I see no one;
'twas then by chance it gave forth that
plaintive
tone.
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Aristophanes |
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The next in
succession
I'll give you's the King!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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[Footnote 6:
(And at this just
conclusion
will surely arrive,
That the goodness of earth is more dead than alive.
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I leap beyond the winds,
I cry and shout,
For my throat is keen as a sword
Sharpened
on a hone of ivory.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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The fac-simile given in the present volume is from one of
the earlier
transition
periods.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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I break your bonds and masterships,
And I unchain the slave:
Free be his heart and hand henceforth
As wind and
wandering
wave.
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Emerson - Poems |
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"Taking such an one for the guide,
'who with
unerring
skill
Would through the desert lead me,'
is a most sweet play of humour like to the lambent flame of his whose
satire was as a summer breath, and who smiled all the time he wrote,
although he wrote chiefly in a prison.
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William Wordsworth |
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[Note on text:
Italicized
stanzas are indented 5 spaces.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Breath of
Christian
charity,
Blow, and sweep it from the earth!
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Longfellow |
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There seems a floating whisper on the hill,
But that is fancy, for the starlight dews
All silently their tears of love instil,
Weeping
themselves
away, till they infuse
Deep into Nature's breast the spirit of her hues.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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The second reference is to the marvels described in
Sir Walter Raleigh's _The
discoverie
of the large, rich and bewtiful
Empire of Guiana, with a relation of the great and golden City of
Manoa which the Spaniards call El Dorado, performed in the year 1595_
(pub.
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John Donne |
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Nay, I'll give my word for her too: our kindred, though
they be long ere they are wooed, they are
constant
being won;
they are burs, I can tell you; they'll stick where they are
thrown.
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Shakespeare |
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The Clown Chastised
Eyes, lakes of my simple passion to be reborn
Other than as the actor who
gestures
with his hand
As with a pen, and evokes the foul soot of the lamps,
Here's a window in the walls of cloth I've torn.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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255
Alexius of hem took leue,
And
worschiplich
?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Carman has undertaken in
attempting
to give us
in English verse those lost poems of Sappho of which fragments have
survived.
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Sappho |
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Many small donations
($1 to $5,000) are particularly
important
to maintaining tax exempt
status with the IRS.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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I can but name thee, and
methinks
I call, I.
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Robert Herrick |
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Our scouts have found the adventure very easy;
That as Ulysses and stout Diomede
With sleight and manhood stole to Rhesus' tents,
And brought from thence the
Thracian
fatal steeds,
So we, well cover'd with the night's black mantle,
At unawares may beat down Edward's guard
And seize himself- I say not 'slaughter him,'
For I intend but only to surprise him.
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Shakespeare |
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In the allegory the Earl of
Leicester
is probably
meant, though by one tradition Sir Philip Sidney is identified with Prince
Arthur.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Whene'er the sloping
Sunbeams
through his window daze
His eyes off from the learned phrase,
Straightway he draws close the curtain.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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my pack is now unslung--
To classicism I've homage paid,
Though late, have a
beginning
made.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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But who'd have thought a burly lout like Morris
Would join the
brabble?
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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XXXV
A silly man, in simple weedes forworne,
And soild with dust of the long dried way;
His sandales were with toilsome travell torne,
And face all tand with scorching sunny ray, 305
As he had
traveild
many a sommers day,
Through boyling sands of Arabie and Ynde;
And in his hand a Jacobs staffe,?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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So, when man's arms had circled all man's race,
The liberal compass of his warm embrace
Stretched bigger yet in the dark bounds of space;
With hands a-grope he felt smooth Nature's grace,
Drew her to breast and kissed her sweetheart face:
Yea man found neighbors in great hills and trees
And streams and clouds and suns and birds and bees,
And
throbbed
with neighbor-loves in loving these.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Sometimes the sacred spot
Hears human sounds profane, when
As from Ophir or from Memphre
Stretches
the caravan.
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Hugo - Poems |
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The wasps flourish greenly
Dawn goes by round her neck
A
necklace
of windows
You are all the solar joys
All the sun of this earth
On the roads of your beauty.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Youth and the Pilgrim
Gray pilgrim, you have
journeyed
far,
I pray you tell to me
Is there a land where Love is not,
By shore of any sea?
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Sara Teasdale |
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The answer, I think, is
indicated
above.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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We are assured that he
perished
through being torn to pieces
by dogs, which set upon him in a lonely spot.
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Aristophanes |
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)
I swear I will never
henceforth
have to do with the faith that tells
the best,
I will have to do only with that faith that leaves the best untold.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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'
Gradually
his voice became a mere murmur.
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Yeats |
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--I leave thee: as thou mayst, be comforted
By
prophecy
of what I mean in life.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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ipse caua solans aegrum
testudine
amorem
te, dulcis coniunx, te solo in litore secum,
te ueniente die, te decedente canebat.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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I leap beyond the winds,
I cry and shout,
For my throat is keen as a sword
Sharpened
on a hone of ivory.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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How many
grandest
rulers in his day
Chrem plucked down, there are now none can say.
| Guess: |
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Hugo - Poems |
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Streams with
warm flood flow there;
sometimes
mead, sometimes wine.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Yeats |
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In what deep oblivion
Must this
appalling
secret be entombed!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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To love according to an established order, to entertain one's best
self in a preconceived manner, to worship the gods becomingly,
to
intrigue
the devils artfully--and then to forget all as though
memory were dead.
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| Question: |
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
|
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Byron |
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You too be wise, my Plancus: life's worst cloud
Will melt in air, by mellow wine allay'd,
Dwell you in camps, with
glittering
banners proud,
Or 'neath your Tibur's canopy of shade.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Caparyson
a score of stedes; flie, flie.
| Guess: |
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Oh, for the tents which in old time
whitened
the Sacred Hill!
| Guess: |
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Without doubt he has entered on quite a new
path, and has pursued it to the utmost of his power, choosing now one
road, now another, and always
treading
with surer step when he has
followed the manner of our old poets "quorum in hae re imitari
negligentiam exoptat potius quam istorum diligentiam.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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1; and the
parallel
(noun)
formula, mīne gefrǣge, ll.
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Beowulf |
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Oh, she walked so high above me, she
appeared
to my abasement,
In her lovely silken murmur, like an angel clad in wings!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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"There's not a modest maiden elf
But dreads the final Trumpet,
Lest half of her should rise herself,
And half some local
strumpet!
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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After this there are five years more
Devoted wholly to medicine,
With lectures on
chirurgical
lore,
And dissections of the bodies of swine,
As likest the human form divine.
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Longfellow |
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Unauthenticated
Download Date | 10/1/17 7:36 AM Qiang Village 329 Going steadily on in my travels, 16 none there is who can live long years.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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"Sleep on, I lie at heaven's high oriels Over the stars that mumur as they go
Lighting
your lattice window (ar b low;
And every star some of the glory spells Whereof I know.
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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It
extended
to
many places; but most of all it afflicted Milan.
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Petrarch |
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Elle endort les plus cruels maux
Et
contient
toutes les extases;
Pour dire les plus longues phrases,
Elle n'a pas besoin de mots.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Loved and adored, O goddess as thou art,
Forgive the
weakness
of a human heart.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Elizabeth Browning |
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" In the Fenwick notes,
we constantly find him saying, "the fact
occurred
strictly as recorded,"
"the fact was as mentioned in the poem"; and the fact very often
involved the accessories of place.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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O sobbing Dryad, from thy hollow hill
Come not with such despondent
answering!
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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]
[Sidenote: Man himself is surveyed in divers ways--by the senses,
by the imagination, by reason, and by the
intelligence
(of the
Deity).
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Hark I hear the hammers of Los
PAGE 16 {The text on this page appears to have been written on top of a page of
sketches
of roughly drafted limbs.
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Blake - Zoas |
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he little thought how ill should speed
That fond attempt, for, once provok'd, the Gods
Are not with ease
conciliated
again.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Meredith - Poems |
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Le Monde vibrera comme une immense lyre
Dans le
fremissement
d'un immense baiser:
--Le Monde a soif d'amour: tu viendras l'apaiser.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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A singular, vigorous
spirit is Baudelaire's, whose poetry with its "icy ecstasy" is profound
and harmonious, whose criticism is penetrated by a
catholic
quality, who
anticipated modern critics in his abhorrence of schools and
environments, preferring to isolate the man and uniquely study him.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Their pride of precedence, let it be
wounded!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Wild stars swept overhead; her lofty spars
Reared to a ragged heaven sown with stars
As leaping out from narrow English ease
She faced the roll of long
Atlantic
seas.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Her pretty parasol was seen
Contracting in a field
Where men made hay, then struggling hard
With an
opposing
cloud,
Where parties, phantom as herself,
To Nowhere seemed to go
In purposeless circumference,
As 't were a tropic show.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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One night in his cell at the foot of yon dell
The priest heard a
frequent
cry:
"Go, father, in haste to the cot on the waste,
And shrive a man waiting to die.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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And will this divine grace, this supreme
perfection
depart those for whom life exists only to discover and glorify them?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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"
Glad of a quarrel,
straight
I clap the door,
Sir, let me see your works and you no more.
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Alexander Pope |
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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We need
No
purifying
here.
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Euripides - Electra |
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Although Provencal poetry was a little on its decline since the days of
the Dukes of Aquitaine and the Counts of Toulouse, it was still held in
honour; and, when Petrarch arrived, the Floral games had been
established at
Toulouse
during six years.
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Petrarch |
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Nay, the gods themselves are fettered
By one law which links
together
10
Truth and nobleness and beauty,
Man and stars and sea.
| Guess: |
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Sappho |
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With
what
pleasure
did I use to break up the seal!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
The
other day I could hardly find a well-known spring, and even suspected
that it had dried up, for it was completely
concealed
by freshly
fallen leaves; and when I swept them aside and revealed it, it was
like striking the earth, with Aaron's rod, for a new spring.
| Guess: |
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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The second winter of the poet's abode in
Edinburgh
had now arrived: it
opened, as might have been expected, with less rapturous welcomes and
with more of frosty civility than the first.
| Guess: |
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Robert Forst |
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Note: 'True love' in verse two, is fins amor, noble love, the
troubadour
ideal.
| Guess: |
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Troubador Verse |
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I have heard your quick breaths
And seen your arms writhe toward me;
At those times
--God help us--
I was
impelled
to be a grand knight,
And swagger and snap my fingers,
And explain my mind finely.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
|
119: 'O manners that
this age should bring forth such
creatures!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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His boon was granted
that
wretched
man; and his ruler saw
first time what was fashioned in far-off days.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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7 _cesio_ GORVen
8, 9
_sinistra
ut ante dextra st.
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Latin - Catullus |
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dreadful
price of being to resign
All that is dear _in_ being!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Even
here it is only gentle and shy at first like the
stirring
of a breath of
wind over a quiet sea; and gentle beings make this first gesture,
children and young women at play, singing, dancing or at prayer.
| Guess: |
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Rilke - Poems |
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Then down he sat,
And as he milk'd his ewes and bleating goats
All in their turns, her
yeanling
gave to each;
Coagulating, then, with brisk dispatch,
The half of his new milk, he thrust the curd
Into his wicker sieves, but stored the rest
In pans and bowls--his customary drink.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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It seasoned comfort to our hearts' desire,
We felt thy kind
protection
like a friend
And edged our chairs up closer to the fire,
Enjoying comfort that was never penned.
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John Clare |
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distribute it in the United States without permission and
without paying
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Be, as thy presence is,
gracious
and kind,
Or to thyself at least kind-hearted prove:
Make thee another self for love of me,
That beauty still may live in thine or thee.
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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"He remarked to me then," said that mildest of men,
"'If your Snark be a Snark, that is right:
Fetch it home by all means--you may serve it with greens,
And it's handy for
striking
a light.
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Lewis Carroll |
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Lewis Carroll |
|
Je suis de la
canaille!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
|
Miltiades
obtained a great victory over Darius
at Marathon.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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The sonnets of Les Antiquites provide a fascinating comment on the Classical Roman world as seen from the
viewpoint
of the French Renaissance.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Nevertheless, this work is expensive, so in order to keep providing this resource, we have taken steps to prevent abuse by commercial parties, including placing technical restrictions on
automated
querying.
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Meredith - Poems |
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SOLNESS: You will see
something
different this evening.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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While at Plymouth Donne wrote a prose
letter, to whom is not clear,
preserved
in the Burley Commonplace
Book.
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John Donne |
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He's ours, though he kissed her but now,
He's ours, though she kissed in reply:
He's ours, though himself disavow,
And God's
universe
favour the lie;
Ours to claim, ours to clasp, ours below,
Ours above, .
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Elizabeth Browning |
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XXVIII
My
letters!
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Singers, singing in lawless freedom,
Jokers,
pleasant
in word and deed,
Run free of false gold, alloy, come,
Men of wit - somewhat deaf indeed -
Hurry, be quick now, he's dying poor man.
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Villon |
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How wisdom and Folly meet, mix, and unite,
How Virtue and Vice blend their black and their white,
How Genius, th' illustrious father of fiction,
Confounds
rule and law, reconciles contradiction,
I sing: If these mortals, the critics, should bustle,
I care not, not I--let the Critics go whistle!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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I tell you this--When, started from the Goal,
Over the flaming
shoulders
of the Foal
Of Heav'n Parwin and Mushtari they flung,
In my predestined Plot of Dust and Soul.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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