The general has
mastered
tactical plans, headquarters abounds with talent.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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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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A washed-out
smallpox
cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone With all the old nocturnal smells
That cross and cross across her brain.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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If you
do not charge anything for copies of this eBook,
complying
with the
rules is very easy.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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t haue prou'd the better
fiendes?
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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He seemed to lie there a long time with
the man in the conical cap watching beside him, and then, I cannot
remember how, the evoker of spirits discovered that though he would in
part recover, he would never be well, and that the story had got abroad
in the town and
shattered
his good name.
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Yeats |
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e went,
Sire
Eufeniens
to calle, 879
And chalenged hym in ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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We've sworn,
exclaimed
the slave, what's 'yond belief,
That here we'll die of famine and of grief.
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La Fontaine |
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And we would often at the fall of dusk
Wander
together
by the silver stream, 5
When the soft grass-heads were all wet with dew,
And purple-misted in the fading light.
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Sappho |
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Your
Seruants
euer,
Haue theirs, themselues, and what is theirs in compt,
To make their Audit at your Highnesse pleasure,
Still to returne your owne
King.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Suddenly changed itself to cordial mirth
The jealous fear to which at his first sight
So high a rival in my heart gave birth;
As suddenly his sad and rueful plight
From further
scrutiny
a small cloud veil'd,
So much it ruffled him that then he fail'd.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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how can Love's eye be true,
That is so vexed with
watching
and with tears?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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And left--her slender sweetness to divine,
Alone a necklace
wreathed
with silken tresses,
(With which a godly friend arrayed her shrine)
A marble block amid the weeds and cresses.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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And then a little lamb bolts up behind
The hill and wags his tail to meet the yoe,
And then another, sheltered from the wind,
Lies all his length as dead--and lets me go
Close bye and never stirs but baking lies,
With legs
stretched
out as though he could not rise.
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John Clare |
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It is already the third year, and soon
Shall be the fourth, since with delusive art
Practising
on their minds, she hath deceived 120
The Greecians; message after message sent
Brings hope to each, by turns, and promise fair,
But she, meantime, far otherwise intends.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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It was known that the
Othonians had
arrested
the brother, Julius Fronto, on the same charge.
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Tacitus |
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But if the test of great poetry is the length and breadth
of its
influence
in the world, then Roman poetry has nothing to fear
from the vagaries of modern fashion.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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zip *****
This and all
associated
files of various formats will be found in:
http://www.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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The world, for so it thought,
Owed him no service: he was like a plant
Fair to the sun, the darling of the winds,
But hung with fruit which no one, that passed by,
Regarded, and, his spirit damped at once,
With
indignation
did he turn away 1800.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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]
The dawn is smiling on the dew that covers
The tearful roses--lo, the little lovers--
That kiss the buds and all the flutterings
In jasmine bloom, and privet, of white wings
That go and come, and fly, and peep, and hide
With muffled music,
murmured
far and wide!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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The mood of _Das
Stunden-Buch_ is this mood of being face to face with God; it elevates
these poems to prayer,
profound
prayer of doubt and despair, exalted
prayer of reconciliation and triumph.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Is this your sole reply to the
Tribunal?
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Byron |
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]
[540] [The "Man in the Iron Mask," or, more correctly, the "Man in the
Black Velvet Mask," has been identified with Count Ercole Antonio
Mattioli,
Secretary
of State at the Court of Ferdinando Carlo Gonzaga,
Duke of Mantua.
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Byron |
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When
Catiline
with vipers did conspire
To murder Rome, and bury it in fire,
A sacramental bowl of human gore.
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Marvell - Poems |
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No doubt you have been nobly
entertained?
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Longer and more malignant than Saturn,
Digitized by VjOOQIC
140 THE POEMS
And they, though all
Platonic
years should
reign,
In the same posture would be found again ;
Their earthly projects under ground they lay,
More slow and brittle than the China clay ;
Well may they strive to leave them on their
son,
For one thing never was by one king done.
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Marvell - Poems |
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XXVIII
My
letters!
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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],
Page 14
And of alle wicked
sarasynes!
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Said, Dear I love thee; and I sank and quailed
As if God's future
thundered
on my past.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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But thilke
chaffare
is wel wors, 5920
There Venus entremeteth nought;
For who-so such chaffare hath bought,
He shal not worchen so wysly,
That he ne shal lese al outerly
Bothe his money and his chaffare; 5925
But the seller of the ware
The prys and profit have shal.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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_15
NOTE:
_15 form Boscombe manuscript; for
editions
1824, 1839.
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Shelley |
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On earth's proud
basilisks
he'll justly fall,
Like Moses' rod, and prey upon them all.
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Marvell - Poems |
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LXII
Play up, play up thy silver flute;
The
crickets
all are brave;
Glad is the red autumnal earth
And the blue sea.
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Sappho |
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ei lette worche
of
preciouse
stones.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Those who
practice
poetry search for and love only the perfection that is God Himself.
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Appoloinaire |
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[Though
satisfied
with the severe satire of these lines, the poet made
a second attempt.
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Robert Forst |
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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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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Like a Bacchante in her sport
Beside the cup she sang her rhymes
And the young
revellers
of past times
Vociferously paid her court,
And I, amid the friendly crowd,
Of my light paramour was proud.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Again, the custom is still common
hereabouts
of sprinkling
the doorstep with the blood of a chicken on the death of a very young
child, thus (as belief is) drawing into the blood the evil spirits from
the too weak soul.
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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O quick and
forgetive
power!
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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e styll;
Thyne own
saruantes
?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Then turning to his friend, with
dauntless
mind:
"Oh keep the foaming coursers close behind!
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Iliad - Pope |
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FAUST:
Suss
Liebchen!
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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LII
"I rode all night -- Love served me as a guide --
To seek the home of
beauteous
Flordespine;
And there arrived, before in ocean's tide
The western sun had hid his orbit sheen.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Push off, and sitting well in order smite
The
sounding
furrows; for my purpose holds
To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths
Of all the western stars, until I die.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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Then was laughter of
liegemen
loud resounding
with winsome words.
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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[Sidenote: Is not power to be reckoned amongst
desirable
goods?
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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Nothing now will ripen the bright green apples,
Full of disappointment and of rain,
Brackish
they will taste, of tears, when the yellow dapples
Of Autumn tell the withered tale again.
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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Whan
Pandarus
saw tyme un-to his tale,
And saw wel that hir folk were alle aweye,
`Now, nece myn, tel on,' quod he; `I seye, 1195
How liketh yow the lettre that ye woot?
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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"Ah, my friend, you do not know, you do not know
What life is, you who hold it in your hands";
(Slowly twisting the lilac stalks)
"You let it flow from you, you let it flow,
And youth is cruel, and has no remorse
And smiles at
situations
which it cannot see.
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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Although in following the
promptings
of their nature
They display the same tendency,
Yet it seems to me that in some ways
A phoenix is superior to a reptile!
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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The breakfast ended, each pursued
The promptings of his various mood;
Beside the fire in silence smoked
The taciturn, impassive Jew,
Lost in a pleasant revery;
While, by his gravity provoked,
His portrait the
Sicilian
drew,
And wrote beneath it "Edrehi,
At the Red Horse in Sudbury.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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]
127 (return)
[ Caligula in like manner got a number of tall men with their hair dyed red to give credit to a
pretended
victory over the Germans.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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Calm was the day, and through the
trembling
air
Sweet-breathing Zephyrus did softly play--
A gentle spirit, that lightly did delay
Hot Titan's beams, which then did glister fair;
When I, (whom sullen care,
Through discontent of my long fruitless stay
In princes' court, and expectation vain
Of idle hopes, which still do fly away
Like empty shadows, did afflict my brain)
Walk'd forth to ease my pain
Along the shore of silver-streaming Thames;
Whose rutty bank, the which his river hems,
Was painted all with variable flowers,
And all the meads adorn'd with dainty gems
Fit to deck maidens' bowers,
And crown their paramours
Against the bridal day, which is not long:
Sweet Thames!
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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[Picture: O hush thee, gentle gentle
popinjay!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
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And
Lancelot
saw that she withheld her wish,
And bode among them yet a little space
Till he should learn it; and one morn it chanced
He found her in among the garden yews,
And said, 'Delay no longer, speak your wish,
Seeing I go today:' then out she brake:
'Going?
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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II
Maidens the poets learn from you to tell
How
solitary
and remote you are,
As night is lighted by one high bright star
They draw light from the distance where you dwell.
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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True, he was over forty when he
produced it, but it is
noticeably
different from the works of his old age.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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Ye mind me
marching
through these vales
When golden spur was ringing at my heel?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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whose gentle virtues have obtain'd
For thee a
dwelling
with thy Maker blest,
To sit enthroned above, in angels' vest
(Whose lustre gold nor purple had attain'd):
Ah!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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You Jew
journeying
in your old age through every risk, to stand once on
Syrian ground!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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Bee't their comfort
We are comming thither: Gracious England hath
Lent vs good Seyward, and ten thousand men,
An older, and a better Souldier, none
That
Christendome
giues out
Rosse.
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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ere moo,
And thankyd god In trinite,
That theye myght his
seruaunte
see.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Then, may your plants be prest with fruit,
Nor bee, or hive you have be mute;
But sweetly
sounding
like a lute.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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net
The Oxford Book Of Latin Verse
From the earliest
fragments
to the end of the Vth Century A.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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the boy himself
Was worthy to be sung, and many a time
Hath
Stimichon
to me your singing praised.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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Nor Courts he saw, no suits would ever try,
Nor dar'd an Oath, nor
hazarded
a Lie.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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I would see the painting
of the Last
Judgment
in the Sistine Chapel.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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It dances with purple and yellow
crocuses
in its hair,
And its feet shine as they flutter over drenched grasses.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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One thing alone can hope to answer your fear;
It is that which
struggles
and blinds us and burns between us.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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My draught of passion hath been deep--
I revell'd, and I now would sleep
And after drunkenness of soul
Succeeds
the glories of the bowl
An idle longing night and day
To dream my very life away.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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Thus, we do not necessarily
keep eBooks in
compliance
with any particular paper edition.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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]
[Sidenote C: After
Christmas
comes the "crabbed Lenten.
| 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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This morn 'twas May; the
blossoms
were astir
With southern wind; but now the boughs are bent
With snow instead of birds, and all things freeze.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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COME
COME, when the pale moon like a petal
Floats in the pearly dusk of spring,
Come with arms
outstretched
to take me,
Come with lips pursed up to cling.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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I wonder what they say o's now,
And if they know my lot; and how
She feels who milks my
favourite
cow,
And takes my place at churn!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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And when you make
yourself
important?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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The
ravening
she-wolf knew them,
And licked them o'er and o'er,
And gave them of her own fierce milk,
Rich with raw flesh and gore.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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The white will
decipher
her well enough.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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England had been rendered a painful
residence
to Shelley, as much by
the sort of persecution with which in those days all men of liberal
opinions were visited, and by the injustice he had lately endured in
the Court of Chancery, as by the symptoms of disease which made him
regard a visit to Italy as necessary to prolong his life.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
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)
There, there it is; there is the Russian
frontier!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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The Lord
commands
that monstrous beast,
Leviathan, to be our feast.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Of these, thy brethren and the
Goddesses!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
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_Iuuenes_
GRBVen || _quis_ T || _iucundior_ T:
_ioc.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
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THIS ETEXT IS OTHERWISE
PROVIDED
TO YOU "AS-IS".
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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>>
CONFESSION
Une fois, une seule, aimable et douce femme,
A mon bras votre bras poli
S'appuya (sur le fond tenebreux de mon ame
Ce
souvenir
n'est point pali).
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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It has not
weakened
your noble ardour;
And your great virtue inspires my favour;
Wishing a perfect warrior for my son,
I made no error in thus choosing one.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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As to trees the vine
Is crown of glory, as to vines the grape,
Bulls to the herd, to
fruitful
fields the corn,
So the one glory of thine own art thou.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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The
mere sight of swords made the drunken
soldiers
long to use them.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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But the
solution
offered by Aeschylus did
not satisfy him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Euripides - Electra |
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And God made no answer, but like a
thousand
swift wings passed
away.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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'Tis
evidently
Heaven's will
You fall in love again.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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My soul lies bare before you; ye have seen
With what
humility
and fear I took
This mighty power upon me.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Blood of the Lamb shall wash him clean
And him shall heavenly arms enfold,
Among the saints he shall be seen
Performing
on a harp of gold.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Their result is
absolutely
nil.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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We're dead: the souls let no man harry,
But pray that God
absolves
us all.
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Villon |
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Why did you let me be
deceived?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Compliance
requirements
are not uniform and it takes a
considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up
with these requirements.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Ambition sighed: she found it vain to trust
The faithless column and the
crumbling
bust:
Huge moles, whose shadow stretched from shore to shore,
Their ruins perished, and their place no more;
Convinced, she now contracts her vast design,
And all her triumphs shrink into a coin.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Often it is their
undulation
only which reveals the
water beneath them.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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