grogaram' to Donne,
and the closing
repartee
to the bore.
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If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement
violates
the
law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be
interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by
the applicable state law.
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Rilke - Poems |
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No
disguise
avails!
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Longfellow |
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Sie schiebt sich langsam nur vom Ort,
Sie scheint mit
geschlossnen
Fussen zu gehen.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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If an
individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are
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Awaken,
O right hand with the
lightnings!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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9
YOUR EYES ARE LIKE THE SEA By Leslie Nelson Jennings
Your eyes are like the sea
When air and sky, by some old alchemy,
Draw from the fires of spring The very
substance
of infinity—
The color of the stars' own conjuring.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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CXLI
In faith I do not love thee with mine eyes,
For they in thee a
thousand
errors note;
But 'tis my heart that loves what they despise,
Who, in despite of view, is pleased to dote.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Et dans le vieux logis tout est tiede et vermeil:
Des sombres
vetements
ne jonchent plus la terre,
La bise sous le seuil a fini par se taire.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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A washed-out
smallpox
cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone With all the old nocturnal smells
That cross and cross across her brain.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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The influence of this "classicist" tradition has led to a timid and
unsatisfying treatment of the _Alcestis_, in which many of the most
striking and unconventional features of the whole
composition
were either
ignored or smoothed away.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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3, this work is
provided
to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER
WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO
WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE.
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how much more doth beauty
beauteous
seem
By that sweet ornament which truth doth give.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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There, when the turf in springtime flowers,
With
downward
eye and gazes sad,
Stands amid the glancing showers
A jonquil, not a Grecian lad.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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"
Indeed she told the truth, for Sir Kay,
infuriated
with Gareth's
boldness in the king's hall was hounding after them.
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Tennyson |
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'Neath great slabs of marble they hid them in vain,
'Gainst this
everliving
fire, God's own flaming rain!
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Hugo - Poems |
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Die uns das Leben gaben, herrliche Gefuhle
Erstarren in dem
irdischen
Gewuhle.
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We do not solicit
donations
in locations
where we have not received written confirmation of compliance.
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Sara Teasdale |
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In place of it
permit me to offer the universally
appreciated
"Bridge of Sighs":--
One more Unfortunate,
Weary of breath,
Rashly importunate
Gone to her death!
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Poe - 5 |
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or if those women you note
Reflect your
fabulous
senses' desire!
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Oh, who, then, is this man
That
pardoneth
also sins without atonement?
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Longfellow |
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44
This Poem is reprinted from the copy printed at London in 1772, with
a few
corrections
from a copy made by Mr.
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wherefore, but because
Such were the bloody circus' genial laws,
And the
imperial
pleasure.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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E poi il mosser le parole biece
a
dimandar
ragione a questo giusto,
che li assegno sette e cinque per diece,
indi partissi povero e vetusto;
e se 'l mondo sapesse il cor ch'elli ebbe
mendicando sua vita a frusto a frusto,
assai lo loda, e piu lo loderebbe>>.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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I
remember
so well the room,
And the lilac bloom
That beat at the dripping pane
In the warm June rain;
And the colour of your gown,
It was amber-brown,
And two yellow satin bows
From your shoulders rose.
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Wilde - Poems |
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For never guiltless may I speak of him,
The
Incomprehensible!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Fair
governance
was yet an art well priz'd
By him of Pressa: Galigaio show'd
The gilded hilt and pommel, in his house.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Nick, Nick, iron
nightcap!
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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A washed-out smallpox cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone With all the old
nocturnal
smells
That cross and cross across her brain.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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"
THYRSIS
"Now may I seem more bitter to your taste
Than herb Sardinian, rougher than the broom,
More
worthless
than strewn sea-weed, if to-day
Hath not a year out-lasted!
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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an,
Of
cuntrees
fer & wyde; 504
(43)
?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Compliance
requirements are not uniform and it takes a
considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up
with these requirements.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Usage guidelines
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libraries
to digitize public domain materials and make them widely accessible.
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Meredith - Poems |
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THE RISE AND
PROGRESS
OF CHINESE POETRY
_The Odes.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Hail, Majesty most
Excellent!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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In the
stillness
of the night my sister murmurs in her sleep the
fire-god's unknown name, and my brother calls afar upon the cool
and distant goddess.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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345
His tears will find no hand to dry them, no friend:
His
innocent
cries, heard by the gods above us,
Will harm his mother, and anger his ancestors.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Exeunt all but GLOUCESTER
Now will I go to take some privy order
To draw the brats of
Clarence
out of sight,
And to give order that no manner person
Have any time recourse unto the Princes.
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Shakespeare |
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Notes: The Lord of
Excideuil
is Richard Coeur-de-Lion.
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Troubador Verse |
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with pleased
attention
heard,
Is like the dictates of a god revered.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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May I rule my people
In glory, and like Thee be good and
righteous!
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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_Walter de la Mare_
THE ROAD TO DIEPPE
[Concerning the experiences of a journey on foot through the night of
August 4, 1914 (the night after the formal
declaration
of war between
England and Germany), from a town near Amiens, in France, to Dieppe,
a distance of somewhat more than forty miles.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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MELODIES
UNHEARD.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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At the beginning of the T'ien-pao period[10] he went south to Kuei-chi,
and became
intimate
with Wu Yun.
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Li Po |
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"
And another cried, "In what cause dost thou sacrifice
thyself?
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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"
Thy age, great Caesar, has restored
To squalid fields the
plenteous
grain,
Given back to Rome's almighty Lord
Our standards, torn from Parthian fane,
Has closed Quirinian Janus' gate,
Wild passion's erring walk controll'd,
Heal'd the foul plague-spot of the state,
And brought again the life of old,
Life, by whose healthful power increased
The glorious name of Latium spread
To where the sun illumes the east
From where he seeks his western bed.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Philosophy will clip an Angel's wings,
Conquer all
mysteries
by rule and line,
Empty the haunted air, and gnomed mine--
Unweave a rainbow, as it erewhile made
The tender-person'd Lamia melt into a shade.
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Keats |
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) can copy and distribute it in the United States without
permission and without paying
copyright
royalties.
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| Question: |
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Sara Teasdale |
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Am Brunnen
Gretchen und
Lieschen
mit Krugen.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Paley does see
that a character may be "well-drawn" without
necessarily
being "pleasing";
and even that he may be eminently pleasing as a part of the play while
very displeasing in himself.
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| Question: |
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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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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| Question: |
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Meredith - Poems |
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Dawn now breaks;
sunlight
rakes the swollen seas;
Ah, alas!
| Guess: |
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Troubador Verse |
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For common instinct of our race declares
That body of itself exists: unless
This primal faith, deep-founded, fail us not,
Naught will there be
whereunto
to appeal
On things occult when seeking aught to prove
By reasonings of mind.
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Lucretius |
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50
So saying, Minerva, Goddess azure-eyed,
Rose to Olympus, the reputed seat
Eternal of the Gods, which never storms
Disturb, rains drench, or snow invades, but calm
The expanse and
cloudless
shines with purest day.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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"
The hierodule called unto the man
and came unto him
beholding
him.
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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I was
sufficiently
poor, sad to say.
| Guess: |
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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The Men have
recieved
their death wounds & their Emanations are fled
To me for refuge & I cannot turn them out for Pitys sake *{inserted vertically, up the left side of the page.
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Blake - Zoas |
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This music is
successful
with a "dying fall"
Now that we talk of dying--
And should I have the right to smile?
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T.S. Eliot |
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so deeply that
purity emerges from
the
corruption!
| Guess: |
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Mallarme - Poems |
|
_ And how not hear the fly-whirled virgin,
Daughter of Inachus, who Zeus' heart warmed
With love, and now the courses over long,
By Here hated, forcedly
performs?
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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But to the theme, now laid aside too long,
The baleful burthen of this honest song,[sc]
Though all her former
functions
are no more,
She rules the circle which she served before.
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Byron |
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The horses plunged,
The cannon lurched and lunged,
To join the
hopeless
rout.
| Guess: |
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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& the hHuman form is no more
The
listning
Stars heard, & the first beam of the morning started back
He cried out to his father, depart!
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Blake - Zoas |
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Erdman does not note this
placement
in his edition.
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| Answer: |
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Blake - Zoas |
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Of Chatterton's method
of antiquating
something
has already been said.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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If any
disclaimer
or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the
law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be
interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by
the applicable state law.
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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_
CHORUS
A gracious word thy woman's lips have told,
Worthy a wise man's utterance, O my queen;
Now with clear trust in thy convincing tale
I set me to salute the gods with song,
Who bring us bliss to
counterpoise
our pain.
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Aeschylus |
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It
sufficeth I know what kind of persons I displease, men bred in the
declining and decay of virtue, betrothed to their own vices; that have
abandoned or prostituted their good names; hungry and ambitious of
infamy,
invested
in all deformity, enthralled to ignorance and malice, of
a hidden and concealed malignity, and that hold a concomitancy with all
evil.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Why do I want this,
when even last night
you
startled
me from sleep?
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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CXII
Your love and pity doth the
impression
fill,
Which vulgar scandal stamp'd upon my brow;
For what care I who calls me well or ill,
So you o'er-green my bad, my good allow?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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")
Do I dare
Disturb the
universe?
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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I see the flowers and spreading trees,
I hear the wild birds singing;
But what a weary wight can please,
And Care his bosom
wringing!
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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The pillow of this daring head
Is pungent evergreens;
His larder -- terse and militant --
Unknown,
refreshing
things;
His character a tonic,
His future a dispute;
Unfair an immortality
That leaves this neighbor out.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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As when, to harbinger the dawn, springs up
On freshen'd wing the air of May, and breathes
Of fragrance, all impregn'd with herb and flowers,
E'en such a wind I felt upon my front
Blow gently, and the moving of a wing
Perceiv'd, that moving shed ambrosial smell;
And then a voice: "Blessed are they, whom grace
Doth so illume, that
appetite
in them
Exhaleth no inordinate desire,
Still hung'ring as the rule of temperance wills.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Thus, we do not necessarily
keep eBooks in compliance with any
particular
paper edition.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Nothing: but not so art thou,
Soul of my
thought!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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The gloomy anticipations expressed
by the author were but too well justified by the
public events which
transpired
subsequently to
his death.
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Marvell - Poems |
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The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating
charities and
charitable
donations in all 50 states of the United
States.
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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.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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No doubt my pages nice advice supply;
Is't what I've
followed?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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But one of the House of
Bivar, suspecting foul play, had
followed
the travellers in
disguise.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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From finest
sweetest
place I see
No messenger, no word for me,
So my heart can't laugh or rest,
And I don't dare try my hand,
Until I know, and can attest,
That all things are as I demand.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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MAGUELONNE
(_opening the door_): Who is there?
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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aequora prora secet
delphinis
aemula saltu,
quisque gemat largum, promat se quisque lacertis,
pone trahens canum deducta sit orbita sulcum.
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
|
For thirty years, he produced and
distributed
Project
Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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30
And shall this prize, th' inestimable prize,
Exposed through crystal to the gazing eyes,
And
heightened
by the diamond's circling rays,
On that rapacious hand for ever blaze?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
Where the moon riseth not,
Nor sun seeks the west,
There to sing their glory
Which they sing at rest,
There to sing their love-song
When they sing their best: 30
Not in any garden
That mortal foot hath trod,
Not in any
flowering
tree
That springs from earthly sod,
But in the garden where they dwell,
The Paradise of God.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
|
XIV
There pass the
careless
people
That call their souls their own:
Here by the road I loiter,
How idle and alone.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
|
Lightning
and Thunder.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Christina Rossetti |
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Car j'eusse avec ferveur baise ton noble corps,
Et depuis tes pieds frais jusqu'a tes noires tresses
Deroule le tresor des profondes caresses,
Si, quelque soir, d'un pleur obtenu sans effort
Tu pouvais seulement, o reine des cruelles,
Obscurcir la
splendeur
de tes froides prunelles.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Thus in the regions of eternal shade
Conferr'd the mournful
phantoms
of the dead;
While from the town, Ulysses and his band
Pass'd to Laertes' cultivated land.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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"And what of spirits flown,
The souls whereon doth close
The tomb's mouth
unawares?
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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He would sport with a
syllogism
in sipping St.
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Poe - 5 |
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Yet even they are but a making ready
For what I
perfectly
intend: in them
Joy of self-bound desire hath burnt itself
To extreme purity; I am free thereby
To work my meaning through them, my divinity.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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It exists
because of the efforts of hundreds of
volunteers
and donations from
people in all walks of life.
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Keats - Lamia |
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She cared not a rap for all the big planets,
For
Betelgeuse
or Aldebaran,
And all the big planets cared nothing for her,
That small impertinent charlatan;
But she climbed on a Kentish stile in the moonlight,
And laughed at the sky through the sticks of her fan.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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_Jerusalem Delivered_ and the
_Lusiads_
are drenched
with the spirit of the Renaissance; and that is chiefly responsible for
their lovely poetry.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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2 The bold man is
saddened
at his tomb mound, the recluse bows at Tripod Lake.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Yet dreams of
conquering
greater prize for her
Roused his wild spirit with a glittering spur.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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O do be so good,--
With sweat and with blood,
To take it and lime it;
[_They go about
clumsily
with the crown and break it into two pieces,
with which they jump round_.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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