Ich weiss, wie man den Geist des Volks versohnt;
Doch so
verlegen
bin ich nie gewesen:
Zwar sind sie an das Beste nicht gewohnt,
Allein sie haben schrecklich viel gelesen.
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The
Mountains
fled away they sought a place beneath
Vala remaind in desarts of dark solitude.
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Blake - Zoas |
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" no other word she spake,
But loud and
bitterly
she wept,
As if her innocent heart would break; [4]
And down from off her seat [5] she leapt.
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--"Love is my name,"
He
thankless
cried, "I hither came
"To tame thee.
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La Fontaine |
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Under whose shady tent, men every year,
At its rich blood's exp«ii>e their sorrows cheer;
If some dear branch where it extends its life,
Chance to be pruned by an
untimely
knife.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Go bathe, and robed in white ascend the towers;
With all thy
handmaids
thank the immortal powers;
To every god vow hecatombs to bleed.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Unauthenticated
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Date | 10/1/17 7:36 AM 356 ?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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A single
farmhouse
which I had not seen before is sometimes as good as
the dominions of the King of Dahomey.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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And many an Afghan chief, who lies
Beneath his cool pomegranate-trees,
Clutches his sword in fierce surmise
When on the mountain-side he sees
The fleet-foot Marri scout, who comes
To tell how he hath heard afar
The
measured
roll of English drums
Beat at the gates of Kandahar.
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Wilde - Poems |
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_ Gabriel, O
Gabriel!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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'
So Sir Bedivere
departed
and by the way he beheld that noble sword,
that the pommel and the haft were all of precious stones, and then he
said to himself, 'If I throw this rich sword in the water, thereof
shall never come to good but harm and loss'.
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Tennyson |
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'
I replied that it seemed a
doubtful
case which of us should be there
soonest; he looked in my face with an air of great kindness, and
expressed his concern at seeing me so ill, with his usual sensibility.
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Robert Burns |
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But mine, and every god's peculiar grace
Hector deserves, of all the Trojan race:
Still on our shrines his grateful
offerings
lay,
(The only honours men to gods can pay,)
Nor ever from our smoking altar ceased
The pure libation, and the holy feast:
Howe'er by stealth to snatch the corse away,
We will not: Thetis guards it night and day.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Miss Nancy
Ellicott
smoked
And danced all the modern dances;
And her aunts were not quite sure how they felt about it,
But they knew that it was modern.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Call unto his funeral dole
The ant, the field-mouse, and the mole
To rear him
hillocks
that shall keep him warm
And (when gay tombs are robb'd) sustain no harm;
But keep the wolf far thence, that's foe to men,
For with his nails he'll dig them up again.
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Golden Treasury |
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Scalzasi
Egidio, scalzasi Silvestro
dietro a lo sposo, si la sposa piace.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Meantime the bard, alternate to the strings,
The loves of Mars and Cytherea sings:
How the stern god, enamour'd with her charms
Clasp'd the gay panting goddess in his arms,
By bribes seduced; and how the sun, whose eye
Views the broad heavens,
disclosed
the lawless joy.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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)
The matter's weighty, pray consider twice;
Have you less pity for the needy cheat,
The poor and
friendless
villain, than the great?
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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An' don't le' 's mutter 'bout the awfle bricks
We'll give 'em, ef we ketch 'em in a fix:
That 'ere's most frequently the kin' o' talk
Of
critters
can't be kicked to toe the chalk;
Your 'You'll see _nex'_ time!
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James Russell Lowell |
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Thus sung the bard: Ulysses hears with joy,
And loud
applauses
read the vaulted sky.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Bold soldier heart, neither
Prussian
bayonets nor Turkish
bullets ever harmed you; and you have died before a vile runaway felon.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Thus in
alternate
uproar and sad peace,
Amazed were those Titans utterly.
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Keats |
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"
His spear in hand he
brandishes
and wields,
Towards Carlun has turned the point of steel.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Meredith - Poems |
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MESSENGER
Be well assured, the tale is but begun--
The further agony that on us fell
Doth twice outweigh the
sufferings
I have told!
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Aeschylus |
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see,
The
sportive
tyrant with her left hand plucks
The heads of tall flowers that behind her grow,
Lychnis, and willow-herb, and fox-glove bells:
And suddenly, as one that toys with time,
Scatters them on the pool!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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From their eight pinnacles the gorgons bay,
And scattered monsters, in their stony way,
Are growling heard; the rampart lions gnaw
The misty air and slush with granite maw,
The sleet upon the griffins spits, and all
The Saurian monsters, answering to the squall,
Flap wings; while through the broken ceiling fall
Torrents of rain upon the forms beneath,
Dragons and snak'd Medusas
gnashing
teeth
In the dismantled rooms.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Only mouths
widening
with a still broad smile
Of comprehension, a strange knowing leer
At white men, at their vanity and guile,
An understanding that fills one with fear.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Hail with your shouts of
gladness
the
Athens of old, which now doth reappear to your gaze, admirable, worthy of
the songs of the poets and the home of the illustrious Demos.
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Aristophanes |
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The boys are up the woods with day
To fetch the
daffodils
away,
And home at noonday from the hills
They bring no dearth of daffodils.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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active links or
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access to the full terms of the Project
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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The ancient belief
that certain years in life complete natural periods and are hence
peculiarly exposed to death, is
introduced
in stanza 26 by the word
_climacteric_.
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Golden Treasury |
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how I feel you, fathomless,
stirring,
preparing
unprecedented waves and storms.
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Whitman |
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Richmond
and Kew
Undid me.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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[121] Then we never thought of
rounding fine phrases, we never dreamt of calumny; 'twas who should prove
the
strongest
rower.
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Aristophanes |
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Away the
thought!
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| Question: |
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Aeschylus |
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All
creation
slept and smiled.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Tes grandes visions etranglaient ta parole:
--Un Infini
terrible
effara ton oeil bleu!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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They gallop apart in
equal numbers, and open their files three and three in
deploying
bands,
and again at the call wheel about and bear down with levelled arms.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Or why was the substance not made more sure
That formed the brave fronts of these
palaces?
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Then,
contracting
"both lips and brow,"
he made ready to strike, and let fall his axe on the bare neck of Sir
Gawayne.
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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) as the only Ground he had got to stand
upon, however momentarily
slipping
from under his Feet.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Observations
on poetry and human life
1784.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do
practically
ANYTHING
with public domain eBooks.
| Guess: |
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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There thou should'st be,
By this great clatter, one of
greatest
note
Seemes bruited.
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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The times has bene,
That when the Braines were out, the man would dye,
And there an end: But now they rise againe
With twenty mortall
murthers
on their crownes,
And push vs from our stooles.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Spenser here
imitates
the
combat between St.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Why not, just thrown at careless ease
'Neath plane or pine, our locks of grey
Perfumed with Syrian essences
And
wreathed
with roses, while we may,
Lie drinking?
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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"
CORYDON
"Ye mossy springs, and grass more soft than sleep,
And arbute green with thin shade sheltering you,
Ward off the
solstice
from my flock, for now
Comes on the burning summer, now the buds
Upon the limber vine-shoot 'gin to swell.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Yet well thy soul hath brooked the turning tide
With that
untaught
innate philosophy,
Which, be it wisdom, coldness, or deep pride,
Is gall and wormwood to an enemy.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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So with curious eyes and sick surmise
We watched him day by day,
And wondered if each one of us
Would end the self-same way,
For none can tell to what red Hell
His
sightless
soul may stray.
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Wilde - Poems |
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In my jealous wings
I
evermore
will hold thee when though goest out or comest in
Tis thou hast darkend all My World O Woman lovely bare
Thus they contended?
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Blake - Zoas |
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But not the praise,
Phoebus repli'd, and touch'd my trembling ears;
Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil,
Nor in the
glistering
foil
Set off to th'world, nor in broad rumour lies, 80
But lives and spreds aloft by those pure eyes,
And perfet witnes of all judging Jove;
As he pronounces lastly on each deed,
Of so much fame in Heav'n expect thy meed.
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Milton |
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To fifty chosen Sylphs, of special note,
We trust th'
important
charge, the Petticoat:
Oft have we known that seven-fold fence to fail,
Tho' stiff with hoops, and arm'd with ribs of whale; 120
Form a strong line about the silver bound,
And guard the wide circumference around.
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Alexander Pope |
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The dragon crawls from out his den,
To herd, in terror,
innocent
with men;
And the birds scream their agony through air.
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| Source: |
Byron |
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e
dredeful
senatours ?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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--to tell
The
loveliness
of loving well!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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Think not, O think not with guile to deceive the
questioning
Teacher.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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The history of this bird's life is given at length under the title of "Bob",
in `The Independent' of August 3, 1882, and will show that he deserved
to be
immortal
-- as we hope he is.
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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]
DISCUSSION ON THE
FOREGOING
PAPER
THE CHAIRMAN (MR.
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Li Po |
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"
They go to
strikewith
th'swords, are on their belts.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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Five score
thousand
Franks had such great dolour
There was not one but sorely wept for rue.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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"Before I sawe the lyghtsome sunne, 125
Thys was
appointed
mee;
Shall mortal manne repyne or grudge
Whatt Godde ordeynes to bee?
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Doubtless since two of the names are
traceable
the others are so also.
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| Question: |
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John Donne |
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unless a
copyright
notice is included.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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A
different
matter troubles and consumes me!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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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.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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I'm not in love; but
altogether
posed
I am by lovers.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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The ancient Rhodian will praise the glory
Of that
renowned
Colossus, great in story:
And whatever noble work he can raise
To a like renown, some boaster thunders,
From on high; while I, above all, I praise
Rome's seven hills, the world's seven wonders.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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my hopes were once like fire:
I loved, and I
believed
that life was love.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
|
The
fastidious
care with which each poem is built
out of the simplest of technical elements, the precise tone and color of
language employed to articulate impulse and mood, and the reproduction
of objective substances for a clear visualization of character and
scene, all tend by a sure and unfaltering composition, to present a
lyric art unique in English poetry of the last twenty-five years.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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And he dances, and he yells;
Keeping time, time, time,
In a sort of Runic rhyme,
To the paean of the bells--
Of the bells:--
Keeping time, time, time,
In a sort of Runic rhyme,
To the throbbing of the bells--
Of the bells, bells, bells--
To the sobbing of the bells:--
Keeping time, time, time,
As he knells, knells, knells,
In a happy Runic rhyme,
To the rolling of the bells--
Of the bells, bells, bells:--
To the tolling of the bells--
Of the bells, bells, bells, bells,
Bells, bells, bells--
To the moaning and the
groaning
of the bells.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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For there's nae luck about the house,
There's nae luck at a';
There's little
pleasure
in the house
When our gudeman's awa.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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"Dear, I had almost arrived when I saw, by good fortune, your uncle
Standing
right there by the vines, looking now this way, now that.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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"
So the hand of the child, automatic,
Slipped out and
pocketed
a toy that was running along
the quay.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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In these years, as through all his youth, he was loved, spurred on
in his intellectual life, and keenly criticised by his aunt, Mary Moody
Emerson, an eager and wide reader,
inspired
by religious zeal,
high-minded, but eccentric.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Ask ye,
Boeotian
shades, the reason why?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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The
Foundation
makes no representations concerning
the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United
States.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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He tears the warm weapon from the
wound; in vain;
together
and at once life-blood and sense follow it.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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Far from the hazel and oak
I rode away on the surges, where, high as the saddle bow,
Fled foam underneath me, and round me, a
wandering
and milky smoke.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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For so hope I my soule best avaunce,
To preye for hem that Loves
servaunts
be,
And wryte hir wo, and live in charitee.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Transience ne'er can rob me of aught that
has been,
Languishing just as
erewhile
on the languish-
ing field,
I lie: from languid lips there sighs " how weary
Am I of all the flowers--the lovely flowers.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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show affection, I am yours;
I love her too, for beauty that secures;
And while her seraph charms my bosom fire;
I equally the
stratagem
admire.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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We know them all, Gudrun the strong men's bride,
Aslaug and Olafson we know them all,
How giant Grettir fought and Sigurd died,
And what
enchantment
held the king in thrall
When lonely Brynhild wrestled with the powers
That war against all passion, ah!
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Wilde - Poems |
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O dulci iocunda viro, iocunda parenti,
Salve, teque bona Iuppiter auctet ope,
Ianua, quam Balbo dicunt servisse benigne
Olim, cum sedes ipse senex tenuit,
Quamque ferunt rursus voto servisse maligno, 5
Postquam
es porrecto facta marita sene.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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17:
Eyebrows
bent, like Cupid's bow.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Flowed up the hill and down King William Street,
To where Saint Mary
Woolnoth
kept the hours
With a dead sound on the final stroke of nine.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Do thou, amid the fair white walls,
If Cadiz yet be free,
At times from out her
latticed
halls
Look o'er the dark blue sea;
15.
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Byron |
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Retaking
the Capital 359 All at once I hear of an edict of remorse1 4 once again coming from our sage court.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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e on
Emperoure
his honde vp took,
And wolde haue taken out ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Sunless, accursed of men, the shadows brood
Above the home of
murdered
majesty.
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Aeschylus |
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That
evermore
his teeth they chatter,
Chatter, chatter, chatter still.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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[9]
At the end of Book I in the
Assyrian
text and at the end of Col.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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And when we reached the voice it was a man whose back was turned
to the sea, and at his ear he held a shell,
listening
to its murmur.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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When he walks in waterproof white,
The
children
run after him so!
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Lear - Nonsense |
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For it so wel was
enlumyned
1695
With colour reed, as wel [y]-fyned
As nature couthe it make faire.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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And, what's more, when sorrow's beating
Down on me, through Fate's
incessant
rage,
Your sweet glance its malice is assuaging,
Nor more or less than wind blows smoke away.
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Villon |
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All the
power of the
Patricians
has been exerted to throw out the two
great champions of the Commons.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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