Before the phantom of False morning died,
Methought a Voice within the Tavern cried,
"When all the Temple is prepared within,
"Why nods the drowsy
Worshiper
outside?
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Ever hath Maenalus his
murmuring
groves
And whispering pines, and ever hears the songs
Of love-lorn shepherds, and of Pan, who first
Brooked not the tuneful reed should idle lie.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Or ache with tremendous
decisions?
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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But not the genial feast, nor flowing bowl,
Could charm the cares of Nestor's watchful soul;
His startled ears the
increasing
cries attend;
Then thus, impatient, to his wounded friend:
"What new alarm, divine Machaon, say,
What mix'd events attend this mighty day?
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Iliad - Pope |
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'
With
imprecations
thus he fill'd the air,
And angry Neptune heard the unrighteous prayer,
A larger rock then heaving from the plain,
He whirl'd it round: it sung across the main;
It fell, and brush'd the stern: the billows roar,
Shake at the weight, and refluent beat the shore.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Under such conditions Jelaluddin,
Jami, Attar, and others sang; using Wine and Beauty indeed as Images
to illustrate, not as a Mask to hide, the
Divinity
they were
celebrating.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Spend'st thou thy fury on some worthless song,
Darkening thy power to lend base
subjects
light?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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This be thy safe-guard sole; this
conquest
needs to be conquered; 15
This thou must do, thus act, whether thou cannot or can.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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The sweetest sonnets of Belleau,
Offered by gallants ere they fight
For your delight;
And many fawning rhymers who
Inscribe
their first thin book to you
Will contemplate upon the stair
Your slipper fair;
And many a page who plays at cards,
And many lords and many bards,
Will watch your going forth, and burn
For your return;
And you will count before your glass
More kisses than the lily has;
And more than one Valois will sigh
When you pass by.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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In the
beginning, therefore, he has little of Pug's thirst for adventure,
but his object is at bottom the same, 'to goe and dwell among these
religious men for to
maintaine
them the longer in their ungracious
living'.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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General
Information
About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic
works.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Man: I know your
friendly
minds and--O what noise!
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Milton |
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Nor content with such
Audacious neighbourhood, the wisest heart 400
Of Solomon he led by fraud to build
His Temple right against the Temple of God
On that opprobrious Hill, and made his Grove
The
pleasant
Vally of Hinnom, Tophet thence
And black Gehenna call'd, the Type of Hell.
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Milton |
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With honest fervour I commend
Those lips, those eyes; you need not fear
A rival,
hurrying
on to end
His fortieth year.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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e fals[e]
opiniou{n}
of folk.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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"Still rule those minds on earth
At whom sage Milton's
wormwood
words were hurled:
'_Truth like a bastard comes into the world_
_Never without ill-fame to him who gives her birth_'?
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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We're dead: the souls let no man harry,
But pray that God
absolves
us all.
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Villon |
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From pest on land, or death on ocean,
When
hurricanes
its surface fan,
O object of my fond devotion!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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O
senseless
Lycius!
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Keats - Lamia |
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- You provide, in
accordance
with paragraph 1.
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Sara Teasdale |
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All the napery
Was Friesland's famous make; and fair to see
The dishes, silver-gilt and
bordered
round
With flowers; for fruit, here strawberries were found
And citrons, apples too, and nectarines.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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_ This ends not thus,
The
oracular
fate ordains.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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He was 59
all-powerful among the Batavi,[113] and Vitellius did not want to
alienate so spirited a people by
punishing
him.
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Tacitus |
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4015
Thou dost gret foly for to leve
Bialacoil
here-in, to calle
The yonder man to shenden us alle.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Then, resting on the threshold of the gate,
Against a cypress pillar lean'd his weight
Smooth'd by the workman to a polish'd plane);
The
thoughtful
son beheld, and call'd his swain
"These viands, and this bread, Eumaeus!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Zeus, Taureau, sur son cou berce comme un enfant
Le corps nu d'Europe, qui jette son bras blanc
Au cou nerveux du Dieu
frissonnant
dans la vague,
Il tourne lentement vers elle son oeil vague;
Elle, laisse trainer sa pale joue en fleur
Au front de Zeus; ses yeux sont fermes; elle meurt
Dans un divin baiser, et le flot qui murmure
De son ecume d'or fleurit sa chevelure.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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To fade away like morning beauty from her mortal day:
Down by the river of Adona her soft voice is heard;
And thus her gentle
lamentation
falls like morning dew.
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Blake - Poems |
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"
DAMOETAS
"How lean my bull amid the
fattening
vetch!
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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She gave him minute
instructions
and a key with which to open the street
door.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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And, in the summer's heat,
Lay not your hand on it, for while the iron hours beat
Gray anvils in the sky, it glows again
With
unfulfilled
desire.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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ipsa leui flatu
refouens
pendentia membra
Aura per extremas resonauit flebile rupis.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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With shaded eyes your vision follows
The gentle swans'
receding
train.
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Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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The
smallest
housewife in the grass,
Yet take her from the lawn,
And somebody has lost the face
That made existence home!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Of late I have been
studying
with diligence the four prose poems about
Christ.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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flumina quin etiam te norunt omnia patrem,
te potant nubes ut reddant
frugibus
imbris;
Cyaneoque sinu caeli tu diceris oras
partibus ex cunctis inmensas cingere nexu.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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I promise nothing: follow, friend, and see,
Faithful
and wise.
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Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
|
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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None answer'd this; but after Silence spake
A Vessel of a more
ungainly
Make:
"They sneer at me for leaning all awry;
What?
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
|
590
Now mercy, lord, thou wost wel I desire
Thy grace most, of alle lustes leve,
And live and deye I wol in thy bileve,
For which I naxe in guerdon but a bone,
That thou
Criseyde
ayein me sende sone.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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O
friends!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Generals
and statesmen
played whist; young men lounged on sofas, eating ices or smoking.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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The javelin and its buffalo prey,
The
laughter
and the joyous stave!
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Hugo - Poems |
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`And thou, citee, whiche that I leve in wo, 1205
And thou, Pryam, and
bretheren
al y-fere,
And thou, my moder, farwel!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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The green sea closes
Its burnished skin; the snaky swell
smoothes
over .
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Title: The Golden Threshold
Author: Sarojini Naidu
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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10
XLVII
Like torn sea-kelp in the drift
Of the great tides of the sea,
Carried past the harbour-mouth
To the deep beyond return,
I am buoyed and borne away 5
On the
loveliness
of earth,
Little caring, save for thee,
Past the portals of the night.
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Sappho |
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WINDFLOWER
LEAF
This flower is repeated
out of old winds, out of
old times.
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Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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But he perhaps has been
adopted as a leader
formerly
by others.
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Source: |
Tacitus |
|
About Google Book Search
Google's mission is to organize the world's information and to make it universally
accessible
and useful.
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Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
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The
breaking
of the day
Addeth to my degree;
If any ask me how,
Artist, who drew me so,
Must tell!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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But, if at the Church they would give us some ale,
And a
pleasant
fire our souls to regale,
We'd sing and we'd pray all the livelong day,
Nor ever once wish from the Church to stray.
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Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
|
How does
Archimago
plan to deceive her?
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Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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True, 'twas but meagre fare that his sterile
Muse could offer you; a few
ingenious
fancies formed the sole
ingredients, but nevertheless he knew how to stand firm and to recover
from his falls.
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Aristophanes |
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Three
glorious
suns, each one a perfect sun;
Not separated with the racking clouds,
But sever'd in a pale clear-shining sky.
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Shakespeare |
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It's on your slopes, visited by Venus
Setting in your lava her heels so artless,
When a sad slumber
thunders
where the flame burns low.
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Mallarme - Poems |
|
_The Ants_
What wonder strikes the curious, while he views
The black ant's city, by a rotten tree,
Or
woodland
bank!
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Source: |
John Clare |
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As, indeed, all rhymes
imply an eternal melody,
independent
of any particular sense.
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Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
|
Of the nine
children
born of this union I alone survived;
all my brothers and sisters died young.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to
maintaining
tax exempt
status with the IRS.
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Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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zip *****
This and all
associated
files of various formats will be found in:
http://www.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
|
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any money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the
electronic work is
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receipt of the work.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
|
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representations concerning the
copyright
status of any work in any
country outside the United States.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
|
_
Her
wandering
lover knew not well her soul.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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For some are by the Delhi walls,
And many in the Afghan land,
And many where the Ganges falls
Through seven mouths of
shifting
sand.
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Wilde - Poems |
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To
Introduce
Myself.
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Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
|
Throw
Physicke
to the Dogs, Ile none of it.
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Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
|
He returned to the hospitals towards the
beginning of 1865, and obtained also a clerkship in the
Department
of the
Interior.
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Source: |
Whitman |
|
Ah, when I die, and planets hold their flight
Above my grave, still let my spirit keep
Sometimes
its vigil of divine remorse,
'Midst pity, praise, or blame heaped o'er my corse!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
|
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also ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
|
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Source: |
Imagists |
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Carman has undertaken in attempting to give us
in English verse those lost poems of Sappho of which
fragments
have
survived.
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Source: |
Sappho |
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The English
language
befriends the grand American expression--it is brawny
enough, and limber and full enough.
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Whitman |
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is a set phrase for
obviousness
or ease.
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Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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Compliance
requirements
are not uniform and it takes a
considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up
with these requirements.
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Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
|
Chimene
Sire, make this the
culmination
to my woe
And call it grief then, if you wish it so.
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Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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Your glance entered my heart and blood, just like
A flash of
lightning
through the clouds.
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Ronsard |
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But how, and by what skill, 'twere long to say,
And no whit will the
knowledge
profit thee.
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Source: |
Aeschylus |
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My
nightingale
sang sweet without a fault,
My gentle leopards innocently bounded.
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Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
|
Who is most tired sleeps on the ground
stretched
flat.
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Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
|
He came late along the waste,
Shod like a
traveller
for haste;
With malice dared me to proclaim him,
That the maids and boys might name him.
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Emerson - Poems |
|
XVIII
At home arriving he addressed
His care unto his pistols' plight,
Replaced them in their box, undressed
And
Schiller
read by candlelight.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Else why be the parents' 15
Pleasure frustrated aye by the false flow of tears
Poured in
profusion
amid illuminate genial chamber?
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Catullus - Carmina |
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He glances now at Ladislaus dead,
And with a smile triumphant and yet dread,
And air of lion caged to whom is shown
Some
loophole
of escape, he bends him down.
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Hugo - Poems |
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"Tell her this
"And more,--
"That the king of the seas
"Weeps too, old,
helpless
man.
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Source: |
Stephen Crane |
|
' it blew,
Yet wavered oft, and flew
Most
ficklewise
about, or here, or there,
A music now from earth and now from air.
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Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
It exists
because of the efforts of
hundreds
of volunteers and donations from
people in all walks of life.
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Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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[73] Cousin of the notorious
mistress
of Ming-huang, Yang Kuei-fei.
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Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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_La guancia che fu gia
piangendo
stanca.
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Source: |
Petrarch |
|
But the
young men were base and proud,
cowardly
and cruel.
Guess: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
|
) Where are the lips mine lay upon,
1
1
Audiart, Audiart,
Audiart, Audiart
Signum
Nativitatis*
II
?
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Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
--_The
cloisters
of a convent_.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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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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Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
|
"
The dark bronze tigers crouch on either side
Where redcoats used to pass;
And round the bird-loved house where Mercer died,
And violets dusk the grass,
By Stony Brook that ran so red of old,
But sings of
friendship
now,
To feed the old enemy's harvest fifty-fold
The green earth takes the plow.
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Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
|
Restless Minds,
Such Minds as find amid their fellow-men
No heart that loves them, none that they can love,
Will turn
perforce
and seek for sympathy
In dim relation to imagined Beings.
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Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
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Longue, mince, en grand deuil, douleur majestueuse,
Une femme passa, d'une main fastueuse
Soulevant,
balancant
le feston et l'ourlet;
Agile et noble, avec sa jambe de statue.
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Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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O lullaby, with your daughter, and the innocence
Of your cold feet, greet a terrible new being:
A voice where harpsichords and viols linger,
Will you press that breast, with your withered finger,
From which Woman flows in Sibylline
whiteness
to
Those lips starved by the air's virgin blue?
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_--We now come to
the passage
condemned
by Voltaire as so lascivious, that no nation in
Europe, except the Portuguese and Italians, could bear it.
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Incipit Liber Primus
The double sorwe of Troilus to tellen, 1
That was the king Priamus sone of Troye,
In lovinge, how his
aventures
fellen
Fro wo to wele, and after out of Ioye,
My purpos is, er that I parte fro ye.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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the whole company of the
inhabitants
had each but a single
eye and but one hand.
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For what more like the brainless speech of a fool,--
The lives
travelling
dark fears,
And as a boy throws pebbles in a pool
Thrown down abysmal places?
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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