our country's hope and glory,
I'll tell thee all the truth, without a falsehood:
Thou must know that I had comrades, four in number;
Of my comrades four the first was gloomy midnight;
The second was a steely dudgeon dagger;
The third it was a swift and speedy courser;
The fourth of my
companions
was a bent bow;
My messengers were furnace-harden'd arrows.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Her eyes were so beautiful with the
light of
holiness
that I did not know them.
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But I must want
Lips against mine, and arms
marrying
me,
And breast to kiss with its dear warmth my breast,--
Body must love!
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Hrothgar
couldst thou
aid at all, the honored chief,
in his wide-known woes?
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Then soul, live thou upon thy servant's loss,
And let that pine to
aggravate
thy store;
Buy terms divine in selling hours of dross;
Within be fed, without be rich no more:
So shall thou feed on Death, that feeds on men,
And Death once dead, there's no more dying then.
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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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The children of whose turbaned seas,
Or what
Circassian
land?
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Or why was the substance not made more sure
That formed the brave fronts of these
palaces?
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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e mowynge to
done
wickednesse
or ellys ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Let the
preacher
preach in his pulpit!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Some bore amain
The death-vat, some the corbs of hallowed grain;
Or kindled fire, and round the fire and in
Set
cauldrons
foaming; and a festal din
Filled all the place.
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Euripides - Electra |
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No more should I be dismayed
If beside the verdant hedges,
We again
together
strayed,
I would whisper soft my pledges
And to thee all homage tender.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Cette bete suait du sang a chaque pierre
Et c'etait degoutant, la Bastille debout
Avec ses murs lepreux qui nous racontaient tout
Et, toujours, nous
tenaient
enfermes dans leur ombre!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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My modir is she, and of
childhede
5885
I bothe worshipe hir, and eek drede;
For who that dredith sire ne dame
Shal it abye in body or name.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Particularly
I remark An English countess goes upon the stage.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Sonnets Pour Helene Book I: VI
Among love's
pounding
seas, for me there's no support,
And I can see no light, and yet have no desires
(O desire too bold!
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Ronsard |
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Play up thy
flawless
silver flute; 5
Dead ripe are fruit and grain.
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Sappho |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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And other
withered
stumps of time
Were told upon the walls; staring forms
Leaned out, leaning, hushing the room enclosed.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Copyright
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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O brother, taken
from my unhappy self; thou by thy dying hast broken my ease, O brother; all
our house is buried with thee; with thee have
perished
the whole of our
joys, which thy sweet love nourished in thy lifetime.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Tosto fur sovr' a noi, perche correndo
si movea tutta quella turba magna;
e due dinanzi
gridavan
piangendo:
<
e Cesare, per soggiogare Ilerda,
punse Marsilia e poi corse in Ispagna>>.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Cupid sagaciously led past those
palazzos
so fine.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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'sorted and consorted, contrary to thy established proclaimed
edict and
continent
canon; which, with, O, with- but with this I
passion to say wherewith-'
COSTARD.
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Shakespeare |
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But thou 'vailedest alone all these to conquer in love-lowe,
When
conjoined
once more unto thy yellow-haired spouse.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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"--
Then, like a man that feels a sudden thought
His purpose change, the mingling crowd he sought,
And left the question, which a moment hung
Scarce half suppress'd upon my
faltering
tongue.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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I hope he is well, and beg to be
remembered
to him.
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Robert Burns |
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O Hymen
Hymenaee
io, 170
O Hymen Hymenaee.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Men of steel
flickered
and gleamed
Like riot of silver lights,
And the gold of the knight's good banner
Still waved on a castle wall.
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Stephen Crane |
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Ah,
shameless!
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Tennyson |
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"_
[A long and wearisome ditty, called "The
Highland
Lad and Lowland
Lassie," which Burns compressed into these stanzas, for Johnson's
Museum.
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Robert Forst |
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The Emperor strongly
wished that he should be present at the signature of the treaty; and, in
fact, though he was not one of the envoys from Milan, the success of the
negotiation was
generally
attributed to him.
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Petrarch |
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225
XXVI
"The suns of twenty summers danced along,--
Too little marked how fast they rolled away:
But, through severe
mischance
and cruel wrong,
My father's substance fell into decay:
We toiled and struggled, hoping for a day 230
When Fortune might [13] put on a kinder look;
But vain were wishes, efforts vain as they;
He from his old hereditary nook
Must part; the summons [14] came;--our final leave we took.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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O thou field of my delight so fair and
verdant!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Do the corpulent
sleepers
sleep?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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As such, he has chosen his own selections and
determined the order in which they are to be printed, but he has had no
authority over either the choice or
grouping
of his fellow exhibitors'
contributions.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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In matters of science it is the
ultimate
sensation.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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For thou, for man
Has such a treasure in his heart of love,
It must be
squandered
out in charity,
Not used as a gentle money to repay
Worth (as a woman spends her love).
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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--The
Selection
was reissued by Ward, Lock, and Co.
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Byron |
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"Is it
possible
that I have
written verses that are 'filled with beauty,' and is it possible
that you really think them worthy of being given to the world?
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"I fear thee and thy
glittering
eye
"And thy skinny hand so brown"--
Fear not, fear not, thou wedding guest!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Perchance to rouse on mine own head
The
sleeping
hate of the world?
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Euripides - Electra |
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Now all thy forces try;
Now all thy charms apply;
Revenge upon her ear the
conquests
of her eye.
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Golden Treasury |
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_]
Love is an immoderate thing
And can never be content,
Till it dip an ageing wing,
Where some
laughing
element
Leaps and Time's old lanthorn dims.
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Yeats |
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His prospects on leaving
Edinburgh
341
LIII.
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Robert Burns |
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MARGARETE
(fahrt fort):
Liebt mich- nicht- liebt mich- nicht-
(Das letzte Blatt ausrupfend, mit holder Freude.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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The picture is not barren of
instruction
to actual men.
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Shelley |
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Ellis appears at the top of the manuscript page: "(a
separate
sheet: It cannot be placed as its sequel is missing.
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Blake - Zoas |
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--
what brings you
bragging
now?
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Older than Saturn, 5
Older than Rhea,
That
mournful
music,
Falling and surging
With the vast rhythm
Ceaseless, eternal, 10
Keeps the long tally
Of all things mortal.
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Sappho |
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The whole is spoiled,
insufferable
elf!
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La Fontaine |
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No
lightning
or storm reach where he's gone.
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Villon |
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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cense The glowing rays
IV
That from the low sun dart, have Turned gold each tower and every towering mast;
The saffron flame, that flaming nothing harms Hides Khadeeth's pearl and all the
sapphire
might Of burnished waves, before her gates collected: The cloak of graciousness, that round thee gloweth, Doth hide the thing thou art, as here befalleth.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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_ It is in truth
An easy thing to stand aloof from pain
And lavish
exhortation
and advice
On one vexed sorely by it.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Up came the reserves to the mellay infernal,
Asking where to go in,--through the
clearing
or pine?
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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You Caffre, Berber,
Soudanese!
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Whitman |
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',
e fior
gittando
e di sopra e dintorno,
'Manibus, oh, date lilia plenis!
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Soon
afterwards
he met Yuan Ch?
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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" KAU}
His billows roll where monsters wander in the foamy paths
On clouds the Sons of Urizen beheld Heaven walled round
{Irretrievable
word following "beheld.
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Blake - Zoas |
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His eyes he op'nd, and beheld a field,
Part arable and tilth, whereon were Sheaves 430
New reapt, the other part sheep-walks and foulds;
Ith' midst an Altar as the Land-mark stood
Rustic, of grassie sord; thither anon
A sweatie Reaper from his Tillage brought
First Fruits, the green Eare, and the yellow Sheaf,
Uncull'd, as came to hand; a
Shepherd
next
More meek came with the Firstlings of his Flock
Choicest and best; then sacrificing, laid
The Inwards and thir Fat, with Incense strew'd,
On the cleft Wood, and all due Rites perform'd.
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Milton |
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The
unfeeling
heart can't know a pain so sweet:
Love reigns on earth above, not beneath our feet.
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Ronsard |
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Now many an earl
of Beowulf brandished blade ancestral,
fain the life of their lord to shield,
their praised prince, if power were theirs;
never they knew, -- as they neared the foe,
hardy-hearted heroes of war,
aiming their swords on every side
the accursed to kill, -- no keenest blade,
no farest of falchions
fashioned
on earth,
could harm or hurt that hideous fiend!
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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How heavy
My weight of
obligation!
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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ou doest vs stronge
tourment!
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Whatever in those climes he found
Irregular
in sight or sound
Did to his mind impart
A kindred impulse, seem'd allied
To his own powers, and justified
The workings of his heart.
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Golden Treasury |
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Many small donations
($1 to $5,000) are particularly
important
to maintaining tax exempt
status with the IRS.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Yes, Nature's road must ever be preferred;
Reason is here no guide, but still a guard:
'Tis hers to rectify, not overthrow,
And treat this passion more as friend than foe:
A mightier power the strong
direction
sends,
And several men impels to several ends:
Like varying winds, by other passions tossed,
This drives them constant to a certain coast.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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The Good, that guides
And blessed makes this realm, which thou dost mount,
Ordains its
providence
to be the virtue
In these great bodies: nor th' all perfect Mind
Upholds their nature merely, but in them
Their energy to save: for nought, that lies
Within the range of that unerring bow,
But is as level with the destin'd aim,
As ever mark to arrow's point oppos'd.
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
|
We need your
donations
more than ever!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
|
Thel answerd, O thou little virgin of the
peaceful
valley.
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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Of mines I little know, myself,
But just the names of gems, --
The colors of the commonest;
And scarce of diadems
So much that, did I meet the queen,
Her glory I should know:
But this must be a
different
wealth,
To miss it beggars so.
| Guess: |
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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O so dear
O so dear from far and near and white all
So deliciously you, Mery, that I dream
Of what
impossibly
flows, of some rare balm
Over some flower-vase of darkened crystal.
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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The ship
suddenly
sinketh.
| Guess: |
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Coleridge - Poems |
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LAUGHING SONG
When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy,
And the
dimpling
stream runs laughing by;
When the air does laugh with our merry wit,
And the green hill laughs with the noise of it;
When the meadows laugh with lively green,
And the grasshopper laughs in the merry scene;
When Mary and Susan and Emily
With their sweet round mouths sing 'Ha ha he!
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Yet
sometimes
we are liked ashamed, to be
Taking so much love from you, all for naught.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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He is the one philosophical critic who is also a
poet, and thus he is the one critic who instinctively knows his way through
all the
intricacies
of the creative mind.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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And we in gray dishonoured eld,
Feeble of frame, unfit were held
To join the warrior array
That then went forth unto the fray:
And here at home we tarry, fain
Our feeble
footsteps
to sustain,
Each on his staff--so strength doth wane,
And turns to childishness again.
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Aeschylus |
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ON A
PERFUMED
LADY
You say you're sweet: how should we know
Whether that you be sweet or no?
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Robert Herrick |
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His beginning is simple
and modest, as if distrustful of the
strength
of his pinion; only, I
do not altogether like--
-------------------------------"Truth
The soul of every song that's nobly great.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
Man's love follows many faces,
My love only one face knoweth;
Towards thee only my love floweth,
And
outstrips
the swift stream's paces.
| Guess: |
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
I must confess that the Emperor
combated my system on a solitary life with
surprising
energy.
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_First Pocket Edition June_ 1907
_Reprinted
January_ 1908, 1913, 1918, 1919
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CONTENTS
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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The Merovingian or
Frankish
race.
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Beowulf |
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Since then no
armistice
has been proclaimed to the feuding between them.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Is not yon lingering orange after-glow
That stays to vex the moon more fair than all
Rome's
lordliest
pageants!
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Wilde - Poems |
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For alas,
he had crowded the city so full
that men could not grasp beauty,
beauty was over them,
through them, about them,
no crevice
unpacked
with the honey,
rare, measureless.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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_al-bi_,
compound
verb, 189 n.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Explain the
allegory
in ix.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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What a storm of
emotions
keen
Raged round him and of balked desire!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Robert Herrick |
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Very far, very far, right at the
furthest
end of the dome of
heaven.
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Aristophanes |
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Roused by the hounds' and hunters' mingling cries,
The savage from his leafy shelter flies;
With fiery glare his
sanguine
eye-balls shine,
And bristles high impale his horrid chine.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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