O, Oft with me in
troublous
time
Involved, when Brutus warr'd in Greece,
Who gives you back to your own clime
And your own gods, a man of peace,
Pompey, the earliest friend I knew,
With whom I oft cut short the hours
With wine, my hair bright bathed in dew
Of Syrian oils, and wreathed with flowers?
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He was a great killer not
only of
malefactors
but of "keres" or bogeys, such as "Old Age" and "Ague"
and the sort of "Death" that we find in this play.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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The great
boulevards
are intersected by lanes,
Wherein are the town-houses of Royal Dukes.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Look up and see the
casement
broken in,
The bats and owlets builders in the roof!
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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I am come; and
straight
will bear her to the tomb.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Therefore, we usually do NOT keep any
of these books in compliance with any
particular
paper edition.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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What god is worthier of solicitation by anxious
amourists?
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Catullus - Carmina |
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It is the mother of the brood that must rule the earth with the new rule;
The new rule shall rule as the Soul rules, and as the love, justice,
equality
in the Soul rule.
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Whitman |
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'
(For your dear departed wife, his friend) 2 November 1877
- 'Over the lost woods when dark winter lowers
You moan, O
solitary
captive of the threshold,
That this double tomb which our pride should hold's
Cluttered, alas, only with absent weight of flowers.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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[_The_ SERVANT
_reluctantly
comes close.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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) 'O seer' I cry,
'To the stern sanction of the offended sky
My prompt
obedience
bows.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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]
Once fondly lov'd and still remember'd dear;
Sweet early object of my
youthful
vows!
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Robert Forst |
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A painter of the Umbrian school
Designed upon a gesso ground
The nimbus of the
Baptized
God.
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T.S. Eliot |
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"
The
stranger
vanished .
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Robert Herrick |
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Wilde - Poems |
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altars four,
Twain to thee, Daphnis, and to Phoebus twain
For sacrifice, we build; and I for thee
Two beakers yearly of fresh milk afoam,
And of rich olive-oil two bowls, will set;
And of the wine-god's bounty above all,
If cold, before the hearth, or in the shade
At harvest-time, to glad the festal hour,
From flasks of
Ariusian
grape will pour
Sweet nectar.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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The Foundation's
principal
office is located at 4557 Melan Dr.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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And you climbed yet
further!
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Thou hast passed by the ambush of young days
Either not assail'd, or victor being charg'd;
Yet this thy praise cannot be so thy praise,
To tie up envy, evermore enlarg'd,
If some suspect of ill mask'd not thy show,
Then thou alone kingdoms of hearts
shouldst
owe.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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He would supply me--here I capered
among the dumb gods of Egypt and laughed in their battered faces--with
material to make my tale sure--so sure that the world would hail it as
an
impudent
and vamped fiction.
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Kipling - Poems |
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LX
After, his other knots unfastening,
(For he was turned more gentle than a maid)
Astolpho, as a show, the thief would bring,
By city, borough-town, and farm conveyed;
The net as well; than which no
quainter
thing
Was ever by the file and hammer made.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Lear - Nonsense |
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"
He pray'd, and
straight
the gentle stream subsides,
Detains the rushing current of his tides,
Before the wanderer smooths the watery way,
And soft receives him from the rolling sea.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Marry, we must not play
or riot too much with them, as in Paronomasies; nor use too
swelling
or
ill-sounding words!
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Diegue
How enviable, yes,
On losing strength to swiftly meet with death,
See how old age prepares for noble spirits
After long careers,
miserable
exits!
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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It fell, as he ordered,
in rapid
achievement
that ready it stood there,
of halls the noblest: Heorot {1a} he named it
whose message had might in many a land.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Whether the shrimps or crawfish gray,
Or crafty
Mermaids
stole them away,
Nobody knew; and nobody knows
How the Pobble was robbed of his twice five toes!
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Lear - Nonsense |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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These felouns, fulle of falsitee,
Have many sythes bigyled me,
And through
falshede
hir lust acheved,
Wherof I repente and am agreved.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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) Where are the lips mine lay upon,
1
1
Audiart, Audiart,
Audiart, Audiart
Signum
Nativitatis*
II
?
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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"
Then the gauzes removes he which shade her,
At her beauty all wonder intensely;
One moment the Pasha survey'd her,
And,
dropping
his tchebouk, without sense lay.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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How blest,
delicious
scene!
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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He thereat was stung,
Perverse, with
stronger
fancy to reclaim
Her wild and timid nature to his aim:
Besides, for all his love, in self despite,
Against his better self, he took delight
Luxurious in her sorrows, soft and new.
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Keats |
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See, see the patient moon;
How she her course keeps
Through cloudy
shallows
and across black deeps,
Now gone, now shines soon.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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)
The phrase is explained in
dictionaries
and handbooks, but no other use
of it is quoted than this.
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Robert Herrick |
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CXLVII
My love is as a fever longing still,
For that which longer nurseth the disease;
Feeding on that which doth preserve the ill,
The
uncertain
sickly appetite to please.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Ut
conjecturas
nequeam discemere vero.
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Marvell - Poems |
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What love that shall kiss my brow
Nor blench at the brand
thereof?
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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The
contents
of the third or present volume were made also at different
intervals in the last two years.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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It is to
be indirect, and not direct or
descriptive
or epic.
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Whitman |
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10
Si tu oblitus es, at di meminerunt, meminit Fides,
Quae te ut
paeniteat
postmodo facti faciet tui.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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I simply bought
whatever
had most blooms,
Not caring whether peach, apricot, or plum.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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THE FOOT-PATH
It mounts athwart the windy hill
Through sallow slopes of upland bare,
And Fancy climbs with foot-fall still
Its
narrowing
curves that end in air.
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James Russell Lowell |
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FAUST:
Das hat der Zufall gut
getroffen!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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--the sisters 'gan
To laugh and ask, if in an evil hour,
The
mushroom
could have fallen with a show'r?
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La Fontaine |
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Thy numbers, Jealousy, to nought were fix'd:
Sad proof of thy
distressful
state!
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Golden Treasury |
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For he's not like an Old Man that leisurely goes
About work that he knows, [24] in a track that he knows;
But often his mind is
compelled
to demur,
And you guess that the more then his body must stir.
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William Wordsworth |
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And though awhile against Time they make war,
These
buildings
still, yet it must be that Time
In the end, both works and names, will flaw.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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It may only be
used on or
associated
in any way with an electronic work by people who
agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Marks, notations and other marginalia present in the original volume will appear in this file - a
reminder
of this book's long journey from the publisher to a library and finally to you.
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Meredith - Poems |
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443
DE
PROFUNDIS
II.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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MARGARETE:
Musste vor dem Herren
schamrot
werden.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Two figures, one Conon, in the midst he set,
And one- how call you him, who with his wand
Marked out for all men the whole round of heaven,
That they who reap, or stoop behind the plough,
Might know their several
seasons?
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Updated editions will replace the
previous
one--the old editions
will be renamed.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Judith, our fates are closer to one another's
Than one might think, seeing my face and yours:
The whole divine abyss is present in your eyes,
And I feel the starry gulf within my soul;
We are both
neighbours
of the silent skies.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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David's, by
Professor
Malde,
and by the lamented Arnold.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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And lo, with speed we plough the watery way;
My power shall guard thee, and my hand convey:
The winged vessel studious I prepare,
Through seas and realms
companion
of thy care.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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[_As the
bitterness
of her tone increases, the_ PEASANT _comes forward.
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Euripides - Electra |
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And then each galley on some other's prow
Came
crashing
in.
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Aeschylus |
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Tear
yourself
from what's fatal and profane here
Where virtue breathes a poisoned atmosphere: 1360
And in order to hide your prompt escape,
Profit from the confusion my disgrace creates.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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ONE day it happened, as our
beauteous
belle
Was sleeping in a wood beside a dell,
By chance there passed, quite near, a wand'ring knight,
Like those the ladies followed with delight,
When they on palfreys rode in days of old,
And purity were always thought to hold.
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La Fontaine |
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Who
assisted
thee to ravage and to plunder;
I trow thou hadst full many wicked comrades.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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But the
luncheon
attends.
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Byron |
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Our own affections still at home to please
Is a disease:
To cross the seas to any foreign soil,
Peril and toil:
Wars with their noise
affright
us; when they cease,
We are worse in peace;--
What then remains, but that we still should cry
For being born, or, being born, to die
LORD BACON
58.
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Golden Treasury |
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"Well met," I thought the look would say,
"We both were
fashioned
far away;
We neither knew, when we were young,
These Londoners we live among.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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For forty years, he
produced
and
distributed Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of
volunteer support.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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]
XXXIII
In her friends' albums, time had been,
With blood instead of ink she scrawled,
Baptized Prascovia Pauline,
And in her
conversation
drawled.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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PRAYER
When success exalts thy lot,
God for thy virtue lays a plot:
And all thy life is for thy own,
Then for mankind's
instruction
shown;
And though thy knees were never bent,
To Heaven thy hourly prayers are sent,
And whether formed for good or ill,
Are registered and answered still.
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Emerson - Poems |
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A lone peak, its rock bears the post route, a
mettlesome
horse, gold wound around its bridle.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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I did not think indeed that I should pine
Beneath such pangs against such skyey rocks,
Doomed to this drear hill and no neighbouring
Of any life: but mourn not ye for griefs
I bear to-day: hear rather, dropping down
To the plain, how other woes creep on to me,
And learn the
consummation
of my doom.
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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Lycius from death awoke into amaze,
To see her still, and singing so sweet lays;
Then from amaze into delight he fell
To hear her whisper woman's lore so well;
And every word she spake entic'd him on
To unperplex'd delight and
pleasure
known.
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Keats - Lamia |
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Quand parfois sur ce globe, en sa
langueur
oisive,
Elle laisse filer une larme furtive,
Un poete pieux, ennemi du sommeil,
Dans le creux de sa main prend cette larme pale,
Aux reflets irises comme un fragment d'opale,
Et la met dans son coeur loin des yeux du soleil.
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Give me to hold all sounds, (I madly
struggling
cry,)
Fill me with all the voices of the universe,
Endow me with their throbbings, Nature's also,
The tempests, waters, winds, operas and chants, marches and dances,
Utter, pour in, for I would take them all!
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Note: The Spanish title was the motto adopted by the
disinherited
Ivanhoe in Scott's novel.
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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III
You tossed a blanket from the bed,
You lay upon your back, and waited;
You dozed, and watched the night revealing
The thousand sordid images
Of which your soul was constituted;
They
flickered
against the ceiling.
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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,--a tax to which they are not subject if the
proprietors change their faith; but they are not the less
attached
to
their church in consequence.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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To follow Time's dying melodies through,
And never to lose the old in the new,
And ever to solve the
discords
true --
Love alone can do.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
_A further
edition_ (_making the seventh_) _with some omissions from the issue of
1908_, _but including two new poems_, _was published in
September
1909_.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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Dost Thou delight from Thine Olympus, Lord,
To look on
suffering
virtue?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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'
Estefania
is the name of a Spanish lady in B.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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that all I saw hast kept
Safe in a written record, here thy worth
And eminent
endowments
come to proof.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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O God, make tolerable,
Make
tolerable
the end that awaits for me,
And give me courage to die when the time comes,
When the time comes as it must, however it comes,
That I shrink not nor scream, gripped by the jaws of the vice;
For the thought of it turns me sick, and my heart stands still,
Knocks and stands still.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Forerunner of a valiant race,
His
voiceless
spirit still reminds us
Of ever-waiting, silent duty:
The bond of faith wherewith he binds us
Shall hold us ready hour by hour
To serve the sacred, guiding power
Whene'er it calls, where'er it finds us,
With loyalty that, like a folded flower,
Blooms at a touch in proud, full-circled beauty.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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A watcher of Thy spaces make me,
Make me a
listener
at Thy stone,
Give to me vision and then wake me
Upon Thy oceans all alone.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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Gilgamish
receives him and they
dedicate
their arms to heroic endeavor.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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- You provide, in accordance with
paragraph
1.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
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these, and more, are flashing to us from the procession;
As it moves changing, a
kaleidoscope
divine it moves changing before us.
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Whitman |
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"
Lear was a man to whom, as to Tennyson's Ulysses,
"All
experience
is an arch wherethrough
Gleams that untravelled world.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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e hende kyng at hert hade wonder,
468 He let no
semblaunt
be sene, bot sayde ful hy3e
To ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Smoothed
by long fingers,
Asleep.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Then others, for the breath of words respect,
Me for my dumb thoughts,
speaking
in effect.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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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.
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Sara Teasdale |
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[134] This grandiloquent opening is
borrowed
from Pindar.
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Aristophanes |
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Let us go forth and taste the
fragrant
air
Of the garden.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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He
advances
from the assembly to the tomb among a throng
of many thousands that crowd about him; here he pours on the ground in
fit libation two goblets of pure wine, two of new milk, two of
consecrated blood, and flings bright blossoms, saying thus: 'Hail, holy
father, once again; hail, ashes of him I saved in vain, and soul and
shade of my sire!
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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But when a prince governs them,
so as they have still need of his
administrations
(for that is his art),
he shall ever make and hold them faithful.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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"
XVIII
"My lords barons, say whom now can we send
To th' Sarrazin that
Sarraguce
defends?
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Chanson de Roland |
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Smoothed
by long fingers,
Asleep.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Lass mich an ihrer Brust
erwarmen!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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