It is a pity to doubt
this green hair legend;
presently
a man of genius will not be able to
enjoy an epileptic fit in peace--as does a banker or a beggar.
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When fancy wakes, but sense in heaviest sleep
Lies steeped, and like the sobs of them that weep
The dark stream sinks and swells,
The dawn, like Pharos
gleaming
o'er the sea,
Bursts forth, and sudden wakes the minstrelsy
Of birds and chiming bells;
Thou art my dawn; my soul is as the field,
Where sweetest flowers their balmy perfumes yield
When breathed upon by thee,
Of forest, where thy voice like zephyr plays,
And morn pours out its flood of golden rays,
When thy sweet smile I see.
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37 BC
THE ECLOGUES
by Virgil
ECLOGUE I
MELIBOEUS TITYRUS
MELIBOEUS
You, Tityrus, 'neath a broad beech-canopy
Reclining, on the slender oat rehearse
Your silvan ditties: I from my sweet fields,
And home's
familiar
bounds, even now depart.
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God suffers not His saints and
servants
dear
To have continual pain or pleasure here;
But look how night succeeds the day, so He
Gives them by turns their grief and jollity.
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Robert Herrick |
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The chain of iron, the
Scythian
sword,
It yields and shivers at thy word;
Thy heart is as the rock, and knows
No ruth, nor turning.
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The
art of war was too laborious for their delicacy, and the generous warmth
of heroism and
patriotism
was incompatible with their effeminacy.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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'Twas all
deception
and moonshine.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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ANTIGONE
I charge thee, use no useless
heralding!
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Aeschylus |
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at herest my bone,
whi
helestou
my leoue sone
So long in my house, 477
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But this, at best, tells as
much one way as another; nay, the Sufi, who may be considered the
Scholar and Man of Letters in Persia, would be far more likely than
the
careless
Epicure to interpolate what favours his own view of the
Poet.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Well I know, now, this dim lake of Auber--
This misty mid region of Weir:--
Well I know, now, this dank tarn of Auber--
This ghoul-haunted
woodland
of Weir.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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The
coursers
at their master's threat
With quicker steps the sounding champaign beat.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Farewell
to thee, France!
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Byron |
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{110a} The
interpreter
of gods and men.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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The son's
destruction
waits the mother's fame:
For, till she leaves thy court, it is decreed,
Thy bowl to empty and thy flock to bleed.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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These are thy glorious works, Parent of good,
Almightie, thine this universal Frame,
Thus
wondrous
fair; thy self how wondrous then!
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Milton |
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To know of these who would not pay
attention?
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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A haunting music, sole perhaps and lone
Supportress
of the faery-roof, made moan
Throughout, as fearful the whole charm might fade.
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Keats - Lamia |
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Although
your stature is small, 8 your mature energy stretches across the nine regions.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Meredith - Poems |
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"And yet it seemed so
good when I was
thinking
about it.
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Kipling - Poems |
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e toumbe
richeliche
I-grey|?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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s dust, how soon will we stop the
training
of troops?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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[_He vanishes with_ FAUST, _the
companions
start back from each
other_.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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The law of debt, framed by creditors, and for
the
protection
of creditors, was the host horrible that has ever
been known among men.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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'Spleenwort':
a sort of fern which was once
supposed
to be a remedy against the spleen.
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Alexander Pope |
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632
625 _The Arbiter of
pleasure
and of play_.
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Byron |
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DAMON
"Rise, Lucifer, and, heralding the light,
Bring in the genial day, while I make moan
Fooled by vain passion for a
faithless
bride,
For Nysa, and with this my dying breath
Call on the gods, though little it bestead-
The gods who heard her vows and heeded not.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Digitized by VjOOQIC
46 THE POEMS
THE NYMPH
COMPLAINING
FOR THE
DEATH OF HER FAWN.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Then was my spirit vibrant with the spheres;
Its strings across the ringing vault lay hot
Where passed to God the
laughter
and the tears And all the million prayers He heeded not.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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You've not surprised my secret yet
Already the cortege moves on
But left to us is the regret
of there being no connivance none
The rose floats at the water's edge
The maskers have passed by in crowds
It
trembles
in me like a bell
This heavy secret you ask now
?
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Appoloinaire |
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The memory of the bard, a dream,
Will be absorbed by Lethe's stream;
Men will forget me, but my urn
To visit, lovely maid, return,
O'er my remains to drop a tear,
And think: here lies who loved me well,
For
consecrate
to me he fell
In the dawn of existence drear.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Go find it, faeries, go and find
That tiny pinch of priceless dust,
And bring a casket silver-lined,
And framed of gold that gems encrust;
And we will lay it safe therein,
And consecrate it to endless time;
For it inspired a bard to win
Ecstatic
heights in thought and rhyme.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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If, again,
one of Finn's
Frisians
began a quarrel, he should die by the sword.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Cease that proud temper: Venus loves it not:
The rope may break, the wheel may backward turn:
Begetting
you, no Tuscan sire begot
Penelope the stern.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Latin - Catullus |
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The victory of the foreign taste was decisive; and indeed we can
hardly blame the Romans for turning away with contempt from the
rude lays which had delighted their fathers, and giving their
whole admiration to the immortal
productions
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mydeward
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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I wot the
stranger
worketh woe within--
For lo!
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Aeschylus |
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XX
Beloved, my Beloved, when I think
That thou wast in the world a year ago,
What time I sat alone here in the snow
And saw no footprint, heard the silence sink
No moment at thy voice, but, link by link,
Went counting all my chains as if that so
They never could fall off at any blow
Struck by thy
possible
hand,--why, thus I drink
Of life's great cup of wonder!
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Lewis Carroll |
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`But Troilus, I pray thee tel me now, 330
If that thou trowe, er this, that any wight
Hath loved
paramours
as wel as thou?
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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What hast thou to do
With looking from the lattice-lights at me,
A poor, tired,
wandering
singer, singing through
The dark, and leaning up a cypress tree?
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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For wher-so men had pleyd or waked,
Me thoghte the felawship as naked
Withouten hir, that saw I ones,
As a coroune
withoute
stones.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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ELDRED On a ridge of rocks
A
lonesome
Chapel stands, deserted now:
The bell is left, which no one dares remove;
And, when the stormy wind blows o'er the peak,
It rings, as if a human hand were there
To pull the cord.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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And now the other maidens in the hall
Assembling, kindled on the hearth again
Th'
unwearied
blaze; then, godlike from his couch 150
Arose Telemachus, and, fresh-attired,
Athwart his shoulders his bright faulchion slung,
Bound his fair sandals to his feet, and took
His sturdy spear pointed with glitt'ring brass;
Advancing to the portal, there he stood,
And Euryclea thus, his nurse, bespake.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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HWith your aid
indiffeis
laughter was submarine and profound
Like the old man of the sea's
Hidden under coral islands
Where worried bodies of drowned men drift down in the green silence,
Dropping from fingers of surf.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Meredith - Poems |
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229, et
ex eo, ut creditur, Ioannes
Saresberiensis
Metal.
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Latin - Catullus |
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I brake thy
bracelet
'gainst my will, II.
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Robert Herrick |
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if we dream great deeds, strong men, Revolt Hearts hot,
thoughts
mighty.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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CCIV
In
Rencesvals
is Charles entered,
Begins to weep for those he finds there dead;
Says to the Franks: "My lords, restrain your steps,
Since I myself alone should go ahead,
For my nephew, whom I would find again.
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Chanson de Roland |
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_
[91] The historical
foundation
of the fable of Phaeton is this.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Project Gutenberg-tm
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Keats - Lamia |
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Note:
Bellerie
was situated on his family estate La Possonniere.
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Ronsard |
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" we cry, and lo, apace
Pleasure
appears!
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Hugo - Poems |
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Leave
tenantless
thy crystal home, and fly,
With all thy train, athwart the moony sky--
*Apart--like fire-flies in Sicilian night,
And wing to other worlds another light!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Baldazzar, it
oppresses
me like a spell!
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Poe - 5 |
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Hence "Notre Dame" long stood
unique: it was
translated
in all languages, and plays and operas were
founded on it.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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That is the land of lost content,
I see it shining plain,
The happy
highways
where I went
And cannot come again.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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for while I sang,
And with poor skill let pass into the breeze
The dull shell's echo, from a bowery strand
Just opposite, an island of the sea,
There came
enchantment
with the shifting wind,
That did both drown and keep alive my ears.
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Keats |
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Hankerings for foreign things will
sometimes
haunt you,
The good so far one often finds;
Your real German man can't bear the French, I grant you,
And yet will gladly drink their wines.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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And he had learned to love,--I know not why,
For this in such as him seems strange of mood,--
The helpless looks of blooming infancy,
Even in its
earliest
nurture; what subdued,
To change like this, a mind so far imbued
With scorn of man, it little boots to know;
But thus it was; and though in solitude
Small power the nipped affections have to grow,
In him this glowed when all beside had ceased to glow.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Vicinus prope dives est,
negligensque
Priapus.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Sweet song--
ARCHAIC TORSO OF APOLLO
We cannot fathom his
mysterious
head,
Through the veiled eyes no flickering ray is sent:
But from his torso gleaming light is shed
As from a candelabrum; inward bent
His glance there glows and lingers.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Marvellous
things
Had vanity (quick Spirit that appears
Almost as deeply seated and as strong
In a Child's heart as fear itself) conceived 105
For my enjoyment.
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William Wordsworth |
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The Foundation's EIN or federal tax
identification
number is
64-6221541.
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Stephen Crane |
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You
answered
questions as smoothly as a rolling ball, 12 you explained, giving the gist of the texts.
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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If you
do not charge anything for copies of this eBook,
complying
with the
rules is very easy.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Far better 'twere for either to be mute,
Than for to murder
friendship
by dispute.
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Robert Herrick |
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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Poems, by Rainer Maria Rilke
This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
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Rilke - Poems |
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Has not the god of the green world, 5
In his large
tolerant
wisdom,
Filled with the ardours of earth
Her twenty summers?
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Sappho |
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Thousands
at his bidding speed
And post o're Land and Ocean without rest:
They also serve who only stand and waite.
| Guess: |
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Milton |
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[4] A white robin and a white quail have
occasionally
been seen.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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And so was still: what time we saw
A foot hang down the
fireplace!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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Then he
would with the help of an English-Rowley and Rowley-English Dictionary
(which he had laboriously compiled for himself out of the vocabulary
to Speght's _Chaucer_, Bailey's _Universal Etymological Dictionary_,
and Kersey's _Dictionarium Anglo-Britannicum_) translate the work
into what he probably thought was a very fair
imitation
of fifteenth
century language.
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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'17'
The word "wit" has a number of different meanings in this poem, and the
student should be careful to
discriminate
between them.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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_Josepha_
(_meeting them_).
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
|
Every other would have taken like offence,
And I'd have
suffered
insults the more intense.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Among the writers who have striven with varying success during the last
thirty or forty years to awaken the
merriment
of the "rising generation" of
the time being, Mr.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Verginius
(L.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Max Ernst
In one corner agile incest
Turns round the
virginity
of a little dress
In one corner sky released
leaves balls of white on the spines of storm.
| Guess: |
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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_zag-sal_,
liturgical
note, 103 f.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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what
conqueror
hath committed this cruelty upon you?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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er be a
blisfulnesse
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NEW POEMS
EARLY APOLLO
As when at times there breaks through
branches
bare
A morning vibrant with the breath of spring,
About this poet-head a splendour rare
Transforms it almost to a mortal thing.
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Rilke - Poems |
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or engaged in
business?
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Whitman |
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Newby
Chief
Executive
and Director
gbnewby@pglaf.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Jonson not
infrequently
refers to contemporary actors.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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What private feuds the
troubled
village stain!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Through the balmy air of night
How they ring out their
delight!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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This is the alchemical fusion of male and female
principles
which produces gold, a process sacred to Hermes Trismegistos.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Volume I, by John Donne
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John Donne |
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Herman
received
it and at once left
the table.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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XIX
"But thy father loves the clashing
Of
broadsword
and of shield:
He loves to drink the steam that reeks
From the fresh battlefield:
He smiles a smile more dreadful
Than his own dreadful frown,
When he sees the thick black cloud of smoke
Go up from the conquered town.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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