NIGHT
The sun
descending
in the west,
The evening star does shine;
The birds are silent in their nest,
And I must seek for mine.
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As usual with such kind of Oriental
Verse, the
Rubaiyat
follow one another according to Alphabetic
Rhyme--a strange succession of Grave and Gay.
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Nearly all the individual
works in the
collection
are in the public domain in the United
States.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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The
phratria
was a division of the tribe and consisted of
thirty families.
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Aristophanes |
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It makes for pretty difficult reading in
our present, less
interested
epoch.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Whenever
the thought of
my E.
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Robert Forst |
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Atta Troll, who once paraded
Like a mighty lord of deserts,
Free upon the
mountain
summit,
Dances in the vale to rabble!
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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The Curve Of Your Eyes
The curve of your eyes
embraces
my heart
A ring of sweetness and dance
halo of time, sure nocturnal cradle,
And if I no longer know all I have lived through
It's that your eyes have not always been mine.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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In pride, in
reasoning
pride, our error lies;
All quit their sphere, and rush into the skies.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Nay, these the things that make the world, The pick and spade, the ax, the mill, The furrowed field, the
ploughman
grim, The sons of God that work His will.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Thou wrinklest--after thou hast had the sum
Of the
guerdons
of life; yet, since thou cravest ever
What's not at hand, contemning present good,
That life has slipped away, unperfected
And unavailing unto thee.
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Lucretius |
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And once, or twice, to throw the dice
Is a
gentlemanly
game,
But he does not win who plays with Sin
In the secret House of Shame.
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Wilde - Poems |
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"Give voice to us, we pray, O Lord,
"That we may sing Thy
goodness
to the sun.
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Stephen Crane |
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And now
swetnesse
semeth more sweet,
That bitternesse assayed was biforn; 1220
For out of wo in blisse now they flete;
Non swich they felten, sith they were born;
Now is this bet, than bothe two be lorn!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Was it a squirrel's pettish bark,
Or
clarionet
of jay?
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Emerson - Poems |
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Heu palmsB, laurique furor, vel
simplicis
herbae !
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Marvell - Poems |
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Oh, sacrament of summer days,
Oh, last communion in the haze,
Permit a child to join,
Thy sacred emblems to partake,
Thy consecrated bread to break,
Taste thine
immortal
wine!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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[By compliments such as these lines contain, Burns soothed the smart
which his verses "On a lady famed for her caprice"
inflicted
on the
accomplished Mrs.
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Robert Burns |
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"
"You, madam, are the eternal humorist
The eternal enemy of the absolute,
Giving our vagrant moods the
slightest
twist
With your air indifferent and imperious
At a stroke our mad poetics to confute--"
And--"Are we then so serious?
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T.S. Eliot |
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I burn their brains as I were sign
Of God's
beautiful
anger sent
To master them with punishment
Of beauty that must pour distress
On hearts grown dark with ugliness.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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See, every patriot oak-leaf throws
His elfin length upon the snows,
Not idle, since the leaf all day
Draws to the spot the solar ray,
Ere sunset
quarrying
inches down,
And halfway to the mosses brown;
While the grass beneath the rime
Has hints of the propitious time,
And upward pries and perforates
Through the cold slab a thousand gates,
Till green lances peering through
Bend happy in the welkin blue.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Perchance where Dunia pours out tea
The young
proprietor
we find;
To Dunia then they whisper: Mind!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Death has the
greatest
purport.
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Whitman |
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"
Herman
trembled
like a leaf as the appointed hour drew near.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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"
{28a} Beowulf gives his uncle the king not mere gossip of his
journey, but a statesmanlike
forecast
of the outcome of certain
policies at the Danish court.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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[101] 920
Close by a brake of flowering furze
(Above it shivering aspens play)
He sees an unsubstantial creature,
His very self in form and feature,
Not four yards from the broad highway: 925
And stretched beneath the furze he sees
The
Highland
girl--it is no other;
And hears her crying as she cried,
The very moment that she died,
"My mother!
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William Wordsworth |
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If Nature, sovereign mistress over wrack,
As thou goest onwards, still will pluck thee back,
She keeps thee to this purpose, that her skill
May time disgrace and
wretched
minutes kill.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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]
Near where the royal victims fell
In days gone by, caught in the swell
Of a
ruthless
tide
Of human passion, deep and wide:
There where we two
A Nation's later sorrow knew--
To-day, O friend!
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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For the rest,
Let him now hurl his blanching lightnings down,
And with his white-winged snows and mutterings deep
Of subterranean thunders mix all things,
Confound
them in disorder.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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"
A son of God was the Goodly Fere That bade us his
brothers
be.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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"What need has he of your
_touloup_?
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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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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And the Banker,
inspired
with a courage so new
It was matter for general remark,
Rushed madly ahead and was lost to their view
In his zeal to discover the Snark.
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Lewis Carroll |
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Once Paumanok,
When the lilac-scent was in the air and Fifth-month grass was growing,
Up this seashore in some briers,
Two feather'd guests from Alabama, two together,
And their nest, and four light-green eggs spotted with brown,
And every day the he-bird to and fro near at hand,
And every day the she-bird crouch'd on her nest, silent, with bright eyes,
And every day I, a curious boy, never too close, never disturbing
them,
Cautiously
peering, absorbing, translating.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Probably its
counterpart has existed in Normandy for a
thousand
years.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Google Book Search helps readers discover the world's books while helping authors and
publishers
reach new audiences.
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| Question: |
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Meredith - Poems |
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21, 1864]
_After Sherman left Tennessee in May, to the taking of Atlanta
September 2, there was hardly a day without its battle; after he
left Atlanta he marched to the sea and took Savannah; then he went
to
Columbia
and the backbone of the Rebellion was broken.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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I am moved by fancies that are curled
Around these images, and cling:
The notion of some infinitely gentle
Infinitely
suffering
thing.
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T.S. Eliot |
|
* * * * *
In _The Book of Pictures_, Rilke's art reaches its
culmination
on what
might be termed its monumental side.
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Rilke - Poems |
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The
Threegan
girl's engaged, so Blayne says.
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Kipling - Poems |
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It is,
however,
imitated
from Sir W.
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Poe - 5 |
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The water it soon came in, it did;
The water it soon came in:
So, to keep them dry, they wrapped their feet
In a pinky paper all folded neat;
And they
fastened
it down with a pin.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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"Is
football
playing
Along the river shore,
With lads to chase the leather,
Now I stand up no more?
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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(This
file was
produced
from images generously made available
by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.
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Imagists |
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]
I
Having
remarked
Vladimir's flight,
Oneguine, bored to death again,
By Olga stood, dejected quite
And satisfied with vengeance ta'en.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Rilke - Poems |
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It chaunst (eternall God that chaunce did guide,)
As he recoiled backward, in the mire
His nigh
forwearied
feeble feet did slide,
And downe he fell, with dread of shame sore terrifide.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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at all men
schullen
haue fere;
?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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), entitled, "_Vita de Simon de Bourton_," in which
Sir Simon is said, as in the poem, to have begun his
foundation
in
consequence of a vow made at a tournament.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Heremōdes
is considered by Heinzel to be a mere epithet = _the
valiant_; which would refer the whole passage to Sigmund (Sigfrid), the
eotenas, l.
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Beowulf |
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Even in peace they do not relax the
sternness
of their aspect.
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Tacitus |
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After
suffering a temporary eclipse during the Sung dynasty, he came back
into favour in the
sixteenth
century, when most of the popular
anthologies were made.
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Li Po |
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"The most powerful, the most finely
imaginative
Ihe most powerful" (l, e.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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The Saracen also offered to go as Gama's
messenger
to the king,
and promised to procure him an able pilot to conduct him to Calicut, the
chief port of India.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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trademark.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Within a cave
Young Chromis and
Mnasyllos
chanced to see
Silenus sleeping, flushed, as was his wont,
With wine of yesterday.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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The person or entity that provided you with
the defective work may elect to provide a
replacement
copy in lieu of a
refund.
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Keats - Lamia |
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Subject to the King of Aragon from 1172, it was taken by Raymond VI of
Toulouse
in 1222, and James I of Aragon finally ceded his rights to the town in 1258 to France.
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Troubador Verse |
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Break no decrees or
dissolve
no orders to slacken the strength
of laws.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Whose yet
unfeathered
quills her fail ;
The edge all bloody from its breast
He draws, and does In's stroke detest.
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Marvell - Poems |
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[568] A
fragment
of the 'Menalippe' of Euripides.
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Aristophanes |
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In each bird's careless song,
Glad I did share;
While yon wild flowers among,
Chance led me there:
Sweet to the opening day,
Rosebuds
bent the dewy spray;
Such thy bloom!
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Robert Forst |
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ou hast
seuentene
?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Might he know
How conscious
consciousness
could grow,
Till love that was, and love too blest to be,
Meet -- and the junction be Eternity?
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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When Rhea Silvia,
princess
and virgin, came down to the Tiber
Just to fetch water, a god seized her and that is the way
Mars begat himself sons, a pair of twins whom a she wolf
Suckled.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Unfortunate
at best
In the midst of such woe to talk of rest!
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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"
— Current Opinion, New
York
"Each
contribution
is a gem.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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The men in scarlet waver
Before the men in brown,
And fly in utter panic--
The
soldiers
of the Crown!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Thou stirrest
earthquake
in the South,
And maelstrom in the sea;
Say, Jesus Christ of Nazareth,
Hast thou no arm for me?
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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To deify the object of your love was a common topic of love-poetry;
Donne does so with all the subtleties of
scholastic
theology at his
finger-ends.
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John Donne |
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He that denies himself shall gain the more
From
bounteous
Heaven.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Better will be the ecstasy
That they have done expecting me,
When, night descending, dumb and dark,
They hear my
unexpected
knock.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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The host was struck with what the spark averred,
And muttered
something
indistinctly heard.
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La Fontaine |
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Chanson de Roland |
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But these, while I with sorrow pine,
Gi-ew more
luxuriant
still and fine,
That not one blade of grass you spied,
But had a flower on either side, —
When Juliana came, and she,
What I do to the grass, does to my tlioughts
and me.
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Marvell - Poems |
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The
decorated
car appears on high:
The corse is piled--sweet sight for vulgar eyes;
Four steeds that spurn the rein, as swift as shy,
Hurl the dark bull along, scarce seen in dashing by.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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declare
For
government
of darkness and of death,
Of grave and worms.
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| Question: |
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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At length
NECESSITY
(the parent found
Of stratagems and wiles, so much renowned,)
Induced the youth .
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La Fontaine |
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how the style
refines!
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Alexander Pope |
|
I have borrowed money, and my
merciless
creditors
do not leave me a moment's peace; all my goods are at
stake.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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"
jubilation
and welcome.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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The
sacrifice ending with the night, Minerva vanishes from them in the
form of an eagle:
Telemachus
is lodged in the palace.
| Guess: |
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Odyssey - Pope |
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What need hath Nature of
silver dishes, multitudes of waiters, delicate pages,
perfumed
napkins?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Baudelaire
is more human than Poe.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Half-past three,
The lamp sputtered,
The lamp
muttered
in the dark.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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I think a tide of feeling through them flows
With blush and pallor, as if some being of air,--
Some soul once human,--wandering, in the snare
Of passion had been caught, and
henceforth
doomed
In misty crystal here to lie entombed.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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While my
pleasure
is yet at the full, I whisper, _So long_!
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Whitman |
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All other glories are as falling stars,
But
universal
Nature watches theirs:
Such strength is won by love of humankind.
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James Russell Lowell |
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He had
not been long there, when, like Chillingworth,
he was ensnared by the
proselyting
arts of the
Jesuits, who, with subtilty equal to their zeal,
commissioned their emissaries specially to aim at
the conversion of such of the university youths
as gave indications of signal ability.
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Marvell - Poems |
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I had rather wear her grace
Than an earl's
distinguished
face;
I had rather dwell like her
Than be Duke of Exeter
Royalty enough for me
To subdue the bumble-bee!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Are so
superfluous
cold,
I would as soon attempt to warm
The bosoms where the frost has lain
Ages beneath the mould.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Yet were these Florentines as self-retired
In hungry pride and gainful cowardice, 130
As two close Hebrews in that land inspired,
Paled in and vineyarded from beggar-spies;
The hawks of ship-mast forests--the untired
And pannier'd mules for ducats and old lies--
Quick cat's-paws on the
generous
stray-away,--
Great wits in Spanish, Tuscan, and Malay.
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Keats |
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