Work on, age after age, nothing is to be lost,
It may have to wait long, but it will certainly come in use,
When the materials are all prepared and ready, the
architects
shall appear.
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Their
barbarous
weapons would but mar that beauty,
And I would have you die as a queen should--
In a death chamber.
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Yeats |
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My honour's mute, my duty
impotent!
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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For perfect strains may float
'Neath master-hands, from
instruments
defaced,--
And great souls, at one stroke, may do and doat.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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<>,
rispuose 'l mio maestro, <
ma per dar lui
esperienza
piena,
a me, che morto son, convien menarlo
per lo 'nferno qua giu di giro in giro;
e quest' e ver cosi com' io ti parlo>>.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Bears and
leopards
would feed upon them next;
Adversaries, dragons, wyverns, serpents,
Griffins were there, thirty thousand, no less,
Nor was there one but on some Frank it set.
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Chanson de Roland |
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3, a full refund of
any money paid for a work or a
replacement
copy, if a defect in the
electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days of
receipt of the work.
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Stephen Crane |
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A rat crept softly through the vegetation
Dragging its slimy belly on the bank
While I was fishing in the dull canal
On a winter evening round behind the
gashouse
190
Musing upon the king my brother's wreck
And on the king my father's death before him.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Sad case for such a brain to hold
Communion with a
stirring
child!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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The prehistoric
Sumerian
dynasties were all transformed into the realm
of myth and legend.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Tiger, tiger, burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Dare frame thy fearful
symmetry?
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blake-poems |
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'149 Gildon:'
a critic of the time who had
repeatedly
attacked Pope.
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Alexander Pope |
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Therefore we
must
consider
in every tongue what is used, what received.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Another Fan
(Of
Mademoiselle
Mallarme's)
O dreamer, that I may dive
In pure pathless joy, understand,
How by subtle deceits connive
To keep my wing in your hand.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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What joy it will be to seek that day,
For love of God, that inn afar,
And, if she wishes, rest, I say,
Near her, though I come from afar,
For words fall in a
pleasant
shower
When distant lover has the power,
With gentle heart, joy to realise.
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Troubador Verse |
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I beg to be
remembered
most respectfully to my venerable friend, and
to your little Highland chieftain.
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Robert Forst |
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I could not bear the bees should come,
I wished they 'd stay away
In those dim
countries
where they go:
What word had they for me?
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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It is
doubtful if tone has ever played a part; a
conscious
use has
sporadically been made of quantity.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Yet may the deed of hers most bright in eyes to be
Lie hid from ours--as in the All-One's thought lay she--
Till
ripening
years have run.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Continued
use of this site implies consent to that usage.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Series
For the
splendour
of the day of happinesses in the air
To live the taste of colours easily
To enjoy loves so as to laugh
To open eyes at the final moment
She has every willingness.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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When I flew to Blackmoor Vale,
Whence the green-gowned faeries hail,
Roosting
near them I could hear them
Speak of queenly Nature's ways,
Means, and moods,--well known to fays.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Wīglāf
siteð
"ofer Bīowulfe, byre Wīhstānes,
"eorl ofer ōðrum unlifigendum,
2910 "healdeð hige-mēðum hēafod-wearde
"lēofes and lāðes.
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Beowulf |
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Euripides seems to have taken positive pleasure in Admetus, much as
Meredith did in his famous Egoist; but
Euripides
all through is kinder to
his victim than Meredith is.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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But some one said, "A hill there is, a little to the north,
And to its
purpledicular
top a narrow way leads forth;
And there among the rugged rocks abides an ancient Sage,--
An earnest Man, who reads all day a most perplexing page.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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the soaring genius'd Sylvester
That earlier loosed the knot great Newton tied,"
An algebraic theorem
announced
by Newton was demonstrated and extended
by Sylvester.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Sur La Mort de Marie: IV
As in May month, on its stem we see the rose
In its sweet youthfulness, in its
freshest
flower,
Making the heavens jealous with living colour,
Dawn sprinkles it with tears in the morning glow:
Grace lies in all its petals, and love, I know,
Scenting the trees and scenting the garden's bower,
But, assaulted by scorching heat or a shower,
Languishing, it dies, and petals on petals flow.
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Ronsard |
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Creating the works from public domain print
editions
means that no
one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation
(and you!
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Li Po |
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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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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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The soul unto itself
Is an imperial friend, --
Or the most
agonizing
spy
An enemy could send.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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The popular belief at Rome, from an early period, seems to have
been that the event of the great day of
Regillus
was decided by
supernatural agency.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Come, read them out to me and
especially
that one I like so much,
which says that I shall become an eagle and soar among the clouds.
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Aristophanes |
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As the two
twilights
of the day
Fold us music-drunken in.
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Emerson - Poems |
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The Lord
vouchsafed
not
Healing to me.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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"--
"Why, as God
ordered!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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qui tamen haut uni patefecit limina uati
nec sua Vergilio
permisit
carmina soli.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Therefore they shall do my will
To-day while I am master still,
And flesh and soul, now both are strong,
Shall hale the sullen slaves along,
Before this fire of sense decay,
This smoke of thought blow clean away,
And leave with ancient night alone
The
stedfast
and enduring bone.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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The wery hunter,
slepinge
in his bed,
To wode ayein his minde goth anoon; 100
The Iuge dremeth how his plees ben sped;
The carter dremeth how his cartes goon;
The riche, of gold; the knight fight with his foon,
The seke met he drinketh of the tonne;
The lover met he hath his lady wonne.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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THAT WAS MY COUNTER-BLADE UNDER
LEONARDO
TERRONE, MASTER OF FENCE
i~* ONE while your tastes were keen to you, \J Gone where the grey winds call to you,
By that high fencer, even Death,
Struck of the blade that no man parrieth;
Such is your fence, one saith, One that hath known you.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Downstairs I laugh, I sport and jest with all;
But in my
solitary
room above
I turn my face in silence to the wall;
My heart is breaking for a little love.
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Christina Rossetti |
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This day is lapsing on its way,
Is lapsing out of sight;
And after all the chances of the day
Comes the
resourceless
night.
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Christina Rossetti |
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7 and any additional
terms imposed by the
copyright
holder.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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When my eyes are closed
Faces fragile, pale, yet flushed a little, like petals of roses :
If these things have confused my
memories
of her So that I could not draw her face
Even if I had skill and the colours,
Yet because her face is so like these things
They but draw me nearer unto her in my thought
And thoughts of her come upon my mind gently, As dew upon the petals of roses.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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"_
[This blue-eyed lass was Jean Jeffry, daughter to the minister of
Lochmaben: she was then a rosy girl of seventeen, with winning manners
and
laughing
blue eyes.
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Robert Forst |
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Oh 1 why did he sing me that song,
I threw him the ring from my hand
Bitter and
treacherous
wrong
That sought me with fetters to brand.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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250)
When I was young, throughout the hot season
There were no
carriages
driving about the roads.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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For alas,
he had crowded the city so full
that men could not grasp beauty,
beauty was over them,
through them, about them,
no crevice
unpacked
with the honey,
rare, measureless.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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And in the nights it seemed a jar
Cut in the
substance
of a star,
Wherein a wine, that will be poured
Some time for feasting Heaven, was stored.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Composed when I had reached Fengxiang, and a personal edict from the emperor
released
me to go to Fuzhou?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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But wilt thou hear since last we parted _580
All that has left me broken
hearted?
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Shelley |
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has
travelled
everywhere,
And all politeness to the fair.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Their
simplicity appears beggarly when compared with the quaint forms
and gaudy
coloring
of such artists as Cowley and Gongora.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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'Tis thee,--myself,--that for myself I praise,
Painting
my age with beauty of thy days.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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To see that virtue should
despised
be
Of such as first were raised for virtue's parts,
And now, broad spreading like an aged tree,
Let none shoot up that nigh them planted be.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Is he waiting for civilization, or past it and
mastering
it?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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From pest on land, or death on ocean,
When hurricanes its surface fan,
O object of my fond
devotion!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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* * * * *
THE POEM
How richly glows the water's breast
Before us, tinged with evening hues, [1]
While, facing thus the crimson west,
The boat her silent course [2]
pursues!
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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His
conversation
was
lively and interesting.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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It is a
strange and daring scene between the three of them; the humbled and
broken-hearted husband; the
triumphant
Heracles, kindly and wise, yet
still touched by the mocking and blustrous atmosphere from which he
sprang; and the silent woman who has seen the other side of the grave.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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--The Wren's Nest
Song--News, Lassies, News
Song--Crowdie Ever Mair
Song--Mally's Meek, Mally's Sweet
Song--Jockey's Taen The Parting Kiss
Verses To
Collector
Mitchell
1796
The Dean Of Faculty
Epistle To Colonel De Peyster
Song--A Lass Wi' A Tocher
Song--The Trogger.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Stay awhile,
Poor youth, who
scarcely
dar'st lift up thine eyes!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Is it Melmoth,(80)
Philanthropist or patriot,
Childe Harold, quaker, devotee,
Or other mask donned
playfully?
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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For I have seen the purplest shadows stand Alway with reverent chere that looked on her, Silence himself is grown her worshipper
And ever doth attend her in that land
Wherein she reigneth, wherefore let there stir Naught but the softest voices,
praising
her.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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, reading hǣ nū (for hǣðnū), which he regards as
= Heinir, the
inhabitants
of the Jutish "heaths" (hǣð).
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Beowulf |
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Two monstrous dangers; but the
heedless
one
Babbles and smiles, and bids all care begone--
Likes lively speech--while all the poor she makes
To love her, and the taxes off she takes.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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And when rolls round
The latest heat mixed with the earliest chill--
The time which bears the name of autumn--then
Likewise
fierce cold-spells wrestle with fierce heats.
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Lucretius |
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The hastiest
comparison
of their
poetic work will show that their only common ideal was the worship of an
exotic beauty.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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The barges wash
Drifting logs
Down
Greenwich
reach
Past the Isle of Dogs.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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The house
trembles
and creaks.
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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It perhaps grew into use in the
half-democratic
republics
of Italy in the same way and for the same
reasons as with us.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Glory and life
Fulfil their own depletions; and if God
Sighed you far from him, his next breath drew in
A compensative
splendour
up the vast,
Flushing the starry arteries.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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den sollt Ihr noch
verlieren!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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A grave and sombre man, whose
beetling
brow
O'erhangs the rushing current of his speech
As rocks o'er rivers hang.
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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The well-beloved are
wretched
then.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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Parents and children and grandchildren all
Memory's
affections
in the lists recall.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
|
The Sung writer Hsieh Chung-yung arranged in
chronological
order all
the information about the poet's life that can be gleaned not only from
the T'ang histories, but also from the poems themselves.
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Li Po |
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How
silently
serene a sea of pride!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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Covered as it
was--trunk and branch--with "clustering ivy" in 1787, it
survived
till
1808 at any rate.
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William Wordsworth |
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No
disguise
avails!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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[_All the_
COUNSELLORS
_seat themselves.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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There our sick ships unrigged in summer lay,
Like
moulting
fowl, a weak and easy prey.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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Beard overgrown about the cheek and chin;
With shaggy brow, swoln eyes, and cloudy sight,
A nose close flattened, and a sallow skin;
To this, that I may make my sketch complete,
Succinctly
clad, like courier, goes the cheat.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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"Beneath my palm trees, by the river side,
I sat a weeping: in the whole world wide
There was no one to ask me why I wept,--
And so I kept
Brimming
the water-lily cups with tears
Cold as my fears.
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| Source: |
Keats |
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No man doth bear his sin,
But many sins
Are
gathered
as a cloud about man's way.
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
The traveler all alone, the moon all alone,
except for his sympathy,
overcoming
with incessant victory whole
squadrons of clouds above the forests and lakes and hills.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
|
Redistribution
is
subject to the trademark license, especially commercial
redistribution.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Bid that heart stay, and it will stay
To honour thy decree;
Or bid it
languish
quite away,
And't shall do so for thee.
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Robert Herrick |
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I love thee, Mary dearly love--
There's nought so fair on earth I see,
There's nought so dear in heaven above,
As Mary
Bayfield
is to me.
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John Clare |
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Hence it is that
talkative
shallow men do often content the
hearers more than the wise.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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But; that they that allow
But one God, should have
religions
enow
For the Queens Masque, and their husbands, far more
Then all the Gentiles knew, or _Atlas_ bore!
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John Donne |
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I send you here a sort of allegory,
(For you will understand it) of a soul, [1]
A sinful soul possess'd of many gifts,
A spacious garden full of flowering weeds,
A
glorious
Devil, large in heart and brain,
That did love Beauty only, (Beauty seen
In all varieties of mould and mind)
And Knowledge for its beauty; or if Good,
Good only for its beauty, seeing not
That beauty, Good, and Knowledge, are three sisters
That doat upon each other, friends to man,
Living together under the same roof,
And never can be sunder'd without tears.
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Tennyson |
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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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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Sie, ihren Frieden musst ich
untergraben!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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"O bed, whereon my
laughing
girlhood's knot
Was severed by this man, for whom I die,
Farewell!
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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I wish to escape them both if I may;
If not, it's for
Rodrigue
that I will pray:
Not because foolish passion so decides;
But because I'll be Sanche's if he dies.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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As under this, so
straight
and green ;
Yet now no farther strive to shoot,
Contented, if they fix their root,
Nor to the wind's uncertain gust,
Their prudent heads too far intrust.
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Marvell - Poems |
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