He breaks off unfinished, and, fired with immense anger,
rushes towards the haughty
brethren
at the Dardanian gate.
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Yea, here I stand for the whole earth to see
How life, breathing its fortune like sweet air,
Mixing it with the kindled heart of man,
May utter it proud against the double truth
Of darkness
fronting
him and following him,
In a prevailing, burning, marvellous lie!
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Copyright
infringement
liability can be quite severe.
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Meredith - Poems |
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It enjoys the
pleasure
of sinning in beholding
others sin, as in dining, drinking, drabbing, &c.
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What new
disaster
broods o'er Persia's realm?
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Aeschylus |
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"
III
Then saw I how the New Year
Came like a
scheming
man,
With icy eyes, his forehead
Wrinkled by care and plan
For trade and rule and profit.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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In the sixteenth century thousands of
Christians were held captive in Turkish and Saracen prisons, and many of
these were ransomed by the
charitable
of Europe.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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in the world.
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Meredith - Poems |
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brethren, what was my delight
When I yon semicircle bright
Of churches, gardens,
belfries
high
Descried before me suddenly!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Stern
Menelaus
first the silence broke,
And, inly groaning, thus opprobrious spoke:
"Women of Greece!
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Iliad - Pope |
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The insulted hero rolls his
wrathful
eyes
And "Why so turbulent of soul?
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Odyssey - Pope |
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CII
In Aethiopia's realm Senapus reigns,
Whose sceptre is the cross; of cities brave,
Of men, of gold possest, and broad domains,
Which the Red Sea's
extremest
waters lave.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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his
children
wel; sore sawe?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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To be brief:--
I have received from
churlish
Fortune nothing
But air, light, water,--Nature's general boon.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Be assembled, all of you;
And, after, raise your triumph-song to greet
This
pitiless
Power that yawns beneath our feet.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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The wasps
flourish
greenly
Dawn goes by round her neck
A necklace of windows
You are all the solar joys
All the sun of this earth
On the roads of your beauty.
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Title: Erotica Romana
Author: Johann Wolfgang Goethe
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EROTICA ROMANA
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Here's where I've planted my garden and here I shall care for love's blossoms--
As I am taught by my muse,
carefully
sort them in plots:
Fertile branches, whose product is golden fruit of my lifetime,
Set here in happier years, tended with pleasure today.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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The
splendor
of a Burmah,
The meteor of birds,
Departing like a pageant
Of ballads and of bards.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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The
helpless
worm arose and sat upon the Lillys leaf,
And the bright Cloud saild on, to find his partner in the vale.
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Beowulf |
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"Why dost thou
persecute
me, Saul of Tarsus?
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Longfellow |
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Say,
Have I in Argos any still to trust;
Or is the love, once borne me, trod in dust,
Even as my
fortunes
are?
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Euripides - Electra |
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When thou art dreaming then I am thy Dream,
But when thou art awake I am thy Will
Potent with splendour, radiant and sublime,
Expanding
like far space star-lit and still
Into the distant mystic realm of Time.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Change him, thou
Infinite
Spirit!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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e
schullen
be in ioye with me; wi?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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The hemlock's nature thrives on cold;
The gnash of northern winds
Is
sweetest
nutriment to him,
His best Norwegian wines.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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NURSE'S SONG
When voices of children are heard on the green,
And
laughing
is heard on the hill,
My heart is at rest within my breast,
And everything else is still.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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unless a
copyright
notice is included.
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Lucretius |
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Her, one saith, Mother Earth, when stung by wrath against the gods, bore
last sister to Coeus and Enceladus, fleet-footed and swift of wing,
ominous, awful, vast; for every feather on her body is a waking eye
beneath,
wonderful
to tell, and a tongue, and as many loud lips and
straining ears.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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With not even one blow
landing?
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Villon |
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" Under his
patronage
Judah de Toledo
translated the works of Avicenna, and improved them by a new division of
the stars.
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Byron |
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The gilded youth flocked around him, neglecting society,
preferring
the
charms of faro to those of their sweethearts.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Our rifles firmly grasping,
And
heedless
of the din,
We stood in silence waiting
For orders to begin.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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And I was
astonished
and said to myself,
"Shall they of this so holy city have but one eye and one hand?
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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THE HANGING VICTORY, the victory which hung
doubtful
in the balance.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Besides, we observe ten vessels
Of our old enemies, flaunting their banners;
They have dared to
approach
the river-course.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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I break your bonds and masterships,
And I unchain the slave:
Free be his heart and hand henceforth
As wind and
wandering
wave.
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Emerson - Poems |
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It seemeth him but the
skeleton
of a ship.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Gawain
immediately
skipped away singing, his hair flying after and
frolicked outside like a frisky pony, _but cunning Modred laid his ear
close beside the door to listen_, so that he half heard all the strange
story his mother told the king.
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Tennyson |
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KHELSTAKOV: Why are you so
frightened?
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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"Or has the sudden frost
disturbed
its bed?
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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The
invalidity
or unenforceability of any
provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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[564] Because it never rains there; for all other reasons
residence
in
Egypt was looked upon as undesirable.
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Aristophanes |
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Thy chief, who now in error's circling maze,
For India's shore through shelves and tempests strays;
That chief shalt thou behold, with lordly pride,
O'er Neptune's trembling realm
triumphant
ride.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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My
coolness
displeased him.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Ulysses saw it, nor had power t'abstain From
shedding
tears; but (far-off seeing his swain)
His grief dissembled.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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The feathers of the grey hawk
had begun to grow in the child's hair, and though his nurse cut them
continually, in but a little while they would be more
numerous
than
ever.
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Yeats |
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' The visit of this man
to
Coleridge
was, as I believe Coleridge has related, the occasion of
a spy being sent by Government to watch our proceedings; which were, I
can say with truth, such as the world at large would have thought
ludicrously harmless.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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"Whom do you wish to
present?
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Your rights alone inspire this
boldness
in me.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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The
threshold
they destroyed.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Once I saw thee idly rocking
--Idly rocking--
And chattering girlishly to other girls,
Bell-voiced, happy,
Careless
with the stout heart of unscarred
womanhood,
And life to thee was all light melody.
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Stephen Crane |
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Well, then, do your night traveling when there is
no moon to light you; but I will be
thankful
for the light that
reaches me from the star of least magnitude.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Where is that wise girl Eloise,
For whom was gelded, to his great shame,
Peter Abelard, at Saint Denis,
For love of her
enduring
pain,
And where now is that queen again,
Who commanded them to throw
Buridan in a sack, in the Seine?
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Villon |
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Ora, se innanzi a me nulla s'aombra,
non ti
maravigliar
piu che d'i cieli
che l'uno a l'altro raggio non ingombra.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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She has written
_Fighting
France_, etc.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Cantos 1 - 34
CANTO I
In the midway of this our mortal life,
I found me in a gloomy wood, astray
Gone from the path direct: and e'en to tell
It were no easy task, how savage wild
That forest, how robust and rough its growth,
Which to remember only, my dismay
Renews, in
bitterness
not far from death.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Note: Ixion tried to seduce Juno, but Jupiter
substituted
a cloud for her person.
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Ronsard |
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The room
betrayed
the mother--so she felt--
She kissed her boy and questioned "Are you here?
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Rilke - Poems |
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L'altra prendea, e dinanzi l'apria
fendendo i drappi, e
mostravami
'l ventre;
quel mi sveglio col puzzo che n'uscia.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Hodge, in his waggon, marks the wondrous tongue,
And talks with echo as he drives along;
Still cracks his whip, bawls every horse's name,
And echo still as ready bawls the same:
The puzzling mystery he would gladly cheat,
And fain would utter what it can't repeat,
Till speedless trials prove the doubted elf
As skilled in noise and sounds as Hodge himself;
And, quite convinced with the proofs it gives,
The boy drives on and fancies echo lives,
Like some wood-fiend that frights
benighted
men,
The troubling spirit of a robber's den.
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John Clare |
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The next with new surprise my notice drew,
Where'er he pass'd spontaneous
flowerets
grew,
Fit emblems of his style; and close behind
The great Athenian at his lot repined;
Which doom'd him, like a secondary star,
To yield precedence in the wordy war;
Though like the bolts of Jove that shake the spheres,
He lighten'd in their eyes, and thunder'd in their ears.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Find a stanza
complimentary
to
Queen Elizabeth.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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It was no dream; or say a dream it was,
Real are the dreams of Gods, and smoothly pass
Their
pleasures
in a long immortal dream.
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Keats - Lamia |
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FAUST:
Ist uber
vierzehn
Jahr doch alt.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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distribute
this work in any binary,
compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any
word processing or hypertext form.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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"
Brings his horse his eldest sister,
And the next his arms, which glister,
Whilst the third, with
childish
prattle,
Cries, "when wilt return from battle?
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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The Nightingale that in the
branches
sang,
Ah whence, and whither flown again, who knows!
| Guess: |
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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It must not be--the people will
perceive
it.
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| Source: |
Byron |
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Who then of the Nymphs had sung,
Or who with flowering herbs
bestrewn
the ground,
And o'er the fountains drawn a leafy veil?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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The
intense melancholy which seems to well up, perforce, to the surface of
all the poet's
cheerful
sayings about his grave, we find thrilling us to
the soul--while there is the truest poetic elevation in the thrill.
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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(Bēowulf) hrēoh and heoro-grim, 1565; þæt þām gōdan wæs
hrēow on hreðre, (_that came with
violence
upon him, pained his heart_),
2329; hrēo wǣron ȳða, _the waves were angry, the sea stormy_, 548; næs him
hrēoh sefa, _his mind was not cruel_, 2181; dat.
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Beowulf |
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What bad poet did your mothers listen to
That you were born so
crooked?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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The form of the poem is in perfect
correspondence
with its spirit.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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Yet some could see him cringe,
As in a place of danger,
Throwing
frightened
glances into the air,
A-start at threatening faces of the past.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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Of Mans First Disobedience, and the Fruit
Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal tast
Brought Death into the World, and all our woe,
With loss of Eden, till one greater Man
Restore us, and regain the blissful Seat,
Sing Heav'nly Muse, that on the secret top
Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire
That Shepherd, who first taught the chosen Seed,
In the
Beginning
how the Heav'ns and Earth
Rose out of Chaos: Or if Sion Hill 10
Delight thee more, and Siloa's Brook that flow'd
Fast by the Oracle of God; I thence
Invoke thy aid to my adventrous Song,
That with no middle flight intends to soar
Above th' Aonian Mount, while it pursues
Things unattempted yet in Prose or Rhime.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
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[Note 5: _Les Aventures du Chevalier de Faublas_, a romance of a
loose
character
by Jean Baptiste Louvet de Couvray, b.
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Away the
thought!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
|
--
The trees have always
scrupulously
obeyed.
| 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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_
Ah, better at the elm-tree's
sunbrowned
feet
If he had been content to let life fleet
Its wonted way!
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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11
_saltumque
recunditorum_ O
12 _amniumque_ Calp.
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
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e,
To bring but that
concurrence
of my fortune,
To memory, which to day your ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Broachers and all then an the board display'd
The ready meal, before Ulysses laid
With flour imbrown'd; next mingled wine yet new,
And luscious as the bees' nectareous dew:
Then sate, companion of the friendly feast,
With open look; and thus bespoke his guest:
"Take with free welcome what our hands prepare,
Such food as falls to simple servants' share;
The best our lords consume; those
thoughtless
peers,
Rich without bounty, guilty without fears;
Yet sure the gods their impious acts detest,
And honour justice and the righteous breast.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
|
We are now trying to release all our eBooks one year in advance
of the
official
release dates, leaving time for better editing.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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_Giunto
Alessandro
alla famosa tomba.
| Guess: |
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Petrarch - Poems |
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forthwith there rose up round about
A lustre over that already there,
Of equal clearness, like the
brightening
up
Of the horizon.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Procures
she still,
ha?
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Shakespeare |
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Cold be the fierce winds,
Treacherous
round him.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Text and
interpretation
uncertain.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Mirth is the mail of anguish,
In which it
cautions
arm,
Lest anybody spy the blood
And "You're hurt" exclaim!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Cloth of bodkin or tissue must be embroidered; as if no
face were fair that were not powdered or
painted!
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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LFS}
All Love is lost Terror
succeeds
& Hatred instead of Love
And stern demands of Right & Duty instead of Liberty.
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Blake - Zoas |
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But to our tale: Ae market night,
Tam had got planted unco right,
Fast by an ingle, bleezing finely,
Wi reaming saats, that drank divinely;
And at his elbow, Souter Johnie,
His ancient, trusty,
drougthy
crony:
Tam lo'ed him like a very brither;
They had been fou for weeks thegither.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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General
Information
About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic
works.
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Keats |
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Such fragrance round my couch it makes,
More rich than are Arabian drugs,
That my soul scents its life and wakes
The body up beneath its
perfumed
rugs.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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'Twas this that Regulus foresaw,
What time he spurn'd the foul disgrace
Of peace, whose
precedent
would draw
Destruction on an unborn race,
Should aught but death the prisoner's chain
Unrivet.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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The 'casting'
preceded
and led to the finding, naming the disease,
calling it this or that.
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John Donne |
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