The Cloud descended and the Lily bowd her modest head:
And went to mind her
numerous
charge among the verdant grass.
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Me-azag,
daughter
of Ninkasi, 144.
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the Sprite that haunts us
Deceives
our rash desire;
It whispers of the glorious gods,
And leaves us in the mire.
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Even the affairs of private men suffer when
recreation
is preferred to
business.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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The great public
libraries
of the country do
not possess them all.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Ye chariot-lords, ye
spurrers
of the steed,
Shear close your horses' manes!
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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D'Anthes, though he had espoused Madame Pushkin's
sister, had conducted himself with
impropriety
towards the former
lady.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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By blowing realms of woodland
With sunstruck vanes afield
And cloud-led shadows sailing
About the windy weald,
By valley-guarded granges
And silver waters wide,
Content at heart I followed
With my
delightful
guide.
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uocibus
adsiduis
litus resonet: tamen heia.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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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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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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What they snatch up and devour at one table, utter at
another; and grow
suspected
of the master, hated of the servants, while
they inquire, and reprehend, and compound, and dilate business of the
house they have nothing to do with.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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--vous rentrez aux cafes eclatants,
Vous
demandez
des bocks ou de la limonade.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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; these are the glorious models
after which I endeavour to form my conduct, and 'tis incongruous, 'tis
absurd to suppose that the man whose mind glows with sentiments
lighted up at their sacred flame--the man whose heart distends with
benevolence to all the human race--he "who can soar above this little
scene of things"--can he descend to mind the paltry concerns about
which the
terraefilial
race fret, and fume, and vex themselves!
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Robert Forst |
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60
To stately Hall and Cottage rude
Flowed from his life what still they hold,
Light pleasures, every day, renewed;
And
blessings
half a century old.
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William Wordsworth |
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Their feet, that crushed down freedom to its grave
And felt the very earth they trod a slave,
How quiet here they lie in death's cold arms
Without the power to crush the feeble worms
Who spite of all the
dreadful
fears they made
Creep there to conquer and are not afraid.
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John Clare |
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The creeds are
believed
not because they are rational but because
they are repeated.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Where
womankind
has power, no man can house,
Where womankind feeds panic, ruin rules
Alike in house and city!
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Aeschylus |
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A caste-mark on the azure brows of Heaven,
The golden moon burns sacred, solemn, bright
The winds are dancing in the forest-temple,
And
swooning
at the holy feet of Night.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Get us a little wax right off to make the
stoppers!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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"
"You are an orphan;
doubtless
you have to complain of injustice or
wrong.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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If
Rodrigue
is essential to the State,
Must I pay for the workings of fate.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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There is no grief, no sorrow, no despair,
No languor, no dejection, no dismay, 245
No absence
scarcely
can there be, for those
Who love as we do.
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William Wordsworth |
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I am loth to trouble you, Father, when the
business
is not of
your own sort.
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Yeats |
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Sate in
eternall
night: nought could she say,
But suddaine catching hold, did her dismay
With quaking hands, and other signes of feare; 105
Who full of ghastly fright and cold affray,
Gan shut the dore.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Dismounted
on a floor of marble blue,
Where four counts were, who by his stirrup stood;
Up by the steps, the palace came into;
To meet him there came running Bramimunde,
Who said to him: "Accursed from the womb,
That in such shame my sovran lord I lose!
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Chanson de Roland |
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"Mine be the fire about my feet, the smoke above my head;
So might I glow, a torch to show the path my heroes tread;
_My
Captain!
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Eternal
benedictions
rest
Upon thy name, Saint Benedict!
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Longfellow |
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"For Annie" was first
published
in the "Flag of our Union," in the
spring of 1849.
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Poe - 5 |
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Therefore
I rede you, bring no shame on me
Now when man's eye beholds your maiden prime.
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Aeschylus |
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Li Po |
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Nor is Turnus slack to
follow; he overleaps the
barriers
and springs across the high gangways.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Can't I divine yet the paths through which over and over
To her and from her I'll go,
squandering
valuable time?
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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"
WIVES IN THE SERE
I
NEVER a careworn wife but shows,
If a joy suffuse her,
Something
beautiful to those
Patient to peruse her,
Some one charm the world unknows
Precious to a muser,
Haply what, ere years were foes,
Moved her mate to choose her.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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He served out some grog with a liberal hand,
And bade them sit down on the beach:
And they could not but own that their Captain looked grand,
As he stood and
delivered
his speech.
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Lewis Carroll |
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And what's thy
purchase?
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Fair
thoughts
and happy hours attend on you!
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Shakespeare |
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"
Here, again, he is
stealing
Nature's "thunder.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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The Jew was
thoughtful
and distressed;
Upon his memory thronged and pressed
The persecution of his race,
Their wrongs and sufferings and disgrace;
His head was sunk upon his breast,
And from his eyes alternate came
Flashes of wrath and tears of shame.
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Longfellow |
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And
this induced Plato to esteem of Homer as a sacrilegious person, because
he presented the gods
sometimes
laughing.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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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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Wilde - Poems |
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So you demand a bonus since you spent
One lifetime and
refrained
from poisoning
Your testy grandmother!
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Saint Gabriel once more to him comes down,
And
questions
him "Great King, what doest thou?
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Chanson de Roland |
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1460
What
proferestow
thy light here for to selle?
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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When he goes out, there is nowhere for him to go:
Bunches and
brambles
block up his path.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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sǣgenga
flēat
fāmigheals forð ofer ȳðe, _floated away over the waves_, 1910.
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Beowulf |
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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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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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When he does not come, she bitterly
suggests
that he is as
afraid of the little stream as though it were the Yellow River, the
largest river in China.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Can I not sin, but thou wilt be
My private
protonotary?
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Robert Herrick |
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For ne'er would they
Allow, nor ne'er in anywise endure
Perpetual
vain dingdong in their ears
Of spoken sounds unheard before.
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Lucretius |
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[26]
Quotation
from the Yangtze boatman's song:
"When Yen-yu is as big as a man's hat
One should not venture to make for Ch'u-t'ang.
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Li Po |
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The
italicised
words in the last few lines appear in _Hesperides_; all
the rest are new.
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Robert Herrick |
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Swift, through some trap mine eyes have never found,
Dim-panelled in the painted scene of Sleep,
Thou, giant
Harlequin
of Dreams, dost leap
Upon my spirit's stage.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Just in that instant when the
serpents
gripe,
Broke the flight veines, and tender conduit-pipe,
Through which this soule from the trees root did draw
Life, and growth to this apple, fled away
This loose soule, old, one and another day.
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John Donne |
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Through earnest prayer and watchings long
He sought to know 'tween right and wrong,
Much
wrestling
with the blessed Word
To make it yield the sense of the Lord, 10
That he might build a storm-proof creed
To fold the flock in at their need.
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James Russell Lowell |
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And since till girls go maying
You find the
primrose
still,
And find the windflower playing
With every wind at will,
But not the daffodil,
Bring baskets now, and sally
Upon the spring's array,
And bear from hill and valley
The daffodil away
That dies on Easter day.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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It is marvellous that he can produce such effects by
such simple means: a mere
enumeration
of particulars will often do it,
as here:--
No gray old grange or lonely fold,
Or low morass and whispering reed,
Or simple style from mead to mead,
Or sheep walk up the windy wold.
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Tennyson |
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You may do it--but we, the rest of the gods,
do not
sanction
it.
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Iliad - Pope |
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e buske3, & bede hym vp ryse,
& he
vnsoundyly
out so3t segge3 ouer-?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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My father's
murderer
dead!
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Euripides - Electra |
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And, what I took more odd than all the rest,
Was, that same night she neer a wish exprest
To see the gipsies, so beloved before,
That lay a stone's throw from us on the moor:
I hinted it; she just replied again--
She once
believed
them, but had doubts since then.
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John Clare |
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Ah quietly the shingle waits the tides
Whose waves are stinging kisses, but to me
Love brought no peace, nor
darkness
any rest.
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Sara Teasdale |
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V
Oh see how thick the goldcup flowers
Are lying in field and lane,
With
dandelions
to tell the hours
That never are told again.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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But let the frame of things dis-ioynt,
Both the Worlds suffer,
Ere we will eate our Meale in feare, and sleepe
In the affliction of these terrible Dreames,
That shake vs Nightly: Better be with the dead,
Whom we, to gayne our peace, haue sent to peace,
Then on the torture of the Minde to lye
In
restlesse
extasie.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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The satiric poet Hipponax, who was extremely ugly, having
been portrayed by Bupalus as even more unsightly-looking than the
reality,
composed
against the artist so scurrilous an invective that the
latter hung himself in despair.
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Aristophanes |
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A clump of bushes stands--a clump of hazels,
Upon their very top there sits an eagle,
And upon the bushes' top--upon the hazels,
Compress'd within his claw he holds a raven,
And its hot blood he
sprinkles
on the dry ground;
And beneath the bushes' clump--beneath the hazels,
Lies void of life the good and gallant stripling;
All wounded, pierc'd and mangled is his body.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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If some one seeing her so fragile stand,
Were it to save her, should put forth his hand,
Ere he had made a step, or
breathed
a vow,
The scaffold's shadow were upon his brow.
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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UXOR
PAUPERIS
IBYCI.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Thus the sad-eyed Fakirs preach:
'Bard, when thee would Allah teach,
And lift thee to his holy mount,
He sends thee from his bitter fount
Wormwood,--saying, "Go thy ways;
Drink not the Malaga of praise,
But do the deed thy fellows hate,
And compromise thy
peaceful
state;
Smite the white breasts which thee fed.
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Emerson - Poems |
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This work may be freely reproduced, stored, and transmitted,
electronically
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Troubador Verse |
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Only one favor I beg of you, Graces (I ask it in secret--
Fervent my prayer and deep, out of a
passionate
breast):
My little garden, my sweet one, protect it and do not let any
Evil come near it nor me.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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When granite moulders and when records fail,
A peasant's plaint
prolongs
his dubious date.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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I have tiding,
Glad tiding, behold how in duty
From far
Lehistan
the wind, gliding.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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In 1593 he was on the
commission
against
Jesuits, and in 1594-5 was in prison.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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From the
forgotten
you call forth dreams; the
child
Reposing on the ground in the corn-clad fields,
In harvest-glow beside the naked mowers.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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The dank seaweed will root
On her oozed decks, and the cross-surges sweep
Through the set sails; but never, never more
Her crew will stand away to brace and trim,
Nor sea-blown petrels meet her thrashing up
To
windward
on the Gulf Stream's stormy rim;
Never again she'll head a no'theast gale
Or like a spirit loom up, sliding dumb,
And ride in safe beyond the Boston Light,
To make the harbor glad because she's come.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Onques mes n'avoie veue
Cele iaue qui si bien coroit:
Moult m'abelissoit et seoit
A
regarder
le leu plaisant.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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One of the major troubadours of the twelfth century, his warlike nature and love of political intrigue, particularly his espousing the
divisive
cause of Henry, the Young English King, caused Dante to place him in the Inferno, Canto XXVIII, as a stirrer-up of strife.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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An
immortal
hand is charged with his end.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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_30
***
TO MARY
WOLLSTONECRAFT
GODWIN.
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Shelley |
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All to the grand saloon are gone--
The ball in all its
splendour
shone.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Your beauty is your life and my content,
And I will liken you to an apple-tree,
Mary and Margaret playing under the branches,
And everywhere soft shadows like your eyes,
And
scattered
blossom like your little smiles.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
|
Presently
Thou'lt come to a distant land, a dusky tribe
Of
dwellers
at the fountain of the Sun,
Whence flows the river AEthiops; wind along
Its banks and turn off at the cataracts,
Just as the Nile pours from the Bybline hills
His holy and sweet wave; his course shall guide
Thine own to that triangular Nile-ground
Where, Io, is ordained for thee and thine
A lengthened exile.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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Look you how the cave
Is with the wild vine's
clusters
over-laced!
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But if, unheard, in vain
compassion
plead,
Revere the gods.
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SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of
compliance
for any
particular state visit http://pglaf.
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He
continues
this for twelve years, till Bēowulf fights with
him (147, 711 ff.
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Les Amours de Cassandre: CXCII
It was hot, and sleep, gently flowing,
Was
trickling
through my dreaming soul,
When the vague form of a vibrant ghost
Arrived to disturb my dreaming, softly
Leaning down to me, pure ivory teeth,
And offering me her flickering tongue,
Her lips were kissing me, sweet and long,
Mouth on mouth, thigh on thigh beneath.
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Ronsard |
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suggests
seah or seīr for geseah, and Gr.
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Beowulf |
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The Ox
Lucas and the Ox
'Lucas and the Ox'
Hieronymus Wierix, 1563 - before 1590, The Rijksmuseun
This cherubim sings the praises
Of
Paradise
where, with Angels,
We'll live once more, dear friends,
When the good God intends.
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[A good Spirit, who watches over the Pirate's fate, leads, in a
mysterious manner, the lady of his love to the
Enchanted
Isle.
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Shelley |
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Your lands are rich and ample,
And your
revenues
large.
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Longfellow |
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But wherein is he
dangerous?
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Again a riddle which the
published
letters hardly solve.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Please do not assume that a book's
appearance
in Google Book Search means it can be used in any manner anywhere in the world.
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"Suffer without regret," they seem to cry,
"Though dark your suffering is, it may be music,
Waves of blue heat that wash
midsummer
sky;
Sea-violins that play along the sands.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Gentle night, do thou
befriend
me,
Downy sleep, the curtain draw;
Spirits kind, again attend me,
Talk of him that's far awa!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Then with a jerking hand
Held out so piteously
She gave a ring to me
Of gold wrought curiously,
A ring which she had worn
Since the day that I was born,
She once had said to me:
I slipped it on my finger;
Her eyes were keen to linger
On my hand that slipped it on;
Then she sighed one rattling sigh
And stared on with
sightless
eye:--
The one who loved me was gone.
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