Whereat,
The
sleepless
arrow of Zeus flew straight at him,
The headlong bolt of thunder breathing flame,
And struck him downward from his eminence
Of exultation; through the very soul,
It struck him, and his strength was withered up
To ashes, thunder-blasted.
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"
He heard her speak and
accepted
her words with favor.
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LXVII
Old hate revived upon Rinaldo's side;
Nor he alone unworthy to be wooed,
The damsel deemed by
pilgrimage
so wide
Her half a league he would not have pursued.
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"
LXXIII
The sun on the tide, the peach on the bough,
The blue smoke over the hill,
And the shadows
trailing
the valley-side,
Make up the autumn day.
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Sappho |
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O light, by
darkness
known!
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And as he walked he looked from side to side
To find some
pleasant
nook for his repast,
Since appetite was come to munch at last
The princely morsel!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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The term 'summer
theatre' is
applicable
only to the rebuilt theatre (_ibid.
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reads on
nacan, but inserts
irrelevant
matter (_Beit.
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Beowulf |
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"
LXXIII
The sun on the tide, the peach on the bough,
The blue smoke over the hill,
And the shadows
trailing
the valley-side,
Make up the autumn day.
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Sappho |
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But there was one poet who meditated on the same problem as Donne, who
felt like him the power and greatness of love, and like him could
not accept a
doctrine
of love which seemed to exclude or depreciate
marriage.
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John Donne |
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XXIX
THE LENT LILY
'Tis spring; come out to ramble
The hilly brakes around,
For under thorn and bramble
About the hollow ground
The
primroses
are found.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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But O, Fortune,
executrice
of wierdes,
O influences of thise hevenes hye!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Ic
gefremman
sceal
"eorlīc ellen, oððe ende-dæg
"on þisse meodu-healle mīnne gebīdan.
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Beowulf |
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With the
lessening
smoke and thunder,
Our glasses around we aim--
What is that burning yonder?
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Ah, sad and strange as in dark summer dawns
The earliest pipe of half-awaken'd birds
To dying ears, when unto dying eyes
The casement slowly grows a
glimmering
square;
So sad, so strange, the days that are no more.
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Poe - 5 |
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What then can I do
To win this grace
ultimately
from you?
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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unseamed appears,
His gory chest unveils life's panting source;
Though death-struck, still his feeble frame he rears;
Staggering, but stemming all, his lord
unharmed
he bears.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Ils auront vu la Suisse et
traverse
la France.
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T.S. Eliot |
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" It is
doubtful
whether one can
call it a tragedy at all.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Sanche
Her ardour
deceived
her, in spite of me:
I left the fight, Sire, to recount it swiftly.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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8 An Account of My
Concerns
Last year Tong Pass was broken, I have long been cut off from wife and children.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Let it not be
supposed
that I
mean to dogmatise upon a subject, concerning which all men are equally
ignorant, or that I think the Gordian knot of the origin of evil can
be disentangled by that or any similar assertions.
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Shelley |
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_Grace Hazard Conkling_
I HAVE A
RENDEZVOUS
WITH DEATH.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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We are now trying to release all our books one month in advance
of the
official
release dates, leaving time for better editing.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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He passed over to the usurper, not as an
ignorant and credulous man, but as a
depraved
and dangerous
good-for-nothing.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Black, with pale naked
bleeding
wings, Light
Through the glass, burnished with gold and spice,
Through panes, still dismal, alas, and cold as ice,
Hurled itself, daybreak, against the angelic lamp.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Look at this
charming
eel, that returns to us after six long years of
absence.
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Aristophanes |
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(Nachdem die Locher alle gebohrt und
verstopft
sind.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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He had sunk, indeed, into such mental
torpor that, if other people had not remembered that he was an
emperor, he was
certainly
beginning to forget it himself.
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Tacitus |
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Yes, Love is ever busy with his shuttle,
Is ever weaving into life's dull warp
Bright,
gorgeous
flowers and scenes Arcadian;
Hanging our gloomy prison-house about
With tapestries, that make its walls dilate
In never-ending vistas of delight.
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Longfellow |
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Oh, I know it,
'Tis the
growling
of my Mumma!
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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the
lightnings
yawn
Deluging Heaven with fire, and the lashed deeps
Glitter and boil beneath: it rages on,
One mighty stream, whirlwind and waves upthrown,
Lightning, and hail, and darkness eddying by.
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Shelley |
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:
_inuisi_
Heinsius || _tecta_ Ricc.
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Latin - Catullus |
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Let my despair burst forth, at liberty,
Your speech has now too long
restrained
me.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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THE LITTLE VAGABOND
Dear mother, dear mother, the Church is cold;
But the
Alehouse
is healthy, and pleasant, and warm.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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At least I count it a great gain that He
Kaiser nor
chancellor
has made of me.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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"A royal
daughter!
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Hugo - Poems |
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if I
For once could have thee close to me,
With happy heart I then would die,
And my last
thoughts
would happy be,
I feel my body die away,
I shall not see another day.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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[35] Huai-nan is
associated
with laurel-branches, owing to a famous
poem by the King of Huai-nan.
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Li Po |
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]
[Sidenote I: Thou
failedst
at the third time, and therefore take thee that
tap.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Copyright laws in most countries are in
a
constant
state of change.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Honestly
He looked me in the eyes; he questioned me
Closely, and I repeated to his face
The foolish tale himself had
whispered
to me.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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e,
[G] & he granted, & [ho] hym gafe with a goud wylle,
& biso3t hym, for hir sake,
disceuer
hit neuer,
Bot to lelly layne for[2] hir lorde; ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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A public domain book is one that was never subject to
copyright
or whose legal copyright term has expired.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Accursed
be that tongue that tels mee so;
For it hath Cow'd my better part of man:
And be these Iugling Fiends no more beleeu'd,
That palter with vs in a double sence,
That keepe the word of promise to our eare,
And breake it to our hope.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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the wave is
freshest
in the ray
Of the young morning; the reapers are asleep;
The river bank is lonely: come away!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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_hu_ reduced to the
breathing
_'u_; read _i-ni-'u_.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Do you have hopes the lyre can soar
So high as to win
immortality?
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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And "Come, thou poor
mistaken
knight,"
Cried Love, unarmed, yet dauntless there,
"Come on, God pity thee!
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Sidney Lanier |
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184
The First Anniversary of the Government under his
Highness the Lord
Protector
139
A Poem upon the Death of his late Highness the
Lord Protector 166
Digitized by VjOOQIC
CONTEXTS.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Mon ame dans tes mains n'est pas un vain jouet,
Et ta
prudence
est infinie.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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So forth he went, as goes the lion forth,
The mountain-lion, conscious of his strength,
Whom winds have vex'd and rains; fire fills his eyes, 160
And whether herds or flocks, or
woodland
deer
He find, he rends them, and, adust for blood,
Abstains not even from the guarded fold,
Such sure to seem in virgin eyes, the Chief,
All naked as he was, left his retreat,
Reluctant, by necessity constrain'd.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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But for the rest,--lest we delay thee here
Longer by empty promises--behold,
Before all else, the seas, the lands, the sky:
O Memmius, their threefold nature, lo,
Their bodies three, three aspects so unlike,
Three frames so vast, a single day shall give
Unto
annihilation!
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Lucretius |
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is restor'd;
Light dies before thy
uncreating
word;
Thy hand, great Anarch!
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Alexander Pope |
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"Why may she not her bed exchange,
"In naught will it the house
derange?
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La Fontaine |
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I have sojourned in the Muse's land,
Have
wandered
with the wandering star,
Seeking for strength, and in my hand
Held all philosophies that are;
Yet nothing could I hear nor see
Stronger than That Which Needs Must Be.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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'
This Troilus, that herde his lady preye
Of
lordship
him, wex neither quik ne deed,
Ne mighte a word for shame to it seye, 80
Al-though men sholde smyten of his heed.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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While Laura smiles, all-conscious of that love
Which from this
faithful
breast no time can e'er remove.
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Petrarch |
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'Tis said at Hammon's fane a fountain is,
In
daylight
cold and hot in time of night.
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Lucretius |
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, _the
enclosure
of the bones_, i.
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Beowulf |
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In
guiltless
ignorance, in ignorant guilt,
He delivered his secrets to the riven multitude.
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Stephen Crane |
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Milk still your
fountains
and your springs: for why?
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Robert Herrick |
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Tho' whiles ye
moistify
your leather,
Till, whare ye sit on craps o' heather,
Ye tine your dam;
Freedom an' whisky gang thegither!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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with patience bear,
While life shall warm this clay;
And soothing sounds to Laura's ear
My numbers shall convey;
Numbers with forceful magic charm
All nature o'er the frost-bound earth,
Wake summer's
fragrant
buds to birth,
And the fierce serpent of its rage disarm.
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Petrarch |
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For make thine observations at a time
When winds shall bear athwart the horizon's blue
Clouds like to mountain-ranges moving on,
Or when about the sides of mighty peaks
Thou seest them one upon the other massed
And burdening downward, anchored in high repose,
With the winds sepulchred on all sides round:
Then canst thou know their mighty masses, then
Canst view their caverns, as if builded there
Of beetling crags; which, when the hurricanes
In gathered storm have filled utterly,
Then, prisoned in clouds, they rave around
With mighty roarings, and within those dens
Bluster like savage beasts, and now from here,
And now from there, send
growlings
through the clouds,
And seeking an outlet, whirl themselves about,
And roll from 'mid the clouds the seeds of fire,
And heap them multitudinously there,
And in the hollow furnaces within
Wheel flame around, until from bursted cloud
In forky flashes they have gleamed forth.
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Lucretius |
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You lead me to the
withering
balustrade,
The gardens' sesame has become so strange.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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oure
gerdou{n}s
of ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Stay then at home, and do not go
Or fly abroad to seek for woe;
Contempts
in courts and cities dwell
No critic haunts the poor man's cell,
Where thou mayst hear thine own lines read
By no one tongue there censured.
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Robert Herrick |
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And we shall play a game of chess,
Pressing
lidless eyes and waiting for a knock upon the door.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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What shall I do to tell you all my
thoughts?
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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There is
still a
something
in the distance which he has been unable to attain.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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205
Phaedra
Wretched woman, whose name do you dare to
mention?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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The Peacock
Juno and the Peacock
'Juno and the Peacock'
Magdalena van de Passe, Peter Paul Rubens, 1617 - 1634, The Rijksmuseun
In spreading out his fan, this bird,
Whose plumage drags on earth, I fear,
Appears more lovely than before,
But makes his
derriere
appear.
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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The malady of
hopeless
love
I have endured without respite.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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And having given ourselves all to amazement,
We are made like a
prophesying
song
Of life all joy, a bride in the arms of God.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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A vile
dependent
of the Claudian house
laid claim to the damsel as his slave.
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Then stand with vs:
The West yet glimmers with some
streakes
of Day.
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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'
EARTH'S ANSWER
Earth raised up her head
From the
darkness
dread and drear,
Her light fled,
Stony, dread,
And her locks covered with grey despair.
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
| Guess: |
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Hymen O Hymenaeus, Hymen hither O
Hymenaeus!
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Cleaving and
circling
here swells the
soul of the poet: yet is president of itself always.
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Whitman |
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used on or
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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And don't go choosing your words
Without some confusion of vision:
Nothing's dearer than shadowy verse
Where
precision
weds indecision.
| Guess: |
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19th Century French Poetry |
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"
Oure lord hym
graunted
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Who wishes to receive
visitations
often,
Mustn't load with too many flowers the stone
My finger raises with a dead power's boredom.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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Far o'er the bright
illumined
wave
I mark the flash,--I hear the roar,
That calls from sleep the slumbering brave,
To fight on Erie's lonely shore.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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si-iz-ba sa[na-ma-]as-[te]-e
i-te- en- ni- ik
ka-ia-na i-na [libbi] Uruk-(ki) kak-ki-a-tum [46]
id-lu-tum u-te-el-li- lu
sa-ki-in ip-sa- nu [47]
a-na idli sa i-tu-ru zi-mu-su
a-na
iluGilgamis
ki-ma i-li-im
sa-ki-is-sum [48] me-ih-rum
a-na ilatIs-ha-ra ma-ia-lum
na- [di]-i- ma
iluGilgamish id-[ ]na-an(?
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to my
excellence
the first crown was due, had
not I, like Salius, met Fortune's hostility.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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And heard this voice of sorrow
breathed
from the hollow pit.
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blake-poems |
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Long may ye roam these hermit waves that sleep,
In birch-besprinkl'd cliffs embosom'd deep;
These fairy holms untrodden, still, and green,
Whose shades protect the hidden wave serene;
Whence
fragrance
scents the water's desart gale,
The violet, and the [iii] lily of the vale; 1793.
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What though by Jove the female plague design'd,
Fierce to the feeble race of womankind,
The
wretched
matron feels thy piercing dart;
Thy sex's tyrant, with a tiger's heart?
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Iliad - Pope |
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Carminibus
confide bonis.
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Robert Herrick |
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Upon my brain
It reappears once more,
As a birth-mark on the forehead
When a hand suddenly
Is raised upon it, and
removed!
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Longfellow |
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What mortal hath a prize, that other men
May be confounded and abash'd withal,
But lets it
sometimes
pace abroad majestical,
And triumph, as in thee I should rejoice
Amid the hoarse alarm of Corinth's voice.
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Keats - Lamia |
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The great corpse lies along
the shore, a head severed from the
shoulders
and a body without a name.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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And close beside this aged thorn,
There is a fresh and lovely sight,
A
beauteous
heap, a hill of moss,
Just half a foot in height.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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- You provide, in accordance with
paragraph
1.
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