Throughout the night, in a different way, I'm kept busy by Cupid--
If
erudition
is halved, rapture is doubled that way.
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Thee, sweet maid, hae I
offended?
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Gebt Ihr ein Stuck, so gebt es gleich in
Stucken!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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32 _paratis_ Statius
33 _tu
insulsa_
h: _tu insula_ ?
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Latin - Catullus |
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" "Be it so," we both
replied, and on those terms we
mutually
pledged our words.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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it
clattered in the cliff as if one upon a
grindstone
were grinding a
scythe.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Cupid, escaping attention, slipped off to enslave, however, her hero:
Artlessly conquering by--force of a
beautiful
girl,
Afterward decked out his couple in mute masquerade: lionskin
Over her shoulders, the club leaned (by much toil) at her side;
Wiry stiff hair of the hero larded with blossoms, a distaff
Laid in his fist, to conform strength to the dalliance of love.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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And Faith shall come forth the finer,
From trampled
thickets
of fire,
And the orient open diviner
Before her, the heaven rise higher.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Unceasing
thunder and eternal foam?
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Its
business
office is located at 809
North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Thou canst not
understand
my seafaring thoughts, nor would I have
thee understand.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Arrived, to form along the appointed strand
For each a bed, she scoops the hilly sand;
Then, from her azure cave the finny spoils
Of four vast Phocae takes, to veil her wiles;
Beneath the finny spoils
extended
prone,
Hard toil!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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From her hand, as it falls,
vibrates
the light guitar.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Soft as the fleeces of
descending
snows,(117)
The copious accents fall, with easy art;
Melting they fall, and sink into the heart!
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Iliad - Pope |
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]
O Thou, the first, the
greatest
friend
Of all the human race!
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Robert Forst |
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And if we cannot sing, we'll say
Something
to the purpose, jay!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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"
XXXIX
The livid
lightnings
flashed in the clouds;
The leaden thunders crashed.
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Stephen Crane |
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Can we to any extent date the
_Elegies_?
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John Donne |
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Ah, dear, he took me from a goodly house,
With store of rich apparel,
sumptuous
fare,
And page, and maid, and squire, and seneschal,
And pastime both of hawk and hound, and all
That appertains to noble maintenance.
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Tennyson |
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--No end, no end,
Wilt thou lay to
lamentations?
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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"]
To the horror of all who were present that day,
He uprose in full evening dress,
And with senseless grimaces
endeavoured
to say
What his tongue could no longer express.
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Lewis Carroll |
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Many and many a day he had been failing, And I knew the end must come at last—
The poor
fellow—I
had loved him dearly, It was hard for me to see him go.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Let
me see of what value to me have been these few
pleasures?
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Aristophanes |
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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THOUGH FOR
FOURTEEN
YEARS HE HAS STRUGGLED UNSUCCESSFULLY, HE STILL
HOPES TO CONQUER HIS PASSION.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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So that, forever rudderless, it went upon the seas
Going
ridiculous
voyages,
Making quaint progress,
Turning as with serious purpose
Before stupid winds.
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Stephen Crane |
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How many a year has passed[27],
Though we are still so young, since we have met,
Which I have worn in
widowhood
of heart.
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Byron |
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e
fissches
weie in ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Now likewise
sights of appalling presage pursue me; my comrades, lost to me, have
soared winging into the sky, and flit birds about the rivers--ah me,
dread
punishment
of my people!
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Thenceforth
her waters waxed dull and slow,
And all that drinke thereof do faint and feeble grow.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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And was not further on his way withal,
And had but changed a snarl into a growl:
How Arnold de Cervolles had ta'en the track
That war had burned along the unhappy land,
Shouting, `since France is then too poor to pay
The
soldiers
that have bloody devoir done,
And since needs must, pardie!
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Sidney Lanier |
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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The
cherubim
are winged oxen, but in no way monstrous.
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Appoloinaire |
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n Tsung created the
category
of the Three
Paragons: Li Po, of poetry; P'ei Min, of swordsmanship; and Chang Hsu,
of cursive calligraphy.
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Li Po |
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Mine by the right of the white
election!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Mad with my folly, I
cried furiously after him: "The life
beautiful!
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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This meant that the
opponent
took the stake and the ombre had to replace
it for the next hand.
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Alexander Pope |
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Porter
And on her
daughter
200
They wash their feet in soda water
Et O ces voix d'enfants, chantant dans la coupole!
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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LXIII
A
beautiful
child is mine,
Formed like a golden flower,
Cleis the loved one.
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Sappho |
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--We have spoken
sufficiently
of oratory, let us now make a
diversion to poetry.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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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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If I lay here dead
XXIV Let the world's sharpness like a
clasping
knife
XXV A heavy heart, Beloved, have I borne
XXVI I lived with visions for my company
XXVII My own Beloved, who hast lifted me
XXVIII My letters!
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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"
"Not so (replied Ulysses); leave him there,
For us
sufficient
is another care;
Within the structure of this palace wall
To keep enclosed his masters till they fall.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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since to this the
name of husband is
dwindled
down.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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When Januar' wind was blawing cauld,
As to the north I took my way,
The
mirksome
night did me enfauld,
I knew na where to lodge till day.
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Robert Forst |
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Aronta e quel ch'al ventre li s'atterga,
che ne' monti di Luni, dove ronca
lo
Carrarese
che di sotto alberga,
ebbe tra ' bianchi marmi la spelonca
per sua dimora; onde a guardar le stelle
e 'l mar non li era la veduta tronca.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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THE STAR TO ITS LIGHT
"Go," said the star to its light:
"Follow your
fathomless
flight!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Against the
Teucrians
the forces of sky and sea are spent.
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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And hunters cruel--pleading with sad care
Pity's petition for the fox and hare,
Yet feels self-satisfaction in his woes
For war's crushed myriads of his
slaughtered
foes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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A Moment's Halt--a
momentary
taste
Of BEING from the Well amid the Waste--
And Lo!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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It would not, perhaps, be far from the truth, if it were even
said that the significance of
_Paradise
Lost_ cannot be properly
understood unless the significance of the _Iliad_ be understood.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Huge witness to the folly of mankind;
Four distant
mountains
when the moonlight shined
Seem covered with its shade.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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Light was my sleep; my days in
transport
roll'd:
With thoughtless joy I stretch'd along the shore
My father's nets, or watched, when from the fold
High o'er the cliffs I led my fleecy store,
A dizzy depth below!
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| Question: |
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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you got it from.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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I shall but be their
prisoner
in the Tower.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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There Cerberus with all his jaws shall gnash,
Megj^ra thee with all her
serpents
lash ;
Thou, riveted unto Ixion's wheel,
Shalt break and the perpetual vulture feel !
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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I now perceived
That we are praised, only as men in us
Do
recognise
some image of themselves,
An abject counterpart of what they are,
Or the empty thing that they would wish to be.
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
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Cooling airs from Caucasus far, soothing cradle of man,
The river
Euphrates
flowing, the past lit up again.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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_10
I offer a calm
habitation
to thee,--
Say, victim of grief, wilt thou slumber with me?
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Shelley |
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get away you bullock-man, you've 'eard the bugle blowed,
There's a
regiment
a-comin' down the Grand Trunk Road;
With its best foot first
And the road a-sliding past,
An' every bloomin' campin'-ground exactly like the last;
While the Big Drum says,
With 'is "rowdy-dowdy-dow!
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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Bravely he grapples with the life-problem as it
presents
itself
to him, uncombed, shaggy, careless of the 'nicer proprieties,' inexpert
of 'elegant diction,' yet with voice audible enough to whoso hath ears,
up there on the gravelly side-hills, or down on the splashy,
indiarubber-like salt-marshes of native Jaalam.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Sara Teasdale |
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wenn ich wahlen soll, so will ich
Rheinwein
haben.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Across this little vale, thy continent,
To where, beyond the mouldering mill,
Yon old
deserted
Georgian hill
Bares to the sun his piteous aged crest
And seamy breast,
By restless-hearted children left to lie
Untended there beneath the heedless sky,
As barbarous folk expose their old to die.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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Among the dead we mourned a
thousand
Greeks.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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MOONLIGHT
NIGHT
South-German night!
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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Necessity precedes thee still
With hard fierce eyes and heavy tramp:
Her hand the nails and wedges fill,
The molten lead and
stubborn
clamp.
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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King Louis XVII--_Dublin
University
Magazine_
The Feast of Freedom--_"Father Prout" (F.
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Hugo - Poems |
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FITZDOTTREL
_discovered in bed; Lady_ EITHERSIDE, TAILBUSH, AMBLER, TRAINS, _and_
PITFALL,
_standing
by him.
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Ada Turrell and the
_Saturday
Review_:--"My Son.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Though they sleep or wake to torment
and wish to
displace
our old cells--
thin rare gold--
that their larve grow fat--
is our task the less sweet?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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But take heed that in thy work
Naught
unbeautiful
may lurk.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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their
brooding
was deep,?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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It is, however, extremely
doubtful
whether Faliro's
conspiracy was, in any sense, the outcome of a personal insult.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
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" We refer those interested in the question
to the Greek Melic poets, and to the many
excellent
French studies on the
subject by such distinguished and well-equipped authors as Remy de
Gourmont, Gustave Kahn, Georges Duhamel, Charles Vildrac, Henri Ghéon,
Robert de Souza, André Spire, etc.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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And that inverted Bowl they call the Sky,
Whereunder
crawling
coop'd we live and die,
Lift not your hands to It for help--for It
As impotently moves as you or I.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Pugatchef looked sharply at me, winking from time to time his left eye
with an
indefinable
expression of slyness and mockery.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Horrid idols all twist,
By the crumbling flame kissed
In their infamous dread,
Shrivelled
members of brass!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Finden from
drawings
by J.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
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Those parents, who in
nunneries
have got
Their daughters (whether willingly or not),
Most clearly in a glaring error prove,
To fancy God will round their actions move;
'Tis an abuse of what we hold divine;
The Devil with them surely must combine.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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Can the spice-rose
drip such acrid fragrance
hardened
in a leaf?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
|
When you have
ascertained
that the Amblongusses are quite soft, take them
out, and place them in a wide pan, taking care to shake them well
previously.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
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"
Mine is a secret more pleasant, but even more difficult keeping:
Out of abundance of heart eagerly
speaketh
my mouth.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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He is a bold
man among my logs, but," and he shook his head like a schoolmaster, "I
know that before long there will be
complaints
of him in the court.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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Toi qui, meme aux lepreux, aux parias maudits,
Enseignes
par l'amour le gout du Paradis,
O Satan, prends pitie de ma longue misere!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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After an age of longing had we missed
Our meeting and the dream, what were the good
Ofweavingclothofwords?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
Then the lord of the land[1]
comes from his chamber and welcomes Sir Gawayne, telling him that he is
to
consider
the place as his own.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Now I have tasted her sweet soul to the core
All other depths are shallow: essences,
Once spiritual, are like muddy lees,
Meant but to
fertilize
my earthly root, 910
And make my branches lift a golden fruit
Into the bloom of heaven: other light,
Though it be quick and sharp enough to blight
The Olympian eagle's vision, is dark,
Dark as the parentage of chaos.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
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How the old
mountains
drip with sunset,
And the brake of dun!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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For how do I hold thee but by thy
granting?
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Here Sappho was the acknowledged queen of song--revered,
studied, imitated, served, adored by a little court of
attendants
and
disciples, loved and hymned by Alcaeus, and acclaimed by her fellow
craftsmen throughout Greece as the wonder of her age.
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A little surprised, he asked his
lordship
with a smile, if he had not mistaken his way.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Themistocles
used to say that he liked a man without letters
better than letters without a man.
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Petrarch |
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You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary,
compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any
word
processing
or hypertext form.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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And Johnny burrs and laughs aloud,
Whether in cunning or in joy,
I cannot tell; but while he laughs,
Betty a drunken
pleasure
quaffs,
To hear again her idiot boy.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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It was so: in the midst of my new love,
That promist such a plenty in my soul,
At last some
sleeping
terror leapt awake,
And made the young growth shiver and wry about
Inwardly tormented.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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This way my Lord, the Castles gently rendred:
The Tyrants people, on both sides do fight,
The Noble Thanes do brauely in the Warre,
The day almost it selfe
professes
yours,
And little is to do
Malc.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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The Estampida, a medieval dance and musical form called the estampie in French, and istampitta (also istanpitta or
stampita)
in Italian was a popular instrumental style of the 13th and 14th centuries.
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Troubador Verse |
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