Hence,
If in this wondrous and angelic temple,
That hath for confine only light and love,
My wish may have completion I must know,
Wherefore such
disagreement
is between
Th' exemplar and its copy: for myself,
Contemplating, I fail to pierce the cause.
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"That which the palmerworm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that
which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten; and that which
the cankerworm hath left hath the
caterpillar
eaten.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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But, at that very touch, to disappear
So fairy-quick, was
strange!
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Keats |
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Redistribution is
subject to the trademark license,
especially
commercial
redistribution.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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What's the
Businesse?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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LES SEPT VIEILLARDS
A VICTOR HUGO
Fourmillante cite, cite pleine de reves,
Ou le spectre en plein jour raccroche le
passant!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Dhorme _Choix de Textes
Religieux_
198, 33.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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At kirk or market, mill or smiddie,
Nae tawted tyke, though e'er sae duddie,
But he wad stan't, as glad to see him,
And stroan't on stanes and
hillocks
wi' him.
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Robert Burns |
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Whether I was myself, or else did see
Out of myself that glorious hierarchy;
Or whether those, in orders rare, or these
Made up one state of sixty Venuses;
Or whether fairies, syrens, nymphs they were,
Or muses on their mountain sitting there;
Or some
enchanted
place, I do not know,
Or Sharon, where eternal roses grow.
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Robert Herrick |
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In the first place, since I left Coila's native haunts,
not a fragment of a poet has arisen to cheer her solitary musings, by
catching inspiration from her, so I more than suspect that she has
followed me hither, or, at least, makes me
occasional
visits;
secondly, the last stanza of this song I send you, is the very words
that Coila taught me many years ago, and which I set to an old Scots
reel in Johnson's Museum.
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Robert Forst |
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For if thou on this stone suspend his gear,
Amid
whatever
spoils adorn the wall,
The best and worthiest will his spoils appear.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Public domain books are our gateways to the past,
representing
a wealth of history, culture and knowledge that's often difficult to discover.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Immediately
the lines waver, and the Latins
wheeling about throw their shields behind them and turn their horses
towards the town.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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The Count, her lover, was
probably
Roger of Foix (1188-1223).
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Troubador Verse |
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what a bad thing it is to let
yourself
be led away by other
women!
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Aristophanes |
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For I should comfort find, 'mid this world's shame,
To mark her soul's beatified array,
To think that He who here had own'd its sway,
Doth now within his home its
presence
claim.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Archive Foundation
and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4
and the Foundation web page at http://www.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Nusch
The
sentiments
apparent
The lightness of approach
The tresses of caresses.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Ballade: Du Concours De Blois
I'm dying of thirst beside the fountain,
Hot as fire, and with
chattering
teeth:
In my own land, I'm in a far domain:
Near the flame, I shiver beyond belief:
Bare as a worm, dressed in a furry sheathe,
I smile in tears, wait without expectation:
Taking my comfort in sad desperation:
I rejoice, without pleasures, never a one:
Strong I am, without power or persuasion,
Welcomed gladly, and spurned by everyone.
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Villon |
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Rogero spurred his courser, and pursued
And
overtook
that damsel in the wood.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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EIN HANDWERKSBURSCH:
Ich rat euch, nach dem
Wasserhof
zu gehn.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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poor Ned they hanged--
Hemp
neckcloth
he disdained--
And prettily we all were banged--
And two more blades remained
To serve the Duke, and row in chains--
Thank saints!
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Hugo - Poems |
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Then a damp gust
Bringing
rain
Ganga was sunken, and the limp leaves
Waited for rain, while the black clouds
Gathered far distant, over Himavant.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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It is true that mental and bodily derangement is attributable in part to
other deviations from
rectitude
and nature than those which concern
diet.
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Shelley |
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What, I think,
impresses one, thrills, like ecstatic, half-smothered strains of music,
floating from
unperceived
instruments, in Mr.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Who comest down to bless our furrow'd fields,
Or stand like Beauty smiling 'mid the corn:
Mistress of mirth and ease and summer dreams,
Who lingerest among the woods and streams
To help us heap the harvest 'neath the moon,
And homeward
laughing
lead the lumb'ring teams:
Who teachest to our children thy wise lore;
Who keepest full the goodman's golden store;
Who crownest Life with plenty, Death with flow'rs;
Peace, Queen of Kindness--but of earth, no more.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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"
But
remained
on the rails of the Junction.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Half of my life has
entombed
the other,
I must revenge myself, this fatal blow,
For one no more, on one still here below.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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But if he's forgotten his
faithfullest
Nannie,
O still flow between us, thou wide roaring main;
May I never see it, may I never trow it,
But, dying, believe that my Willie's my ain!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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When man has 'scaped the trackless slime
And reached the desert spring;
When sands are crossed, the sward invites
The worn to rest 'mid rare delights
And
gratefully
to sing.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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God be thanked, I have been
preserved
from the grosser forms
of sin; and I counsel YOU, Mr.
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Kipling - Poems |
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long live exact
demonstration!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Might but Thy sense flash down the skies
Like man's from clime to clime,
Thou would'st not let me agonize
Through my remaining time;
But, seeing how much Thy
creatures
bear--
Lame, starved, or maimed, or blind--
Thou'dst heal the ills with quickest care
Of me and all my kind.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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A thought went up my mind to-day
That I have had before,
But did not finish, -- some way back,
I could not fix the year,
Nor where it went, nor why it came
The second time to me,
Nor
definitely
what it was,
Have I the art to say.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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"
(The Ghost
uneasily
replied
He hardly thought it was).
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Lewis Carroll |
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Of wealthy lustre was the banquet-room,
Fill'd with pervading
brilliance
and perfume:
Before each lucid pannel fuming stood
A censer fed with myrrh and spiced wood,
Each by a sacred tripod held aloft,
Whose slender feet wide-swerv'd upon the soft
Wool-woofed carpets: fifty wreaths of smoke
From fifty censers their light voyage took
To the high roof, still mimick'd as they rose
Along the mirror'd walls by twin-clouds odorous.
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Keats |
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He chose, as men choose, where most danger showed,
Nor ever faltered 'neath the load
Of petty cares, that gall great hearts the most,
But kept right on the strenuous up-hill road,
Strong to the end, above
complaint
or boast:
The popular tempest on his rock-mailed coast 360
Wasted its wind-borne spray,
The noisy marvel of a day;
His soul sate still in its unstormed abode.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Divinely do I know, when life is clean,
How like a noble shape of golden glass
The passions of the body, powers of the mind,
Chalice the sweet immortal wine of soul,
That, as a purple
fragrance
dwells in air
From vintage poured, fills the corrupting world
With its own savour.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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[in Anhui], poured a
libation
on his grave and
forbade the woodmen to cut down the trees which grew there.
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Li Po |
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]
MEPHISTOPHELES
_to him_.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Here am I now who fain would be elsewhere;
More would I wish and yet no more I would;
I could no more and yet did all I could:
And new tears born of old desires declare
That still I am as I was wont to be,
And that a
thousand
changes change not me.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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The
horsepond
where he dips his wings,
The wet day prints it full of rings.
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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Here, said she,
Is your card, the drowned
Phoenician
Sailor,
(Those are pearls that were his eyes.
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Tuttavia, perche mo vergogna porte
del tuo errore, e perche altra volta,
udendo le serene, sie piu forte,
pon giu il seme del piangere e ascolta:
si udirai come in
contraria
parte
mover dovieti mia carne sepolta.
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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For thirty years, he produced and
distributed
Project
Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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But these men begin
From heaven, and from its fires; and first they feign
That fire will turn into the winds of air,
Next, that from air the rain begotten is,
And earth created out of rain, and then
That all, reversely, are returned from earth--
The
moisture
first, then air thereafter heat--
And that these same ne'er cease in interchange,
To go their ways from heaven to earth, from earth
Unto the stars of the aethereal world--
Which in no wise at all the germs can do.
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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Ast ego, si vestras unquam
temeravero
stirpes,
Nulla Nesera, Chloe, Faustina, Corynna, legetur ;
In proprio sed quaeque libro signabitur arbos.
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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Dick was
perfectly
happy with a quiet peace that was as new to his mind
as it was foreign to his experiences.
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| Question: |
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Kipling - Poems |
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The
quotation
is from Horace,
_De Art.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Calcine ces lambeaux qu'ont
epargnes
les betes!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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My
insatiate
eyes
Meanwhile to heav'n had travel'd, even there
Where the bright stars are slowest, as a wheel
Nearest the axle; when my guide inquir'd:
"What there aloft, my son, has caught thy gaze?
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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quin potius
laudandus
hic est quem prole parata
occupat in parua pigra senecta casa!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Oh sea, look
graciously!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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She fain will wait
Until the
gathered
country-folk be gone.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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What know we of the world immense,
What man would live coffined with brick and stone,
What mean these banners spread,
'What means this glory round our feet,'
What Nature makes in any mood,
What
visionary
tints the year puts on,
What were I, Love, if I were stripped of thee,
What were the whole void world, if thou wert dead,
When a deed is done for Freedom, through the broad earth's aching breast,
When I was a beggarly boy,
When oaken woods with buds are pink,
When Persia's sceptre trembled in a hand,
When the down is on the chin,
When wise Minerva still was young,
Where is the true man's fatherland?
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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" said she, "but even now
Thy voice was at sweet tremble in mine ear,
Made
tuneable
with every sweetest vow;
And those sad eyes were spiritual and clear: 310
How chang'd thou art!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
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Les Odes: O
Fontaine
Bellerie
O Fount of Bellerie,
Fountain sweet to see,
Dear to our Nymphs when, lo,
Waves hide them at your source
Fleeing the Satyr so,
Who follows them, in his course,
To the borders of your flow.
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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The
invalidity
or unenforceability of any
provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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ou in mi sones nom,
for
seuentene
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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]
[Sidenote E: Each knight of the brotherhood agrees to wear a bright green
belt,]
[Sidenote F: for Gawayne's sake,]
[Sidenote G: who ever more
honoured
it.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Heu palmsB, laurique furor, vel
simplicis
herbae !
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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* * * * *
TO
MY MOTHER,
IN ALL REVERENCE AND LOVE,
_I
INSCRIBE
THIS BOOK_.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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God from our eyes, all tears
hereafter
wipes, II.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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A
peaceful
rumbling there,
The town's at our feet.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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Fear the gaze in the blind wall that watches:
There is a verb
attached
to matter itself.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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Mit solchen edlen Gasten
War es ein
bisschen
viel gewagt.
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Get thee forth, Old Man, and quick
Tell
Clytemnestra
.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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A Prayer
When I am dying, let me know
That I loved the blowing snow
Although
it stung like whips;
That I loved all lovely things
And I tried to take their stings
With gay unembittered lips;
That I loved with all my strength,
To my soul's full depth and length,
Careless if my heart must break,
That I sang as children sing
Fitting tunes to everything,
Loving life for its own sake.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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eroute,
& mony a-venture in vale, &
venquyst
ofte,
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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But commerce has now opened another scene, has armed
government with the happiest power that can be exerted by the rulers of
a nation--the power to prevent every extremity[29] which may possibly
arise from bad harvests; extremities, which, in former ages, were
esteemed more dreadful
visitations
of the wrath of Heaven than the
pestilence itself.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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In the
edition of 1836 the date of
composition
is given as 1797, and this date
is followed by Mr.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
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"
--Yet when we came back, late, from the
Hyacinth
garden,
Your arms full, and your hair wet, I could not
Speak, and my eyes failed, I was neither
Living nor dead, and I knew nothing, 40
Looking into the heart of light, the silence.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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" He
straight
replied:
"That will I tell thee briefly.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Where is that wise girl Eloise,
For whom was gelded, to his great shame,
Peter Abelard, at Saint Denis,
For love of her enduring pain,
And where now is that queen again,
Who
commanded
them to throw
Buridan in a sack, in the Seine?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
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MY First is
singular
at best:
More plural is my Second:
My Third is far the pluralest--
So plural-plural, I protest
It scarcely can be reckoned!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
Chor: Just are the ways of God,
And
justifiable
to Men;
Unless there be who think not God at all,
If any be, they walk obscure;
For of such Doctrine never was there School,
But the heart of the Fool,
And no man therein Doctor but himself.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
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Others will lead me towards happiness
By the horns on my brow knotted with many a tress:
You know, my passion, how ripe and purple already
Every
pomegranate
bursts, murmuring with the bees:
And our blood, enamoured of what will seize it,
Flows for all the eternal swarm of desire yet.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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Encircling all, vast-darting, up and wide, the
American
Soul, with equal
hemispheres--one Love, one Dilation or Pride.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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Le soleil expia de ses poumons ardents
Les
boulevards
qu'un soir comblerent les Barbares
Voila la Cite belle assise a l'occident!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
|
Note: There are
references
to a visit to the Temple of Isis at Pompeii with an English girl, Octavia (who tasted a lemon), and to the Temple of the Sibyl at Tivoli.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Thy sign hath
conquered
me.
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Euripides - Electra |
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On the black promontory's
windless
head,
The last awake, the fireflies rise and fall
And tangle up their dithering skeins of light.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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It shall be customary in the houses and streets to see manly affection,
The most dauntless and rude shall touch face to face lightly,
The dependence of Liberty shall be lovers,
The
continuance
of Equality shall be comrades.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Li T'ai-po's
poems deal chiefly with wine and women, love and sensual things, but
Tu Fu's poems are full of men and women, elderly people and children,
their joy, their anguish, the
hardship
of the soldier, and things of
that sort.
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Li Po |
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That is why,
according
to my will,
Castile was ruled these ten years from Seville,
To be nearer them, and be the swifter
To oppose whatever threat they offer.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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you liberty-lover of the
Netherlands!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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I drive my wedges home,
And carve the coastwise
mountain
into caves.
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Emerson - Poems |
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He
returned
to the game, staked fifty
thousand rubles on each card, and came out ahead, after paying his
debts.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Pardon, sir; error: he is not
quantity
enough for that
Worthy's thumb; he is not so big as the end of his club.
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Shakespeare |
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But, though I say't, for maids thus veigled in
I think the wicked men deserve the sin;
And sure enough we all at last shall see
The treachery
punished
as it ought to be.
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John Clare |
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Master Lieutenant, now that God and friends
Have shaken Edward from the regal seat
And turn'd my captive state to liberty,
My fear to hope, my sorrows unto joys,
At our
enlargement
what are thy due fees?
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Shakespeare |
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e ne
sprede{n}
his name to many
manere peoples.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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All lovely colours there you see,
All colours that were ever seen,
And mossy network too is there,
As if by hand of lady fair
The work had woven been,
And cups, the
darlings
of the eye,
So deep is their vermilion dye.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Fortune not much of
humbling
me can boast;
Though double taxed, how little have I lost?
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Not Phoebus doth the rude Parnassian crag
So ravish, nor Orpheus so entrance the heights
Of Rhodope or Ismarus: for he sang
How through the mighty void the seeds were driven
Of earth, air, ocean, and of liquid fire,
How all that is from these
beginnings
grew,
And the young world itself took solid shape,
Then 'gan its crust to harden, and in the deep
Shut Nereus off, and mould the forms of things
Little by little; and how the earth amazed
Beheld the new sun shining, and the showers
Fall, as the clouds soared higher, what time the woods
'Gan first to rise, and living things to roam
Scattered among the hills that knew them not.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Ay, Regulus and the Scaurian name,
And Paullus, who at Cannae gave
His
glorious
soul, fair record claim,
For all were brave.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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From founts of dawn the fluent autumn day
Has rippled as a brook right pleasantly
Half-way to noon; but now with
widening
turn
Makes pause, in lucent meditation locked,
And rounds into a silver pool of morn,
Bottom'd with clover-fields.
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Sidney Lanier |
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XXVII
You, by Rome astonished, who gaze here
On ancient pride, once threatening the skies,
These old palaces, where the brave hills rise,
Walls, archways, baths, the temples that appear:
Judge, as you view these ruins, shattered, sere,
All that injurious Time's devoured: the wise
Architect and mason, their plans devise
Still from these fragments, these
patterns
clear:
Then note how Rome, still, from day to day,
Rummaging through her ancient decay,
Renews herself with hosts of sacred things:
You'd think the Roman spirit yet alive,
With destined hands continuing to strive,
That to these dusty ruins, new life brings.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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