You must know I have just met with the Mirror and Lounger for the
first time, and I am quite in
raptures
with them; I should be glad to
have your opinion of some of the papers.
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Robert Burns |
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The water
caressed
the shore so gently!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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A dangerous stepmother, who scarcely saw you
Before she
signalled
her wish to banish you.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Du Fu never 1
Original
note: ?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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But mine is the midnight of Death,
And Nature's morn
To my bosom forlorn
Brings but a gloomier night, implants a
deadlier
thorn.
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Shelley |
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Then she kissed my burning lips,
With her mouth like a scented flower,
And I
thrilled
to the finger-tips,
And I hadn't even the power
To say: "God bless you, dear!
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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But should the play
Prove piercing earnest,
Should the glee glaze
In death's stiff stare,
Would not the fun
Look too
expensive?
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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XXXVIII
"And, if in this fair enterprise arrayed,
No gain, no glory served you as a guide,
A common debt enjoins you mutual aid,
Militant
here upon one Church's side.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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They may be
modified
and printed and given away--you may do
practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks.
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Rilke - Poems |
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molle Cupidineis nec
inexpugnabile
telis
cor mihi, quodque leuis causa moueret, erat.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Like rain it softly falls at that dim hour
When ghostly lanes turn toward the shadowy morn;
When bodies weighed with satiate passion's power
Sad, disappointed from each other turn;
When men with quiet hatred burning deep
Together
in a common bed must sleep--
Through the gray, phantom shadows of the dawn
Lo!
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Rilke - Poems |
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God love thee for the
sweetness
of thy word!
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Euripides - Electra |
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He's soft and tender, pray take heed,
With bands of
cowslips
bind him,
And bring him home;--but 'tis decreed
That I shall never find him.
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Robert Herrick |
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And overhead the curlews cry,
Where through the dusky upland grass
The young brown-throated reapers pass,
Like
silhouettes
against the sky.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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He
thenkith
parte it with no man; 5395
Certayn, no love is in him than.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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What would he
think of
Cezanne?
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Restrain
his bold career; at least, to attend
Our favour'd hero, let some power descend.
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Iliad - Pope |
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To do this fully we must
identify
ourselves in fancy with the soul
of the old cavalier:--
Then mounte!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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_
Depuis huit jours, j'avais dechire mes bottines
Aux
cailloux
des chemins.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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In many guises didst thou come to me;
I saw thee by the maidens while they danced,
Phaon allured me with a look of thine,
In Anactoria I knew thy grace,
I looked at
Cercolas
and saw thine eyes;
But never wholly, soul and body mine,
Didst thou bid any love me as I loved.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Phaedra
He seems like some
terrible
monster to my glance.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Gives too late
What's not believed in, or if still believed,
In memory only,
reconsidered
passion.
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T.S. Eliot |
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He ceased, whom all
indignant
heard, and thus
Ev'n his own proud companions censured him.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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The blest to-day is as completely so,
As who began a
thousand
years ago.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Archive Foundation and how your efforts and donations can help, see
Sections 3 and 4 and the Foundation
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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I haue giuen Sucke, and know
How tender 'tis to loue the Babe that milkes me,
I would, while it was smyling in my Face,
Haue pluckt my Nipple from his
Bonelesse
Gummes,
And dasht the Braines out, had I so sworne
As you haue done to this
Macb.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Live and love,--
Doing both nobly because
lowlily!
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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That such a hideous Trumpet calls to parley
The
sleepers
of the House?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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She hath called me from mine old ways, She hath hushed my rancour of council, Bidding me praise
Naught but the wind that
flutters
in the leaves.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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EMPEROR: Oh,
wondrous
sight!
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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The Mariner tells how the ship sailed
southward
with a good wind and fair
weather, till it reached the Line.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Hence, thou suborned
informer!
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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but no, good faith, I will not have it:
For if he be the knight whom late I saw
Ride into that new fortress by your town,
White from the mason's hand, then have I sworn
From his own lips to have it--I am Geraint
Of Devon--for this morning when the Queen
Sent her own maiden to demand the name,
His dwarf, a vicious under-shapen thing,
Struck at her with his whip, and she returned
Indignant
to the Queen; and then I swore
That I would track this caitiff to his hold,
And fight and break his pride, and have it of him.
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Tennyson |
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Gracious
my Lord,
I should report that which I say I saw,
But know not how to doo't
Macb.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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And so more dear to me has grown
Than rarest tones swept from the lyre,
The minor
movement
of that moan
In yonder singing wire.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Another placed
The silver stands, with golden
flaskets
graced:
With dulcet beverage this the beaker crown'd,
Fair in the midst, with gilded cups around:
That in the tripod o'er the kindled pile
The water pours; the bubbling waters boil;
An ample vase receives the smoking wave;
And, in the bath prepared, my limbs I lave:
Reviving sweets repair the mind's decay,
And take the painful sense of toil away.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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The rat is the
concisest
tenant.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Africa, Spain, neither are you disgraced,
Nor that race that holds the English firth,
Nor, by the French Rhine, soldiers of worth,
Nor Germany with other
warriors
graced.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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"
PINE
By John Russell McCarthy
You must have dreamed a little every year For fifty years: you must have been a child, Shy and diffident with the violets, School-girlish with the daisies, or perhaps
A youthful Indian with the hickory tree;
You must have been a lover with the beech, A wise young father walking with your sons Beneath the maple; then have battled long Grim and defiant with the oak : all these
You must have been for fifty dreaming years Before you may hold
converse
with the pine.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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er a
stedfast
knowyng ystrenge?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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He was tall,
powerfully
built, and appeared to be about
forty-five.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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the bard--a great reward--
Has got a double
portion!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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I would have stood,
and watched and watched
and burned,
and when in the night,
from the many hosts, your slaves,
and warriors and serving men
you had turned
to the purple couch and the flame
of the woman, tall like cypress tree
that flames sudden and swift and free
as with crackle of golden resin
and cones and the locks flung free
like the cypress limbs,
bound, caught and shaken and loosed,
bound, caught and riven and bound
and
loosened
again,
as in rain of a kingly storm
or wind full from a desert plain.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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As such I wish to be
allowed to wait on you, and as I expect to remove in a few days a
little further off, and you, I suppose, will perhaps soon leave this
place, I wish to see or hear from you soon; and if an expression
should perhaps escape me, rather too warm for friendship, I hope you
will pardon it in, my dear Miss--(pardon me the dear
expression
for
once) * * * *
R.
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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The silver, Sallust, shows not fair
While buried in the greedy mine:
You love it not till
moderate
wear
Have given it shine.
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Thou scene of all my happiness and
pleasure!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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May I rule my people
In glory, and like Thee be good and
righteous!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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IV
Ask
whomever
you will but you'll never find out where I'm lodging,
High society's lords, ladies so groomed and refined.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Those gods you
endlessly
weep will return!
| Guess: |
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Feeling and
character
grow out of habit;
A people's customs cannot be changed.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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They will confess they are
offended
with their manner of living
like enough; who is not?
| Guess: |
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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How insupportable would be the days, if the night with its dews and
darkness did not come to restore the
drooping
world.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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The Curve Of Your Eyes
The curve of your eyes embraces my heart
A ring of sweetness and dance
halo of time, sure
nocturnal
cradle,
And if I no longer know all I have lived through
It's that your eyes have not always been mine.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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hic iuueni Ismario ne solum in limine caeli
ex Ariadneis aurea
temporibus
60
fixa corona foret, sed nos quoque fulgeremus
deuotae flaui uerticis exuuiae,
uuidulum a fluctu cedentem ad templa deum me
sidus in antiquis diua nouum posuit.
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Latin - Catullus |
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e
penaunce
apert, of ?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Age cannot Love destroy,
But perfidy can rend the shrine _20
In which its vermeil
splendours
shine.
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| Source: |
Shelley |
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Where the
resounding
power of water shakes 1820.
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| Question: |
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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So,
purposing
each moment to retire,
She linger'd still.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
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('Tis while our army lines Carolina's sands and pines,
Forth from thy hovel door thou
Ethiopia
com'st to me,
As under doughty Sherman I march toward the sea.
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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A washed-out
smallpox
cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone
With all the old nocturnal smells
That cross and cross across her brain.
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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Several
other nations have also claimed the honour of
affording
the idea of the
fields of the blessed.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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E'en this air so subtly gloweth,
Guerdoned
by thy sun-gold traces
Canzon: spear
?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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the vilest in the
dungeon!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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descending to her hero's aid,
Jove's daughter, Pallas, War's triumphant maid:
In Mentor's
friendly
form she join'd his side:
Ulysses saw, and thus with transport cried:
"Come, ever welcome, and thy succour lend;
O every sacred name in one, my friend!
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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The ancient pulse of germ and birth
Was shrunken hard and dry,
And every spirit upon earth
Seemed
fervourless
as I.
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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The country saved from a cruel enemy,
Your hand
securing
the sceptre firmly,
The Moors defeated, before our alarms
Secured the orders to repulse their arms,
These are exploits that deny your King
The means of just reward for anything.
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary,
compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form,
including
any
word processing or hypertext form.
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Keats - Lamia |
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Two we were, with one heart blessed:
If heart's dead, yes, then I foresee,
I'll die, or I must
lifeless
be,
Like those statues made of lead.
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Villon |
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permitted by U.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Let Paphos take the mirror:
did she press
flowerlet of flame-flower
to the lustrous white
of the white
forehead?
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
|
Donne like Marvell seems to have been
influenced
by Ronsard and his peers.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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For
additional
contact information:
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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_ No, 'twas mere fancy;
They battle it beyond the wall, and not 60
As in late
midnight
conflict in the very
Chambers: the palace has become a fortress
Since that insidious hour; and here, within
The very centre, girded by vast courts
And regal halls of pyramid proportions,
Which must be carried one by one before
They penetrate to where they then arrived,
We are as much shut in even from the sound
Of peril as from glory.
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| Source: |
Byron |
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A grievous arbiter was given the twain--
The stranger from the northern main,
The sharp, dividing sword,
Fresh from the forge and fire
The War-god treacherous gave ill award
And brought their father's curse to a
fulfilment
dire!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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Like corn before the sickle
The stout
Laninians
fell,
Beneath the edge of the true sword
That kept the bridge so well.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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there came
Two naked, torn with briers, in
headlong
flight,
That they before them broke each fan o' th' wood.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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This
translation
or rather adaptation contains many of the two hundred or so fragments, in some cases fragments of the fragments, excluding things I found too partial or obscure to resonate.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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I neither know, to me what term of life
Heaven
destined
when on earth I came at first
To suffer this sharp strife,
'Gainst my own peace which I myself have nursed,
Nor can I, for the veil my body throws,
Yet see the time when my sad life may close.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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Note: The ballade was written for Robert to present to his wife Ambroise de Lore, as though
composed
by him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
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Must I thus leave thee
Paradise?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
|
"
{24b} "And the
gesticulation
is vile.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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e kny3t com hym-self,
kachande
his blonk,
Sy3 hym byde at ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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He had not yet
learned
patience
with the maiden to whom her work was all in all.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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[_Some
garlands
are brought out from the house to_ ELECTRA.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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You yourself, defeating my powers' eclipse,
Recalling my soul, already hovering on my lips, 770
You revived me with your
flattering
advice.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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She rose to his requirement, dropped
The playthings of her life
To take the
honorable
work
Of woman and of wife.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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And I have found both freedom of loneliness and the safety from
being understood, for those who understand us enslave
something
in
us.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Since comes no
Constantine
his own to claim,
The vext world must endure, or end its shame.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
|
"
Up leaped the Captain of Plymouth, and stamped on the floor, till his armor
Clanged on the wall, where it hung, with a sound of
sinister
omen.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
But He, the King whom angels serve and love,
His gracious eyes hath turn'd upon the land
Where on the cross He died;
And a new
Charlemagne
hath qualified
To work the vengeance that on high was plann'd,
For whose delay so long hath Europe sigh'd.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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"
She then: "How you
digress!
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T.S. Eliot |
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The visualization is elevated to
the impersonal
objective
level which gives to the rhythm of these poems
an imperturbable calm, to the figures presented a monumental erectness.
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Rilke - Poems |
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_), D: _quo_
GOBLa1Ch: _que_ Aa
11 sic
Victorius
|| _diuerse uarie_ GORVen: _diuerse uariae_ B
m.
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Latin - Catullus |
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And were you lost, I would be,
Though my name
Rang loudest
On the
heavenly
fame.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Here, where I dwell, I waste to skin and bone;
The curse is come upon me, and I waste
In penal torment
powerless
to atone.
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Christina Rossetti |
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A second turn brought us into a
square, brilliantly lighted, and
overflowing
with life.
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Poe - 5 |
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"--
The prince's eye
Oneguine
seeks:
"Ah!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Beowulf |
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When in an antichamber every guest
Had felt the cold full sponge to
pleasure
press'd,
By minist'ring slaves, upon his hands and feet,
And fragrant oils with ceremony meet
Pour'd on his hair, they all mov'd to the feast
In white robes, and themselves in order placed
Around the silken couches, wondering
Whence all this mighty cost and blaze of wealth could spring.
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Keats - Lamia |
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--tell me--tell me, I
implore!
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Poe - 5 |
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