Come girl, and embrace;
Nay, cry not, poor wretch, nor plead,
But haste, for life strikes a swift pace,
And I burn with envious greed:
Know you not, fool, we are the mock
Of gods, time, clothes, and
priests?
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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With mien to match the morning
And gay delightful guise
And
friendly
brows and laughter
He looked me in the eyes.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Some other thirsty there may be
To whom this would have pointed me
Had it
remained
to speak.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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But upon the signal of an eagle with a serpent in his talons,
which
appeared
on the left hand of the Trojans, Polydamas endeavours to
withdraw them again.
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Iliad - Pope |
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For me,
You stand poised
In the blue and buoyant air,
Cinctured
by bright winds,
Treading the sunlight.
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Imagists |
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Sweet and joyous lady, know
Without your loving, there,
I die, my heart it breaks so
The pulse is
scarcely
there.
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Troubador Verse |
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'tis the edifice
I told thee of, where lovely Scylla lies;
And where I have
enshrined
piously
All lovers, whom fell storms have doom'd to die
Throughout my bondage.
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Keats |
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" At his feet he laid his
reverend
head.
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Few words they darken speech,
and so do too many; as well too much light hurteth the eyes, as too
little; and a long bill of chancery
confounds
the understanding as much
as the shortest note; therefore, let not your letters be penned like
English statutes, and this is obtained.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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The hero obstinately refuses all repast, and gives
himself up to
lamentations
for his friend.
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Iliad - Pope |
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When first I gaed to woo my Jenny,
Ye then was
trotting
wi' your minnie:
Tho' ye was trickie, slee, an' funnie,
Ye ne'er was donsie;
But hamely, tawie, quiet, an' cannie,
An' unco sonsie.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Up the sky
The hesitating moon slow
trembles
on,
Faint as a new-washed soul but lately up
From out a buried body.
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Sidney Lanier |
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That roused the coward, glory to
embrace!
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Petrarch |
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Wherefore
did he come to me?
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive
Foundation
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Till a great sea-bird, called the Albatross, came through the snow-fog, and
was
received
with great joy and hospitality.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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ing folk of good[e] maneres her medes ne
forsaken
hem neuer mo.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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no idle intruder has stood
"With o'erweening
complacence
our state to compare,
"But one, whose first wish is the wish to be good,
"Is come as a brother thy sorrows to share.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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XII
When I do count the clock that tells the time,
And see the brave day sunk in hideous night;
When I behold the violet past prime,
And sable curls, all silvered o'er with white;
When lofty trees I see barren of leaves,
Which erst from heat did canopy the herd,
And summer's green all girded up in sheaves,
Borne on the bier with white and bristly beard,
Then of thy beauty do I question make,
That thou among the wastes of time must go,
Since sweets and beauties do
themselves
forsake
And die as fast as they see others grow;
And nothing 'gainst Time's scythe can make defence
Save breed, to brave him when he takes thee hence.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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I climbed the folds of cold
mountains
ahead, 28 often finding watering holes for my horse.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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" I mentioned in
substance what I wished to be expressed, and Coleridge immediately
threw off the stanza, thus;
A little child, dear brother Jem,
I objected to the rhyme, 'dear brother Jem,' as being ludicrous; but
we all enjoyed the joke of hitching in our friend James Tobin's name,
who was
familiarly
called Jem.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Erlaub, dass ich ein
Irrlicht
bitte!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Besides, I advise my friend not to try and get an upper hand
with our emperor or to force his tuition on a man of ripe years,[254]
who wears the
insignia
of a triumph and is the father of two grown
sons.
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Tacitus |
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sēo þe
bāncofan
beorgan cūðe, _which could protect his
body_, 1446; pret.
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Beowulf |
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She told her
husband of the debt, but he refused
outright
to pay it.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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+ Keep it legal Whatever your use, remember that you are
responsible
for ensuring that what you are doing is legal.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Foredoomed
by God--by man accurst,[iu]
And that last act, though not thy worst,
The very Fiend's arch mock;[261]
He in his fall preserved his pride,
And, if a mortal, had as proudly died!
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Byron |
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[Footnote 1: The fourth Duke of Queensberry, who supported the
proposal that, during George III's illness, the Prince of Wales
should assume the
Government
with full prerogative.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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1164 & ay
rachches
in a res radly hem fol3es,
Huntere3 wyth hy3e horne hasted hem after,
[G] Wyth such a crakkande kry, as klyffes haden brusten;
What wylde so at-waped wy3es ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Hroðgar appeals to Bēowulf for
vengeance, and
describes
the haunts of Grendel and his mother.
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Beowulf |
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e
penaunce
apert, of ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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_ Is it true besides--
Aright true--that mine orient Star will give
Her name of "Bright and Morning-Star" to HIM,--
And take the fairness of his virtue back
To cover loss and
sadness?
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Elizabeth Browning |
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I'll teach my boy the
sweetest
things;
I'll teach him how the owlet sings.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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_ A sitting of
justices
in court.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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On Heavenly ground they stood, and from the shore
They viewed the vast immeasurable Abyss
Outrageous as a sea, dark, wasteful, wild,
Up from the bottom turned by furious winds
And surging waves, as
mountains
to assault
Heaven's highth, and with the centre mix the pole.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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_ The
Macmillan
Company, New York; and
Macmillan & Co.
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Imagists |
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"There I with little
innocents
abide,
Who by death's fangs were bitten, ere exempt
From human taint.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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The original is far more musical, as you can gather from the text at the start of this
selection
of his verse.
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Troubador Verse |
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= Jonson refers
here, I suppose, to the famous Courts or Parliaments of Love,
which were
supposed
to have existed during the Middle Ages (cf.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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AT THE WAR OFFICE, LONDON
(_Affixing the Lists of Killed and Wounded_: _December_, 1899)
I
LAST year I called this world of gain-givings
The darkest thinkable, and
questioned
sadly
If my own land could heave its pulse less gladly,
So charged it seemed with circumstance whence springs
The tragedy of things.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Some old English customs are
suggestive
at
least.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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His sister may have helped him, and he may
possibly
have gone mad
afterwards; but these painful issues are kept determinedly in the shade.
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Euripides - Electra |
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Those of us whose work appears in this volume have
therefore decided to publish our collection under a new title, and we have
been joined by two or three poets who did not
contribute
to the first
volume, our wider scope making this possible.
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Imagists |
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But that Empire, so grand, so
glorious
a prize, 575
Is not the dearest gift of all, to my eyes.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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An
intimate
relation exists between the
history of the English nation and the works of English authors.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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So saying, his tatter'd wallet o'er his back
He threw suspended by its leathern twist,
And tow'rd the threshold turning, sat again,
They laughing
ceaseless
still, the palace-door
Re-enter'd, and him, courteous, thus bespake.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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'"
The child spake nobly: strange to hear,
His
infantine
soft accents clear
Charged with high meanings, did appear;
And fair to see, his form and face
Winged out with whiteness and pure grace
From the green darkness of the place.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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His lines on the Bridge of
the Arve, and his "Hymn to
Intellectual
Beauty", were written at this
time.
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Shelley |
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But the summit and crown of all crimes is that which in Lemnos befell;
A woe and a
mourning
it is, a shame and a spitting to tell;
And he that in after time doth speak of his deadliest thought,
Doth say, _It is like to the deed that of old time in Lemnos was
wrought_;
And loathed of men were the doers, and perished, they and their seed,
For the gods brought hate upon them; none loveth the impious deed.
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Aeschylus |
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Holy Satyr _151_
Lais _153_
Heliodora _156_
Toward the Piraeus _161_
_Slay with your eyes, Greek_
_You would have broken my wings_
_I loved you_
_What had you done_
_If I had been a boy_
_It was not chastity that made me cold_
CONRAD AIKEN
Seven Twilights _171_
_The ragged pilgrim on the road to nowhere_
_Now by the wall of the ancient town_
_When the tree bares, the music of it changes_
_"This is the hour," she says, "of transmutation"_
_Now the great wheel of darkness and low clouds_
_Heaven, you say, will be a field in April_
_In the long silence of the sea_
Tetelestai
_184_
EDNA ST.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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The sojourners in the Stymphalian fens
So dreadfully offend us, or the Steeds
Of
Thracian
Diomedes breathing fire
From out their nostrils off along the zones
Bistonian and Ismarian?
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Lucretius |
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Yet lovely in captivity she lies,
Filled with soft colours, where the
wavering
weed
Moves gently and discloses to our eyes
Blurred shining veins of rock and lucent shells
Under the light-shot water; and here repose
Small quiet fish and dimly glowing bells
Of sleeping sea-anemones that close
Their tender fronds and will not now awake
Till on these rocks the waves returning break.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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XX
Exactly as the rain-filled cloud is seen
Lifting earthly vapours through the air,
Forming a bow, and then drinking there
By plunging deep in Tethys' hoary sheen,
Next, climbing again where it has been,
With bellying shadow darkening everywhere,
Till finally it bursts in lightning glare,
And rain, or snow, or hail shrouds the scene:
This city, that was once a shepherd's field,
Rising by degrees, such power did wield,
She made herself the queen of sea and land,
Till
helpless
to sustain that huge excess,
Her power dispersed, so we might understand
That all, one day, must come to nothingness.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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And now have reached her chamber door;
And now doth
Geraldine
press down
The rushes of the chamber floor.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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"
The Reviewer,[6] to whom I owe the Particulars of Omar's Life,
concludes his Review by comparing him with Lucretius, both as to
natural Temper and Genius, and as acted upon by the
Circumstances
in
which he lived.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Therefore
his grounds be rich own I, while he's but a pauper.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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THE NIZAM OF HYDERABAD
(Presented at the Ramzan Durbar)
Deign, Prince, my tribute to receive,
This lyric offering to your name,
Who round your
jewelled
scepter bind
The lilies of a poet's fame;
Beneath whose sway concordant dwell
The peoples whom your laws embrace,
In brotherhood of diverse creeds,
And harmony of diverse race:
The votaries of the Prophet's faith,
Of whom you are the crown and chief
And they, who bear on Vedic brows
Their mystic symbols of belief;
And they, who worshipping the sun,
Fled o'er the old Iranian sea;
And they, who bow to Him who trod
The midnight waves of Galilee.
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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_
So,
circling
years went by, till in her face
Slow melancholy wrought a mingled grace,
Of early joy with suffering's hard alloy--
Refined and rare, no doom could e'er destroy.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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"
{7a} There is no
irrelevance
here.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Beowulf |
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' they cried, 'The world is wide,
But
fettered
limbs go lame!
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Wilde - Poems |
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The cons'quence is, thet I shall take, wen I'm allowed to leave here,
One piece o' propaty along, an' thet's the shakin' fever;
It's
reggilar
employment, though, an' thet aint thought to harm one,
Nor 'taint so tiresome ez it wuz with t'other leg an' arm on;
An' it's a consolation, tu, although it doosn't pay,
To hev it said you're some gret shakes in any kin' o' way.
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James Russell Lowell |
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His
comrades
leave him forgotten on the
unknown dust of the plain, moaning his last and gasping his life away;
Opis wings her flight to the skyey heaven.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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Lucius Sextius was the first
Plebeian Consul, Caius
Licinius
the third.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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"
Now Johnny all night long had heard
The owls in tuneful concert strive;
No doubt too he the moon had seen;
For in the
moonlight
he had been
From eight o'clock till five.
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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--Ere our descent behooves
We make delay, that
somewhat
first the sense,
To the dire breath accustom'd, afterward
Regard it not.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Back alive, I face these
children
and almost forget my hunger and thirst.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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I HAVE A
RENDEZVOUS
WITH DEATH.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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3) for
numerous
corrections
in text and glossary.
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| Question: |
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Beowulf |
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at he hade,
ful clene;
For wonder of his hwe men hade,
148 Set in his
semblaunt
sene;
He ferde as freke were fade,
& ouer-al enker grene.
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Uriel places a
planet before the sun to obscure the dreadful scene on Calvary, and
then conducts to earth the souls of all future
generations
of mankind.
| Guess: |
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Now fair Aurora lifts her golden ray,
And all the ruddy orient flames with day:
Alcinous, and the chief, with dawning light,
Rose instant from the
slumbers
of the night;
Then to the council-seat they bend their way,
And fill the shining thrones along the bay.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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Long springs, mild winters glad that spot
By Jove's good grace, and Aulon, dear
To fruitful Bacchus, envies not
Falernian
cheer.
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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I have heard a saying "He that has an upright heart
Shall walk
scathless
through the lands of Man and Mo.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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The Season of Loves
By the road of ways
In the three-part shadow of
troubled
sleep
I come to you the double the multiple
as like you as the era of deltas.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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, are
arranged
at the end of the list.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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After the death of his
father, he
succeeds
to the throne of the Scyldings, 53.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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[9] What assistance, if
any, the printer and publisher had from others of Donne's friends and
executors it is impossible now to say, though one can hardly imagine
that without some assistance they could have got access to so many
poems or been allowed to publish the elegies on his death, some of
which refer to the
publication
of the poems.
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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Eugene Oneguine
Petri de vanite, il avait encore plus de cette espece d'orgueil, qui
fait avouer avec la meme indifference les bonnes comme les mauvaises
actions, suite d'un
sentiment
de superiorite, peut-etre imaginaire.
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So my Lady holds her own
With condescending grace,
And fills her lofty place
With an
untroubled
face
As a queen may fill a throne.
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s loyalty to friends, but very poorly of his judgment in
political
matters.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT
LIABILITY, BREACH OF
WARRANTY
OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE
PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH F3.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Why an Ear, a
whirlpool
fierce to draw creations in?
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blake-poems |
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-- The hardy Scylding,
battle-thane best, {16i} on his
balefire
lay.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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4 In
consequence
half the folk of Qin 56 were destroyed and made into non-human things.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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The king's undrest; and now upon
The gnat's
watchword
the elves are gone.
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Robert Herrick |
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No curule
magistrates
could be
chosen; no military muster could be held.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Astronomy teaches us also
that since this period the
obliquity
of the earth's position has been
considerably diminished.
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Shelley |
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One thing there is alone, that doth deform thee;
In the midst of thee, O field, so fair and
verdant!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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'Tis for _you_ that she
whimpers!
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Lewis Carroll |
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The freedom of the Lyceum
platform
pleased Emerson.
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Emerson - Poems |
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As flavors cheer retarded guests
With
banquetings
to be,
So spices stimulate the time
Till my small library.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Ye taught my lips a single speech,
And a
thousand
silences.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Certes, thee did I snatch from midmost
whirlpool
of ruin
Deadly, and held it cheap loss of a brother to suffer 150
Rather than fail thy need (O false!
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The impact of a million dollars
Is a crash of flunkys,
And yawning emblems of Persia
Cheeked against oak, France and a sabre,
The outcry of old beauty
Whored by pimping merchants
To
submission
before wine and chatter.
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Omnia qui magni dispexit lumina mundi,
Qui
stellarum
ortus comperit atque obitus,
Flammeus ut rapidi solis nitor obscuretur,
Vt cedant certis sidera temporibus,
Vt Triviam furtim sub Latmia saxa relegans 5
Dulcis amor gyro devocet aerio,
Idem me ille Conon caelesti in lumine vidit
E Beroniceo vertice caesariem
Fulgentem clare, quam cunctis illa deorum
Levia protendens brachia pollicitast, 10
Qua rex tempestate novo auctus hymenaeo
Vastatum finis iverat Assyrios,
Dulcia nocturnae portans vestigia rixae,
Quam de virgineis gesserat exuviis.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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