy heart is as the rock, and knows
No ruth, nor turning.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Pleases the bevy unwed with feigned
complaints
to accuse thee.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Upon the gallows hung a wretch,
Too sullied for the hell
To which the law
entitled
him.
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Why are Selene's white horses
So long
arriving?
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Sappho |
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'At Dawn I Love You'
At dawn I love you I've the whole night in my veins
All night I have gazed at you
I've all to divine I am certain of shadows
They give me the power
To envelop you
To stir your desire to live
At my
motionless
core
The power to reveal you
To free you to lose you
Invisible flame in the day.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Thou hast her: may no god
begrudge
your joy.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Another placed
The silver stands, with golden
flaskets
graced:
With dulcet beverage this the beaker crown'd,
Fair in the midst, with gilded cups around:
That in the tripod o'er the kindled pile
The water pours; the bubbling waters boil;
An ample vase receives the smoking wave;
And, in the bath prepared, my limbs I lave:
Reviving sweets repair the mind's decay,
And take the painful sense of toil away.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Then I cried in despair,
"I see
nothing!
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Stephen Crane |
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Meredith - Poems |
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Biron was a friend of Henri IV, Lusignan a famous family, both
associated
with the Valois.
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A fever burns me, Phaon; 5
My knees quake on the threshold,
And all my
strength
is loosened,
Slack with disappointment.
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Sappho |
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) de
originibus
rerum p.
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Latin - Catullus |
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Promise was that I
Should Israel from Philistian yoke deliver;
Ask for this great Deliverer now, and find him 40
Eyeless in Gaza at the Mill with slaves,
Himself in bonds under Philistian yoke;
Yet stay, let me not rashly call in doubt
Divine Prediction; what if all foretold
Had been fulfilld but through mine own default,
Whom have I to
complain
of but my self?
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Milton |
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The pride of fools, and slaves'
insulting
scorn?
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Nor was I hungry; so I found
That hunger was a way
Of persons outside windows,
The
entering
takes away.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Now like a mighty wind they raise to heaven the voice of song,
Or like harmonious thunderings the seats of heaven among:
Beneath them sit the aged men, wise
guardians
of the poor.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Oh I have been to Ludlow fair
And left my necktie God knows where,
And carried half-way home, or near,
Pints and quarts of Ludlow beer:
Then the world seemed none so bad,
And I myself a
sterling
lad;
And down in lovely muck I've lain,
Happy till I woke again.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Þā cwōm
Wealhþēo
forð
gān under gyldnum bēage, þǣr þā gōdan twēgen
1165 sǣton suhter-gefæderan; þā gȳt wæs hiera sib ætgædere
ǣghwylc ōðrum trȳwe.
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Beowulf |
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Sound understanding and good sense
Speak out with little art or rule;
And when you've
something
earnest to utter,
Why hunt for words in such a flutter?
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Including
his Letters, Journals,
etc.
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Byron |
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s in Boeotia were
esteemed
highly by
epicures.
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Aristophanes |
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The
schoolboy
hears and brushes through the trees
And runs about till drabbled to the knees.
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John Clare |
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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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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Or the
glistening
Eye to the poison of a smile!
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blake-poems |
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Pure felon I, if e'er I that
concede!
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Chanson de Roland |
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Not a grave of the
murdered
for freedom but grows seed for freedom, in its
turn to bear seed,
Which the winds carry afar and resow, and the rains and the snows nourish.
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Whitman |
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She dresses aye sae clean and neat,
Both decent and genteel;
And then there's
something
in her gait
Gars ony dress look weel.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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He could
controll
the times & seasons, & the days & years
She could controll the spaces, regions, desart, flood & forest
But had no power to weave a Veil of covering for her Sins
She drave the Females all away from Los
And Los drave all the Males from her away
They wanderd long, till they sat down upon the margind sea.
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Blake - Zoas |
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And there we stood in silence,
And waited with a frown,
To greet with bloody welcome
The
bulldogs
of the Crown.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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I, should unhallowed
Pleasure
woo me now,
Will to the wanton sorc'ress say, "Begone!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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I would regret that he was shut
out from what, to me and to others, were such
superlative
sources of
enjoyment.
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Robert Forst |
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'108 thy ruling Star':
the star that
controls
thy destinies, a reference to the old belief in
astrology.
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Alexander Pope |
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--ELINOURE and JUGA,
_written
three hundred
years ago by_ T.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Chief
Executive
and Director
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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<>,
mi disse, <
poi sopra 'l vero ancor lo pie non fida,
ma te rivolve, come suole, a voto:
vere
sustanze
son cio che tu vedi,
qui rilegate per manco di voto.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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to the Project Gutenberg
Literary Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent
permitted by U.
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Stephen Crane |
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Since I have seen falling to my life's flood
The leaf of a rose
snatched
from out your days,
Now at last I can say to the fleeting years:
- Pass by!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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But best of all is this which another writer has
expressed: "_Sapiens
adjuvabit
opus astrorum quemadmodum agricola
terrae naturam_:" a wise man assisteth the work of the stars as the
husbandman helpeth the nature of the soil.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Crackling with fever, they essay;
I turn my
brimming
eyes away,
And come next hour to look.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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copyright
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Meredith - Poems |
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Scorn & Indignation rose upon Enitharmon
Then
Enitharmon
reddning fierce stretchd her immortal hands *
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Blake - Zoas |
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The poet
predicts that, under the peaceful
administration
of Augustus, the
Romans will, over their full goblets, sing to the pipe, after the
fashion of their fathers, the deeds of brave captains, and the
ancient legends touching the origin of the city.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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bād beadwa ge-þinges, _waited for the combats_
(with
Grendel)
_that were in store for him_, 710.
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Beowulf |
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A number of personal references are best pursued by reading a biography of Nerval, of his early meeting with 'Adrienne' and later
relationship
with the actress Jenny Colon.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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O, Oft with me in
troublous
time
Involved, when Brutus warr'd in Greece,
Who gives you back to your own clime
And your own gods, a man of peace,
Pompey, the earliest friend I knew,
With whom I oft cut short the hours
With wine, my hair bright bathed in dew
Of Syrian oils, and wreathed with flowers?
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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He was a great killer not
only of
malefactors
but of "keres" or bogeys, such as "Old Age" and "Ague"
and the sort of "Death" that we find in this play.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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The great
boulevards
are intersected by lanes,
Wherein are the town-houses of Royal Dukes.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Look up and see the
casement
broken in,
The bats and owlets builders in the roof!
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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I am come; and
straight
will bear her to the tomb.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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What god is worthier of solicitation by anxious
amourists?
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Catullus - Carmina |
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It is the mother of the brood that must rule the earth with the new rule;
The new rule shall rule as the Soul rules, and as the love, justice,
equality
in the Soul rule.
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Whitman |
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'
(For your dear departed wife, his friend) 2 November 1877
- 'Over the lost woods when dark winter lowers
You moan, O
solitary
captive of the threshold,
That this double tomb which our pride should hold's
Cluttered, alas, only with absent weight of flowers.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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[_The_ SERVANT
_reluctantly
comes close.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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) 'O seer' I cry,
'To the stern sanction of the offended sky
My prompt
obedience
bows.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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]
Once fondly lov'd and still remember'd dear;
Sweet early object of my
youthful
vows!
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Robert Forst |
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A painter of the Umbrian school
Designed upon a gesso ground
The nimbus of the
Baptized
God.
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T.S. Eliot |
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"
The
stranger
vanished .
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Wilde - Poems |
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altars four,
Twain to thee, Daphnis, and to Phoebus twain
For sacrifice, we build; and I for thee
Two beakers yearly of fresh milk afoam,
And of rich olive-oil two bowls, will set;
And of the wine-god's bounty above all,
If cold, before the hearth, or in the shade
At harvest-time, to glad the festal hour,
From flasks of
Ariusian
grape will pour
Sweet nectar.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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The Foundation's
principal
office is located at 4557 Melan Dr.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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And you climbed yet
further!
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Thou hast passed by the ambush of young days
Either not assail'd, or victor being charg'd;
Yet this thy praise cannot be so thy praise,
To tie up envy, evermore enlarg'd,
If some suspect of ill mask'd not thy show,
Then thou alone kingdoms of hearts
shouldst
owe.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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He would supply me--here I capered
among the dumb gods of Egypt and laughed in their battered faces--with
material to make my tale sure--so sure that the world would hail it as
an
impudent
and vamped fiction.
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Kipling - Poems |
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LX
After, his other knots unfastening,
(For he was turned more gentle than a maid)
Astolpho, as a show, the thief would bring,
By city, borough-town, and farm conveyed;
The net as well; than which no
quainter
thing
Was ever by the file and hammer made.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Lear - Nonsense |
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"
He pray'd, and
straight
the gentle stream subsides,
Detains the rushing current of his tides,
Before the wanderer smooths the watery way,
And soft receives him from the rolling sea.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Marry, we must not play
or riot too much with them, as in Paronomasies; nor use too
swelling
or
ill-sounding words!
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Diegue
How enviable, yes,
On losing strength to swiftly meet with death,
See how old age prepares for noble spirits
After long careers,
miserable
exits!
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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It fell, as he ordered,
in rapid
achievement
that ready it stood there,
of halls the noblest: Heorot {1a} he named it
whose message had might in many a land.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Whether the shrimps or crawfish gray,
Or crafty
Mermaids
stole them away,
Nobody knew; and nobody knows
How the Pobble was robbed of his twice five toes!
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Lear - Nonsense |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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These felouns, fulle of falsitee,
Have many sythes bigyled me,
And through
falshede
hir lust acheved,
Wherof I repente and am agreved.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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) Where are the lips mine lay upon,
1
1
Audiart, Audiart,
Audiart, Audiart
Signum
Nativitatis*
II
?
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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"
Then the gauzes removes he which shade her,
At her beauty all wonder intensely;
One moment the Pasha survey'd her,
And,
dropping
his tchebouk, without sense lay.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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How blest,
delicious
scene!
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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He thereat was stung,
Perverse, with
stronger
fancy to reclaim
Her wild and timid nature to his aim:
Besides, for all his love, in self despite,
Against his better self, he took delight
Luxurious in her sorrows, soft and new.
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| Source: |
Keats |
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See, see the patient moon;
How she her course keeps
Through cloudy
shallows
and across black deeps,
Now gone, now shines soon.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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)
The phrase is explained in
dictionaries
and handbooks, but no other use
of it is quoted than this.
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Robert Herrick |
|
CXLVII
My love is as a fever longing still,
For that which longer nurseth the disease;
Feeding on that which doth preserve the ill,
The
uncertain
sickly appetite to please.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Ut
conjecturas
nequeam discemere vero.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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What love that shall kiss my brow
Nor blench at the brand
thereof?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
|
The
contents
of the third or present volume were made also at different
intervals in the last two years.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
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It is to
be indirect, and not direct or
descriptive
or epic.
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Whitman |
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Si tu oblitus es, at di meminerunt, meminit Fides,
Quae te ut
paeniteat
postmodo facti faciet tui.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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I simply bought
whatever
had most blooms,
Not caring whether peach, apricot, or plum.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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THE FOOT-PATH
It mounts athwart the windy hill
Through sallow slopes of upland bare,
And Fancy climbs with foot-fall still
Its
narrowing
curves that end in air.
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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FAUST:
Das hat der Zufall gut
getroffen!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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--the sisters 'gan
To laugh and ask, if in an evil hour,
The
mushroom
could have fallen with a show'r?
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La Fontaine |
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Thy numbers, Jealousy, to nought were fix'd:
Sad proof of thy
distressful
state!
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Golden Treasury |
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For he's not like an Old Man that leisurely goes
About work that he knows, [24] in a track that he knows;
But often his mind is
compelled
to demur,
And you guess that the more then his body must stir.
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William Wordsworth |
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And though awhile against Time they make war,
These
buildings
still, yet it must be that Time
In the end, both works and names, will flaw.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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It may only be
used on or
associated
in any way with an electronic work by people who
agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Marks, notations and other marginalia present in the original volume will appear in this file - a
reminder
of this book's long journey from the publisher to a library and finally to you.
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Meredith - Poems |
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