When I saw that the Senate listened to him favourably and was
being tricked by his imposture, I said to myself, "Come, gods of rascals
and braggarts, gods of all fools, toad-eaters and
braggarts
and thou,
market-place, where I was bred from my earliest days, give me unbridled
audacity, an untiring chatter and a shameless voice.
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Systers in sorrowe, on thys daise-ey'd banke, 15
Where
melancholych
broods, we wyll lamente;
Be wette wythe mornynge dewe and evene danke;
Lyche levynde[10] okes in eche the odher bente,
Or lyche forlettenn[11] halles of merriemente,
Whose gastlie mitches[12] holde the traine of fryghte[13], 20
Where lethale[14] ravens bark, and owlets wake the nyghte.
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If, which our valley bars, this wall of stone,
From which its present name we closely trace,
Were by
disdainful
nature rased, and thrown
Its back to Babel and to Rome its face;
Then had my sighs a better pathway known
To where their hope is yet in life and grace:
They now go singly, yet my voice all own;
And, where I send, not one but finds its place.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed
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Petrarch - Poems |
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He would not
elude the horror of this story by simply not mentioning it, like Homer, or
by
pretending
that an evil act was a good one, like Sophocles.
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Euripides - Electra |
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I have the best of intentions toward you who have now dedicated--
I
recognize
it with thanks--life and writings to me.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Yonder Cluden's silent towers,
Where at moonshine
midnight
hours,
O'er the dewy bending flowers,
Fairies dance so cheery.
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Robert Forst |
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Cestius in life, maybe,
Slew,
breathed
out threatening;
I know not.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Heaven
prepares
good men with crosses; but no ill can
happen to a good man.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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"
I made reply that having already
received
my life at his hands, I
trusted not merely in his good nature but in his help.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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So spake the Eternal Father, and all Heaven
Admiring stood a space, then into Hymns
Burst forth, and in Celestial
measures
mov'd, 170
Circling the Throne and Singing, while the hand
Sung with the voice, and this the argument.
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Milton |
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"
The Green Knight, resting on his axe, looks on Sir Gawayne, as bold and
fearless he there stood, and then with a loud voice thus
addresses
the
knight: "Bold knight, be not so wroth, no man here has wronged thee
(ll.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Again, if Nature, creatress of all things,
Were wont to force all things to be resolved
Unto least parts, then would she not avail
To reproduce from out them anything;
Because whate'er is not endowed with parts
Cannot possess those properties required
Of
generative
stuff--divers connections,
Weights, blows, encounters, motions, whereby things
Forevermore have being and go on.
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Lucretius |
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If any
disclaimer
or limitation set forth in this agreement
violates the law of the state applicable to this agreement, the
agreement shall be interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or
limitation permitted by the applicable state law.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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And many a moon and sun will see
The lingering wistful children wait
To climb upon their father's knee;
And in each house made desolate
Pale women who have lost their lord
Will kiss the relics of the slain--
Some tarnished epaulette--some sword--
Poor toys to soothe such
anguished
pain.
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Wilde - Poems |
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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 turf that covers them no thrill
Sends up to fire the heart and brain;
No stronger purpose nerves the will,
No hope renews its youth again:
From farm to farm the Concord glides,
And trails my fancy with its flow;
O'erhead the
balanced
hen-hawk slides,
Twinned in the river's heaven below.
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James Russell Lowell |
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In the
long run, I fancy, the effect of gracious
loveliness
which Alcestis
certainly makes is not so much due to any words of her own as to what the
Handmaid and the Serving Man say about her.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Chor: Look now for no
inchanting
voice, nor fear
The bait of honied words; a rougher tongue
Draws hitherward, I know him by his stride,
The Giant Harapha of Gath, his look
Haughty as is his pile high-built and proud.
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Milton |
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Nay, is not this
Still most despair,--to have halved that bitter fruit,
And ruined, so, the
sweetest
friend I have,
Turning the GREATEST to mine enemy?
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Elizabeth Browning |
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"What are you
thinking
of?
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Slow-moving and black lines go ceaselessly over the earth,
Northerner goes carried, and Southerner goes carried, and they on the
Atlantic side, and they on the Pacific, and they between, and all
through the
Mississippi
country, and all over the earth.
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Whitman |
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The wings, the
eyebrows
and ah, the eyes!
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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We offer
bubbling
bowls of
warm milk and cups of consecrated blood, and lay the spirit to rest in
her tomb, and with loud voice utter the last call.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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He began:
"Do you 'mind that night beside the beaches When the whole world in one brimming cup,
Earth and sky, the sea, clouds, dews, and starlight, To our lips was lifted, and we drank,
"Dizzy with dread joy and
sacrificial
Rapture of self-loss and sorrow dear,
Deep of beauty's draught, divine nirvana, The bewildering wine of all the world?
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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er were maked
co{m}parysou{n}
of ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Her house he enters, ghastly white,
The
vestibule
finds empty quite--
He enters the saloon.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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AND HOLY HEASTS FORETAUGHT, and holy
commands
previously taught
(them).
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Oozed from the bracken's
desolate
track,
By dark rains havocked and drenched black.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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But then God had
given him at his birth the soul of a poet, as he himself when quite young
had in mystical marriage taken poverty as his bride: and with the soul of
a poet and the body of a beggar he found the way to
perfection
not
difficult.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Amistris too, and he whose strenuous spear
Was foremost in the fight,
Amphistreus
fell,
And gallant Ariomardus, by whose death
Broods sorrow upon Sardis: Mysia mourns
For Seisames, and Tharubis lies low--
Commander, he, of five times fifty ships,
Born in Lyrnessus: his heroic form
Is low in death, ungraced with sepulchre.
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Aeschylus |
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Nor did gentle Eurytion, though he alone struck the bird down from the
lofty sky, grudge him to be
preferred
in honour.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Then, 'twas before my time, the Roman
At yonder heaving hill would stare:
The blood that warms an English yeoman,
The
thoughts
that hurt him, they were there.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Though twenty lances brave each single spear,
Never the foes
superior
might to fear
Is our inheritance, our native right,
Well tried, well prov'd in many a dreadful fight.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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TO TIRZAH
Whate'er is born of mortal birth
Must be consumed with the earth,
To rise from
generation
free:
Then what have I to do with thee?
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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SGANARELLE: Thus these vapours of which I speak
passing from the left side, where the liver is, to the right
side where the heart is, it happens that the lungs, which
we call in Latin _armyan_, having communication with the
brain, which in Greek we name _nasmus_, by means of the
_vena cava_, which we call in Hebrew _cubile_, in their way
meet the said vapours, which fill the ventricles of the
omoplata; and as the said vapours--be sure you understand
this argument, I beg you--and as these said vapours have
a certain malignancy--listen
carefully
to this, I pray you.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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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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Marks, notations and other marginalia present in the
original
volume will appear in this file - a reminder of this book's long journey from the publisher to a library and finally to you.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Thou
shouldst
have called me
to share thy doom; in the self-same hour, the self-same pang of steel
had been our portion.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Suddenly they came to the Yangtze River and
remembered
the waters
of Chiao.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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The quiet voice that always counselled best,
The mind that so ironically played
Yet for mere gentleness
forebore
the jest.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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I am
commanded
here and kept a coil with
'Too young' and next year' and "Tis too early.
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Shakespeare |
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why is so rare good
imperfect
made
While severed from us still my lord remains.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Approving all, she faded at self-will,
And shut the chamber up, close, hush'd and still,
Complete and ready for the revels rude,
When
dreadful
guests would come to spoil her solitude.
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Keats |
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Be stylle: swythe lette the
chyrches
rynge mie knelle.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Fitzgerald
Footnotes:
[Footnote 1: Some of Omar's Rubaiyat warn us of the danger of Greatness, the
instability of Fortune, and while advocating Charity to all Men,
recommending us to be too
intimate
with none.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Therein I
treasure
the spice and scent
Of rich and passionate memories blent
Like odours of cinnamon, sandal and clove,
Of song and sorrow and life and love.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Gamel, son of Orm,
What
thinkest
thou this means?
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Tennyson |
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Not for delectations sweet;
Not the cushion and the slipper, not the
peaceful
and the studious;
Not the riches safe and palling, not for us the tame enjoyment,
Pioneers!
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Whitman |
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But Virgil was not a good Roman;
there was
something
in him that was not Roman at all.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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and an
inarticulate
cry rises from there that seems the voice of light.
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Appoloinaire |
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The
bridegroom
spake low and led onward the bride
And before the high altar they stood side by side:
The rite-book is opened, the rite is begun,
They have knelt down together to rise up as one.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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ORESTES
Bethink thee, father, in the laver slain--
ELECTRA
Bethink thee of the net they
handselled
for thee!
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Aeschylus |
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Loe, where
condemned
hee
Beares his owne crosse, with paine, yet by and by 10
When it beares him, he must beare more and die.
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John Donne |
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I have seen eyes in the street
Trying to peer through lighted shutters,
And a crab one afternoon in a pool,
An old crab with
barnacles
on his back,
Gripped the end of a stick which I held him.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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There might the maiden chide, in love-sick mood,
The
insuperable
rocks and severing flood; 1836.
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William Wordsworth |
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was "bestowed
upon the Khan of the Hsiung-nu as a mark of
Imperial
regard" (Giles).
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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I charge thee, do not flatter me
Through pity, with false words; for, in my mind,
Deceiving works more shame than
torturing
doth.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Croft's pamphlet, he beautifully
expresses a feeling, of which we imagine few of
us can have been unconscious when
perusing
any
work which strongly appeals to our reason and
conscience, and in which, as we proceed, we seem
to recognize what we have often thought, but
never uttered.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Stand and defy me with thy
intolerable
presence!
| Guess: |
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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So, at last, third hand
possessed
it--
Julietta, and at Paris
It reposes in her chamber,
Serving as a bed-side carpet.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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There's never a moment's rest allowed:
Now here, now there, the
changing
breeze
Swings us, as it wishes, ceaselessly,
Beaks pricking us more than a cobbler's awl.
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Villon |
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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.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Do the feasters
gluttonous
feast?
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Whitman |
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XXXVII
So
frequently
his mind would stray
He well-nigh lost the use of sense,
Almost became a poet say--
Oh!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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I'd be a demi-god, kissed by her desire,
And breast on breast,
quenching
my fire,
A deity at the gods' ambrosial feast.
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Ronsard |
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He put the belt around my life, --
I heard the buckle snap,
And turned away, imperial,
My lifetime folding up
Deliberate, as a duke would do
A kingdom's title-deed, --
Henceforth a
dedicated
sort,
A member of the cloud.
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Well he knew
The land which lately he had
journeyed
through.
| Guess: |
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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But if you remember, then turn away forever
To the plains and the prairies where pools are far apart,
There you will not come at dusk on closing water lilies,
And the shadow of
mountains
will not fall on your heart.
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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Es ist mir eine rechte Kunst,
Den armen Ratten Gift zu
streuen!
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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I permit that mean attire
Beneath the
feastful
bower.
| Guess: |
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Odyssey - Pope |
|
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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And ful of anguissh and of grisly drede 155
Abood what lordes wolde un-to it seye;
And if they wolde graunte, as god forbede,
Theschaunge of hir, than
thoughte
he thinges tweye,
First, how to save hir honour, and what weye
He mighte best theschaunge of hir withstonde; 160
Ful faste he caste how al this mighte stonde.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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[Illustration]
The next thing that happened to them was in a narrow part of the sea, which
was so entirely full of fishes that the boat could go on no farther: so
they
remained
there about six weeks, till they had eaten nearly all the
fishes, which were soles, and all ready-cooked, and covered with
shrimp-sauce, so that there was no trouble whatever.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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And when the vision seemed to swerve,
'T was but the flickering shine
That gave new grace, a
lovelier
curve,
To every dream-like line.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Thy work was done
Ere we could thank thee; and the high sea swell
Surgeth
unheeding
where thy proud ship fell
By the lone Orkneys, at the set of sun.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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indicating
direction
or tending to, hence: 1) local =
whither after verbs of motion, _to, up to, at_: cōm tō recede (_to the
hall_), 721; ēode tō sele, 920; ēode tō hire frēan sittan, 642; gǣð eft .
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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"Bye foule proceedyngs, murdre, bloude,
Thou wearest nowe a crowne;
And hast
appoynted
mee to dye,
By power nott thyne owne.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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nor heed
Whether the object by reflected light
Return thy
radiance
or absorb it quite:
And though thou notest from thy safe recess
Old friends burn dim, like lamps in noisome air,
Love them for what they _are_; nor love them less,
Because to _thee_ they are not what they _were_.
| Guess: |
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Coleridge - Poems |
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One day he went as far as the chapel;
but as soon as he got to the door he turned
straight
round again, as
if he hadn't power to pass it.
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Whiteness
of walls, towers and piers,
That all day dazzled eyes to tears,
Turned from being white-golden flame,
And like the deep-sea blue became.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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This I know: in death all silently
He does a kindlier thing,
In beckoning pilgrim feet
With marble finger high
To where, by shadowy wall and history-haunted street,
Those
matchless
singers lie .
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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If I speak gruffly, this mood is
Mere
indignation
at my own
Shortcomings, plagues, uncertainties;
I forget the gentler tone.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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"
"Nothing, good nurse, there's nothing wrong,
But send your
grandson
before long.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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And you, fair nymphs of Tagus, parent stream,
If e'er your meadows were my pastoral theme,
While you have listen'd, and by
moonshine
seen
My footsteps wander o'er your banks of green,
O come auspicious, and the song inspire
With all the boldness of your hero's fire:
Deep and majestic let the numbers flow,
And, rapt to heaven, with ardent fury glow,
Unlike the verse that speaks the lover's grief,
When heaving sighs afford their soft relief,
And humble reeds bewail the shepherd's pain;
But like the warlike trumpet be the strain
To rouse the hero's ire, and far around,
With equal rage, your warriors' deeds resound.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Together
let us fly!
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Hugo - Poems |
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pers_ Merecraft,
Merecraft
_turnes to_ Fitz-dottrel.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Beneath these fruit-tree boughs that shed
Their snow white blossoms on my head,
With brightest sunshine round me spread
Of spring's unclouded weather,
In this
sequestered
nook how sweet 5
To sit upon my orchard-seat!
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, _so, in such a manner, thus_: swā sceal man dōn,
1173, 1535; swā þā driht-guman
drēamum
lifdon, 99; þæt ge-æfndon swā (_that
we thus accomplished_), 538; þǣr hīe meahton (i.
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Beowulf |
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Sharp fever drains the reeky
moistness
out,
In such a cloud upsteam'd.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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One must love something in this world of ours, mistress,
They who love nothing live, in their wretchedness,
Like the
Scythians
did, and they would spend their life
Without tasting the sweetness of the sweetest joy.
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Ronsard |
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"
Miraut de Garzelas, after the pains he bore a-loving Riels of
Calidorn
and that to none avail, ran mad in the
forest.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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(Sie pfluckt eine
Sternblume
und zupft die Blatter ab, eins nach dem
andern.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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And I then: "Some one frames upon the keys
That
exquisite
nocturne, with which we explain
The night and moonshine; music which we seize
To body forth our vacuity.
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T.S. Eliot |
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For she, and she
Spak swich a word; thus loked he, and he;
Lest tyme I loste, I dar not with yow dele;
Com of therfore, and
bringeth
him to hele.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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what a reform would I make among the sons and
even the
daughters
of men!
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Robert Burns |
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The wood upon the other
side was very thin, and broke the
moonlight
into long streams.
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Yeats |
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immediately
after the 'which'
of the preceding line.
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John Donne |
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The reminiscence comes
Of sunless dry geraniums
And dust in crevices,
Smells of
chestnuts
in the streets
And female smells in shuttered rooms
And cigarettes in corridors
And cocktail smells in bars.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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