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How beautiful to see
Once more a shepherd of mankind indeed,
Who loved his charge, but never loved to lead;
One whose meek flock the people joyed to be,
Not lured by any cheat of birth,
But by his clear-grained human worth,
And brave old wisdom of
sincerity!
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But if so changed hath been the power of mind,
That every
recollection
of things done
Is fallen away, at no o'erlong remove
Is that, I trow, from what we mean by death.
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Therefore
much Drinke may be said to be an
Equiuocator
with Lecherie:
it makes him, and it marres him; it sets him on,
and it takes him off; it perswades him, and dis-heartens
him; makes him stand too, and not stand too: in conclusion,
equiuocates him in a sleepe, and giuing him the Lye,
leaues him
Macd.
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He passed the
following
winter at Athens, where
divine honours were paid to him under the title of "the Preserver" (?
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Byron |
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But natheles yit, gladly she wolde, 4465
That he, that wol him with hir holde,
Hadde alle tymes [his] purpos clere,
Withoute
deceyte, or any were.
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Tane, one in
contrast
to other.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Superfetation
of [Greek text inserted here],
And at the mensual turn of time
Produced enervate Origen.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Captain Harris has had a careful
transcript
of
the poems made, and he allowed me after collating the original with
the transcript to keep the latter by me for a long time.
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XV
"Why should I now in contest with the foe
Less
strength
in you behold than them?
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Here's a
knocking
indeede: if a man were
Porter of Hell Gate, hee should haue old turning the
Key.
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" _Luia
substantivo
et adjectivum
concordat in generi, numerum, et casus_.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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when her lovely young
Were dead and gone, and her caressing tongue 340
Lay a lost thing upon her paly lip,
And very, very deadliness did nip
Her
motherly
cheeks.
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Keats |
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Another point he handled very well,
Though oft'ner he'd thereon have liked to dwell,
And this the children of the present day,
So fully know, there's naught for me to say:
John to the senses things so clearly brought,
That much by wives and
husbands
he was sought,
Who held his knowledge of superior price,
And paid attention to his sage advice.
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La Fontaine |
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Since the lecturer has raised the question whether Li T'ai-po or Tu
Fu is the greater poet, I would say that the Chinese of the present
day
consider
Tu Fu to be the greater.
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Li Po |
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Say, on the noon when the half-sunny hours told that April was nigh,
And I upgathered and cast forth the snow from the crocus-border,
Fashioned and
furbished
the soil into a summer-seeming order,
Glowing in gladsome faith that I quickened the year thereby.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Then he that
patiently
want's burden bears,
No burden bears, but is a king, a king!
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Golden Treasury |
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Such, or nearly such, appears to have been the process by which
the lost ballad-poetry of Rome was
transformed
into history.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Oh, with what
patience
I have tried to win
The favour of the hostess of the Inn!
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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= Fleay's
identification
with Sir Giles Mompesson has very
little to commend it.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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--Me voila libre et
solitaire!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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I thought, from the look he had last night, I'd found
That great, brave,
irresistible
love!
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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O, all of you, forget your
darkened
faith.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Thy registers and thee I both defy,
Not
wondering
at the present nor the past,
For thy records and what we see doth lie,
Made more or less by thy continual haste.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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O lullaby, with your daughter, and the innocence
Of your cold feet, greet a terrible new being:
A voice where harpsichords and viols linger,
Will you press that breast, with your withered finger,
From which Woman flows in
Sibylline
whiteness to
Those lips starved by the air's virgin blue?
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Mallarme - Poems |
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,
may simply retain the Surname of an
hereditary
calling.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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) deemed I 'twas
preference
matter
Or AEmilius' mouth choose I to smell or his ----
Nothing is this more clean, uncleaner nothing that other,
Yet I ajudge ---- cleaner and nicer to be;
For while this one lacks teeth, that one has cubit-long tushes, 5
Set in their battered gums favouring a muddy old box,
Not to say aught of gape like wide-cleft gap of a she-mule
Whenas in summer-heat wont peradventure to stale.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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But let me quit man's works, again to read
His Maker's spread around me, and suspend
This page, which from my
reveries
I feed,
Until it seems prolonging without end.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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So
constant
to its stolid trust,
The shaft that never knew,
It shames the constancy that fled
Before its emblem flew.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Time
consumes
words, like love.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Let us next obtain some idea of what this most
remarkable
poet--the founder
of _American_ poetry rightly to be so called, and the most sonorous poetic
voice of the tangibilities of actual and prospective democracy--is in his
proper life and person.
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Whitman |
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Would but the Desert of the Fountain yield
One glimpse--if dimly, yet indeed, reveal'd,
To which the fainting
Traveler
might spring,
As springs the trampled herbage of the field!
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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No
lightning
or storm reach where he's gone.
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Villon |
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ofer borda
gebræc, _over the
crashing
of the shields_, 2260.
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Beowulf |
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Its
business
office is located at
809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email
business@pglaf.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Because your lover threw wild hands toward the sky
And the
affrighted
steed ran on alone,
Do not weep.
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Stephen Crane |
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Come, wee'l to sleepe: My strange & self-abuse
Is the
initiate
feare, that wants hard vse:
We are yet but yong indeed.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Who are we,
Friends?
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Licinius, trust a seaman's lore:
Steer not too boldly to the deep,
Nor, fearing storms, by
treacherous
shore
Too closely creep.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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A Transcript of the Registers of the
Company of
Stationers
of London; 1554-1640.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Calmly she waits, and
breathes
her gathered flower
Till one shall cull for her imperial power.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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in their youth,--
New England youth, that seems a sort of pill,
Half wish-I-dared, half Edwards on the Will,
Bitter to swallow, and which leaves a trace
Of
Calvinistic
colic on the face.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Gold, gold can pass the tyrant's sentinel,
Can shiver rocks with more
resistless
blow
Than is the thunder's.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Sometimes with One I Love
Sometimes
with one I love I fill myself with rage for fear I effuse
unreturn'd love,
But now I think there is no unreturn'd love, the pay is certain one
way or another,
(I loved a certain person ardently and my love was not return'd,
Yet out of that I have written these songs.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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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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Lewis Carroll |
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Ghostly mother, keep aloof
One hour longer from my soul,
For I still am
thinking
of
Earth's warm-beating joy and dole!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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And so they must be
furnished
with no sense.
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Lucretius |
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The Occident and the Orient,
posterior
and posterior,
sitting tight, holding fast
the culture dumped by them
on to primitive America,
Atlantic to Pacific,
were monumental colophons
a disorderly country fellow,
vulgar Long Islander.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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By what mean hast thou render'd thee so drunken,
To the clay that thou bowest down thy figure,
And the grass and the windel-straws art
grasping?
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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You would have married her most shamefully,
Where there was no
proportion
held in love.
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Shakespeare |
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The Count of
Provence
must eat the last, allow
That, disinherited, he's not worth a sow,
Despite how he yet defends himself, I vow
He'll eat the heart, to bear what makes him bow.
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Troubador Verse |
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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"
Zourine
directly
settled matters.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Gower is a good captain, and is good knowledge and
literatured
in the wars.
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Shakespeare |
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Stung
And
poisoned
was my spirit: despair sung
A war-song of defiance 'gainst all hell.
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Keats |
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II
These hearts were woven of human joys and cares
Washed
marvellously
with sorrow, swift to mirth.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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The bat is dun with wrinkled wings
Like fallow article,
And not a song
pervades
his lips,
Or none perceptible.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Man: The
accident
was loud, & here before thee
With rueful cry, yet what it was we hear not,
No Preface needs, thou seest we long to know.
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Milton |
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And forever it shall haunt you
With its mystic,
changing
ray:
Its light shall live when we lie dead,
With hearts at the heart of day!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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What would have
happened
to you but for me, and you without your wits?
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Yeats |
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Me from myself thy cruel eye hath taken,
And my next self thou harder hast engross'd:
Of him, myself, and thee I am forsaken;
A torment thrice three-fold thus to be cross'd:
Prison my heart in thy steel bosom's ward,
But then my friend's heart let my poor heart bail;
Whoe'er keeps me, let my heart be his guard;
Thou canst not then use rigour in my jail:
And yet thou wilt; for I, being pent in thee,
Perforce
am thine, and all that is in me.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Updated editions will replace the
previous
one--the old editions
will be renamed.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Flowed up the hill and down King William Street,
To where Saint Mary
Woolnoth
kept the hours
With a dead sound on the final stroke of nine.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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The invalidity or unenforceability of any
provision of this
agreement
shall not void the remaining provisions.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Le Testament: Ballade: A S'amye
F alse beauty that costs me so dear,
R ough indeed, a hypocrite sweetness,
A mor, like iron on the teeth and harder,
N amed only to achieve my sure distress,
C harm that's murderous, poor heart's death,
O covert pride that sends men to ruin,
I
mplacable
eyes, won't true redress
S uccour a poor man, without crushing?
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Villon |
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Hold, and smite me not,
Old
housefolk
of my father!
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Euripides - Electra |
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What pressure from the hands that
lifeless
lie?
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Longfellow |
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produced from images
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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_Fearing
to break the king's commandement.
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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Hence a grave frigid rheum and
frequent
cough
Shook me till fled I to thy bosom, where
Repose and nettle-broth healed all my ills.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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And, by that amorous hope which soothed thy care,
What time
expectant
thou wert doom'd to sigh
Dispel those vapours which disturb our sky!
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Petrarch |
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Southey and Cottle's edition in three volumes with an account
of
Chatterton
by Dr.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Mussulmans
and Giaours
Throw kerchiefs at a smile, and have no ruth
For any weeping.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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LIII
THE TRUE LOVER
The lad came to the door at night,
When lovers crown their vows,
And
whistled
soft and out of sight
In shadow of the boughs.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Now I reform, and surely so will all
Whose happy eyes on thy
translation
fall.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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Many
confused
voices cry.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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If still Boris pursue his crafty ways,
Let us
contrive
by skilful means to rouse
The people.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Nor shall the
grateful
Muse forget to tell,
That--not the least among his many claims
To deathless honor--he was MILTON'S friend,
A man not second among those who lived 330
To show us that the poet's lyre demands
An arm of tougher sinew than the sword.
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James Russell Lowell |
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THAT
DIVELISH
YRON ENGIN, cannon.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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--"O faultless is her dainty form,
And luminous her mind;
She is the God-created norm
Of perfect
womankind!
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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But to the grete effect: than sey I thus, 505
That stonding in concord and in quiete,
Thise ilke two,
Criseyde
and Troilus,
As I have told, and in this tyme swete,
Save only often mighte they not mete,
Ne layser have hir speches to fulfelle, 510
That it befel right as I shal yow telle.
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Cleomenes
and Dion,
Being well arriv'd from Delphos, are both landed,
Hasting to th' court.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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Life flows down to death; we cannot bind
That current that it should not flee:
Life flows down to death, as rivers find
The
inevitable
sea.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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LVI
Much weighs the Grecian's eloquence; but more
Than
eloquence
with good Rogero weighed
The mighty obligation which he bore;
That debt which cannot ever be repaid.
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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And ye, weak
conquerors!
| Guess: |
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Shelley |
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wile,
_I know my
gracious
H.
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Beowulf |
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Painting
is truly a luminous language.
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Appoloinaire |
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Nunc est mens adducta_ || _tua, mea Lesbia, culpa, Atque ita se
officio perdidit ipsa suo, Vt iam nec bene uelle queam tibi, si
optima fias, Nec
desistere
amare, omnia si facias.
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Latin - Catullus |
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, "_written three
hundred years ago by one Rowley, a Monk_"
concerning
dress in the age
of Henry II; the other, "ETHELGAR, _a Saxon poem_" in bombast prose.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do
practically
ANYTHING
with public domain eBooks.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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To
SEND
DONATIONS
or determine the status of compliance for any
particular state visit http://pglaf.
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Rilke - Poems |
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8
_affixus_
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Latin - Catullus |
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_pro quibus_) G || _pregestit apisci_ G,
sed rasura est sub litteris _re_, et spatium ante _apisci_:
_p'gestit adipisci_ O: _apisci_ RVenBLa1ACDh
148 _meminere_ Czalina
151
_falaci_
G m.
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Latin - Catullus |
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Let me tell you, my friends, the whole question depends
On an ancient
manorial
right.
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Lewis Carroll |
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Empty, unless for a huge bed of state
Shrouded with rusty curtains drooped awry
(A puppet theatre where
malignant
fancy
Peoples the wings with fear).
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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