He had choice of all the races of the East and West for studies, and
the
advantage
of seeing his subjects under the influence of strong
excitement, at the gaming-tables, saloons, dancing-hells, and elsewhere.
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Dead is Rollanz and that count Oliver,
The dozen peers whom Charle so cherished,
And of their Franks are twenty
thousand
dead.
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Chanson de Roland |
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er dient Euch auf
besondre
Weise.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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I
won't
interrupt
you, I won't really.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Now, Master Shallow, you'll
complain
of me to
the King?
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Shakespeare |
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But thou art not such
A lover, my
Beloved!
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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dear child of
thoughtful
Truth,
To thee I gave my early youth,
And left the bark, and blest the steadfast shore,
Ere yet the tempest rose and scared me with its roar.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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6
The female of the Halcyon,
Love, the
seductive
Sirens,
All know the fatal songs
Dangerous and inhuman.
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Appoloinaire |
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"
CORYDON
"The
junipers
and prickly chestnuts stand,
And 'neath each tree lie strewn their several fruits,
Now the whole world is smiling, but if fair
Alexis from these hill-slopes should away,
Even the rivers you would ; see run dry.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Schreiderling
was not happy.
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Kipling - Poems |
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5
I who am not great enough to
Love thee with this mortal body
So
impassionate
with ardour,
But oh, not too small to worship
While the sun shall shine,-- 10
I would build a fragrant temple
To thee, in the dark green forest,
Of red cedar and fine sandal,
And there love thee with sweet service
All my whole life long.
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Sappho |
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The coming of the
first robin was a jubilee beyond crowning of monarch or
birthday
of
pope; the first red leaf hurrying through "the altered air," an
epoch.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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AT A LUNAR ECLIPSE
THY shadow, Earth, from Pole to Central Sea,
Now steals along upon the Moon's meek shine
In even monochrome and curving line
Of
imperturbable
serenity.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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You love me, and I find you still
A spirit
beautiful
and bright,
Yet I am I, who long to be
Lost as a light is lost in light.
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Sara Teasdale |
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That little floweret's peaceful lot,
In yonder cliff that grows,
Which, save the linnet's flight, I wot,
Nae ruder visit knows,
Was mine, till Love has o'er me past,
And blighted a' my bloom;
And now, beneath the
withering
blast,
My youth and joy consume.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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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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Keats - Lamia |
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Now one by one, the pious and the just
Are seated by us,
radiantly
risen
From their dull prison in the dust.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Thank God,
everything
goes satisfactorily here!
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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POWER
Cast the
bantling
on the rocks,
Suckle him with the she-wolf's teat,
Wintered with the hawk and fox,
Power and speed be hands and feet.
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Emerson - Poems |
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X Yet, love, mere love, is
beautiful
indeed
XI And therefore if to love can be desert
XII Indeed this very love which is my boast
XIII And wilt thou have me fashion into speech
XIV If thou must love me, let it be for nought
XV Accuse me not, beseech thee, that I wear
XVI And yet, because thou overcomest so
XVII My poet thou canst touch on all the notes
XVIII I never gave a lock of hair away
XIX The soul's Rialto hath its merchandize
XX Beloved, my beloved, when I think
XXI Say over again, and yet once over again
XXII When our two souls stand up erect and strong
XXIII Is it indeed so?
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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"
She ceas'd--and buried then her burning cheek
Abash'd, amid the lilies there, to seek
A shelter from the fervour of His eye;
For the stars
trembled
at the Deity.
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Poe - 5 |
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The
sunlight
on the steeple,
The toys we stop to see,
The smiling passing people
Are all for you and me.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Once we marched from the Wild Goose Gate;
Now we are
fighting
in front of the Dragon Pen.
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Li Po |
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Why, untamed do you scare
At any
approach
you see?
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Ronsard |
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Byron |
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non illi quisquam bello se conferet heros,
cum Phrygii Teucro manabunt sanguine campi,
Troicaque obsidens longinquo moenia bello, 345
periuri Pelopis
uastabit
tertius heres.
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Latin - Catullus |
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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--
And like a mad thing hitting at the madness
Thronging upon it in a
grinning
rout,
I my defilement smote, that Holofernes.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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replacement
or refund set forth
in paragraph 1.
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Sara Teasdale |
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The task is obviously not one of translation or of paraphrasing,
but of imaginative and, at the same time,
interpretive
construction.
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Sappho |
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Those
familiar fascinating
anecdotes
have gone the way of all such jerry-built
spooks.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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"
She came to the town of the nameless name,
To the
marching
troops in the street she came,
And she held high her boy like a taper flame
Burning for France.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Perhaps I injure
the man in the idea I am
sometimes
tempted to have of him--God forbid
I should!
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Robert Forst |
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MEPHISTOPHELES:
Er ist schon lang ins Fabelbuch geschrieben;
Allein die
Menschen
sind nichts besser dran,
Den Bosen sind sie los, die Bosen sind geblieben.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Andrew,
translated
from the
Old English, with an Introduction.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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But thus the will of Zeus shone clearly forth,
And his own prophet-god
avouched
the same,
_Orestes slew: his slaying is atoned_.
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Aeschylus |
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Damp smoke, rank mist fill the dark square;
and round the bend six
bullocks
come.
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Imagists |
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Nothing can jar
him: suffering and
darkness
cannot--death and fear cannot.
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Whitman |
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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In rendering justice, set all in the balance:
Your father died, yet he was the aggressor;
Justice itself
commands
me to be fairer.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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FAUST:
Hast wieder
spioniert?
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Not even a
fragment
of all that brightness
Remains, it is midnight, in the shade that fetes us,
Except, from the head, there's a treasure, presumptuous,
That pours without light its spoiled languidness,
Yours, always such a delight!
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Mallarme - Poems |
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fūs =
_furnished
with_; a meaning which must be added to those in
the Gloss.
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Beowulf |
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The wind, the tempest roaring high,
The tumult of a tropic sky
Might well be
dangerous
food
For him, a youth to whom was given
So much of earth--so much of heaven,
And such impetuous blood.
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Golden Treasury |
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Music-hall posters squall out:
The
passengers
shrink together,
I enter indelicately into all their souls.
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Imagists |
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Paradoxical
New England clerks,
Writing inventories in ledgers, reading the "Song of Solomon" at
night,
So many verses before bedtime,
Because it was the Bible.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Hast thou not tried us enough,
Jehovah?
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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The tired flocks come in
Whose
bleating
ceases to repeat,
Whose wandering is done.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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There's no
constraint
to do amiss, II.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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Common in
literary
use in 16-17th c.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Above the antique mantel was displayed
As though a window gave upon the sylvan scene
The change of Philomel, by the barbarous king
So rudely forced; yet there the
nightingale
100
Filled all the desert with inviolable voice
And still she cried, and still the world pursues,
"Jug Jug" to dirty ears.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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XL
Ah, what detains thee, Phaon,
So long from Mitylene,
Where now thy
restless
lover
Wearies for thy coming?
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Sappho |
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Often have I stood 85
Foot-bound
uplooking
at this lovely tree
Beneath a frosty moon.
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William Wordsworth |
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Your orange hair in the void of the world
The sentiments apparent
Would you see
You rise the water unfolds
I only wish to love you
The world is blue as an orange
We have created the night I hold your hand I watch
Even when we sleep we watch over each other
Donkey or cow,
cockerel
or horse
I looked in front of me
If I speak it's to hear you more clearly
We two take each other by the hand
At dawn I love you I've the whole night in my veins
She looks into me
A single smile disputes
Translated by A.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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_Nightwind_
Darkness like midnight from the sobbing woods
Clamours with dismal tidings of the rain,
Roaring as rivers
breaking
loose in floods
To spread and foam and deluge all the plain.
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John Clare |
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You've not surprised my secret yet
Already the cortege moves on
But left to us is the regret
of there being no connivance none
The rose floats at the water's edge
The maskers have passed by in crowds
It
trembles
in me like a bell
This heavy secret you ask now
?
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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" weeping, he exclaim'd,
"Unless thy errand be some fresh revenge
For Montaperto,
wherefore
troublest me?
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Yea, but it is cruel when
undressed
is all the blossom,
And her shift is lying white upon the floor,
That a grey one, like a shadow, like a rat, a thief, a rain-storm
Creeps upon her then and gathers in his store.
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Imagists |
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Or self-created was it not
supposed?
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La Fontaine |
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FINIS
Joachim du Bellay
'Joachim du Bellay'
Science and
literature
in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance - P.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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As the
overhanging
trees
Fill the lake with images,--
As garment draws the garment's hem,
Men their fortunes bring with them.
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Emerson - Poems |
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I would speak with him, and ask
If he has seen Ulysses, or have heard
Tidings, perchance, of the
afflicted
Chief,
For much a wand'rer by his garb he seems.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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[Illustration]
There was an Old Man of Nepaul,
From his horse had a
terrible
fall;
But, though split quite in two, with some very strong glue
They mended that man of Nepaul.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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And how this jar
Hath worn my earth-bowed head, as forth and fro
For water to the
hillward
springs I go?
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Euripides - Electra |
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No beloved or lover
Is just a dreamer;
When he's a lover, no more a suitor,
He has accrued a signal honour,
A sweet glance
produces
such colours;
Yet I here
Have never
Held you naked, nor any other;
Longed for,
Lived for,
You without pay, I have though, forever.
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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Long stood I there
And wondered, of all men what man had gone
In
mourning
to that grave.
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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So have I seen in April's bud arise
A fleet of clouds sailing along the skies ;
The liquid region with their
squadrons
filled.
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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All trials are trials for one's life, just as all
sentences
are sentences
of death; and three times have I been tried.
| Guess: |
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Shepherds
on far hills have told;
And we reck not of their telling,
Deem not that the Sun of gold
Ever turned his fiery dwelling,
Or beat backward in the sky,
For the wrongs of man, the cry
Of his ailing tribes assembled,
To do justly, ere they die!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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If I have wander'd in those paths
Of life I ought to shun;
As something, loudly, in my breast,
Remonstrates I have done;
Thou know'st that Thou hast formed me,
With
passions
wild and strong;
And list'ning to their witching voice
Has often led me wrong.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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My son and
grandson
emulous dispute 600
The prize of glory, and my soul exults.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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By an effort I rise and lean heavily on my bed;
Tottering
I step towards the door of the courtyard.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Half-past one,
The street lamp sputtered,
The street lamp muttered,
The street lamp said,
"Regard that woman
Who
hesitates
toward you in the light of the door
Which opens on her like a grin.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
|
Public domain books are our gateways to the past, representing a wealth of history, culture and knowledge that's often
difficult
to discover.
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
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So they both to London went,
Alighting
on the Monument;
Whence they flew down swiftly--pop!
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Their native fastnesses not more secure
Than they in
doubtful
time of troublous need:
Their wrath how deadly!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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But at twal' at night, when the moon shines bright,
My dear, I'll come and see thee;
For the man that loves his
mistress
weel,
Nae travel makes him weary.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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"
And yet within these ruins' very shade
The singing workmen shape and set and join
Their frail new mansion's
stuccoed
cove and quoin
With no apparent sense that years abrade,
Though each rent wall their feeble works invade
Once shamed all such in power of pier and groin.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
|
If you
do not charge anything for copies of this eBook,
complying
with the
rules is very easy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
|
Pope's religion and his chronic ill-health are two facts of the highest
importance to be taken into
consideration
in any study of his life or
judgment of his character.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
" "Turn thyself round, and keep
Thy count'nance hid; for if the Gorgon dire
Be shown, and thou
shouldst
view it, thy return
Upwards would be for ever lost.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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"
Their cries
engulfed
him like the night,
The moon put out her placid light
And black and low
Nearer the heavy thunder drew,
Hushing the voices .
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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Yet he
concedes
not any void in things,
Nor any limit to cutting bodies down.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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THE MEN BEHIND THE GUNS
JOHN JEROME ROONEY
[Sidenote: 1898]
_The high quality of
American
marksmanship was never more
conclusively shown than in the battle of Santiago.
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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I see thee now with little hand
Catch at each object passing bye,
The
happiest
thing in all the land
Except the bee and butterfly.
| Guess: |
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John Clare |
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To mask my
departure
I'll stay here a moment.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Quivi
soavemente
spuose il carco,
soave per lo scoglio sconcio ed erto
che sarebbe a le capre duro varco.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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The
brackish
water that we drink
Creeps with a loathsome slime,
And the bitter bread they weigh in scales
Is full of chalk and lime,
And Sleep will not lie down, but walks
Wild-eyed, and cries to Time.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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But where is the
Doggerbank
hero,
That made "Hogan Mogan" to skulk?
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Whether a book is still in copyright varies from country to country, and we can't offer
guidance
on whether any specific use of any specific book is allowed.
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Meredith - Poems |
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"--the
Nightingale
cries to the Rose
That sallow cheek of hers to' incarnadine.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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To match thy wish to please;
Leaving these rocks and trees,
Thou boldly might'st go forth, and dare th'
assembled
throng.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Apri la mente a quel ch'io ti paleso
e
fermalvi
entro; che non fa scienza,
sanza lo ritenere, avere inteso.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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All on that
charming
coast is no bitter snow and frost,
Like the lands of Virginia,--ginia, O:
There streams for ever flow, and there flowers for ever blow,
And alas!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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And whenever the old man paused, a gleam
From the bowl of his pipe would awhile illume
The silent group in the twilight gloom,
And
thoughtful
faces, as in a dream;
And for a moment one might mark
What had been hidden by the dark,
That the head of the maiden lay at rest,
Tenderly, on the young man's breast!
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Longfellow |
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Hippolyte
Madame, my
feelings
are not as base as that.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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7 and any additional
terms imposed by the
copyright
holder.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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You've not
surprised
my secret yet
Already the cortege moves on
But left to us is the regret
of there being no connivance none
The rose floats at the water's edge
The maskers have passed by in crowds
It trembles in me like a bell
This heavy secret you ask now
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Appoloinaire |
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