Diegue
Yes, see, she's fainting, and from perfect love,
In this swoon, Sire, see how her
passions
move.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Jia Zhi was a Drafter in the
Secretariat
(zhongshu sheren ?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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And if as a lad grows older
The
troubles
he bears are more,
He carries his griefs on a shoulder
That handselled them long before.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Nothing particular occurred for some days after these events, except that,
as the travellers were passing a low tract of sand, they perceived an
unusual and gratifying spectacle; namely, a large number of Crabs and
Crawfish--perhaps six or seven hundred--sitting by the water-side, and
endeavoring to disentangle a vast heap of pale pink worsted, which they
moistened at
intervals
with a fluid composed of lavender-water and
white-wine negus.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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And, notwithstanding his
desperate effort to realize Poe's idea, he only proved Poe correct, who
had said that no man can bare his heart quite naked; there always will
be
something
held back, something false ostentatiously thrust forward.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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"
So they
followed
the man back to the court.
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Tennyson |
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And after three and thirty years, during which my mother, and the
nurse, and the priest have all died, (the shadow of God be upon
their spirits) the
soothsayer
still lives.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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The well-beloved are
wretched
then.
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Appoloinaire |
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For now, O morning chosen of all days, on thee
A wondrous duty lies:
There was an evening that did
loveliness
foretell;
Thence upon thee, O chosen morn, it fell
To fashion into perfect destiny
The radiant prophecy.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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M uch better
elsewhere
to search for
A id: it would have been more to my honour:
R etreat I must, and fly with dishonour,
T hough none else then would have cast a lure.
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Villon |
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Pleasure for the
beautiful
body, but
pain for the beautiful soul.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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When I gaze on her hair's golden glow
And her body's fresh
delicate
fires,
I love her more than all else beside.
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Troubador Verse |
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Listen not to that
seductive
murmur,
That only swells my pain.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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O struggling with the darkness all the night,
And visited all night by troops of stars,
Or when they climb the sky or when they sink:
Companion
of the morning-star at dawn,
Thyself Earth's rosy star, and of the dawn
Co-herald: wake, O wake, and utter praise!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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)
Not a
youngster
is taken for larceny but I go up too, and am tried
and sentenced.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Long as the wild boar
Shall love the mountain-heights, and fish the streams,
While bees on thyme and
crickets
feed on dew,
Thy name, thy praise, thine honour, shall endure.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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He waves it thrice before the People, and exclaims,_
"Justice hath dealt upon the mighty
Traitor!
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Byron |
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Whether the tide so hemmed them round
With its pitiless flow,
That when they would have gone they found
No way to go;
Whether she scorned him to the last
With words flung to and fro,
Or clung to him when hope was past,
None will ever know:
Whether he helped or
hindered
her,
Threw up his life or lost it well,
The troubled sea, for all its stir,
Finds no voice to tell.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Moving my spirit past the last defence
That shieldeth mortal things from mightier sight, Where freedom of the soul knows no alloy,
I saw what forms the lordly powers employ; Three splendours, saw I, of high holiness, From clarity to clarity ascending
Through all the roofless, tacit courts extending In aether which such subtle light doth bless
As ne'er the candles of the stars hath wooed; Know ye
herefrom
of their similitude.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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This they did
with such success that Vologaeses offered
Vespasian
40,000
cavalry.
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Tacitus |
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Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed
editions, all of which are
confirmed
as Public Domain in the U.
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Lucretius |
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The country girls in Ayrshire, instead of the line--
"She me forsook for a great duke,"
say
"For Athole's duke she me forsook;"
which I take to be the
original
reading.
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Robert Burns |
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V
I lift my heavy heart up solemnly,
As once Electra her
sepulchral
urn,
And, looking in thine eyes, I over-turn
The ashes at thy feet.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Archive
Foundation
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Keats - Lamia |
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The
neighing
troop, the flashing blade,
The bugle's stirring blast,
The charge, the dreadful cannonade,
The din and shout are past;
Nor war's wild note nor glory's peal
Shall thrill with fierce delight
Those breasts that never more may feel
The rapture of the fight.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Aeneas stopped and hung
dismayed
at the tumult.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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)
Mery,
Without dawn too grossly now inflaming
The rose, that splendid, natural and weary
Sheds even her heavy veil of
perfumes
to hear
Underneath the flesh the diamond weeping,
Yes, without those dewy crises!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Your
thoughts
are yours, too; naked let them stand.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Watching
over him with Love & Care
End of the First Night
PAGE 23
Night the [Second]
{We assume this is Night the Second by virtue of its ending on p 36, though it is not in the title.
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Blake - Zoas |
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His own parents;
He that had fathered him, and she that had conceived him in her womb, and
birthed him,
They gave this child more of themselves than that;
They gave him
afterward
every day--they became part of him.
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Whitman |
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{136a} "AEneas dedicates these arms
concerning
the conquering
Greeks.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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And across these seas
We who cry Peace and treasure life and cling
To cities, happiness, or daily toil
For daily bread, or trail the long routine
Of seventy years, taste not the terrible wine
Whereof you drink, who drain and toss the cup
Empty and ringing by the
finished
feast;
Or have it shaken from your hand by sight
Of God against the olive woods.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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"
THE BOY
I wish I might become like one of these
Who, in the night on horses wild astride,
With torches flaming out like
loosened
hair
On to the chase through the great swift wind ride.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Whan fader or moder arn in grave, 4860
Hir children shulde, whan they ben deede,
Ful
diligent
ben, in hir steede,
To use that werke on such a wyse,
That oon may thurgh another ryse.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Enter
Macduffes
Wife, her Son, and Rosse.
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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- You provide, in accordance with
paragraph
1.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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There no mortal man dares to swear in vain: 1395
Against false oaths, his punishment is certain:
And fearing to meet there with inexorable death,
Nothing more surely constrains
deceitful
breath.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Oh abbondante grazia ond' io presunsi
ficcar lo viso per la luce etterna,
tanto che la veduta vi
consunsi!
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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The herd approach'd; each guest, with busy brain,
Arriving
at the portal, gaz'd amain,
And enter'd marveling: for they knew the street,
Remember'd it from childhood all complete
Without a gap, yet ne'er before had seen
That royal porch, that high-built fair demesne;
So in they hurried all, maz'd, curious and keen:
Save one, who look'd thereon with eye severe,
And with calm-planted steps walk'd in austere;
'Twas Apollonius: something too he laugh'd,
As though some knotty problem, that had daft
His patient thought, had now begun to thaw,
And solve and melt--'twas just as he foresaw.
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Keats - Lamia |
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You must requite his unseasonable
gaiety with a night of deadly sorrow, in which he may both know and
feel that Vitellius lives and is his emperor, and, if
anything
should
happen, has a son to be his heir.
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Tacitus |
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_ 64);
and other
examples
as late as 1690.
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John Donne |
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XLVII
While solemn preparation so was made
For the grand obsequies, with reverence due,
According to old use and honours paid,
In former age, corrupted by each new;
A proclamation of their lord allayed
Quickly the noise of the lamenting crew;
Promising any one a mighty gain
That should
denounce
by whom his son was slain.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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")
Do I dare
Disturb the
universe?
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T.S. Eliot |
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160
That when, opprest by fortune and in
grievous
case, thou didst send me this
epistle o'erwrit with tears, that I might bear up shipwrecked thee tossed
by the foaming waves of the sea, and restore thee from the threshold of
death; thou whom neither sacred Venus suffers to repose in soft slumber,
desolate on a a lonely couch, nor do the Muses divert with the sweet song
of ancient poets, whilst thy anxious mind keeps vigil:--this is grateful to
me, since thou dost call me thy friend, and dost seek hither the gifts of
the Muses and of Venus.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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--Why, To-morrow I may be
Myself with Yesterday's Sev'n
Thousand
Years.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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See there a mound of
powdered
stones, all flattened,
smashed, and torn,
Gone black with damp and green with slime?
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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--
So may the undoomed easily flee
evils and exile, if only he gain
the grace of The
Wielder!
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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So through the
moonlight
lanes they go,
And far into the moonlight dale,
And by the church, and o'er the down,
To bring a doctor from the town,
To comfort poor old Susan Gale.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Left to herself, the serpent now began
To change; her elfin blood in madness ran,
Her mouth foam'd, and the grass,
therewith
besprent,
Wither'd at dew so sweet and virulent;
Her eyes in torture fix'd, and anguish drear,
Hot, glaz'd, and wide, with lid-lashes all sear,
Flash'd phosphor and sharp sparks, without one cooling tear.
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Keats - Lamia |
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pallida Mors aequo pulsat pede pauperum tabernas
regumque
turris.
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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ou art holden good & hende,
Alesed of gret
Almesse!
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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It exists
because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and
donations
from
people in all walks of life.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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The
unfeeling
heart can't know a pain so sweet:
Love reigns on earth above, not beneath our feet.
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Ronsard |
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And yet a strange and horrid curse
Clung upon Peter, night and day;
Month after month the thing grew worse, _700
And
deadlier
than in this my verse
I can find strength to say.
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| Source: |
Shelley |
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Vicinus prope dives est,
negligensque
Priapus.
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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10
Thy beames, so reverend, and strong
Why
shouldst
thou thinke?
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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As Far As My Eye Can See In My Body's Senses
All the trees all their branches all of their leaves
The grass at the foot of the rocks and the houses en masse
Far off the sea that your eye bathes
These images of day after day
The vices the virtues so imperfect
The transparency of men passing among them by chance
And passing women breathed by your elegant obstinacies
Your obsessions in a heart of lead on virgin lips
The vices the virtues so imperfect
The likeness of looks of permission with eyes you conquer
The confusion of bodies wearinesses ardours
The
imitation
of words attitudes ideas
The vices the virtues so imperfect
Love is man incomplete
Barely Disfigured
Adieu Tristesse
Bonjour Tristesse
Farewell Sadness
Hello Sadness
You are inscribed in the lines on the ceiling
You are inscribed in the eyes that I love
You are not poverty absolutely
Since the poorest of lips denounce you
Ah with a smile
Bonjour Tristesse
Love of kind bodies
Power of love
From which kindness rises
Like a bodiless monster
Unattached head
Sadness beautiful face.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Come: let me seek
elsewhere
some means of address,
By which I might move my father's tenderness,
And speak to him of a love he may oppose,
But which all his power knows no way to depose.
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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When
there was a Joust and Sir Kay let him attend it, he went half beside
himself in an ecstasy watching the warriors clash their springing
spears, and the
sniffing
chargers reel.
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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By the hour of dawn he was proud and stark,
Kissed the Indian babes with a sigh,
Went forth to live on roots and bark,
Sleep in the trees, while the years howled by--
Calling the catamounts by name,
And buffalo bulls no hand could tame,
Slaying never a living creature,
Joining the birds in every game,
With the
gorgeous
turkey gobblers mocking,
With the lean-necked eagles boxing and shouting;
Sticking their feathers in his hair,--
Turkey feathers,
Eagle feathers,--
Trading hearts with all beasts and weathers
He swept on, winged and wonder-crested,
Bare-armed, barefooted, and bare-breasted.
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
|
e
felonies
{and} fraudes of ?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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The spelling in the Cambridge manuscript is uniformly thire,
except once when it is thir; and where their once occurs in the writing
of an
amanuensis
the e is struck through.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
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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.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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The few that glare each
character
must mark;
You balance not the many in the dark.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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[Sidenote: he
appeased
Evander's wrath by killing Cacus;]
{and} kacus apaised[e] ?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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_
This statement is
entirely
incorrect.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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_: "The
Doctors in the Talmud say, that one day spent here in true
Repentance
is
more worth than eternity itself, or all the days of heaven in the other
world".
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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: spatium unius uersus in D,
non item in O, ubi tamen prima littera uocabuli _Celius_
omissa est
1 _Ellius_ O ||
_Melius_
D: _E elius_ C
2 _ueron.
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
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And then the rolling thunder gets awake,
And from black clouds the
lightning
flashes break.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
|
Please do not assume that a book's appearance in Google Book Search means it can be used in any manner
anywhere
in the world.
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Meredith - Poems |
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And yet for this want a supply is provided,
To a higher than earth the soul is guided,
We are ready and yearn for revelation:
And where are its light and warmth so blent
As here in the New
Testament?
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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And who the forts left
unprepared
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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They claim that Theseus
appeared
in Epirus.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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But the Pasha's
attention
is failing,
O'er his visage his fair turban stealeth;
From tchebouk {13a} he sleep is inhaling
Whilst round him sweet vapours he dealeth.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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Yet if one
measures
the offence by its pain, 605
If hatred alone inspires hatred again,
No woman was ever worthier of pity,
And less deserving, my Lord, of your enmity.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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The Foundation's
principal
office is located at 4557 Melan Dr.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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He
takes, O Gellius, such store as not
furthest
Tethys nor Oceanus, progenitor
of waters, can cleanse: for there is nothing of any crime which can go
further, not though with lowered head he swallow himself.
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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A _little
learning_
is a dang'rous thing; 215
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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Pale through
pathless
ways
The fancied image strays,
Famished, weeping, weak,
With hollow piteous shriek.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
"BETWEEN US NOW"
BETWEEN us now and here--
Two thrown together
Who are not wont to wear
Life's
flushest
feather--
Who see the scenes slide past,
The daytimes dimming fast,
Let there be truth at last,
Even if despair.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Thou art the first that I have known in deed
True and my friend, and
shelterer
of my need.
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Euripides - Electra |
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Meodu-scencum
hwearf geond þæt reced
Hæreðes
dōhtor:
lufode þā lēode, līð-wǣge bær
hǣlum tō handa.
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Beowulf |
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--_Enter_ ENGINE,
_followed
by_ WITTIPOLL.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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I envy e'en the body of the Lord,
Oft as those
precious
lips of hers draw near it.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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George Edward
Woodberry
and the _Boston Herald_:--"On the Italian
Front, MCMXVI"; Mr.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Lapped him, and his head
Drooped in the bed of slaughter
Low, as one wearied;
Woe for the edged axe,
And woe for the heart of hate,
Houndlike about thy tracks,
O
conqueror
desolate,
From Troy over land and sea,
Till a wife stood waiting thee;
Not with crowns did she stand,
Nor flowers of peace in her hand;
With Aegisthus' dagger drawn
For her hire she strove,
Through shame and through blood alone;
And won her a traitor's love.
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Euripides - Electra |
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_ I hear a sound of life--of life like ours--
Of laughter and of wailing, of grave speech,
Of little plaintive voices innocent,
Of life in
separate
courses flowing out
Like our four rivers to some outward main.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Only Rome could mighty Rome resemble,
Only Rome force sacred Rome to tremble:
So Fate's command issued its decree,
No other power, however bold or wise,
Could boast of
matching
her who matched we see,
Her power with earth's, her courage with the sky's.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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it is an ever-fixed mark,
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every
wandering
bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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e
pentangel
de-paynt of pure golde hwe3;
He brayde3 hit by ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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ON BEING REMOVED FROM HSUN-YANG AND SENT TO CHUNG-CHOU
A remote place in the
mountains
of Pa (Ssech'uan)
Before this, when I was stationed at Hsun-yang,
Already I regretted the fewness of friends and guests.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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They compare him to Horace who was short like
Pope, though fat, and who seems to have suffered from colds; also to
Alexander, one of whose shoulders was higher than the other, and to
Ovid, whose other name, Naso, might
indicate
that long noses were a
characteristic feature of his family.
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Alexander Pope |
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LIMITED WARRANTY,
DISCLAIMER
OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right
of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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"
Then becometh it kin to the faun and the dryad, a woodland- dweller amid the rocks and streams
"
consociisfaunts
dryadisque inter saxa sylvarum" Janus of Basel.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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e
chauntre
of ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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The
Nightingale
that in the Branches sang,
Ah, whence, and whither flown again, who knows!
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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If you want to
download any of these eBooks directly, rather than using the regular
search system you may utilize the following
addresses
and just
download by the etext year.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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He has invented lying words and modes,
Empty and vain as his own
coreless
heart;
Evasive meanings, nothings of much sound,
To lure the heedless victim to the toils _235
Spread round the valley of its paradise.
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Shelley |
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forming the counterpoint to this prosody, a work which lacks precedent, have been left in a primitive state: not because I agree with being timid in my attempts; but because it is not for me, save by a special pagination or volume of my own, in a Periodical so courageous,
gracious
and accommodating as it shows itself to be to real freedom, to act too contrary to custom.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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I fill'd this cup to one made up
Of
loveliness
alone,
A woman, of her gentle sex
The seeming paragon--
Her health!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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