In Lower Canada,
according
to Bouchette, there are two tenures,--the
feudal and the socage.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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I have
believed
the best of every man,
And find that to believe it is enough
To make a bad man show him at his best,
Or even a good man swing his lantern higher.
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Yeats |
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In the ATTIC, nothing was idle,
nothing redundant: the ASIATIC swelled above all bounds,
affecting
to
dazzle by strokes of wit, by affectation and superfluous ornament.
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is the Aziatic more superfluous than the attic? |
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Tacitus |
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And how many women have been
victims of your
cruelty!
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Appoloinaire |
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")
Do I dare
Disturb the
universe?
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T.S. Eliot |
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Death would have found you brave, but braver still
You face each lagging day,
A merry Stoic, patient, chivalrous,
Divinely
kind and gay.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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O'er the roof of the helmet high, a ridge,
wound with wires, kept ward o'er the head,
lest the relict-of-files {15c} should fierce invade,
sharp in the strife, when that
shielded
hero
should go to grapple against his foes.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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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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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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But now with other mind I stand alone
Upon the summit of this naked cone,
And watch the
fearless
chamois-hunter chase 305
His prey, through tracts abrupt of desolate space, [82]
[T] Through vacant worlds where Nature never gave
A brook to murmur or a bough to wave,
Which unsubstantial Phantoms sacred keep;
Thro' worlds where Life, and Voice, and Motion sleep; 310
Where silent Hours their death-like sway extend,
Save when the avalanche breaks loose, to rend
Its way with uproar, till the ruin, drowned
In some dense wood or gulf of snow profound,
Mocks the dull ear of Time with deaf abortive sound.
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William Wordsworth |
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Kline (C)
Copyright
2008 All Rights Reserved
This work may be freely reproduced, stored, and transmitted, electronically or otherwise, for any non-commercial purpose.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Highbury
bore me.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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It has been alleged by some of his biographers that Petrarch suppressed
his letter to the Genoese from his fear of the
Visconti
family.
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Petrarch |
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Il commenca, dit-on, par etonner les sots, mais il devait etonner bien
davantage les gens d'esprit en laissant a la
posterite
ce livre
immortel: _les Fleurs du Mal.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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"By what amends can I of such a shame
(The
blushing
warrior said) the stain eraze?
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Where is your sword, that
Halteclere
I knew?
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Chanson de Roland |
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The dull nights go over and the dull days also,
The soreness of lying so much in bed goes over,
The physician after long putting off gives the silent and terrible
look for an answer,
The children come hurried and weeping, and the brothers and sisters
are sent for,
Medicines stand unused on the shelf, (the camphor-smell has long
pervaded the rooms,)
The faithful hand of the living does not desert the hand of the dying,
The twitching lips press lightly on the forehead of the dying,
The breath ceases and the pulse of the heart ceases,
The corpse
stretches
on the bed and the living look upon it,
It is palpable as the living are palpable.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Volunteers and financial support to provide
volunteers
with the
assistance they need, is critical to reaching Project Gutenberg-tm's
goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will
remain freely available for generations to come.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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After the folly and fall of Rienzo, it is
probable that our poet's
attachment
to his old friends of the Roman
aristocracy revived.
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Petrarch |
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For all I may devise or find
To
pleasure
thee is nothing: all things are
The same forever.
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Lucretius |
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With slow reluctant feet and weary eyes Kore And eyelids heavy with the coming sleep,
With small breasts lifted up in stress of sighs,
She passed as shadows pass amid the sheep
While the earth dreamed and only I was ware Of that faint
fragrance
blown from her soft hair.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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"
"O Jove
supreme!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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To-day, the road all runners come,
Shoulder-high we bring you home,
And set you at your
threshold
down,
Townsman of a stiller town.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Uc de Saint Circ has him ultimately
withdrawing
to the Cistercian abbey of Dalon and dying there.
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Troubador Verse |
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Their voices, dying as they fly,
Thick on the wind are sown;
The names of men blow
soundless
by,
My fellows' and my own.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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'"]
The Witnesses proved, without error or flaw,
That the sty was
deserted
when found:
And the Judge kept explaining the state of the law
In a soft under-current of sound.
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Lewis Carroll |
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Ev'n then, before the fatal engine clos'd,
A wretched Sylph too fondly interpos'd; 150
Fate urg'd the shears, and cut the Sylph in twain,
(But airy
substance
soon unites again)
The meeting points the sacred hair dissever
From the fair head, for ever, and for ever!
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Alexander Pope |
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and thou, Anchares bright,
And ye, whose cars controlled the fight,
Arsaces and Diaixis wight,
Kegdadatas,
Lythimnas
dear,
And Tolmus, greedy of the spear!
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Source: |
Aeschylus |
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The
Portuguese
prince even visited the Kingdoms of Prester John and returned to his own country after three years and four months.
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Appoloinaire |
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--Roof, window, door,
The very flowers are sacred to the Poor,
The roses to the porch which they entwine:
Yea, all that now
enchants
thee, from the day
On which it should be touch'd would melt away!
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Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
This is a crucial set of revisions, reflecting some
ambiguity
about the relation between "shadow" and "spectre".
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Blake - Zoas |
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Thus they to different havens are mov'd on
Through the vast sea of being, and each one
With instinct giv'n, that bears it in its course;
This to the lunar sphere directs the fire,
This prompts the hearts of mortal animals,
This the brute earth
together
knits, and binds.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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But they are few, and all romance has flown,
And men can prophesy about the sun,
And lecture on his arrows--how, alone,
Through a waste void the
soulless
atoms run,
How from each tree its weeping nymph has fled,
And that no more 'mid English reeds a Naiad shows her head.
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Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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Seals in all periods
frequently
represent Enkidu in combat
with a lion.
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Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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The maidens lean them over
The waters, side by side,
And shun each other's
deepening
eyes,
And gaze adown the tide;
For each within a little boat
A little lamp hath put,
And heaped for freight some lily's weight
Or scarlet rose half shut.
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Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
|
zip *******
This and all
associated
files of various formats will be found in:
http://www.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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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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Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
|
Please consult the
manuscript
page.
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Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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And all the rocking beech-trees
Are bright with buds again,
And the green and open spaces
Are greener after rain,
And far to
southward
one can hear
The sullen, moaning rain.
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Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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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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Source: |
Imagists |
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At last came out
his Reproof to the Rehearsal Transprosedy in which
he urged the
Government
to crush the pestilent
wit, the servant of Cromwell, and the friend of
Milton.
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Marvell - Poems |
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I found the phrase to every thought
I ever had, but one;
And that defies me, -- as a hand
Did try to chalk the sun
To races
nurtured
in the dark; --
How would your own begin?
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Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Act III Scene II (Phaedra)
Phaedra
O you, who see the shame into which I fall,
Implacable Venus, am I
sufficiently
in thrall?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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The chariots first proceed, a shining train;
Then clouds of foot that smoke along the plain;
Next these the
melancholy
band appear;
Amidst, lay dead Patroclus on the bier;
O'er all the corse their scattered locks they throw;
Achilles next, oppress'd with mighty woe,
Supporting with his hands the hero's head,
Bends o'er the extended body of the dead.
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Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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To him, his love for his wife and
children
is a beautiful thing, a
subject to speak and sing about as well as an emotion to feel.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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[34] The Hebrew cognate of _masu_, to forget, is _nasa_, Arabic
_nasijia_, and occurs here in
Babylonian
for the first time.
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Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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I would don my hose of
homespun
gray,
And my doublet of linen striped and gay;
Perhaps they will come; for they do not wed
Till to-morrow at seven o'clock, it is said!
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Source: |
Longfellow |
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At the Tomb of Hector_
MARTIA progenies, Hector, tellure sub ima
(fas audire tamen si mea uerba tibi),
respira, quoniam uindex tibi contigit heres,
qui patriae famam
proferat
usque tuae.
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Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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The breezes brought
dejected
lutes,
And bathed them in the glee;
The East put out a single flag,
And signed the fete away.
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Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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no medelyng of goode in hys
solitarie
wrecchednesse.
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Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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The
intervening
period
was devoted almost entirely to dramas, prose, fiction, essays, and
criticism.
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Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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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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Source: |
Sappho |
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Thou know'st the errors of unripen'd age,
Weak are its counsels,
headlong
is its rage.
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Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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Projecting
my body
Across a street, in the face of all its traffic.
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Source: |
Imagists |
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at it ne haue no
necessite
of hys
owen nature.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
|
Resolved
am I
In the woods, rather, with wild beasts to couch,
And bear my doom, and character my love
Upon the tender tree-trunks: they will grow,
And you, my love, grow with them.
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Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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Rushing to empty spaces it
attacks the gateway,
scatters
the dust-heap, sends the cinders flying,
pokes among foul and rotting things, till at last it enters the tiled
windows and reaches the rooms of the cottage.
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Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Nulli se dicit mulier mea nubere malle
Quam mihi, non si se
Iuppiter
ipse petat.
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Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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He is read, if at all, in preference to the combined and
established
wit
of the world.
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Source: |
Poe - 5 |
|
Villon
presumably
means that they were 'near cousins' in spirit.
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Source: |
Villon |
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But mark
How she
scatters
o'er the wool
Woven shapes, till it is full
Of men that struggle close, complex;
Short-clipp'd steeds with wrinkled necks
Arching high; spear, shield, and all
The panoply that doth recall
Mighty war; such war as e'en
For Helen's sake is waged, I ween.
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Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Or quel che t'era dietro t'e davanti:
ma perche sappi che di te mi giova,
un
corollario
voglio che t'ammanti.
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Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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The mother at home quietly placing the dishes on the supper-table,
The mother with mild words, clean her cap and gown, a wholesome
odor falling off her person and clothes as she walks by,
The father, strong, self-sufficient, manly, mean, anger'd, unjust,
The blow, the quick loud word, the tight bargain, the crafty lure,
The family usages, the language, the company, the furniture, the
yearning and swelling heart,
Affection
that will not be gainsay'd, the sense of what is real, the
thought if after all it should prove unreal,
The doubts of day-time and the doubts of night-time, the curious
whether and how,
Whether that which appears so is so, or is it all flashes and specks?
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Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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What is that which I should turn to,
lighting
upon days like these?
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Tennyson |
|
" In course of time the "noble youths" became a single noble
youth, whose name occurred in the annals, and the derivation or
evolution of the "verba ignominiosa,"
followed
by a natural
process.
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Source: |
Byron |
|
_
IN PRAISE OF LAURA'S EYES: THEY LEAD HIM TO
CONTEMPLATE
THE PATH OF
LIFE.
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Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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In his arms he bore
Her, armed with sorrow sore;
Till before their way
A
couching
lion lay.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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And how many women have been
victims of your
cruelty!
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Appoloinaire |
|
They knew his vengeance, and took holy heed
To us, the sister suppliants, who cry
To Zeus, the lord of purity:
Therefore
with altars pure they shall the gods revere.
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Source: |
Aeschylus |
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Non molto ha corso, ch'el trova una lama,
ne la qual si
distende
e la 'mpaluda;
e suol di state talor essere grama.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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O Hymen
Hymenaeus
io, O Hymen
Hymenaeus.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
|
"They are not
watching
us any
more.
Guess: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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5
I who am not great enough to
Love thee with this mortal body
So impassionate with ardour,
But oh, not too small to worship
While the sun shall shine,-- 10
I would build a
fragrant
temple
To thee, in the dark green forest,
Of red cedar and fine sandal,
And there love thee with sweet service
All my whole life long.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Sappho |
|
Oh what a
multitude
they seemed, these flowers of London town!
Guess: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Blake - Poems |
|
" As
thus he said, Love,
leftwards
as before, with approbation rightwards
sneezed.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
|
Many small donations
($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to
maintaining
tax exempt
status with the IRS.
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Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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To the Iliad still greater
obligations are due; and those
obligations
have been contracted
with the less hesitation, because there is reason to believe that
some of the old Latin minstrels really had recourse to that
inexhaustible store of poetical images.
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Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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--Ce petit fleuve,
Pauvre et triste miroir ou jadis resplendit
L'immense majeste de vos douleurs de veuve,
Ce Simois menteur qui par vos pleurs grandit,
A feconde soudain ma memoire fertile,
Comme je
traversais
le nouveau Carrousel.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
|
We do not solicit donations in locations
where we have not received written
confirmation
of compliance.
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Source: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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this robe gives proof,
Imbrued with blood that bathed Aegisthus' sword;
Look, how the spurted stain combines with time
To blur the many dyes that once adorned
Its pattern
manifold!
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Aeschylus |
|
"
'344 These:'
critics who care for the meter only in poetry insist on the proper
number of
syllables
in a line, no matter what sort of sound or sense
results.
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Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
Troops
approach
the Frontier
KURBSKY.
Guess: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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For-thy be glad, myn owene dere brother, 405
If she be lost, we shal
recovere
another.
Guess: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
|
I give
you them, that as you have seen the original, you may guess whether
one or two alterations I have
ventured
to make in them, be any real
improvement.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
CH'ANG-KAN
Soon after I wore my hair
covering
my forehead
I was plucking flowers and playing in front of the gate,
When _you_ came by, walking on bamboo-stilts
Along the trellis,[23] playing with the green plums.
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Source: |
Li Po |
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For which no lenger mighte she restreyne
Hir teres, so they gonnen up to welle,
That yaven signes of the bitter peyne 710
In whiche hir spirit was, and moste dwelle;
Remembring hir, fro heven unto which helle
She fallen was, sith she forgoth the sighte
Of Troilus, and
sorowfully
she sighte.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Wollaston
nimmt deshalb vier
Grundfarben an: Roth, Grün, Blau, Violett.
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Source: |
Helmholtz - 1851 - Theorie der zusammengesetzten Farben |
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And if you love me, as you say you do,
Let me
persuade
you to forbear awhile.
Guess: |
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Shakespeare |
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Not a
solitary
gun
Left to tell the fort had won,
Or lost the day!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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and Sarazins, which them had stayd, 355
And though they faultie were, yet well he wayd,
That God to us
forgiveth
every howre
Much more then that why they in bands were layd,
And he that harrowd?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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we must not stop here,
However sweet these laid-up stores, however convenient this dwelling
we cannot remain here,
However shelter'd this port and however calm these waters we must
not anchor here,
However welcome the
hospitality
that surrounds us we are permitted
to receive it but a little while.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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5
Ne let the man ascribe it to his skill,
That
thorough
grace hath gained victory.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Of that angelic smile the
lightening
grace,
Which wont to make this earth a heavenly place!
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Petrarch |
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(1)
Pronounced
Breedon.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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One of their reforms was the remodelling of the equestrian order;
and, having effected this reform, they
determined
to give to
their work a sanction derived from religion.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Who would such men heaven's
messengers
believe,
Who from the sacred pulpit dare deceive ?
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Marvell - Poems |
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[Illustration]
There was a Young Lady of Dorking,
Who bought a large bonnet for walking;
But its color and size so
bedazzled
her eyes,
That she very soon went back to Dorking.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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And a sweet
concurring
stream
Of all joys to join with them.
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Robert Herrick |
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This would make her an exact or close contemporary of Thais, beautiful Athenian courtesan and
mistress
of Alexander the Great (356-323BC).
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Villon |
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Woe, woe, and woe again,
AEgisthus
gone!
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Aeschylus |
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Vedi le triste che
lasciaron
l'ago,
la spuola e 'l fuso, e fecersi 'ndivine;
fecer malie con erbe e con imago.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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