For
_resembling_
other copies give _refining_: the correct
reading is perhaps _revealing_.
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Golden Treasury |
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They then sowed the land,
and their stay or departure, without regard to the harvest, was directed
by the orders
received
from their idol, till at last, by his command,
they fixed their abode on the site of Mexico.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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"
This criticism is not very trenchant, but its
weakness
is due, I think,
more to timidity of statement than to lack of perception.
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Yield to Carlun, that is so big with pride,
Faithful service, his friend and his ally;
Lions and bears and hounds for him provide,
Thousand
mewed hawks, sev'n hundred camelry;
Silver and gold, four hundred mules load high;
Fifty wagons his wrights will need supply,
Till with that wealth he pays his soldiery.
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Chanson de Roland |
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From Algidus and Aventine
List, goddess, to our grave
Fifteen!
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1
MCMXXII
PREFATORY NOTE
When the fourth volume of this series was published three years ago,
many of the critics who had up till then, as Horace Walpole said of God,
been the dearest
creatures
in the world to me, took another turn.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Thou scene of all my
happiness
and pleasure!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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And later, in August it may be,
When the meadows
parching
lie,
Beware, lest this little brook of life
Some burning noon go dry!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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When men are old, the incessant thought of Death
Follows them like their shadow; sits with them
At every meal; sleeps with them when they sleep;
And when they wake already is awake,
And
standing
by their bedside.
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He that cannot chuse but love,
And strives against it still,
Never shall my fancy move;
For he loves 'gaynst his will;
Nor he which is all his own, 5
And can att
pleasure
chuse,
When I am caught he can be gone,
And when he list refuse.
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John Donne |
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he but slept, I breathe again;
Come, gentle dreams, the hour of sleep
beguile!
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Longfellow |
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Up, lad: thews that lie and cumber
Sunlit pallets never thrive;
Morns abed and
daylight
slumber
Were not meant for man alive.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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G, RVenABD: _AD VARIVM_ C
3
_idemque
al.
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Latin - Catullus |
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"
"If you will please me," Robert said,
"You must
contrive
to change your bed,
"And have it placed--well, let me see--
"Moved to the outer gallery,
"Where you will be alone and free.
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La Fontaine |
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those lustrous eyes,
Which
tearfully
beheld the cruel prints
In the fair limbs of thy beloved Son,
Ah!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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The
school-teachers must coach up the
scholars
in their subjects.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Where I proposed to go
When time's brief
masquerade
was done,
Is mapped, and charted too!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Death -
ridiculous
enemy
- who cannot impose on the child
the notion that you exist!
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Mallarme - Poems |
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]
While the second Edition of this version of Omar was preparing,
Monsieur Nicolas, French Consul at Resht,
published
a very careful and
very good Edition of the Text, from a lithograph copy at Teheran,
comprising 464 Rubaiyat, with translation and notes of his own.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation"
or PGLAF), owns a compilation
copyright
in the collection of Project
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Of a surety Otis Yeere was
somebody
in this
bewildering whirl of Simla--had monopolized the nicest woman in it and
the Punjabis were growling.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Never, I never hoped to view this day,
When o'er the waves you plough'd the
desperate
way.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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This physic but
prolongs
thy sickly days.
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Shakespeare |
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35
at libet
innuptis
ficto te carpere questu.
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Latin - Catullus |
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(clutches his sword and
staggers
towards POLITIAN, but his purpose
is changed before reaching him, and he falls upon his knee at the feet of
the Earl)
Alas!
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Poe - 5 |
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Onora looketh
listlessly
adown the garden walk:
"I am weary, O my mother, of thy tender talk.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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That evening the
unbeliever
went to the temple and prostrated himself
before the altar and prayed the gods to forgive his wayward past.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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The Commandant was walking up and
down before his little party; the
approach
of danger had given the old
warrior wonderful activity.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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we; _rest insert_ my
_before_
wo.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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at
god haue
receyued
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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XII
As once we saw the children of the Earth
Pile peak on peak to scale the starry sky,
And fight against the very gods on high,
While Jove to his lightning-bolts gave birth:
Then all in thunder, suddenly reversed,
The furious squadrons earthbound lie,
Heaven glorying, while Earth must sigh,
Jove gaining all the honour and the worth:
So were once seen, in this mortal space,
Rome's Seven Hills raising a haughty face,
Against the very
countenance
of Heaven:
While now we see the fields, shorn of honour,
Lament their ruin, and the gods secure,
Dreading no more, on high, that fearful leaven.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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I believe that
Whitman is one of the huge, as yet mainly unrecognised, forces of our time;
privileged to evoke, in a country hitherto still asking for its poet, a
fresh, athletic, and American poetry, and predestined to be traced up to by
generation after
generation
of believing and ardent--let us hope not
servile--disciples.
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Whitman |
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`Now god,' quod he, `me sende yet the grace
That I may meten with this
Diomede!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Iam iam nulla viro iuranti femina credat,
Nulla viri speret sermones esse fideles;
Quis dum aliquid cupiens animus
praegestit
apisci, 145
Nil metuunt iurare, nihil promittere parcunt:
Sed simulac cupidae mentis satiata libidost,
Dicta nihil meminere, nihil periuria curant.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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THE ANIMALS
[_who up to this time have been going through all sorts of queer antics
with each other, bring_
MEPHISTOPHELES
_a crown with a loud cry_].
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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alternate
format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm
License as specified in paragraph 1.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Ah, with the Grape my fading life provide,
And wash the Body whence the Life has died,
And lay me,
shrouded
in the living Leaf,
By some not unfrequented Garden-side.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Be Lyon metled, proud, and take no care:
Who chafes, who frets, or where Conspirers are:
Macbeth shall neuer vanquish'd be, vntill
Great Byrnam Wood, to high
Dunsmane
Hill
Shall come against him.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Now my song and
presence
you dismay,
Yet soon it will be dawn.
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Troubador Verse |
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To Mandricardo my fair argument
It now behoves me, in his turn, to veer
He happily enjoyed, his rival spent,
The beauty, left in Europe without peer,
Since fair
Angelica
from hence had wended,
And virtuous Isabel to heaven ascended.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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developed, opens the decay,
When the colossal fabric's form is neared:
It will not bear the
brightness
of the day,
Which streams too much on all, years, man, have reft away.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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She
spawneth
men as mallows fresh,
Hero and maiden, flesh of her flesh;
She drugs her water and her wheat
With the flavors she finds meet,
And gives them what to drink and eat;
And having thus their bread and growth,
They do her bidding, nothing loath.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Je te
parlerais
dans ta bouche:
J'irais, pressant
Ton corps, comme une enfant qu'on couche
Ivre du sang
Qui coule, bleu, sous ta peau blanche
Aux tons roses,
Te parlant bas la langue franche.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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We
saw but little of the village here, for nobody could tell us when the
cars would start; that was kept a profound secret, perhaps for
political reasons; and
therefore
we were tied to our seats.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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She comes,
Radiant, calm-fronted, as when 230
She
hallowed
that April day.
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James Russell Lowell |
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The gem in Eastern mine which slumbers,
Or ruddy gold 'twill not bestow;
'Twill not subdue the turban'd numbers,
Before the Prophet's shrine which bow;
Nor high through air on
friendly
pinions
Can bear thee swift to home and clan,
From mournful climes and strange dominions--
From South to North--my Talisman.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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The
breaking
of the day
Addeth to my degree;
If any ask me how,
Artist, who drew me so,
Must tell!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Then thus Ulysses: "Thou whom first in sway,
As first in virtue, these thy realms obey;
How sweet the products of a
peaceful
reign!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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He wol not
entremete
by right,
Ne have god in his eye-sight,
And therfore god shal him punyce; 7235
But me ne rekketh of no vyce,
Sithen men us loven comunably,
And holden us for so worthy,
That we may folk repreve echoon,
And we nil have repref of noon.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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They may be
modified
and printed and given away--you may do
practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks.
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Imagists |
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Haste, strip his arms, the
slaughter
round him spread,
And send the living Lycians to the dead.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Thus when his phrenzy raging rash was soothed to
gentlest
rest,
Atys revolved deeds lately done, as thought from breast unfolding, 45
And what he'd lost and what he was with lucid sprite beholding,
To shallows led by surging soul again the way 'gan take.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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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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Meredith - Poems |
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'
With that she gan hir face for to wrye
With the shete, and wex for shame al reed; 1570
And
Pandarus
gan under for to prye,
And seyde, `Nece, if that I shal be deed,
Have here a swerd, and smyteth of myn heed.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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sic
cecidisse
iuuat: uixi sine uulnere famae,
ulta uirum positis moenibus oppetii.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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No portion where the maidens throng to praise
Castor--my Castor, whom in ancient days,
Ere he passed from us and men
worshipped
him,
They named my bridegroom!
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Euripides - Electra |
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"God looks down from His
judgment
seat, 'Good will on earth' is His message sweet,
Turn your hearts to the Lord.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Emily Dickinson scrutinized
everything
with clear-eyed frankness.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Cupid
sagaciously
led past those palazzos so fine.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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By what star
Did I steer
homeward?
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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We trust not to the
multitude
in war, II.
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Robert Herrick |
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It was sweet to hear your note,
I'll not deny,
When April set pale clouds afloat
O'er the blue tides of sky,
And 'mid the wind's
triumphant
drums
You, in your white and azure coat,
A herald proud, came forth to cry,
"The royal summer comes!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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For thou, to keep thy body to thy soul,
Must swing a censer, wear a holy stole,
And chaunt Te Deums with
unbelief
between.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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I lived on dread; to those who know
The
stimulus
there is
In danger, other impetus
Is numb and vital-less.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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whom thou fli'st, of him thou art,
His flesh, his bone; to give thee being I lent
Out of my side to thee, neerest my heart
Substantial Life, to have thee by my side
Henceforth an
individual
solace dear;
Part of my Soul I seek thee, and thee claim
My other half: with that thy gentle hand
Seisd mine, I yeilded, and from that time see
How beauty is excelld by manly grace 490
And wisdom, which alone is truly fair.
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Milton |
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Les Amours de Marie: VI
I'm sending you some flowers, that my hand
Picked just now from all this blossoming,
That, if they'd not been
gathered
this evening,
Tomorrow would be scattered on the ground.
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Ronsard |
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la bague etait brisee
Que s'ils etaient d'argent ou d'or
D'emeraude ou de diamant
Seront plus clairs plus clairs encore
Que les astres du firmament
Que la lumiere de l'aurore
Que vos regards mon fiance
Auront
meilleure
odeur encore
Helas!
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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His labor is a chant,
His
idleness
a tune;
Oh, for a bee's experience
Of clovers and of noon!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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To them
Aeneas grants leave in kind and courteous wise, spurning not their
prayer, and goes on in these words: 'What spite of fortune, O Latins,
hath entangled you in the toils of war, and made you fly our
friendship?
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Up from her streams,
continued
to the skies.
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Marvell - Poems |
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An silent suns to meet the night descend ;
Tiic Htars that for him fought, had only power
Left to
determine
now his fatal hour.
| Guess: |
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Marvell - Poems |
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Yes, let us not forget our thankfulness;
For is not, sisters,
everything
we have
Mere gift?
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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"
While yet he speaks, Eurymachus replies,
With indignation flashing from his eyes:
"Slave, I with justice might deserve the wrong,
Should I not punish that
opprobrious
tongue.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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--
Souls that are voices alone to us, now, yet linger, returning
Thrilled with a sweet
reconcilement
and fervid with speechless desire?
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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that to the brim
My heart was full; I made no vows, but vows
Were then made for me; bond unknown to me 335
Was given, that I should be, else sinning greatly,
A
dedicated
Spirit.
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William Wordsworth |
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For wealth, in the black days, at Nero's word,
The ruffian bands unsheathed the
murderous
sword.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Thou laws invisible that permeate them and all,
Thou that in all, and over all, and through and under all,
incessant!
| Guess: |
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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"
And her own feet were caught in nets of gold,
And her own soul
profaned
by sects that squirm,
And little men climbed her high seats and sold
Her honour to the vulture and the worm.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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p{re}ciouse
stones of ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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son of the
wondrous
sire!
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Note: Jupiter,
disguised
as a shower of gold, raped Danae, and as a white bull carried off Europa.
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Ronsard |
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So deep and large her bounties are,
That one broad, long
midsummer
day
Shall to the planet overpay
The ravage of a year of war.
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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25
Proclaymed
joy and peace through all his state;
For dead now was their foe which them forrayed late.
| Guess: |
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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_Mankind
shall cease_.
| Guess: |
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Not long ago at eventide,
It seemed, so listening, at my side
A window rose, and, to say sooth,
I looked forth on the fields of youth:
I saw fair boys
bestriding
steeds,
I knew their forms in fancy weeds,
Long, long concealed by sundering fates,
Mates of my youth,--yet not my mates,
Stronger and bolder far than I,
With grace, with genius, well attired,
And then as now from far admired,
Followed with love
They knew not of,
With passion cold and shy.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Sonnets Pour Helene Book I: XIX
So often forging peace, so often fighting,
So often
breaking
up, and then re-forming,
So often blaming Love, so often praising,
So often searching out, so often fleeing,
So often hiding ourselves, so often revealing,
So often under the yoke, so often freeing,
Making our promises and then retracting,
Are signs that Love strikes at our very being.
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Ronsard |
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Painting is truly a
luminous
language.
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Appoloinaire |
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Happiest of women if she were but able
To make her glassen Duke once
malleable
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Marvell - Poems |
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_information
through hearsay_: instr.
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Beowulf |
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And every human heart that breaks,
In prison-cell or yard,
Is as that broken box that gave
Its treasure to the Lord,
And filled the unclean leper's house
With the scent of
costliest
nard.
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Wilde - Poems |
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or the righteous ban
Of all the Gods, whose dreadful images
Here
represent
their shadowy presences,
May pierce them on the sudden with the thorn
Of painful blindness; leaving thee forlorn,
In trembling dotage to the feeblest fright
Of conscience, for their long offended might,
For all thine impious proud-heart sophistries,
Unlawful magic, and enticing lies.
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Keats |
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Fired at his scorn the queen to Praetus fled,
And begg'd revenge for her insulted bed:
Incensed he heard, resolving on his fate;
But
hospitable
laws restrain'd his hate:
To Lycia the devoted youth he sent,
With tablets seal'd, that told his dire intent.
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Iliad - Pope |
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But human vices have
provoked
the rod 1815.
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William Wordsworth |
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In charters and in briefs is written clear,
Four
thousand
fell, and more, the tales declare.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Blair and Professor Walker were present, Burns
related the circumstances under which he had composed his melancholy
song, "The gloomy night is gathering fast," in a way even more
touching than the verses: and in the company of the ruling
beauties
of
the time, he hesitated not to lift the veil from some of the tenderer
parts of his own history, and give them glimpses of the romance of
rustic life.
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Robert Forst |
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How many,
lamenting their want of children, have through these
obtained
the object
of their wishes!
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Tacitus |
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When by the high decree of powers supreme,
The Poet came into this world outworn,
She who had borne him, in a ghastly dream,
Clenched blasphemous hands at God, and cried in scorn:
"O rather had I borne a writhing knot
Of unclean vipers, than my breast should nurse
This vile derision, of my joy begot
To be my
expiation
and my curse!
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Pennifeather,
amid the loud
execrations
of all Rattleborough, was brought to trial at
the next criminal sessions, when the chain of circumstantial evidence
(strengthened as it was by some additional damning facts, which Mr.
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Poe - 5 |
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If merely to come in, sir, they go out,
The way they take is
strangely
round about.
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