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LXVI
Thence she thee brought into this Faerie lond,
And in an heaped furrow did thee hyde,
Where thee a
Ploughman
all unweeting fond,
As he his toylesome teme that way did guyde,
And brought thee up in ploughmans state to byde 590
Whereof Georgos?
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And sharp the link of life will snap,
And dead on air will stand
Heels that held up as
straight
a chap
As treads upon the land.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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And seyde, `Lord, so ye live al in lest, 330
Ye
loveres!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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It is not growing like a tree
In bulk, doth make Man better be;
Or
standing
long an oak, three hundred year,
To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere:
A lily of a day
Is fairer far in May,
Although it fall and die that night--
It was the plant and flower of Light.
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Golden Treasury |
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Music-hall posters squall out:
The
passengers
shrink together,
I enter indelicately into all their souls.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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" KAU}
The heavens were closd & and spirits mournd their bondage night and day
And the Divine Vision appeard in Luvahs robes of blood {This line written over an erased line,
possibly
ending "within.
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Blake - Zoas |
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As if they loved the element, and hasted
To
dissipate
their being into it.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Soon as he saw me, "Hither haste," he cried,
"O
Meliboeus!
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The rhyme-scheme follows Du Bellay, unlike Edmund Spenser's fine Elizabethan
translation
which offers a simpler scheme, more suited to the lack of rhymes in English!
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Who would such men heaven's
messengers
believe,
Who from the sacred pulpit dare deceive ?
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Marvell - Poems |
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The
bulkhead
double-doors were double-locked
And swollen tight and buried under snow.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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You ask again, do the healing days close up
The open
darkness
which then drew us in,
The dark that swallows all, and nought throws up.
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Imagists |
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For each
ecstatic
instant
We must an anguish pay
In keen and quivering ratio
To the ecstasy.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Over sea, over shore, where the cannons loudly roar,
He still was a
stranger
to fear;
And nocht could him quail, or his bosom assail,
But the bonie lass he lo'ed sae dear.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Dancing and
laughing
along the beach came the twenty-ninth bather,
The rest did not see her, but she saw them and loved them.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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To
SEND DONATIONS or
determine
the status of compliance for any
particular state visit http://pglaf.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Did King Richard then
Proclaim
my brother Edmund Mortimer
Heir to the crown?
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Shakespeare |
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"Is
football
playing
Along the river shore,
With lads to chase the leather,
Now I stand up no more?
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Time
consumes
words, like love.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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MOPSUS
"For Daphnis cruelly slain wept all the Nymphs-
Ye hazels, bear them witness, and ye streams-
When she, his mother,
clasping
in her arms
The hapless body of the son she bare,
To gods and stars unpitying, poured her plaint.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Agnes' Eve,"
afterwards
republished in the Poems of 1842, as "St.
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Tennyson |
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Good love shulde
engendrid
be
Of trewe herte, iust, and secree, 5090
And not of such as sette her thought
To have her lust, and ellis nought,
So are they caught in Loves lace,
Truly, for bodily solace.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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You dropped a purple
ravelling
in,
You dropped an amber thread;
And now you 've littered all the East
With duds of emerald!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Is she not supple and strong
For hurried
passion?
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Sappho |
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As children bid the guest good-night,
And then reluctant turn,
My flowers raise their pretty lips,
Then put their
nightgowns
on.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Awful th'approach, and hard the task appears,
To
question
wisely men of riper years.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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e & fede,
& bad his men he scholde him lede
To his hous as sone; 294
And
grauntede
him, as [I] ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Then rolling her
fiery eyes, she thrust him back as he would stammer out more, raised two
serpents in her hair, and, sounding her whip, resumed with furious tone:
'Behold me the
overworn!
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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of Replacement or Refund"
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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--Before those hermit doors, that never know
The face of traveller passing to and fro, 300
No peasant leans upon his pole, to tell
For whom at morning toll'd the funeral bell,
Their watch-dog ne'er his angry bark forgoes,
Touch'd by the beggar's moan of human woes,
The grass seat beneath their
casement
shade 305
The pilgrim's wistful eye hath never stay'd.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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That
Emperour
by way of hostage guards it;
Four benches then upon the place he marshals
Where sit them down champions of either party.
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Chanson de Roland |
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A Greek was
murdered
at a Polish dance,
Another bank defaulter has confessed.
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T.S. Eliot |
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]
The edition of about a
thousand
copies sold off in less than a year.
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Whitman |
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Or live, without some dead man's
benison?
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Ye sons of Slavs,
speedily
will I lead
Your dread battalions to the longed-for conflict.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Indulgence
bids the dropsy grow;
Who fain would quench the palate's flame
Must rescue from the watery foe
The pale weak frame.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Thine is the stillest night,
Thine the
securest
fold;
Too near thou art for seeking thee,
Too tender to be told.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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"
The great symbols of
Solitude
and of Death enter into the poet's work.
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Rilke - Poems |
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(C)
Copyright
2000-2016 A.
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| Question: |
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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But this alchemy is, you
know, only the material
counterpart
of a poet's craving for
Beauty, the eternal Beauty.
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And rarely thither came ;
For, with one spark of these, he
straight
All nature could inflame.
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Marvell - Poems |
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XLV
"These have I sent into mine Africk reign;
But this I promise thee, and pledge my fay;
If, by strange fortune, thou thy seat maintain,
And I shall be
dismounted
in the fray;
Delivered, all, shall be the captive train,
Within what time suffices to convey
An order thither, that they our of hand
'Should do what thou, if conqueror, may'st command.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Tut nicht ein braver Mann genug,
Die Kunst, die man ihm ubertrug,
Gewissenhaft
und punktlich auszuuben?
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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auertit uultus Erycis quae possidet arces:
sunt quoque qui lacrimas
continuisse
negant.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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--
That
thousands
of sweepers, Dick, Joe, Ned, and Jack,
Were all of them locked up in coffins of black.
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blake-poems |
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He
selected
his card and placed upon it his fresh stake.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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These
are
commonly
the off-scouring and dregs of men that do these things, or
calumniate others; yet I know not truly which is worse--he that maligns
all, or that praises all.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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I to the knyghtes onne everyche syde wylle burne, 585
Telleynge
'hem alle to make her foemen blede;
Sythe shame or deathe onne eidher syde wylle bee,
Mie harte I wylle upryse, & inne the battelle slea.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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I laughed, and spoke to one near me,
"Will he
prevail?
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Stephen Crane |
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La prima voce che passo volando
'Vinum non habent'
altamente
disse,
e dietro a noi l'ando reiterando.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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"My father lived at Blenheim then,
Yon little stream hard by;
They burnt his
dwelling
to the ground,
And he was forced to fly:
So with his wife and child he fled,
Nor had he where to rest his head.
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Golden Treasury |
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Your son my Lord, ha's paid a souldiers debt,
He onely liu'd but till he was a man,
The which no sooner had his
Prowesse
confirm'd
In the vnshrinking station where he fought,
But like a man he dy'de
Sey.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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net/
Updated editions will replace the
previous
one--the old editions
will be renamed.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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HURRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME
Well, that Sunday Albert was home, they had a hot gammon,
And they asked me in to dinner, to get the beauty of it hot--
HURRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME
HURRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME
Goonight
Bill.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Laden with shining arms the men-folk tread
By the long wagons where their goods lie hidden;
They watch the heaven with eyes grown wearied
Of
hopeless
dreams that come to them unbidden.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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[439]
Tithrasios
was a part of Libya, fabled to be peopled by Gorgons.
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Aristophanes |
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On entering, soft, a touch of hand,
And at the dole of parting-time,
A kiss, with an
adornment
bland,
As farewell gift: a gentle rhyme.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Et, faisant la victime et la petite epouse,
Son etoile la vit, une chandelle aux doigts,
Descendre
dans la cour ou sechait une blouse,
Spectre blanc, et lever les spectres noirs des toits.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Compliance
requirements
are not uniform and it takes a
considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up
with these requirements.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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The judge accurst, incontinent,
And
stranger
dame have dragg'd thee down.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Visitation
SUNLIGHT
slantingly
flows
Down through the rampart notches
Onto thine house by the thicket,
Onto thy garden-close.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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This stanza occurs only in the
editions
of 1800 to 1815.
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William Wordsworth |
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"
And
straight
against that great array
Forth went the dauntless Three.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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`And
trusteth
this, that certes, herte swete, 1590
Er Phebus suster, Lucina the shene,
The Leoun passe out of this Ariete,
I wol ben here, with-outen any wene.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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LXV Vnius uersus spatium in O _AD
ORTALEM_
GRVenC Laur.
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Latin - Catullus |
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]
OTUS AND
EPHIALTES
HOLDING MARS CAPTIVE.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Waldo Abigail Fithian Halsey Louis Ginsberg
Marjorie
Allen Seiffert J.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Lest the world should
separate
;
Sudden parting closer glues.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Hans, holding jeers and
cuckoldom
in dread,
Would have his precious rib with caution tread,
And nothing but the Bible e'er peruse;
All other books he daily would abuse;
Blamed secret visits; frowned at loose attire;
And censured ev'ry thing gallants admire.
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La Fontaine |
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I
write you this on the account of an accident, which I must take the
merit of having partly
designed
to.
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Robert Burns |
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At length in the year
of the city 378, both parties mustered their whole strength for
their last and most
desperate
conflict.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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all hold
conflicting
views of this passage: _Beit.
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Beowulf |
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They look on thee and me, a
stricken
twain,
Who have wrought no sin that God should have thee slain.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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originator
of the Project
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Li Po |
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The Elephant
Two Elephants
'Two Elephants'
Nicolaes de Bruyn, 1594, The Rijksmuseun
I carry
treasure
in my mouth,
As an elephant his ivory.
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Appoloinaire |
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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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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
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I will confess the
sweetest
of all crimes,
A maiden wooed and won.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
50
Here is the man with three staves, and here the Wheel,
And here is the one-eyed merchant, and this card,
Which is blank, is
something
he carries on his back,
Which I am forbidden to see.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
|
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| Source: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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This eBook is for the use of anyone
anywhere
at no cost and with
almost no restrictions whatsoever.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
V
"She whispers it in each pathetic strenuous slow endeavour,
When in
mothering
she unwittingly sets wounds on what she loves;
Yet her primal doom pursues her, faultful, fatal is she ever;
Though so deft and nigh to vision is her facile finger-touch
That the seers marvel much.
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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"--'Mid the sound
Of flutes and viols, ravishing his heart,
Endymion
from Glaucus stood apart,
And scatter'd in his face some fragments light.
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| Source: |
Keats |
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This hour shall be
A glass of wine
Poured out into the
unremembering
sea Without regret.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Owneth thy sire one third, one third is right of thy mother,
Only the third is thine: stint thee to strive with the others,
Who to the
stranger
son have yielded their dues with a dower!
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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'19-20'
An imaginary
portrait
of a mad poet who keeps on writing verses even in
his cell in Bedlam.
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Alexander Pope |
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O
children
of the light, now in our grief Give us again the solace of belief.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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But then the
beauteous
hill of moss
Before their eyes began to stir;
And for full fifty yards around,
The grass it shook upon the ground;
But all do still aver
The little babe is buried there,
Beneath that hill of moss so fair.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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O Memory cast down thy
wreathed
shell!
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Now the streets are
swarming
with people.
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Imagists |
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Kitty and I entered Hamilton's shop together, and there,
regardless of the order of affairs, I
measured
Kitty for the ring in
the presence of the amused assistant.
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Kipling - Poems |
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No
lightning
or storm reach where he's gone.
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| Source: |
Villon |
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I
had rather be a
giantess
and lie under Mount Pelion.
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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Your glance entered my heart and blood, just like
A flash of
lightning
through the clouds.
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Ronsard |
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Nearly all the
individual
works in the
collection are in the public domain in the United States.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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