Protect your honour from
shameful
reproach, 1335
And ensure your father's vow is revoked.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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"
Later he saw that each weed
Was a
singular
knife.
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Stephen Crane |
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It makes no
difference
abroad,
The seasons fit the same,
The mornings blossom into noons,
And split their pods of flame.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Ofttimes
by that reading
Our eyes were drawn together, and the hue
Fled from our alter'd cheek.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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I watched the careless spring too many times
Light her green torches in a hungry wind;
Too many times I watched them flare, and then
Fall to
forsaken
embers in the autumn.
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forthwith there rose up round about
A lustre over that already there,
Of equal clearness, like the
brightening
up
Of the horizon.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Sun, storm, rain, dew, to him their tribute bring,
Which he with such
benignant
royalty
Accepts, as overpayeth what is lent;
All nature seems his vassal proud to be,
And cunning only for his ornament.
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James Russell Lowell |
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They grip their withered edge of stalk
In brief excitement for the wind;
They hold a
breathless
final talk,
And when their filmy cables part
One almost hears a little cry.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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A few grey hairs his
reverend
temples crowned,
'Twas very want that sold them for two pound.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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I do not mind the stars; the only thing
Alive, the moon, perched full upon her wing, Is drifting
languidly
over the hill.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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The
division
of the upper clerks of staunch firms, or of the "steady
old fellows," it was not possible to mistake.
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Poe - 5 |
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And when with fondling tongue they start to lick
Their puppies, or do toss them round with paws,
Feigning with gentle bites to gape and snap,
They fawn with yelps of voice far other then
Than when, alone within the house, they bay,
Or
whimpering
slink with cringing sides from blows.
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Lucretius |
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Falconier
ogled me often enough.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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If I should fail, what
poverty!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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To leave talking of the matter so gravely, I shall sing with the old
Scots ballad--
"O that I had ne'er been married,
I would never had nae care;
Now I've gotten wife and bairns,
They cry
crowdie!
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Robert Burns |
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Who made the heart, 'tis He alone
Decidedly
can try us,
He knows each chord--its various tone,
Each spring--its various bias:
Then at the balance let's be mute,
We never can adjust it;
What's done we partly may compute,
But know not what's resisted.
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Robert Forst |
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and would on earth there stood,
Some more of such a frame,
That life might be all poetry,
And
weariness
a name.
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Poe - 5 |
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The maple street
In the houseless wood,
Voices
followed
after,
Every shrub and grape leaf
Rang with fairy laughter.
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Emerson - Poems |
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And while they wept,
they looked out into the distance and saw the deep
mountain
of Tsang-wu.
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Li Po |
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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The inanimate object and the
living creature in nature are not seen in the sharp contours of their
isolation; they are viewed and interpreted in the atmosphere that
surrounds them, in which they are enwrapped and so densely veiled that
the
outlines
are only dimly visible, be that atmosphere the mystic grey
of northern twilight or the dark velvety blue of southern summer nights.
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Rilke - Poems |
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do I not see my love
fluttering
out there among the breakers?
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Whitman |
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Royalty payments
must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you
prepare (or are legally
required
to prepare) your periodic tax
returns.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Amorous Prince, the
greatest
lover,
I want no evil that's of your doing,
But, by God, all noble hearts must offer
To succour a poor man, without crushing.
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Villon |
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Well then, Demos, say now, who has treated you best, you
and your
stomach?
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Aristophanes |
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A quick small shadow spotted the white world;
Then
instantly
'twas huge, and huger grew
By instants till it did o'ergloom all space.
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Sidney Lanier |
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It had to endure
the wear and tear of quotation, the
commonizing
touch of the school and the
market-place.
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Sappho |
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See them,
sounding
the flood that floats them on,
Moving their sides like human forms.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Drugged rather, with a
medicine
that God
Prepared for him and gave into my hands.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Surely some
fortunate
hour 5
Phaon will come, and his beauty
Be spent like water to plenish
Need of that beauty!
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Sappho |
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And thinks there can be no favor nor fame,
But one may
straightway
pluck the same.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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I would not have thee believe in what I say nor trust in what I
do--for my words are naught but thy own
thoughts
in sound and my
deeds thy own hopes in action.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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These
pleasures
high
now dye, 25
but still beginning
new & greater glory wining
gett fresh supply.
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John Donne |
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--the voice, if I mistake not greatly,
Proceeds
from yonder lattice--which you may see
Very plainly through the window--it belongs,
Does it not?
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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For there shall come a
mightier
blast,
There shall be a darker day;
And the stars, from heaven down-cast
Like red leaves be swept away!
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Longfellow |
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Ma ficca li occhi a valle, che s'approccia
la riviera del sangue in la qual bolle
qual che per
violenza
in altrui noccia>>.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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In 1553 he went to Rome as one of the
secretaries
of Cardinal Jean du Bellay, his first cousin.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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"
XIII
Then bitterly some: "Was it wise now
To raise the tomb-door
For such
knowledge?
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Passions, like elements, though born to fight,
Yet, mixed and softened, in his work unite:
These, 'tis enough to temper and employ;
But what composes man, can man
destroy?
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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But th'^ey whom bom to virtue and to wealth,
Nor guilt to
flattery
binds, nor want to stealth ;
Whose generous conscience, and whose courage
high.
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Marvell - Poems |
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The
Lamentacion
of souls.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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His ruddy face
shone with genial humor; his eyes
sparkled
and a constant smile hovered
around his lips.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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They have sent us five
thousand
troops, and driven along ten thousand horses.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Quant aux quelques morceaux en prose qui
terminent
le volume, je les
eusse retenus pour les publier dans une nouvelle edition des oeuvres en
prose.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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"]
Of all the numerous ills that hurt our peace,
That press the soul, or wring the mind with anguish,
Beyond
comparison
the worst are those
That to our folly or our guilt we owe.
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Robert Burns |
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Gruesome
march
to Heorot this monster of harm had made!
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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The occasion was one likely to excite the strongest
feelings
of
national pride.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Or I guess it is a uniform hieroglyphic,
And it means,
Sprouting
alike in broad zones and narrow zones,
Growing among black folks as among white,
Kanuck, Tuckahoe, Congressman, Cuff, I give them the same, I
receive them the same.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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]
XIX
"Then amongst strangers I was left--
But I
perceive
thou dost not heed--"
"Alas!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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The Hare
River
Landscape
with Hare
'River Landscape with Hare'
Abraham Genoels, Adam Frans van der Meulen, Lodewijk XIV, 1650 - 1690, The Rijksmuseun
Don't be fearful and lascivious
Like the hare and the amorous.
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Appoloinaire |
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Resolved am I
In the woods, rather, with wild beasts to couch,
And bear my doom, and
character
my love
Upon the tender tree-trunks: they will grow,
And you, my love, grow with them.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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I faithful shall relate
(Replied
Amphimedon)
our hapless fate.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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I reach'd my home--my home no more--
For all had flown who made it so--
I pass'd from out its mossy door,
And, tho' my tread was soft and low,
A voice came from the
threshold
stone
Of one whom I had earlier known--
O!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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The fourth (to the
Earl of Burlington) was first published in 1731, its title then being "Of
Taste;" the third (to Lord Bathurst) followed in 1732, the year of the
publication of the first two
Epistles
on the "Essay on Man.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Note: Jupiter,
disguised
as a shower of gold, raped Danae, and as a white bull carried off Europa.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Ronsard |
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In that fair city, round whose verdant meads
The
branching
river of Mondego[232] spreads,
Long worn with warlike toils, and bent with years,
The king reposed, when Sancho's fate he hears.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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(A tetrasyllabic word has two accents when it stands at the beginning of
a line, and a
pentasyllabic
word always.
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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How all around, it chokes and swells
When we
approach
the things they cherished.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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During the
ceremony
degrees were also
conferred.
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Petrarch |
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Before you accuse my judgement further
Consult your heart:
Rodrigue
is its master.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Erdman does not note this
placement
in his edition.
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Blake - Zoas |
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You must require such a user to return or
destroy all copies of the works possessed in a
physical
medium
and discontinue all use of and all access to other copies of
Project Gutenberg-tm works.
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Keats - Lamia |
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Nearly all the
individual
works in the
collection are in the public domain in the United States.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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"
XL
With these last words a sigh that damsel drew,
A sigh which issued from her heart; then said:
"Go we"; and, with the following sun, those two
At the deep stream arrived and bridge of dread:
-- Seen of the guard, that on his bugle blew
A warning blast, when
strangers
thither sped --
The pagan arms him, girds his goodly brand,
And takes upon the bridge his wonted stand;
XLI
And as the maid appears in martial scale,
The moody monarch threatens her to slay,
Unless her goodly courser and her mail,
As an oblation to the tomb she pay.
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Poi, come nel percuoter d'i ciocchi arsi
surgono innumerabili faville,
onde li stolti
sogliono
agurarsi,
resurger parver quindi piu di mille
luci e salir, qual assai e qual poco,
si come 'l sol che l'accende sortille;
e quietata ciascuna in suo loco,
la testa e 'l collo d'un'aguglia vidi
rappresentare a quel distinto foco.
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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(AN
HISTORICAL
TRAGEDY IN FIVE ACTS.
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| Source: |
Byron |
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WHAT THE THUNDER SAID
After the torchlight red on sweaty faces
After the frosty silence in the gardens
After the agony in stony places
The shouting and the crying
Prison and palace and reverberation
Of thunder of spring over distant mountains
He who was living is now dead
We who were living are now dying
With a little patience 330
Here is no water but only rock
Rock and no water and the sandy road
The road winding above among the mountains
Which are
mountains
of rock without water
If there were water we should stop and drink
Amongst the rock one cannot stop or think
Sweat is dry and feet are in the sand
If there were only water amongst the rock
Dead mountain mouth of carious teeth that cannot spit
Here one can neither stand nor lie nor sit 340
There is not even silence in the mountains
But dry sterile thunder without rain
There is not even solitude in the mountains
But red sullen faces sneer and snarl
From doors of mudcracked houses
If there were water
And no rock
If there were rock
And also water
And water 350
A spring
A pool among the rock
If there were the sound of water only
Not the cicada
And dry grass singing
But sound of water over a rock
Where the hermit-thrush sings in the pine trees
Drip drop drip drop drop drop drop
But there is no water
Who is the third who walks always beside you?
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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' Truly God has highly
favoured
us in sending us such a noble
guest as Sir Gawayne" (ll.
| 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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Quemque tenet eharo descriptum nomine semper,
Non minus
exculptum
pectore fido ref'ert.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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DRINKING
TOGETHER
IN THE MOUNTAINS[51]
[51] _Cf.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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)
'quid
grauibus
uerbis, animosa Tragoedia,' dixit
'me premis?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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These nymphs, I would
perpetuate
them.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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_Enter_ PHERES _with
followers
bearing robes and gifts_.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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I had[de]
wel
vndirstonden
[yt].
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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No, no,
kindness
is lost upon the people;
Act well--it thanks you not at all; extort
And execute--'twill be no worse for you.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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When he was in sight of the camp
Vocula ordered his men to plant the standards and
construct
a trench
and rampart round them: they were to deposit all their baggage there
and fight unencumbered.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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O deadly Envy, virtue's constant foe,
With good and lovely eager to
contest!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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the Horde has learnt to prize me;
"'Tis the Horde with gold
supplies
me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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Beneath the spacious targe, (a blazing round,
Thick with bull-hides and brazen orbits bound,
On his raised arm by two strong braces stay'd,)
He lay collected in
defensive
shade.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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The Foundation is
committed
to complying with the laws regulating
charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United
States.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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"
So the hand of the child, automatic,
Slipped out and
pocketed
a toy that was running along
the quay.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Jaalam stood always modestly ready, but circumstances made no
fitting
response
to her generous intentions.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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"
Towns and countries woo together,
Forelands
beacon, belfries call;
Never lad that trod on leather
Lived to feast his heart with all.
| Guess: |
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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doubtful
heart makes treach'rous ear.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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A sound of silence on the
startled
ear
Which dreamy poets name "the music of the sphere.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
|
The story of the mutiny of the
_Bounty_, which is faithfully related in the first canto, is not, as the
second title implies, a prelude to the "Adventures of Christian and his
Comrades," but to a
description
of "The Island," an Ogygia of the South
Seas.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
|
" On the whole, the poem is
composed
in an elaborate,
ambitious diction which is not properly governed.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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That this poetry should have been suffered to perish will not
appear strange when we
consider
how complete was the triumph of
the Greek genius over the public mind of Italy.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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The American bards shall be marked for generosity and affection and for
encouraging competitors: they shall be kosmos--without monopoly or
secrecy--glad to pass
anything
to any one--hungry for equals night and day.
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Whitman |
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Aesculapius
did the
round of the patients and examined them all with great attention; then a
slave placed beside him a stone mortar, a pestle and a little box.
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Aristophanes |
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"I will have them, my good fellow, but can pay for them," said she;
And she
clambered
on the wagon, minding not who all were by,
With a laugh of reckless romping in the corner of her eye.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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The myrtle groves are those of the Underworld in
Classical
mythology.
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Ronsard |
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Feigning to doubt whether the Saviour is the Son of God, he snatches
him up and carries him to where, in
Fair Jerusalem, the Holy City lifted high her towers
And higher yet the glorious Temple reared
Her pile; far off
appearing
like a mount
Of alabaster, topp'd with golden spires:
There on the highest pinnacle he set
The Son of God, and added thus in scorn:
"There stand if thou wilt stand; to stand upright will task thy skill.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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= 'This we may suppose to have
been the
customary
wages of a domestic servant.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Mark well the mantle that he'll wear,
Embroidered
by his bride!
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Hugo - Poems |
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GERONTE: Is it
possible
that you can cure this mental
malady also?
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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But thou, say
wherefore
to such perils past
Return'st thou?
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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To him who
speaketh
words as fair as these, Say that I also know the "Yearly Slain.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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On mountain soil I first drew life:
The mists of the Taglay have shed
Nightly their dews upon my head,
And, I believe, the winged strife
And tumult of the
headlong
air
Have nestled in my very hair.
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Poe - 5 |
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