Ay, my dear lady, in the mouths of two
Good
witnesses
each word is true;
I've a friend, a fine fellow, who, when you desire,
Will render on oath what you require.
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Oh, I know it,
'Tis the
growling
of my Mumma!
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Be she rough or smooth of skin;
When I touch I then begin
For to let
affection
in.
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And now, young prince, indulge my fond request;
Be Sparta
honoured
with his royal guest,
Till, from his eastern goal, the joyous sun
His twelfth diurnal race begins to run.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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What
blessedness
within this prison pent!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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What rumour without is there
breeding?
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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On Lenski's
matrimonial
fate
They long ago had held debate.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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the Horde has learnt to prize me;
"'Tis the Horde with gold
supplies
me.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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"About the twenty-second year of my life," Petrarch writes to one of his
friends, "I became
acquainted
with James Colonna.
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Namque tuo aduentu uigilat
custodia
semper,
nocte latent fures, quos idem saepe reuertens,
Hespere, mutato comprendis nomine eosdem.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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[He kneels down]
My
gracious
lord-
KING RICHARD.
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Gyges cried, how truly, king, you're blessed;
The skin how fair--how
charming
all the rest!
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La Fontaine |
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Lycius then press'd her hand, with devout touch,
As pale it lay upon the rosy couch:
'Twas icy, and the cold ran through his veins;
Then sudden it grew hot, and all the pains
Of an
unnatural
heat shot to his heart.
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Keats - Lamia |
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1080
Aboute hir nekke of gentil entaile
Was shet the riche chevesaile,
>>
Par
derriere
dusques as os,
Qu'il abaissent des bons les los,
Et desloent les aloes,
Et si loent les desloes.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Take it into my house; death itself could
not
separate
me from her, if cooked with beet leaves.
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Aristophanes |
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Weavers, weaving solemn and still,
What do you weave in the
moonlight
chill?
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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"Go fetch them, wife; they will be
frightened
sore,
If with the dead alone they waken thus.
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Hugo - Poems |
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And now what cause
Hath spread divinities of gods abroad
Through mighty nations, and filled the cities full
Of the high altars, and led to practices
Of solemn rites in season--rites which still
Flourish
in midst of great affairs of state
And midst great centres of man's civic life,
The rites whence still a poor mortality
Is grafted that quaking awe which rears aloft
Still the new temples of gods from land to land
And drives mankind to visit them in throngs
On holy days--'tis not so hard to give
Reason thereof in speech.
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Lucretius |
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limitation
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Sara Teasdale |
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"
From the wood a sound is gliding,
Vapours dense the plain are hiding,
Cries the Dame in anxious measure:
"Stay, I'll wash thy head, my
treasure!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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SUMMER NIGHT, RIVERSIDE
IN the wild soft summer darkness
How many and many a night we two together
Sat in the park and watched the Hudson
Wearing her lights like golden spangles
Glinting
on black satin.
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Li Po |
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Thyn herte, I trowe, be failed al;
Thou shalt repente in special,
If
Ielousye
the sothe knewe;
Thou shalt forthenke, and sore rewe.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Mine eye
Has scared the gull that sailed
To blacker depths with
shrillest
scream,
Still fainter, till like voices in a dream.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Evermore
the foemen pour through the crash of window and door--
_Toll slowly.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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"
So those two
pilgrims
dwelt there, fortified
In that strong city men had thought so frail.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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[C] 65
XIV There sate I down among the fair fresh flowers,
And saw the birds come
tripping
from their bowers,
Where they had rested them all night; and they,
Who were so joyful at the light of day,
Began to honour May with all their powers.
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William Wordsworth |
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Is all that
desperate
Valour acts in vain?
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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LVIII
When I came last to Ludlow
Amidst the
moonlight
pale,
Two friends kept step beside me,
Two honest lads and hale.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Doe you not hope your
Children
shall be Kings,
When those that gaue the Thane of Cawdor to me,
Promis'd no lesse to them
Banq.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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A king, whose
prudence
has finer objects,
Takes care to save the blood of his subjects.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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'
No things of air these antics were,
That
frolicked
with such glee:
To men whose lives were held in gyves,
And whose feet might not go free,
Ah!
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Wilde - Poems |
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Imagists |
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/ "One fatal
remembrance--one sorrow that throws/ "Its bleak shade alike o'er our
joys and our woes-- / "O'er which Life nothing brighter nor darker can
fling,/ "For which joy hath no balm--and
affliction
no sting.
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Byron |
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Rapture
proclaim
to the grove, to the echoing cliffs perorate it?
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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"
His wife's pure kiss he waved aside,
And
prattling
boys, as one disgraced,
They tell us, and with manly pride
Stern on the ground his visage placed.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Then hail, sweet Sirmio; thou that wast,
And art, mine own
unrivalled
Fair!
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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They said, "This is a
dreadful
thing!
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Should I, after tea and cakes and ices,
Have the
strength
to force the moment to its crisis?
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T.S. Eliot |
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Oh,
Triptolemus
and Ceres, do ye thus forsake your own blood?
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Aristophanes |
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XVIII
=Sonnet=
The palid thunderstricken sigh for gain,
Down an ideal stream they ever float,
And sailing on
Pactolus
in a boat,
Drown soul and sense, while wistfully they strain
Weak eyes upon the glistering sands that robe
The understream.
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Tennyson |
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m platz lo gais temps de pascor
The joyful
springtime
pleases me
Ai!
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Troubador Verse |
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THE Mount's old man, by means like these, could say;
He'd men devoted to support his sway;
Upon the globe no empire more was feared,
Or king or
potentate
like him revered.
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La Fontaine |
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Car ma
communion
premiere est bien passee!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Plagiarisms from modern authors may in some cases have been
introduced by
Chatterton
but in others they are the commonplaces of
poetry.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Meredith - Poems |
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Her lover sinks--she sheds no ill-timed tear;
Her chief is slain--she fills his fatal post;
Her fellows flee--she checks their base career;
The foe retires--she heads the
sallying
host:
Who can appease like her a lover's ghost?
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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When the treacherous Rutulian urged us
headlong with sword and fire,
unwillingly
we broke thy bonds, and we
search for thee over ocean.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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I see the lights of the village
Gleam through the rain and the mist,
And a feeling of sadness comes o'er me,
That my soul cannot resist;
A feeling of sadness and longing,
That is not akin to pain,
And
resembles
sorrow only
As the mist resembles the rain.
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Poe - 5 |
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Fur diesmal sieh dich immer satt;
Ich weiss dir so ein Schatzchen auszuspuren,
Und selig, wer das gute Schicksal hat,
Als
Brautigam
sie heim zu fuhren!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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And in the silence
I hear a woman's voice make answer then:
"Well, they are green,
although
no ship can sail them.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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--vous rentrez aux cafes eclatants,
Vous
demandez
des bocks ou de la limonade.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Slim Lacon keeps a goat for thee,
For thee the jocund shepherds wait;
O Singer of
Persephone!
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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created by him in an
unnatural
manner.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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The grand saloon in which the
masquerade
was to take place, was a
circular room, very lofty, and receiving the light of the sun only
through a single window at top.
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Poe - 5 |
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For perfect strains may float
'Neath master-hands, from
instruments
defaced,--
And great souls, at one stroke, may do and doat.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Then a damp gust
Bringing
rain
Ganga was sunken, and the limp leaves
Waited for rain, while the black clouds
Gathered far distant, over Himavant.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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For you, on Latmos, fondling your sleeping boy,
Would always wish some languid ploy
As
restraint
for your flying chariot:
But I whom Love devours all night long,
Wish from evening onwards for the dawn,
To find the daylight that your night forgot.
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Ronsard |
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All
creation
slept and smiled.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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CLVII
He bids
forthwith
the Moorish ensigns be
Borne to the camp, which fosse and rampart span.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Sawin was received some time in last June, and others
have
followed
which will in due season be submitted to the publick.
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James Russell Lowell |
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He did not even seem to know
I watched him gliding through the
vitreous
deep.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Perchance she died in age--surviving all,
Charms, kindred, children--with the silver grey
On her long tresses, which might yet recall,
It may be, still a something of the day
When they were braided, and her proud array
And lovely form were envied, praised, and eyed
By Rome--But whither would
Conjecture
stray?
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Now rounded, now
stretched
out, now narrowing,
Now tapering, now triangular, now forming
Ranks like flights of Cranes in frost-escaping line.
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Ronsard |
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--But once
Three watchful shadows, deeper than the dark,
Laid hands on me and
searched
me for the marks
Of traitor or of spy, only to find
Over my heart the badge of loyalty.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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And wider still those billows of war
Thundered along the horizon's bar;
And louder yet into Winchester rolled
The roar of that red sea uncontrolled,
Making the blood of the
listener
cold,
As he thought of the stake in that fiery fray,
And Sheridan twenty miles away.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Rilke - Poems |
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O the of increase, growth, recuperation,
The joy of
soothing
and pacifying, the joy of concord and harmony.
| Guess: |
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Sonnets Pour Helene Book I: VI
Among love's
pounding
seas, for me there's no support,
And I can see no light, and yet have no desires
(O desire too bold!
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Ronsard |
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Nicht
Kalt staunenden Besuch erlaubst du nur,
Vergonnest
mir, in ihre tiefe Brust
Wie in den Busen eines Freunds zu schauen.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Probably
there was not one among all the Yankees who went to
Canada this time, who was not more splendidly dressed than I was.
| Guess: |
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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The wild musician,
The one that in doubt expires
As to whether from his breast or mine
Has spurted the sob more dire
Torn apart may it complete
Find rest on some path
beneath!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Thus, my dear muses, again you've beguiled the
monotony
for me.
| Guess: |
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Li Po |
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neque_ O
5, 8
_pulcre_
GORVen
6 _linea_ B: num _iuncea_?
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Latin - Catullus |
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e in forte take; 219
with muchel honour
schaltou
haue
alle ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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So much was Baudelaire
absorbed in Poe that a writer of his times asserted that the translator
would meet the same fate as the
American
poet.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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And send us prying into the abyss,
To gather what we shall be when the frame
Shall be resolved to something less than this
Its wretched essence; and to dream of fame,
And wipe the dust from off the idle name
We never more shall hear,--but never more,
Oh, happier
thought!
| Guess: |
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Yea, the lines hast thou laid unto me
in
pleasant
places, And the beauty of this thy Venice
hast thou shown unto me Until is its loveliness become unto me
a thing of tears.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
The tsar Ivan sought in monastic toil
Tranquility; his palace, filled erewhile
With haughty minions, grew to all appearance
A monastery; the very rakehells seemed
Obedient
monks, the terrible tsar appeared
A pious abbot.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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The grim
Troy spoils gleam round her throne, and by each hand
Queens of the East, my father's prisoners, stand,
A cloud of Orient webs and
tangling
gold.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Euripides - Electra |
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"
"Thy aid avails me not (the chief replied);
My own
experience
shall their doom decide:
A witness-judge precludes a long appeal:
Suffice it then thy monarch to conceal.
| Guess: |
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Odyssey - Pope |
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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.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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He that cuts the ear has left
The blade sticking at midway, for to turn
And ask the Duke "if 'tis not done
Thus far with nice precision," and the Duke
Leans down to see, and cries, "'tis
marvellous
nice,
Shaved as thou wert ear-barber by profession!
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Sidney Lanier |
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XERXES
Cry out for me an
answering
moan--
CHORUS
Alas, alas again!
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Aeschylus |
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"
So those two
pilgrims
dwelt there, fortified
In that strong city men had thought so frail.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Over
buttered
scones and crumpets
Weeping, weeping multitudes
Droop in a hundred A.
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T.S. Eliot |
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By loved Telemachus'
blooming
years?
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Odyssey - Pope |
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It
proposes to do away with poverty and the
suffering
that it entails.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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She came
close to the bed, and the
terrified
man recognized the Countess.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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e
bysshopes
& ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Nothing can
Quench the mind, if the mind will be itself
And centre of
surrounding
things--'tis made
To sway.
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Byron |
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My ruler is true lord of the Restoration,
sedulously
striving indeed to manage affairs.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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+ Maintain attribution The Google "watermark" you see on each file is
essential
for informing people about this project and helping them find additional materials through Google Book Search.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Our hearths are gone out and our hearts are broken,
And but the ghosts of homes to us remain,
And ghastly eyes and hollow sighs give token
From friend to friend of an
unspoken
pain.
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Sidney Lanier |
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