Straightway he kindles
at the view of a greater battle; he summons
Mnestheus
and Sergestus and
brave Serestus his captains, and mounts a hillock; there the rest of the
Teucrian army gathers thickly, still grasping shield and spear.
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The Devil's Arse seems to be the cavern now known to
travellers
as the
_Peak_ or _Devil's Cavern_.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Could it mean
To last, a love set
pendulous
between
Sorrow and sorrow?
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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In one corner the car of summer's greenery
gloriously
motionless
forever.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Parents and children and grandchildren all
Memory's
affections
in the lists recall.
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John Clare |
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So stood these twaine, unmoved as a rocke,
Both staring fierce, and holding idely
The broken
reliques?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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O thou deep heaven,
unsullied
yet,
Into thy gulfs sublime--
Up azure tracts of flaming light--
Let my free pinion climb;
Till from my sight, in that clear light,
Earth and her crimes be gone--
The men who act the evil deeds--
The caitiffs who look on.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Larks in heaven's cope
Sing: the culvers mourn
All the
livelong
day.
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Tennyson |
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to thy secret ear 1320
I breathe the sorrows I bewail,
And thank thee for the
generous
tear
This glazing eye could never shed.
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Byron |
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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At length they reached the sea; on ship-board got;
A quick and pleasing passage was their lot;
Delightfully
serene, which joy increased;
To land they came (from perils thought released;)
At Joppa they debarked; two days remained:
And when refreshed, the proper road they gained;
Their escort was the lover's train alone;
On Asia's shores to plunder bands are prone;
By these were met our spark and lovely fair;
New dangers they, alas!
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La Fontaine |
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In the
distance
I see red-wheeled coaches driving from the town-gate;
They have taken the trouble, these civil people, to meet their new
Prefect!
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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with what proud parade,
Pricking
their spurs, the better speed to gain;
They go to strike,--what other thing could they?
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Chanson de Roland |
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Thus as they past,
The day with cloudes was suddeine overcast, 50
And angry Jove an hideous storme of raine
Did poure into his Lemans lap so fast,
That everie wight to shrowd it did constrain,
And this faire couple eke to shroud
themselves
were fain.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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at ben wode {and}
felownes
wi?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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--there need no words, nor terms precise,
The paltry jargon of the marble mart,
Where
Pedantry
gulls Folly--we have eyes:
Blood, pulse, and breast, confirm the Dardan Shepherd's prize.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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_ I am quite of Plato's opinion, for you have now a
second time recalled these things to my remembrance which had been
forgotten, first by the
contagious
union of soul and body, and
afterwards by the pressure of my afflictions.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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, _shield-cover, shield_ with particular
reference
to its
cover (of hides or linden bark): dat.
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Beowulf |
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org/dirs/1/9/3/1934
Updated
editions
will replace the previous one--the old editions
will be renamed.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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The thighs thus offer'd, and the
entrails
dress'd,
They roast the fragments, and prepare the feast.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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The Autumn mourns her rip'ning corn
By early Winter's ravage torn;
Across her placid, azure sky,
She sees the
scowling
tempest fly:
Chill runs my blood to hear it rave;
I think upon the stormy wave,
Where many a danger I must dare,
Far from the bonie banks of Ayr.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Angelica now slow, now faster, flies,
Nought fearing this: while
conjured
by the sage,
The demon covered in the courser lies;
As fire sometimes will hide its smothered rage:
Then blazes with devouring flame and heat,
Unquenchable, and scarce allows retreat.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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, _it is painful to an old man to
experience
it, that .
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Beowulf |
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If she I long for grants me her shift,
I'll cease to envy you, fair
brother!
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Troubador Verse |
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1, 1862]
_These verses were written in memory of General Philip Kearny,
killed at
Chantilly
after he had ridden out in advance of his men
to reconnoitre.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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A little up the Bay
The Fort lay green, for it was
springtime
then;
The wind was fresh, rich with the spicy bloom
Of the New England coast that tardily
Escapes, late April, from an icy tomb.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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provided
to you 'AS-IS,' WITH NO OTHER
WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO
WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE.
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Stephen Crane |
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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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Lucretius |
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You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose
such as
creation
of derivative works, reports, performances and
research.
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Lewis Carroll |
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I my selfe haue all the other,
And the very Ports they blow,
All the
Quarters
that they know,
I'th' Ship-mans Card.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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--
First he gan hir his righte lady calle, 1065
His hertes lyf, his lust, his sorwes leche,
His blisse, and eek these othere termes alle,
That in swich cas these loveres alle seche;
And in ful humble wyse, as in his speche,
He gan him
recomaunde
un-to hir grace; 1070
To telle al how, it axeth muchel space.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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I promise clemency; I will not punish
With vain
disgrace
a lie that's past.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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The corpse of Rome lies here
entombed
in dust,
Her spirit gone to join, as all things must
The massy round's great spirit onward whirled.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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There shalt thou stand
arraigned
of this blood;
And of those judges half shall lay on thee
Death, and half pardon; so shalt thou go free.
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Euripides - Electra |
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'
Then that artist began in a lark's low
circling
to pass;
And first he sang at the height of the top of the grass
A song of the herds that are born and die in the mass.
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Sidney Lanier |
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To the stile
She came o'er violet carpets soft, attired,
To meet the harvest bridegroom, as erewhile,
To be his
truelove
till the feast expired.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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May then those spirits, set free, a
celestial
council obeying,
Move in this rustling whisper here thro' the dark, shaken trees?
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Proud of this pride,
He is
contented
thy poor drudge to be,
To stand in thy affairs, fall by thy side.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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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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she is speaking; a fog has fallen,
Drifting
in from the outer sea.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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_ First proffering gain to me, do not then
withhold
it.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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It is a myth which has begotten some exquisite literature,
both in prose and verse, from Ovid's famous epistle to Addison's gracious
fantasy and some impassioned and
imperishable
dithyrambs of Mr.
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Sappho |
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You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary,
compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or
proprietary
form, including any
word processing or hypertext form.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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I stood in the porch and heard how the deacon
cried out:--Grishka Otrepiev is
anathema!
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Heap the grassy altar up,
Bring vervain, boys, and sacred frankincense;
Fill the
sacrificial
cup;
A victim's blood will soothe her vehemence.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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For you served Heaven, you know,
Or sought to;
I could not,
Because you
saturated
sight,
And I had no more eyes
For sordid excellence
As Paradise.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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"
They, when we stopp'd, resum'd their ancient wail,
And soon as they had reach'd us, all the three
Whirl'd round together in one
restless
wheel.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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In stanza xxvii they are
described
as riding 'with their
murder'd man'.
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Keats |
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Words that
transcend
poor shepherd's skill ;
But he e'er since my songs does fill.
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Marvell - Poems |
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You are naught
But the
defilement
that is in me now,
Rejoicing to be lodged safely within me.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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By her glad Lycius sitting, in chief place,
Scarce saw in all the room another face,
Till,
checking
his love trance, a cup he took
Full brimm'd, and opposite sent forth a look
'Cross the broad table, to beseech a glance
From his old teacher's wrinkled countenance,
And pledge him.
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Keats - Lamia |
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As a wind that has run all day
Among the
fragrant
clover,
At evening to a valley comes;
So comes to me my lover.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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The vapours linger round the heights,
They melt, and soon must vanish;
One hour is theirs, nor more is mine--
Sad
thought!
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Golden Treasury |
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Ne l'ora, credo, che de l'oriente
prima raggio nel monte Citerea,
che di foco d'amor par sempre ardente,
giovane e bella in sogno mi parea
donna vedere andar per una landa
cogliendo
fiori; e cantando dicea:
<
ch'i' mi son Lia, e vo movendo intorno
le belle mani a farmi una ghirlanda.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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* * * * *
Rilke has lived deeply; he has
absorbed
into his artistic and spiritual
consciousness many of the supreme values of our time.
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Rilke - Poems |
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The
wind blew with such
ferocity
that it was difficult not to think it an
animated being.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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I remember,
Once when I stood with Hegel at a window,
I, being full of bubbling youth and coffee,
Spoke in
symbolic
tropes about the stars.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Like resurrection were the
garments
white
The wreathed procession walked through trees arched wide
Into the church, as cool as silk inside,
With long aisles of tall candles flaming bright:
The lights all shone like jewels rich and rare
To solemn eyes that watched them gleam and flare.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Why him with thee should thy dear light
surround?
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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"
Then he cried aloud, "Who dwells in this place,
discourse
with me to
hold?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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The
narcissus
has copied the arch
of your slight breast:
your feet are citron-flowers,
your knees, cut from white-ash,
your thighs are rock-cistus.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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The grass was never trodden on,
The little path of gravel
Was
overgrown
with celandine;
No other folk did travel
Along its weedy surface but the nimble-footed mouse,
Running from house to house.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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No view nor care, but shun whate'er
Might breed me pain or sorrow, O:
I live to-day as well's I may,
Regardless
of to-morrow, O.
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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Sanche
You know how justice moves, with what slowness,
How often the crime fails to meet redress;
That slow and doubtful course
provokes
more tears.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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The Foundation is
committed
to complying with the laws regulating
charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United
States.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Fly then,
inglorious!
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Iliad - Pope |
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LX
When Rollant heard that he should be rerewarden
Furiously
he spoke to his good-father:
"Aha!
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Chanson de Roland |
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The foolish boy
likewise
pulled his Ragwort, and
cried with the rest, "Up horsie!
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Robert Burns |
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Oft as by winding Nith I, musing, wait
The sober eve, or hail the
cheerful
dawn,
I'll miss thee sporting o'er the dewy lawn,
And curse the ruffian's aim, and mourn thy hapless fate.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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'"]
[Footnote 5: "Since this paper was written" (adds the Reviewer in a note), "we
have met with a Copy of a very rare Edition, printed at
Calcutta
in
1836.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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It alone is without flaw, it alone rounds and
completes
all,
That mystic baffling wonder alone completes all.
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Oh bitter wind with icy
invisible
wings
Why do you beat us?
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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Be Jove of all in heav'n my witness first,
Then this thy hospitable board, and, last,
The household Gods of the illustrious Chief
Ulysses, at whose hearth I have arrived,[74]
That, even now, within his native isle
Ulysses
somewhere
sits, or creeps obscure,
Witness of these enormities, and seeds 190
Sowing of dire destruction for his foes;
So sure an augury, while on the deck
Reclining of the gallant bark, I saw,
And with loud voice proclaim'd it to thy son.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Royalty payments
must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you
prepare (or are legally
required
to prepare) your periodic tax
returns.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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The barges wash
Drifting
logs
Down Greenwich reach
Past the Isle of Dogs.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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See that very
interesting
work, _Hearne's Journey from Hudson's
Bay to the Northern Ocean_.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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He
corrected
several passages in the 'Essay on Criticism' which
Dennis had properly found fault with.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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Four years each day with daily bread was blest,
By
constant
toil and constant prayer supplied.
| Guess: |
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Unauthenticated
Download
Date | 10/1/17 7:36 AM Getting a Letter from Home 299 In the mountains under a leaky thatch roof, is there anyone still leaning at the window?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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"
IL CUORE
Ronsard me
celebroit!
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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--shake from your wing
Each
hindering
thing:
The dew of the night--
It would weigh down your flight;
And true love caresses--
O!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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They stare through lovely eyes, yet do not seek
An
answering
gaze, or that a man should speak.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
|
II
Loveliest of trees, the cherry now
Is hung with bloom along the bough,
And stands about the
woodland
ride
Wearing white for Eastertide.
| Guess: |
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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The brown waves of fog toss up to me
Twisted faces from the bottom of the street,
And tear from a passer-by with muddy skirts
An aimless smile that hovers in the air
And
vanishes
along the level of the roofs.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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He then entreated the king not to reveal the
contents
of
Emmanuel's letter to the Moors; and the king, with great apparent
friendship, desired Gama to guard against the perfidy of that people.
| Guess: |
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Camoes - Lusiades |
|
)
From him could I require,
The pain of absence to assuage--
A vassal-maid can have no page,
A
liegeman
has no squire.
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At the end of Book I in the
Assyrian
text and at the end of Col.
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XXVII
You, by Rome astonished, who gaze here
On ancient pride, once threatening the skies,
These old palaces, where the brave hills rise,
Walls, archways, baths, the temples that appear:
Judge, as you view these ruins, shattered, sere,
All that injurious Time's devoured: the wise
Architect and mason, their plans devise
Still from these fragments, these patterns clear:
Then note how Rome, still, from day to day,
Rummaging through her ancient decay,
Renews herself with hosts of sacred things:
You'd think the Roman spirit yet alive,
With destined hands
continuing
to strive,
That to these dusty ruins, new life brings.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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It being remembered that there were six of us with Master Villon, when that expecting
presently
to be hanged he writ a ballad whereof ye know :
"
Frtres humftins qui aprls nous vivez" NK ye a skoal for the gallows tree !
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Quae quoniam ad ueritatem aut propius accedunt aut possunt accedere
(uelut LXVI 25) quam _GOR_, ab alio fonte uidentur
deriuata
atque hi
fuerunt.
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Latin - Catullus |
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Ich
versenge
dich mit heiliger Lohe!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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J'ai suivi des mois pleins,
pareille
aux vacheries
Hysteriques, la houle a l'assaut des recifs,
Sans songer que les pieds lumineux des Maries
Pussent forcer le muffle aux Oceans poussifs;
J'ai heurte, savez-vous?
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Perhaps; but it is more
legitimate
to suppose that he himself does
not know why.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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THE FLY
Little Fly,
Thy summer's play
My
thoughtless
hand
Has brushed away.
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blake-poems |
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To be tantalized with Images of sensual
enjoyment
which
must be renounced if one would approximate a God, who according to the
Doctrine, is Sensual Matter as well as Spirit, and into whose Universe
one expects unconsciously to merge after Death, without hope of any
posthumous Beatitude in another world to compensate for all one's self-
denial in this.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Of the two (if either were to be wished) I would rather have a plain
downright wisdom, than a foolish and
affected
eloquence.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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The flower and pride of our array;
And all the Eastland, from whose breast
Came forth her bravest and her best,
Craves
longingly
with boding dread--
Parents for sons, and brides new-wed
For absent lords, and, day by day,
Shudder with dread at their delay!
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Aeschylus |
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The feud she avenged
that yesternight, unyieldingly,
Grendel in grimmest grasp thou killedst, --
seeing how long these
liegemen
mine
he ruined and ravaged.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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de Allio: _y_(_i_
Ven)_doneos
ne al.
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Latin - Catullus |
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And here's a song of flowers to suit such hours:
A song of the last lilies, the last flowers,
Amid my
withering
bowers.
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Christina Rossetti |
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