Hardly the
springtime
knows
For which today the cuckoo calls,
And the white blossom blows.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Half-past three,
The lamp sputtered,
The lamp
muttered
in the dark.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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And look--a thousand
Blossoms
with the Day
Woke--and a thousand scatter'd into Clay:
And this first Summer Month that brings the Rose
Shall take Jamshyd and Kaikobad away.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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--All honest hearts
Must sorrow for a
brightness
that departs,
A good life worn away.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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This tablet has been erroneously
assigned
to Book
IV, but it appears to be Book III.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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"We see an instance of Coleridge's liability to err, in his 'Biographia
Literaria'--professedly his literary life and opinions, but, in fact, a
treatise _de omni scibili et
quibusdam
aliis.
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Poe - 5 |
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Lean penury within that pen doth dwell
That to his subject lends not some small glory;
But he that writes of you, if he can tell
That you are you, so
dignifies
his story,
Let him but copy what in you is writ,
Not making worse what nature made so clear,
And such a counterpart shall fame his wit,
Making his style admired every where.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Who ever writes of Thee, and in a stile
Unworthy
such a Theme, does but revile
Thy precious Dust, and wake a learned Spirit 25
Which may revenge his Rapes upon thy Merit.
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John Donne |
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So when I see this robin now,
Like a red apple on the bough,
And question why he sings so strong,
For love, or for the love of song;
Or sings, maybe, for that sweet rill
Whose silver tongue is never still--
Ah, now there comes this thought unkind,
Born of the
knowledge
in my mind:
He sings in triumph that last night
He killed his father in a fight;
And now he'll take his mother's blood--
The last strong rival for his food.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Are we so made
Of death and darkness, that even thou,
O golden God of the joys of love,
Thy mind to us canst only prove,
The glorious devices of thy mind,
By so revealing how thy
journeying
here
Through this mortality, doth closely bind
Thy brightness to the shadow of dreadful Fear?
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Three times
circling
beneath heaven's veil,
In devotion, round your tombs, I hail
You, with loud summons; thrice on you I call:
And, while your ancient fury I invoke,
Here, as though I in sacred terror spoke,
I'll sing your glory, beauteous above all.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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)
The King of France in a loud voice has called:
"Barons and Franks, good vassals are ye all,
Ye in the field have fought so great combats;
See the pagans; they're felons and cowards,
No
pennyworth
is there in all their laws.
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Chanson de Roland |
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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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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Mariana, the classical
historian
of Spain, tells the story of the
ill-starred marriage which the King Don Alonso brought about
between the heirs of Carrion and the two daughters of the Cid.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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In golden dreams the sage duennas slept;
A female
sentinel
to watch was kept.
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La Fontaine |
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This music is
successful
with a "dying fall"
Now that we talk of dying--
And should I have the right to smile?
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T.S. Eliot |
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Car je comptai sept fois, de minute en minute,
Ce sinistre
vieillard
qui se multipliait!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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MELIBOEUS
I grudge you not the boon, but marvel more,
Such wide
confusion
fills the country-side.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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In Italy in Arms he is the true acolyte of Beauty, worshipping and tending at her
immemorial
shrine.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Let those whom nature hath not made for store,
Harsh, featureless, and rude, barrenly perish:
Look, whom she best endow'd, she gave thee more;
Which
bounteous
gift thou shouldst in bounty cherish:
She carv'd thee for her seal, and meant thereby,
Thou shouldst print more, not let that copy die.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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arms for him
quickly!
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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If she'll grant her love in measure,
My
gratitude
I'll then declare,
And conceal it and flatter there,
Speak and act all for her pleasure;
Carefully I'll prize my treasure,
And sing her praises everywhere.
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Troubador Verse |
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Horace says, _Ambiguam tellure novâ
Salamina
futuram_.
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Tacitus |
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Suavely down the sea-troughs settle,
Gravely breathe perfumes of prayer
'Twixt the
scolding
sea and air,
Bravely up the sea-hills rise --
Sea-hills slant thee toward the skies.
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Sidney Lanier |
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My master, sir, my Master Slender, sent to her,
seeing her go
thorough
the streets, to know, sir, whether one
Nym, sir, that beguil'd him of a chain, had the chain or no.
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Shakespeare |
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Sed postquam tellus scelerest imbuta nefando,
Iustitiamque omnes cupida de mente fugarunt,
Perfudere manus fraterno sanguine fratres,
Destitit
extinctos natus lugere parentes, 400
Optavit genitor primaevi funera nati,
Liber ut innuptae poteretur flore novercae,
Ignaro mater substernens se inpia nato
Inpia non veritast divos scelerare penates:
Omnia fanda nefanda malo permixta furore 405
Iustificam nobis mentem avertere deorum.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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" said
The Doctor, looking
somewhat
grim,
"What, Woman!
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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By the eighth
milestone
on the road to nowhere
He drops his sack, and lights once more the pipe
There often lighted.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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and let Jove encrust
Swords, pikes, and guns, with
everlasting
rust!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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*****
gain,
Whatever
abides eternal must indeed
Either repel all strokes, because 'tis made
Of solid body, and permit no entrance
Of aught with power to sunder from within
The parts compact--as are those seeds of stuff
Whose nature we've exhibited before;
Or else be able to endure through time
For this: because they are from blows exempt,
As is the void, the which abides untouched,
Unsmit by any stroke; or else because
There is no room around, whereto things can,
As 'twere, depart in dissolution all,--
Even as the sum of sums eternal is,
Without or place beyond whereto things may
Asunder fly, or bodies which can smite,
And thus dissolve them by the blows of might.
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| Question: |
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Lucretius |
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When they have ridden merrily
round all the
concourse
of their gazing friends, Epytides shouts from
afar the signal they await, and sounds his whip.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Copyright
infringement
liability can be quite severe.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
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Was it thus
The dear
paternal
Duke did?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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Gentle night, do thou
befriend
me;
Downy sleep, the curtain draw;
Spirits kind, again attend me,
Talk of him that's far awa!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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--Ha, the radiant lid
Of Dawn's eye
lifteth!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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A caste-mark on the azure brows of Heaven,
The golden moon burns sacred, solemn, bright
The winds are dancing in the forest-temple,
And
swooning
at the holy feet of Night.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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s ruler, 8 divine troops are
stirring
in Shuofang.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Thou scene of all my happiness and
pleasure!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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I was
splintered
and torn:
the hill-path mounted
swifter than my feet.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Thus with the Year 40
Seasons return, but not to me returns
Day, or the sweet
approach
of Ev'n or Morn,
Or sight of vernal bloom, or Summers Rose,
Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine;
But cloud in stead, and ever-during dark
Surrounds me, from the chearful waies of men
Cut off, and for the book of knowledg fair
Presented with a Universal blanc
Of Natures works to mee expung'd and ras'd,
And wisdome at one entrance quite shut out.
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Milton |
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yet, faithless to your kind,
Rather like noxious insects you are used
To
puncture
life's fair fruit, beneath the rind
Laying your creed-eggs, whence in time there spring
Consumers new to eat and buzz and sting.
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| Question: |
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James Russell Lowell |
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others shall pass, as we have passed,
As we have come, so others shall meet,
And the dream that our mind had
sketched
in haste,
Shall others continue, but never complete.
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Hugo - Poems |
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When arriv'd,
Where underneath the gaping arch lets pass
The
scourged
souls: "Pause here," the teacher said,
"And let these others miserable, now
Strike on thy ken, faces not yet beheld,
For that together they with us have walk'd.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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He was an early friend
and
judicious
adviser of Pope himself, who showed him much of his early
work, including the first draft of this very poem.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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" The folly is
scarcely
less to
write about them, and much did the poet and his friend write about
their own private affairs as well as those of others.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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Lay al this mene whyle Troilus, 50
Recordinge
his lessoun in this manere,
`Ma fey!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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committed
to complying with the laws regulating
charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United
States.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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1
Rang the refrain along the hall, the prison,
Rose to the roof, the vaults of heaven above,
Pouring in floods of melody in tones so pensive sweet and strong the
like whereof was never heard,
Reaching
the far-off sentry and the armed guards, who ceas'd their pacing,
Making the hearer's pulses stop for ecstasy and awe.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Your name from hence immortal life shall have,
Though I, once gone, to all the world must die:
The earth can yield me but a common grave,
When you
entombed
in men's eyes shall lie.
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Until the marriage,
Rodrigue
is still my love.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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Pass'd on, and sate by faithful Mentor's side;
With Antiphus, and
Halitherses
sage
(His father's counsellors, revered for age).
| Guess: |
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Odyssey - Pope |
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" and I knew them
For souls of the felled
On the earth's nether bord
Under Capricorn, whither they'd warred,
And I neared in my awe, and gave
heedfulness
to them
With breathings inheld.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Then believe me, my sweetheart, do,
While time still flowers for you,
In its
freshest
novelty,
Cull, ah cull your youthful bloom:
As it blights this flower, the doom
Of age will blight your beauty.
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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Keats |
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Pope may have been thinking of Lee, a
dramatist
of
Dryden's day who was confined for a time in this asylum.
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Alexander Pope |
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mea submisissem et nihil solidius
responsione valde negativa in Musaeum meum retulissem, horror ingens
atque misericordia, ob
crassitudinem
Lambertianam in cerebris
homunculorum istius muneris coelesti quadam ira infixam, me invasere.
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James Russell Lowell |
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quas fugit in auras
spiritus?
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Sous les
plafonds
duquel tant de pompe avait lui.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Earl
Doorm struck his knife against the table and
bellowed
for meat, and
wine.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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" The monarch spake,
And inly
trembled
for his brother's sake.
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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Now mine eyes are raised to see,
And all the
doorways
of my soul flung free.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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The chime, the
clinking
chime!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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The
plunging
pistons sank like a stopped heart:
She held, she swayed, a hulk, a hollow carcass
Of blistered iron that the grey-green, waveless,
Unruffled tropic waters slapped languidly.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Down by the steps, out of the palace ran,
Mounted his horse, to's people
gallopped
back.
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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Sanza riposo mai era la tresca
de le misere mani, or quindi or quinci
escotendo
da se l'arsura fresca.
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Your Beauty's a flower in the morning that blows,
And withers the faster, the faster it grows:
But the
rapturous
charm o' the bonie green knowes,
Ilk spring they're new deckit wi' bonie white yowes.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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This
necklace
was afterwards given by Beowulf to Hygd, ll.
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Beowulf |
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Thirdly, he sins from time to time by being obscure, fragmentary, and
agglomerative--giving long strings of
successive
and detached items, not,
however, devoid of a certain primitive effectiveness.
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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The folly of
expecting
that God should
alter His general Laws in favour of particulars, v.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Just saved, without pulse or breath,--
Scarcely saved from the gulp of death;
Laid where a willow shadoweth,--
Laid where a
swelling
turf is smooth.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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I stand at noon upon the peak of Heaven, _25
Then with unwilling steps I wander down
Into the clouds of the
Atlantic
even;
For grief that I depart they weep and frown:
What look is more delightful than the smile
With which I soothe them from the western isle?
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| Source: |
Shelley |
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From time to time I feel through all my soul
A
sweetness
so unusual and new,
That every marring care
And gloomy vision thence begins to roll,
So that, from all, one only thought is there.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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With those who laugh, our social joy appears;
With those who mourn, we sympathise in tears;
If you would have me weep, begin the strain,
Then I shall feel your sorrow, feel your pain;
But if your heroes act not what they say,
I sleep or laugh the
lifeless
scene away.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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"Tell her this
"And more,--
"That the king of the seas
"Weeps too, old,
helpless
man.
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Stephen Crane |
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Chanson de Roland |
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The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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This is the giddy air, and I must spread
Wide pinions to keep here; nor do I dread
Or height, or depth, or width, or any chance
Precipitous: I have beneath my glance 360
Those towering horses and their
mournful
freight.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
|
You may convert to and
distribute
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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And will this divine grace, this supreme perfection depart those for whom life exists only to
discover
and glorify them?
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Appoloinaire |
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Lansdowne
MS.
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Whatever sentence is pronounced, you must submit,
Madame, if embattled honour would be rescued,
You must
sacrifice
everything, even virtue.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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When the group of people arose at last
And laughed and talked in a merry tone,
As
lingeringly
through the rooms they passed
I saw that she followed alone.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Copyright
laws in most countries are in
a constant state of change.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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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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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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I have no comfort for thee, no not one:
I cannot say, 'O
wherefore
sleepest thou?
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Keats |
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In the midst of
pleasure
my soul suffers:
I drown in joy, and tremble with my fears.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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or did I see all
The glory as I dreamed, and fainted when
Too
vehement
light dilated my ideal,
For my soul's eyes?
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Solemn Dances
THERE laughs in the
heightening
year, Sweet,
The scent from the garden benign.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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I know that Parny's tender pen(42)
Is no more
cherished
amongst men.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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I see little and large sea-dots, some inhabited, some uninhabited;
I see two boats with nets, lying off the shore of Paumanok, quite still;
I see ten fishermen waiting--they discover now a thick school of
mossbonkers--they drop the joined sein-ends in the water,
The boats separate--they diverge and row off, each on its rounding course
to the beach,
enclosing
the mossbonkers;
The net is drawn in by a windlass by those who stop ashore,
Some of the fishermen lounge in their boats--others stand negligently
ankle-deep in the water, poised on strong legs;
The boats are partly drawn up--the water slaps against them;
On the sand, in heaps and winrows, well out from the water, lie the green-
backed spotted mossbonkers.
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Whitman |
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This also to thy very self sometimes
Repeat thou mayst: "Lo, even good Ancus left
The
sunshine
with his eyes, in divers things
A better man than thou, O worthless hind;
And many other kings and lords of rule
Thereafter have gone under, once who swayed
O'er mighty peoples.
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Lucretius |
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The boyars
Remember
Godunov as erst he was,
Peer to themselves; and even now the race
Of the old Varyags is loved by all.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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"Perhaps he's climbed into an oak,
"Where he will stay till he is dead;
"Or sadly he has been misled,
"And joined the
wandering
gypsey-folk.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Sweet dreams of
pleasant
streams
By happy, silent, moony beams!
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Jove's tunefu'
dochters
three times three
Made Homer deep their debtor;
But, gien the body half an e'e,
Nine Ferriers wad done better!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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