For, as we are commonly used to call the
infinite mixed multitude of growing trees a wood, so the ancients gave
the name of Sylvae--Timber Trees--to books of theirs in which small works of
various and diverse matter were
promiscuously
brought together.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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before me lies
Dawn and the Day; the Night behind me; that
Suffices
me; I break the bounds; I _see_,
And nothing more; _believe_, and nothing less.
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Hugo - Poems |
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When the seven young Storks set out, they walked or flew for fourteen weeks
in a
straight
line, and for six weeks more in a crooked one; and after that
they ran as hard as they could for one hundred and eight miles; and after
that they stood still, and made a himmeltanious chatter-clatter-blattery
noise with their bills.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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be thou my
jongleur
As ne'er had I other, and when the wind blows,
Sing thou the grace of the Lady of Beziers,
For even as thou art hollow before I fill thee with
this parchment,
So is my heart hollow when she filleth not mine eyes, And so were my mind hollow, did she not fill utterly
my thought.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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A public domain book is one that was never subject to
copyright
or whose legal copyright term has expired.
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Meredith - Poems |
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e folk of Rome were,
godus seruise forte here,
&
biddynge
of holy bede,
Page 57
348
And seide ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Where is your
Husband?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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The new "Mystery" was
revised by Gifford and printed, but
withheld
from month to month, till,
at length, "the fire kindled," and, on the last day of October, 1821,
Byron instructed John Hunt to "obtain from Mr.
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Byron |
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'You Rise the Water Unfolds'
You rise the water unfolds
You sleep the water flowers
You are water ploughed from its depths
You are earth that takes root
And in which all is grounded
You make bubbles of silence in the desert of sound
You sing nocturnal hymns on the arcs of the rainbow
You are
everywhere
you abolish the roads
You sacrifice time
To the eternal youth of an exact flame
That veils Nature to reproduce her
Woman you show the world a body forever the same
Yours
You are its likeness.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Greece is no
lightsome
land of social mirth;
But he whom Sadness sootheth may abide,
And scarce regret the region of his birth,
When wandering slow by Delphi's sacred side,
Or gazing o'er the plains where Greek and Persian died.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Hervor aus deinem alten Futterale,
An die ich viele Jahre nicht
gedacht!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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"
Ghastly, with starting eyes,
The King without a cry or
struggle
dies.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Luxury, O ebony hall, where to tempt a king
Famous garlands are
writhing
in death,
You are only pride, shadows' lying breath
For the eyes of a recluse dazed by believing.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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THE
LOVELINESS
OF LOVE.
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Golden Treasury |
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He
selected
his card--an ace.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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My
thoughts
crawled each after each,
Crawling at night each after each on the same nerve,
An unbroken ring of thoughts too sore for speech.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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But
apparently
it told how
Admetus, King of Pherae in Thessaly, received from Apollo a special
privilege which the God had obtained, in true Satyric style, by making the
Three Fates drunk and cajoling them.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Unworthy
of women are men.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Whensoe'er
Our
wanderer
comes again!
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Euripides - Electra |
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Mac
was his
favourite
toast.
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Robert Forst |
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45
VI
And be it so--for to the chill night shower
And the sharp wind his head he oft hath bared;
A Sailor he, who many a wretched hour
Hath told; for, landing after labour hard,
Full long [1] endured in hope of just reward, 50
He to an armed fleet was forced away
By seamen, who perhaps themselves had shared
Like fate; was hurried off, a
helpless
prey,
'Gainst all that in _his_ heart, or theirs perhaps, said nay.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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As I went down the water side,
None but my foe to be my guide,
None but my foe to be my guide,
On fair
Kirconnell
lea;
I lighted down my sword to draw,
I hacked him in pieces sma',
I hacked him in pieces sma',
For her sake that died for me.
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Golden Treasury |
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In the Highlands of Scotland may
still be gleaned some relics of the old songs about
Cuthullin
and
Fingal.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Chor: In seeking just
occasion
to provoke
The Philistine, thy Countries Enemy,
Thou never wast remiss, I hear thee witness:
Yet Israel still serves with all his Sons.
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Milton |
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To
Charlotte
Cushman.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Open the old cigar-box--let me
consider
anew--
Old friends, and who is Maggie that I should abandon you?
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Kipling - Poems |
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||
_palmisepto_
(_-seto_ BLa1 ?
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Latin - Catullus |
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The dogs were
handsomely
provided for,
But shortly afterwards the parrot died too.
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T.S. Eliot |
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A moment we saw her turret,
A little heel she gave,
And a thin white spray went o'er her,
Like the crest of a
breaking
wave--
In that great iron coffin,
The channel for their grave,
The fort their monument,
(Seen afar in the offing,)
Ten fathom deep lie Craven,
And the bravest of our brave.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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satis o nimiumque priores
despexisse
procos.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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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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Robert Burns |
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An unseen hand also pass'd over their bodies,
It
descended
tremblingly from their temples and ribs.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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e folk of Rome were,
godus seruise forte here,
&
biddynge
of holy bede,
Page 57
348
And seide ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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I fancy it will keep the
Blastoderm
quiet, though.
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Kipling - Poems |
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I love my own fond lover,
Young Calais, son of Thurian Ornytus:
For him I'd die twice over,
Would Fate but spare the sweet
survivor
thus.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Past through the most
glorious
corn-country I ever saw, till I reach
Dunbar, a neat little town.
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Robert Forst |
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was, and is, a man of great
learning
and
sharpness of wit as any man.
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Marvell - Poems |
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In 2001, the Project
Gutenberg
Literary
Archive Foundation was created to provide a secure
and permanent future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future
generations.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Thus, Woman, Principle of Life, Speaker of the Ideal
Would you see
The dark form of the sun
The contours of life
Or be truly dazzled
By the fire that fuses all
The flame conveyer of modesties
In flesh in gold that fine gesture
Error is as unknown
As the limits of spring
The temptation prodigious
All touches all travels you
At first it was only a thunder of incense
Which you love the more
The fine praise at four
Lovely motionless nude
Violin mute but palpable
I speak to you of seeing
I will speak to you of your eyes
Be faceless if you wish
Of their unwilling colour
Of luminous stones
Colourless
Before the man you conquer
His blind enthusiasm
Reigns naively like a spring
In the desert
Between the sands of night and the waves of day
Between earth and water
No ripple to erase
No road possible
Between your eyes and the images I see there
Is all of which I think
Myself inderacinable
Like a plant which masses itself
Which simulates rock among other rocks
That I carry for certain
You all entire
All that you gaze at
All
This is a boat
That sails a sweet river
It carries playful women
And patient grain
This is a horse descending the hill
Or perhaps a flame rising
A great barefooted laugh in a wretched heart
An autumn height of soothing verdure
A bird that persists in folding its wings in its nest
A morning that scatters the reddened light
To waken the fields
This is a parasol
And this the dress
Of a lace-maker more seductive than a bouquet
Of the bell-sounds of the rainbow
This thwarts immensity
This has never enough space
Welcome is always elsewhere
With the
lightning
and the flood
That accompany it
Of medusas and fires
Marvellously obliging
They destroy the scaffolding
Topped by a sad coloured flag
A bounded star
Whose fingers are paralysed
I speak of seeing you
I know you living
All exists all is visible
There is no fleck of night in your eyes
I see by a light exclusively yours.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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"
XXII
But she, her sister never heeding,
With book in hand reclined in bed,
Page after page
continued
reading,
But no reply unto her made.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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nor from Each other avert their eyes
Eternity appeard above them as One Man infolded
In Luvah robes of blood & bearing all his afflictions
As the sun shines down on the misty earth Such was the Vision
But purple night and crimson morning & [the] golden day descending
Thro' the clear changing atmosphere display'd green fields among
The varying clouds, like paradises stretch'd in the expanse
With towns & villages and temples, tents sheep-folds and pastures
Where dwell the children of the
elemental
worlds in harmony,
[But monstrous delusion ?
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Blake - Zoas |
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"Deathless the Creed
Here
substanced!
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Sweet friend, for me now go to the window
And gaze on the stars from earth below
And see how I am your true
messenger!
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Troubador Verse |
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My cocoon tightens, colors tease,
I'm feeling for the air;
A dim
capacity
for wings
Degrades the dress I wear.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Sin is the cause of death; and sin's alone
The cause of God's predestination:
And from God's prescience of man's sin doth flow
Our
destination
to eternal woe.
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Robert Herrick |
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ne meahte wǣfre mōd
forhabban in hreðre, _the
expiring
life could not hold itself back in the
breast_, 1152; ne mihte þā for-habban, _could not restrain himself_, 2610.
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Beowulf |
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"
"And may that be, if
different
estates
Grow not of different duties in your life?
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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THE SONNETS
by William Shakespeare
I
From fairest creatures we desire increase,
That thereby beauty's rose might never die,
But as the riper should by time decease,
His tender heir might bear his memory:
But thou contracted to thine own bright eyes,
Feed'st thy light's flame with self-substantial fuel,
Making a famine where
abundance
lies,
Thy self thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel:
Thou that art now the world's fresh ornament,
And only herald to the gaudy spring,
Within thine own bud buriest thy content,
And tender churl mak'st waste in niggarding:
Pity the world, or else this glutton be,
To eat the world's due, by the grave and thee.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Je
celebrai
mon jour de fete
Dans une oasis d'Afrique
Vetu d'une peau de girafe.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Severer triumph, by himself
Experienced, who can pass
Acquitted from that naked bar,
Jehovah's
countenance!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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on dēop
water aldrum
nēðdon
(_where ye two risked your lives in the deep water_),
510; so, 538.
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Beowulf |
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Describe the
dramatic
appearance
and character of Pride.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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(which did not you prolong,
The world had wanted many an idle song)
What _Drop_ or
_Nostrum_
can this plague remove?
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Alexander Pope |
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There comes a welcome summons--hope revives,
And fading eyes grow bright, and pulses quicken:
Incessant
pop the corks, and busy knives
Dispense the tongue and chicken.
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Lewis Carroll |
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)
Dorking fowls
delights
to send,
Mr.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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If you have ever
answered
our appeal, oh!
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Aristophanes |
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Io Hymen
Hymenaee
io,
io Hymen Hymenaee.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
|
Hart is the
originator
of the Project Gutenberg-tm
concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared
with anyone.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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About his Chariot numberless were pour'd
Cherub and Seraph, Potentates and Thrones,
And Vertues, winged Spirits, and Chariots wing'd,
From the Armoury of God, where stand of old 200
Myriads between two brazen Mountains lodg'd
Against a solemn day, harnest at hand,
Celestial Equipage; and now came forth
Spontaneous, for within them Spirit livd,
Attendant
on thir Lord: Heav'n op'nd wide
Her ever during Gates, Harmonious sound
On golden Hinges moving, to let forth
The King of Glorie in his powerful Word
And Spirit coming to create new Worlds.
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Milton |
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Nothing is sure for me but what's uncertain:
Obscure, whatever is plainly clear to see:
I've no doubt, except of
everything
certain:
Science is what happens accidentally:
I win it all, yet a loser I'm bound to be:
Saying: 'God give you good even!
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Villon |
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Thus rendering thanks that he is lowly bred,
Because from such none look for
valorous
deeds.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Can nothing
disabuse
you of your error?
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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Remorse is memory awake,
Her companies astir, --
A presence of
departed
acts
At window and at door.
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
Donations
are accepted in a number of other
ways including checks, online payments and credit card donations.
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
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Thou
Tyndarid
woman!
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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And after
youthful
follies ran,
Though little given to care and thought,
Yet, so it was, a ewe I bought;
And other sheep from her I raised,
As healthy sheep as you might see,
And then I married, and was rich
As I could wish to be;
Of sheep I number'd a full score,
And every year encreas'd my store.
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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With watchers doth he go
Begirt, and mailed
pikemen?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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For thirty years, he
produced
and distributed Project
Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
|
"Begin, my flute, with me
Maenalian
lays.
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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that creep between
The rigid stems of heath and bitten furze,
Within whose scanty shade, at summer-noon,
The mother-sheep hath worn a hollow bed--
Ye, that now cool her fleece with
dropless
damp,
Now pant and murmur with her feeding lamb.
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
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Eftsones I heard the dash of oars,
I heard the pilot's cheer:
My head was turn'd
perforce
away
And I saw a boat appear.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Even for this, let us divided live,
And our dear love lose name of single one,
That by this
separation
I may give
That due to thee which thou deserv'st alone.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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She's five times
cleverer
than I am.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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For I have one I've chosen
Who gives me
strength
and joy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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The
fantastic and the brutal
blemishes
which deform and deface the
loveliness of his incomparable genius are hardly so damaging to his fame
as his general monotony of matter and of manner.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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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.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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Les Amours de Cassandre: CLX
Now, when Jupiter, fired by his lusts,
Wants to
conceive
the jewels of his eyes,
And with the heat of his burning thighs
Fills Juno's moist womb with his thrusts:
Now, when the sea, or when violent gusts
Of wind grant way to great ships of war,
And when the nightingale, in forest far,
Renews her grievance against Tereus:
Now, when the meadows and when the flowers
With thousands upon thousands of colours
Paint the breast of the earth so bright all round,
Alone and thoughtful among the secret cliffs,
With a silent heart I tell over my regrets,
And through the woods I go, hiding my wound.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
|
If thy foot in scorn
Could tread them out to
darkness
utterly,
It might be well perhaps.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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So he lies
Circled with evil, till his very soul
Unmoulds its essence,
hopelessly
deformed
By sights of ever more deformity!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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But thou
forgotten
and far off shalt dwell,
By great Alpheus' waters, in a dell
Of Arcady, where that gray Wolf-God's wall
Stands holy.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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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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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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And far away across the lengthening wold,
Across the willowy flats and
thickets
brown,
Magdalen's tall tower tipped with tremulous gold
Marks the long High Street of the little town,
And warns me to return; I must not wait,
Hark!
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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"And I for truth, -- the two are one;
We
brethren
are," he said.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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What horror spreading through this place
Makes my
distraught
family flee my face?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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e sonne may seen comyng
from his
outerest
arysyng til he hidde his bemes vndir ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Chisel, file, and ream
That you may lock
Vague dream
In the
resistant
block!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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{31b} Chattuarii, a tribe that dwelt along the Rhine, and took part
in
repelling
the raid of (Hygelac) Chocilaicus.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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The little needle always knows the North,
The little bird
remembereth
his note,
And this wise Seer within me never errs.
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Emerson - Poems |
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see her
hovering
feet,
More bluely vein'd, more soft, more whitely sweet
Than those of sea-born Venus, when she rose
From out her cradle shell.
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Keats |
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Then he
brought his
embroidered
coat and covered me with it, and I slept with
my head on his lap.
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Li Po |
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But
wherefore
all night long shine these?
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Come ye to transact
concerns
90
Commercial, or at random roam the Deep
Like pirates, who with mischief charged and woe
To foreign States, oft hazard life themselves?
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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"--She said it from the sea,
The English
minstrel
in her minstrelsy,
While, under brighter skies than erst she knew,
Her heart grew dark, and groped there as the blind
To reach across the waves friends left behind--
"Do you think of me as I think of you?
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Elizabeth Browning |
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--how
solemnly
it falls
Into my heart of hearts!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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And since till girls go maying
You find the primrose still,
And find the
windflower
playing
With every wind at will,
But not the daffodil,
Bring baskets now, and sally
Upon the spring's array,
And bear from hill and valley
The daffodil away
That dies on Easter day.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Who knows but this chance wild fruit, planted by a cow or a bird on
some remote and rocky hillside, where it is as yet
unobserved
by man,
may be the choicest of all its kind, and foreign potentates shall hear
of it, and royal societies seek to propagate it, though the virtues of
the perhaps truly crabbed owner of the soil may never be heard of,--at
least, beyond the limits of his village?
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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I love to look, as evening fails,
On vestals
streaming
in their veils,
Within the fane past altar rails,
Green palms in hand.
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Hugo - Poems |
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On his head a crown,
On his
shoulders
down
Flowed his golden hair.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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And only not to
desperation
driven,
Because not altogether of such clay
As rots into the souls of those whom I survey.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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