t; that time is yours: My right
I haue
departed
with.
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I was reading then one of those dear poems (whose flakes of rouge have more charm for me than young flesh), and dipping a hand into the pure animal fur, when a street organ sounded
languishingly
and sadly under my window.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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--Et la lampe s'etant resignee a mourir,
Comme le foyer seul illuminait la chambre,
Chaque fois qu'il poussait un
flamboyant
soupir,
Il inondait de sang cette peau couleur d'ambre!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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e
resou{n}
of god ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Whether a book is still in copyright varies from country to country, and we can't offer
guidance
on whether any specific use of any specific book is allowed.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Not on his lofty brow, nor in his looks
May one peruse his secret thoughts; always
The same aspect; lowly at once, and lofty--
Like some state Minister grown grey in office,
Calmly alike he contemplates the just
And guilty, with
indifference
he hears
Evil and good, and knows not wrath nor pity.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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HUMAYUN TO ZOBEIDA
(From the Urdu)
You flaunt your beauty in the rose, your glory in the dawn,
Your
sweetness
in the nightingale, your whiteness in the swan.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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"
Now Johnny all night long had heard
The owls in tuneful concert strive;
No doubt too he the moon had seen;
For in the
moonlight
he had been
From eight o'clock till five.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Four elements enter into its
composition: "it is pastoral by association, chivalrous by temper, ethical
by tendency, and
allegorical
by treatment" (Renton).
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Then when they had despoiled her tire and call, 410
Such as she was, their eyes might her behold,
That her
misshaped
parts did them appall,
A loathly, wrinckled hag, ill favoured, old,
Whose secret filth good manners biddeth not be told.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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I glide on the surface of seas
I have grown sentimental
I no longer know the guide
I no longer move silk over ice
I am
diseased
flowers and stones
I love the most chinese of nudes
I love the most naked lapses of wings
I am old but here I am beautiful
And the shadow that flows from the deep windows
Each evening spares the dark heart of my stare.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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nor idly stand
Too long a stranger to thy native land;
Lest heedless absence wear thy wealth away,
While lawless feasters in thy palace away;
Perhaps may seize thy realm, and share the spoil;
And though return, with
disappointed
toil,
From thy vain journey, to a rifled isle.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Was this, Romans, your harsh destiny,
Or some old sin, with discordant mutiny,
Working on you its eternal
vengeance?
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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After an age of longing had we missed
Our meeting and the dream, what were the good
Ofweavingclothofwords?
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Being
conducted
to his place, he delivered his
sentiments in so forcible a manner, that the fathers resolved to
prosecute the war, and never to hear of an accommodation, till Italy
was evacuated by Pyrrhus and his army.
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Tacitus |
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Does that
astonish
you?
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Aristophanes |
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And I saw it was filled with graves,
And
tombstones
where flowers should be;
And priests in black gowns were walking their rounds,
And binding with briars my joys and desires.
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blake-poems |
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If you could find out a country where but women were
that had
received
so much shame, you might begin an impudent
nation.
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Shakespeare |
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His son's fine taste an opener vista loves,
Foe to the Dryads of his father's groves;
One boundless green, or flourished carpet views,
With all the
mournful
family of yews;
The thriving plants, ignoble broomsticks made,
Now sweep those alleys they were born to shade.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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|| _patronum_ GCLa1: _patronum_, mox correctum in
_patronus_
RVen: _patronus_ Oah, Paris.
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Latin - Catullus |
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Phlaccus, and
Professor
and Mrs.
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T.S. Eliot |
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We do not solicit donations in locations
where we have not
received
written confirmation of compliance.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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_
Three days through sapphire seas we sailed,
The steady Trade blew strong and free,
The Northern Light his banners paled,
The Ocean Stream our channels wet,
We rounded low Canaveral's lee,
And passed the isles of emerald set
In blue Bahama's
turquoise
sea.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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But in that line on the British right,
There massed a corps amain,
Of men who hailed from a far west land
Of mountain and forest and plain;
Men new to war and its
dreadest
deeds,
But noble and staunch and true;
Men of the open, East and West,
Brew of old Britain's brew.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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With thought profound
He still advanced: and lo, at His right hand
Ten
thousand
times ten thousand beings bright
Collected, and an animating storm
Advanced before Him.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Nicolas to show that Omar gave
himself up "avec passion a l'etude de la
philosophie
des Soufis"?
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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My father Petr' Andrejitch, have you
frightened
me enough?
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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When therefore the quintessence is separated from that which is not
the quintessence, as the soul from its body, and itself is taken into
the body, what infirmity is able to
withstand
this so noble, pure,
and powerful nature, or to take away our life save death, which being
predestined separates our soul and body, as we teach in our treatise
on Life and Death.
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John Donne |
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org
For
additional
contact information:
Dr.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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)
Wollte nach Frau Marthe
Schwerdtlein
fragen!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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The purple pride
Which on thy soft cheek for
complexion
dwells
In my love's veins thou hast too grossly dy'd.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Royalty payments
must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you
prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your
periodic
tax
returns.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Be cautious contributing to making plans, from this moment on
straighten
your wings.
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| Question: |
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Du Fu - 5 |
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the lark starts up from his bed in the meadow there,
Breaking the gossamer threads and the nets of dew,
And
flashing
adown the river, a flame of blue!
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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It seasoned comfort to our hearts' desire,
We felt thy kind
protection
like a friend
And edged our chairs up closer to the fire,
Enjoying comfort that was never penned.
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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Along the reaches of the street
Held in a lunar synthesis,
Whispering
lunar incantations
Disolve the floors of memory
And all its clear relations,
Its divisions and precisions,
Every street lamp that I pass
Beats like a fatalistic drum,
And through the spaces of the dark
Midnight shakes the memory
As a madman shakes a dead geranium.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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'130 Maro:'
Virgil, whose full name was Publius
Vergilius
Maro, Pope here praises
Virgil's well-known imitation of Homer.
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Alexander Pope |
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could I mount on the
Maeonian
wing,
Your arms, your actions, your repose to sing!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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Boldly defending your own
beautiful
apples of gold.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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1921
Fir-Flower Tablets
Houghton
Mifflin Co.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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A lustreless protrusive eye
Stares from the protozoic slime
At a
perspective
of Canaletto.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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And when the heavens opened and blazed again
Roaring, I saw him like a silver star--
And had he set the sail, or had the boat
Become a living
creature
clad with wings?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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With
trembling
voice he said, "What wilt thou here?
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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'
And Vivien
answered
smiling saucily,
'What, O my Master, have ye found your voice?
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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[183] The pons
Sublicius
which led from the Velabrum to
Janiculum.
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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What
countless
stores of beauty, love, ventur'd for it!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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A
delicate
odour is borne on the wings of the morning breeze,
The odour of deep wet grass, and of brown new-furrowed earth,
The birds are singing for joy of the Spring's glad birth,
Hopping from branch to branch on the rocking trees.
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Wilde - Poems |
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The eyes are drowned in opium
In universal licence
The clownish mouth bewitched
A
singular
geranium.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Slepinge
at hoom, whanne out of Troye I sterte.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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150
Which shall I first bewail,
Thy Bondage or lost Sight,
Prison within Prison
Inseparably
dark?
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| Source: |
Milton |
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What is this, that rises like the issue of a King,
And weares vpon his Baby-brow, the round
And top of
Soueraignty?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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O thou field of my delight so fair and
verdant!
| Guess: |
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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āna hwearf = _he died
solitary
and alone_ (B.
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Beowulf |
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she hath given thee;
Perilous
godhoods
of choosing have rent thee and riven thee;
Will's high adoring to Ill's low exploring hath driven thee --
Freedom, thy Wife, hath uplifted thy life and clean shriven thee!
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Sidney Lanier |
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gret wille & longe;
No
mendement
?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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To satin races he is nought;
But children on the Don
Beneath his tabernacles play,
And Dnieper
wrestlers
run.
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Do not copy, display, perform,
distribute
or redistribute this
electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without
prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Oxford
At the Clarendon Press
FIRST
PUBLISHED
1912
REPRINTED 1921, 1926, 1934, 1940 1943, 1947, 1952, 1964, 1968
PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN
PREFACE
The plan of this book excludes epic and the drama, and in general so
much of Roman poetry as could be included only by a licence of excerpt
mostly dangerous and in poetry of any architectonic pretensions
intolerable.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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And by their flame so pure and bright,
We see how lately those sweet eyes
Have wandered down from Paradise,
And still are
lingering
in its light.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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And now 'tis night, the guardian moon
Sails her allotted course on high,
And from the misty woodland nigh
The
nightingale
trills forth her tune;
Restless Tattiana sleepless lay
And thus unto her nurse did say:
XVII
"Nurse, 'tis so close I cannot rest.
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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23
They feed so wide, so slowly move,
As
constellations
do above.
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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Aeneas calls to trusty
Achates: 'Give me store of weapons; none that hath been planted in
Grecian body on the plains of Ilium shall my hand hurl at
Rutulian
in
vain.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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There must be a new Hedonism that shall recreate life and save it from
that harsh,
uncomely
Puritanism that is having, in our own day, its
curious revival.
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Endless conjectures all propound
And
secretly
their views expound.
| Guess: |
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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in allowing me to examine them, has been a very genuine
evidence
of
their interest in the Poet, and his work.
| Guess: |
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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A li se tint uns chevaliers
Acointables
et biaus parliers,
Qui sot bien faire honor as gens.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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For me, for years, here,
Forever, your
dazzling
smile prolongs
The one rose with its perfect summer gone
Into times past, yet then on into the future.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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They were transplanted by
Augustus
to
the west side of the Rhine.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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'
Walter warped his mouth at this
To
something
so mock-solemn, that I laughed
And Lilia woke with sudden-thrilling mirth
An echo like a ghostly woodpecker,
Hid in the ruins; till the maiden Aunt
(A little sense of wrong had touched her face
With colour) turned to me with 'As you will;
Heroic if you will, or what you will,
Or be yourself you hero if you will.
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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So far from caring,
I laughed inside, and only cranked the faster,
(It ran as if it wasn't greased but glued);
I
welcomed
any moderate disaster
That might be calculated to postpone
What evidently nothing could conclude.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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Fore all the rest, 'twas voted by the Franks
That Guenes die with
marvellous
great pangs;
So to lead forth four stallions they bade;
After, they bound his feet and both his hands;
Those steeds were swift, and of a temper mad;
Which, by their heads, led forward four sejeants
Towards a stream that flowed amid that land.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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And now with gloomy aspect rose the day,
Decreed the
plighted
servile rights to pay;
When Egas, to redeem his faith's disgrace,
Devotes himself, his spouse, and infant race.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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And it grew both day and night,
Till it bore an apple bright,
And my foe beheld it shine,
And he knew that it was mine,--
And into my garden stole
When the night had veiled the pole;
In the morning, glad, I see
My foe
outstretched
beneath the tree.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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von (Robert), p39 1887, Internet Book Archive Images
Medusas,
miserable
heads
With hairs of violet
You enjoy the hurricane
And I enjoy the very same.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
|
V 25 of the Assyrian text, [7]
where
Gilgamish
begins to relate his dreams to his mother Ninsun.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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"
[Illustration]
There was an Old Man of Berlin,
Whose form was
uncommonly
thin;
Till he once, by mistake, was mixed up in a cake,
So they baked that Old Man of Berlin.
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
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So long to those who
hopeless
in their fear
Watch the slow breath and look for what they dread:
While I supine, with ears that cease to hear,
With eyes that glaze, with heart-pulse running down,
(Alas!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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"
But when the south wind stirs the pools
And struggles in the lanes,
Her heart misgives her for her vow,
And she pours soft refrains
Into the lap of adamant,
And spices, and the dew,
That
stiffens
quietly to quartz,
Upon her amber shoe.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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A gloomy wanness spoiled her rosy cheek,
And doubts hung there it was not mine to seek;
She neer so much as mentioned things to come,
But sighed oer pleasures ere she left her home;
And now and then a mournful smile would raise
At freaks
repeated
of our younger days,
Which I brought up, while passing spots of ground
Where we, when children, "hurly-burlied" round,
Or "blindman-buffed" some morts of hours away--
Two games, poor thing, Jane dearly loved to play.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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No, it was builded far from accident;
It suffers not in smiling pomp, nor falls
Under the blow of
thralled
discontent,
Whereto th' inviting time our fashion calls:
It fears not policy, that heretic,
Which works on leases of short-number'd hours,
But all alone stands hugely politic,
That it nor grows with heat, nor drowns with showers.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Keats - Lamia |
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I am going on a good deal
progressive
in _mon grand but_, the sober
science of life.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Instruct
me how to thank thee!
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Beginning
with the Vernal Equinox, it must be
remembered; and (howsoever the old Solar Year is practically
superseded by the clumsy Lunar Year that dates from the Mohammedan
Hijra) still commemorated by a Festival that is said to have been
appointed by the very Jamshyd whom Omar so often talks of, and whose
yearly Calendar he helped to rectify.
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, were not peculiar to the Sufi; nor to Lucretius before
them; nor to Epicurus before him;
probably
the very original
Irreligion of Thinking men from the first; and very likely to be the
spontaneous growth of a Philosopher living in an Age of social and
political barbarism, under shadow of one of the Two and Seventy
Religions supposed to divide the world.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Mouthpiece
of mutiny!
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Byron |
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Between the leaders of the Athenian line,
(Stichius the brave,
Menestheus
the divine,)
Deplored Amphimachus, sad object!
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Iliad - Pope |
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His eyes
reed
sparclyng
as the fyre-glowe (_too long_); F.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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I do forgive thy robbery, gentle thief,
Although
thou steal thee all my poverty:
And yet, love knows it is a greater grief
To bear love's wrong, than hate's known injury.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Lucretius |
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No living man,
or lief or loath, from your labor dire
could you dissuade, from
swimming
the main.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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The
explanation
of this has
been hinted at by Henzen.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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The boundless sway
Of cruel Love I feel, that makes a prey
Of all those
energies
that lift the soul
To her congenial climes above the pole
I know the various pangs that rend the heart;
I know that noblest souls receive the dart
Without defence, when Reason drops the shield
And, recreant, to her foe resigns the field.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Not I, by Apollo, unless they agree with me as the little
ape of an
armourer
agreed with his wife, not to bite me, nor pull me by
the testicles, nor shove things up my.
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Aristophanes |
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