The outlines of his figure, exceedingly
lean, but much above the common height, were rendered
minutely
distinct,
by means of a faded suit of black cloth which fitted tight to the skin,
but was otherwise cut very much in the style of a century ago.
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Poe - 5 |
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A FOREWORD
When the first Miscellany of American Poetry appeared in 1920,
innumerable were the questions asked by both readers and reviewers of
publishers and
contributors
alike.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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SHE
followed
his advice: avenged the wrong;
And naught omitted, pleasures to prolong.
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La Fontaine |
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111: "The funeral tapers
(however thought of by some) are of the same
harmless
import.
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Robert Herrick |
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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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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Thy faithful bedesman, one in worldly matters
No prudent judge,
ventures
today to offer
His voice to thee.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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In the wandering transparency
of your noble face
these
floating
animals are wonderful
I envy their candour their inexperience
Your inexperience on the bed of waters
Finds the road of love without bowing
By the road of ways
and without the talisman that reveals
your laughter at the crowd of women
and your tears no one wants.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Without eye I see, and without tongue I playne;
I desyre to perishe, yet aske I health;
I love another, and yet I hate my self;
I feede in sorrow and laughe in all my payne,
Lykewyse
pleaseth
me both death and lyf,
And my delight is cawser of my greif.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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And, for the deed of death, trust it to God
That it be well done,
unrepented
of,
And not to loss!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Lastly, he is very young, and is swept away by his
sister's
intenser
nature.
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Euripides - Electra |
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When Orpheus played and sang, the wild animals
themselves
came to hear his singing.
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Appoloinaire |
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[Sidenote: Through every sphere she (the mind) runs where night is
most
cloudless
and where the sky is decked with stars, until she
reaches the heaven's utmost sphere--]
[Sidenote: [* fol.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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And thou shalt see my thoughts, all consecrate,
Like candles set before thy flower-strewn shrine,
O Queen of Virgins, and the taper-shine
Shall glimmer star-like in the vault of blue,
With eyes of flame for ever
watching
you.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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In the tent palace black headgear lines up,1 at
headquarters
gate white gowns shine.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Now,
wavering
doubt succeeds to long despair;
Shall I my virgin nuptial vow revere;
And, joining to my son's my menial train,
Partake his counsels, and assist his reign?
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Constantine
to Byzantium, when he grew
Weary of Tyber, bore the tent of old.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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zip *****
This and all
associated
files of various formats will be found in:
http://www.
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Poe - 5 |
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e
lettrure
of armes;
F[or] to telle of ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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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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Moult est fos haus homs qui est
chiches!
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Whatever that
secret is, the charm of it never fails after all these years to keep the
poems preserved with a freshness and vitality, which are the qualities
of
enduring
genius.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Once upon a
midnight
dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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'They have brought one legion across from Britain,
others have been
summoned
from Spain, or are on their way from
Italy.
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Tacitus |
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s decline had they
executed
Bao and Da midway.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Donations are
accepted
in a number of other
ways including checks, online payments and credit card donations.
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Rilke - Poems |
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4
THE
SALVATION
ARMY'S SONG By Phoebe Hoffman
"It's Christmas time, it's Christmas time," Echo the feet in the dusty street.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Hee's heere in double trust;
First, as I am his Kinsman, and his Subiect,
Strong both against the Deed: Then, as his Host,
Who should against his
Murtherer
shut the doore,
Not beare the knife my selfe.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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At first I dwelt
Whole days and days in sheer astonishment;
Forgetful
utterly of self-intent;
Moving but with the mighty ebb and flow.
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Keats |
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Poor tottering dame, it was too plainly known,
Her daughter's dying hastened on her own,
For from the day the tidings reached her door
She took to bed and looked up no more,
And, ere again another year came round,
She, well as Jane, was laid within the ground;
And all were grieved poor Goody's end to see:
No better neighbour entered house than she,
A
harmless
soul, with no abusive tongue,
Trig as new pins, and tight's the day was long;
And go the week about, nine times in ten
Ye'd find her house as cleanly as her sen.
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John Clare |
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CCIV
In
Rencesvals
is Charles entered,
Begins to weep for those he finds there dead;
Says to the Franks: "My lords, restrain your steps,
Since I myself alone should go ahead,
For my nephew, whom I would find again.
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Chanson de Roland |
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I said to my heart, my feeble heart;
Haven't we had enough of
sadness?
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19th Century French Poetry |
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But now, at length, dear Dian sank from sight,
Into a western couch of thunder-cloud;
And thou, a ghost, amid the
entombing
trees
Didst glide away.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Ah why refuse the
blameless
bliss?
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Coleridge - Poems |
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To this he nothing offered in reply,
Though oft his
throbbing
bosom heaved a sigh.
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La Fontaine |
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The rumour of our onward course now brings
A steady rustle, as of some strange ship
Darkling with
soundless
sail all set and amply filled
By volume of an ever-constant air,
At fullest night, through seas for ever calm,
Swept lovely and unknown for ever on.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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SQUIRE
ELEGY
I vaguely wondered what you were about,
But never wrote when you had gone away;
Assumed you better,
quenched
the uneasy doubt
You might need faces, or have things to say.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Is your sole virtue committing
outrage?
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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'
Fie, fie,
Sephina!
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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what a
huge great part of this cake he kept for
himself!
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Aristophanes |
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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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XXXVI
Let me confess that we two must be twain,
Although
our undivided loves are one:
So shall those blots that do with me remain,
Without thy help, by me be borne alone.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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A Plebeian, even though, like Lucius Siccius, he were
distinguished by his valor and
knowledge
of war, could serve only
in subordinate posts.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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'
Saturnia
ask'd an oath, to vouch the truth,
And fix dominion on the favour'd youth.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Et le soir aux rayons de lune qui lui font
Aux
contours
du cul des bavures de lumiere,
Une ombre avec details s'accroupit sur un fond
De neige rose ainsi qu'une rose tremiere.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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I sank my head against the dark wall;
Called to a
thousand
times, I did not turn.
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Li Po |
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'--such a one can only be answered with another question: 'Is
Pierrot like a man, and has it been put beyond
question
that
Pontius Pilate was hanged for beating his wife?
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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A damp and death-like odour from the hollow
--Where all must slumber--rises, yet I follow
Thy wafture still, which fire
enkindles
new
And Thy great love which ever watches true.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Would the sycophants of him
Now so deaf to duty's prayer,[nw]
Were his borrowed glories dim,
In his native
darkness
share?
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Byron |
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Grand are the forms of this body and nobly
positioned
each member.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Along the reaches of the street
Held in a lunar synthesis,
Whispering lunar incantations
Disolve the floors of memory
And all its clear relations,
Its divisions and precisions,
Every street lamp that I pass
Beats like a
fatalistic
drum,
And through the spaces of the dark
Midnight shakes the memory
As a madman shakes a dead geranium.
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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The moaning and groaning,
The sighing and sobbing,
Are quieted now,
With that horrible throbbing
At heart:--ah, that horrible,
Horrible
throbbing!
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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When poets lachrymose recite
Beneath the eyes of ladies bright
Their own productions, some insist
No greater
pleasure
can exist
Just so!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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You may copy it, give it away or
re-use it under the terms of the Project
Gutenberg
License included
with this eBook or online at www.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Memory faileth, as the lotus-loved chimes
Sink into
fluttering
of wind, But we grow never weary For we are old.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Behold me here
Brought down to slave's estate, and far away
Wanders Orestes,
banished
from the wealth
That once was thine, the profit of thy care,
Whereon these revel in a shameful joy.
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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If you
do not charge anything for copies of this eBook,
complying
with the
rules is very easy.
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William Wordsworth |
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And whistle: All's for the best
In this best of
Carnivals!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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masiis_ O:
_ginnasiis_
B m.
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Latin - Catullus |
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Be brave in trouble; meet distress
With
dauntless
front; but when the gale
Too prosperous blows, be wise no less,
And shorten sail.
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm
electronic
work is
derived from texts not protected by U.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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I Said It To You
I said it to you for the clouds
I said it to you for the tree of the sea
For each wave for the birds in the leaves
For the pebbles of sound
For familiar hands
For the eye that becomes landscape or face
And sleep returns it the heaven of its colour
For all that night drank
For the network of roads
For the open window for a bare forehead
I said it to you for your
thoughts
for your words
Every caress every trust survives.
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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The sickness--the nausea--
The
pitiless
pain--
Have ceased, with the fever
That maddened my brain--
With the fever called "Living"
That burned in my brain.
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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Losing a very large imperial army to a
scholar?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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It
perseveres
if grief be all its view,
And squanders gems for which no mortal thanks,
And blesses when self as sacrifice it burns.
| Guess: |
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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So, since we
communed
here, our bones have been
Nearer, perhaps, than they again will be,
Earth and the worldwide battle lie between,
Death lies between, and friend-destroying sea.
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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VIII*
Till, by
vicinity
so long,
A nearer way they sought,
And, grown magnetically strong.
| Guess: |
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Marvell - Poems |
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von (Robert), p39 1887, Internet Book Archive Images
Medusas,
miserable
heads
With hairs of violet
You enjoy the hurricane
And I enjoy the very same.
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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And I felt the night between us deepen,
Heard the clock that ticked upon the shelf,
The great silence closing in around us,
And his hand that he
withdrew
from mine.
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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What hissing and twirling, what
chattering
and bustling!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Sweat is a
stranger
to thee, absent also are saliva,
phlegm, and evil nose-snivel.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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A space is created between them there,
Like a level pass between two hills
That the snowdrift's
whiteness
softly fills,
When the gusts of wind have dropped in winter.
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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'
In him ne deyned sparen blood royal 435
The fyr of love, wher-fro god me blesse,
Ne him forbar in no degree, for al
His vertu or his
excellent
prowesse;
But held him as his thral lowe in distresse,
And brende him so in sondry wyse ay newe, 440
That sixty tyme a day he loste his hewe.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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"
The Priest sat by and heard the child;
In
trembling
zeal he seized his hair,
He led him by his little coat,
And all admired the priestly care.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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WERE it much to implore thee,
If devoutly, once,
I might kneel before thee
After
suffering
long?
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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But when day breaks she then appears in haste
The well-known heavenward path again to scale,
With moisten'd eye, and soft
expressive
cheek!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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It's a day's work
To empty one house of all household goods
And fill another with 'em fifteen miles away,
Although
you do no more than dump them down.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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XVIII
But fiercer grew the fighting
Around
Valerius
dead;
For Titus dragged him by the foot
And Aulus by the head.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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When words we want, Love
teacheth
to indite;
And what we blush to speak, she bids us write.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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After a
ferryman
had
conveyed the corpse over a lake, certain judges examined the life of the
deceased, particularly his claim to the virtue of loyalty, and,
according to the report, decreed or refused the honours of sepulture.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
|
Hart is the
originator
of the Project Gutenberg-tm
concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared
with anyone.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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The Goth was
stalking
round with anxious search,
Spying the time-worn flaws in every arch;
It chanc'd his new-come neibor took his e'e,
And e'en a vexed and angry heart had he!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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And pikes are taken in the pound ; ««
But I,
retiring
from the flood.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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"
So the body of Hector was laid upon the fire, and was burnt; and his
ashes were
gathered
into an urn of gold and laid in a grave.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Many a goodly court my
presence
knows,
Yet in her there's more that does impress,
Measure and wit and other virtue glows
Beauty, youth, good manners, actions stir,
Of courtesy she has well-learnt her share
Of all displeasing things I find her free
I think no good thing lacking anyway.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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Now death
Is not thus viewed by honest beasts of prey;
And when the lion found _him_ fled away,
Ashamed to be so grand, man being so base,
He
muttered
to himself, "A wretched king!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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1620
But in effect, I prey yow, as I may,
Of your good word and of your
frendship
ay.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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All
creation
slept and smiled.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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So walking in a garden of delight
I came upon one
sheltered
shadowed nook
Where broad leaf shadows veiled the day with night,
And there lay snow unmelted by the sun:--
I answered: Take who will the path I took,
Winter nips once for all; love is but one.
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She vowed to marry the King of the Cranes,
Leaving the Nile for stranger plains;
And away they flew in a
gathering
crowd
Of endless birds in a lengthening cloud.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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I do believe in
avenging
gods
Who plague us for sins we never sinned
But who avenge us.
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Imagists |
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And
now we have left Rouse's Point, and entered the Sorel River, and
passed the
invisible
barrier between the States and Canada.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Now drink we deep, now featly tread
A measure; now before each shrine
With Salian feasts the table spread;
The time invites us,
comrades
mine.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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When I am come into the battle grand,
And blows lay on, by hundred, by thousand,
Of Durendal
bloodied
you'll see the brand.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Then a whale to a whelk we have
swallowed
the King of
England.
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Tennyson |
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The self-same moment I could pray;
And from my neck so free
The
Albatross
fell off, and sank
Like lead into the sea.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Who sensibly
outdares
his senseless sword,
And when it bows stand'st up.
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Shakespeare |
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Passage to you, to
mastership
of you, ye strangling problems!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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You will think it romantic when I tell you, that I find the idea of
your friendship almost
necessary
to my existence.
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Robert Burns |
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It will readily be seen that Mompesson's position and career conform
in no
particular
to those of Merecraft in the present play.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Below him endless gloomy valleys, chill,
Will wreathe and whirl with
fighting
cloud, driven by the wind's
fierce breath;
But on the summit, wind and cloud are still:--
Only the sunlight, and death.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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