Just then, as through one
cloudless
chink in a black stormy
sky
Shines out the dewy morning-star, a fair young girl came by.
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They mount their seats; the lots their place dispose
(Roll'd in his helmet, these
Achilles
throws).
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Iliad - Pope |
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No door of cedar,
Alas, shall lead her
Unto the stream that shows forever
Love's face like some
reflected
star!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Porter
And on her daughter 200
They wash their feet in soda water
Et O ces voix d'enfants, chantant dans la
coupole!
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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XXII
When this brave city, honouring the Latin name,
Bounded on the Danube, in Africa,
Among the tribes along the Thames' shore,
And where the rising sun ascends in flame,
Her own nurslings stirred, in
mutinous
game
Against her very self, the spoils of war,
So dearly won from all the world before,
That same world's spoil suddenly became:
So when the Great Year its course has run,
And twenty six thousand years are done,
The elements freed from Nature's accord,
Those seeds that are the source of everything,
Will return in Time to their first discord,
Chaos' eternal womb their presence hiding.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Fish feel the narrowing of the main
From sunken piles, while on the strand
Contractors
with their busy train
Let down huge stones, and lords of land
Affect the sea: but fierce Alarm
Can clamber to the master's side:
Black Cares can up the galley swarm,
And close behind the horseman ride.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Mount Venus, Jupiter, and all the rest
Are finger-tips of ranges
clasping
round
And holding up the Romany's wide sky.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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--
But it was out of that dread August night
From which all Europe woke to war, that we,
This
beautiful
Dawn-Youth, and I, had come,
He from afar.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Dostoievsky, whom
Merejkovsky
describes somewhere as the man with the
never-young face, the face "with its shadows of suffering and its
wrinkles of sunken-in cheeks .
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Rilke - Poems |
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If you do not charge
anything
for copies of this
eBook, complying with the rules is very easy.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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In sacred shade his honour'd mansion stood
Amidst Apollo's
consecrated
wood;
Him, and his house, Heaven moved my mind to save,
And costly presents in return he gave;
Seven golden talents to perfection wrought,
A silver bowl that held a copious draught,
And twelve large vessels of unmingled wine,
Mellifluous, undecaying, and divine!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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saepe fui mendax pro te mihi, saepe notaui
alba procellosos uela referre notos;
Thesea deuoui, quia te dimittere nollet:
nec tenuit cursus forsitan ille tuos;
interdum timui, ne, dum uada tendis ad Hebri,
mersa foret cana naufraga puppis aqua;
saepe deos adiens, ut tu, scelerate, ualeres,
cum prece turicremis sum uenerata sacris;
saepe, uidens uentos caelo
pelagoque
fauentis,
ipsa mihi dixi 'si ualet ille, uenit';
denique fidus amor, quidquid properantibus obstat,
finxit, et ad causas ingeniosa fui.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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And I have heard some of them compelled to speak, out
of necessity, that have so infinitely exceeded themselves, as it was
better both for them and their
auditory
that they were so surprised, not
prepared.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Porches untrod of forest houses
All before him, all day long,
"Yankee Doodle" his
marching
song;
And the evening breeze
Joined his psalms of praise
As he sang the ways
Of the Ancient of Days.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Regarded
as god of light, 157,
1 ff.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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It is a land which resembles you, where all is beautiful, rich, tranquil
and honest, where phantasy has built and
decorated
an occidental China,
where life is sweet to breathe, and happiness married to silence.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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In the worst inn's worst room, with mat half-hung,
The floors of plaster, and the walls of dung,
On once a flock-bed, but repaired with straw,
With tape-tied curtains, never meant to draw,
The George and Garter dangling from that bed
Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red,
Great
Villiers
lies--alas!
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Si fa con noi, come l'uom si fa sego;
che quale aspetta prego e l'uopo vede,
malignamente
gia si mette al nego.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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--
Amid thick
thoughts
and memories multitudinous
One thought alone brings he.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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ELIZABETH
COLLINS.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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_Lo: Wardein of the Stanneries, and her majesties
lieutenaunt
of the
countie of Cornewayll.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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POSSIBILITY
OF SUCH
DAMAGE.
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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Your hour has sounded, nothing now indeed
Can change for you the destiny decreed,
Irrevocable
quite.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Provoke not ye the tsar to wrath, fear God,
And swear allegiance to the lawful ruler;
Humble yourselves;
forthwith
send to Dimitry
The Metropolitan, deacons, boyars,
And chosen men, that they may homage do
To their lord and father.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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The other, through the riches of that grace,
Which from so deep a
fountain
doth distil,
As never eye created saw its rising,
Plac'd all his love below on just and right:
Wherefore of grace God op'd in him the eye
To the redemption of mankind to come;
Wherein believing, he endur'd no more
The filth of paganism, and for their ways
Rebuk'd the stubborn nations.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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And as she stood
With rigour in her nerves, a mighty shudder
Ravish the light, and in the midst appeared
Vision, a goddess,
terrible
and kind;
And to the Queen the goddess spoke, in voice
That healed her anger with its quietness.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Some states do not allow
disclaimers
of certain implied
warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Why an Ear, a whirlpool fierce to draw
creations
in?
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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How few of the others,
Are men
equipped
with common sense.
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| Source: |
Villon |
|
We are now trying to release all our books one month in advance
of the
official
release dates, leaving time for better editing.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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First from the
Tyrrhene
coast savage Mezentius, scorner of the gods,
opens the war and arrays his columns.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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It spurned him from its lowliest lot,
The meanest station owned him not;
An outcast thrown in sorrow's way,
A
fugitive
that knew no sin,
Yet in lone places forced to stray--
Men would not take the stranger in.
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John Clare |
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For I
remember
stopping by the way
To watch a Potter thumping his wet Clay:
And with its all-obliterated Tongue
It murmur'd--"Gently, Brother, gently, pray!
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Thus loaded with a feast the tables stood,
Each
shrining
in the midst the image of a God.
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Keats |
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Bertram finished the last pages, while along the silence ever
Still in hot and heavy
splashes
fell the tears on every leaf.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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AUTUMNAL
DAY
Lord!
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Rilke - Poems |
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The young men float on their backs, their white bellies bulge to the
sun, they do not ask who seizes fast to them,
They do not know who puffs and
declines
with pendant and bending arch,
They do not think whom they souse with spray.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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In every heart (quoth he) since Adam's sin
Two Founts there are, of
Suffering
and of Cheer!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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* * * *
Namque tuo adventu vigilat
custodia
semper.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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They tolled the one bell only,
Groom there was none to see,
The
mourners
followed after,
And so to church went she,
And would not wait for me.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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he is sunk down into a deadly sleep
But we
immortal
in our strength survive by stern debate
Till we have drawn the Lamb of god into a mortal form
And that he must be born is certain for One must be All
And comprehend within himself all things both small & great
We therefore for whose sake all things aspire to be be & live
Will so recieve the Divine Image that amongst the Reprobate
He may be devoted to Destruction from his mothers womb {This group of 9 lines, "Refusing.
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Blake - Zoas |
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"
Then Gawain lightly kissed her hand as he laid the diamond in it, and,
wearied of his quest, leaped on his horse and carrolling a love-ballad
airily rode away to the court where it was soon buzzed abroad that a
maid of Astolat loved
Lancelot
and that Lancelot loved a maid of
Astolat.
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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XLVI
With breast and heart
transfixed
with pity, cried
Valiant Astolpho -- bathed with many a tear --
Turning to Danish Dudon, at this side,
And afterwards to valiant Olivier;
"Behold Orlando!
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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For while they all were
travelling
home,
Cried Betty, "Tell us Johnny, do,
"Where all this long night you have been,
"What you have heard, what you have seen,
"And Johnny, mind you tell us true.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Hard and incessant the danger and trial,
Laid on our squadrons, that gladly bore all,
Scorning
to meet with delay or denial
The summons that rang in the battle-days' call!
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Copyright
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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But I am gone, I fly with what hath pass'd
To the Queen's ear, who nought suspects, so sound
She sleeps, by some
divinity
composed.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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O wonder now
unfurled!
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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"
And Hegel mocked, "A very
pleasant
whim.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Meredith - Poems |
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LIBERTATIS SACRA FAMES
ALBEIT nurtured in democracy,
And liking best that state republican
Where every man is Kinglike and no man
Is crowned above his fellows, yet I see,
Spite of this modern fret for Liberty,
Better the rule of One, whom all obey,
Than to let
clamorous
demagogues betray
Our freedom with the kiss of anarchy.
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Wilde - Poems |
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The use of gloves at
weddings
forms
the subject of another section in Brand (ii.
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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Half-past two,
The street-lamp said,
"Remark the cat which
flattens
itself in the gutter,
Slips out its tongue
And devours a morsel of rancid butter.
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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On dreary Arvon's shore they lie
Smear'd with gore and ghastly pale:
Far, far aloof the
affrighted
ravens sail;
The famish'd eagle screams, and passes by.
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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And ever his children, when
breaking
their bread,
Thought of him and rose up and blessed him as dead.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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Queste si
percotean
non pur con mano,
ma con la testa e col petto e coi piedi,
troncandosi co' denti a brano a brano.
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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IF you were coming in the fall,
I'd brush the summer by
With half a smile and half a spurn,
As
housewives
do a fly.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Its
business
office is located at 809
North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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_ Not to
unwilling
ears do you urge
This, Prometheus.
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Have you by any chance heard how that mystical, strange celebration
Followed
victorious
troops back from Eleusis to Rome?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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The lady sprang up suddenly,
The lovely lady,
Christabel!
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
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And if thy
right hand offend thee, cut it off and cast it from thee; for it
is
profitable
for thee that one of thy members should perish, and
not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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XIII
Not the raging fire's furious reign,
Nor the cutting edge of conquering blade,
Nor the havoc ruthless
soldiers
made,
In sacking you, Rome, ever and again,
Nor the tricks that fickle fortune played,
Nor envious centuries corrosive rain,
Nor the spite of men, nor gods' disdain,
Nor your own power in civil strife displayed,
Nor the impetuous storms that you withstood,
Nor the river-god's winding course in flood,
That has so often drowned you in its thunder,
Not all combined have so abased your pride,
As that this nothing left you, by Time's tide,
Still makes the world halt here, and gaze in wonder.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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When you have reached the borders of your quest,
Homesick
at last, by many a devious way,
Winding the wonderlands circuitous,
By foot and horse will trace the long way back!
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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I've nane in female servant station,
(Lord keep me aye frae a'
temptation!
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Thy mouth will make the sourest numbers please:
How will it drop pure honey
speaking
these!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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(_Deeper than
drowning!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
|
Thou
shudderest
again; what ails thee, Queen?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
|
--Bahram of the Wild Ass--a Sassanian Sovereign--had also
his Seven Castles (like the King of
Bohemia!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Yet, lo, he tricked my will
With fables of Achilles' love: he bore
To Aulis and the dark ship-clutching shore,
He held above the altar-flame, and smote,
Cool as one reaping, through the
strained
throat,
My white Iphigenia.
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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Poe - 5 |
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What more was
requisite!
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La Fontaine |
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As no place could be more
commodious for the recovery of the sick, Gama
resolved
to enter the
port; and in the meanwhile sent two of the pardoned criminals as an
embassy to the king.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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CONTEMPORARY VERSE
Published monthly at 622 South
Washington
Square, Philadelphia, Pa.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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) can copy and distribute it in the United States without
permission and without paying
copyright
royalties.
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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She'd no recourse to that nobility,
Who by their exploits won
themselves
glory.
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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XXIV
And next to him rode
lustfull
Lechery,
Upon a bearded Goat, whose rugged haire,
And whally eyes (the signe of gelosy), 210
Was like the person selfe, whom he did beare:
Who rough, and blacke, and filthy did appeare,
Unseemely man to please faire Ladies eye;
Yet he of Ladies oft was loved deare,
When fairer faces were bid standen by: 215
O who does know the bent of womens fantasy?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
|
Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied
warranties or the exclusion or
limitation
of certain types of damages.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
|
[55]
Where oaks o'erhang the road the
radiance
shoots
On tawny earth, wild weeds, and twisted roots;
The druid-stones a brightened ring unfold; [56]
And all the babbling brooks are liquid gold; 190
Sunk to a curve, the day-star lessens still,
Gives one bright glance, and drops [57] behind the hill.
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Such in the many-tinted bower
Of rich man's garden passing gay
Upstands
the hyacinthine flower.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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"God looks down from His
judgment
seat, 'Good will on earth' is His message sweet,
Turn your hearts to the Lord.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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The Past hath crusted
cumbrous
shells
That hold the flesh of cold sea-mells
About my soul.
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Sidney Lanier |
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If he picked himself and said, "I am ready to die,"
if he gave his name and said, "My country, take me,"
then the baskets of roses to-day are for the Boy,
the flowers, the songs, the
steamboat
whistles,
the proclamations of the honorable orators,
they are all for the Boy--that's him.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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See, Lovers, how I'm treated, in what ways
I die of cold through summer's
scorching
days:
Of heat, in the depths of icy weather.
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Ronsard |
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Under
these
circumstances
a wise man will look with great suspicion on
the legend which has come down to us.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Sweeney Among the Nightingales
[Greek text inserted here]
Apeneck Sweeney spreads his knees
Letting his arms hang down to laugh,
The zebra stripes along his jaw
Swelling to
maculate
giraffe.
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T.S. Eliot |
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In these wild scenes, men
stand about in the scenery, or move
deliberately
and heavily, having
sacrificed the sprightliness and vivacity of towns to the dumb
sobriety of nature.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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All things that you should use to do me wrong
Deny their office; only you do lack
That mercy which fierce fire and iron extends,
Creatures
of note for mercy-lacking uses.
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Shakespeare |
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The supper is over--the fire on the ground burns low;
The wearied
emigrants
sleep, wrapped in their blankets;
I walk by myself--I stand and look at the stars, which I think now I never
realised before.
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Whitman |
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What has not
cankering
Time made worse?
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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What means death in this rude
assault?
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Shakespeare |
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The Foundation makes no
representations
concerning
the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United
States.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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So now the daughter
beguiles
the naive and bedazzles the foolish,
Teases you while you're asleep; when you awaken, she's flown.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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and blamest my faint heart,
Coward, who hast let a woman play thy part
And die to save her pretty
soldier!
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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_Accursed ground
Henceforth I hold thy flower-enamelled shore,
O
hyacinthine
isle!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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As children bid the guest good-night,
And then reluctant turn,
My flowers raise their pretty lips,
Then put their
nightgowns
on.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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But many years before
Lucilius was born, Naevius had been flung into a dungeon, and
guarded there with
circumstances
of unusual rigor, on account of
the bitter lines in which he had attacked the great Caecilian
family.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Thus vainly
thinking
that she thinks me young,
Although she knows my days are past the best,
Simply I credit her false-speaking tongue:
On both sides thus is simple truth suppressed:
But wherefore says she not she is unjust?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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